Netflix documentary revives interest in Canadian murder-for-hire case

Pan had a difficult relationship with her strict and demanding parents, who had extremely high expectations for her and closely monitored her after-school activities.

Eventually, they caught her in a series of lies about graduating from high school, obtaining a pharmacology degree and volunteering at a children's hospital.

Pan was initially assumed to be a victim of a home invasion, but police soon turned on her as a suspect, and a series of texts and phone calls between her and Wong appeared to reveal a plot to have the men kill her parents for $10,000.

She says she is uncomfortable with the "true crime industrial complex" and what she called American audiences' "all-consuming and endless" appetite for content about murder.

While Ho says her 2015 article aimed to cover the case in a nuanced and non-exploitative way, she remembers receiving backlash at the time, and accusations that she was "capitalizing on a family's worst day of their lives."

Co-producer Paul Nguyen says director Jenny Popplewell reached out to him two years ago to help connect with members of Markham's Vietnamese community for What Jennifer Did.