Case 50: Jennifer Pan

Apr 15, 2017

On November 8th, 2010, just after 9.30pm; 25-year-old Jennifer Pan was in her bedroom. She had her TV on and was chatting on the phone while getting ready for bed. She could hear movement downstairs and voices she didn’t recognise. There were people in the house… * * * Researched and written by Anna Priestland For all credits and sources please visit [**casefilepodcast.com/case-50-jennifer-pan**](http://casefilepodcast.com/case-50-jennifer-pan/)

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where are you ma'am

hello hello yes ma'am I need to know your address Avenue row can you please tell my dad what else ice cream the street address for me please

you're upstairs you think I'm selling the house hey are you upstairs

you hear Mommy where do you think I'm on the side to do you think your mom is downstairs to sellers anymore

take a deep breath okay you know what you believe do you know that they know your parents anything like that was on your relation to them disease they call them little people

they just did is came and tied you up and all your money where's your money

they're asking for money lots of help on the way okay what's your name Jennifer Jennifer you're doing a great job okay

okay

Jennifer on the phone right okay do you see anyone there

hello hello hello okay Jennifer there with you okay Jennifer yes there with you right I don't see them okay you want me to see them Jennifer gonna hang up okay okay take care okay

well November 8 2010 just after 9:30 p.m. 25 year old Jennifer pain was in her bedroom she had a TV on and it was chatting on the phone while getting ready for bed

she had spent the afternoon practicing the piano and studying piano History For an upcoming test she'd been playing the piano since she was four years old earlier that day Jennifer's mother 53 year old be car went to visit Jennifer's grandfather and run some errands around Markham in Ontario Canada be car returned home around 3:00 in the afternoon

Jennifer's father 57 year old hand had gotten home later than usual from work it worked half an hour away at an automotive manufacturer in Scarborough Ontario it was a metal Tool and Dye operator here and had forgotten to lock a toolbox and remembered when he was already halfway home so we had to turn back when he got home just after 4:30 p.m. he called his brother Jennifer's Uncle to see if he wanted to join him shopping they went to Home Depot

because I cook dinner and I ate with Jennifer before going to her line dancing class which he attended every Monday

they put hands dinner aside for when he got home from shopping and got home around the 6:15 p.m. he ate his dinner alone and then went to the study which was upstairs next to his and Big Hoss bedroom hen logged on to his computer to catch up on the latest Vietnamese News before going to bed he always went to bed early as you had to get up for work at 5 a.m. about 6:30 p.m. Jennifer's friend Adrian visited her they regularly had TV nights together and Adrienne had bought over the latest

besides of Gossip Girl and How I Met Your Mother for them to catch up on they went down to the basement TV room together Adrian left about 9:00 p.m. and Jennifer went upstairs to her bedroom

Jennifer put the TV on in her room The Amazing Race was on about 9:15 p.m. she heard among get home from London scene

Jennifer went downstairs and spoke briefly to her mum who was also watching TV

Jennifer then went back up to her room where she continued watching TV and called her friend an old co-worker Edward Pacifica door

around 20 minutes later Jennifer could hear movement downstairs and voices she didn't recognize her mother who nearly always spoke in a mix of Vietnamese and her native Cantonese yelled out for hand in English in a tone that Jennifer new mint now it startled Jennifer there were people in the house she heard footsteps thudding so loudly at the stairs she knew they could not be her parents they couldn't be her younger brother Felix either he was living half an hour away at University

Jennifer hung up the phone on Edward and sat Frozen in her room she was too scared to turn the TV down and she was too scared to open the door she was too scared to move she heard men shouting outside a room and then her dad yelling hand had been asleep but was woken up by the commotion to see me and wearing a baseball cap standing over him but without his glasses on and couldn't see properly where's the fucking money the man in the cap scream

for he and got a chance to act he was dragged downstairs to wear another man was standing over his wife of 30 years become was cowering and crying in her silky green Winnie the Pooh pajamas all the lights were off it was just the glove the TV lighting the room the first words because I cried to him were how did they get in hen replied I don't know I was sleeping one of the men yelled shut up you talk too much

upstairs Jennifer got the courage to open her door A little I mean with dreadlocks flopping around his face saw her he walked towards her carrying string he grabbed her hands and tied them behind it back I have a gun behind your back do what I say if you do what I say then no one will get hurt where is the money show me where your money is

Jennifer gave the man $2,000 cash he had saved he then dragged her to her parents room show me where they keep the money Jennifer said she didn't know and so the man trashed the room with the help of one of the other attackers they found some money in because bedside table one of the men dragged Jennifer into the hallway and down the stairs to where her parents were pleading he made her kneel on the ground near the foot of the stairs away from both her parents

this is when Jennifer first realized there were three attackers in total all men but she couldn't really see the third man they were all carrying guns the third attacker was yelling at her mother be car tried to get up off the floor but the man was yelling at her to get back down because poor English left her confused she didn't know what he was saying Jennifer yelled out to her mum for sit down she didn't want her to get hurt the man kept yelling where's the

money and said I'll have 60 Dollars In My Pants upstairs but my positions are worth plenty

one of the men dragged Jennifer back up the stairs towards her parents room again he found the cash Jennifer remembered her mother had more money stashed and told the name where it was in the bedroom it was around one thousand one hundred US dollars left over from a trip to the United States they just taken to go to a wedding Jennifer hoped this would be enough money for them to let her and her family go

but the men had all the royalties

they told Jennifer to the banister at the top of the stairs one of the men downstairs started to look around the kitchen he was looking for because purse he even looked in the fridge I need the fucking money here and received a hard blow to the back of his head and he watched his blood sprayed over the living room sofa as he fell down fucking get up and be car were forced down the basement stairs big heart was hysterically crying unable to control itself you can hurt us

but please don't hurt our daughter

Jennifer screamed out from upstairs to let her go with her parents and remain silent he realized this wasn't just the break in

the basement was set up as a TV room with a large leather reclining chair and a two seater sofa blankets were scattered around the TV in stereo cabinet was in the corner with pictures knickknacks and avars of fresh flowers

hand and bickhart were forced onto the sofa with one of the gunmen throwing blankets over their heads

before him got to look he's attack his in the face he was shot twice in quick succession the first shot struck his face fracturing the bone in the unicorn of his right eye praising his carotid artery the main artery which runs down your neck the second shot hit him in the right shoulder and exited out the back because it was screaming more shots rang out one two three

the first entered at the base of because neck the second through her right shoulder and the third entered and exited her skull killing her instantly

Jennifer was caring at the top of the stairs she heard the shots ring out she heard one of the men say we've got to go now it's been too long the string which was tying her to the banister had a gap of about eight inches which allowed her to reach into the waistband of her yoga pants for her phone she dialed 9-1-1 you heard the call at the start of the episode

hen was silent but he was not dead within seconds he regained Consciousness and turned to his wife slumped on the floor there was blood everywhere he cried her name over and over but she was gone

and was in agony he's faced dripping with blood he was unable to see a thing without his glasses he was moaning and yelling as he crawled up the basement stairs to the main level of the house Jennifer was calling out to him from upstairs crying for him but he ran for the front door trying to get help outside and neighbor Peter Chung was on his way to work he walked outside of his house just after the attack is fled in a waiting car he was confronted by a frantic hand as he collapsed on the ground covered

blood police sirens got louder as they approached the house Peter was with him when they arrived

Constable marks Tesco and his partner Brian Derek were two of the first officers on the scene they approached him who was covered in blood and saw a trail leading from the house to where he had fallen hen was moaning and wailing but managed to say his wife was shot and his daughter was still inside

other officers started to arrive one of those was comfortable Mason Baines the officers had no idea where the gunmen were but their first job was to check inside and clear the house they approached with their guns drawn they could hear Jennifer's cries for help upstairs constables says go and Baines went down to the basement they were followed by Derek who momentarily went downstairs as Becca before going upstairs to Jennifer

it's Derek you can hear approach her in the nine one one call

in the basement they saw the body of be car on the floor there was a large pool of blood around her they attempted to get a response from her but they got nothing the paramedics arrived and took over

Derek climb the stairs to where Jennifer was huddled at the top her hands only Loosely tied now with the shoelace she was sobbing and she hung up the phone from the norm one one operator

Jennifer told Derek she didn't know where the attackers were Derek gripped his weapon he moved past Jennifer to check the other rooms of the top floor there's no one there the men were gone Derek walk back to Jennifer who was sitting on the floor slightly to one side her legs underneath her and her hand centered in front of her her hands were bound with a long shoelace tightly enough that Derek needed to find some scissors to cut the lace away but Loosely enough Jennifer could move her hands around 8 inches away from the band

so there was no bruising or redness on her wrists that he could see she was unharmed

there are tilted downstairs putting his own jacket over her and walking her towards a paramedic Jennifer called out for her father as he was being wheeled into an ambulance himself

the paramedics helped Jennifer into the ambulance accompanied by a constable Derek she asked Derek where her mother was he told her that her mother had died in the basement Jennifer put her head down and covered her face with her hands

but now neighbors were outside wondering what was going on the neighbor who had found hand was standing in shock relaying what he had seen to an officer none of them knew be car was dead some neighbors were relatives and others were very close friends once Jennifer had calm down Constable Derek asked her what she remembered about the home invasion she said there were three men one with dreadlocks for that's all she could get out

Constable Mike says co-relate in his reports what he witnessed at the same although he had seen a trail of blood splatter on the way in upon entering the house he said quote everything in the house seemed to be where it should be obviously we've done home invasions in the past where their house had been ransacked but nothing was out of place nothing taken but upstairs was a different story the master bedroom had been ransacked dresser drawers have been pulled out and emptied all over the floor

the mattress pulled off and tipped over on its side but apart from that no furniture elsewhere in the house had been Disturbed

the house of 240 Helen Avenue Markham Ontario was a middle-class Suburban home a two-story brown brick house with two white garage doors that had a large front porch with pillars leading up to welcoming double front doors in the suburb of large homes they didn't stand out from the rest most houses were similar and most of the residents were Asian families like the pants from the outside there was no obvious reason for this house to be targeted over any others

the city of Markham just north of Toronto is in the region of York it's about to Safe in this choir to suburbs get in the area the community was tight-knit a woman who lived in the pens Streep said quote we've been here ten years people don't understand why this house there are bigger homes in the area maybe they thought they were an easy target

the pins were a simple quiet hard-working family I didn't make sense in a year prior to the home invasion at the pens 2009 the York Region had a total of 14 home invasions which was half the amount they had in 2008 mark them had experienced six home invasions so far that year up to November 2010 none of which had ended in Murder

home invasions were nearly always targeted attacks drugs were a common motive but a random home invasion which ended in Murder was almost unheard of in Markham

almost every detective in the region was assigned to the pan case in some way within a day home security companies descended on the suburb door knocking and selling camera systems the baffled and frightened Community wondered who would be next

Canadian statistics for the year prior to the attack on the pans showed that a 453 solved homicides 242 over half were committed by Partners 87 were committed by a blood relative 42 were committed by an acquaintance leading 80 two murders in the year prior committed by someone known to the victim including people caught in crossfire

hen and big carp in had both been raised and educated in Vietnam they arrived to Canada separately in 1979 as political refugees they met in Toronto and got married not long after in 1986 their first child Jennifer was born followed three years later by their son Felix hen and be car worked hard in their first jobs at an automotive parts manufacturer in Aurora a town just over an hour's drive from Toronto they lived a Frugal life in the

District of Scarborough I didn't know what living man it was a rough neighborhood and that were wrought in and become a de Gaulle to move their family to a better area by 2004 they had saved heart and moved to Markham they bought a large home with a two car garage and a quiet residential street

Markham had a large Asian community and that will close the relatives and Friends by the late 2000s hand was driving a Mercedes Benz and to be car Alexis

because I lost her job in 2008 when the company had cutbacks she found it hard to find employment but her and hen continued to make it work especially for the education of their children

but 2010 they had saved two hundred thousand dollars in the bank and could afford to support their two children through college their hard work and dedication was very evident they were strict parents who seemingly lived for their children they wanted to give their children all the things they weren't able to have growing up they seemed happy but for two years leading up to the home invasion they slept most nights in separate rooms according to Jennifer they hadn't been getting along very well at all they had always been tension

lately had gotten worse lots of arguments in yelling would occur most days Jennifer sometimes had the mediated by The Common Ground between them Jennifer felt that if she could be good for them they would be happy

