There are some people who fall asleep in their own bedrooms and wake up somewhere else entirely, in completely different circumstances. Facing murder charges, for instance.
Sometimes while they’re asleep, people sit up, walk around the house, or talk to themselves and their loved ones. But sleepwalkers can also commit brutal acts. Sometimes even murder.
Early in the morning of 24th May 1987, the Canadian Kenneth Parks, aged 23, left his house, got into his car and drove to his in-laws in Scarborough. He hit his mother-in-law in the head with a tyre iron and stabbed her in the chest multiple times with a knife. She died. Parks also tried to kill his father-in-law, but he survived.
Covered in blood, Parks drove to the nearest police station and told officers that he had just committed murder. At first, it seemed like a simple case: the man had recently lost his job, he was
