WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU'RE BORED

I don’t know which of the six ‘Saw’ movies the killer was watching as he dispatched his victim, but guess what? ‘Saw 3D’, the seventh in the series, is opening in theaters today.
　
‘HE EXHALED AND THEN I TIGHTENED THE WIRE’: KILLER TELLS COURT HOW HE GARROTED SLEEPING HONOR STUDENT BECAUSE ‘HE WAS BORED’
　
Mail Online
October 28, 2010
　
The killer of a university student told a Manhattan court how he waited for his victim to take a last breath before brutally garroting him.
　
Jeromie Cancel, 24, made the sickening confession to police in a video interview and said he carried out the murder while watching horror movie Saw 'because he was bored'.
　
The body of honor student Kevin Pravia, 19, was found in his Manhattan apartment with an electrical cord wrapped around his neck in August 2008.

In the video confession, Cancel told officers: 'He exhaled and then I tightened the wire. And then he couldn't get no more breath.'
　
Cancel had told police he was invited up to Pravia's apartment in West 15th Street to sell the student $300 of cocaine.
　
In statements he made in 2008, the killer boasted of switching to a one-handed grip on the cord after Pravia had stopped struggling - so he could smoke a cigarette with his other hand and watch the film on DVD.
　
During the police interview he described how he took the cable from behind the TV and tied a large overhand knot as his victim was sleeping.

He then demonstrated how he lifted the student's head before slipping the cord around his neck.
　
'I just put my knee on him and pulled. As soon as he lifted his head - like, "wow! What's going on?" - I punched him in the side of his face,' the New York Post reported.

When Pravia fell asleep, Cancel wanted to steal his laptop and other items, but then decided to kill him.Cancel, who pleaded not guilty, will go on trial later this week. His lawyers are expected to argue that he was overcome by 'extreme emotional disturbance'.
　
If successful, he would be convicted of manslaughter and jailed for up to 25 years. Murder is punishable in New York by up to life in prison.