This most popular documentary on Netflix recreates the dramatic murder-for-hire plot that rocked the city of Ontario in 2010. When Jennifer Pan called 911 to report her parents being shot, she became the main focus of the case. Attractive crime.
What Jennifer Did is the most popular Netflix documentary currently, according to Flixpatrol, it knocked The Tearsmith off the top spot and took the number one spot in 30 countries including the UK and the United States. Ky. The work is written and directed by Jenny Popplewell, a veteran of British television production.
The film recounts the horrifying events that took place on November 8, 2010, when a Vietnamese girl named Jennifer Pan reported to the police because her house was broken into. These people attacked Jennifer's parents and the mother did not survive. Jennifer could not escape police suspicion. She is the person behind the incident.
In 2015, Jennifer Pan, then 28 years old, was sentenced to life in prison for hiring a killer to kill her parents. That's the topic of the new documentary directed by Jenny Popplewell that is attracting the audience's attention.
What Jennifer Did tells the story of Pan's journey from being a child destined to become a pianist, to the image of a criminal convicted of first-degree murder.
What happened in the Jennifer Pan case?
On November 8, 2010, the police received a call reporting the crime from a family in the Ontario, Canada area. Over the phone, Jennifer Pan told police that while she was at home with her parents, gunmen suddenly broke into the house and demanded money.
Jennifer was the only witness, saying the intruders tied her up, shot her parents and fled the scene. Ms. Bich Ha – Jennifer's mother – died on the spot, but the father – Mr. Huei Hann – miraculously survived after a gunshot wound.
Jennifer (left) and Mr. Hann Pan and Mrs. Bich Ha. Photo: Toronto Star.
When public opinion boiled over thinking that the Pan family was a random target of the three attackers, detectives began to suspect Jennifer as more details emerged. A neighbor's security camera recorded the scene of three men easily breaking into the house without breaking the bank.
Why does Jennifer Pan want to “treat” her parents?
Jennifer then lived with her parents, lying about graduating from high school and going to college. She even forged transcripts and certificates, pretending to be a student at Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University) to become a “good child” in the eyes of her parents.
Jennifer's father wanted her to become a pharmacist, while her mother dreamed of her daughter being a professional pianist. On the contrary, Jennifer wants a different life, dating Daniel Wong, a drug dealer with a criminal record. After being caught lying about her studies and being with someone with a bad background, Jennifer's parents forbade her from seeing Wong.
Annoyed by her parents' house arrest, Jennifer asked Wong to plan a plot to murder her parents. The two wanted to stage the murder to look like a failed robbery and Jennifer played the role of a witness. She hired three assassins (David Mylvaganam, Lenford Crawford and Eric Carty) to carry out the cold-blooded act.
The police investigate Jennifer's lies. When the father woke up from a coma, he confirmed that his daughter knew the murderers. Jennifer confessed to hiring a killer and leaving the house unlocked, but insisted she was the target of the intruders, not her parents.
Jennifer was sentenced to life without parole for 25 years for first-degree murder. Her co-defendants – Wong, Lenford Crawford and David Mylvaganam – also received similar sentences. After the first trial, Carty was sentenced to 18 years in prison in December 2015. He died in prison in 2018.
She is serving a life sentence at Grand Valley Women's Prison in Kitchener, Ontario, but her time in court is not over yet. In May 2023, the court ordered a retrial for Pan and three accomplices for first-degree murder.
Their lawyers argued that it was unfair for the judge to give the jury only two options: The attack was planned and intentional, with the intention of killing both parents, or the attack was occurred during the attempted break-in and robbery. As of August 2023, the Supreme Court of Canada decides whether to hear the appeal.
Grimaldi, the reporter who covered Pan's trial, wrote a book about the case. He hopes the documentary causes people to reconsider the judgments they may have made about Pan at the time. “She is really considered a girl from hell” – he said. This was also the headline that appeared on the front page of the Toronto Sun at that time.
Where is Jennifer Pan's father, Huei Hann Pan?
Huei Hann Pan testified at Jennifer's murder trial in 2014. In court, he said he was shot in the head and when he woke up, he had to see his wife dead on the floor.
Hann Pan claimed that the murderers talked to his daughter, and the two sides seemed to know each other. “He talked to my daughter. I couldn't hear what they were saying, they were speaking very softly,” the father said, according to the Toronto Star.
Huei Hann Pan is now in his 70s and has kept a low profile since going to court.