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A Man Who Sleeps While Killing His Own Wife
The story of Scott Falater, the “sleepwalking killer.”
Sleepwalking might not be the same as dreaming. It seems that part of the brain wakes up enough for a person to do complicated things like cooking, cleaning, and, in rare cases, hurting others. The rest of the brain stays asleep, and the person usually doesn’t remember doing it. This is the story of Scott Falater, a man who murders his own wife while sleeping.
On January 16, 1997, around 3 a.m., Scott Falater and his wife, Yarmila Falater, woke up to the sound of someone walking on gravel outside their bedroom window. According to Falater, he got out of bed and glanced around the house, but he didn’t notice anything out of the ordinary. He returned to bed, but claimed to have slept poorly that night.
The following day, Falater spent the entire day working as an electrical engineer for Motorola before returning home to eat dinner with his wife and their two children. Fataler also said that he prepared a lesson for the following day’s religious education class after dinner, which he taught…
