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[Music] come on carefully please I don't know where are you ma'am create a view I
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think we just know hello ma'am calm down what's going on some people broke into so it's all is money man yeah I am where
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are you two three eight one Avenue Q three eighth Avenue Road yeah you saw them it's a changing for me please hello
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hello yes ma'am I need to know your address Avenue rocky because they haven't to see Helen Avenue my dad what
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else ice cream eight ma'am you stop the street address for me please 808 and broken I heard a shot like pop I don't
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know what's happening I'm tied up there and I think my dad went outside and he's
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screaming okay you're upstairs you think someone fell in the house I believe I don't know they're still around okay are
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you safety can you lock your door you upstairs I can't hide is our time my cell phone in
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my pocket someone invaded your home ma'am yes and her gunshot they had guns and I'm holding me at gunpoint you hear
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mommy or daddy everything your mom decide to learn do you think your mom is downstairs to store anymore hey just
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take a deep breath okay do you know what you believe do you know that if they know your parents anything
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like that was on your relation to them to do to make people they just they just came and tied you up and thank you
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really boys all your money worth your money where's your wallet is it you're asking for money
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okay don't worry okay lots of hop on the way okay what's your name Jennifer okay
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Jennifer you're doing a great job okay you hear them okay just stand if only do you see them okay Jennifer Jennifer
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well you found the fun right okay do you see anyone there okay Jennifer there with you okay
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Jennifer yes there with you right I don't okay you want to stand this on me to see
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them sure they're there okay Jennifer got me hang up okay okay take care okay [Music]
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on November 8 2010 just after 9:30 p.m. 25 year-old Jennifer Penn was in her bedroom she had a TV on and was chatting
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on the phone while getting ready for bed she had spent the afternoon practicing the piano and studying piano history for
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an upcoming test she'd been playing the piano since she was 4 years old earlier that day Jennifer's mother 53
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year old beaker went to visit jennifer's grandfather and run some errands around
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Markham in Ontario Canada Vika returned home around 3:00 in the afternoon Jennifer's father 57 year old Han had
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gotten home later than usual from work it worked half in the air away at an automotive manufacturer in Scarborough
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Ontario it was a metal tool and dye operator here had forgotten to lock the toolbox and remembered when he was
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already halfway home so he had to turn back when he got home just after 4:30 p.m. he called his brother
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Jennifer's uncle to see if he wanted to join him shopping they went to Home Depot Vika cooked
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dinner and ate with Jennifer before going to her Vaughan dancing class which she attended every Monday they put hands
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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
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went to the study which was upstairs next to he's in big cars bedroom he logged on to his computer to catch up on
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the latest Vietnamese news before going to bed he always went to bed early as he
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had to get up for work at 5:00 a.m. about 6:30 p.m. Jennifer's friend - Adrienne visited her they regularly had
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TV nights together and Adrienne had bought over the latest episodes of Gossip Girl and How I Met Your Mother
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for them to catch up on they went down to the basement TV room together Adrienne left about 9:00 p.m. and
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Jennifer went upstairs to her bedroom Jennifer put the TV on in her room The Amazing Race was on about 9:15 p.m.
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she heard her mum get home from lawn dancing Jennifer went downstairs and spoke briefly to her mum who was also watching
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TV Jennifer then went back up to her room where she continued watching TV and called her friend an old co-worker
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Edward Pacifica door around 20 minutes later Jennifer could hear movement downstairs and voices she didn't
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recognize her mother who nearly always spoke in a mix of Vietnamese and her native Cantonese yelled out for Han in
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English in a tone that Jennifer knew meant now that startled Jennifer there were people in the house she heard
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footsteps studying so loudly up the stairs she knew they could not be her parents they couldn't be her younger
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brother Felix either he was living half an hour away at university jennifer hung
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up the phone on Edward in fact frozen in her room she was too scared to turn the
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tv down and she was too scared to open the door she was too scared to move she heard men shouting outside her room and
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then her dad yelling he had been asleep but was woken up by the commotion to see
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me and wearing a baseball cap standing over him but without his glasses on him couldn't see properly where's the
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[ __ ] money the man in the cap screamed before he and got a chance to act he was dragged
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downstairs to where another man was standing over his wife of 30 years vicar was cowering and crying in her silky
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green winnie-the-pooh pajamas all the lights were off there was just the glove the TV lighting the room the first words
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be cut cried to hand were how did they get in in reply I don't know I was sleeping
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one of the men yelled shut up you talk too much upstairs Jennifer got the courage to
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open her door a little I mean with dreadlocks flopping around his face saw her he walked towards her carrying
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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
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say then no one will get hurt where is the money show me where your money is Jennifer gave them in two
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thousand dollars cash she had saved he then dragged her to her parents room show me where they keep the money
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Jennifer said she didn't know and so the man trashed the room with the help of one of the other attackers they found
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some money in because bedside table one of the men dragged Jennifer into the hallway
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down the stairs to where her parents were pleading he made her kneel on the ground near the foot of the stairs away
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from both her parents this is when Jennifer first realized there were three attackers in total all men but she
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couldn't really see the third men they were all carrying guns the third attacker was yelling at her
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mother big car tried to get up off the floor but the men was yelling at her to get back down because poor English left
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her confused she didn't know what he was saying Jennifer yelled out to her mom to sit
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down she didn't want her to get hurt the men kept yelling where's the [ __ ] money
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and said I'll have $60 in my pants upstairs but my possessions are worth plenty one of the men dragged Jennifer
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back up the stairs towards her parents room again he found the cash Jennifer remembered her mother had more money
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stashed and told the man where it was in the bedroom it was around 1,100 u.s. dollars left over from a trip to the
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United States they had just taken to go to a wedding Jennifer hoped this would be enough
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money for them to let her and her family go but the men had other ideas they tied
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Jennifer to the banister at the top of the stairs one of the men downstairs started to look around the kitchen he
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was looking for because purse he even looked in the fridge I need the [ __ ] money he received a hard blow to the
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back of his head and he watched as blood sprayed over the living room sofa as he
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felt their [ __ ] get up in a big car were forced down the basement stairs big car was hysterically crying unable to
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control herself you can hurt us but please don't hurt our daughter Jennifer screamed they are from upstairs to let
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her go with her parents hand remained silent he realized this wasn't just the break-in
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the basement was set up as a TV room with a large leather reclining chair and a 2 seater sofa blankets were scattered
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around the TV and stereo cabinet was in the corner with pitches knickknacks and de vars of fresh flowers hen and big
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heart were forced onto the sofa with one of the gunmen throwing blankets over their heads before he got to look his
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attackers in the face he was shot twice in quick succession the first shot struck his face fracturing the bone in
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the inner corner of his right eye raising his carotid artery the main artery which runs down your neck the
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second shot hit him in the right shoulder and exited out the back big heart was screaming more shots wrung out
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1 2 3 the first entered at the base of because neck the second through her right
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shoulder and the third entered and exited her skull killing her instantly Jennifer was
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carrying at the top of the stairs she heard the shots ringing out she heard one of the men say we gotta go now it's
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been too long the string which was tying her to the banister had a gap of about 8
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inches which allowed her to reach into the waistband of her yoga pants for her phone she dialed 9-1-1 you heard the
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call at the start of the episode han was silent but he was not dead within seconds as he regained consciousness and
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turned to his wife slumped on the floor there was blood everywhere he cried her name over and over but she was gone han
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was in agony his face dripping with blood he was unable to see a thing without his glasses he was moaning and
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yelling as he crawled up the basement stairs to the main level of the house Jennifer was calling out to him from
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upstairs crying for him but he ran for the front door trying to get help outside and neighbor Peter Chung was on
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his way to work he walked outside of his house just after the attackers fled in a
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waiting car it was confronted by a friend he can as he collapsed on the ground covered in
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blood police sirens got louder as they approached the house Peter was with him when they arrived
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the more Mike's Tesco and his partner Brian Derek were two of the first officers on the scene they approached
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him who was covered in blood and saw a trail leading from the house to where he had fallen hen was moaning and wailing
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but managed to save wife was shot and his daughter was still inside other officers started to arrive one of those
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was constable Mason Baines the officers had no idea where the gunmen were but their first job was to check inside and
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clear the house they approached with their guns drawn they could hear Jennifer's cries for
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help upstairs constables Thesz Cohen Baines went down to the basement they were followed by Derek who momentarily
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went downstairs is Becker before going upstairs to Jennifer it's Derek you can hear approach her in
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the norm on one call in the basement they saw the body of B cart on the floor there was a large pool of blood around
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her they attempted to get a response from her but they got nothing the paramedics arrived and took over
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Derek climbed the stairs to where Jennifer was huddled at the top her hands only loosely tied now with the
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shoelace she was sobbing as she hung up the phone from the norm on one Operator Jennifer told Derek she didn't know
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where the attackers were Derek gripped his weapon he moved past Jennifer to check the other rooms of the top floor
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there was no one there the men were gone Derek walked back to Jennifer who was sitting on the floor slightly to one
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side her legs underneath her and her hands centered in front of her her hands were bound with a long shoelace tightly
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enough that Derek needed to find some scissors to cut the lace away but loosely enough Jennifer could move her
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hands around eight inches away from the banister there was no bruising or redness on her wrists that he could see
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she was unharmed Derek helped her downstairs putting his own jacket over her and walking her
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towards a paramedic Jennifer called out for her father as he was being wheeled into an ambulance himself the paramedics
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helped Jennifer into the ambulance accompanied by a constable Derek she asked Derek where her mother was he
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told her that her mother had died in the basement Jennifer put her head down and covered
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her face with her hands by now neighbors were outside wondering what was going on the neighbor who had
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found him was standing in shock relaying what he had seen to an officer none of them knew baqar was dead some
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neighbors were relatives and others were very close friends once Jennifer had calmed down
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constable Derek asked her what she remembered about the home invasion she said there were three men one with
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dreadlocks but that's all she could get out constable Mike Sisco relayed in his reports what he witnessed at the scene
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although he had seen a trail of blood splatter on the way in upon entering the house he said quote everything in the
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house seemed to be where it should be obviously we've done home invasions in the past where their house had been
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ransacked but nothing was out of place nothing taken but upstairs was a different story the master bedroom had
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been rent sacked dresser drawers had been pulled out and emptied all over the floor the mattress pulled off and tipped
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over on its side but apart from that no furniture elsewhere in the house had been disturbed the house at 240 Helen
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Avenue Markham Ontario was a middle-class suburban home a two-story brown brick house with two white garage
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doors it had a large front porch with pillars leading up to welcoming double front
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doors in a suburb of the large homes it didn't stand out from the rest most houses were similar and most of the
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residents for Asian families like the pants from the outside there was no obvious reason for this house to be
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targeted over any others the city of Markham just north of Toronto is in the region of York
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it's about as safe and as quiet as suburbs get in the area the community was tight-knit a woman who
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lived in the pens street said quote we've been here 10 years people don't understand why this house there are
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bigger homes in the area maybe they thought that we were an easy target the pens were a simple quiet hard-working
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family it didn't make sense in the year prior to the home invasion at the pens 2009 the York Region had a total of 14
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home invasions which was half the amount they had in 2008 Markham had experienced six home
