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4 unusual facts about Homicidal sleepwalking


Homicidal sleepwalking

The 1971 Italian thriller A Lizard in a Woman's Skin involves a woman who thinks she may have murdered a neighbor in her sleep.

Polish physician Jan Jonston reported a case which occurred around 1630 where an inhabitant of Paris while asleep got up, took his sword, swam across the river Seine and killed a man he had planned to murder the day before.

The 1997 TV movie The Sleepwalker Killing depicts a story in which a man kills his mother-in-law and wounds his father-in-law in the middle of the night, then turns himself in.

In 1997, Scott Falater of Phoenix, Arizona was accused of murdering his wife of 20 years Yarmila (née Klesken) by stabbing her 44 times on the night of January 16, 1997.



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