It is important not to confuse the author with the narrator of the story; the narrator is not Poe, and Poe does not commit the dark deeds the narrator describes. However, if you want to know how Poe, the writer, killed off the old man, the character, in the story, I can answer that.
The unnamed narrator of the story grows to hate the "vulture eye" of the old man with whom he lives, and so he determines to kill him. After many nights' watch, the narrator says that he threw open his lantern and leaped into the old man's room, smothering him by pulling the heavy bed on top of him. Once the old man's heart has stopped beating, the narrator dismembers him in a tub (to catch all the blood), and he buries the pieces of the body beneath the floorboards.
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