Blog About It

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00:00At 5 p.m. on May 12, 2005, an 18-year-old college student named Simon Ang sat inside

00:05of his bedroom in the apartment he shared with his sister Sharon in New York City.

00:08Simon was supposed to be doing homework, but instead he was doing something he loved,

00:12which was blogging. Simon would write on his blog just about every single day,

00:16and he typically wrote about his self-improvement journey he was on,

00:18because he kind of wanted to chronicle his journey so that in the future,

00:22when he was the best version of himself, he could look back and sort of see how far he had come.

00:26But on this particular day, Simon was not writing about self-improvement. Instead,

00:31he was blogging about something that was totally unusual for him. In fact,

00:35he had never written anything like this on his blog ever before. But Simon knew basically

00:39nobody read his blog, and so he wasn't really that concerned about writing something so off-topic.

00:44And so at about 5.05 p.m. when he was done with this very strange blog post, he just hit post.

00:49Five hours later, at about 10 p.m., an NYPD detective, along with some other police officers

00:54and first responders, arrived at Simon and Sharon's apartment. And there, they would find

00:59Simon. He was laying perfectly still on the ground, his feet were bound by duct tape,

01:03and he was covered in stab wounds. Very quickly, they discovered he was dead. They heard moaning

01:07coming from the other bedroom across the hall. And so they rushed in there, and they would

01:11discover Simon's sister, Sharon. She also was covered in stab wounds and laying on the ground,

01:16but she was still alive. They tried to rush her to the hospital, but in transit, she would die.

01:21And she would also die before she could actually tell authorities what happened to her and her

01:26brother. For the next three days, investigators could not make sense of Simon and Sharon's

01:30murders. But then, a detective discovered Simon's blog, and they found his final entry.

01:36That last post broke the case wide open. Right before Simon was killed, he wrote in his blog

01:42about what was actually happening in his apartment. Here is a screenshot of that blog post.

01:47It says, quote,

01:56Sharon's former boyfriend was a man named Jin Chong Lin. A year earlier, he and Sharon had

02:01gone through a really rocky breakup. Now, Sharon had moved on and kind of gotten over the breakup,

02:06but Jin hadn't. He was still furious about the way things ended, and so he ultimately went to

02:11Sharon and Simon's apartment to get revenge. And his revenge was murdering the brother and sister.

02:16When police confronted Jin with information from Simon's blog post,

02:20he immediately confessed to the murders. Jin was tried and found guilty of the murders

02:24and sentenced to life in prison without parole. Today, Simon's blog is actually still available

02:29online. However, what you'll really see if you go to his blog is the thousands and thousands

02:33of comments from people all around the world hoping that Simon and Sharon rest in peace.