Hen and be car pushed their kids academically wanting the best for them in the early days before moving to Markham Jennifer then four years old was playing the piano by the time she was in elementary school she had a room full of awards she figures skated from a young age but not for fun she trained hard in the hopes you would make it onto the 2010 Canadian Winter Olympic team even as a young child Jennifer would often train until 10 p.m. then go home and do homework till midnight

but Jennifer started to bawl me out in skating competitions she tried to hide her Devastation from her parents not wanting to add worry to their disappointment sometimes because I would comfort her saying you know all we want from you is just your best just do what you can that Mary Ward Catholic Secondary College in grade 8 Jennifer worked hard it was expected that she would receive valedictorian that year the top honor of her grade as well as receive a bunch of

it's for her academic achievements

but she didn't win valedictorian she won no Awards she put on what she would later describe as her happy mask in spite of this and in the proud eyes of her parents Jennifer went on to do well the expectation was that both appear in children would go to Toronto University hen and be car also had very said ideas about Jennifer's extracurricular activities she was allowed to figure skate as long as she worked towards her goal of Nationals or the Olympic team

she could pursue music but she had to work hard on music theory and pass exams she was not allowed to go to parties dances and most importantly she was not allowed to have a boyfriend her focus in life were her studies and her goals she never had sleepovers and she never went on trips away with anyone she was however allowed to go on a two-week binge trip to Europe towards the end of high school in 2003 this is where Jennifer and her friend Daniel Wong became more than just friends

that summer they started seeing each other but Jennifer didn't dare tell her parents Jennifer had met Daniel in grade 11 I've been practice Daniel was also the son of Asian immigrants he had a Filipino and Chinese background during the last year of high school Daniel's parents moved him to the Cardinal Carter Academy an art school in North York he was falling behind in his studies at Mary Ward and he was starting to get himself into trouble dealing drugs by the end of school he had been charged with trafficking

can cannabis after half pound was found in his car

Jennifer didn't like the drug-dealing she wasn't interested in drugs and didn't really want him to deal Daniel refused to stop but he kept her out of it and Jennifer was spent with Daniel so nothing was going to stop her saying him not his drug dealing and not her parents

when her parents eventually found out she had a boyfriend they immediately put an end to it but Jennifer didn't end it she kept her relationship with Daniel a secret and snuck around behind her parents back to keep seeing him

Jennifer's grades were high enough to get her accepted into Ryerson University on early admission even though this wasn't Toronto University here in a big car were thrilled when they learned that Jennifer had received the scholarship to Ryerson and they supported her decision to do two years they're studying science her plan was to then transfer to Toronto University to study pharmacology they supported her financially depositing money into her bank account and they often drove her to University they even allowed her to spend a couple of nights a week

get a feel like classmates house so she wasn't so exhausted there was a time during University where Jennifer's parents found out she was seeing Daniel again they were Furious and made us stop seeing him Jennifer understood she knew they just had her best interest at heart and so she told them she had cut off communication with him and continued on with her studies when she got to work placement at the hospital for sick kids in Toronto Jennifer's parents thought their dream for their daughter had been realized

after the home invasion Jennifer was taken to hospital where she was seen by doctors and crisis workers she was told her father was undergoing life-saving surgery and was in a critical condition she was given medication to calm her down as she was badly shaken and suffering shock but physically she was unharmed at 1:31 a.m. when doctors felt she was stable enough to be released she was taken by Constable Derek to Mark and police station so she could make a statement

once there police seized her phone in case it could help them with any information as to why her family was targeted

a major case management unit was quickly put together three experienced investigators formed what is known as a command triangle having three had investigators gives the team the ability to have three sets of eyes on all aspects of the investigation and was the best strategy for managing the large team of officers who were working on the case

detective Sergeant Larry Wilson the most experienced of the three was named the senior investigating officer responsible for the direction of the investigation detective Bill Curtis was put in charge of running the day-to-day tactical strategy he had previously LED five homicide investigations and had been involved in a total of 80 others including one of markham's most infamous involving convicted murderer Chris little Curtis was harsh but had an excellent track record

detective Constable Alan cook a former drugs and vice detective who also worked in the intelligence unit was placed as the file coordinator cook was known for his undercover expertise veteran York regional police detective Randy Slade was on duty he had already met Jennifer at the hospital Jennifer was shaken and in shock but Slade explained that giving her statement now was going to be their best chance of finding the people responsible

by the time he sat down in the interview room with Jennifer it was 2:45 a.m. she had just lost her mom and her dad was in hospital fighting for his life Jennifer was 25 but could easily pass for 16 detective Slade explain to the forms he needed her to sign the standard procedure for giving a voluntary statement he was very careful to put Jennifer at ease and he explained she didn't have to give a statement if she didn't want to or wasn't ready

do you understand the criminal consequences of making a false statement

do you understand that it is your choice whether or not to give a statement

yes do you understand the importance of telling the truth yes I do with respect to this investigation

if you have spoken to any police officer person in Authority in connection with the investigation I want it clearly understood but I do not want it to influence you and making under making a statement the understand

do you have any questions

so basically I'm just

start a new right now so what what I've just explained to you is you're here voluntarily to help us that you don't have to talk to us if you don't want to but the importance of talking to us and if you're talking to us the importance of telling the truth and if you don't tell the truth there's criminal consequences for not telling the truth that's all that all that stuff had to deal with okay you can't point the finger at someone else you can't tell us to go off in a different direction

just got to tell us the traditional exactly exactly and you have any questions with respect to what I've just told you it's just like sitting sometimes like Parts come back but I didn't remember when I still win this and that's the process this is going to be a long process this is an initial statement from you we met you know as you remember other things you may be asked you may want to come in and tell us things okay no one is going to tell you how to give us a give a perfect statement you just do what the best you can

given that given what you're dealing with okay

any other questions

at the beginning of the interview Jennifer started to realize the enormity of what had just happened to her and her family she sat nervously in the chair pulling the sleeves of her sweater over her wrists and went between rubbing her thighs to covering her face with her hands crying at the first mention of her mother's death Jennifer put her head down and started to cry

Slade told Jennifer he would get her some tissues before saying you have nothing to apologize for Jennifer it's going to be tough but you know the importance of this statement you have nothing to apologize to me for I am here to help you okay slide left the room to grab the tissues Jennifer sat with her head down and her hands over her face she appeared to be crying when Slade opened the door to walk back in Jennifer jumped about a half a foot in the air

detective slide ask Jennifer to tell him is much about the day she could then they moved on to what happened during the home invasion Jennifer told him the story start to finish next Slade asked her to tell him again but in a different way he asked Jennifer to recall the invasion but this time as if she was looking down on the event this is a technique which helps Witnesses recall parts of what they saw that they may not necessarily have record before it can also show investigators if there is any change a ring

consistency in the witnesses story Jennifer described the man as best she could one was of African American appearance with dreadlocks that were shorter at the front and longer in the back he was of medium build and between 28 and 32 years of age he wore black leather gloves the second man she described as taller with a smaller frame wearing a dark-colored bandana which covered the bottom half of his face and a hooded sweater

the third man didn't engage with Jennifer at all she couldn't describe his appearance but she recognized that maybe he had a Jamaican accent

this new technique enables Jennifer to remember details about the home invasion that she was unable to recall before

she remembers that the man with the dreadlocks yelled out to the thinner man to tell Kazi who was the third man to get some more string that was how she was tied to the banister upstairs she also described seeing the cylinder of a gun and remembered more details about the third man

while in retelling the story about the gunshots she heard while Todd to the banister Jennifer record the man with the dreadlock saying that's enough after a few gunshots after hearing the words that's enough Jennifer heard one more shot this would be the shot that killed her mother

about one hour into the interview Jennifer remembered more detail she was able to clearly differentiate the three voices of the attackers and could tell which of the three men were saying what she could hear the words the men were saying to her parents in the basement she clearly heard the third attacker say you just had to do what we said he just had to cooperate and do you know which way they go out

you can't hear that and I'm pretty sure it was the front door yeah but I'm not a hundred percent I didn't get to see anything like my arms are by my back and I was against the banister yep and Bashers Twisted so I can't see the front door

now you hear your dad right and what's going on so what do you hear next after you hear the scrambling they're gone to hearing no more I gather that's how you assume they're gone is because you don't hear then you have your dad and I reach for my phone okay and you call 9-1-1 okay and then you what happens after your run

I just heard my dad go out and I don't know if they damaged his throat so how did you hear your dentist or whatever this is the kind of importance because if you he did he go at the front door how did you how did you know he went out the front door because I heard him open the door did you hear that door open when these guys were scrambling to leave

there's so much studying and is your house got an alarm system yeah do you know the alarm system when the front door goes off and there's that chirping we don't we don't have that dripping no is your house alarmed at night when you guys go to bed before the last person comes up to bed they will learn it but prior to that it doesn't get alarm okay so you hear you from your when your father exits you hear the door open because you hear you die and then you see here like this

I know this okay like the wind coming in and I just hear my dad I think

you think that he sustained some kind of injury because he's not you can't understand what he's saying okay what about dd8 can you hear your mom

okay where does your dad go do you know where you never see your dad again until we're at the hospital I think that's what you said right he started when he was on the grainy but the officers walked in your round I really didn't

okay so now you're upstairs and you're on the phone with the 9-1-1 operator okay you remain on the phone until the police arrived

and the officer is the one who cuts gets you free he first had to secure the place yes they took me a while to get somebody upstairs okay and kept screaming okay and I guess they wanted to my bedroom and I have a person has that cut my hair with yes they said that they cut it from me but

it was a little while longer until after the string for my can be free do you understand that they of the importance to clear their what they were doing it wasn't to leave you in any kind of trauma or anything like that I understand it from it's a very tough question considering all the things that you've gone through tonight Jennifer is

any of the tying up any of the binding any other things were you sexually assaulted in any way it wasn't that this was strictly they were after money it from what I thought they were after money they wanted it now

how much money did you turn over to them

from my personal I had

2,500 and where was that and where was that in my nightstand underneath the TV okay and that was from work that you had done yeah what do you do for a living now what are you doing right now I heard you're saying about piano or you in school I'm I recently lost all my students in piano I had a few yes or a while but I'd they've gone to University that's why the September I didn't have any more students so you were a piano instructor yes out of my home okay just for family friends

here and they're also my family needed me home for a while and I was doing some piano classes with very good teacher of mine okay and I'm going back to school in January to to study biotechnology engineering okay detective slide was able to ascertain a lot about the evening from Jennifer and said he was happy with the information he had but he thought he needed to find out a little more about where her mother was that evening

the exact location of the line dancing class and if you went elsewhere after line dancing

before Slade left the interview room he asked Jennifer if she consented to her phone records being examined so they could check timestamps for when she was speaking to Edward on the phone to match the exact time of the home invasion Jennifer agreed Slade then advise Jennifer not to read the papers or watch TV he didn't want her seeing or reading things that would cause her distress it was about one and a half hours into the interview when detective Slade left the room to get the phone record consent forms

