Alan R. Warren - Deadly Betrayal; the True Story of Jennifer Pan Daughter from Hell

A family of three tied up, each with a gun to their head, Wheres the money? Wheres the fucking money? one of the intruders yelled. A petrified daughter tortured and forced to listen to her parents being shot in cold blood. I heard shots, like pops, she told the 911 operator, somebody's broke into our home, please, I need help! Was this a home invasion? Or something else, more sinister, a deadly betrayal.

The real-life horror story that happened inside the Pan family home shocked their normally peaceful upscale Toronto neighborhood. The Pans were an example of an immigrant family. Hann and his wife, Bich Pan, fled from Vietnam to Canada after the U.S.Vietnamese war to find a better life. Their daughter, Jennifer, was an Olympic-caliber figure skater, an award-winning pianist, and a straight A student.

The Pans worked their way up in this rags-toriches story, now living in a beautiful home with luxury cars in the driveway. Was it these expensive items that lured three intruders with guns into their home on the night of November 8, 2010?

Find out what really happened when seasoned true crime reporter and author, Alan R. Warren, takes you through the details as they unfold in this book of a deadly betrayal.

Many countries in the world have created social classes based on money, power, and inheritance, but Vietnam, which has been strongly influenced by China, had a different system. It was one that divided up the people by education. If you were not among the royalty of the country, classes were divided up by knowledge which could help a person move up somewhat, whereas the farmers and laborers were at the bottom and would always be there.

When people immigrate from such a culture to the west, it's quite often the biggest change that they must realize. It's not the language, culture or even the prejudices, but the fact that you can move your class of living up from just working. The fabric of Vietnams society was based on ancient philosophy. There were authoritative relationships among the people. This was always the man to the wife, son and daughter, this is where it was sons preferred over daughters.

So it was when Huei Hann Pan was a refugee on a long trip by boat from Vietnam to Canada in the late nineteen seventies, that he dreamed of being able to live with enough to secure a life for the children that he wanted to have.

While Huei Hann Pan watched several others die on the same journey that he was on, he kept focused on being alive and well enough to make it to the new land with all its promises and wealth. He was an honorable man with the deep convictions of dignity, so it was with this heroic effort that he decided that his family would have more.

When Huei Hann Pan was working alongside his wife in an auto factory, he would fill the aimless times with visions of his daughter becoming a doctor, and his son being a mechanical engineer. These were careers that would not only reflect on his children, but on him as a father. Success would be expected from the Pan family.

Many of the first-generation immigrants from Asian countries would see praise as an inhibitor because, once you complimented them, they might feel as though they didnt need to go further or accomplish more. There was always room for improvement and there was no accepting mediocrity.

The children would always be disciplined, respectful and obedient. Huei would show great disappointment in anything that was done poorly by his children. He would require his children to be hard working and, even if they had accomplished something good, praise would not be shown; it was by not getting discipline that they knew they did well.

In the Pan family, the father never felt the need to tell the children that he loved them; it was shown by the way he sacrificed for them every day by working so hard and providing a solid foundation for them to learn from.

This type of parenting is quite often called Tiger Parenting. This type of parenting quite often requires a tough-love approach which would include very high expectations and inducing guilt as a punishment. It can even go as far as making the child feel as if they wouldnt be loved if they didnt follow their parents' wishes. In fact, those that fail to meet the parents' expectations will be called names, and the parents will take away the childrens toys. If the child was doing poorly, the family would not celebrate their birthday or even Christmas holidays.

Quite often tiger parenting would also include restricting the children from activities such as watching TV, playing games, or being part of other childrens play dates or sleepovers. The parents would be the ones to choose the activities that the children would be involved in. The primary focus would be the education, school grades could not be below an A, and they should be at least two years ahead of their classmates. Children would only be permitted to be involved in activities that they could be awarded for or win medals.

It was also part of the Chinese culture that the children have a life of duty, respect and to care for their parents and elderly family members. This is in return for their parents sacrificing so much for their children.

Is this the kind of parenting that leads to murder? When the parents raise children to be productive and disciplined members of a society, does it also plant the seed to want to be free from such standards that it will lead the children to kill their own parents?

These are the questions that we are left to ask after such a case that happened in real life in such a relatively peaceful country as Canada.

Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is a process, working together is success. Henry Ford

Huei Hann Pan and wife Bich-Ha Pan

H uei Hann Pan was born and educated in Vietnam during the war with the United States. In the late part of the 1970s, Huei Hann Pan attended college in Saigon for four years for tool and die and diesel mechanics. After the war, Vietnam was still in a turmoil.

Up to 300,000 South Vietnamese were sent to reeducation camps where many endured torture, starvation and disease. Another 200,000 to 400,000 Vietnamese died at sea in boats trying to escape.