235: The Most Shocking Sleepwalking Murders

Lights Out

Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios

True Crime, News, History

4.8 • 9.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2025

⏱️ 124 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Sleepwalking has been misunderstood for thousands of years— and still is. Things like sleep talking, eating, driving, and cooking have taken many by surprise, but some sleepwalking instances are so bizarre that they end in murder. So what exactly does it take for a non-violent sleepwalker to uncharacteristically murder their loved ones? And how does a legal defense even begin to convince a jury of non-insane automatism due to sleepwalking?

Lights Out Merch: https://lightsoutcast.shop/
Charity Merch for NCMEC: https://kendallrae.shop
Higher Hope Foundation: https://higherhope.org

Follow & Subscribe To The Show!
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3SfSNbkVrfz3ceXmNr0lZ4
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lights-out/id1505843600

Social Links:
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lightsoutcast
Twitter: http://twitter.com/lightsoutcast
Instagram: http://instagram.com/lightsoutcast

Suggestions/Comments: [email protected]
Merch: https://lightsoutcast.shop/
Request A Topic Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeOikdybNMOzpHIjLy0My2fYF0LXgN3NXDC0BQNFNNSXjetpg/viewform?usp=sharing
Podcast sponsor inquires: [email protected]

My CBD Brand Higher Love Wellness: https://extract-labs.pxf.io/oqAqMb
Get 10% off your order by entering code: lightsout
Instagram: http://instagram.com/higherlovewellnessco
Twitter: http://twitter.com/higherlovecbd

Host: Josh
Twitter: http://twitter.com/milehigherjosh
Instagram: http://instagram.com/milehigherjosh

Writer/Co-host: Austin
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/austin_leee_/

Editor/Producer: Daniel
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/horrororeo

Creator hosts a documentary series for educational purposes (EDSA). These include authoritative sources such as interviews, newspaper articles and TV news reporting meant to educate and memorialize notable cases in our history. Videos come with editorial context added bolstering educational and artistic value. Please review at your leisure.

Sources: https://pastebin.com/dxhF2bB0

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Light Out, everybody.
0:13.1	What's up, everybody?
0:14.3	Welcome back to another episode of Lights Out.
0:17.7	I'm your host Josh.
0:18.9	And I'm your host, Austin.
0:20.0	And I'm the producer producer Daniel. Today we're
0:22.4	covering a topic that all of us, I think, find very interesting. This might be, this is top
0:30.9	three episodes for researching for me that I had the most fun researching. Dude, I agree. Sleepwalking for one is just a interesting
0:40.3	thing by itself. Yes. And it's something for thousands of years we've all been trying to
0:46.7	figure out like what's going on here. Yeah. What is this about? But then to add in the element of
0:52.0	sleepwalkers that end up murdering people, it's a whole other can of arms.
0:58.3	And then trying to convince a jury that that is even possible.
1:02.8	That this person did not know what they were doing because they were still asleep when they brutally murdered.
1:09.1	Usually they're loved one too.
1:10.6	A partner, a child.
1:12.7	I mean, it is,
1:14.5	it's such a bizarre thing
1:16.5	that it's really hard to wrap your head around.
1:19.4	They still don't fully understand
1:21.1	what's going on,
1:22.7	why it happens.
1:23.4	There's a lot of theories.
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in -39 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.