Is it real? [videorecording] : sleepwalking murders. / Films Media

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublication details: [Washington, D.C.?] : National Geographic ; Hamilton, NJ : Distributed by Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 2005.Description: 1 videodisc (51 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inOther title:
  • Title on Container: Sleepwalking (Parasomnia)
Subject(s): Narrator: Will Lyman.Summary: Some people wander, get dressed, even eat in their sleep. Others lash out in violent ways. Is it possible that people can commit complex crimes-even murder-while walking in their sleep? With only a dead victim and a seemingly disoriented suspect at the scene of the crime, it's hard to know for sure. This program explores the question, following extensive sleep tests performed on accused murderers in a quest for truth and scientific clarity. But even if science bolsters the sleepwalking defense, could it actually work in a courtroom? More frighteningly, could sleepwalking become a legitimized pretense for murder?
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An episode of the Is it real? television program.

Narrator: Will Lyman.

Some people wander, get dressed, even eat in their sleep. Others lash out in violent ways. Is it possible that people can commit complex crimes-even murder-while walking in their sleep? With only a dead victim and a seemingly disoriented suspect at the scene of the crime, it's hard to know for sure. This program explores the question, following extensive sleep tests performed on accused murderers in a quest for truth and scientific clarity. But even if science bolsters the sleepwalking defense, could it actually work in a courtroom? More frighteningly, could sleepwalking become a legitimized pretense for murder?

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