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The Perfect Daughter Who Hired Hitmen · Crime Night

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Speaker 1: Picture this. It's just past ten pm on November eighth,
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Speaker 1: twenty ten.
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Speaker 2: Okay, setting the scene right.
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Speaker 1: You are in Markham, Ontario, and this is this quiet,
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Speaker 1: affluent suburb where the streets are dimly lit, the lawns
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Speaker 1: are perfectly manicured, and absolutely nothing out of the ordinary
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Speaker 1: is supposed to happen.
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Speaker 2: It's the kind of place where people move specifically for
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Speaker 2: safety exactly.
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Speaker 1: But suddenly the silence of the local police dispatch is
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Speaker 1: just shattered, like completely shattered by this frantic, hysterical nine
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Speaker 1: to one one call.
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Speaker 2: Oh man, the audio of that dispatch is genuinely horrifying
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Speaker 2: to listen to.
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Speaker 1: It really is. It's from a twenty four year old
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Speaker 1: woman named Jennifer Pan and underneath her terrified screams there
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Speaker 1: is something even worse. You can hear the agonizing, just
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Speaker 1: visceral screams of her father in the background.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. And when first responders actually arrive at the house,
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Speaker 2: they step into a scene of just complete and utter chaos.
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Speaker 1: I mean they had to be shocked.
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Speaker 2: Completely because Jennifer's father, Han has somehow managed to stumble outside.
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Speaker 2: He has been shot in the face. Yeah, but miraculously
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Speaker 2: he is still breathing, and inside the home upstairs, police
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Speaker 2: find Jennifer tied to a banister with a shoelace, just
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Speaker 2: a shoelace.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, she's hysterical, but she's completely unharmed physically. And then
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Speaker 1: they make their way down to the basement.
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Speaker 2: And that's where it gets worse. It does.
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Speaker 1: Down in the basement they find her mother, beach Haw,
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Speaker 1: dead from a gunshot wound.
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Speaker 2: So today we are pulling back the curtain on this
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Speaker 2: entire tragedy. We are taking a deep dive into a
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Speaker 2: stack of primary sources, raw police interrogation transcripts, nine to
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Speaker 2: one on audio recordings, you know, crime scene logs, and
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Speaker 2: court records.
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Speaker 1: There's so much material to go through there.
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Speaker 2: Really is. We are doing this deep dive into the
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Speaker 2: dark underbelly of what looked to the entire world like
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Speaker 2: the absolute perfect immigrant success.
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Speaker 1: Story, which is such a common facade, right.
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Speaker 2: Right, We were looking at a family with the beautiful
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Speaker 2: suburban home, healthy savings, two loving kids, and a reality
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Speaker 2: where absolutely nothing was what it seemed nothing at all.
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Speaker 1: Okay, let's unpack this because to even begin to understand
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Speaker 1: the sheer magnitude of the deception involved here, we have
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Speaker 1: to start with the initial narrative.
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Speaker 2: The story she told that first night.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. We have to look at the story Jennifer
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Speaker 1: Pan told the police in the immediate aftermath of the
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Speaker 1: home invasion.
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Speaker 2: Well, what's fascinating here is that, at first glance, the
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Speaker 2: story she tells investigators is meticulously detailed, and it's horrifyingly plausible.
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Speaker 1: Right, she didn't just give vague answers, not at all.
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Speaker 2: It's the early hours of November night. Jennifer is at
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Speaker 2: the police station, and she describes this completely normal Monday night. Like,
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Speaker 2: her younger brother Felix is away at college.
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Speaker 1: In Hamilton, so he's not even in the house.
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Speaker 2: Right. Her mom had been outlined dancing, which was like
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Speaker 2: a weekly routine for her, and got home around nine
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Speaker 2: thirty pm.
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Speaker 1: Her dad was already a sleep, just a totally mundane evening.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Jennifer said. She was just in her room watching TV,
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Speaker 2: getting ready for bed.
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Speaker 1: Okay, let me stop you there, because the transition from
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Speaker 1: a mundane Monday to a double shooting is incredibly abrupt.
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Speaker 1: How does she explain the initial breach of the house, Like,
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Speaker 1: how do they get in?
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Speaker 2: So she tells police that she suddenly hears her mother
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Speaker 2: downstairs calling out for her father, and then she hears
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Speaker 2: unfamiliar voices. She claims she tiptoed to her bedroom door
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Speaker 2: and suddenly this strange man holding a piece of string
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Speaker 2: just lunges at her.
