Thursday, July 07, 2005

Victim's Xanga entry leads to capture of killer

A story appearing in the May 17, 2005 NYDailyNews reports that Simon Ng's Xanga entry contained enough information to point police to the man now supect of killing him and his sister Sharon:
...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, oh yeah working on the jap report as we speak!
Posted 5/12/2005 at 5:05 PM
From the story:
...Cops said that Ng, 19, let Lin [the suspect] into the second-floor apartment in the late afternoon when Lin asked if he could wait for the 21-year-old Sharon.

Sgt. Michael Breidenbach, head of the 107th Precinct detective squad, said the entry turned Lin's alibi upside down.

"That puts him in the apartment," said Breidenbach, adding that investigators got Lin to confess after confronting him with the entry.

Lin told cops he wanted to rob her to help him buy a plane ticket back to Hong Kong, law enforcement sources said...
As of this date, over 3200 comments have been left on Ng's last entry, most consisting of three letters...


r.i.p.

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No joke.