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invasions so far that year up to November 2010 none of which had ended in murder home invasions were nearly always
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targeted attacks drugs were a common motive but a random home invasion which ended in murder was almost unheard of in
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Markham almost every detective in the region was assigned to the pen case in some way within a day home security
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companies descended on the suburb door knocking and selling camera systems the baffled and frightened the community
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wondered who would be next Canadian statistics for the year prior to the attack on the Pens showed that of
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four hundred and fifty three solve homicides 242 over half were committed by partners 87 were committed by a blood
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relative 42 were committed by an acquaintance leaving 82 murders in the year prior committed by someone unknown
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to the victim including people caught in crossfire and in big Harpe M had both been raised and educated in Vietnam they
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arrived to Canada separately in 1979 as political refugees they met in Toronto and got married not long after in 1986
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their first child Jennifer was born followed three years later by their son Felix hen and Bakr worked hard in their
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first jobs at an automotive parts manufacturer in Aurora a town just over an hour's drive from Toronto they lived
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a frugal life in the Toronto district of Scarborough they didn't like living there it was a rough neighborhood and
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they were robbed hen and B car made it their goal to move their family to a better area by 2004 they had saved heart
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and moved to Markham they bought a large home with a two-car garage and a quiet residential street
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Markham had a large Asian community and they were close to relatives and friends
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by the late 2000s Han was driving a mercedes-benz and to be cut Alexus big car lost her job in 2008 when
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the company had cutbacks she found it hard to find employment but her and him continued to make it work especially for
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the education of their children by 2010 they had saved $200,000 in the bank and could afford to support their
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two children through college their hard work and dedication was very evident there were strict parents who seemingly
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lived for their children they wanted to give their children all the things they weren't able to have growing up they
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seemed happy but for two years leading up to the home invasion they slept most nights in separate rooms according to
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Jennifer they hadn't been getting along very well at all there had always been tension but lately that had gotten worse
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lots of arguments in yelling would occur in those days Jennifer sometimes had to mediate and be
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the common ground between them Jennifer felt that if she could be good for them they would be happy and in big Harpe
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push their kids academically wanting the best for them in the early days before moving to Markham Jennifer then four
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years old was playing the piano by the time she was in elementary school she had a room full of awards she figure
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skated from a young age but not for fun she trained hard in the hope she would make it onto the 2010 Canadian Winter
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Olympic team even as a young child Jennifer would often train until 10 p.m. then go home and do homework till
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midnight but Jennifer started to bombing out in skating competitions she tried to
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hide her devastation from her parents not wanting to add worried to their disappointment sometimes big heart would
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comfort her saying you know all we want from you is just your best just do what you can that Mary Ward Catholic
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Secondary College in grade 8 Jennifer worked hard it was expected that she would receive valedictorian that year
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the top honor of her grade as well as receive a bunch of awards for her academic achievements but she didn't win
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valedictorian she won no Awards she put on what she would later describe as her happy mask in spite of this and in the
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proud eyes of her parents Jennifer went on to do well the expectation was that both the P and children would go to
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Toronto University hen and big car also had very set ideas about Jennifer's extracurricular activities she was
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allowed to figure skate as long as you work towards her goal of Nationals for the Olympic team she could pursue
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music but she had to work hard on music theory and pass exams she was not allowed to go to parties dances and most
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importantly she was not allowed to have a boyfriend her focus in life were her studies and her goals she never had
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sleepovers and she never went on trips away with anyone she was however allowed to go on a two-week banned trip to
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Europe towards the end of high school in 2003 this is where Jennifer and her friend Daniel Wong became more than just
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friends that summer they started seeing each other but Jennifer didn't dare tell
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her parents Jennifer had met Daniel in grade 11 at bent practice Daniel was also the son of Asian immigrants he had
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a Filipino and Chinese background during the last year high school Daniel's parents moved him to the Cardinal Carter
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Academy an art school in North York he was falling behind in his studies at Mary Ward and he was starting to get
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himself into trouble dealing drugs by the end of school he had been charged with trafficking cannabis after
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half-pound was found in his car Jennifer didn't like the drug dealing she wasn't
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interested in drugs and didn't really want him to deal daniel refused to stop but he kept her out of it and Jennifer
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was spent with Daniel so nothing was going to stop her seeing him not his drug dealing and did not her parents
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when her parents eventually found out she had a boyfriend they immediately put an end to it but Jennifer didn't end it
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she kept her relationship with Daniel a secret and snuck around behind her parents back to keep singing Jennifer's
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grades were high enough to get her accepted into Ryerson University on early admission even though this wasn't
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Toronto University in and big car were thrilled when they learned that Jennifer had received a scholarship to Ryerson
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and they supported her decision to do two years there studying science her plan was to then transfer to Toronto
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University to study pharmacology they supported her financially depositing money into her bank account and they
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often drove her to university they even allowed her to spend a couple of nights a week at a fellow classmates house so
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she wasn't so exhausted there was a time during University where Jennifer's parents found out she was
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seeing Daniel again they were furious and made her stop seeing him Jennifer understood she knew they just
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had her best interest at heart and so she told them she had cut off communication with him and continued on
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with her studies when she got a work placement at the Hospital for Sick Kids in Toronto Jennifer's parents thought
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their dream for their daughter had been realized after the home invasion Jennifer was taken to hospital where she
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was seen by doctors and crisis workers she was told her father was undergoing life-saving surgery and was in a
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critical condition she was given medication to calm it down as she was badly shaken and suffering shock but
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physically she was unharmed at 1:31 a.m. when doctors felt she was stable enough
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to be released she was taken by constable Derick to Markham police station so she could make a statement
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once there police seized her phone in case it could help them with any information as to why her family was
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targeted a major case management unit was quickly put together three experienced investigators formed what is
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known as a command triangle having three had investigators gives the team the ability to have three sets of eyes on
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all aspects of the investigation and was the best strategy for managing the large
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team of officers who were working on the case Detective Sergeant Larry Wilson the
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most experienced of the three was named the senior investigating officer responsible for the direction of the
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investigation detective bill Curtis was put in charge of running the day-to-day tactical strategy he had previously led
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five homicide investigations and had been involved in a total of 80 others including one of Markham's most infamous
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involving convicted murderer Chris little Curtis was harsh but had an excellent track record Detective
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Constable Alan Cooke our former drugs and vice detective who also worked in the intelligence unit was placed as the
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foil coordinator Cook was known for his undercover expertise veteran York Regional Police Detective Randy Slade
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was on duty he had already met Jennifer at the hospital Jennifer was shaken and in shock but Slade explained that giving
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her statement now was going to be there chance of finding the people responsible
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by the time he sat down in the interview room with Jennifer that was 2:45 a.m. she had just lost her mom and her dad
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was in hospital fighting for his life Jennifer was 25 but could easily pass for 16 detective Slade explained to the
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forms he needed her to sign the standard procedure for giving a voluntary statement he was very careful to put
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Jennifer at ease and he explained she didn't have to give a statement here she didn't want to or wasn't ready do you
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understand the criminal consequences of making a false statement do you understand that it is your choice
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whether or not to give a statement do you understand the importance of telling the truth you think with respect to this
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investigation if you've spoken to any police officer a person in authority in connection with
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investigation I want it clearly understood but I do not want it to influence you in making others making a
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statement do you understand yeah do you have any questions so basically I'm starting to Hey so what what I've just
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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
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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
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tell the truth there's criminal consequences for not telling the truth that's all that all that stuff had to
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deal with okay you can't point the finger at someone else you can't tell us to go off in a different direction you
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just got to tell us that you know exactly exactly and do you have any questions with respect to what I've just
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told you just like sitting sometimes like hearts come back they didn't remember when I no one is and that's the
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process this is going to be a lot long process this is an initial statement from you we may you know as you remember
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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
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us a give a perfect statement you just do what the best you can given given what you're dealing with okay
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any other questions at the beginning of the interview Jennifer started to realize the enormity of what it just
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happened to her and her family she sat nervously in the chair pulling the sleeves of her sweater over her wrists
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and went between rubbing her thighs to covering her face with their hands crying and the first mention of her
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mother's death Jennifer put her head down and started to cry Slade told Jennifer he would get
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her some tissues before saying you have nothing to apologize for Jennifer it's going to be tough but you know the
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importance of this statement you have nothing to apologize to me for I am here to help you okay Slade left the room to
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grab the tissues Jennifer's sat with her head down and her hands over her face she appeared to
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be crying when Slade opened the door to walk back in Jennifer jumped about a half a foot in the air
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detective Slade asked Jennifer to tell him as much about the day she could then they moved on to what happened to during
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the home invasion Jennifer told him the story start to finish next Slade asked her to tell him again
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but in a different way he asked Jennifer to recall the invasion at this time as if she was looking down on the event
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this is a technique which helps witnesses recall parts of what they saw that they may not necessarily have
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record before it can also show investigators if there is any change or inconsistency in the witness's story
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Jennifer described the men as best she could one was of African American appearance with dreadlocks that were
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shorter at the front and longer at the back he was of medium build in between 28 and 32 years of age he walked like
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leather gloves the second man she described as taller with a smaller frame wearing a
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dark-colored bandanna which covered the bottom half of his face and a hooded sweater the third man didn't engage with
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Jennifer at all she couldn't describe his appearance but she recognized that maybe he had a
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Jamaican accent this new technique enabled Jennifer to remember details about the home invasion
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that she was unable to record before she remembers that the men with the dreadlocks yelled out to the thinner man
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to tell Cuzzi who was the third man to get some more string that was how she was tied to the banister upstairs she
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also described seeing the cylinder of a gun and remembered more details about the third men while in retelling the
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story about the gunshots she heard while tied to the banister Jennifer recalled the man with the dreadlocks saying
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that's enough Arthur a few gunshots after hearing the words that's enough Jennifer heard one more shot this would
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be the shot that killed her mother about one hour into the interview Jennifer remembered more detail she was able to
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clearly differentiate the three voices of the attackers and could tell which of the three men were saying what she could
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hear the words the men were saying to her parents in the basement she clearly heard the third attacker say
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he just had to do what we said he just had to cooperate um do you know which way they go out you can't hear that um
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I'm pretty sure the front door yeah but I'm not 100% I didn't get to see anything like my arms or my my back and
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I was against the banister yep and banisters twisted so I can't see the front door now you hear your dad right
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and what's going on so what do you hear next after you hear the scrambling they're gone
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does your hearing know more I gather that's how you swim they're gone is because you don't hear then you hear
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your dad I reach for my phone okay and you call 911 okay and then you what happens after
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you're on I just I I heard my dad go out and I don't know if they damaged his throat how did you hear you're dead so
