Her parents controlled her in everything.
Jennifer Pan, a Canadian born in 1986 to a family of Chinese and Vietnamese origin, was required A's.
She had no free time: the only time she was not under the direct supervision of her parents was school hours.
The rest: piano, flute, figure skating classes with the paternal hope that one day she would become an Olympian, something that prevented the rupture of the knee ligament.
Her pretend skills began at the school itself, Medium relates.
The A's were actually enough, but she managed to forge the report cards.
And despite those supposed good grades, they did not lower their guard: when he became a teenager, they prevented him from having any kind of relationship with boys.
The ban even affected high school dances, but that did not prevent her from meeting Daniel in the first year of high school, in the marching band, and from traveling with her fellow musicians to Europe, where they fell in love, although they hid it.
She also concealed that she had been rejected at Ryerson University in Toronto.
To everyone, she had been admitted: she had a (forged) acceptance letter to prove it.
She could hardly get into higher education if she hadn't even gotten a high school degree, something that she obviously covered too.
His father wanted him to study pharmacy, and that made him believe that he would study at Ryerson.
There was no need for them to pay him anything, because he would get scholarships to finance his university.
Also false.
She bought some textbooks and soaked up the content of some documentaries to create an image of a model pharmacy student.
Her true source of income came from piano lessons and working in a restaurant.
She said she lived with a roommate, but her real roommate was her boyfriend, Daniel.
When graduation came, it occurred to her to say that only the father or mother could attend, due to lack of space.
That, for that, it was better to go with a friend.
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As if it were a female version of Jean-Claude Romand, the man who murdered his wife, children and parents after deceiving them for years about his training and his work, and who inspired the novel
The adversary,
by Emmanuel Carrère, Jennifer increased every time plus the scope of his lies.
From studies to work: a lie was that she had gotten a job in a blood test laboratory, as she told her parents, in a hospital.
Already with the fly behind her ear, the parents wanted to accompany her to the hospital where she supposedly worked as a volunteer.
Jennifer's entire life montage was in jeopardy.
Her only recourse was to escape once inside the hospital, which increased suspicions.
Some suspicions that became more solid when they decided to call the friend with whom he had supposedly lived for so many years: it was all a lie.
The fury of the parents was materialized in impressive control measures in the case of an adult, as Jennifer was by then.
They forced her to quit her job, installed a GPS tracking device in her vehicle.
The supervision was so tight that Jennifer's boyfriend ended up breaking up with her.
In 2010, he reconnected with an old high school friend, Andrew Montemayor, who told him he wanted to kill his father.
Jennifer thought about doing the same.
Together with another person, they devised a plan to assassinate him in exchange for 1,500 dollars (1,275 euros) that he would pay the hit man, who turned out to be a scammer: he fled with the money without fulfilling his objective.
Having regained her relationship with Daniel, she took up the idea of ending the life of her father, and also of her mother.
A new contact offered to commit the double crime for $ 10,000 (8,500 euros), with the help of another man and Daniel.
And so, on the night of November 8, 2010, Jennifer made way for the hitmen to her parents' home in the greater Toronto area.
"You have VIP access," he wrote to the boyfriend's mobile, for them to enter.
They forced the Pans, father, mother and daughter to go downstairs, demanded that they hand over all the money they had, and took Jennifer upstairs, where they tied her up.
Soon, they were shot in the head, according to the sentence.
Jennifer called the police.
That she had heard gunshots.
Her father had managed to get away, go outside and ask a neighbor for help.
Jennifer's father came to the hospital.
The police were surprised that in the robbery the thieves had not taken anything valuable apart from money and that the assailants had entered directly through the main door of the home, as if nothing prevented them.
The story of the father when he woke up from the coma induced in the hospital reaffirmed the police suspicions: his daughter seemed to know the assailants.
Surrounded again by inquisitive looks, the young woman said that she suffered from depression and that she had arranged with the murderers to kill her, but that they got confused and attacked her parents instead.
Four years later, in December 2014, Jennifer and her three cronies were sentenced to death.
At age 25 they will have the right to have their provisional release studied.
The father, injured by the injuries caused by her daughter, was unable to work.
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