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Blog Entry Catches a Killer

File this one under super-weird and spooky: Simon Ng blogged about letting his sister’s ex-boyfriend into their apartment and wished he’d leave soon and quit messing up his clean floor. When Simon and his sister Sharon were found stabbed to death, that blog entry put the ex-boyfriend—Jin Lin—in the apartment. Police used the blog post to get a confession from Lin, since it destroyed his alibi.

You can read the New York Daily News’ story about the crime. Here’s Simon’s post:

Thursday, May 12, 2005
Today I missed my Japanese class again, since I have gotten a bad throat. I only went to the class once this week, so I am probably so far behind now. I will catch up in the summer tho so no worries hehe. Anyway today has been weird, at 3 some guy ringed the bell. I went down and recognized it was my sister’s former boyfriend. He told me he wants to get his fishing poles back. I told him to wait downstair while I get them for him. While I was searching them, he is already in the house. He is still here right now, smoking, walking all around the house with his shoes on which btw I just washed the floor 2 days ago! Hopefully he will leave soon, ...

Source: Saw this on Darren Barefoot’s blog first; it’s also on Doc Searls’.

Posted by Susannah Gardner on 05/23 at 08:53 AM • Blogs