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Jennifer Pan (born June 17, 1986) is a Canadian woman who was convicted of a 2010 kill-for-hire attack targeting both of her parents, killing her mother and injuring her father. The crime took place at the Pan residence in Unionville, Markham, Ontario, in the Greater Toronto Area. Pan was found guilty on multiple charges and sentenced to life imprisonment with the possibility of parole after 25 years, the same penalty as her co-conspirators. In May 2023, the Court of Appeal for Ontario ordered a retrial for Pan and her conspirators on the first-degree murder charge but upheld the attempted murder conviction.

While pretending to complete her degree at Ryerson University (now known as Toronto Metropolitan University), Pan told her parents that she had started working as a volunteer at The Hospital for Sick Children. Hann and Bich soon became suspicious when they realized she did not have a hospital ID badge or uniform. On one occasion, Bich followed her daughter to "work" and quickly discovered her deception. Greatly angered, Hann wanted to throw Jennifer out of the house, but Bich persuaded him to allow her to stay. As she had not completed high school due to failing calculus, a course she had been pressured by her parents to take, she eventually began working to finish high school completely and was later encouraged by her parents to apply to university. She was, however, forbidden to contact Wong due to his parents being from different ethnic backgrounds (according to Pan), or to go anywhere except for her piano-teaching job. Nevertheless, she and Wong spoke secretly during this period.

By the time Jennifer was 24, Wong had grown weary of trying to pursue a relationship with her, as Jennifer was so daunted and restricted by her parents that she lived at home and only met him in secret. Wong broke off his relationship with Jennifer and began to date another young woman. After learning of the new relationships, Pan fictitiously claimed to Wong that a man had entered her house, showing what appeared to be a police badge, after which several men had rushed in and gang-raped her. She claimed that after this, a bullet was mailed to her, and that both of these events were orchestrated by Wong's new girlfriend.

In spring 2010, Pan was in contact with Andrew Montemayor, a high school friend who, she claims, had boasted in their high school years about robbing people at knife point, an assertion denied by Montemayor. Montemayor introduced her to Ricardo Duncan, a "goth kid" whom Pan claims she gave $1,500 to kill her father in the parking lot at his workplace. Duncan alleged that she once gave him $200 for a night out, but that he returned it, and that he rebuffed her when she asked him to kill her parents.

Pan and Wong were back in contact at this time and, according to the police, came up with a plan to hire a professional hitman for $10,000 to kill her parents, calculating that she would then inherit $500,000. They planned to move in together. Wong connected Pan with a man, Lenford Roy Crawford, Jamaican-born, whom he called Homeboy, and gave her a SIM card and an iPhone so that she could contact Crawford without using her usual cell phone. Crawford contacted another man,named Eric Shawn "Sniper" Carty,who in turn contacted Montreal-born David Mylvaganam. Crawford lived in Brampton and Mylvaganam lived in Toronto, while Carty,who previously lived in Rexdale, Toronto, at the time did not have a fixed residence. The Crown (prosecution) stated that Mylvaganam was one of the hitmen. Carty was later convicted for an unrelated 2009 murder.

The murder took place at the Pan house in Unionville neighbourhood in Markham, Ontario. On November 8, 2010, Pan unlocked the front door of the family home when she went to bed, then spoke by phone to Mylvaganam. Shortly afterwards, Mylvaganam and two other people entered the home through the unlocked front door, all carrying guns. In the court testimony, the Crown did not establish the identity of the other two hitmen; Wong and Crawford were at work. Carty stated that he was the driver for those who broke into the house, and that he selected them and was involved in plotting the attack. He did not state that he was one of the three or that he directly attacked others. The identity of the triggerman remains unknown.

After demanding all the money in the house and ransacking the main bedroom, the three men took Bich and Hann to the basement where they shot them multiple times. Bich was killed but Hann survived his injuries. The three men then took $2,000 from Pan and left. Pan claimed that they tied her up, but managed to dial 9-1-1. Hann Pan was treated at Markham Stouffville Hospital, before being moved to a trauma unit at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto, by aircraft.

Investigation and arrests

Police initially believed the family's wealth lured the perpetrators into the house, but began to grow skeptical as numerous valuables were not stolen and the fact that Pan was left unharmed and dialed 911 while having her hands bound together. The evening after the murder, Pan underwent her first interview with the police. Hann Pan later woke up from a coma and told police that he recalled seeing Pan whispering to one of the hitmen in a friendly and soft manner. Pan was arrested on November 22, 2010,during her third interview at the Markham police station (5 District) of York Regional Police. During that interview Pan admitted that she had hired the killers, but claimed that she hired them to kill her and not her parents. The interrogating police officer, William "Bill" Goetz, falsely told Pan that he had computer software that could analyse untruths in statements and that there were satellites that used infrared technology to analyse movements in buildings; in Canada, police are legally allowed to lie to those they are interrogating in regard to the evidence in the trial, as well as in regard to the strategies they are using. Goetz had used the Reid technique to obtain Pan's confession.

Mylvaganam was arrested at the Jane Finch Mall in North York, Toronto, on April 14, 2011. Carty was arrested at the prison he was held in, Maplehurst Correctional Complex in Milton, Ontario, on April 15.[28] Wong was arrested on April 26 at his place of employment. Crawford was the final suspect arrested, entering custody on May 4 in Brampton. Pan was held at Central East Correctional Centre in Lindsay, Ontario as a pre-trial inmate.