224. MURDER: Homicidal Sleepwalking

When a person is sleepwalking, he or she is at their most oblivious, in their deepest level of sleep, with little to no consciousness of their environment. Can a person commit murder while sleepwalking? A reader sent us an email about one such case, and Megan pulled together a few more. What do you think?

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Sources: 

https://medium.com/snipette/murder-or-mistake-da9088976ebc

https://dirkdeklein.net/2017/07/09/homicidal-sleepwalking-the-kenneth-parks-case/

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2006/10/27/man-acquitted-of-sleepwalking-murder-running-for-school-trustee-in-durham/

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-05-28-mn-3400-story.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Parks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepwalking#Homicidal_sleepwalking

https://www.sleepfoundation.org/parasomnias/sleepwalking

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-case-of-the-sleepwalking-killer-77584095/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bratty_v_A-G_for_Northern_Ireland

https://www.nytimes.com/1964/05/31/archives/reprieved-killer-found-dead.html

https://historycollection.com/12-sleepwalking-killers-history-will-make-want-lock-doors-night/11/

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/nov/20/brian-thomas-dream-strangler-tragedy

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