(AP) --  An investigator says a former football
player accused of murdering his high school coach described to him
how he repeatedly shot Ed Thomas.
 

Division of Criminal Investigation agent Chris Callaway says
Mark Becker believed Thomas was a "devil" who turned students
into animals and "dead people."

 Becker is on trial for first-degree murder. Prosecutors say he
killed Thomas on June 24 in front of teenage students in the weight
room at Aplington-Parkersburg High School. He has pleaded not
guilty by reason of insanity.

 A recording of Callaway's hour-long interview with Becker less
than two hours after the killing was played during the
investigator's testimony Tuesday, the second day of the murder
trial in a Butler County courtroom in Allison.

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