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Speaker 1: Wow.
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Speaker 2: He ties her hands behind her back, tells her he
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Speaker 2: has a gun and begins dragging her through the house demanding.
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Speaker 1: Cash, and she gives it to him.
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Speaker 2: Obviously, Yeah, she says, she gave him everything she knew about,
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Speaker 2: so her personal savings from her room and some US
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Speaker 2: dollars her mother kept hidden an.
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Speaker 1: Addresser, and apparently that just wasn't enough to satisfy them.
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Speaker 2: According to her statement, No, it wasn't. She is dragged
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Speaker 2: downstairs to the kitchen, where she sees two other strange
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Speaker 2: men holding her parents at gunpoint. That is terrifying, She
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Speaker 2: describes one of the men losing his patience and brutally
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Speaker 2: pistol whipping her father. Then she watches her mother crying,
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Speaker 2: pleading with these armed intruders, you know, begging them not
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Speaker 2: to hurt her daughter.
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Speaker 1: Guy, that's heavy, and then they put her back upstairs.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. After that, Jennifer claims she is dragged back upstairs
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Speaker 2: and tied to the banister with that flimsy shoelace while
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Speaker 2: her parents are forced into the basement.
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Speaker 1: And there is a detail in her statement that feels
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Speaker 1: so incredibly nostalgic for twenty ten. The cell phone, right, Yes,
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Speaker 1: She tells the detectives that she miraculously managed to call
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Speaker 1: nine one one because she had a flip phone tucked
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Speaker 1: into the waistband of her pants.
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Speaker 2: A flip phone. Wow.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, She says she managed to wriggle it out, flip
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Speaker 1: it open, and dial the police, all with her hands
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Speaker 1: still tied behind her back.
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Speaker 2: Which is quite the feat. And she goes even further
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Speaker 2: by providing incredibly specific suspect descriptions.
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Speaker 1: Right like she saw them, clearly.
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Speaker 2: Very clearly. She tells police they were three black men.
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Speaker 2: One was between twenty eight and thirty five, medium billed
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Speaker 2: with long locks.
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Speaker 1: That's super specific.
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Speaker 2: The second was in his early thirties, face covered with
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Speaker 2: a bandana, wearing a dark hoodie, and the third man
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Speaker 2: had a thin build and spoke with a very distinct
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Speaker 2: Caribbean accent.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so on paper, it paints a very clear picture
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Speaker 1: of a violent targeted home invasion.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, but I have to.
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Speaker 1: Throw a flag on the play here because the physical
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Speaker 1: evidence at this crime scene completely contradicts that narrative.
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Speaker 2: It really does.
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Speaker 1: If you are a listener trying to picture this, it's
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Speaker 1: like a bank robber breaking into a high security vault
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Speaker 1: by passing all the gold bars and only stealing the
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Speaker 1: complimentary pens off the manager's desk.
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Speaker 2: That is a great way to put it. It makes
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Speaker 2: zero sense.
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Speaker 1: None. Sitting right there in the garage are her mom's
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Speaker 1: Lexus and her dad's Mercedes with the keys sitting out.
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Speaker 2: In the open just waiting to be taken.
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Speaker 1: Right, and the home's expensive electronics are completely untouched. There
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Speaker 1: is actual cash sitting out in plain sight that wasn't taken.
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Speaker 2: The behavioral red flags are glaring. I mean, the actions
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Speaker 2: of these intruders contradict the fundamental motive of.
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Speaker 1: Because they didn't rob anything of value exactly.
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Speaker 2: If they were there for financial gain, they failed spectacularly.
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Speaker 2: But the true anomaly, the detail that immediately puts seasoned
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Speaker 2: investigators on edge, is the psychological profile of the violence.
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Speaker 1: Okay, let's play Devil's advocate for a second. Is it
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Speaker 1: possible these were just sheer.
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Speaker 2: Amateurs, like they just got scared.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe they broke in panicked when things got out
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Speaker 1: of hand. You know, the gun went off and they
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Speaker 1: bolted before they could grab the electronics or the cars.
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Speaker 2: From a behavioral science standpoint, that is highly unlikely. Really
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Speaker 2: why because amateurs who panic usually flee immediately. They don't
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Speaker 2: take the time to systematically separate the hostages. Execute two
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Speaker 2: adults in the basement, and then show mercy to the
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Speaker 2: one person who can identify them.