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what this is the kind of importance because if you he did he go out the front door how did you how did you know
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he went out the front door cuz I heard him both in the door did you hear that door open when these guys were
00:31:48
scrambling to leave there was so much thudding is your house got an alarm system yeah
00:31:55
you know the alarm system when the front door goes off and there's that chirping
00:31:59
we don't we don't have that you know is your house alarmed at night when you guys go to bed before the last person
00:32:06
goes up too bad they will alarm it but prior to that it doesn't get alarm okay so you hear you from your when your
00:32:15
father exits you hear the door open because you hear your dot and then yes I can hear like the outside noises okay
00:32:21
like the wind coming in and I just hear my dad I think you think that he sustained some kind of injury because
00:32:33
he's not you can't understand what he's saying okay what about can you hear your mom
00:32:40
okay where does your dad go do you know where you never seen your dad again until way
00:32:46
more at the hospital I think that's what you said right you saw him when he was on the greenie but the officers walking
00:32:54
you around oh we did okay so now you're upstairs and you're on the phone with the 9-1-1
00:33:00
operator okay do you remain on the phone until the police arrived and the officer
00:33:08
is the one who cuts gets you free yeah he first had to secure the place yes it took me a while to get somebody upstairs
00:33:16
okay and kept screaming okay and I guess they went to my bedroom and I have a pair scissors I cut my hair with yes he
00:33:29
said they cut it for me but it was a little while longer int elastic string so I can be free do
00:33:36
you understand that they are the importance of clear that what they were doing it wasn't to leave you in any kind
00:33:41
of trauma or anything like that did from it's a very tough question considering all the things that you've
00:33:50
gone through tonight Jennifer is any other tying up any of the binding any other things were you sexually assaulted
00:33:57
in any way it wasn't that this was strictly they were after money it from what I thought they were after money
00:34:05
they wanted it now how much money did you turn over - from my personal I had to 2500 2500 and where was that
00:34:20
and where was that in my nightstand underneath the TV okay and that was from work that you had done yeah what do you
00:34:28
do for a living now what are you doing right now heard you're saying about piano are you in school I I recently
00:34:33
lost all my students in piano I had a few yes for a while when how they've gone to university that's I was a
00:34:40
September I didn't have any more students so you were a piano instructor yes out of my own okay just for family
00:34:47
friends here and there also my family needed me home a while and I was doing some piano classes with very good
00:34:57
teacher of mine okay and I'm going back to school in January to to study biotechnology engineering okay detective
00:35:08
Slade was able to ascertain a lot about the evening from Jennifer and said he was happy with the information he had
00:35:13
but he thought he needed to find out a little more about where her mother was that evening the exact location of the
00:35:19
lawn dancing class and if she went elsewhere after line dancing before Slade left the interview room he asked
00:35:26
Jennifer if she consented to her phone records being examined so they could check time stamps for when she was
00:35:32
speaking to Edward on the phone to match the exact time of the home invasion Jennifer agreed Slade then advised
00:35:39
Jennifer not to read the papers or watch TV he didn't want her seeing or reading
00:35:43
things that would cause her distress it was about one and a half hours into the interview when detective Slade left the
00:35:49
room to get the phone record consent forms Jennifer sat with her face in her hands she remains still not crying
00:35:56
she sat like that for over ten minutes before she reached her tissue Jennifer then stood up stretched her
00:36:03
legs and paste a little while holding the chair in the wall she was agitated a noise outside made it jump then she
00:36:11
started to motion with her hands as if she was conducting music she sat back down and again covered her
00:36:17
face with her hands she wiped her eyes she got back up and rocked back and forth on her feet
00:36:22
rubbing her stomach slayed startled her when he opened the door and told her to have a seat
00:36:29
Slade mentioned that her brother Felix was being interviewed next door Jennifer seemed surprised Slade banned
00:36:36
it clear that he felt big heart may have been followed home after line dancing spotted by her attackers driving an
00:36:42
expensive car when detective Slade was filling out the phone record consent form he told Jennifer he was going to go
00:36:49
back and check in on day period my question is as far as deep into this will I look for my phone just like
00:36:59
comment like regular phone calls people really it's just the time stamping of the you know we were putting nine days
00:37:08
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
00:37:15
that we may need to go back and interview the interest of us is obviously tonight between nine and ten
00:37:23
right but we're just asking for this we're not asking for months and months and months it's nine days that we're
00:37:31
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
00:37:39
off I don't know where they live but I spoke to them or we got the phone records is this the same person and
00:37:46
we'll have their address at least what is registered to their phone so it's the only reason we're asking for a nine-day
00:37:52
period investigatively if it's not no real significant value other than today right we can sometimes iPhone you know
00:38:03
teacher you know we're not going to go back and interview all those people that's not our intention right so I need
00:38:11
you to fill out this portion for me so owner subscriber it's the same person as this so it's you and you your address
00:38:24
the telephone number and in today's date and then your signature and what it is is before we go into it
00:38:34
it's all this is all being recorded again so it's just that you consent to giving us the records for cellphone
00:38:39
number six four seven nine six five two one one eight and you can send to allow the York Regional Police to access the
00:38:47
phone records the said cellular phone company authorized Rogers for the following billing records incoming and
00:39:00
outcoming numbers dialed registered owner information including credit and payment
00:39:04
history this is really how we link phones to people we confirm that's your phone and the tower site location if
00:39:10
requested for the above-mentioned times and dates towers now become mine just drop and towers become relevant in this
00:39:18
case because of where you are when the phone call comes in on the on today's date right is that it ferns your story
00:39:24
to saying that I was in my room when I made that when the calls came in and that will show up on the tower site
00:39:33
information that's the relevance of the tower site information it also may turn out that maybe during this time period
00:39:38
you were targeted and you were in an area and this enables us to go back and try and look for cameras and other
00:39:47
things through the towers not saying it's going to happen in your case but it's why we asked for tower sites right
00:39:53
tower sites always showing you're on the phone they show you where you're where you are when you're on the phone making
00:39:58
calls and that the above-mentioned records are to be released for the Europe region to the York Regional
00:40:04
Police for the purposes of an investigation of murder of your mum and for the time period I stated November
00:40:10
1st to November 9th this is the part of the consent I am voluntarily giving and sent and I
00:40:17
know that I you don't have to you don't have to do this this is your this is you
00:40:21
volunteering to do this you may withdraw your consent at any time I understand that these records may be used as
00:40:27
evidence against me and may become any part of a criminal proceeding now if you relying on this you know as a part of
00:40:34
this whole process that I explained telling us fictitious information it comes back now the records can also be
00:40:39
used against you if you're telling the truth really point three means nothing okay
00:40:45
but we have to let you know by law that we could use these against you if you're
00:40:49
lying to us so will you will we be in will I be informed of Who am I if anybody if they contacted on that the
00:41:00
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
00:41:05
need to speak to that right because Adrienne was in your house remember move on if they're doing forensic
00:41:12
testing in your house to try and get DNA and anything else in there they're also
00:41:16
going to need stuff to eliminate people right so Adrienne was in your house so we need to try and if you win when we
00:41:24
shut this down I'm going to because it doesn't need to be disclosed on video about their personal information I need
00:41:31
to get Adrienne's contact information I need to get Edwards contact information I don't know if we're going to contact
00:41:37
them to tonight or this morning but sometime today they're going to be spoken to okay um
00:41:43
our priority is who was with your mom that's our priority right now okay on but I just tweaked me back how many cars
00:41:52
here deer food is your family the Mercedes in the Lexus and where do your parents park these cars inside the
00:42:03
garage and when they where do they enter the house when they're when they park in
00:42:08
the garage is there an entrance through Raj okay so that's the normal course as they park
00:42:13
unless we plan on going out somewhere we leave the condo driveway instead of having to when you left today that left
00:42:23
tonight after this incident had happened did you see the cars in the garage I did
00:42:28
not I don't believe one of the officers went and competitive cars were still in the garage the garage doors were closed
00:42:36
okay is there any video equipment video cameras or anything system on you didn't
00:42:44
your house caramel corn no okay is there anything else that you can think of that
00:42:51
might help us right now in this investigation the interview finished at 4:30 a.m. the
00:43:07
day following the home invasion Tuesday November 9th Jennifer had to stay with her cousin Michelle DeLong and her aunt
00:43:13
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
00:43:20
could go in and get any of her belongings she was forced to borrow clothes from her cousin her phone
00:43:26
received to text after text from friends asking if she was okay her ex-boyfriend
00:43:31
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
00:43:39
although told by detective Slade not to look at any media reports it was hard not to hear about the reports and
00:43:45
subsequent room is starting to unfold where the pan family caught up in illegal gambling where they links the
00:43:52
gangs or drug crime the waiting media were camped outside the relatives homes as well as the hospital waiting for a
00:43:58
glimpse for possible statement from the only survivor able to speak Jennifer faced lots of questions from both
00:44:05
friends and family the family held a vigil at hands bedside as he laid in an induced coma in the intensive care unit
00:44:12
they listened as the doctor explained how miraculous it was that hen was able to survive the shooting he still had
00:44:19
bullet fragments in his face but the fact that the bullet missed the main artery was what ultimately saved him but
00:44:24
he wasn't out of the woods though we're still unsure if or when he would come out of the coma but there was hope he
00:44:31
would pull through amidst the horror they were confronted with the family were very hopeful and may have the clue
00:44:37
to solve this horrific crime Jennifer asked the doctor if the bullet fragments still in her father's neck could cause
00:44:43
an infection the doctor said no at this point Jennifer borrowed some change from her uncle explaining that
00:44:51
her cell phone had died and she needed to use the payphone he offered for her to use his cell phone but she refused
00:44:57
and again asked for two quarters he handed them to her and she walked out and headed for the payphones located
00:45:03
just up the hall Jennifer called her ex-boyfriend Daniel Wong the day after the invasion police held a press
00:45:11
conference the media scrambled to the Newmarket police headquarters to obtain a glimpse into what the police were
00:45:17
thinking a makeshift stage was erected and York Regional Police Chief Armand de Labarre it was less than a month away
00:45:24
from retirement addressed the waiting press he said quote given the very brutal nature of this crime it goes
00:45:31
without saying that the individuals that are responsible for the home invasion enter the murder last night pose a very
00:45:37
real danger to our community these are for all intents and purposes residents that were just enjoying a nice night
00:45:43
when suddenly three individuals burst into their home and terrorized them in other home invasions there's some
00:45:49
criminal activity involved but in this particular situation there is absolutely no evidence of criminal activity this is
00:45:57
a very lucky man and if not for the grace of God we could have been dealing with two homicides here to shoot an
00:46:04
innocent woman and to shoot an innocent man I mean that's troubling police stated that they believed to the
00:46:12
murderers may have been attracted to the home because of the family's high-end vehicles however they also noted that
00:46:18
neither vehicle was taken as part of the robbery they released descriptions of the attack is provided by Jennifer with
00:46:24
her father still in a coma that's all the information they had to go on police had already made some progress seeing as
00:46:31
a neighbor had a security camera installed at the front of his house the footage captured a car driving away from
00:46:36
the parents house behind the scenes police and forensic teams were combing the house retracing steps and attempting
00:46:44
to get into the heads of the three attackers they couldn't find a clear reason why a hard-working family is
00:46:50
targeted in what they could only describe as a random brutal attack two detectives canvased almost 400 homes
00:46:58
in the neighborhood their job was to establish anything seen or heard but also to find out information about the
00:47:04
Pens that may help them solve the crime while sitting in their vehicle during the canvass someone quietly approached
00:47:10
them and told them that Daniel Wong Jennifer's ex-boyfriend was a drug dealer considering there was a chance
00:47:17
that the invasion was a targeted attack and many home invasions have a drug connection this was an important tip
00:47:24
after a quick system check confirmed that Daniel had prior drug convictions they got to work looking into him there
00:47:32
was no secret amongst officers that the case had divided them half of them felt something just didn't sit right about
00:47:38
the home invasion the other half saw it as a random brutal attack for money on a very unlucky
00:47:43
family information that police were privy to but had not been released to the media was the fact that in the house
00:47:50
they had found the two hundred and forty dollars in big cars purse $60 in hands wallet and $20 in Jennifer's wallet for
00:47:58
intruders hell-bent on finding wallets and money they had left some behind on Thursday November 11th at 9:30 a.m.
00:48:06
Jennifer went back to the police station for another statement the investigators
00:48:11
hoped she may remember more about the home invasion her father hint was still in a coma in the interview room she told
00:48:18
detective Slade she was a little nervous she was wringing her hands constantly he
00:48:23
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
00:48:31
court and Jennifer got visibly upset okay so what we're gonna do now is as I said what what education level do you
00:48:44
have high school have you gone to any other cricket and like after school a higher level of education have you been
00:48:52
working towards anything I'm going to school and I have been on the piano education okay there's no other
00:48:58
education that you've sought like you haven't gone to university at this point in time okay so I want I want you to
00:49:11
forget or put aside the first statement that we had talked of it okay this is going to be where I'm going to
00:49:20
ask you to start from the day okay on the 8th leading up until when you when the police become involved in an
00:49:30
incident that takes place in your house I want you to tell me about your day what you do your interaction with your
00:49:35
parents okay so we're at we are as we're dealing with the incident we're not dealing with your
00:49:40
history right now we're dealing with the incident again to see if anything else comes for getting what you've already
00:49:46
told me and bring you through and self through that day and through the event and we'll see if we're going to see if
00:49:53
we've learned or if you remembered anything else and there's some questions with respect to that statement that I'm
00:50:00
going to ask you about okay so but I'm going to let you start again and let's let's move forward from any time in that
00:50:06
day where you want to start if it's a time you woke up or if it's a time that your first interaction
00:50:10
it's your choice okay I'm just I'm very nervous and I why are you why are you why a nervous tell me about why you're
00:50:19
nervous because I don't want to say the wrong thing oh you saw that day was a lot you're right and I've been scattered
00:50:32
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
00:50:42
just sit back in your chair take a deep breath okay close your eyes just follow my line to sit back in the
00:50:49
chair for a second sit back relax is the best you can close your eyes and just breathe for a minute okay
00:51:09
we're not in any type of danger or nowhere we're in a very safe place okay and we're going to work through
00:51:19
this and don't worry about what you forget or what you mix up or whatever you're doing is you start and push the
00:51:28
play button for that day and if you stick to everything that you remember happening that day it will come out in
00:51:36
sequence okay and I'm going to show you a technique after we go through this that will stub will show it to you okay
00:51:43
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
00:51:50
the beginning of the day when you wake up and let's start moving forward from there
00:51:56
Jennifer described the day again she was wringing her hands constantly her face was completely void of emotion she can
00:52:04
describe among going to visit her grandfather so he left to go pick up my aunt and going to my grandfather's and I
00:52:13
went back up to on the computer to do a little studying taking a break and playing some games
00:52:26
remember speaking to anyone during the day on your on your phone or on the on Facebook um later on in the day yes I
00:52:36
spoke to a long time for an Andrew who I went to elementary school with but just
00:52:43
the usual he just asked if we could hang out any time soon but I explained to him
00:52:48
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
00:52:56
girlfriend how his job was going my bully that was later on in the day though that wasn't in the afternoon
00:53:03
we'll go in later and they didn't when we talk about your past about why you couldn't leave the house okay so that
00:53:09
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
00:53:14
continue on detectives already knew what Jennifer was referring to they already knew Jennifer's parents had
00:53:21
ordered her not to leave the house because she had lied to them about what she had been doing what she had been
00:53:26
doing for the past decade the interview continued Jennifer talked through the evening again dinner with her mum her
00:53:35
friend Adrienne coming over to watch TV this time Jennifer mentioned that when she went upstairs to her bedroom to
00:53:41
watch TV she talked to her friend Andrew again the old school friend she had talked to earlier in the day this is the
