Scott Falater’s sleepwalking defense in his wife’s murder case | Nightline

1. When i sleepwalk I don't usually remember what I've done, until someone tells me, then I can remember bits and pieces.

2. What he did required quick thinking and control.. A sleep walker who didn't know what he was doing would not have changed and hidden his bloody clothes and made sure she was dead by holding her head underwater til she drowned.. If a neighbor had not called police I believe he would have put her body in the trunk and gotten rid of it along with the clothes and the knife and reported her missing.

3. He will be in his pajamas forever

4. Ima go rob a bank and tell em I was sleepwalking

5. Things like this scare me because I have slept walked and have hit someone while sleep walking. I thought it was a dream until the next morning…

6. That's murder just charge him for murder

7. He actually seems very believable…

8. My question is why did the neighbor watch as he held her head under water. Why didn’t he say “ hey “ or something to stop the attack ?

9. Bringing in sleep deprivation when he woke up from sleep is disrespect to service members and those out on the streets that experience such traumatic things. Sleep deprivation is going days without ANY sleep, so it throws out the claims entirely if your waking up from your sleep. The comfort of a warm bed and some sleep cuts out sleep deprivation entirely. Just 30 minutes cuts the effects for hours. Thats my advantage from having experienced both sleep walking and sleep deprivation to know how they work. Once you get to sleep IN A BED (Safe zone or secure place) after sleep deprivation, you dont just "wake up". Its like your a bowling ball on a bed, sunk into place. He was already in a SAFE ZONE, a LOVING HAPPY BED, so its very mild mild sleep deprivation effects if any at all. Not to mention that they are two separate issues entirely and he put them together. You dont have the energy to WAKE UP from sleep deprivation ONCE YOU GET TO A SAFE ZONE/BED to sleep walk in the first place, how about they ask that question?????? Once you get to a safe place, you are knocked out for hours, and he was already in a safe zone AND on TOP OF THAT in a comfy bed.

10. I’m not a dr, but I have seen sleepwalking in my family. I do it myself too. I have misplaced things. Even had conversations with my son. However, this is far fetched. He tried to cover it up. You don’t try to cover it up when you’re sleeping.

    Something about his eyes too. He looks creepy. Those eyes have some secrets.

11. Definitely one of the most unusual cases ever.

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13. He sleep walk, killed his wife and changed his clothes and took and shower, changed into squeaky clean pajamas and went back to bed. yeah, right. That the sleep walk of sleep walks. The mother of all sleep walks .

14. Liar face.

15. I believe this man. And if I could say something to his kids, I would say, "Don't be so selfish!" This terrible thing did not just happen to your mother. It also happened to your father. Give him some of your time. Don;t abandon him.

16. He hid his blood stained clothes in the container and then expects people to believe he did it while sleepwalking, he is one sick individual. .

17. He didn’t stand a chance with Juan Martinez as his prosecutor lol

18. Where’s part 2???

19. So did he go to prison? Was he found guilty? I used to sleep walk some when I was taking prescription sleep meds and sometimes I would wake up in the middle of a sleep walking episode. It was scary I found myself outside by my car one night. I scared myself so bad and I remember thinking what could of happened if i would of gotten my keys and tried to drive or something. I don't take those meds anymore.

20. I don't disbelieve that someone can be violent in their sleep. If I supplement high doses of vitamin B6 I wake up punching, slapping and strangling things. I often have violent dreams before doing so.

21. The sleepwalking defense was a huge stretch. Who sleeps in jeans?

22. Hahaha wow this dude REALLLY tried it with this one. What a joke. The rage with her injuries says it ALL.

23. 9 in the evening? You mean 9 at night

24. How did he think he was gonna get away with this ??

25. 6:07 BRUH ITS JUAN MARTINEZ! the legend who put Jodi in jail!

26. Stupid excuse he was sleep walking dumbass

27. But if someone Is having a dream he might’ve thought he was dreaming about playing with her in the water, like you know when people hold their wife or their children under water just playing, so he might’ve had a dream where he was playing in the way with his wife,

    Trust me I have very very vivid dreams and if I was sleepwalking look out, good think I don’t, thank the lord

28. Wel, I’ve heard the if you make loud noises while a person is sleepwalking they do get violent it’s because they into defence mode, so if she scared him his body would be in a panic

29. If he told the male judge that she looked cross eyed at him, the judge would call it justifiable. Women mean nothing in this third world country.

30. This clown needs to be locked up if he can't even "remember" killing someone.

31. Happy people with no motive don't kill their wife in the middle of the night. No pattern of abuse or violence or drugs. People have been shown to get out of bed and drive cars in their sleep, get in fights, cook a meal and walk into traffic but it's not plausible that this guy did the same thing? Yes he killed his wife but doesn't seem like he consciously did it. Should have been involuntary manslaughter and deff not Murder 1.

32. Sleepwalkers hate blood🩸 on them🙄 (he took a shower)

33. where is the rest of this story? 😤

34. so what happened??? did he get the death penalty?

35. Bro. Imagine asking a 12 year old boy if he has mentally prepared himself in case his Dad (who killed him Mom) is sentenced to death. Nothing but sensationalism for the ratings. Sickening.

36. Did you guys hash this up from your 20 year old vault??

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