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Speaker 1: Oh wow, yeah, that's true.
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Speaker 2: Why shoot both parents who are reportedly cooperating, but leave
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Speaker 2: the sole eyewitness perfectly fined upstairs, secured only by a shoelace.
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Speaker 1: You just wouldn't do that.
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Speaker 2: You don't leave the one person who has seen your
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Speaker 2: faces and heard your voices alive. The crime scene doesn't
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Speaker 2: feel like a robbery gone wrong. It feels staged, and.
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Speaker 1: That suspicion is what prompts the police to look past
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Speaker 1: the physical mechanics of the break in, right, and they
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Speaker 1: start digging into Jennifer's personal life, and.
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Speaker 2: What they find is a gold mine.
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Speaker 1: They pull the thread and they immediately uncover a massive
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Speaker 1: point of friction, a forbidden relationship. Jennifer had a boyfriend
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Speaker 1: named Daniel Wong, and her parents fiercely disapproved of.
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Speaker 2: Him extremely strict parents.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it had reached such a boiling point that they
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Speaker 1: gave her an ultimate, non negotiable ultimatum. She had to
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Speaker 1: choose between Daniel and her family.
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Speaker 2: And when investigators bring Daniel in for questioning, his demeanor
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Speaker 2: and his answers raise even more alarms.
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Speaker 1: He wasn't exactly cooperative.
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Speaker 2: No, which prompts them to bring Jennifer back in for
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Speaker 2: a second interview on November eleventh. They actually have her
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Speaker 2: physically demonstrate how she made that nine to one one
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Speaker 2: call with her hands tied behind your back.
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Speaker 1: I can't imagine she pulled that off easily.
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Speaker 2: She manages to replicate it actually, but by this point
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Speaker 2: the detectives aren't really focused on the flip phone anymore.
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Speaker 2: They are looking at the foundational pillars of her life. Right.
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Speaker 1: Here's where it gets really interesting, because the police uncover
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Speaker 1: that Jennifer's entire existence was a fabrication.
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Speaker 2: The scope of it is just wild.
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Speaker 1: And I don't mean she told a few white lies
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Speaker 1: to strict parents about sneaking out. I mean she constructed
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Speaker 1: an entire alternate reality. She had never even graduated from
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Speaker 1: high school.
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Speaker 2: The sheer stamina required to maintain this level of deception
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Speaker 2: is almost incomprehensible.
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Speaker 1: Walk us through the mechanics of this, because I think
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Speaker 1: anyone listening is wondering how you fake your life for
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Speaker 1: years while living under the same roof as your parents.
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Speaker 1: How did she actually do it?
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Speaker 2: Well? It was a daily, full time job. Really yeah.
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Speaker 2: For years she forged her high school report cards. When
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Speaker 2: it came time for college, she forged fake acceptance letters,
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Speaker 2: which is hard enough, but she even forged complex government
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Speaker 2: student loan paperwork to show her parents that she was
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Speaker 2: receiving financial aid.
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Speaker 1: Unbelievable.
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Speaker 2: Every single morning she would wake up, pack her back
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Speaker 2: back and pretend to commute to college classes.
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Speaker 1: Where was she actually going?
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Speaker 2: In reality, she was going to the public library to
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Speaker 2: sit around, or she was spending the day with Daniel Wong.
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Speaker 2: She lived off whatever allowunge she had and money she
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Speaker 2: made teaching Kiano.
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Speaker 1: Wow, if you're listening to this, think about the absolute
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Speaker 1: worst grade you ever got in school and that pit
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Speaker 1: of gred in your stomach when you had to bring
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Speaker 1: the report card home. We all know that feeling, and
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Speaker 1: now imagine feeling that dread so intensely that you fake
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Speaker 1: an entire college degree. It's like building a massive house
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Speaker 1: of cards inside a wind tunnel.
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Speaker 2: Oh, that's a brilliant way to describe it.
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Speaker 1: The wind is the relentless daily pressure of her parents' expectations.
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Speaker 1: Every single day she had to expend massive amounts of
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Speaker 1: emotional energy just to keep the wind from blowing those
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Speaker 1: fake report cards down. It must have been suffocating.
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Speaker 2: To understand the why behind this, you really have to
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Speaker 2: look at the psychology of extreme parental pressure and the
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Speaker 2: paralyzing fear of failure.
