THIS IS NOT HYPERBOLE: Growing up, my parents pressured me for perfect grades with delusional logic. If they could WORK at a dry cleaners 80hrs/week; I could STUDY 80hrs/week... and have no excuses getting accepted into Harvard. Well I didn't get into Harvard... and virtually every conversation afterwards entailed me being compared to some other family friend's-child who got into an Ivy League. I'll never forget being guilt tripped on high school graduation by mentioning it was their failure for believing that I merely went to a state school and that they regret buying me an XBOX when "that time could've been spent studying" instead of being congratulated on going to pharmacy school. This passive aggression started to die down as time elapsed and I thought they came to peace that it wasn't realistic that anyone can get into Harvard and admission spots were finite. But man... I couldn't have been more wrong... Out-Of-Nowhere my quiet sister got accepted into MIT and critical mass was reached. The adamant request to reapply came on like an avalanche. "Oh if you get into Harvard we'll get you guys a condo in Boston, clean and make a pot of kimchi soup every weekend." Explaining that I was in my last year (APPE) of my Pharm.D. program and that I would graduate with minimal student debt due to my ROTC scholarship fell on deaf ears. They scolded me that they did not emigrate to the United States for their children to be "mediocre." This sentiment of anger was compounded by the fact I was romantically seeing someone of non-Korean descent. At this point I made the decision to block them out of my life (permanently) for my mental sanity and I haven't looked back. I didn't even invite them to my wedding. My wife (Not Asian) thinks I'm exaggerating, but unless you've lived through this, you will never understand invariably ending up with the worst end of the deal due to circumstances out of your control. I do not condone Jennifer's actions. But I share her view that your own parents are antagonists to your very existence and they are the opposition to you moving on to the next stage in your life. For me and the first couple minutes watching this, her story hits home. EDIT: Thank you for the likes.
i empathize. parents and culture are culpable for Jennifer's creation. The ability of parents to screw up their kids cannot be underestimated. However, Jennifer was also influenced by her criminal boyfriend of 8 years. She made the decision to proceed with this plan. She clearly underestimated the repurcussions.
I'm not asian or an immigrant (or the child of immigrants) but my mother and father constantly put pressure on me well beyond my abilities to cope with, not as severely as you or on Jennifer's, but the kind of resentment that boils up because of that... I even have younger siblings who managed to achieve pretty much everything I was pushed to do without all the harsh treatment, pressure and punishments I experienced which lead me to essentially give up on not just education, but living as well, certainly not helped by undiagnosed and untreated mental illness (Autism & ADHD) that my parents refused to have me checked or treated for. What Jennifer did was monstrous but when all you've known all your life is bitterness, resentment and shame, it twists you into a cruel and spiteful thing and the monstrous seems entirely reasonable for revenge for the life you never asked for.
I've seen this in many Asian families. I'm East Asian too but my parents were never interested in my academic performance because of what they had to deal with and their super old-school belief that girls wouldn't need education (I'm a woman) because education would make them undesirable for marriage. I was still able to go to college because my high school grades were really good and my parents decided to let me. Still, they believed the ultimate goal for women was to get married and become stay-at-home moms. I am still single, have a graduate degree and a career. I didn't want to live the way they wanted me to. There were certainly struggles at home with clashes in values and beliefs between myself and my parents, but not to this extent.
Man I gotta say as horrifying as this whole thing was, the Father is actually built different. Dude takes two shots to the head and not only survives but is responsive and remembers the incident. Can't imagine his grief though :(
I thought it was once in the face and once in the shoulder ? Regardless yeah, I think he just mostly got lucky. And had a strong will to live, of course
Gross that a mukti million dollar studio has to co-opt stolen shit for programming and take from the backs of a small youtube channel that their documentary doesnt even come close to the quality of.