00:53:49
third time she had recounted the story of the evening but the first time she mentioned this quarter Andrew she then
00:53:56
described with her call to Edward Edward was the friend she hung up on when the home invasion started I go back up my
00:54:03
stairs and I call ed again okay and I had used to wash them so I did put him on mute for a quick second and then I
00:54:12
came back and I was just watching TV and talking with it okay how long are you now upstairs on the phone with it with
00:54:19
Edward I'm sorry with that time frame I I'm not sure okay your cell phone records are going to give us the exact
00:54:30
times okay so all right have you talked to anyone else is it you hang up with Edward go down and see your mom come
00:54:39
back upstairs call Edward use the washroom on the phone with Edward still have you talked to anyone else come on
00:54:48
okay have you text message anyone else how many don't believe I had didn't do you have more than one phone I had one
00:55:00
but I keep that I just keep the SIM card yes um again we will go into it in the history sure but uh my cell phone gets
00:55:09
taken away from me sometimes okay and so I had a friend of mine Daniel he bought
00:55:15
he got a SIM card for me to use sometimes but I take the SIM card out when I finish it and I know like keep it
00:55:21
in my pocket so my parents wouldn't find it yes but I don't remember the last time I I used it okay but you didn't use
00:55:30
that SIM card that day I did not no you did not I don't want that Alessa maybe it was a few days
00:55:37
before that it was the last time I remember using it was when my grandfather I was in the hospital and I
00:55:44
had messaged him and he asked me how my grandfather was and how long when is that timeframe that your grandfather
00:55:49
went in laws but he was in a hospital for about ten days ten days okay so that's the last time you remember using
00:55:56
that SIM card associated to from what your friend had given ya was about ten days earlier or even twelve days earlier
00:56:04
because I believe you said your grandfather had come out of the hospital or was he still in the hospital no he
00:56:09
was in the hospital for ten days yes on Saturday he had gone back to his nursing
00:56:15
home and this is Monday worse so it's about 12 to 14 days earlier that this app that do you see you use the SIM card
00:56:23
you're guessing with he probably want within a week within a week yeah because I've never seen Limon days is that we
00:56:31
were saying it because I messaged him when my grandfather was in the hospital okay and where is that SIM card now I'm
00:56:39
not sure I don't remember I had it in my jacket pocket but I don't remember where
00:56:45
it is now okay Jennifer's story of the home invasion changed from her first interview detective Slade was aware of
00:56:54
the change in her story and continued to ask for clarity as Jennifer recalled different places the three men were and
00:57:00
the different things they said Jennifer started to sob Slade handed her a tissue
00:57:05
he pushed her to keep going with her memories he wanted her to feel at ease he was on their side he was listening
00:57:13
it's not uncommon for witnesses to remember more details or have changes in their story especially in highly
00:57:19
stressful and traumatic situations such as Jennifer faced in an adjacent room other detectives
00:57:26
were watching the interview as it happened - for a video link detective al Cook watched carefully as Jennifer salt
00:57:32
and wiped her face he couldn't see any tears Jennifer sobbed the she recounted hearing the Pops of the gun down in the
00:57:41
basement pop pop pop she said she thought the men went out the front door her father then came up the basement
00:57:50
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
00:57:58
into the street where he collapsed on the ground and was seen by the neighbor going to work detective out-cook was
00:58:05
still watching in an adjoining room he noticed how Jennifer was describing the way her father ran from the house
00:58:10
screaming Cooke found it interesting that hands daughter was yelling for him he knew she was upstairs but instead of
00:58:17
running upstairs to see if she was okay he ran straight out the front door detective Slade listened as Jennifer
00:58:25
struggled to retell the story when she was done he made her tell about woods he continued to tell her what a great job
00:58:32
she was doing and not to worry when she thought she said something wrong Jennifer was then asked her account
00:58:37
exactly how she made the 9-1-1 call Slade got her to stand up and act it out Slade it's obviously very relevant we
00:58:47
know you made the phone call but questions are obviously going to be raised that if my hands are bound and
00:58:52
I'm against the railing how do i talk to a 9-1-1 operator Jennifer screwed her eyes up as she
00:58:58
looked at the technics laid slate and how did you manage to tuck your phone into the waistband without it slipping
00:59:05
down or without the intruders noticing it Jennifer took a large sip of water a deep breath and removed her sweater she
00:59:14
slipped the fake phone given to her by Slade into her waistband while keeping her wrists together in a display of
00:59:20
being bound Jennifer twisted herself trying to reenact to the call she pressed the buttons and then attempted
00:59:26
to lift the phone up towards her ear while still keeping her wrists together the phone didn't reach she said the
00:59:33
slate I'm yelling at the phone like this the phone was about a foot and a half from her ear
00:59:39
the detectives had heard bits and pieces about Jennifer's past they had spoken to
00:59:44
family members and friends and knew some of the answers to questions Slade was asking but they needed to hear it from
00:59:50
Jennifer what I want to do now is I want to go into your past okay and start talking about things that have been
01:00:01
going on with you it in in relation to your life okay you know not I'm not going back to childhood that's not my
01:00:12
interest is obviously in the last few years is what's going on do you have a boyfriend I had a poison needle with
01:00:23
which which what was your boyfriend's to me um Daniel what one tell me about your
01:00:29
relationship with you and Daniel it was a really tough one we went to high school together
01:00:40
he helped me through a really difficult time in high school when I didn't have asthma but it it wasn't a concern it was
01:00:51
only a concern when I was younger but when I went over to Europe a lot of sick people were smoking cigarettes and it
01:01:01
acted up over there and he took care of me when did you go to Europe 2003 okay how long were you there under
01:01:15
two weeks you think okay so this is 2003 when you and Danny were two started dating well later on into that you're
01:01:24
just friends okay what grade were you in it so how does your relationship with did Danny
01:01:32
develop where is it going how long does it last last about six years um it began in the
01:01:42
summer of 2003 before my grade 12 you we were just really good friends and I guess it just happened like we just
01:01:53
started going out well saying that we were going out but um I didn't really get to see how much talk to that why
01:02:03
didn't get the chance to see how much I wasn't allowed to have a boyfriend and that was when you were 18 17 turning in
01:02:14
your 18th year 11 are going to riddle any people okay and so who was against you having a boyfriend your father how
01:02:26
are your mother in this she took a backseat to his opinion um she would tell me I gotta find someone who was
01:02:38
devoted to me but at that time she just my father was the one that enforced the rules what were the issues your father
01:02:46
had with a boyfriend was it Danny in particular dinner was it just a boy just any boy had one so what happens how are
01:02:56
you saying that you're not allowed to see this what what I know I know that there's certain ways that you can still
01:03:03
get around your father not allowing you to see it when in grade 12 we went to school together he transferred out but
01:03:11
he'd come over I to our original high school and he'd come see me okay and once in a while I'd go in
01:03:20
skip class and go see him so you were seeing you were dating him essentially without your parents knowledge and
01:03:26
consent yes what would they have done to you if they found out and did they find
01:03:31
it not in high school okay so you finish high school and then what do you do when you finish high school I
01:03:43
was I wanted to do kinesiology but my my father was very adamant on doing something in the medical field
01:03:54
that was a little bit more in his opinion more like a more successful I guess you can say you know I didn't have
01:04:07
the stomach for being a doctor so he wanted me to become a pharmacist okay did you go to school for pharmacy to get
01:04:15
any university for pharmacy so if your being finished your grade 12 equal to Y your oh I see you
01:04:22
like grade 12 is your finish your oh I see here I don't have a I didn't he'll only see I finish my paper and then
01:04:28
where where do you what do you do for the next few years while your dad's want you to get into the medical field what
01:04:34
do you do I was trying to get into channel which school I I was still taking classes at a conservative a
01:04:43
school but I still recognized in the community as a teacher's license through the Royal Conservatory okay so how is
01:04:53
this interaction how is this going with your dad how is the how is your home life with the your not now not living up
01:05:01
to his expectations you didn't know I lied to him what did you lie to him what did you tell him that I was going to
01:05:07
school for for just pre-med not pre-med sorry fines sorry - life science you would
01:05:17
have had bills for school how is how is that coming up how are these bills being
01:05:21
paid for for university that you weren't going I was working at Eastside Mario's
01:05:25
and I took care of myself so financially my father was never he never took hand in bills so he didn't
01:05:38
know anything about bills your mom know that you weren't going university no so both your parents thought you had gone
01:05:44
to university yes okay and how long did that how long did they still to this point in time think that you had gone to
01:05:53
university for for pharmacy for sciences and how did you feel about that how did
01:06:02
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
01:06:12
much so much expectation did you have any resentment towards him for this I chose what I chose but in the end I
01:06:26
chose my family okay so now you're not allowed to see boys how do you continue really your relationship while you're
01:06:35
supposed to be at university working at each side mario's are you working during
01:06:38
the day too you said Mary um sometimes but not all the time so how do how do you maintain this relationship with with
01:06:47
Dan um I bust down to see him or my parents who drive me down to Toronto and they thought I was getting going to
01:06:57
school but I'd go see him and I'd come back what school did they figure going to Bryce okay
01:07:05
was Daniel aware of what was going on in here with the issues in your life with your parents not at first but eventually
01:07:11
he found it okay and what would your parents do find out did they ever find out that you were dating Dan Daniel
01:07:22
eventually how long into their relationship was there say five years five years so that brings you up to 2008
01:07:30
or 2009 2008 2007 2006 well where they come to pick me up and how did that go over not well
01:07:52
explained to me what not well means my mother she said at first she was like not supportive but she said you need to
01:08:09
tell me and she basically gave me the the sex talk which basically was one moment could ruin your entire life but
01:08:23
once my father found out without even knowing him he automatically put judgment what kind of judgment did your
01:08:31
father pass on him he blamed my line and even racial profiling on him and what does that mean I don't know
01:08:45
about the racial profile um he is half Filipino half Chinese and my father associated him with Filipino and said
01:08:56
that you know he wasn't a good match for me he wasn't going anywhere in life and
01:09:02
[Music] that he wouldn't be able to support my family so tell me about about Daniel
01:09:14
we've interviewed in ok Daniel Wong had been called in the day before and interviewed he was already on the list
01:09:23
to be interviewed but after the tip about his drug convictions he moved further up that list dressed in a black
01:09:30
sweater and glasses he looked tired and a little unkempt he said he had a cold he had a good rapport with detective
01:09:37
Robert Milligan who was interviewing him Milligan started the interview by saying
01:09:42
just so you know we interview everybody everybody who is known the family at some point in the last 10-15 years so we
01:09:50
can say we interviewed everybody so you're not anything special compared to everybody else
01:09:55
Daniel who was 25 years old was calm and relaxed throughout his entire interview
01:10:00
even when asked pointed questions about his drug-dealing history he answered calmly and confidently Daniel relayed
01:10:08
his past with Jennifer he told Milligan about their on-and-off relationship which ended about two years
01:10:13
prior when her parents found out and delivered an ultimatum they were forced apart by Jennifer's parents and he said
01:10:20
he respected that okay again like I don't know whether who was who was behind it right I just know that her
01:10:30
parents they don't want us to be a family didn't want us to be together and I respected that decision and I moved on
01:10:37
now why didn't her family be good I don't know there's so many different like I asked her the first time and she
01:10:43
said it was um because I didn't make enough money like I was working a possum Pizza and she told him I finished
01:10:49
engineering and they're like oh whoa why they finished and meaning and just broke
01:10:54
a Boston Pizza why wasn't he called make sixty seventy thousand being an engineer
01:10:58
and then and then after that the next time master she's like it's not even about how much money you make it's the
01:11:05
fact that they're Filipino and I'm like how is that possible when your cousin just married a Filipino guy she's like
01:11:12
well my nobody the family likes him bah bah bah bah bah so there's always a reason why we couldn't be together think
01:11:19
that her pain I don't know what their reasons alright there other reasons all those were the reasons but what do you
01:11:26
think what is what do you think cuz you've been in the industry you've dealt with talent and how they won't see you
01:11:32
doubled over and I won't have to go there yeah but in the industry what do you think people would kill somebody
01:11:38
over see a number yes if someone were to it'd have to be around $10,000 someone would like add I
01:11:52
pretty much picture for about $10,000 I'm gonna do something like that Daniel described the seven years of his
01:12:01
and Jennifer's relationship behind her parents backs and started to unravel the twisted ball of bizarre behaviors and
01:12:07
lies that Jennifer used to keep up the charade to her family Daniel said to Detective Milligan that when the final
01:12:15
ultimatum came from Jennifer's parents to end their relationship he knew it was for the best he knew they had no long
01:12:21
term life together he had never spent more than a few minutes with him and big high in all
01:12:27
that time never shared a meal or even had a conversation with him he accepted it and moved on he said she was a
01:12:34
prisoner it was hard daniel said since their breakup in 2009 they had more or less been estranged describing their
01:12:43
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
01:12:51
how she's doing he said Jennifer never had any involvement with his drug dealing he
01:12:56
told her never to touch it detective Milligan was interested in the reason why an estranged ex couple had
01:13:02
been in quite a lot of contact in the previous few months Daniel said lately it's just been happening more and more
01:13:08
an unknown person would call and not answer and it would just go quiet for ten seconds and then they'd hang up that
01:13:15
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
01:13:20
hundred times at night over time Daniel says he began receiving text messages of
01:13:25
a more threatening nature texts like hahaha bang bang bang he said Jennifer had contacted him
01:13:32
complaining that she too was receiving similar messages so that's why they had been in frequent contact in recent times
01:13:40
Daniel admitted he was worried that he would be targeted next he said yeah I am worried for my safety I haven't slept
01:13:47
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
01:13:54
address it's pretty obvious if they got access to finding her address through her phone number
01:13:58
they can find my address through my phone number my mum couldn't sleep either it kept going through my head who
01:14:06
could it be who is it is it really just a random break-in enter it's actually the phone calls and the other stuff that
01:14:12
I think it's related to the following day in Jennifer's interview she told the tech beep Slade she was given the
01:14:18
ultimatum by her parents a year and a half earlier when she was about 23 when they caught her the last time seeing
01:14:25
Daniel she says her father told her she must take the tubes Daniel or choose them
01:14:29
she said she chose to stay home with her family hands words to Jennifer were cease your relationship with Daniel Wong
01:14:37
if not you have to wait till on bed even as an adult in her 20s her parents were still controlling every
01:14:45
aspect of her life the reasons why was starting to become clear after being sniper valedictorian in
01:14:55
grade 8 and not doing as well academically as she had hoped things started to spiral for Jennifer
01:15:00
Karen Howe a journalist who went to school with Jennifer wrote an article for Toronto Life the following is taken
01:15:07
from that article quote a close observer might have noticed that Jennifer seemed
01:15:12
off but I never did oz a year behind her at Mary Ward Catholic Secondary in North Scarborough
01:15:18
as far as Catholic schools go it was something of an anomaly I had the usual high academic standards
01:15:24
in strict dress code mixed with a decidedly bohemian vibe it was easy to find your tribe bright kids and Hardy
01:15:31
misfits hung out together across subjects grades and social groups if you played three instruments took advanced
01:15:37
classes competed on the ski team in starting the school's annual international night a showcase of
01:15:43
various cultures around the world you were cool it was the perfect community through student like Jennifer a social
01:15:50
butterfly with an easy high-pitched laugh she mixed with God's girls Asians Caucasians jocks nerds people deep into
01:15:58
the arts at five foot seven she was taller than most of the other Asian girls at the school and pretty but plain
01:16:05
she rarely wore makeup she had small ground wire frame glasses that when a the stylish Noir
01:16:11
expensive and she kept her hair straight and unstyled Jennifer and I both played
01:16:16
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
01:16:22
mutual acquaintances and were friends on Facebook in conversation she always seemed focused on the moment if you had
01:16:29
her attention you had it completely and quote from the article it was at this time in Jennifer's life that she started
01:16:38
to turn away from studying hard and stopped dedicating herself a school instead of getting straight A's
01:16:44
she was averaging 70% in all her classes in the barely achieving B's not quite the high mark she needed to get into the
01:16:51
pharmacology program at the University of Toronto her father expected his children would be the top of their
01:16:57
classes to get into the best college which would lead them to high-paying careers so bees weren't going to cut it
01:17:04
and so started a decade of Lies that would spin so deep even Jennifer got confused between what was a lie and what
01:17:11
was the truth instead of telling her parents about her high school grades she decided to forge her report card
01:17:18
she used templates from old reports use scissors glue and photocopied them to create new ones Jennifer also started
01:17:26