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Speaker 1: What were the demands like in their house?
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Speaker 2: Inside the panhousehold, the demands were absolute, straight a's, no dating,
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Speaker 2: no parties, complete.
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Speaker 1: Obedience, so no room for error at all.
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Speaker 2: None. And Jennifer was actually a gifted figure skater with
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Speaker 2: genuine dreams of going to the Olympics, but a severe
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Speaker 2: physical injury ended that dream. Oh man, Yeah, when the
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Speaker 2: skating was gone, all of that intense pressure funneled directly
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Speaker 2: into her academics.
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Speaker 1: So the moment she couldn't maintain the perfect academic facade,
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Speaker 1: the avalanche.
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Speaker 2: Started precisely when her grades slipped from a's to b's
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Speaker 2: in high school. Facing her parents' judgment was deemed psychologically
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Speaker 2: impossible for her, So she lied about a single.
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Speaker 1: Grade and then it just snowball.
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Speaker 2: But to cover that lie, she had to tell another
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Speaker 2: This wasn't typical teenage rebellion. This was a survival mechanism
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Speaker 2: gone incredibly wrong. She sustained this elaborate illusion for years,
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Speaker 2: right up until two two thousand and nine, when her
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Speaker 2: parents finally uncovered the truth.
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Speaker 1: Which leads to the ultimatum we talked about, choose the
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Speaker 1: family or choose Daniel. Right, She told her parents she
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Speaker 1: chose them, but she just drove the deception deeper underground.
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Speaker 1: She kept seeing Daniel secretly, So by this point in
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Speaker 1: the investigation, the police know she is a master manipulator.
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Speaker 2: They know she's lying about basically.
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Speaker 1: Everything right, but they still don't have the hard evidence
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Speaker 1: tying her to a murder for higher plot, so they.
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Speaker 2: Place her under surveillance waiting for a slip up. But
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Speaker 2: the breakthrough doesn't come from a wire tap or a
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Speaker 2: careless text message. It comes from the trauma ward.
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Speaker 1: This is the ultimate plot twist. It really is Han Pan,
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Speaker 1: against all medical odds, wakes up from his coma. He
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Speaker 1: survived a gunshot wound directly.
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Speaker 2: To the face, which is unheard of the.
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Speaker 1: Fact that he regained consciousness, let alone the ability to speak,
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Speaker 1: is nothing short of a medical miracle, and what he
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Speaker 1: tells the police obliterates Jennifer's alibi in a matter of seconds.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Han tells investigators that his memory of the home
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Speaker 2: invasion is still clear.
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Speaker 1: He remembers everything.
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Speaker 2: Everything, and he didn't see a terrified daughter being violently
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Speaker 2: dragged through the hallways. He saw Jennifer calmly walking around
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Speaker 2: whispering to one of the armed men.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god.
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Speaker 2: He explicitly tells police that she was speaking to the
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Speaker 2: intruder like a friend. She wasn't restrained, she wasn't crying.
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Speaker 1: And there is also a detail Hans shares about his
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Speaker 1: wife's final moments in the basement that just stops you in.
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Speaker 2: Your tracks so disturbing.
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Speaker 1: As Bitschall was pleading for her daughter's life, one of
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Speaker 1: the intruders looked at her and said, don't worry. Your
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Speaker 1: daughter is very nice, so I won't hurt her.
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Speaker 2: It is a profoundly chilling statement because it completely changes
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Speaker 2: the context of the violence. It implies a pre existing arrangement,
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Speaker 2: It implies familiarity.
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Speaker 1: Armed with this devastating testimony from a father who has
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Speaker 1: essentially returned from the dead. The detectives bring Jennifer back
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Speaker 1: into the interrogation.
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Speaker 2: Room, and they are not messing around anymore.
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Speaker 1: No, this time, the gloves are off. They lay out
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Speaker 1: the inconsistencies they tell, tell her they know she is involved,
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Speaker 1: and under that pressure, Jennifer finally breaks. But the confession
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Speaker 1: she gives is wild. She completely pivots.
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Speaker 2: She doesn't admit to orchestrating a hit on her parents
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Speaker 2: at all. Instead, she claims that she hired the men
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Speaker 2: to come to the house to kill her.
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Speaker 1: Let's dissect this because it defies all logic. She claims
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Speaker 1: she got a cell phone number for a guy known
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Speaker 1: only as Homeboy and paid him two thousand dollars to
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Speaker 1: execute her. She says she unlocked the front door that
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Speaker 1: night to let her own killers in. But wait a minute.
