Inside an Interrogation: Video of University of Virginia Murder Questioning Released

Hours after he was arrested for killing his girlfriend, University of Virginia student Yeardley Love, George Huguely had a story to tell to police.

"And she ... just kept hitting her head against the, against the wall while she was sitting on the bed," Huguely told a Charlottesville police investigator in an interrogation tape from May 2010.

The tape has just been made public. NBC29 in Charlottesville obtained a copy.

"I grabbed her and I shook her ... I was holding her arms and stuff, but like, um, I never struck her, I never like hit her, hit her like in the face or anything," Huguely said.

Huguely has been convicted of killing Love, who was then 22 years old. He was sentenced to 23 years in prison.

The interrogation tape is chilling. Huguely is interrogated for hours after his arrest, and he describes the events of May 3, 2010.

Huguely and Love had played lacrosse for the University of Virginia, and they had dated. But they had broken up, Huguely said, when he went to Love's apartment at 12:45 a.m. May 3.

Huguely had been drinking, he said. He kicked down Love's door because he wanted to talk to her, he said.

"I may have grabbed her a little bit by the neck ... but I never, like, strangled her," Huguely tells the investigator on the tape.

A police investigator tells Huguely that Love is dead. Seen on the tape, Huguely expresses surprise.

"Tell me she's not dead. Tell me she's not dead, though, please. Will you tell me she's not dead?"

Later, sitting in the room alone, Huguely says: "I didn't kill her. I did not kill her, I did not kill her. I did not, I did not. I did not kill her."

Then he begins to cry.

Huguely initially had been charged with first-degree murder but was convicted in August 2012 of second-degree murder. He appealed the case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which declined to hear it. His legal appeals have been exhausted now.

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