The Tiger Parents:Jennifer Pan·Daniel Wong·Lenford Crawford·David Mylvaganam·Eric Carty·Bich Ha Pan·Huei Hann Pan

Jennifer Pan grew up in suburban Toronto under intense pressure from her parents, Bich Ha and Huei Hann Pan, to excel. For years she hid a secret: she had not finished high school. She forged report cards, invented a university career, and kept up the story long enough that her parents believed she was on her way to a pharmacy career. When the truth began to surface, her parents clamped down, including on her relationship with her boyfriend, Daniel Wong.

On the night of November 8, 2010, three armed men walked through the front door of the Pan home in Markham, Ontario, which had been left unlocked. Bich Ha Pan was shot dead in the basement. Huei Hann Pan was shot twice and survived after a medically induced coma. Jennifer was found tied up and made the 911 call.

Her father’s memory of what happened, and phone records, told a different story, and she was convicted along with three men of first-degree murder in 2014. In 2023 an appeal court ordered a new trial, and Canada’s Supreme Court later upheld that ruling. In March 2026, Pan pleaded guilty to manslaughter in her mother’s death.