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Jennifer Pan and her former boyfriend were both found guilty of conspiring to kill her parents. Here's where Daniel Wong is now.


daniel wong and jennifer pan, left and right, seen in police interview footage. both are wearing plain clothes, have black hair, and glasses
Police interviews with Daniel Wong and Jennifer Pan appear in the Netflix documentary "What Jennifer Did."
  • Jennifer Pan was found guilty of conspiring to kill her parents in a 2010 incident.
  • Daniel Wong, her ex-boyfriend who she met in high school, was also found guilty on the same charges.
  • He faced the same charges, but the pair may get a retrial on a first-degree murder charge.

A new Netflix documentary, "What Jennifer Did," tracks the story of Jennifer Pan, who Canadian police say orchestrated the 2010 murder of her mother, Bich Ha Pan, and the attempted murder of her father, Huei Hann Pan.

Pan was found guilty of first-degree murder and attempted murder, according to the CBC, and was sentenced in 2015 to life in prison without the possibility of parole for 25 years for the first charge and a concurrent life sentence in prison on the second charge. A retrial was ordered in 2023 for the first-degree murder charge, and the case currently sits with the Canadian Supreme Court.

According to footage from "What Jennifer Did," Pan still maintains her innocence.

Pan wasn't the only one accused of conspiring to kill her parents. Others, including her former boyfriend Daniel Wong, received the same sentences in relation to the 2010 crime.

Here's how Wong met Jennifer Pan, how he was involved in the case, and where he is now.


Jennifer Pan
Jennifer Pan was arrested after police suspected she may have been involved in the murder of her mother and attempted murder of her father.

Daniel Wong was Jennifer Pan's boyfriend, and he was convicted after helping her plan the murder of her parents

Reporter Karen K. Ho, who attended school with Pan and Wong, reported in Toronto Life in 2015 that the pair met in their high school's band, where she played flute and he played trumpet. After Wong helped Jennifer recover from an asthma attack on a 2003 band trip, they began dating.

According to Toronto Life, Wong was charged with trafficking during his last year of high school when police discovered half a pound of marijuana in his car. Wong told police in interviews shown in "What Jennifer Did" that he stopped engaging with drugs after he had gotten in "trouble with possession and trafficking."

Wong was a crucial part of Pan's lies to her parents as a young adult. Pan lied to her parents for several years about her education and whereabouts, telling her parents she was staying with a friend in Toronto during the week to attend school, while she was actually working several jobs and residing with Wong's family, according to Toronto Life. When her parents discovered the truth, they placed her under more strict control and told her she was no longer allowed to see Wong. Eventually, they broke up.

They remained in contact, despite Wong dating another woman named Christine, and in early 2010, began to plan to kill her parents, which would have resulted in Pan receiving money from their estate. To do so, they contracted one of Wong's acquaintances, Lenford Crawford, according to Toronto Life.

On November 8, 2010, three men, including Crawford, entered the Pan family's home, killing Pan's mother and severely injuring her father. Police arrested Pan, who initially represented herself as another victim of the home invasion, on November 22. Wong, Crawford, and the two others involved were arrested in the spring of 2011. According to Toronto Life, all five of the accused faced first-degree murder, attempted murder, and conspiracy to commit murder charges.


hann pan and bich pan seen in a photo, displayed in a frame on a table. the two are standing in front of a green field, leaning against a railing, and smiling.
Huei Hann Pan and Bich Ha Pan in a photo displayed in "What Jennifer Did."

Wong received the same sentence and charges as Pan

Wong was found guilty of the same charges as Pan: first-degree murder and attempted murder. The pair were sentenced in January 2015, according to the CBC. For the first-degree murder charge, he received a life sentence with no chance of parole for 25 years; for the attempted murder charge, a life sentence.

Ho, the Toronto Life reporter, recounted visiting Wong in prison in Lindsay, Ontario in late 2014, writing that "he said the best thing for him was to focus on reality: that he was in jail, and he had to make the best of it." He did not, however, comment on the case at the time.

Wong's case may go to retrial

Wong is currently still in prison, but according to the CBC, he, Pan, and two of the other men involved appealed their case. (The fifth defendant, a man named Eric Carty, was tried separately and reportedly died in prison in 2018.)

In May 2023, the Court of Appeal for Ontario ordered a new trial for their first-degree murder charge, because the judge in the original case didn't present the jury with second-degree murder and manslaughter as potential other verdicts in the killing of Pan's mother.

According to the Markham Economist & Sun, the case is currently with the Canadian Supreme Court, which will decide whether the case will get a new trial. If it doesn't, Wong, Pan, and the other accused will be allowed to seek parole.

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Title: Jennifer Pan and her former boyfriend were both found guilty of conspiring to kill her parents. Here's where Daniel Wong is now.
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Published Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2024 16:59:42 +0000

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