Kenneth Parks

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Kenneth Parks (* 1964 ) is a Canadian murderer known for a court-confirmed "murder in his sleep".

On May 24, 1987 at around 3:30 a.m., then 23-year-old student Kenneth Parks got up sleepwalking from his couch in Pickering, Toronto , and drove 14 miles to his in-laws in Scarborough . With a crowbar, he entered the house and in his sleep attacked his father-in-law, who was injured. His mother-in-law tried to escape, but was overtaken by Parks and stabbed with a kitchen knife. Only when he was back in the car did he wake up, appear confused at the police station and stammer that he had probably killed someone.

He was arrested, clearly identified as the perpetrator and sent to a sleep laboratory for examination to determine his sanity at the time of the crime. A sleep medical report finally proved that he had sleepwalking at the time of the crime and was therefore insane. Although he was clearly the culprit, Kenneth Parks was acquitted in 1992 on the basis of this opinion.

In 2006 he was the father of six children.

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  1. ↑ Tobias Hürter: The single-handed brain . In: The time . No. 13 , March 25, 2010, p. 43 ( online ).
  2. ↑ Tobias Hürter: Beyond good and bad. Sleepwalkers, waking dreamers and a tragic death: are we responsible for our sleep behavior and for our DREAMS? In: time knowledge . September 17, 2013, p. 78 .
  3. ↑ Shari Langemak: Sleeping murderers don't wake up. Welt am Sonntag , No. 22, p. 51. May 27, 2012, accessed on December 24, 2016 .
  4. ↑ [1992] 2 SCR 871
  5. ↑ Can you murder your wife in your sleep? In: Frankfurter Neue Presse . June 8, 1999, p. 1 .
  6. ↑ Man Acquitted Of Sleepwalking Murder Running For School Trustee In Durham , citynews.ca, October 27, 2006
personal data
SURNAME Parks, Kenneth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian murderer who committed the "murder in his sleep"
DATE OF BIRTH 1964