Jennifer set with her face in her hands she remained still not crying she sat like that forever 10 minutes before she reached for a tissue Jennifer then stood up stretch their legs and paste a little while holding the chair and the wall she was agitated and noisy outside made a jump then she started to motion with her hands as if she was conducting music she sat back down and again covered her face with her hands she wiped her eyes she got back up and rocked back and forth

both on her feet rubbing her stomach

Slade startled her when he opened the door and told her to have a seat

Slade mentioned that her brother Felix was being interviewed next door Jennifer seems surprised Slade band it clear that he felt be car may have been followed home after line dancing spotted by her attackers driving an expensive car when detective Slade was filling out the phone record consent form he told Jennifer he was going to go back and check and nine-day period

my question is if are deep into this well they look for my phone just like comment like regular phone calls to people really it's just the time stamping of the you know we're putting nine days down because it may come back to you that I spoke to him and it may be able for us to be able to identify people that we may need to go back and interview the the interest of us is obviously tonight between

nine and ten right but we're just asking for this to we're not asking for months and months and months 9 days that were asking for and generally it's because we may come back to you and say okay we want to interview this person and you go I don't know where they live but I spoke to them or we got the phone records is this the same person and will have their address at least what is registered to their phone so it's only reason we're asking for a nine-day period

investigatively it's not of no real significant value other than today right only because sometimes iPhone you know teachers and now we're not going to go back and interview all those people that's not our intention right so I need you to fill out

this portion for me so owner subscriber is the same person as this so it's you and you your address the telephone number and in today's date and then your signature and what it is is before we go into it it's all this is all being recorded again so it's just that you can send to giving us the records for a cell phone number six four seven nine six five two one one eight

and you consent to allow the York Regional Police to access the phone records the said cellular phone company authorized Rogers

for the following billing records incoming and outcoming numbers dialed registered owner information including credit and payment history this is really how we link phones to people how we confirm that your phone and the tower site location if requested for the above-mentioned times and dates and Towers now become just drop and Towers become relevant in this case because of where you are when the phone call comes in on the on today's date right is that it firms your story to saying that I was

my room when I made that when the calls came in

and that will show up on the tower site information that's the relevance of the tower site information it also may turn out that maybe during this time period you were targeted and you were in an area and this enables us to go back and try and look for cameras and other things through the towers not saying it's going to happen in your case but it's why we ask for tower sites right tower sites always show when you're on the phone they show you where your where you are when you're on the phone making calls

and at the above-mentioned records are to be released for the York Region to the York Regional Police for the purposes of Investigation of murder of your mum and for the time period I stayed in November 1st to November 9th this is the part of the consent I am voluntarily giving consent and I know that I you don't have to you don't have to do this this is your this is you volunteering to do this you may withdraw your consent at any time I understand that these records may be used as evidence against me and may become any

part of the criminal proceeding now if you were lying on this you know as a part of this whole process that I explained telling us fictitious information it comes back now the records can also be used against you if you're telling the truth

really point three is means nothing okay but we have to let you know by law that we could use these against you if you're lying to us so will you will we be in fly be informed of who am I if anybody if they contacted on that

the chances are if you're going to be so you can almost guarantee that Adrienne and Edward are going to be we're going to need to speak to that right because Adrienne was in your house remember when if they're doing forensic testing in your house to try and get DNA and anything else in there they're also going to need stuff to eliminate people so Adrian was in your house so we need to try and if you went when we shut this down I'm going to because it doesn't need to be disclosed on video about their personal information

Nation I need to get Adrian's contact information I need to get Edwards contact information I don't know if we're going to contact them to tonight or this morning but sometime today they're going to be spoken to okay our priority is who is with your mum that's our priority right now okay but I just tweaked me back how many cars dear dear Fisher family the Mercedes and Alexis and where do your parents Park these cars

only person on the right

my most personal life inside the garage and when they where do they enter the house when they when they park in the garage is there an entrance through the garage okay so that's the normal course is a park unless we plan on going out somewhere we leave the car in the driveway instead of having to figure out when you left today that left tonight after this incident happened did you see the cars in the garage I did not but I believe that one of the officers

I went and checked into the cars were still in the garage the garage door was were closed okay is there any video equipment video cameras or any physical system on you and your house to record no okay is there anything else that you can think of that might help us right now in this investigation

the interview finished at 4:30 a.m. the day following the home invasion Tuesday November 9th Jennifer had to stay with her cousin Michelle luong and her aunt and uncle whose home was less than a mile away from her own

her house was a crime scene and there was no way she could go in and get any of her belongings she was forced to borrow clothes from a cousin her phone received text after text from Friends asking if she was okay her ex-boyfriend Daniel Wong heard the news he sent a text at 9 a.m. if you need I'm here for you just hang in there and try to eat although told by detective Slade not to look at any media reports it was hard not to hear about the reports and subsequent room is starting to unfold

with the Payne family caught up in illegal gambling where they links to gangs or drug problem

the waiting media were camped outside the relatives homes as well as the hospital waiting for a glimpse for possible statement from the only Survivor able to speak Jennifer faced lots of questions from both friends and family the family held a vigil at hands bedside as he laid in an induced coma in the Intensive Care Unit they listened as the doctor explained how miraculous it was that he and was able to survive the shooting he still had bullet fragments in his face but the fact that the bullet missed the main artery was what ultimately saved him

but he wasn't out of the woods that was still unsure if or when he would come out of the coma but there was hope he would pull through amidst the horror they were confronted with the family were very hopeful and may have the clue to solve this horrific crime Jennifer asked the doctor if the bullet fragments still in her father's neck could cause an infection the doctor said No at this point Jennifer borrowed some change from her uncle explaining that her cell phone had died and she needed to use the pay phone

he offered for her to use his cell phone but she refused and again asked for two quarters he handed them to her and she walked out and headed for the pay phones located just up the hall Jennifer called her ex-boyfriend Daniel Wong

the day after the invasion police held a press conference the media scrambled to the New Market Police Headquarters to obtain a glimpse into what the police were thinking a makeshift stage was erected and York Regional Police Chief Armand LaBarge it was less than a month away from retirement addressed the waiting press he said quote given the very brutal nature of this crime it goes without saying that the individuals that are responsible for the home invasion and to the murder last night pose a very real danger to our community

aw for all intents and purposes residents that were just enjoying a nice night when suddenly three individuals burst into their home and terrorize them in other home invasions there's some criminal activity involved but in this particular situation there is absolutely no evidence of criminal activity this is a very lucky man and if not for the grace of God we could have been dealing with two homicides here to shoot an innocent woman and to shoot an innocent man I mean that's troubling

police stated that they believed the murder as may have been attracted to the home because of the family's high-end Vehicles however they also noted that neither vehicle was taken as part of the robbery they released the descriptions of the attackers provided by Jennifer with her father still in a coma that's all the information they had to go on

police had already made some progress saying as a neighbor had a security camera installed at the front of his house the footage captured a car driving away from the penthouse behind the scenes police and forensic teams were combing the house retracing steps and attempting to get into the heads of the three attackers they couldn't find a clear reason why a hard-working family is targeted in what they could only describe as a random brutal attack

two detectives canvassed almost 400 homes in the neighborhood their job was to establish anything seen or heard but also to find out information about the pins that may help them solve the crime while sitting in their vehicle during the canvas someone quietly approached them and told them that Daniel Wong Jennifer's ex-boyfriend was a drug dealer

considering those a chance that the invasion was a targeted attack and many home invasions have a drug connection this was an important tip after a quick system check confirmed that Daniel had prior drug convictions they got to work looking into him

it was no secret amongst offices that the case had divided them half of them felt something just in sit right about the home invasion the other half saw it as a random brutal attack for money on a very unlucky family information that police were privy to but had not been released to the media was the fact that in the house they had found the 240 dollars in because purse $60 in hands wallet and twenty dollars in Jennifer's wallet for intruders hell-bent on finding wallet and money they had left

the horn

on Thursday November 11th at 9:30 a.m. Jennifer went back to the police station for another statement the investigators hoped she may remember more about the home invasion her father hand was still in a coma in the interview room she told the detective Slade she was a little nervous she was wringing her hands constantly he replied don't worry the truth is always the best way to relieve anxiety he told her she might need to be a witness in court and Jennifer got visibly upset

them

okay so

what we're going to do now is as I said what education level do you have just a high school high school are you going to any other Cricket after school a higher level of Education have you been working towards anything I'm going back to school and I have been working on the piano

there's no other education that you've sought like you haven't gone to University this point in time okay so I want

I want you

to forget or put aside the first statement that we had talked about okay this is going to be where I'm going to ask you to start from the day okay on the eighth leading up until when you when the police become involved in an incident that takes place in your house I want you to tell me about your day what you do your interaction with your parents okay so we're at what we are is we're dealing with the incident we're not dealing with

history right now we're dealing with the incident again see if anything else comes forgetting what you've already told me

and bring you through a self through that day and through the event and we'll see if what we're going to see if we've learned or if you've remembered anything else and there's some questions with respect to that statement that I'm going to ask you about okay but I'm going to let you start again and and let's let's move forward from any time in that day where you want to start up as a time you woke up or if it's a time that your first interaction it's your choice I'm just

I'm very nervous and I why don't let's why are you why you nervous tell me about why you're nervous because I don't want to say the wrong things oh you so that day was a lot you're right and I've been

scattered and so bits and pieces are here and some pieces aren't here and

I'm just so I want you to sit back in your chair okay just sit back in your chair take a deep breath okay close your eyes just follow my line to sit back in the chair for a second sit back relax is the best you can

close your eyes

and just breathe from okay

we're not in any type of danger we're nowhere we're in a very safe place okay

and we're going to work through this and don't worry about what you forget or what you mix up or whatever you're doing is

you start and pluck push the play button for that day

and if you stick to everything that you remember happening that day it will come out in sequence okay and I'm going to show you a technique after we go through this that will show that will show it to you okay so let's just start you've taken a deep breath you've relaxed you're in a good position right there let's start from the beginning of the day when you wake up and let's start moving forward from there

Jennifer described the die again she was wringing her hands constantly her face was completely void of emotion she again described her mom going to visit her grandfather so he left to go pick up my aunt and go into my grandfather's and I went back up to on the computer to do a little studying taking a break and playing some games

I remember speaking to anyone during the day on your on your phone or on the on Facebook

later on in the day as I spoke to a long time for an Andrew who I went to elementary school with but just the usual he just asked if we could hang out anytime soon but I explained to him that I wasn't able to leave the house and I couldn't meet up with him so I asked him how his life was his girlfriend how his job was going my believe that was later on in the day though that wasn't in the afternoon we'll go in later

in the in when we when we talk about your past about why you couldn't leave the house okay so I that isn't that hasn't gone unnoticed but we're not going to talk about that right now we're talking about that day so continue on detectives already knew what Jennifer was referring to they already knew Jennifer's parents had ordered her not to leave the house because she had lied to them about what she had been doing what she had been doing for the past decade

the interview continued Jennifer talked through the evening again dinner with her mum her friend Adrian coming over to watch TV this time Jennifer mentioned that when she went upstairs to her bedroom to watch TV she talked to her friend Andrew again the old school friend she had talked to earlier in the day

this is the third time she had recounted the story of the evening but the first time she mentioned this call to Andrew she then described the call to Edward Edward was the Frenchie hung up on when the home invasion started I go back up my stairs and I call Ed again okay and I had used wash them so I did put them on YouTube for a quick second and then I came back and I was just watching TV and talking with Ed okay how long are you now upstairs

on the phone with it with Edward

I'm sorry about that time frame I'm not sure okay your cell phone records are going to give us the exact times okay so I have you talked to anyone else is it you hang up with Edward go down and see your mom come back upstairs call Edward use the washroom on the phone with Edward still have you talked to anyone else

okay have you text message anyone else

how many don't believe I had to do you have more than one phone I had one but I keep that I just keep the SIM card yes again we will go into it in history sure but up my cell phone gets taken away from me sometimes okay and so I had a friend of mine Daniel he bought he got a SIM card for me to use sometimes but I take the SIM card out and I finish it and I normally keep it in my pocket for my parents wouldn't find it yes

but I don't remember the last time I used it okay but you didn't use that SIM card that day no I did not know you did know I don't remember the lesson maybe it was a few days before that it was the last time I remember using it was when my grandfather I was in the hospital and I had messaged him and he asked me how my grandfather was and how long when is that time frame that your grandfather went in last week he was in the hospital for about 10 days 10 days okay

so that's the last time you remember using that SIM card Associated to from what your friend had given you was about 10 days earlier or even 12 days earlier because I believe you said your grandfather had come out of the hospital or was he still in the hospital no he was in the hospital for 10 days yes on Saturday he had gone back to his nursing home and this is Monday were taught so it's about

12 to 14 days earlier that this app that you use to use the Sim Card you're guessing with you probably want within a week within a week yeah because I remember seeing seven days is that we were saying message him when my grandfather was in the hospital okay yeah and where's that SIM card now I'm not sure I don't remember I had it in my jacket pocket but I don't remember where it is now okay

Jennifer's story of the home invasion changed from her first interview detective Slade was aware of the change in her story and continued to ask for clarity as Jennifer recalled different places the three men were and the different things they said Jennifer started to stop Slade handed her a tissue he pushed her to keep going with her memories he wanted her to feel at ease he was on her side he was listening it's not uncommon for witnesses to remember more details or have

has in their story especially in highly stressful and traumatic situations such as Jennifer faced

in an adjacent room other detectives were watching the interview as it happened via videolink detective Al cook watched carefully is Jennifer salt and wiped her face he couldn't see any tears