cutting herself small cuts on her forearms there was a hint of her hidden torment behind the happy mask she was
01:17:32
wearing at the time her parents were proud when she brought home a's they were thrilled when she graduated high
01:17:39
school and they were so proud when she received scholarship letters and an early admission offer into rice and
01:17:44
university it wasn't Toronto University but she planned to start a science degree and
01:17:49
move over to Toronto after a couple of years she had worked hard in her parents eyes and was achieving what they had
01:17:56
only imagined possible for her hen was so pleased that he bought her a laptop but there was one problem Jennifer
01:18:04
didn't graduate high school she failed her last semester of calculus a high school subject she would have to repay
01:18:10
in order to graduate she failed high school and Ryerson withdrew their offer instead of coming
01:18:16
clean Jennifer's spiral of Lies grew deeper she spent the summer preparing for university she bought secondhand biology
01:18:24
and physics books and set the wheels in motion for beginning the academic year in September she pretended to attend her
01:18:30
orientation week she forged papers stating she was receiving a loan that she would pay off and convinced her dad
01:18:36
she'd won a three thousand dollar scholarship she pretended to make her way to the University campus half an
01:18:42
hour at way and even accepted lifts from her parents day after day she was keeping up the charade she would pack a
01:18:49
book bag and go to the library filling notebooks full of pretend class notes and she searched the web for course
01:18:55
related topics by this time Daniel Wang was at York University taking classes and they were seeing each other in
01:19:02
secret her parents had found out about their relationship and put a stop to it immediately Jennifer just told them what
01:19:08
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
01:19:14
time visiting Daniel at York she took on a part-time job taught piano lessons and
01:19:19
later on worked at Boston Pizza where Daniel worked as a kitchen manager he knew she was faking her studies and he
01:19:26
helped her hide the secret Jennifer came up with a false acceptance letter into the pharmacology program at the
01:19:33
University of Toronto complete with a made-up scholarship for tuition she continued to tell the parents she was
01:19:39
staying with her friend a couple of nights a week as a parent saw it she was working hard towards her goals and they
01:19:45
supported her it wasn't just her family she was lying to friends too she over exaggerated her father's control telling
01:19:54
friends he had hired a private investigator to follow her so her friends thought Jennifer had no other
01:19:59
choice but to live a lie in February 2009 Jennifer wrote two separate Facebook posts the first living in my house is
01:20:09
like living under house arrest and the second no one person knows everything about me and to know two people put
01:20:17
together know everything about me I like being a mystery she wasn't afraid of letting people know
01:20:23
about her parents controlling ways han and big ha could not have been more proud than they
01:20:28
were when Jennifer came home and told them she had been given a volunteer position at the Toronto Hospital for
01:20:33
Sick Children in a blood testing lab they understood when the position started Jennifer would be required for
01:20:39
late night shifts and weekends Jennifer suggests that it might be better she spent more nights at a
01:20:44
friend's place bekar convinced him to let her stay away when it came time to graduate from the University of Toronto
01:20:52
Daniel helped Jennifer hire someone online to fake a full college graduation transcript complete with straight A's
01:20:58
she told her parents that the graduating class was so large that there weren't enough seats for two guests each and so
01:21:05
she was only allowed to invite one person she said she couldn't possibly choose between her two parents so she
01:21:11
would take a friend instead when her dad asked her where the pictures were she made up an excuse in September 2009 just
01:21:20
over a year before the home invasion he noticed that Jennifer didn't have any uniform for her Hospital job nor did she
01:21:27
have any form of ID which he knew hospitals required the following day without saying anything to Jennifer he
01:21:34
insisted that he and her mother drive her to the hospital they dropped her off in Han parked the car he asked be car to
01:21:41
follow their daughter in to see where she went Jennifer knew her mother was following
01:21:45
her so she went to the waiting room of the ER and hid for three hours until she was sure that were gone the next morning
01:21:52
Hann called topes Jennifer's friend she had been staying with except topes told him Jennifer hadn't been staying with
01:22:00
her at all when Jennifer arrived home that day her father and mother were waiting for her they wanted to know what
01:22:06
the hell was going on Jennifer confessed she wasn't volunteering at the hospital
01:22:11
she had never been enrolled at the University of Toronto and she had not studied pharmacology for the four years
01:22:17
prior it had all been a lie she also confessed that she had been living three days a week with Daniel and his family
01:22:24
Jennifer never lived with topaz she had never stayed there Monday through Wednesday she stayed with Daniel and his
01:22:30
family she was a part of Daniels family and meanwhile her parents the even know they were still in contact
01:22:37
Jennifer had told Daniels parents that Han and Bakar were okay with her living with them half the week they repeatedly
01:22:43
asked the meet appearance but she always had an excuse hen and big heart ordered
01:22:49
her to reapply for the University of Toronto to gain her degree she had her credits from Ryerson behind her she
01:22:55
would have no problem but she did have a problem she never went to Ryerson but she didn't confess that to them she kept
01:23:04
the charade going that she had partially studied at Ryerson University she didn't
01:23:08
want to come clean about everything and if they were this mad about her lying about Toronto University how would they
01:23:14
react if they found out she never finished high school and never went to Ryerson and and big
01:23:19
heart felt like they didn't know their own daughter she was a stranger in her own family and tried to kick Jennifer
01:23:25
out of the house she was a disgrace to the family what she had done was unforgivable he never wanted to see her
01:23:31
again big hair was devastated but she was also devastated to think what might happen to
01:23:37
her daughter if they kicked her out she convinced him to let her stay for two weeks Jennifer was house parent her
01:23:44
mother by her side nearly constantly she wasn't allowed to go anywhere on her own
01:23:49
she had her cellphone and laptop taken away and she was forced to quit all her jobs except piano tutoring where they
01:23:55
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
01:24:02
eventually found out about high school too and Jennifer was forced to go back to complete the high school calculus
01:24:07
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
01:24:13
life was monitored over the months that followed her mother occasionally weakened enough to allow Jennifer to
01:24:20
know where her dad did he didn't know phone allowing her to check her messages because sometimes stood up for Jennifer
01:24:26
during argument she had with her father because sometimes said that he had to remember she had already grown up
01:24:32
let her be yourself too much interference will not be good so though sticking by her husband and following
01:24:39
his wishes a piece of her understood her daughter's torment once Jennifer started
01:24:44
to gain back some trust with their parents they aged up and allowed her to have restricted time with her phone and
01:24:49
to sometimes go places alone they still checked her messages and the odometer on the car though Jennifer and
01:24:56
Daniel would sneak phone calls and she would often ask a mutual friend Gary to drive her to Daniel's and pick her up
01:25:01
again still lying to her parents about where she was she continued to visit Daniel in secret even sneaking out
01:25:08
overnight arranging her bed covers to look like she was in bed but her mum found out she was grounded completely
01:25:15
and - now even her mother wanted her to be completely cut off from Daniel in 2009 around a year before the home
01:25:23
invasion Daniel had grown sick of their secret relationship by then Jennifer was 24 and
01:25:28
they were still thinking around like teenagers he was tired of the threats her parents constantly made and the fact
01:25:34
that Jennifer wouldn't stand up to them and to move out he broke it off for good
01:25:38
and by February 2010 he was seeing a new girlfriend Christine Jennifer was desperate to hold on to
01:25:45
Daniel she was adamant that they still needed each other and she went to extreme lengths to gain his attention in
01:25:52
Jennifer's second interview she admitted to detectives Slade that over the months
01:25:56
that followed their breakup she lied to Daniel to get his attention early in 2010 Jennifer made up a story
01:26:03
where she answered the door of her home to find a man posing as a police officer
01:26:07
she said that he and other men then forced their way in and sexually assaulted her
01:26:11
she told Daniel she knew it was Christine who had arranged the attack as a warning to stay away from Daniel she
01:26:18
also admitted to lying about a string of text message threats and to receiving a
01:26:21
bullet through the mail as part of a death threat Jennifer couldn't handle being without Daniel so she tried to
01:26:28
come up with a plan that would keep them together by the end of June of his second interview with Slade
01:26:34
he told Jennifer he was grateful she had been honest to which she replied there is also one other thing we were getting
01:26:41
private phone calls at my house as well I never told my brother because he was at school
01:26:46
when we picked up they would always hang up like I said Monday's my mother would
01:26:51
go dancing and one time while she was gone the phone rang I picked it up my father
01:26:56
was already on the phone there was a woman on the other line I don't know who was and they were speaking Chinese my
01:27:03
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
01:27:09
come now and my father kept saying I can't come near the woman said I don't care you have to come now
01:27:18
Jennifer explained to Detective Slade that her father left the house in a hurry saying he had to go and fix a
01:27:24
leaking tap at her aunt's place but she didn't believe the woman to be her auntie after hearing this Slade too left
01:27:31
the room Jennifer started to breathe heavily she got up and started pacing after 25 minutes an officer walked in
01:27:39
and offered to take Jennifer to the bathroom and offered her candy Jennifer accepted afterwards they both returned
01:27:46
to the room and then the officer stayed with Jennifer barely audible Jennifer spat out words with no consistency while
01:27:53
pacing back and forth I'm just being myself up he's asking me these questions like I should have been more attentive
01:27:59
but it just happened so fast and it's like and I can't give him the answers and I don't know I wish I was able to
01:28:06
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
01:28:15
find out anything did they have any leads or suspects does anyone know where the car went
01:28:20
after she didn't get an answer Jennifer we spent a little to herself and started Rocking after nearly 30
01:28:29
minutes detective Slade returned [Music] hi Jennifer hey here take some Kleenex take some Kleenex tell me what you're
01:28:49
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
01:29:00
feeling right now I'm just kind of like if it means like I should've it's a thing called survivor's guilt okay that
01:29:17
you're gonna go through you're gonna you're going to nd then this is the stuff about the therapy and and getting
01:29:23
to speak to someone because there's stages of grieving you're going to go through okay and this is the only way
01:29:30
you're going to go through this is with properly is with health I think Victim Services is engaged right
01:29:35
there they're trying to help you so just stick with this it's a long road but it
01:29:40
can be a very successful okay and and what you're feeling I hate to say is normal but it is it's something that a
01:29:49
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
01:29:56
this so that we can let you go and get and get on get out of the police station okay because I appreciate your time and
01:30:03
I appreciate your help so what is in the safe last time I opened it Milan to better
01:30:19
passwords and I I she's a few as the combination I don't have the combination you don't have the combination for the
01:30:29
safe just your mom okay and so there was passports no large quantities of cash in
01:30:35
there not that I'm not that I know of because she asked me to help pay for our two trips okay and what did you get that
01:30:52
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
01:31:02
get a new cell phone do you have a blackberry I gave it today okay rather give it to me that's right
01:31:10
but you have so the BlackBerry is it in your name that you've given the Dania so
01:31:14
does Danny was yours and you've given it tonight my brother's friend didn't it was an old
01:31:18
Blackberry and my brother's friend gave it to him and I gave it I gave it today when did you give it to Daniel I gave it
01:31:34
to a friend to give to Daniel how long ago couple week we could go a week what's the pin command for that you know
01:31:47
do you have a personal identification number for security reasons have you ever been given that by my blackberry
01:31:52
no no dish there's no lock that you know okay so Daniel is was and likely still remains to be a drug dealer
01:32:08
self-admitted when he was in the air the other day no so stepping back from that is I had
01:32:14
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
01:32:20
is the last time from today for back that you spoke to Daniel when is the last time you met with them and spoke
01:32:27
I saw him here yesterday when I was meeting did you talk to him just briefly you didn't see him or talk to him any
01:32:36
other times other than right here in the police station and if I told you that Daniel says that you spoke to him you
01:32:47
did have a conversation with him somewhere else she would be lying [Music] the last time I spoke to him when he
01:33:12
asked for the BlackBerry and that was a week ago yes because my grandfather had just he was in the hospital and I snuck
01:33:25
over and dropped it off for a friend at his paintball place and who is the friend that you gave it to I all know
01:33:32
his first name hustle Tristan and where's the paintball place Victoria Park in Munich oh right at Victoria Park
01:33:42
an example between McNichol and steals on Victoria Park when there's a lot of people remember I told you about the
01:33:55
media they're bad they can be very bad when they start to sniff around and they sense something and I can tell you that
01:34:03
the media is portraying that this was supposed to be some sort of drug-related that you guys weren't a random target
01:34:11
that you were a targeted house because of drug activity what would you say to that I don't deal the jobs okay tell me
01:34:26
more about that you don't deal the drugs are you involved in the transportation and just for distribution have you ever
01:34:32
been with Danny this is something that's very important have you ever been with Danny when Danny's doing that he
01:34:39
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
01:34:46
during the time once it once a week I I tell my parents that I was going to class yes and before class or after
01:34:54
class as go buy him lunch and bring it by his work and sometimes I would see him and sometimes I just give it to a
01:35:00
co-worker to distance and how long when you see him how long would you see him for 10 minutes 15 minutes because he was
01:35:07
working when you weren't when he wasn't working and you were able to get out and
01:35:11
see him how long hasn't happened in a 1-point and how long's a long time the last time I saw him outside of that was
01:35:19
when Gary picking up and I got popped on my parents and that was I'd say a year if not a
01:35:24
year and a half and why why did he want your blackberry he said that he had sold
01:35:31
his blackberry so he needed a phone and that Blackberry what like I'm kind of confused as was that an act of full no
01:35:44
now we're talking about three phones now we're taught her that we got a SIM card
01:35:47
we got the phone that your parents know you have and you got a blackberry up until a week ago yes the BlackBerry is
01:35:55
what I was using with my own Roger SIM card the phone I'm using now was an old phone that I no longer used okay so
01:36:03
here's the receptionist the BlackBerry was your normal phone that you were using on a regular basis and and you
01:36:11
would switch SIM cards so if you were going to communicate with him with the other SIM card you put the same pair in
01:36:15
that Blackberry and talk to him through that I had an iPhone I don't know I kept
01:36:20
in my room that my parents I'd know about um cuz my brother I had one that Daniel gave me earlier but it broke dude
01:36:27
so my brother he what he did with t6 apart so he can have one that he used himself but the one I had wasn't fully
01:36:34
functioning it was just able I had no internet access on it so I just kept it for phone calls and I kept it hidden
01:36:42
where is that phone now it should be still on like in my room yes where I believe those on my laptop table or
01:36:54
something on my counter and it doesn't have a SIM card in it right now no I don't keep this in part in it just
01:37:00
in case my parents asked okay so there's an iPhone on by your desk on your desk somewhere in that in your room
01:37:09
and the Rogers those I mean the BlackBerry that you had had up into a week and it went to Daniel and and for
01:37:18
what reason it went today he had a but another a newer blackberry but he said someone wanted to buy it
01:37:24
like a friend of his wanted to buy it and that he needed a phone temporarily I would to a fearful so I I had another
01:37:31
phone as well so I said okay I'll lend you this one so it sounds as if you couldn't let
01:37:41
Danny go like you're you're still there you're still hoping the hope isn't much but what you're still hoping I still
01:37:50
you're not you're not walking away from it right you haven't walked away from him even with the comments that you've
01:37:56
received these comments from I had and then but I had for awhile I disappeared from him for a while but I needed it was
01:38:11
just he he's that calm but he can even make me calm so I reached back up to him so is the cooler is it you instigating
01:38:21
all the communication or does he reach but does he start each battle all okay now you have to figure as I said the
01:38:32
media can be horrific in some cases and I'd told you you not to read our pay attention to the news I
01:38:38
know for a fact that in one of the newspapers but the angle that's being portrayed it right now is that this was
01:38:45
a drug that you guys were not a random but a targeted residence because of drug-related activity you and your
01:38:54
family were engaged in drug-related activity now is it possible that Danny that you are being mistaken somehow as
01:39:07
being involved in his life and that angle of things well I haven't been around his life in a while like going
01:39:13
out with him but I wouldn't say completely out of the question but I haven't I don't I don't go around with
01:39:23
him when he's doing that kind of stuff I I don't like it and I refuse to be a part of that
01:39:29
then they started talking about Daniel's girlfriend Christine Jennifer encouraged
01:39:34
the conversation when I steered towards Christine being involved in drug running
01:39:38
detective Slade asked how would you feel if Daniel is the one through whatever activity who has brought this back to
01:39:45
you Jennifer didn't reply counting both interviews Slade had by now interviewed Jennifer for over five hours just over
01:39:54
the five Ella Marquis asked so you're telling me that you've you had no involvement in what happened
01:40:02
meaning not saying how they outcome came but you you had no involvement in in any
01:40:07