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Speaker 1: If she hired these men to execute her, why is
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Speaker 1: she casually chatting with one of them upstairs while her
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Speaker 1: parents are being executed in the basement.
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Speaker 2: This raises an important question. Why invent a lie that
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Speaker 2: is so easily disproven by her father's testimony?
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Speaker 1: Right? Why double down on something so dumb?
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Speaker 2: You have to look at the psychology of a cornered liar.
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Speaker 2: When her ultimate lie, the narrative that she was a
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Speaker 2: completely innocent victim, collapses, she desperately needs to invent a
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Speaker 2: new narrative that incorporates the evidence the police now.
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Speaker 1: Possess, because they already know she let them in exactly.
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Speaker 2: They know the door was unlocked, and they know she
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Speaker 2: communicated with the intruders.
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Speaker 1: So she crafts a narrative where she is a tragic,
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Speaker 1: suicidal victim whose plan accidentally resulted in her parents being harmed,
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Speaker 1: rather than admitting she is the cold blooded architect of
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Speaker 1: their murder.
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Speaker 2: It is an attempt to retain a shred of control
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Speaker 2: and paint herself in a slightly more sympathetic light. But
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Speaker 2: the police, of course see right through it. Obviously, they
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Speaker 2: charged Jennifer Pann with murder, attempted murder, and conspiracy to
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Speaker 2: commit murder, and once they gain access to the digital footprints,
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Speaker 2: the cell phone records, and banking histories, the actual mechanics
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Speaker 2: of the conspiracy come into razor sharp focus.
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Speaker 1: This brings us back to Daniel Wong. He wasn't just
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Speaker 1: the secret boyfriend hanging out at the library while she
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Speaker 1: faked college.
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Speaker 2: He was the broker, the records showed that Daniel was
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Speaker 2: the vital link. He helped devise the entire plan and
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Speaker 2: used his connections to find the hitmen.
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Speaker 1: Wow.
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Speaker 2: Through those digital trails, police identify the three men involved,
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Speaker 2: David will Vanam, Eric Carti and Lenford Crawford. And remarkably,
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Speaker 2: the police have to completely update their suspect descriptions.
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Speaker 1: Because her descriptions were completely made.
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Speaker 2: At exactly it wasn't three black men in their late
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Speaker 2: twenties or thirties. It was two black men and one
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Speaker 2: white man, all aged between twenty and twenty five.
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Speaker 1: So what does this all mean when we look at
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Speaker 1: the underlying motivation here. It wasn't a crime of passion.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't a sudden explosive argument that got out of hand.
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Speaker 2: No, it was calculated.
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Speaker 1: It was a deeply calculated transaction. Jennifer wanted three things.
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Speaker 1: Freedom from her parents' crushing expectations, freedom to openly be
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Speaker 1: with Daniel, and a massive payout. She stood to inherit
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Speaker 1: an estate worth roughly one million dollars.
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Speaker 2: The financial element is the engine driving the entire plot.
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Speaker 2: It wasn't just about escaping an oppressive household, it was
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Speaker 2: about securing a highly lucrative independent future.
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Speaker 1: It was essentially a deadly corporate merger. She took her
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Speaker 1: desire for independen, combined it with a million dollar payout,
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Speaker 1: and executed the entire takeover by hiring outside contractors to
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Speaker 1: eliminate the current management.
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Speaker 2: The sheer callousness of that calculation was laid bare during
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Speaker 2: the trial, which began in twenty fourteen.
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Speaker 1: That must have been a media circus.
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Speaker 2: It was a grueling nine month process where all five defendants, Jennifer, Daniel, David,
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Speaker 2: Eric and Lentford were tried together. The prosecution painstakingly walked
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Speaker 2: the jury through the years of forged documents, the lies,
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Speaker 2: and ultimately the cell phone records that tied them all
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Speaker 2: to the Markham House on November eighth.
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Speaker 1: And didn't Jennifer actually take the stand in her own defense?
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Speaker 2: She did, Yeah, she's stubbornly stuck to that bizarre suicide
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Speaker 2: for hire story. Cloning the home invasion was just a
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Speaker 2: tragic misunderstanding of her original instructions.
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Speaker 1: Nobody believed that.