Jennifer sobbed as she recounted hearing the pots of the gun down in the basement pop pop pop

she said she thought the men went out the front door her father then came up the basement steps moaning as she called 9-1-1 she called out to her dad but he didn't go to her he ran out the front door out into the street where he collapsed on the ground and was seen by the neighbor going to work

detective Al cook was still watching in an adjoining room he noticed how Jennifer was describing the way her father ran from the house screaming cook found it interesting that hands daughter was yelling for him he knew she was upstairs but instead of running upstairs to see if she was okay he ran straight out the front door

detective Slade listened as Jennifer struggled to retell the story when she was done he made her tell it backwards he continued to tell her what a great job she was doing and not to worry when she thought she said something wrong Jennifer was then asked to recount exactly how she made the 9-1-1 call slide got her to stand up and act it out Slade it's obviously very relevant we know you made the phone call but questions are obviously going to be raised that if my hands are bound and I'm against the railing

how do I talk to a 9-1-1 operator

Jennifer screwed her eyes up as she looked at the techniques late

slate and how did you manage to tuck your phone into the waistband without a slipping down or without The Intruders noticing it

Jennifer took a large sip of water a deep breath and removed her sweater she slipped the fake phone given to her by Slade into her waistband while keeping her wrists together in a display of being bound Jennifer Twisted herself trying to re-enact to the call she pressed the buttons and then attempted to lift the phone up towards her ear while still keeping her wrists together the phone didn't reach she said this late I'm yelling at the phone like this the phone was about a foot and a half from her

the detective said heard bits and pieces about Jennifer's past they had spoken to family members and friends and new some of the answers to questions Slade was asking but they needed to hear it from Jennifer what I want to do now is I want to go into your past okay

and start talking about things that have been going on with you in relation to your life okay

you're not I'm not going back to Childhood that's not my interest is obviously in the last few years is what's going on do you have a boyfriend

I had a boyfriend and I don't know what was your what was your boyfriend's name Daniel what one

tell me about your relationship with you and Daniel

it is a really tough one

we went to high school together he helped me through a really difficult time in high school when I have asthma but it wasn't a concern it was only a consumer I was younger

but when I went over to Europe

a lot of sick people were smoking cigarettes and it acted up over there and he took care of me over there when did you go to Europe 2003 paying how long were you there

after two weeks I think okay so this is 2003 when you and Danny were two started dating while later on in 2003 we were just friends okay what grade are you in at that point

so how is your relationship with Danny can develop where does it go and how long does it last

that's about six years

it began in summer of 2003 before my grade 12 you

we were just really good friends and I guess it just happened like we just started going out well saying that we were going out

um I didn't really get to see him much start out that why do you get a chance to see him much I wasn't allowed to have a boyfriend and that was when you were 18

I was 17 17 turning in your 18th year degree 11 or going good going to be okay

and so who is against you having a boyfriend your father how is your mother and this

he took a backseat to his opinion

she would tell me that I got to find someone who was devoted to me but at that time she just my father was the one that enforce the rules what were the issues your father had with a boy from was a Danny in particular a day or was it just a boy just any boy at that point so what happens how are you saying that you're not allowed to see this what what I know I know that there are certain ways that you can still get around your father

not allowing you to see it when in grade 12 we went to school together he transferred out but he'd come over to our original high school and he'd come see me okay and once in a while I'd go and skip class and go see him so you were seeing you were dating him essentially without your parents knowledge and consent yes what would they have done to you if they found it

and did they find it not in high school okay so you finish high school and then what do you do when you finish High School

I was I wanted to do kinesiology but my pet my father was very adamant on doing something in the medical field that was a little bit more

in his opinion more

like a more successful I guess you can say he knew I didn't have the stomach for being a doctor so he wanted me to become a pharmacist okay did you go to school for pharmacy to get any University for pharmacy so if you're be finished your grade 12 equal to y0 I see here like great 12 is your finish your oh I see here I don't have all this but I didn't have always approached my guitar and then where where do you what do you do for the next few years while your dad

I want you to get into the medical field what do you do I was trying to get into piano

what school I was still taking classes at a conservative like a school but it's still recognized in the community as the teachers license through the Royal Conservatory Okay so

how is this interaction how is it going with your dad how is the how is your home life with the you're not now not living up to his expectations you didn't know I like to him what did you lie to him what did you tell him that I was going to school

for for just pre-med not permit sorry fines for some special sites you would have had bills for school how is it how is that coming up how are these bills being paid for for University that you weren't going I was working at Eastside Mario's and I took care of myself so he naturally my father was never

he never took hand in bills so he didn't know anything about bills your mom know that you weren't going University no so both your parents thought you had gone to University yes okay and

how long did that how long do they still to this point in time think that you had gone to University for pharmaceutical Sciences

and how did you feel about that how did you feel about having to lie to your parents I felt guilty but every time I tried to bring it up

there was just so much

so much expectation you have any resentment towards him for this

I chose what I chose but in the end I chose my family

okay so now you're not allowed to see boys how do you continue really your relationship while you're supposed to be at University working at Eastside Mario's are you working during the day to use I'm Aaron's sometimes but not all

so how do how do you maintain this relationship with with Dan I bust down to see him or my parents to drive me down to Toronto and they thought I was getting going to school but I'd go see him and I come back what school did they figure going to Russian okay

was Daniel aware of what was going on in here with the issues in your life with your parents not at first but eventually he found it okay and

what would your parents do find out do they ever find out that you were dating Danny Daniel eventually how long into the relationship was that

say five years five years so that brings you up to 2008 or 2009 2008 2007

and how do they find out

my mother saw him dropping me off at the look at Pacific Mall where they come to pick me up

and how did that go over

not well explained to me what not well means

my mother

she said At first she was like not supportive but she said you need to tell me and she basically gave me the sex talk was basically was one moment could ruin your entire life

but once my father found out without even knowing him he automatically put judgment what kind of judgment did your father pass on him he blamed my lying and

even Rachel

profiling on him and what does that mean I don't know about the racial profile he is half Filipino half Chinese yes and my father Associated him with Filipino and said that you know he wasn't a good match for me he wasn't going anywhere in life and that

he wouldn't be able to support a family

so tell me about about Daniel we've interviewed in okay

Daniel Wong had been called in the day before and interviewed he was already on the list to be interviewed but after the tip about his drug convictions he moved further up that list

dressed in a black sweater and glasses he looked tired and a little unkempt he said he had a cold he had a good rapport with Detective Robert Milligan who was interviewing him Milligan started the interview by saying just so you know we interview everybody everybody who has known the family at some point in the last 10-15 years so we can say we interviewed everybody so you're not anything special compared to everybody else

Daniel he was 25 years old with calm and relaxed throughout his entire interview even when ask pointed questions about his drug deal in history he answered calmly and confidently Daniel relayed his past with Jennifer he told Milligan about their on-and-off relationship which ended about two years prior when her parents found out and delivered an ultimatum they were forced apart by Jennifer's parents and he said he respected that okay again like

I don't know whether who was behind it right I just know that her parents didn't want us to be per family didn't want us to be together and I respected that decision and I moved on now why didn't your family won't be I don't know there's so many different like I asked her the first time and she said it was because I didn't make enough money like I was working on Boston Pizza and she told him I finished engineering and the like oh well why you finish and meaning and just working

computer why isn't he going to make sixty seventy thousand being an engineer and then and then after that the next time I have to she's like it's not even about how much money you make it's the fact that you're Filipino and I'm like how is that possible when your cousin just married a Filipino guy she's like well my nobody in the family likes involve all the block so there's always a reason why we couldn't be together like that her parent I don't know what the reasons sorry 0 the reason it's all those are

reasons but what do you think what is what do you think cause you've been in the industry you've dealt with talent and Hound you won't see you've dealt with over and I won't have to go there but in the industry what do you think people would kill somebody over give me a number

if someone were to and have to be around $10,000 someone would like add

I pretty much be sure for about ten thousand dollars a month to do something like that

Daniel described this seven years of he's in Jennifer's relationship behind her parents backs and started to unravel the Twisted ball of bizarre behaviors and lies that Jennifer used to keep up the charade to her family

Daniel said to detective Milligan that when the final ultimatum came from Jennifer's parents to end their relationship he knew it was for the best he knew they had no long-term life together he had never spent more than a few minutes with him and because I in all that time never shared a meal or even had a conversation with him he accepted it and moved on he said she was a prisoner it was hard

Daniel said since their breakup in 2009 they had more or less been estranged describing their infrequent conversations he said she tries to call me if I answer I answer or I'll call her sort of thing just to see how she's doing

he said Jennifer never had any involvement with his drug dealing he told her never to touch it detective Milligan was interested in the reason why in a strange decks couple had been in quite a lot of contact in the previous few months Daniel said lately it's just been happening more and more an unknown person will call and I'd answer and it would just go quiet for 10 seconds and then they hang up it would happen over and over and when I would not answer it would get worse and worse it got ridiculous it was up to a hundred times at night

overtime Daniel says he began receiving text messages of a more threatening nature texts like ha ha ha bang bang bang he said Jennifer had contacted him complaining that she too was receiving similar messages so that's why they had been in frequent contact in recent times

Daniel admitted he was worried that he would be targeted next he said yeah I am worried for my safety I haven't slept because I don't know who it is if it's the crank callers they call my house they call my cell phone so they have my address it's pretty obvious if they got access to finding her address through her phone number they can find my address through my phone number my mom couldn't sleep either it kept going through my head who could it be who is it is it really just a random break and Enter

it's actually the phone calls and the other stuff that I think it's related to

the following day in Jennifer's interview she told detective Slade she was given the ultimatum by her parents a year and a half earlier when she was about 23 when they caught her the last time seeing Daniel she says her father told her she must either choose Daniel or choose them she said she chose to stay home with her family

Hands words to Jennifer were see through relationship with Daniel Wong if not you have to wait till I'm dead

even as an adult in her 20s her parents were still controlling every aspect of their life the reasons why we're starting to become clear

after being snubbed valedictorian in grade 8 and not doing as well academically as she had hoped things started to spiral for Jennifer Karen who are journalists who went to school with Jennifer wrote an article for Toronto life the following is taken from that article quite a close Observer might have noticed that Jennifer seemed off but I never did I was a year behind her at Mary Ward Catholic Secondary in North Scarborough as far as Catholic schools go it was something of an anomaly it had the you

oh high academic standards and strict dress code mixed with a decidedly Bohemian Vibe it was easy to find your tribe bright kids are naughty Misfits hung out together across subjects grades and social groups if you played three instruments took advanced classes competed on the ski team and start in the school's annual International night a Showcase of various cultures around the world you will cool it was the perfect Community for a student like Jennifer a social butterfly with an easy high-pitched laugh

laughs she mixed with guys girls asians caucasians jocks nerds people deep into the Arts

at four foot seven she was taller than most of the other Asian girls at the school and pretty but plane she rarely wore makeup she had small ground wire frame glasses that were neither stylish nor expensive and she kept her hair straight and done stop Jennifer and I are both played the flute though she was in the senior Stage Band and I was in junior we would interact in the band room had dozens of mutual acquaintances and we're friends on Facebook in conversation she always seemed focused on the moment if you had

attention you had a completely

and quote from the article

it was at this time in Jennifer's life that she started to turn away from studying hard and stop dedicating herself to school instead of getting straight A's she was averaging 70% in all her classes and barely achieving bees not quite the Highmark she needed to get into the pharmacology program at the University of Toronto her father expected his children would be the top of their classes to get into the best college which would lead them to high paying careers so bees weren't going to cut it

and so started a decade of laws that would spin so deep even Jennifer got confused between what was the law and what was the truth

instead of telling her parents about her High School grades she decided to forge her report card she used templates from old reports use scissors glue and photocopied them to create new ones Jennifer also started cutting herself small cuts on her forearms it was a hint of her hidden torment behind the happy mask she was wearing at the time

her parents were proud when she brought home Ace they were thrilled when she graduated high school and they were so proud when she received scholarship letters and an early admission offer into Ryerson University it wasn't Toronto University but she planned to start a science degree and move over to Toronto after a couple of years she had worked hard in her parents eyes and was achieving what they had only imagined possible for her hand was so pleased that he bought her a laptop

but there was one problem

Jennifer didn't graduate high school she failed her last semester of calculus the high school subjects he would have to repeat in order to graduate she failed high school and rice and withdrew their offer instead of coming clean Jennifer spiral of Lies grew deeper she spent the summer preparing for University she bought secondhand biology and physics books and set the wheels in motion for beginning the Academic Year in September she pretended to attend her orientation week she forged papers stating she was

saving a loan that she would pay off and convince their dad should one a three thousand dollar scholarship she pretended to make her way to the University campus half an hour away and even accepted lifts from her parents day after day she was keeping up the charade should pack a book bag and go to the library filling notebooks full of pretend class notes and she searched the web for course related topics

by this time Daniel Wong was at York University taking classes and they were seeing each other in secret their parents had found out about their relationship and put a stop to it immediately Jennifer just told them what they wanted to hear that her and Daniel had broken up but then she went behind their backs she spent a lot of her spare time visiting Daniel that York she took on a part-time job taught piano lessons and later on work the Boston Pizza where Daniel work there's a kitchen manager he knew she was faking her studies and he helped her hide