The biggest thing she didn't expect was her father surviving the incident and getting out of a coma to tell his side of the story. I bet her stomach fell outta her ass and the back of her neck vibrating like a MF when she found that out
Dying BReed Actually happened to me in elementary school. Some kids thought it would be fun to blame me for stealing something I didn’t and the principal kept me after school and kept insisting that I took it and I said that I might have just so they could send me home. My parents told me that day to always get a lawyer when they pull shit like that.
The only thing that I appreciated from the Netflix documentary is that they had the actual detectives participate. Other than that, it was nothing special.
Fascinating.. Myself I lived in a lie for 2years, pretending to my parents I was in uni, faking my results etc.. while smoking weed everyday and playing video games in my apt. The mental pressure of it was agonizing, there was not a single second of peace in those 2 years. Snapped out of it eventually and re-enrolled and started and finished a chemistry degree. Being honest and not lying anymore finally gave me the mental peace I needed.
@@Mdksupreme1im not OP but there’s a point where you hit absolute rock bottom and feel like 1) killing yourself or 2) forcing yourself to make a change. the suicidal thoughts aren’t even necessarily from wanting to die, just wanting to escape the hole you dug for yourself. it took me a lot of mental bargaining and baby stepping myself out of the lies and hardship id out on myself
@@angelina1071hey im really happy that you have overcome that! sorry if its too personal to ask but what steps did you take?? Like is there any video you watched or like books you read? Should one be going to a psychiatrist? You dont have to answer me if you dont want to, i was just curious! TIA
Imagine being Netflix and spending however many millions on their terrible telling of this story, when JCS did it 1,000 better on RU-vid for nothing years before Netflix. More JCS videos ASAP!
I don’t think we will ever see another JCS vid. They’ve been demonetized and had to fight for the existing content to stay up. RU-vid has made it not worth it for a lot of these old content creators. I don’t understand it.
@@Elias-py6bg as ironic as this is, I was acc robbed at gun point by three guys from Markham, Ontario, (same place she’s from) theyre not the same ppl tho fs I saw two faces and neither match the faces in the video
on the 3rd interrogation the narrator deadass said "Jennifer starts fake crying again yet this time is given no tissue to wipe away her non-existent tears" lmaoooo
Her best option to where to place herself during the “robbery” would have been to have said she hid in a closet. That takes away your sight, decreases your hearing and would have hid her movements from her parents and prevented her from seeing any unknown accomplices to the crime if she actually did hide in the closet.
@@acerbic6817 It happened at night time, didn’t it? It would be suspicious for someone to commit a crime like this during the day, plus they’d be more likely to be caught, and with her having a 9pm curfew her being there would kind of be unavoidable.
@@ms.annthropic6341 true ... I guess she was counting on neither parent surviving so she could tell whatever story she wanted. If the old guy hadn't, she would very likely have gotten away with it.
I’ve never been more grateful my parents took the “find your own path” attitude raising us. We’ve all done very well for ourselves. I’m academic but my older sister was artistic, my brother had a logical brain. Not one of us would have thrived in a cookie cutter parenting path.
I was raised by a single mom and she was really strict with me but I'm still the black sheep in the family and was traumatized by many things that happened to kids around me and the fact that my mom used to call me stupid
My parents (well, father fcked off while I was like 12 so more like my mom) had the same approach and I ended up spending 10 years as a heroin addict LMAO point being there's really no universal way of how to raise your kids. All depends on the kid and how your family be.
@@tienhungle3265 Put two and two together, if the cops are asking for your story a third time, best have them review their records unless they have any specifically unaddressed questions.
Yeah, this whole thing is bad. Their daughter needed them (injured out of skating) and they just forced another dream on her. That shit never breeds a clear thinking adult. It's sad someone had to die for it.
@@mccallosone4903I don't think everyone is educated on how that stuff works. Ppl that aren't aware of the concept of lawyering up will default to lying to get out of trouble, thinking that not saying anything will make others more suspicious as if there's something to hide, at least that's how I see the line of thinking. You hear the police recite Miranda rights all the time to suspects but sometimes the implications don't truly register in their minds because they're busy thinking up of ways to get out of their predicament ASAP instead of thinking about long term survival.
