The Old Man's Premeditated Murder

The murderer is a young man who killed an old man in the bedroom of his house. The young man decides that he can no longer deal with the old man’s blind eye. The eye freaks him out and makes his blood run cold. The young man spies on the old man every night at midnight. He convinces everyone that he is not “mad”, just nervous.

The young man has committed a premeditated murder because he says “And this I did for seven long nights” this quote explains that he spied on the old man for seven nights straight. He killed the old man on the eighth night.The young man kills the old man by suffocation. He drags the old man off the bed and places the mattress on top of him. The young man says he “did not want to kill the old man nor take his gold

he just wanted to stop the “vulture eye”.

The young man killed the old man by suffocation. The young man explained that it took him eight nights to plan and execute the murder. The method of killing the old man was to suffocate him under the mattress. He also said that he did not want to kill the man he just wanted to stop his “vulture eye” as he called it.

The young man has explained that he moved the boards in such a way that no one can tell that they were moved. He also said that he dismembered the body so it would fit between ground floor and the second floor. He explained that when he dismembered the body he made sure not to get a drop of blood on the floor or on the bed.

When the three officers arrived at the old man's house, the young man informed them that the scream the neighbor heard was his. The young man was able to convince the officers that the old man had left for the country. As the officers started to make conversation and ask questions, the young man went insane thinking the officers were mocking him by acting like they could not hear the old man’s heart beating in the walls. The young man broke down and admitted to the officers that he killed the old man and hid his body when he said “I admit the deed!—tear up the planks!—here, here!—it is the beating of his hideous heart!”.