Secret

Jennifer came up with a false acceptance letter into the pharmacology program at the University of Toronto complete with a made-up scholarship for tuition she continued to tell her parents she was staying with a friend a couple of nights a week as a parent saw it she was working hard towards her goals and they supported her

it wasn't just their family she was lying to friends to she over-exaggerated her father's control telling friends he had hired a private investigator to follow her so her friends thought Jennifer had no other choice but to live a lie

in February 2009 Jennifer wrote two separate Facebook posts the first living in my house is like living under house arrest and the second no one person knows everything about me and to know two people put together now everything about me I like being a mystery

she wasn't afraid of letting people know about her parents controlling ways hand and big car could not have been more proud than they were when Jennifer came home and told them she had been given a volunteer position at the Toronto Hospital for sick children in a blood testing lab they understood when the position started Jennifer would be required for late night shifts and weekends Jennifer suggested it might be better if she spent more nights at a friend's place because are convinced him to let her stay away

when it came time to graduate from the University of Toronto Daniel helped Jennifer hire someone online to fake a full college graduation transcript complete with Straight A's she told her parents that the graduating class was so large that there weren't enough seats for two guests each and so she was only allowed to invite one person she said she couldn't possibly choose between her two parents so she would take a friend instead when her dad asked her where the pictures were she made up an excuse

in September 2009 just over a year before the home invasion here noticed that Jennifer didn't have any uniform for her Hospital job nor did you have any form of ID which he knew hospitals required the following day without saying anything to Jennifer he insisted that he and her mother drive her to the hospital they dropped her off and hand park the car he asked be car to follow their daughter in to see where she went Jennifer knew her mother was following her so she went to the waiting room of the AR and head for three hours

until she was sure that were gone

the next morning here in called topaz Jennifer's friend she'd been staying with except topaz told him Jennifer hadn't been staying with her at all when Jennifer arrived home that day her father and mother were waiting for her they wanted to know what the hell was going on

Jennifer confessed she wasn't volunteering at the hospital she had never been enrolled at the University of Toronto and she had not studied pharmacology for the four years prior it had all been a lie she also confessed that she had been living three days a week with Daniel and his family Jennifer never lived with topaz she'd never stayed there Monday through Wednesday she stayed with Daniel and his family she was a part of Daniel's family and meanwhile her parents didn't even know they were still in contact

Jennifer had told Daniel's parents that him and become we're okay with her living with them half the week they repeatedly asked to meet her parents but she always had an excuse and be car ordered her to reapply for the University of Toronto to gain her degree she had her credits from rice and behind her she would have no problem but she did have a problem she never went to ricin

but she didn't confess that to them she kept the charade going that she had partially studied at Ryerson University she didn't want to come clean about everything and if they were this mad about her lying about Toronto University how would they react if they found out she never finished high school and never went to Ryerson hand and big heart felt like they didn't know their own daughter she was a stranger in her own family he and tried to kick Jennifer out of the house she was a disgrace to the family what she had done was unforgivable he never wanted to see her again

because I was devastated but she was also devastated to think what might happen to her daughter if they kicked her out she convinced him to let her stay

for two weeks Jennifer was housebound their mother by her side nearly constantly she wasn't allowed to go anywhere on her own she had her cellphone and laptop taken away and she was forced to quit all her jobs except piano tutoring where they could keep an eye on her she was forced to repay her parents for all the money they had given her for her studies they eventually found out about high school too and Jennifer was forced to go back to complete the high school calculus course and start the process again for her future she was given a strict curfew of 9:00 p.m.

and every aspect of her life was monitored

over the months that followed her mother occasionally weakened enough to allow Jennifer to know where her dad had hidden her phone allowing her to check her messages because sometimes stood up for Jennifer during argument she had with her father because sometimes said that he and had to remember she had already grown up

let her be herself too much interference would not be good so although sticking by her husband and following his wishes a piece of her understood her daughter's torment

once Jennifer started the game back some trust with their parents died aged up and allowed her to have restricted time with her phone and to sometimes go places alone they still checked our messages and the odometer on the car that Jennifer and Daniel would sneak phone calls and she would often ask a mutual friend Gary to drive her to Daniels and pick her up again still lying to her parents about where she was

she continued to visit Daniel in secret even sneaking out overnight arranging her bed covers to look like she was in bed but her mom found out she was grounded completely and now even her mother wanted her to be completely cut off from Daniel in 2009 around a year before the home invasion Daniel had grown sick of their secret relationship by then Jennifer was 24 and they were still thinking around like teenagers he was tired of the threats of parents constantly made and the fact that Jennifer

wouldn't stand up to them and to move out he broke it off for good and by February 2010 it was seeing a new girlfriend Christine Jennifer was desperate to hold onto Daniel she was adamant that they still needed each other and she went to extreme lengths to gain his attention

in Jennifer's second interview she admitted to detectives Slade that over the months that followed their breakup she liked to Daniel to get his attention early in 2010 Jennifer made up a story where she answered the door of her home to find a man posing as a police officer she said that he and other men then forced their way in and sexually assaulted her she told Daniel she knew it was Christine who had arranged the attack as a warning to stay away from Daniel

she also admitted to lying about a string of text message threats and to receiving a bullet through the mail as part of a death threat Jennifer couldn't handle being without Daniel so she tried to come up with a plan that would keep them together by the end of Jennifers second interview with Slade he told Jennifer he was grateful she had been honest to which he replied there is also one other thing we were getting private phone calls at my house as well I never told my brother because he was at school when we picked up

they would always hang up like I said Monday's my mother would go dancing and one time while she was gone the phone rang I picked it up my father was already on the phone there was a woman on the other line I don't know who it was and they were speaking Chinese my father didn't know I was on the line but this woman was saying you have to come over right away right away you have to come now and my father kept saying I can't come now the woman said I don't care you have to come now

Jennifer explain to detective slight that her father left the house in a hurry saying he had to go and fix a leaking tap at her aunt's place but she didn't believe the woman to be her auntie after hearing this Slade left the room Jennifer started to breathe heavily she got up and started pacing after 25 minutes and officer walked in and offered to take Jennifer to the bathroom and offered her candy Jennifer accepted afterwards they both returned to the room and to the officers

stayed with Jennifer

barely audible Jennifer spread outwards with no consistency while pacing back and forth I'm just beating myself up he's asking me these questions like I should have been more attentive but it just happened so fast and it's like in I can't give him the answers and I don't know I wish I was able to answer I want to be able to answer it so it would help Jennifer turned to the officer and asked have they been able to find out anything did they have any leads or suspects there's

anyone know where the car went after

she didn't get an answer

Jennifer whispered a little to herself and started rocking after nearly 30 minutes detective Slade returned

hi Jennifer here take some kleenex take some kleenex tell me what you're feeling right now what's going on

you might as well get used to this you got to get it out so tell me what you're feeling right now

I'm just kind of like if it made me feel like I should have

so thing called survivor's guilt okay that you're going to go through that you're going to you're going to ND then this is the cookbook the stuff about the therapy and and getting to speak to someone because they're stages of grieving that you're going to go through okay and this is the only way you're going to go through this is with properly is with help I think victim Services is engaged right there they're trying to help you so just stick with this okay it's a long road but it's it can be a very successful role okay and and

what you're feeling I hate to say is normal but it is it's something that a lot of people who are in the same circumstance will feel okay but what I want to do is I want to finish off on this so that we can let you go and get in and get on get out of the police station okay because I appreciate your time and I appreciate your help

so what is in the safe

the last time

I opened it my want to better passports and I

she's she has a combination I don't have the combination you don't have the combination for the safe just your mom okay and so there was passports no large quantities of cash in there

not that I'm not that I know of because she asked me to help pay for our two trips beers and what did you get that what did you have the two thousand dollars for what did you where did you make that money I had

I was saving up to get a nice of them do you have a Blackberry I gave it to Daniel okay the other people to me but you have a sort of blackberries that in your name that you've given to Daniel so does Danny was yours and you've given it to my brother's friend didn't it was an old blackberry and my brother's friend gave it to him and I gave it I gave it to them when did you give it to Daniel

I gave it to a friend to give to Daniel how long ago

couple week week ago a week what's the PIN command for that you know do you have a personal identification number for security reasons have you ever been given that by Blackberry no no - there's no lock that I know okay so

Daniel

is was unlikely Still Remains to be a drug dealer

self-admitted when he was in the air the other day so stepping back from that is I had asked you is prior to the incident when's the last time you spoke to Daniel what I should have said to you is when is the last time from today for back that you spoke to Daniel when is the last time you met with them and spoke with I saw him here yesterday when I was leaving did you talk to him just briefly

you didn't see him or talk to him any other times other than right here in the police station

and if I told you the Daniel says that you spoke to him you did have a conversation with them somewhere else

he would be lying

the last time I spoke to him when he asked for the Blackberry

and that was a week ago

yes because my grandfather had just he was in the hospital and I snuck over and dropped it off for a friend at his paintball place and who is the friend that you gave it to I only know his first name Heston Heston and where's the paintball place Victoria Park in Munich right at Victoria Park in McMinnville between mechanical and Steals on Victoria Park

when

there's a lot of people remember I told you about the media they're bad they can be very bad when they start to sniff around and they send something and I can tell you that the media is portraying that this was supposed to be some sort of drug related that you guys weren't a random Target that you were a targeted house because of drug activity

what would you say to that

I don't deal the drugs okay tell me more about that you don't deal the drugs are you involved in the transportation and just predict distribution have you ever been with Danny this is something that's very important have you ever been with Danny when Danny's doing that he normally leaves me with a friend and says he's going out with his friend the so when you go and see him for once during the time once a once a week I told my parents that I was going to class yeah

and before class or after class I go buy him lunch and bring it by his work and sometimes I would see him and sometimes I just give it to a co-worker to give to him and how long when you see him how long would you see him for 10 minutes 15 minutes because he was working when you weren't when he wasn't working and you were able to get out and see him how long it hasn't happened in a long time and how long is a long time the last time I saw him outside of that was when Gary picking up and I got caught by my parents

it's and that was I'd say a year if not a year and a half on this and why why did he want your blackberry he said that he had sold his BlackBerry so he needed a phone

and that Blackberry would like I'm kind of confused is was that an act of foam

no now we're talking about three phones now we're taught her that we got a SIM card we got the phone that your parents know you have and you got a Blackberry up until a week ago yeah so a black bears what I was using with my own Rogers SIM card this one I'm using now was an old phone that I no longer used okay so interception was the Blackberry was your normal phone that you were using on a regular basis and and you would switch SIM cards if so if you were going to communicate with him with

SIM card you put the same period that blackberry and talk to him through that I had an iPhone iPad and iPhone I kept in my room that my parents didn't know about because my brother I had one that Daniel gave me earlier but it broke so my brother he what he did was he fix the part so he can have one that he used himself but the one I had wasn't fully functioning it was just able had no internet access on it so I just kept it for phone calls and I kept it hidden where is that phone now

it should be still online in my room yes where

I believe those on my laptop table or something from the counter and it doesn't have a SIM card in it right now no I don't keep this in part in it just in case my parents asked okay so there's an iPhone on by your desk on your desk somewhere in that in your room and the Rogers I mean the Blackberry that you had had up until a week and it went to Daniel and and for what reason it went today had a black another unnerving