"Yet is getting no tissues for her nonexistent tears." "So he leaves her to play with her hair for 3 minutes before he comes back and charges her with first degree murder." 💀 the narration
Forgotten weapons' Ian talks about how eye catching intros are a relic from TV to catch channel flippers during commercial breaks on other channels. On RU-vid, since content lists are essentially catered to viewers, or those 'tuning in' are already there to view content, theyre more detrimental to gaining viewership than gaining it.
@@quickso0385 I do pity her. She lost her dream as an olympic ice skater which in turn led her to a life of uncertainty. And her parents did not accept what she wanted to do. They put immense mental strain on her that she couldnt take it anymore. The killing isnt right as we all know. But if I was the parent I wouldnt treat my kids like this. Everyone snaps at different points.
Everytime I hear: "They didnt shed a tear" I cringe. Some ppl, many ppl, react to trauma by becoming stoic or detatched. Others have been putting on sympathy shows from the crib. Without knowing the person's ordinary responses to trauma guesses based on what is obvious are worthless. For some ppl shedding tears is a sign of guilt.
That's fine but when you act detached or stoic you normally don't start trying to cry and tears don't come out you would just not cry in the first place. She tried being emotional like 5 times and it stopped in like 5 secs
Yeah ikr. Based on the past if i receive any bad or horrific news i dont cry until im in my room alone, don't like to be vulnerable. Ill be stone cold. So i might be falsely accused 😂😂
@@incomingincoming1133 no, you're right. Crying without tears is totally normal. Anyway, it doesn't matter because that's not what the convicted her on.
Step 1-Finish half the job Step 2- Make a massively overly complicated lie Step 3- Back it up with forgetting details Step 4- Forget your smiling whilst talking about the murder of your mother
I have friends who are into sports, and I have observed that since they dedicate most of their time to the sport, they no longer have the time or stamina left to study so they just attend school and study for the sake of passing the exams. Jennifer was going to compete at the Olympics,I can imagine how hard she must be training. So when she got he knee injured and had to go back to study, there was no way she could have taken care of the backlog she had all these years. You can't expect someone to start studying and achieve A's at the age of 14. She had missed all the basics and different concepts of her syllabus because she was training.
I don't think the implication was she was going to compete at the Olympics, just that she was a training figure skater. I can't find any competitive record that suggests she was near true consideration in the sport. She was likely a string of many similarly talented girls who were dedicated, but not necessarily gonna make it. Fully agree on the effects it has, and how much the sacrifice takes, as I made the same sacrifice myself, and the only way you ever catch back up is by allowing yourself the time to learn everything you missed... time she probably wasn't afforded at all.
I never liked to join something else while studying, teachers are horrible, they already knew i had too much on the plate and had the audacity to give me a bad grade and Its just the day I hated science plus its useless, People bringing me down. only listening to one sided story, I never felt justified and my whole life is filled with injustice. Ill never burden my child of having too much extracurricular activities the way I did, Or never have a child .. i still hate science after graduating on solely based science medical field. lol I really got 😂no energy on life now after my life choices. I just dont understand how unfair those things were I just realized now while im typing this. Just disgusting
maybe she was just athletically, noy academically gifted. Oh yeah she was a brilliant pianist she could have been a piano teacher but hatt wasn't good enough.
Even I got anxious and nervous when he said _"I wanna see how you could physically get your phone out of your waistband"._ I could never get this far in this sort of interrogation...
At the point of the interrogation the detective knew she was lying and was some how involved in the fake robbery that got her mother killed and her father in the hosptial.
the “I don’t knows” around and prior to 1:17:20 are just haunting to me, as she knows full what occurred, and the plan wasn’t to kill her (obviously), as it’s another sad example of ‘young girl thinks she can sway the officer by being a young girl”. this detective did an excellent job with her, consoling her just enough to get the information needed to ramp up the questioning. a very, very good example of a seasoned law enforcement officer using an interrogation technique pretty flawlessly. such a sad story all around, a family destroyed, someone lost their life, someone’s life forever changed by grief/injury/loss, and a college aged girl going to prison for making the worst decision she could’ve possibly made.