type of illegal activity that would have drawn you or the attention of you to have bad people come to your house
01:40:14
looking for large sums of money you're not involved in this any which way because the question obviously stands
01:40:25
jennifer is you're upstairs and they're downstairs right so it's a natural concern when why would they leave you
01:40:39
alone why would they not do the same to you you can't answer that question only I
01:40:53
can say if you said I cooperated but I asked him to take me the number one guy the number one guy said you cooperated
01:41:03
okay there's no you had no threats and again we're back to the fact that you admittedly lied okay not to me right not
01:41:14
to me well you admittedly lied you've lied to your parents right about going to school
01:41:22
you've lied to Danny about being Daniel about being raped and about receiving a bullet who's to say this whole thing is
01:41:32
in a line that what you're telling me is a lie because if you are lying it's the most
01:41:39
cold-blooded thing that I have ever faced in my life there is nothing that you've said to me
01:42:00
today is a lie and I want to thirty wanted crew just put a little preamble not nothing in here that you might have
01:42:09
mistaken because of order of events I'm saying to you right now is there anything through the course of your
01:42:18
statement today or you've lied to me from your interaction with Danny Daniel from your I'm not involved in drugs and
01:42:32
I don't have anything to do with them and we don't have large sums of money what about life insurance policies do
01:42:38
your parents have life insurance policies I I think I don't know didn't know they had a he had a I I have one of
01:42:53
myself yes and my mom they used to have one for me when I was younger okay but a half says I went to education
01:43:03
half went to life insurance and when they found out I I didn't go to university they they asked for the money
01:43:16
so hang on a second here you told to me that you told me that they never knew you didn't go to university when did
01:43:22
they find out that you didn't go to university I told them that I graduated but I never went to university that I
01:43:30
went for two years but I never finished okay and they wanted the money back as a
01:43:36
result of that so you did actually tell your parents somewhat of the tree that you never went to university or but it's
01:43:41
it's half truth yes so back to this line is where we're talking about the fact that of the line right is that it I
01:43:55
don't deal the drugs I don't associate with that okay I honest I don't now back to another very difficult question but
01:44:09
if I don't ask it and I'm gonna be you it's an obvious one the resentment that you had that you may
01:44:14
have had toward your parents for the interference and your relationship in your life and essentially locking you
01:44:20
down in your house at the end of the day I love my parents and I chose to be with
01:44:27
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
01:44:39
wasn't some evil plot that you thought up - oh my god no no interaction no beliefs no you didn't have anything to
01:44:49
do with this thing at all whatsoever you don't engage in illegal activity no because you know that it'll be very
01:44:57
easily it will be a very easy thing to discredit you on right we're in the process of trying to add credibility to
01:45:03
what you tell us and that's through the process of asking people in doing whatever through that same process it
01:45:08
will be very easy to find the flaws and what you've said which again then turns to focus back to you okay it's a natural
01:45:18
progress it's a natural thing that investigators do we eliminate people or we draw our attention to them it's a
01:45:24
natural thing it's of it's not brain surgery okay detective slide left the room briefly and when he rented Jennifer
01:45:37
told him he gave her a fraud Slade asked her to sit down he said the interview was over he told her he didn't
01:45:44
want her walking away thinking that he was evil for asking some tough questions he wanted her to know he was going to
01:45:49
turn over every stone to help catch the people responsible for her mom's murder he said sometimes we have to ask really
01:45:56
difficult questions but it's my job I hope you understand I understand that [Music]
01:46:07
it's ready to take have you lied to me no ya lied to me about anything I said whatever I could to help okay so if
01:46:21
you've always told the truth the truth will never hurt you it may get you in a bit of trouble right the truth can get
01:46:28
you into trouble if you've done but something's wrong but generally in most cases if you tell the truth
01:46:33
you'll always be fine so that's that's the Avenue that that's the Avenue you have to think about in what you I can
01:46:44
always I never do anything wrong if I tell the truth and if I made life I've said some things that are lies or I've
01:46:51
held something back because I think it might hurt me those are the things that will cause people to look at you more
01:46:59
intently because the question is why would that person do that to me they've got something to hide right so you know
01:47:09
the fact that you've lied to your parents over a long period of time the fact that you lied about to Daniel about
01:47:15
those other two events and those are disturbing but I don't live in your shoes and I would never judge you on
01:47:24
that fact but from an outsider looking in to have to live under those conditions to have to lie continually
01:47:33
you're going to ask the question why [Music] and if that's the way that you have to
01:47:45
live that's the way you have to live but people will judge you on your life right
01:47:54
my concern lies in the fact of your lying okay you've come clean you've never lied to
01:48:02
me before right I've never met you to be a liar but the fact is is that you've lied about stuff
01:48:10
to Daniel you've lied to your parents so could you be lying to me I can't why couldn't you be lying physics games
01:48:22
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
01:48:31
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
01:48:40
three things are sitting there saying you know like give the ability to trick your parents for a long period of time
01:48:49
- very explainable and I also weren't lit I wasn't living where you are right and I'm so I'm not going to prejudge you
01:48:58
because i people do what they need to do to survive so it could very easily be justified as a survival mechanism this
01:49:05
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
01:49:13
the root of a severity serious crime and I have to explore every avenue that we possibly can so I'm going to do
01:49:21
everything in my power to either prove us as our police agency prove or disprove what you've told us the more we
01:49:28
prove or can cooperate the more credibility you you have as a witness okay that's going to happen we may even
01:49:40
ask you to come back again again it will be not for you will not be explaining what happened in a grand scheme of
01:49:50
things because you've done that up and down and backwards it may be four points of clarification okay because again
01:49:56
we're speaking that we're going to be going it's likely speaking to some of your
01:49:58
friends and your relatives and it's just points of clarification may not have it
01:50:05
make you know I'm only saying that in me I told you I didn't want to do the 5 and
01:50:09
6 and 7 interviews with you well after today that's not going to happen but we may be contacting you to help us for
01:50:17
some other points that we come across after her interview Jennifer went to visit her father at hospital with her
01:50:24
brother Felix she was chased through the hospital car park by reporters felix helped her shoulder from the press
01:50:31
Jennifer covered her face underneath the hood of her jacket but was photographed
01:50:35
when she looked up to see where she was going the following day hanpan woke up from a three-day induced coma doctors
01:50:44
were unable to remove the bullet fragments lodged in his face and he was facing a long recovery from a shattered
01:50:49
neck bone but the emotional recovery would take much longer han remembered what happened instantly and relived the
01:50:56
shock of losing his wife his brother sat by his bedside and told him the things that had been happening in the last
01:51:03
three days the first thing he told him was that while he was in a coma because father
01:51:08
Jennifer's grandfather had passed away because family believed he passed away from grief then he told him about
01:51:16
Jennifer borrowing some change and making a phone call from a payphone pretending her phone ran out of battery
01:51:22
Jennifer's family knew she was lying and her phone wasn't out of battery after allowing him a brief conversation with
01:51:30
his brother detectives interviewed him Jennifer was not allowed to see or speak to her father until detectives finished
01:51:36
questioning him detectives marcona bogliani and David McDonald entered the hospital room they found him propped up
01:51:44
in bed almost unable to speak having to breathe through a mouthpiece his face swollen from his injuries Hann revealed
01:51:52
disturbing memories in his mind of the home invasion he recalled that while one of the men was moving Jennifer he saw
01:51:59
his daughter chatting softly with him like a friend he revealed that during the time he and bokar were being
01:52:05
threatened with guns and led away Jennifer's arms were not tied behind her back he and said she was comfortable and
01:52:12
freely moving around the house they talked at length about Jennifer's odd behavior they talked about her past they
01:52:20
talked about her line the officers knew Han believed his daughter had something to hide and looked both detectives
01:52:28
square in the eye and said use your police tactics to find out who did this han said that he did not want to see his
01:52:36
daughter and Jennifer was told not to visit him even though his family had to wait to see him properly
01:52:42
their happiness at his recovery was evident as they gathered ready to help him through his grief and recovery
01:52:47
Jennifer however sought out the hospital therapist having a breakdown and over how this was all affecting her she did
01:52:53
not appear to be grieving her mother and she showed no concern for her father she
01:52:58
was more worried about how she was being portrayed in the media her self-absorption did not go unnoticed to
01:53:04
those around her two days later after hearing had been interviewed for the second time
01:53:09
Jennifer snuck into his room in the hospital in a rare moment where she wasn't being monitored by someone and
01:53:15
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
01:53:24
also asked Jennifer if it was Daniel who she called from the pay phone right after she discovered he was going to
01:53:29
survive Jennifer admitted to the call but said it was only to share the good news
01:53:35
Jennifer then asked her dad for $1200 for college tuition that day detective Curtis officially made Jennifer a
01:53:43
suspect in the investigation Jennifer started making arrangements for both her mother's and grandfather's funerals
01:53:51
Jennifer complained to friends that her father left her to arrange the funerals by herself
01:53:56
Henin chose to pay his respects to his wife in private and not attend her funeral he was still awaiting surgery to
01:54:02
remove bullet fragments from his face at the chapel Jennifer and Felix held each
01:54:08
other police were also in attendance this gruesome murder happened in their community and they wanted to pay their
01:54:15
respects but they were also there to see how their new suspect behaved here's what one officer said
01:54:22
she's up there rubbing her eyes than looking up at us and rubbing her eyes again but never crying that funeral
01:54:29
really got to me don't be looking at us when you're paying your respects to your mum who was
01:54:33
just killed she wasn't crying her head was down it was like she was crying but with no tears with the funerals over
01:54:43
Jennifer's family became vocal about their confusion over her behavior she was confronted by her uncle who told her
01:54:49
he remembered seeing her a few months earlier at a coffee shop with a black male Jennifer brushed it off on Monday
01:54:58
November 22nd awakened a half after her last statement Jennifer was called back in for questioning this time she was
01:55:05
being questioned by detective of William gates he went through the formalities and mentioned to Jennifer that she had
01:55:11
the right to a lawyer but she was not under arrest the tone was different to the last two police interviews there was
01:55:17
more formal gates asked Jennifer lots of personal questions about her friends her
01:55:22
hobbies and herself as a person he then started to delve into how she was treated by her parents
01:55:28
Jennifer quietly described to their expectations she described how during school her parents compared her to other
01:55:35
people often saying she should be more like them she confirmed there was never any physical abuse of any kind Gates
01:55:42
asked did you ever feel like you weren't as smart as they thought you were it was
01:55:46
pretty tough to live up to their expectations Jennifer agreed he then asked and their expectations were so
01:55:54
higher that few people could ever reach those expectations Jennifer agreed the interview continued on a much more
01:56:02
personal note they discussed how events with Daniel and her family made her feel
01:56:06
it became clear that Jennifer didn't really know where she stood with Daniel one day he said he saw a future with her
01:56:13
the next day he said the opposite she was a stood she felt it was fair that at the age of 24 she had to stay at home
01:56:19
with a curfew of 9:00 p.m. Jennifer said considering my past I understood they talked about the call Jennifer made to
01:56:28
Andrew on the day of the home invasion they also discussed the time when she met Andrews roommate Ricardo a person
01:56:34
she hadn't yet met and who we will get to in a minute they got onto the subject of the attackers
01:56:40
Gates said now obviously we have spoken to a lot of people and one of your relatives has told us that you said that
01:56:47
these guys liked you why did you say that Jennifer I didn't say that I said I asked them why when they separated me
01:56:56
from my parents in the house why couldn't I be with them and they said you've cooperated just keep on
01:57:01
cooperating okay so you've made that comment to a relative though that they liked you did you feel they liked you
01:57:10
Jennifer no they had a gun to my head why did they not shoot you I don't know when I
01:57:21
have one they took my parents away I asked to go with them in your life shut up but you
01:57:28
must have thought of this you must be thinking I still doing why do what have you come up with in your mind you'll I
01:57:40
don't think they think if there was they kept saying that you know I cooperate anything - shut up Audrey
01:57:46
keep cooperating did you feel you like your parents didn't cooperate I don't know is there something that they didn't
01:57:55
cooperate with your attorney yes I mean like so really they dig pauper when you think about it there was
01:58:04
no money to be found they told the truth that he had $60 [Music] so there wasn't anything that he wasn't
01:58:17
offering I don't know I'm just trying to say you were there I'm just trying to get feel hurt do you think he loves
01:58:25
cooperating no I thought I do everyone was cooperating that's what they kept saying get certain I'm trying to figure
01:58:32
out where they didn't cooperate now you think there's any reason why they tied you up and didn't tie your parents up
01:58:52
oh that see my dear why the semi because I was away also separated from you some time and does it make sense
01:59:08
that they would leave a witness behind they were going to kill somebody that makes sense just thinking about it
01:59:21
but it makes sense for somebody that was going to kill somebody to leave a witness behind that to describe does
01:59:30
that make common sense for killers gates went over Jennifer's previous statements
01:59:38
and clarified a few points he asked how much finer details than she had been asked previously Jennifer struggled to
01:59:44
answer he scrutinized the evening in the moments before the home invasion and Jennifer became visibly upset she
01:59:52
struggled to get any words out her voice was timid the questions were very detailed gates drilled her about the
01:59:59
timeframe between when her mum came home from dancing and when the intruders broke in Jennifer said she went down to
02:00:05
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
02:00:12
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
02:00:18
last person who goes to bed does he asked her specifically if she checked the front door
02:00:24
she said no gates then asked her if it would be typical that if her mother arrived home late at night what she had
02:00:31
done on this particular night that she would automatically lock the front door as she went inside as gates asked this
02:00:38
question Jennifer sat up straight and looked at him it's the most attention she had given him throughout the
02:00:44
interview almost two hours into the interview detective gates stepped out of the room by this point Jennifer was
02:00:51
completely bent over with her face in her hands she was whimpering and breathing deeply when detective gates
02:00:58
walked back into the room he had some news now the reason why I'm here today okay
02:01:07
I'm an expert okay and what we call truth verification I'm not a homicide detective okay although I've worked on a
02:01:17
lot of homicides okay so my job in any case and anybody that the witness in this case I have to speak to after
02:01:28
they've been interviewed originally by anybody else okay and so what it's about is truth verification okay so basically
02:01:37
all my studies come into the interviewing and detecting deception determine if somebody's telling me
02:01:47
please the truth okay guides explained to Jennifer that he had physically written out in Tyre two statements she
02:01:55
had previously given to detective slate every word every syllable he told her he's trained to notice when someone is
02:02:02
speaking in a style of language which differs from their usual thought they don't even know they are doing it there
02:02:08
is even software that helps them determine whether certain words or statements ring alarm bells
02:02:13
Jennifer learned that the software they used to analyze her statement was event probability analysis her statement was
02:02:20
fed into the computer that analyzed what she said and it told them areas of deception or areas of concern within her
02:02:26
statement gates then went into minut detail about the level of forensic examination that
02:02:32
had occurred at her house how they now knew exactly where and when people were in the rooms of the house on the night
02:02:37
of the invasion they knew which rooms people were not in he then mentioned the door locks and latches as Jennifer
02:02:45
nodded her head and told her hair gates explained that they could tell with layers of fingerprints who touched the
02:02:51
door lock last possibly to unlock it after someone else had already locked it over and over gates dropped the hints
02:02:58
and Jennifer took them she realized she was in trouble as gates continued Jennifer hung her head lower and lower I
02:03:09
am well aware that anybody on this earth is capable of making a mistake okay I don't care who there I don't care if
02:03:22
they're a priest I don't care if they're schoolteacher I don't care what the situation is given a certain set of
02:03:31
circumstances everyone has the capability Jennifer making mistakes doing the wrong thing the key though
02:03:43
when I talk to people is when they made a mistake okay that's one thing right the key is to not
02:03:52
keep making the same mistake okay and to get that information as we get it off your chest okay do you understand what
02:04:02
I'm saying okay so at the end of the day from this case and I can tell you I spent literally a
02:04:11
week on this case going over information after information accessing all this sources speaking to
02:04:18
every other expert on the case okay and at this point Jennifer I know that you have not been truthful with the
02:04:27
police okay you've not told us everything that you know purposely okay and that you've left information out
02:04:40
