I missed this when it came out a couple of weeks ago:

A doomed Queens man’s chilling computer entry led cops to a suspect who allegedly robbed and killed the victim and his sister to finance a return to China, police said yesterday.

Jin Lin, 23, was charged with first-degree murder yesterday in the bloody slayings of Sharon and Simon Ng in their Kew Gardens Hills apartment Thursday, officials said.

Cops zeroed in on Lin, who once dated the woman, because Ng typed a journal entry into his computer fingering his sister’s ex-boyfriend as the suspect, police said.

Here’s the poor guy’s blog entry made minutes before he was murdered:

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!

I guess it had to happen sooner or later. I’ve seen blog entries when all sorts of things are in progress; tsunamis, riots, ballgames, beauty contests, even sexual trysts (sorry, no link!). But this has to be the eeriest example of the power of the new media. It allowed the young man to reach from beyond the grave and finger his murderer.