This story describes a few crimes. The first crime was when the man cut out the cats eye when he was drunk. The second crime was when he hung the cat that he cut the eye out. He did all this because the cat vexed him. The final crime is when he killed his wife. There were 2 cats, the one he killed and than the one that stalked him. "I had walled the monster up within the tomb." is a memorable quote because it shows that the cops found his wife.