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Hanns Scharff (interrogator): Caleb Holden where were you the night of Robert Fredrickson's death?

Caleb Holden: I was taking a nap on his sofa.

Tate Winters: We found your finger prints on a knife that was found under the floor boards.

Blake Delmar: We know you did it! Speak up or go to prison!

Caleb Holden: Alright! Alright! I did it!

Hanns Scharff: Why did you do it?

Caleb Holden: I was going insane- Insane!

Hanns Scharff: What set you off?

Caleb Holden: His evil eye! His vulture eye.

Blake Delmar: Do we need to restrain you sir?

Tate Winters: You look a little angry?

Caleb Holden: I am Mad!-Mad I am!

Hanns Scharff: When did you kill him?

Caleb Holden: I sat in his room for eight nights straight when he was sleeping. My head

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