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The motive for the murder in "The Tell-Tale Heart" was to get rid of the old man's eye. "Object there was none. Passion there was none. I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his eye!" - Edgar Allan Poe, "The Tell-Tale Heart"

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In "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, the protagonist confesses to murdering the old man. The story is told from the perspective of the murderer, who becomes plagued by guilt and is eventually driven to confess his crime due to the sound of the victim's beating heart.

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No name is given. The entire story is in the first person telling how he murdered him and why.

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Because it's a case of "the butler did it" and butlers are always men.

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Someone who killed another person

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Premeditated homicide.

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