Barry but he said someone wanted to buy it like a friend of his wanted to buy it and that he needed a phone temporarily took your phone so I had another phone as well so I said okay I'll lend you this one

so

it sounds as if you couldn't let Danny go like you're you're still there you're still hoping the Hope isn't much but it you're still hoping I still cannot you're not walking away from right you haven't walked away from even with the comments that you've received these comments from I had and then

but I had for a while I disappeared from him for a while but I needed it was just he he's that calm that he can even make me calm so I reach back out to him so it is the is it you instigating all the communication or does he reach by does he start reach back as well okay now

you have to figure it out as I said the media can be horrific in some cases and I told you you're not to read or pay attention to the news and I know for a fact that in one of the newspapers that the angle it's being portrayed it right now is that this was a drug that you guys were not a random but a targeted residence because of drug-related activity

you and your family were engaged in drug related activity

now is it possible that Danny

that you are being mistaken somehow as being involved in his life and that angle of things well I haven't been around his life for a while like going out with him

but I wouldn't say that completely out of the question but I haven't I don't I don't go around with him when he's doing that kind of stuff I don't like it and I refuse to be a part of that

then I started talking about Daniel's girlfriend Christine Jennifer encouraged the conversation when it steered towards Christine being involved in drug running

detective Slade ask how would you feel if Daniel is the one through whatever activity who was brought this back to you Jennifer didn't reply

counting both interviews Slade had by now interview Jennifer for over five hours just over the five-hour Mark he asked so you're telling me that you you had no involvement in what happened

meaning not saying how the outcome came but your you had no involvement in any type of illegal activity that would have drawn you or the attention of you to have bad people come to your house looking for large sums of money

you're not involved in this Any Which Way

because the question obviously stands Jennifer is

you're upstairs and they're downstairs

right

so it's a natural concern when why would they leave you alone why would they not do the same to you

you can't answer that question

only I can say is he said I cooperated

but I absolutely take me the number one guy the number one guy said you're cooperated

okay

there's no you had No Frets and again we're back to the fact that you admittedly lied okay not to me right not to me no you admittedly lied you've lied to your parents

write about going to school you've lied to Danny about being Daniel about being raped and about receiving a bullet who's to say this whole thing isn't aligned

that what you're telling me is a lie because if you are lying it's the most cold-blooded thing that I've ever faced in my life

there is nothing that you've said to me today is a lie

and I want to three wanted to put a little Preamble not nothing in here that you might have mistaken because of order of events I'm saying to you right now is there anything throughout the course of your statement today

for you to lie to me

from your interaction with Danny Daniel

from your I'm not involved in drugs and I don't have anything to do with them and we don't have large sums of money

what about life insurance policies your parents have life insurance policies

I think I don't know you don't know they had a they had a

I have one of myself yes and

my mom they used to have one for me when I was younger okay but half of that went to education half went to life insurance and when they found out I

I didn't go to university they

they ask for the money back so hang on a second here you told to me that they told me that they never knew you didn't go to university when did they find out that you didn't go to university

I told them that I graduated but I never went to University that I went for two years but I never finished and they wanted the money back as a result of that yes so you did actually tell your parents somewhat of a tree that you never went to University or but it's half-truths yes

so back to this line is

we're we're talking about the fact that of the line right is that it's a don't deal drugs I don't associate with that

okay I honestly I don't

now

back to another very difficult question but if I don't ask it I'm going to beat you he's an obvious one the resentment that you had that you may have had towards your parents for the interference in your relationship in your life and essentially locking you down in your house

at the end of the day I love my parents and I chose to be with them

and if I wanted to I could have just left but I didn't I wanted to stay with them and take care of them so this wasn't some evil plot that you thought up to oh my God no

no interaction no belief no you didn't have anything to do with this thing at all whatsoever you don't engage in illegal activity no

because you know that it'll be very easily it will be a very easy thing to discredit you on right we're in the process of trying to add credibility to what you tell us and that's through the process of asking people and doing whatever through that same process it will be very easy to find the flaws and what you said which again then turns the focus back to you

okay I don't it's a natural program it's a natural thing that investigators do we eliminate people or we draw our attention to them it's a natural thing it's if it's not brain surgery okay

detective slide left the room briefly and when he ran into Jennifer told him he gave her a fraud slide hasta to sit down he said the interview was over he told her he didn't want her walking away thinking that he was able for asking some tough questions he wanted her to know he was going to turn over every stone to help catch the people responsible for her mom's murder he said sometimes we have to ask really difficult questions but it's my job I hope you understand

I understand I was just

for the pick

have you lied to me

no you haven't lied to me about anything

I said whatever I could to help okay so if you've always told the truth the truth will never hurt you it may get you into a bit of trouble right the truth can get you into trouble if you've done some things wrong but generally in most cases if you tell the truth

you always be fine

so that's that's the Avenue that that that's the Avenue you have to think about and what you I can always I never do anything wrong if I tell the truth and if I made if I said some things that are lies or I've held something back because I think it might hurt me those are the things that will cause people to look at you more intently because the question is why would that person do that to me they've got something to hide right so

you know the fact that you've lied to your parents over a long period of time the fact that you lied about to Daniel about those other tools Vents and those are disturbing

but I don't live in your shoes and I would never judge you on that fact but from an outsider looking in to have to live under those conditions to have to lie continually

you're going to ask the question why

and if that's the way that you have to live that's the way you have to live

but people will judge you on your life

right

my concern lies in the fact of you're lying okay you've come clean you've never lied to me before right I've never met you to be a liar but the fact is is that you've lied about stuff to Daniel you've lied to your parents so

could you be lying to me I can't why couldn't you be lying because you're scaring doesn't mean that I you couldn't be lying to me right I don't know you I've known you now for probably five hours intermittent

I hope you're not willing to write that's all I can hope for

but the fact of the matter is is that those three things are sitting there saying you know like few of the ability to trick your parents for a long period of time

this is freaking two of us doing

very explainable and I also learned that I wasn't living and where you are right and I'm so I'm not going to prejudge you because I people do what they need to do to survive

so it could very easily be justified as a survival mechanism this is the best Avenue that you saw it and you were stuck in it okay but the fact is is that my job is is trying to get the root of a of a severe very serious crime and I have to explore every Avenue that we possibly can

so I'm going to do everything in my power to either prove us as is our police agency prove or disprove what you've told us the more we prove

or can cooperate the more credibility you have as a witness okay that's going to happen

we may even ask you to come back again again it will be not for you will not be explaining what happened in a grand scheme of things because you've done that up and down and backwards it may be four points of clarification okay because again we're speaking to we're going to be going into Blakely speaking to some of your friends and your relatives and it's just points of clarification may not happen if it'd make you know I'm only saying that it may I told you I didn't want to do the five

six and seven interviews with you well after today that's not going to happen but we may be contacting you to help us for some other points that we come across

after her interview Jennifer went to visit her father at hospital with her brother Felix she was chased through the hospital car park by reporters Felix help to Shield her from the Press Jennifer covered her face underneath the hood of a jacket but was photographed when she looked up to see where she was going

the following day hen pen woke up from a three-day induced coma doctors were unable to remove the bullet fragments lodged in his face and he was facing a long recovery from a shattered neck bone but the emotional recovery would take much longer he and remembered what happened instantly and relived the shock of losing his wife his brother Sat by his bedside and told him that things that had been happening the last three days the first thing he told him was that while he was in a coma because father

Jennifer's grandfather that passed away because family believed he passed away from grief

then he told him about Jennifer borrowing some change and making a phone call from a payphone pretending her phone ran out of battery Jennifer's family knew she was lying and have found wasn't he had a battery

after allowing him a brief conversation with his brother detectives interviewed here Jennifer was not allowed to see or speak to her father until detectives finished questioning him

detectives Marco napoleoni and David MacDonald entered the hospital room they found him propped up in bed almost unable to speak having to breathe through a mouthpiece his face swollen from his injuries

and revealed disturbing memories etched in his mind of the home invasion he recalled that while one of the men was moving Jennifer he saw his daughter chatting softly with him like a friend he revealed that during the time hanging be car were being threatened with guns and let away Jennifer's arms were not tied behind her back and said she was comfortable and freely moving around their house they talked at length about Jennifer's odd behavior they talked about her past

they talked about her line

the office is new hand believed his daughter had something to hide and looked both detective Square in the eye and said use your police tactics to find out who did this

he and said that he did not want to see his daughter and Jennifer was told not to visit him

even though he and his family had to wait to see him properly their happiness at his recovery was evident as they gathered ready to help him through his grief and Recovery Jennifer however sought out the hospital therapist having a breakdown over how this was all affecting her she did not appear to be grieving her mother and she showed no concern for her father she was more worried about how she was being portrayed in the media as self-absorption did not go unnoticed to those around her

two days later after hearing and being interviewed for the second time Jennifer snuck into his room in the hospital in a rare moment where she wasn't being monitored by someone and asked her if she thought Daniel was behind the murder she replied I don't know 100% but I don't think he was and also asked Jennifer if it was Daniel who she called from the pay phone right after she discovered he was going to survive Jennifer admitted to the call but said it was only to share the good news

Jennifer then asked her dad for $1,200 for college tuition

that day detective Curtis officially made Jennifer a suspect in the investigation

Jennifer started making arrangements for both our mothers and grandfathers funerals

Jennifer complain to friends that her father left her to arrange the funerals by herself he and chose to pay his respects to his wife in private and not attend her funeral he was still awaiting surgery to remove bullet fragments from his face

at the chapel Jennifer and Felix held each other police were also in attendance this gruesome murder happened in their community and they wanted to pay their respects but they were also there to see how their new suspect behaved here's what one officer said she's up there rubbing her eyes then looking up at us and rubbing her eyes again but never crying that funeral really got to me don't be looking at us when you're paying your respects to your mum it was just killed

she wasn't crying her head was down it was like she was crying but with no tears

with the funerals over Jennifer's family became vocal about their confusion over her behavior she was confronted by her uncle who told her he remembered seeing her a few months earlier at a coffee shop with a black male Jennifer brushed It Off

on Monday November 22nd a week and a half after her last statement Jennifer was called back in for questioning this time she was being questioned by detective William Gates he went through the formalities and mentioned the Jennifer that she had the right to a lawyer but she was not under arrest the tone was different to the last two police interviews there was more formal

Gates ask Jennifer lots of personal questions about her friends her hobbies and herself as a person he then started to delve into how she was treated by her parents Jennifer quietly described their expectations she described her during school her parents compared her to other people often saying she should be more like them she confirmed there was never any physical abuse of any kind Gates asked did you ever feel like you weren't as smart as they thought you were it was pretty tough to live up to their expectations

Jennifer a great

he then asked and their expectations were so high that few people could ever reach those expectations Jennifer a group

the interview continued on a much more personal note they discussed how events with Daniel and her family made her feel

it became clear that Jennifer didn't really know where she stood with Daniel one day he said he saw a future with her the next day he said the opposite she was asked if she felt it was fair that at the age of 24 she had to stay at home with a curfew of 9:00 p.m. Jennifer said considering my past I understood

I talked about the call Jennifer made to Andrew on the day of the home invasion they also discussed the time when she met him Andrews roommate Ricardo a person she hadn't yet mentioned and who we will get to in a minute

they got onto the subject of the attackers Gates said now obviously we have spoken to a lot of people and one of your relatives has told us that you said that these guys locked you why did you say that Jennifer I didn't say that I said I asked them why when they separated me from my parents in the house why couldn't I be with them and they said you've collaborated just keep on cooperating

okay so you made that comment to a relative though that they liked you did you feel they liked you

Jennifer know they had a gun to my head

why did they not shoot you I don't know when I act when they took my parents away I asked to go with them and they're like shut up

but you must have thought of this you must be thinking I'm still doing that I spoke to

yd what have you come up with in your mind why

don't think they could say was they kept saying that you know I cooperated and to shut up cooperate he's cooperating you feel you're like your parents didn't cooperate

I don't know is there something that they didn't cooperate with your attorney as I mean like so really they did cooperate when you think about it

there was no money to be found they told the truth

that does he have $60 ring

so there wasn't anything that he wasn't cooperating I don't know

I'm just trying to say you were there trying to get a feel for did you think he wasn't cooperating no I thought that you would everyone was cooperating but for the campaign and get hurt if you could talk to you I'm trying to figure out where they didn't cooperate

now you think there's any reason why they tied you up and didn't tell your parents up that seem odd to you

why is it seem odd

this is I was away from of your separated from the surprise

and does it make sense that they would leave a witness behind they're going to kill somebody that makes sense

just thinking about it but it makes sense for somebody that is going to kill somebody to leave a witness behind that could describe

does that make common sense for killers

Gates went over Jennifer's previous statements and clarified a few points he asked her much finer details then she had been asked previously Jennifer struggled to answer

he scrutinize the evening and the moments before the home invasion and Jennifer became visibly upset she struggled to get any words out her voice was timid the questions were very detailed

Gage drilled her about the time frame between when her mom came home from dancing and when The Intruders broke in Jennifer said she went down to say hello and get a glass of water the water was a new detail he asked her where exactly she got the water from he asked her if at any time when she was downstairs did she check if the house was Secure she said no that's what the last person who goes to bed does he asked her specifically if she checked the front door she said no