I hope you see this comment. Your voice is pure commentary gold. I noticed you’ve not uploaded for a while. I hope you’re ok. So hope there’s more content to come. Thank you.
They are uploading again as far as I know. Videos come really slow but they're a true masterclass example of the genre. In the past they quit because RU-vid always demonetized their efforts and they got sick of it. They really need a patreon
got 2 mins into the netflix doc and simply had to come back and rewatch this video- jsc hope you can come back soon!! & hoping your hiatus means that they’ve found their heads & have already asked you to work on the next big true crime doc…!?
Still wishing you come back JCS. Still watch your vids every day. Please bro 42 million on this one alone and its a reupload! GIVE THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY NEED!
Yeah, but not for the reason you think. Her wording is obvious, there was an underlying element there hiding in plain sight that was more damning than the words she used. I doubt the detective even noticed.
Tragic example of what power generational trauma holds over people. Of course, not justifying her actions in any way, but honestly, anyone with strict parents understands what its like to be dismissed whenever you try to tell your side of the story, the usual looks of disappointment and harshly critical tone of talking. Its tragic as well as scary to see how someone who doesn’t know how to deal with it in a better manner might do once they reach their breaking point. From a talented skater to a murderer- the story is chilling.
It makes me sad that she had to go through that, I have had so many friends in school whose parents had the same expectations, who were lying to their parents about their career, who had to cut off their parents because of disagreements with their future. I feel like Canada's multicultural background really shows children how other cultures live and they end up seeing the discrimination they face in their own culture from their own parents. That being said, her actions were deplorable, the fact that her mother was begging for her daughter in her last moments was heartbreaking. Great detective work and I'm glad shes gotten repercussions.
@@lore.keeper I don't think its about assimilation into society, but instead forming a new culture that incorporates both old cultural practices and new cultural values that are determined by each new generation.
@@ashe6608 that could be OK too but only if we're talking about old values that won't directly clash with the new ones. The problem here is that there might be some regressive values from the old culture that simply cannot coexist with the progressive values, so you'll get a society within a society, which is the worst outcome in my opinion and even defies the whole diversity concept
Originally she only wanted her father killed. The first person she hired to do the job for her didn’t do it and kept the down payment she gave him. They went to school together and he always talked about how he wanted to kill his own father. That’s why she hired him. Her boyfriend is the one who introduced her to the other people who ended up shooting her parents. How ironic that her mom was the one who died when she really wanted her father killed more than her mother.
Damn she should have made up a way less complicated story. “I was in my room, I heard nothing.” This girl is writing a whole dang murder mystery novel.
"I was in my room with the door closed when I heard my parents screaming downstairs. I opened the door to hear better and I heard a man running up the stairs. I quickly shut the door and hid while I heard him go into my father's room down the hall. The person ran back downstairs, I heard my mom squealing and two gun shots and then a third. I hid until I heard nothing more and then, assuming they left, I picked up my phone and called the police." She could've had a realistic and easy alibi, instead of accurately describing the assailants and this elaborate order of events. She could've even pretended she didn't know what they were doing in her dad's room... not like it mattered anyway, they found the idiot's DNA evidence at the scene so they would've ratted her out as soon as they got brought in regardless.
@@aztrix364 Oh, yeah? Well, I'm on to you. You think you can get away with it, but you made one fatal mistake: You typed that confession. Which means...you have *FINGERS.* And the only one who could pull the trigger on a gun is someone with fingers! America, we got 'em.
True. It's not identical. But it is consistent. It's the lack of congruence that divides it. Remember, the LEOs hear both all day and they learn through experience to tell the difference.
yeah, our justice system often has false positives and also tends to read trauma victims as liars when they're not (esp. rape victims). These vids are interesting to watch but the dishonest and manipulative tactics are only heroic when the person happens to be guilty, which we don't really know until later on in the process.
