told both Panisi and Sexton that after the girl took the drugs she became incoherent and started stumbling around the apartment and that he had to handcuff her to the radiator. Panisi actually observed Marcy tied to such a radiator. Defendant then showed Sexton that he killed the girl by strangling her and indicated that he did so because after they had sex he did not know whether she was dead or alive, and he needed to "make sure," "because he couldn't take another hit like that." Moreover, when Panisi observed Marcy's body rolled up in a carpet on his third visit to defendant's apartment, defendant told him, "she's died on me man," and he asked Panisi to help him dispose of the body. When Panisi refused, defendantdefendant's apartment to see if Marcy was there, defendant would not allow them into his apartment and, instead, threatened to kill them and "throw battery acid into their faces." Dori and Gay both testified that after that they never saw or heard from Marcy again. In addition, Marcy's mother testified to the exhaustive efforts she made in locating her daughter, as well as to Marcy's habit of continually remaining in contact with friends and family. In addition, defendant's confessions as well as the testimony of Dori and Gay provided a motive for defendant's actions, namely, that defendant wanted to punish Marcy because he believed that she was responsible for the car accident the night before. Viewing all of the evidence in the light most favorable to the State,