Gates then asked her if it would be typical that if her mother arrived home late at night like she had done on this particular night that she would automatically lock the front door as she went inside as Gates asked this question Jennifer set up straight and looked at him it's the most attention she had given him throughout the interview almost two hours into the interview detective Gates stepped out of the room by this point Jennifer was completely bent over with her face in her hands

she was whimpering and breathing deeply when detective Gates walked back into the room he had some news

now the reason why I'm here today okay is that I'm an expert okay and what we call truth verification okay I'm not a homicide detective a although I work on a lot of homicides okay so my job in any case and anybody that the witness in this case I have to speak to after they've been interviewed originally by anybody else

okay and so what it's about is truth verification okay so basically all my studies come into the interviewing and detecting deception determine if somebody's telling the police the truth okay deitz explain to Jennifer that hey it physically written out the entire two statements she had previously given to detective slate every word every syllable he told her he's trained

notice when someone is speaking in a style of language which differs from their usual stop they don't even know they're doing it there is even software that helps them determine whether certain words or statements ring alarm Bells Jennifer learnt that the software they use to analyze their statement was event probability analysis her statement was fed into the computer at analyze what she said and it told them areas of deception or areas of concern within her statement gauge them went into minut detail about the level of

examination that had occurred at her house now they now knew exactly where and when people were in the rooms of the house on the night of the invasion they knew which rooms people were not in he then mentioned the door locks and latches as Jennifer nodded her head and told her hair Gates explained that they could tell with layers of fingerprints who touched the door lock last possibly to unlock it after someone else had already locked it

over and I have a gauge drop the hints and Jennifer took them she realized she was in trouble as gauge continued Jennifer hung her head lower and lower I am well aware that anybody on this Earth is capable of making a mistake okay I don't care who they are I don't care if their priests I don't care if their school teacher

I don't care what the situation is given a certain set of circumstances

everyone has the capability Jennifer making mistakes doing the wrong thing the key though when I talk to people is

when they made a mistake okay that's one thing right the key is to not keep making the same mistake okay and to get that information other than get it off your chest

okay you understand what I'm saying okay so at the end of the day from this case and I can tell you I spent literally a week on this case going over information after information accessing all this sources speaking to every other expert on the case okay

and at this point Jennifer I know that you've not been truthful with the police

okay you not told us everything that you know purposely okay and that you've loved information out

okay there's a number of inconsistencies in what you told the police okay one of the things you have to remember is that your dad was there

okay and your dad had a front-row seat to all of this

okay and your dad's a very smart man

okay and he has a very clear perception of what's going on

he tells a very truthful story because I've gone through this whole process with him and had to do the same thing and I know he's being truthful okay the problem is that your story we are telling is not truthful

okay we have to clear this up

okay

your

rendition of what happened one a lot of events you say that happened never did okay a lot of things that you told the police happen never happened okay it never happened in the sequence that you told okay you better remember that your dad was there okay that's just one part of it there's lots of other things that tell me that you've not been truthful all this analysis that I've been doing but on top of it

that yours doesn't match at all except for a very few factors that you told truth but you haven't told all the truth we're getting into where you know you spent a considerable amount of time in the last seven years telling half truths okay and I can understand why you've had a tough life okay what's happened to you to me equates to abuse okay and

all the stresses that you've had in forced to lie I can understand why you did it okay but you're in another situation here where you're under another tremendous amount of stress okay and that stress is brought on by those same factors that brought on stress before okay the numbers one thing that brings on stress to you is when you're not truthful

right that hurt you right

okay and it doesn't feel good inside doesn't it breaks down the person that you are because at the end of the day you're a good person I know that you've got a good heart okay in this case though you've made mistakes okay and you're involved in this I know that okay there's no question about it okay the only question right now is are you going to keep making mistakes

are you going to go on the route Yvonne over the years and try to pretend that things happen that never happened they are you going to not face reality okay you are not truthful to the police in this case we know that you're involved we've done our homework okay we have to resolve that now here today okay I need to know from you what really happens okay

I mean whose else is involved in this okay because there's no doubt Jennifer that you are okay we know that we're pasta

okay there's no question about it at all okay and I know why this is happening okay you have spent your whole life trying to live up to expectations that you can't make okay and that stress the hell out of you you're 24 old woman being treated like a 15 year old okay what you've never done anything that terrible in your life but you're being treated like you have

you're not being treated like Dad all that you are yes you made some mistakes big deal you're not the first person that has gone out and not told their parents that they're dating a guy because in your culture they don't accept it I understand that I've talked to people in here that have kept that secret for their whole life from their parents okay so that's not abnormal but that puts a lot of stress on you right that's not easy for you is it

no

now what we need to get down to be here today Jen is what really happened

you need to tell me what went on

because you know who was in that house that night you do Jen there's no question about that okay

there's no question about it okay you have actually given an improper description of a person you were dealing with

upstairs number one

you falsified the whole description of that person we know that okay we know that okay he yes you did and okay you did you made a mistake here and we've got to get to the bottom of that

that person did not exist in that house at night I know that they we've done her homework okay you heard on the news that there was video right okay it wasn't three black guys of up that house you know that and I know that okay so we need to get down to why you have purposely told us a false description of number one okay no again

it's totally wrong and it was done on purpose okay to mislead us okay because you're involved in this okay you cannot deny that okay you cannot deny that we know now okay so let's just get it out on the table you made a mistake I know that okay but you can't live with this any longer than this your buddy nervous wreck over this thing

this thing if you could take it back I know that you would if you could go back that day and play this all over again it would be different okay but you need to right now know that

we know that you're involved there's no question about that none whatsoever okay but what we also know is that you're a good person okay that's made a mistake here right you made some bad decisions okay and it's you know how you made the bad decisions that not talking telling your parents what's up you don't want to do that with us okay you don't want to do that with the police do you you don't want to mislead me do you okay

so let's not do that you made a mistake that night you got involved with the wrong people okay you got involved in the wrong set of circumstances okay but that's over with now

we're past that okay we know that that happened okay but you know what

in all my years of placing it doesn't matter what goes wrong with people it's never too late to do the right thing you know that and I know that okay and what you can do here today is actually do the right thing okay you have to do the right thing okay you can't go around continuing this okay remember when you said what it did to you when you went through those years of depression

I was brought on by not being truthful living a lie you don't want to keep living this life okay everybody knows okay you know and you're getting the feeling from everybody around you that they know okay nobody is surprised okay there's nobody surprised here

okay after what you've been through

I'm surprised this didn't happen a lot earlier truthful it you're 24 years old and you were a prisoner in your own house

you had lost your own identity there was no Jennifer anymore okay you were living for what somebody else wanted you weren't you you were what somebody else wanted you were living someone else's expectations okay and yes family's important but when family takes over you as a human being when they take your identity

there is no Morgan so no matter how good their intentions are no matter how much they love you

they're taking away Jen okay and you have gone through this for years in the middle of tension tension that got to the point that it makes you sick to your stomach turns over

you don't wake up a day that there's not some issue on the table not some stress in your household okay

essentially you've been told to live up to expectations you yourself years ago I knew that you could not do okay you're taking away gently there is no gem they took Jenna Way agenda just wants to be a piano teacher why isn't that good enough

why was that not good enough

that was great expectations why not just be a lab technician why the doctor why does it always have to be something bigger why can't it just be what you want

and all that has resulted in what's happened on a on November 8th

the tension builds up to a point that you know once it's like an animal that gets cornered at some point the nicest dog when it's cornered bites back

three months before the home invasion in the spring of 2010 Jennifer made contact with an old school friend called Andrew montemayor this was the same Andrew Jennifer told detective Sledge had spoken to the day of the home invasion the same energy that during a later account of the story she remembered she also had a quick phone conversation with the evening of the home invasion

Andrew and Jennifer had gone to elementary school together and she remembered him boasting that he had robbed people at knifepoint she told him about how awful her home life was and how her parents controlled every detail of her existence Andrew said he understood her pain and that he had once considered killing his own father this planted a seed inside Jennifer and by the early summer of 2010 she started to hatch a plan that included a world without her father in it

she went back to Andrew

Andrew introduced her to his roommate Ricardo done they created a plan for Ricardo to murder her father in the parking lot of his work Jennifer had saved $1,500 from her piano lessons she gave it to Ricardo and said she would contact him to make a date according to Jennifer story Ricardo stopped answering her calls and disappeared with the money

Ricardo's version is that in July 2010 Jennifer phoned and asked to meet him for a coffee she was in a hysterical State asking him to murder her parents his answer was no way he said that after this he stopped speaking to her Ricardo was the black male that Jennifer's uncle had seen her with at the coffee shop he admitted that she did give him money once but it was only two hundred dollars for a night out which he paid back

Jennifer then went to her ex Daniel Wong

Jennifer was the one in the household who always helped her mother with the bills she knew the extent of their finances if her parents died she would be set to inherit half a million dollars her and Daniel could set up a house together and live a normal life Daniel knew someone being in the drug trade it was easy to find someone willing to do anything for money this was when Daniel introduce Jennifer to lenford Crawford who they called homeboy

Daniel gave Jennifer a spare iPhone so they could contact each other without anyone knowing Jennifer use this phone to call Daniel and Crawford or homeboy sometimes removing the SIM card swapping it back and forth into her own phone so with Crawford in charge and Daniel has an accomplice Crawford recruited two other friends David Mills aghanim's and Eric carty who would be in charge of arranging the car and driving in the three men to and from the scene the fee was $5,000 for each parent a total of

there wasn't a small down payment was given by Jennifer mm was to be handed over during the home invasion and the remaining money was to be handed over when life insurance payments came through

the date was set for November 2nd but in the morning Jennifer received a text from Daniel Daniel was honest with Jennifer he had moved on with someone else he told her that he felt for his new girlfriend the way Jennifer felt for him

Jennifer so you feel for her what I feel for you then call it off with homeboy Daniel I thought you wanted this for you Jennifer I do but I have nowhere to go Daniel call it off with homeboy question mark you said you wanted this with or without me

Jennifer I want it for me

Jennifer then received a text from Crawford I need the time of completion think about it Jennifer replied today is a no-go dinner planned out so I won't be home in time

cardi was pleased The Killing had been postponed as he was having trouble getting enough money together for gas the next day Daniel text Jennifer again I did everything and lined it all up for you

even though Daniel had pushed Jennifer away again he continued to flirt with her and encouraged her to flirt back

on the morning of November 8 2010 Jennifer saved another text from Crawford after work okay will be game time

between 4:30 p.m. and 10:25 p.m. Jennifer and her old school friend Andrew exchanged nearly 100 text messages they also spoke on the phone Andrew wasn't involved in the plan but she did tell him it was about to happen he brushed it off even though only months prior he had introduced her to Ricardo someone he thought could help her kill her father he would go on to testify that he didn't really believe she had gone ahead with it

Andrew had a crush on Jennifer he said he had blink his own the extent of that text her I'm known as Jennifer deleted them before the home invasion

at 6:12 p.m. lenford Crawford called Jennifer it was on

after Jennifer watch TV with her friend Adrian and he left her and Daniel had a long text message conversation discussing in jokes about chickens and monkeys

at 9 p.m. Eric cardi and David Mills aghanim's met up in a hire car and collected lenford Crawford

at 9:35 p.m. David Mills aghanim's phone was used to call Jennifer he let her know that we're close

after Jennifer hung up she opened the door of her bedroom and walk down the stairs she said goodnight to her mother walked to the front door and unlocked it

it was 9:45 p.m.