okay there's lumber of inconsistencies and what you told the police okay one of the things you have to remember is that
02:04:50
your dad was there okay and your dad had a front row seat to all of this okay and
02:05:01
your dad's a very smart man okay and he has a very clear perception of what's going on and he tells a very truthful
02:05:11
story cuz I've gone through this whole process with him and had to do the same thing and I know he's being truthful
02:05:18
okay the problem is that your story when you're telling his mantras okay we have
02:05:28
to clear this up okay your rendition of what happened one a lot of events you say that happened never did okay a lot
02:05:42
of things that you told the police happen never happened okay it never happened in the sequence that you told
02:05:49
okay you've got to remember that your dad was there okay that's just one part of it there's lots of other things that
02:05:57
tell me that he's not been truthful all this analysis that I've been doing but on top of it that yours doesn't match at
02:06:06
all it's not for very few factors that you've told truth but you haven't told all the truth we're getting into where
02:06:13
you know you spent a considerable amount of time in the last seven years telling
02:06:20
half truths okay and I can understand why you've had a tough life okay what's happened to you to me
02:06:29
equates to abuse okay and all the stresses that you've had and forced to lie I can understand why you did it
02:06:38
okay well you're in another situation here where you're under another tremendous amount of stress okay and
02:06:45
that stress is brought on by those same factors that brought on stress before okay the number one thing that brings on
02:06:53
stress to you is when you're not truthful right that hurts you right okay and it doesn't feel
02:07:02
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
02:07:10
that you've got a good heart okay in this case though you've made mistakes okay and you're involved in
02:07:19
this I know that if there's no question about it okay the only question right now is are you
02:07:28
going to keep making mistakes are you going to go on the route that you've gone on over the years and tried to
02:07:33
pretend that things happen that never happened today are you going to not face reality okay you were not truthful to
02:07:44
the place in this case we know that you're involved we've done our homework okay we have to resolve that now here
02:07:52
today okay I need to know from you what really happened okay and I mean who else is involved in
02:08:03
this Hey because there's no doubt in a phrase that you are okay we know that we're
02:08:08
past that okay there's no question about it at all okay and I know why this is happening
02:08:15
okay you have spent your whole life trying to live up to expectations that you can't make okay and it's stressed
02:08:23
the hell out of you you're a 24 old woman being treated like a 15 year old okay what you've never done anything
02:08:31
that terrible in your life but you're being treated like you have you're not being treated like the adult that you
02:08:39
are yes you made some mistakes big deal they're not the first person that has gone into not told their parents that
02:08:47
they're dating a guy because in your culture they don't accept that I understand that I've talked to people in
02:08:52
here that have kept that secret for their whole life from their parents okay so that's not abnormal but that puts a
02:08:59
lot of stress on you right that's not easy for you is it No now what we need to get down to here
02:09:09
today Jim is what really happened you need to tell me what went on because you know
02:09:22
who was in that house that night you do Jen there's no question about that okay there's no question about it
02:09:30
okay you have actually given an improper description of a person you were dealing
02:09:35
with upstairs number one you falsified the whole description of that person we know that okay we know that okay yes you
02:09:49
did and okay you did it made it a mistake here and we got to get to the bottom of that that person did not exist
02:09:58
in that house that night I know that hey we've done her homework okay you heard on the news that there was video all
02:10:05
right okay it wasn't three black guys that left that house you know that and I know that okay so we need to get down to
02:10:15
why Eva purposely told us a false description of number one okay no again it's totally wrong and it was done on
02:10:28
purpose okay to mislead us okay because you're involved in this okay you cannot deny that okay you cannot deny that we
02:10:38
know okay so let's just get it out on the table you've made a mistake I know that okay but you can't live with this
02:10:46
any longer than this you're here your buddy nervous wreck over this thing this thing if you could take it back I know
02:10:55
that you would if you could go back to that day and play this all over again it would be different okay but you need to
02:11:03
right now know that we know that you're involved there's no question about that none whatsoever okay but what we'd also
02:11:13
know is that you're a good person okay that's made a mistake here right you've made some bad decisions okay and
02:11:22
you know how you made the bad decisions and not talking telling your parents what's up you don't want to do that with
02:11:29
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
02:11:37
that you made a mistake that night you got involved with the wrong people okay you got involved in the wrong set
02:11:45
of circumstances okay but that's over with now we're past that we know that that happened okay but you
02:11:55
know what in all my years of placing it doesn't matter what it was wrong with people it's never too late to do the
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right thing you know that and I know that okay what you can do here today is actually do the right thing okay you
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have to do the right thing okay you can't go around continuing this okay remember when you said what it did to
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you when you went through those years it's oppression that was brought on by not being truthful living a lie you
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don't want to keep living this lie okay everybody knows okay you know you're getting the feeling from everybody
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around you that they know okay nobody is surprised okay there's nobody surprised here okay
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after what you've been through I'm surprised this didn't happen a lot earlier truthfully you're 24 years old
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and you were a prisoner in your own house you had lost your own identity there was no again for anymore okay you
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were living for what somebody else wanted you weren't you you were what somebody else wanted you were living
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someone else's expectations okay and yes family is important but when family takes over you as a human being when
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they take your identity there is no Morgan so no matter how good their intentions are no matter how much they
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love you they're taking away gen okay and you have gone through this for years in the middle of tension tension
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that died to the point that it makes you sick your stomach turns over you don't wake up a day that there's not some
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issue on the table not some stress in your household okay essentially you've been told to live up to expectations you
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yourself years ago knew that you could not do okay they're taking away gen there is no again they took getaway the
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gen that just wants to be a piano teacher why isn't that good enough why was that not good enough
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that was great expectations why not just be a lab technician why the dr. biden said always have to be something bigger
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why can't it just be what you want and all that has resulted in what's happened on us on november 8th the tension builds
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up to a point that you know what it's like an animal that gets cornered at some point the nicest dog when it's
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cornered fights back three months before the home invasion in the spring of 2010
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Jennifer made contact with an old school friend called Andrew Mont a man this was
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the same Andrew Jennifer told detective Slade she had spoken to the day of the home invasion the same Andrew that
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during a later account of the story she remembered she also had a quick phone conversation with the evening of the
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home invasion Andrew and Jennifer had gone to elementary school together and she
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remembered him boasting that he had robbed people at knifepoint she told him about how awful her home life was and
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how her parents controlled every detail of her existence Andrew said he understood her pain and that he had once
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considered killing his own father this planted a seed inside Jennifer and by the early summer of 2010 she started to
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hatch a plan that included a world without her father in it she went back to Andrew Andrew introduced her to his
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roommate Ricardo done they created a plan for Ricardo for murder her father in the
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parking lot of his work Jennifer had saved $1,500 from her piano lessons she gave it to Ricardo and said she would
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contact him to make a date according to Jennifer story Ricardo stopped answering her calls and
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disappeared with the money Ricardo's version is that in July 2010 jennifer phoned and asked to meet him
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for a coffee she was in a hysterical state asking him to murder her parents his answer was no way he said that after
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this he stopped speaking to her Ricardo was at the blackmail that Jennifer's uncle had seen her with at the coffee
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shop he admitted that she did give him money once but that it was only $200 for a night out which he paid back Jennifer
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then went to her ex Daniel Wong Jennifer was the one in the household who always
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helped her mother with the bills she knew the extent of their finances if her parents died she would be set to
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inherit half a million dollars her and Daniel could set up a house together and deliver normal life Daniel knew someone
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being in the drug trade it was easy to find someone willing to do anything for money
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this was when Daniel introduced Jennifer to lenford crawford who they called homeboy Daniel gave Jennifer a spare
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iPhone so they could contact each other without anyone knowing Jennifer used this phone to call Daniel and Crawford
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or homeboy sometimes removing the SIM card swapping it back and forth into her own phone so with Crawford in charge and
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Daniel as an accomplice Crawford recruited two other friends David Miller Ganim and Eric okati who would be in
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charge of arranging the car and driving in a three men to and from the scene the
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fee was $5,000 for each parent a total of ten thousand a small down payment was given by Jennifer two thousand was to be
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handed over during the home invasion and the remaining money was to be handed over when life insurance payments came
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through the date was set for November 2nd but in the morning Jennifer received a text from Daniel Daniel was honest
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with Jennifer he had moved on with someone else he told her that he fell for his new girlfriend the way Jennifer
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felt for him Jennifer so you feel for her what I feel for you then call it off with homeboy
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Daniel I thought you wanted this for you Jennifer I do but I have nowhere to go Daniel call it off with home boy
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question mark he said you wanted this with or without me Jennifer I want it for me Jennifer then received a text
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from Crawford I need the time of completion think about it Jennifer replied today is a no go dinner
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plans out so I won't be home in time cardi was pleased the killing had been postponed as he was having trouble
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getting enough money together for gas the next day Daniel texts Jennifer again I did everything and lined it all up for
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you even though Daniel had pushed Jennifer away again he continued to flirt with her and encouraged her to
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flirt back on the morning of November 8th 2010 Jennifer saved another text from Crawford after work okay
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will be gain to him between 4:30 p.m. and 10:25 p.m. Jennifer and her old school friend Andrew exchanged nearly
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100 text messages they also spoke on the phone Andrew wasn't involved in the plan
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but she did tell him it was about to happen he brushed it off even though only months prior he had introduced her
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to Ricardo someone he thought could help her kill her father he would go on to testify that he didn't really believe
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she had gone ahead with it Andrew had a crush on Jennifer he said he had blinkers on the extent of their texts
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are unknown as Jennifer deleted them before the home invasion at 6:12 p.m. lenford crawford caught Jennifer it was
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on after Jennifer watched TV with her friend Adria and he left her and Daniel had a long text message conversation
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discussing in jokes about chickens and monkeys at 9 p.m. Eric Rd and David Mill vagon Ham met up in a hire car and
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collected as lenford crawford at 9:35 p.m. David Milford enums phone was used to call Jennifer he let her know they
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were close after Jennifer hung up she opened the door of her bedroom and walked down the
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stairs she said good night to her mother walk to the front door and unlocked it there was 9:45 p.m. at two minutes past
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10:00 Jennifer walked to the dark study next to her parents bedroom where her father was asleep she flicked the study
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light on for a minute then switched it off something which was caught on the security video footage from the house
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across the road two minutes later David mill Vaganova called again this time they spoke for three and a half minutes
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within seconds of hanging up the rental car pulled up at the house and Lanford crawford david miller Ghanem and derek
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rd walked through the front door all three carrying guns the evidence the police had against Jennifer was
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compelling the messages and calls made from her everyday phone as well as her burner phone learned them to piece
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together a clear picture of the planning that went into the staged home invasion
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they needed to push her just that little bit further to confess but she didn't instead of confessing she spent further
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hours in the interview spinning a story of how she had arranged the home invasion but the plan was to kill her
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not her parents she didn't want the ring shame on her family by committing suicide so she created an elaborate
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suicide plan for a home invasion gone wrong she said she tried to call off the hit
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but somehow the wires got crossed and the men arrived and killed her mother and almost killed her father
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Jennifer never left her third interview on November 22nd York Regional Police arrested Jennifer and charged her with
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first-degree murder attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder Jennifer hunched over and sobbing asked
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repeatedly what happens to me the day after Jennifer's arrest police held a second press conference citing a
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continuing investigation police provided few details about the arrest of Jennifer
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or the potential motive but confirmed - the investigation moved in a new direction when he woke up from his coma
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and provided a version of events that differed greatly to Jennifer's detective cook from the investigation team later
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said he knew something was up from the very beginning he was an officer who continually voiced his opinion
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throughout the investigation he said I knew it was an inside job I always thought she was part of it
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you don't break into a house shouldn't kill two people and then leave a witness tied up I mean they tied her up it's not
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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
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against everything we know it just doesn't make sense Jennifer was remanded into custody Judah
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face court a week later why now the police were tracking their other suspects and got an interesting lead in
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the hours following Jennifer's arrest after news broke of Jennifer being in custody cardi called Crawford while he
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was at work when Crawford finished work he headed towards Daniel Wong's house where he arrived at 2:00 a.m. he's in
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Daniels phones pinged to the same cell phone tower for 40 minutes leading police to believe they were in the same
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location engaging in a conversation the same thing happened to 12 hours later just after 2:00 p.m.