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Speaker 2: The jury didn't buy a word of it. All five
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Speaker 2: were convicted of first degree murder and attempted murder, though.
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Speaker 1: It is important to note there have been significant recent
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Speaker 1: developments in the legal proceeding.
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Speaker 2: Yes, very recently, the Canadian.
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Speaker 1: Supreme Court Court upheld the convictions for attempted murder for
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Speaker 1: Jennifer and the three men who carried out the attack. However,
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Speaker 1: they ordered new trials for the first degree murder charges
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Speaker 1: due to technical errors and how the trial judge originally
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Speaker 1: instructed the.
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Speaker 2: Jury right illegal technicality.
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Speaker 1: And in the wake of that Supreme Court decision, rather
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Speaker 1: than face another trial, Jennifer recently pleaded guilty to manslaughter
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Speaker 1: in the death of her mother. She received a life sentence,
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Speaker 1: but with that plea she will eventually be eligible for
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Speaker 1: parole down the line.
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Speaker 2: But when you step back from the legal mechanics and
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Speaker 2: the appellate court rulings, the human crater left behind by
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Speaker 2: this crime is absolute.
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Speaker 1: Let's talk about the brother, Felix. He was safely away
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Speaker 1: at college when this happened, entirely unaware of his sister's
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Speaker 1: double life.
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Speaker 2: He had no idea.
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Speaker 1: He submitted a statement to the court making it painfully
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Speaker 1: clear that her actions completely destroyed their family. Everything his
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Speaker 1: parents had worked for, his immigrants, everything they had built,
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Speaker 1: was just eradicated in one night.
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Speaker 2: And then you have han the father who survived a
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Speaker 2: bullet to the face, the man whose testimony was the
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Speaker 2: lynchpin in uncovering his daughter's plot. Yeah, during the sentencing phase,
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Speaker 2: he addressed the court, and, despite experiencing a level of
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Speaker 2: betrayal that most of us cannot even fathom, he stated
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Speaker 2: that he hopes Jennifer can become a quote good, honest
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Speaker 2: person someday.
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Speaker 1: The grace required to say that is staggering. When you
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Speaker 1: strip away all the forensic details in the courtroom drama,
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Speaker 1: the core tragedy here is deeply unsettling. If you are
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Speaker 1: listening to this, you likely understand the pressure to succeed.
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Speaker 2: We all do.
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Speaker 1: We all know what it feels like to fear disappointing
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Speaker 1: our families. But this story forces us to look at
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Speaker 1: how a perfectly normal, mundane fear, the fear of getting
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Speaker 1: a bee on a high school report card, mutated over
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Speaker 1: years of intense deception. It warped into a brutal murder
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Speaker 1: for higher plot against the very people who raised her.
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Speaker 2: It is a terrifying case study in human psychology. It
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Speaker 2: shows what happens when maintaining a perfect illusion becomes more
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Speaker 2: valuable than human life. Exactly the psychological architecture required to
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Speaker 2: smile at your parents across the dinner table, knowing you
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Speaker 2: have already negotiated the price of their execution, reveals a profound,
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Speaker 2: chilling detachment from empathy.
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Speaker 1: It brings us right back to that quiet street in Markham,
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Speaker 1: the stark contrast between the perfect suburban facade and the
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Speaker 1: unimaginable horror occurring in the basement. I want to leave
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Speaker 1: you with one final thought to mullover, a thought that
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Speaker 1: fundamentally changes how you view this entire case.
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Speaker 2: It is the ultimate what if of this tragedy.
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Speaker 1: Think about this. What if han Pan had not miraculously
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Speaker 1: survived that gunshot to the face. What if he hadn't
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Speaker 1: defied all medical logic to wake up from that coma?
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Speaker 2: If the plane had worked.
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Speaker 1: Perfectly exactly, If both parents had died in that basement,
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Speaker 1: exactly as the plan intended, Jennifer Pan's initial story of
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Speaker 1: a violent, random home invasion would have been the only
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Speaker 1: surviving narrative.
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Speaker 2: The sole witness to the truth would have been silenced forever.
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Speaker 1: Would she have simply inherited a million dollars? Would she
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Speaker 1: have lived the rest of her life successfully played the
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Speaker 1: role of the tragic grieving daughter, comforted by the very
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Speaker 1: community she betrayed. It forces you to wonder how many
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Speaker 1: perfect crimes only succeed because the one person who knew
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Speaker 1: the truth wasn't lucky enough to wake up