at two minutes past 10:00 Jennifer walk to the dark study next to her parents bedroom where her father was asleep she flicked the study light on for a minute then switched it off

something which was caught on the security video footage from the house across the road

two minutes later David Mills aghanim's called again this time they spoke for three and a half minutes within seconds of hanging up the rental car pulled up at the house and lenford Crawford David Mills aghanim's and Eric cardi walked through the front door all three carrying guns

the evidence the police had against Jennifer was compelling the messages and calls made from her everyday phone as well as her burner phone led them to piece together a clear picture of the planning that went into the stage time invasion they needed to push her just that little bit further to confess but she didn't

instead of confessing she spent further hours in the interview spinning a story of how she had arranged the home invasion but the plan was to kill her not her parents

she didn't want the bring shame on her family by committing suicide so she created an elaborate suicide plan for a home invasion gone wrong she said she tried to call off the hit but somehow the wires got crossed and the man arrived and killed her mother and almost killed her father Jennifer never left her third interview on November 22nd York regional police arrested Jennifer and charged her with first-degree murder attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder Jennifer hunched over and sobbing

last repeatedly what happens to me

the day after Jennifer's arrest police held a second press conference so I think a continuing investigation police provided few details about the arrest of Jennifer or the potential motive but confirmed the investigation moved in a New Direction when hand woke up from his coma and provided a version of events that differed greatly to Jennifer's

detective cook from the investigation team later said he knew something was up from the very beginning he was an officer who continually voiced his opinion throughout the investigation he said I knew it was an inside job I always thought she was part of it you don't break into a house shoot and kill two people and then leave a witness tied up I mean they tied her up it's not like she hid from them she's tired up but other people are subject to being shot yet not this person

why not it goes against everything we know it just doesn't make sense

Jennifer was remanded into custody due to face Court a week later by now the police were tracking their other suspects and got an interesting lead in The Hours following Jennifer's arrest after news broke of Jennifer being in custody cardi called Crawford while he was at work when Crawford finished work he headed towards Daniel Wong's house where he arrived at 2 a.m. he's in Daniels phones ping to the same cell phone tower for 40 minutes leading police to believe they were in the same location engaging in a conversation

same thing happened to 12 hours later just after 2 p.m. Daniel and Crawford were in the same location again Crawford wasn't happy if Jennifer had been arrested who would be paying them the talk York Regional Police five months to make all the arrests they relied on cell phone location analysis cell phone calls and texts to piece the elaborate murder plan together along with Jennifer or were charged with first-degree murder attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder

the first two arrests police made with David Mills aghanim's and Eric cardi cardi had since been arrested for another murder that occurred in 2009 and was already being held in a correctional facility at the time of his arrest detective Sergeant Larry Wilson released a statement

We are continuing to investigate this incident and are expecting further arrests he refused to comment on the relationship between Jennifer and the two men accused other than to acknowledge there was a connection

I'm not going to get into details in regards to motive but I think with the daughter involved and the conspiracy aspect to it I think the motives pretty clear

he went on with a message for those not yet caught I urge the remaining persons involved in this horrendous crime to seek legal counsel and turn themselves in immediately

York Regional Police Superintendent Wayne kolinsky also released a statement this was not a random act citizens will be relieved by the fact that we made arrests in this matter this was a targeted residence

on April 26th 2011 Daniel Wong was arrested in front of his colleagues at Boston Pizza Two Weeks Later lenford Crawford was arrested at his girlfriend's house

with five people charged and awaiting trial the prosecution got to work on that case police were commended for their diligent work in following the trail to catch those arrested there was still thoughts that other people could possibly be linked on the peripheral and it was still unclear who exactly pulled the trigger but it was agreed that case would proceed with all five charged with first-degree murder attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder

the detailed analysis of phone records was described as second to none with over a million pieces of mobile phone data scanned in order to make the arrest the case took three years to come to trial and when the court said on March 19 2014 in the New Market Courthouse it was expected to last five months it would go on to last 10

the Press was in overdrive at the time of the home invasion this case had taken over the news and was one of the biggest and most intriguing stories after arrests were made the story faded and it was only now gearing backup for almost another year of intrigue is the fate of Jennifer pan and her co-accused were in the hands of the Court headlines like daughter from Hell trial begins gives a little insight into the sentiment at the time

reporters descended from all over Canada the United States China the Philippines and Vietnam this story transcended through generations of Asian immigrant families to Canada hard-working parents and grandparents felt deep sorrow for him pain who had only wanted what was best for his daughter other children of pushy tiger parents as they were called felt for Jennifer a daughter pushed and pushed with expectations she could never reach tipped over the edge

Jennifer yeah 27 had aged in her three years in custody her face no longer sweet and childlike she'd had three years to reflect on the decisions she had made in her life that led her to that point three years without the love and support of her family as they had cut off all ties with her following her arrest

all five accused were tried together all of them pleaded not guilty judge Carrie Boswell told the jury that just because all five accused were being tried together that didn't mean they should all get the same verdict

as the packed courtroom held their breath the father accused shuffled in their ankles Shackled and handcuffed

they were led into their individual box seats separated by glass Dividing Walls their shackles and cuffs removed before the jury arrived so as not to create bias against them

more than 50 Witnesses testified and the jury saw over 200 exhibits including long segments of the 10 hours of police interviews the police had with Jennifer they saw hundreds of pages of cell phone records including phone calls text messages and the location data given the nature of much of the language used in the text message conversations an expert in urban street slang took the witness stand but the key witness was Jennifer's father here to address the jury with a sad tale of how he and his deceased wife had only

the best for their daughter

Creon lawyer Jennifer halogen presented a well-thought-out murder plan concocted by an intelligent and calculated daughter who couldn't get her own way saying Jennifer was determined to get her way no matter what even if it destroyed her family

referring to the co-accused their motive was money and while they didn't all pull the trigger each participated in carrying out Jennifer pens plan to murder her parents

the theory was that Jennifer orchestrated a staged home invasion in which both our parents would be killed and she'd get half shared with her brother of a handsome Insurance inheritance at least half a million dollars each which he hoped would draw Daniel Wong whom she was obsessed with back into her life it was about the money and it was about Jennifer's the loathing of her father in order for the jury to have an understanding of Jennifers motive prosecutors took them back to the beginning of her story they argued that Jennifer parents parents

I wanted the best for their children to work hard get a university education and have a better life than they did Jennifer couldn't handle those high expectations they took the jury through the lies and deceit that began in her early adolescence and continued to that day sitting in court still telling a tale so tightly woven that she could no longer see where one lie ended and another began

the prosecution alleged that after she was turned down by Ricardo Duncan the first time she tried to have her father killed she hatched a more elaborate and more violent plan turning to her high school sweetheart Daniel Wong for help her plan was calculated and considered and planned and deliberate Jennifer was on the stand for seven days she resembled the same character seen in her police interviews softly spoken bordering on shy often with a head down

when not on the stand she sat most of the time with a head low sometimes covering her face with her hands as she had done in her police interviews

she waved her way around the dimming text messages with her co-accused and desperately tried to convince the jury that although she had ordered a hit on her father in August 2010 three months later she had changed her mind

the court heard that Jennifer only wanted herself killed and ordered the hit to not bring the shame of suicide on her family she said she never wanted her parents to be the Target that was her that was supposed to die

Jennifer's defense lawyer Paul Cooper painted every car D has a psychopathic killer who was not happy when Jennifer called off her assisted suicide and not happy he hadn't been paid the eight and a half thousand dollar cancellation fee

Kuba stated the events of that night were never supposed to happen Jennifer would never be part of any plan to hurt her mother and she wasn't part of a plan to hurt her father if this was a planned murder why carry out the charade of the robbery why didn't the intruders shoot mr. and mrs. pain immediately he called it a sloppy robbery led by idiots in a hurry and said every car D was the one calling the shots Cooper alleged that it was cardi who started shooting because he was angry he wasn't receiving the money

one although sitting accused in his trial Eric card he was now serving life in prison for the murder in 2009 a murder he was wanted for at the time of the pan home invasion it was an easy job to paint him as a killer with nothing to lose he was present at the beginning of the trial but five months in his lawyer became sick and was unable to continue with his defense which led to cardis exit from The Trial he was tried separately at a later date

Cooper admitted to the jury that Jennifer had a history of lying but claimed her web of Deceit only showed her to be a sheltered young woman with the social skills of a teenager he said they could not convict her of murder and reminded them they had to believe Beyond a reasonable doubt that she meant for her parents to die

with cardi now out of this trial the defense for Crawford Mill vagon mm and Daniel Wong told the court there was little evidence to convict the three men other than the phone records no DNA evidence was presented at trial there was no forensic evidence gathered from the house no bloody clothes found and no weapons recovered the defense argued that if it was such a sloppy job as alleged by Jennifer's defense then where was the physical evidence

Daniel Wong's defense lawyer said are you going to convict my client of a cold-blooded murder based on a couple of text messages are you kidding me he described Daniel as a university educated hard-working man who played the trumpet who somehow got mixed up with dealing marijuana and who fell under the spell of Jennifer pain she's a pathological liar who was playing games in the sickest possible way with Daniel's head he said five months into the trial it was revealed that juror number four

if it sat in the courtroom every day watching

when Jennifer's father took the witness stand it was joined by two Vietnamese interpreters he did not look over at his daughter

he said the crime had shattered his life adding that he was astonished he survived the shots through his face and shoulder he spoke with a deep sadness as he told the court of the decade of lying and his wife injured from Jennifer

the jury took four days to reach its verdict on December 13th 2014 at 1:20 p.m. the jury informed Justice Boswell that a verdict had been reached

the accused or stood in the prisoner's dock while their verdicts were read one by one

Jennifer pain David Mills aghanim's Daniel Wong and a lenford Crawford were all found guilty of the murder of big carp in and the attempted murder of hen pen Jennifer as she always did hung her head low and sobbed this time only she knew if the tears were real she could be heard saying they didn't even give me a chance

one by one each was asked to sit down

family members were crying and some Screaming as they left the courtroom he and chose not to deliver his victim impact statement in person a witness protection a dreaded out at red when I lost my wife I lost my daughter at the same time I don't feel like I have a family anymore on the day because I died I feel like I died too my life totally changed that day some say I should feel lucky to be alive but I feel like I am dead too I can't work

all because of my injuries and I've given up on all the things I used to do like gardening working on cars and listening to music there is no joy in any of that for me I miss my wife so much she knew me better than anyone and cared about me I'm so lonely without her

we were married for almost 30 years because I was a good wife and a good mother she always put her children first and rarely spent money on herself she loved music and love to go line dancing she took care of our children while I worked she had always wanted to go to Vietnam and I always said we have to spend our money on the children's education first but once they have finished school we can focus on doing the things we want then

but that time never came for her I don't find any joy in holidays anymore I'm sad and lonely all the time sometimes when I see my friends I tried to pretend I am happy but struggle with being jealous of my friends families and their happiness my only hope for the future is that Felix will get married and let me live with him right now I live with my two sisters and my elderly mother as I can't stand being in my home because of all the bad memories of what happened there there are repairs that need to be done on the house but because of my

trees I am unable to do anything I don't like going to my house because my neighbors asked me what happened and I'm ashamed I can't sell the house because it is in a Chinese neighborhood with Superstition and no one would want to live there because of the murder

I cannot sleep at night and have constant nightmares about what happened the night we were shot I feel panicked all the time especially when I see a group of young men in the street I am not racist at all but black men really scare me if I see them standing in a group I am in a lot of pain and take medication for pain every day I have no appetite as food is not pleasurable to me because I know I would never be able to taste my wife's cooking again

I'm also on medication for diabetes and high cholesterol as I cannot exercise as it is too painful my life has totally changed I attend my wife's grave with my brother and sister-in-law on the anniversary of her death and on other special holidays and it is so very hard on me to remember how she died and what my life has become

I'm a very lonely person and have no one to share my feelings with as my son Felix does not want to talk about what happened and just wants to forget it is very hard for Felix he doesn't want to hear his sister's name and doesn't want to know about what happens in court Felix has become very separate and is a very different person he doesn't want to talk about the family and he's very close down distant and too sad he says he doesn't want to remember and won't look for a job in Toronto because he feels like he has a bad family name because

everyone knows about his mother's murder

I hope my daughter Jennifer thinks about what has happened to her family and can become a good and honest person someday

Justice Boswell described the crime as horrific he said the circumstances faced by Jennifer's father Han and mother be cut without of Stark horror those willing to go along with such a plan have very little concern for human life these were crimes of terrifying violence

all accused were sentenced to life without parole for 25 years for the first-degree murder of be car pain and to life for the attempted murder of hanpan the sentences would run concurrently the earliest Jennifer pan will be able to apply for parole is 2035 she'll be 48 years old the judge ended with she lived a life of deception and they did not deserve the death penalty she imposed on them this was a business transaction the commodity

death

Eric cardi wasn't retried card he said he wanted to put an end to his suffering by pleading out to avoid another lengthy trial he admitted he conspired with the other accused to have handbuch are killed for $10,000 he was sentenced to 18 years in prison to be served concurrently with a 25-year sentence he was already serving for the unrelated murder

it is still unknown who pulled the trigger

the case was summed up in the Toronto Star by journalist Rosie de Mano who said all this horror a mother shot in the head her final words are plead that her daughter be spared a father shot through the eye who miraculously survived his Grievous wounds

for the obsessive love of a man who did not love her back