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Daniel and Crawford were in the same location again Crawford wasn't happy if Jennifer had been arrested who would be
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paying them it took York Regional Police five months to make all the arrests they
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relied on cell phone location analysis cell phone calls and texts to pieced the elaborate murder plan together along
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with Jennifer all were charged with first-degree murder attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder the first
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two arrests police made were David Miller Ghanem and Eric cardi cardi had since been arrested for another murder
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that occurred in 2009 and was already being held in a Correctional Facility at the time of his arrest Detective
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Sergeant Larry Wilson released a statement we are continuing to investigate this incident and are
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expecting further arrests he refused to comment on the relationship between Jennifer and the two men accused other
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than to acknowledge there was a connection I'm not going to get into details in regards to motive but I think
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with the daughter involved in the conspiracy aspect to it I think the motive is pretty clear he went on with a
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message for those not yet caught I urged the remaining persons involved in this horrendous crime to seek legal counsel
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and turn themselves in immediately York Regional Police Superintendent Wayne kolinsky also released the statement
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this was not a random act citizens will be relieved by the fact that we made arrests in this matter this was a
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targeted residence on April 26 2011 Daniel Wong was arrested in front of his colleagues at Boston pizza
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two weeks later lenford crawford was arrested at his goal Ren's house with five people charged and
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awaiting trial the prosecution got to work on their case police were commended for their diligent
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work in following the trail to catch those arrested there were still thoughts that other people could possibly be
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linked on the peripheral and it was still unclear who exactly pulled the trigger but it was agreed the case would
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proceed with all five charged with first-degree murder attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder the detailed
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analysis of phone records was described as second to none with over a million pieces of mobile phone data scanned in
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order to make the arrests the case took three years to come to trial and when the court said on March 19th 2014
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in the Newmarket courthouse it was expected to last five months it would go on to last ten the press was in
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overdrive at the time of the home invasion this case had taken over the news and was one of the biggest and most
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intriguing stories after arrests were made the story faded and it was only now gearing back up for almost another year
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of intrigue is the fate of Jennifer Penn and her co-accused were in the hands of
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the court headlines like daughter from Hell trial begins gives a little insight into the sentiment at the time reporters
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descended from all over Canada the United States China the Philippines and Vietnam this story transcended through
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generations of Asian immigrant families to Canada hard-working parents and grandparents felt deep sorrow for Han
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Penn who had only wanted what was best for his daughter other children of pushy Tiger parents as they were called felt
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for Jennifer a daughter pushed them pushed with expectations she could never reach tipped over the edge
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Jennifer near 27 had aged in her three years in custody her face no longer sweet and childlike she'd had three
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years to reflect on the decisions she had made in her life that led her to that point three years without the love
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and support of her family as they had cut off all ties with her following her arrest
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all five accused were tried together all of them pleaded not guilty judge Kari Boswell told the jury that
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just because all five accused were being tried together it didn't mean they should all get the same verdict as the
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packed courtroom held their breath the five accused two shuffled in their ankle shattered and their hands cuffed they
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were led into their individual box seats separated by glass dividing walls their
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shackles and cuffs removed before the jury arrived so as not to create bias against them more than 50 witnesses
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testified and the jury saw over 200 exhibits including long segments of the ten hours of police interviews the
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police had with Jennifer they saw hundreds of pages of cell phone records including phone calls text messages and
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a location data given the nature of much of the language used in the text message
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conversations an expert in urban street slang took the witness stand but the key
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witness was Jennifer's father here who addressed the jury with a sad tale of how he and his deceased wife had only
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wanted the best for their daughter Crayon lawyer Jennifer halogen presented a well-thought-out murder plan concocted
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by an intelligent and calculated daughter who couldn't get her own way saying Jennifer was determined to get
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her way no matter what even if it destroyed her family referring to the co-accused their motive was money and
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while they didn't all pull the trigger each participated in carrying out Jennifer Penn's plan to murder her
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parents the theory was that Jennifer orchestrated a staged home invasion in which both appearance would be killed
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and she'd get half shared with her brother of a handsome insurance inheritance at least half a million
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dollars each which he hoped would draw Daniel Wong whom she was obsessed with back into her life it was about the
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money and it was about Jennifer's the loathing of her father in order for the jury to have an understanding of
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Jennifer's motive prosecutors took them back to the beginning of her story they argued that Jennifer pians parents only
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wanted the best for their children to work hard get a university education and have a better life than they did
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Jennifer couldn't handle those high expectations they took the jury through the lies and deceit that began in her
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early adolescence and continued to that day sitting in court still telling a tale so tightly woven
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she could no longer see where one lie ended and another began the prosecution alleged that after she was turned down
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by Ricardo Duncan the first time she tried to have her father killed she hatched the more elaborate and more
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violent plan turning to her highschool sweetheart Daniel Wong for help her plan was calculated and considered and
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planned and deliberate Jennifer was on the stand for seven days she resembled the same character seen in her police
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interviews softly spoken bordering on shy often with a head down when not on the stand she sat most of the time with
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a head low sometimes covering her face with her hands as she had done in her police interviews she weaved her way
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around the deeming text messages with her co-accused and desperately tried to convince the jury that although she had
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ordered a hit on her father in August 2010 three months later she had changed her mind the court heard that Jennifer
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only wanted herself killed and ordered the hit to not bring the shame of suicide on her family she said she never
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wanted her parents to be the target it was her that was supposed to die Jennifer's defense lawyer Paul Cooper
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painted Eric kardi as a psychopathic killer who was not happy when Jennifer caught off her assisted suicide and not
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happy he hadn't been paid to eight and a half thousand dollar cancellation fee Cooper stated the events of that night
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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
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to hurt her father if this was a planned murder why carry out the charade of the
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robbery why didn't the intruder shoot mr. and mrs. Penn immediately he called it a sloppy robbery led by idiots in a
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hurry and said Eric Rd was the one calling the shots Cooper alleged that it was Carney who
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started shooting because he was angry he wasn't receiving the money he wanted although sitting accused in his trial
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Eric Rd was now serving life in prison for the murder in 2009 a murder he was wanted for at the time of the pea and
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home invasion it was an easy job to paint him as a killer with nothing to lose he was present at the beginning of
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the trial but five months in his lawyer became sick and was unable to continue with his defense which led to cardis
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exit from the trial he was tried separately at a later date Cooper admitted to the jury that
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Jennifer had a history of lying but claimed her web of deceit only showed her to be a sheltered young woman with
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the social skills of a teenager he said they could not convicted murder and reminded them they had to believe beyond
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a reasonable doubt that she meant for her parents to die with Cardini out of this trial the defense for Crawford mill
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Wagoner and Daniel Wong told the court there was little evidence to convict the three men other than the phone records
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no DNA evidence was presented at trial there was no forensic evidence gathered from the house no bloody clothes found
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and no weapons recovered the defense argued that if it was such a sloppy job as alleged by Jennifer's defense then
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where was the physical evidence Daniel Wong's defense lawyer said are you going to commit my client of a cold-blooded
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murder based on a couple of text messages are you kidding me he described Daniel as a university educated
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hard-working man who played the trumpet who somehow got mixed up with dealing marijuana and who fell under the spell
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of Jennifer Penn she's a pathological liar who was playing games in the sickest possible way with Daniels head
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he said five months into the trial that was revealed that juror number four his wife had sat in the courtroom every day
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watching when Jennifer's father took the witness stand he was joined by two Vietnamese interpreters he did not look
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over at his daughter they said the crime had shattered his life adding that he was astonished he
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survived the shots through his face and shoulder he spoke with a deep sadness as
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he told the court of the decade of lying he and his wife enjoy it from Jennifer the jury took four days to reach its
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verdict on December 13th 2014 at 1:20 p.m. the jury informed Justice Boswell that a verdict had been reached the
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accused all stood in the prisoner's dock while their verdicts were read one by one
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Jennifer Penn David mill vagon 'um Daniel Wong and a lenford crawford were all found guilty of the murder a big up
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in end of the attempted murder of Han Penn Jennifer as she always did hung her head
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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
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chance one by one H was asked to sit down family members were crying in some screaming as they left the courtroom and
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chose not to deliver his victim impact statement in person a witness protection a he'd read it out at read when I lost
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my wife I lost my daughter at the same time I don't feel like I have a family anymore on the day big heart died I feel
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like I died too my life totally changed that day some say I should feel lucky to
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be alive but I feel like I am dead too I can't work anymore because of my injuries and
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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
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any of that for me I miss my wife so much she knew me better than anyone and cared about me I am so lonely without
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her we were married for almost 30 years big car was a good wife and a good mother she always put her children first
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and rarely spent money on herself she loved music and loved to go line dancing she took care of our children while I
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worked she had always wanted to go to Vietnam and I always said we have to spend our money on the children's
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education first but once they have finished school we can focus on doing the things we want then
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but that tour never came for her I don't find any joining holidays anymore I'm sad and lonely all the time sometimes
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when I see my friends I tried to pretend I am happy but struggle with being jealous of my friends families and their
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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
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two sisters and my elderly mother as I can't stand being in my home because of all the bad memories of what happened
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there there are repairs that need to be done on the house but because of my injuries
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I am unable to do anything I don't like going to my house because my neighbors asked me what happened and I am ashamed
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I can't sell the house because it is in a Chinese neighborhood with superstition
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and no one would want to live there because of the murder I cannot sleep at night and have
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constant nightmares about what happened the night we were shot I feel panicked all the time especially
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when I see a group of young men in the street I am not racist at all a black men really scare me if I see
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them standing in a group I'm in a lot of pain and take medication for pain every
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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
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again I am also on medication for diabetes and high cholesterol as I can not exercise as it is too painful my
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life has totally changed I attend my wife's grave with my brother and sister-in-law on the anniversary of her
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death and on other special holidays and it is so very hard on me to remember how
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she died and what my life has become I am a very lonely person and have no one to share my feelings with as my son
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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
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hear his sister's name and doesn't want to know about what happens in court Felix has become very separate and he's
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a very different person he doesn't want to talk about the family and he's very closed down distant and too sad he says
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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
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because everyone knows about his mother's murder I hope my daughter Jennifer thinks about what has happened
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to her family and can become a good and honest person someday just as Boswell described the crime as horrific he said
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the circumstances faced by Jennifer's father him and mother become without if stark horror those willing to go along
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with such a plan have very little concern for human life these were crimes of terrifying violence all accused were
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sentenced to life without parole for 25 years for the first-degree murder of beaker pen and the life for the
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attempted murder of hand pen the sentences would run concurrently the earliest Jennifer pen will be able to
02:37:45
apply for parole is 2035 she'll be 48 years old the judge ended with she lived a life of deception and
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they did not deserve the death penalty she imposed on them this was a business transaction the commodity
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death Eric Rd wasn't retried cardi said he wanted to put an end to hand suffering by pleading out to avoid
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another lengthy trial he admitted he conspired with the other accused to have hand and beak are killed for $10,000 he
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was sentenced to 18 years in prison to be served concurrently with a 25 year sentence he was already serving for the
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unrelated murder it is still unknown who pulled the trigger the case was summed up in the Toronto
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Star by journalist Rosie de mano who said all this horror a mother shot in the head her final words are plead that
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her daughter be spared a father shot through the art who miraculously survived his Grievous wounds for the
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obsessive love of a man who did not love her back [Music] you