Ontario detectives are just built different. They’re so well trained and all seem to have knowledge of behavioural sciences. Col. Russel Williams and Michael Rafferty were also from Ontario and their confessions were just as brilliantly finessed. Truly amazing to witness.
"She faked straight A's on her tests" 30 seconds later in the video "She got her boyfriend to send 3 people to her house to kill her parents" Good lord that escalated quickly
@Rabea Halim She needs to be in prison and needs to be punished for what she did. Still I think it's important to understand where it all started. Because if we can learn from this people, if we can see where it starts to go wrong we can work in society to avoid this scenarios. Lots of crimes could be prevented if someone found and stop the abuse or other things. So what she did is unforgivable but doesn't erase guilt from her surroundings and her past that lead her to this point. Man or woman, criminals should be study and their childhoods and environments where they grow up should be examined so we can do better next time so there's no dead people.
I just found out like last week that his name is like “it’s all good man “ but it spelled Saul Goodman. Did you know that ? What the hell its great to learn
"Do we have to go through this again?" Not if you invoke your right to a lawyer. After giving your first statement any future invitation by the police should be a lawyered up interaction. That goes for anyone innocent or guilty when a felony is involved. You have the right to a lawyer for a reason.
This detective is really good. He knows not to talk too much and allows extended silence to make her uncomfortable to the point where she feels the need to talk and reveal more info. The best thing you can do, especially if you are guilty, is to STFU.
@@griff7749 I'd think nothing is as important as what you do before/during the crime. Not doing it would be number one, lol. Ask the family, they wouldn't want the crime committed to begin with. You really think they don't want to get away with it? smdh. Why then don't the criminals just stay and wait for the police to show up? If you're truly guilty, the best thing you could do for yourself is to ask for an attorney. You're thinking like a person with morals, not a psychopath, sociopath, corrupt person, etc. We wouldn't ever be in this situation, so to us, confessing so readily seems like the logical next step, not to them. Yes, for the victims, the best thing they could do would be to confess, but that doesn't happen very often. Even when the evidence is overwhelming, rarely does the guilty party confess during their first interrogation. It sure would be great though, lol.
Yes, but what I wouldn't give to keep him from saying "okay?" 9,000 times. It's better not to say that because it's a question, rather than a statement. I knew better than to do that when raising my kids.
She got a life sentence with 25 years to parole. Canada has a tough parole policy and you can’t go anywhere without being tracked as a parolee. She’ll be in her 50s if she gets paroled.
We need to do something early in kids education to let them appreciate how precious life is and to value your own and others so they can put more thought before taking an innocent life so quickly and callously.
Their enviorment would most likely reinforce an entirely contradictory message. Take a walk down any city street and you see very quickly life is not valued
This is so much better than the crime investigation stuff on tv. No crazy edits, pointless repeating of footage or over the top narration. Just to the point with interesting insights.
I know, I feel awful for him! He lost his wife right in front of him and got shot in the shoulder and face because of his daughter! All because she didn't want to be successful, but wanted to live off of her parents' earnings.
dude ik right people in the comment section don't understand being brought up by severely emotionally abusive parents. It can destroy you and make you a very resentful person.
To me it’s very interesting how she was so happy to talk about her childhood and relationship with her parents when this should have been a major red flag for her. She did not ask even once how it is relevant to the attack? Not once questioned why they were wasting time talking about this instead of trying to find the killers of her mum? How did she not realise how the focus is shifting on her? She was just so happy to have someone listen to her about her “difficulties”
it’s scary how she reminisces so fondly on it, the fact she exhibits such an oddly playful tone while describing her fathers pained moans and screams. not to mention she just talks about her mother screaming for her life as if it was just normal everyday conversation, no remorse, guilt, sadness, anger, just like she wasn’t even there.
