The man was responsible for murder by killing an innocent old man for his own reasons. He said that the man’s eye made his blood run cold whenever he gazed upon it, so he killed the man. He may have gone insane after the murder was done because of guilt. But who knows, he may have just been crazy all along. The man was caught and arrested after hearing a loud noise that no-one could hear but him.
“I loved the old man. He had never wronged me.” (Poe 89) He said that it was because