Murder of Bich Pan

On November 8, 2010, police in Markham, Ontario, Canada, a suburb of Toronto, responded to a report of a robbery and assault at the Unionville home of Hann and Bich Pan, ethnically Chinese immigrants from Vietnam. Both had been shot repeatedly; Bich died of her injuries, and Hann was permanently blinded. The investigation revealed that the crime was not a robbery but instead a kill-for-hire arranged by the couple's daughter Jennifer Pan. She had expected to inherit her parents' money and was angered that they had forbidden her to see her boyfriend after they discovered she had been deceiving them about her education.

Jennifer's police interrogation involved a technique in Canada, where police are legally allowed to lie to those they are interrogating regarding the evidence they have allegedly collected, and the strategies they are using. At trial, Pan was found guilty on multiple charges and sentenced to life imprisonment with the possibility of parole after 25 years, the same penalty as her co-conspirators. In May 2023, the Court of Appeal for Ontario ordered a retrial for Pan and her conspirators on the first-degree murder charge, but upheld the attempted murder conviction. Two years later the Supreme Court of Canada sustained the appeal.