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Reitz was also sent to a sleep clinic like this one for a battery of tests to see if he really did have a recognized sleeping disorder, something severe enough to produce such violence. he was wired and monitored and recorded. and as he fell asleep, cameras rolled. then the tests revealed not only a propensity to sleepwalk, reitz also suffered a significant night terror that was caught on tape and later featured in an australian documentary on sleepwalking. >> is it possible in this case there w...

Much anything she wanted to do, because i dont really think he had a job. and i think theyd go on these little trips to different places. i think that he was kind of a trophy to her. being so much younger, you know, here she is in her early 40s. oh, wow, look, im with somebody thats in their 20s. i just said, proceed with caution, you know. >> stephen knew she was married, of course, knew the marriage was on again, off again. he was wrong for her, and she seemed to know it. 17 years younger, no ...

Found nothing unusual. >> was he psychotic in any way? >> no. >> no history of that? >> no. it was by chance when another patient told me about sleepwalking and how complicated the behavior could be. >> a lightbulb must have gone on in your head. >> right then. and i thought, i wonder if thats what it is. >> so ken parks, just like stephen reitz, underwent a series of sleep tests and also psychological exams conducted by a number of specialists. they discovered he had a family history of the dis...

>> dr. alon avidan runs the ucla sleep center in los angeles. he was not involved in the case but has studied sleepwalking for years. its one of many types of sleeping disorders. >> what happens is that patients are neither asleep nor awake. but when you look at their brain activity, terror sleep. yet they act out behaviors that are often as simple as talking to more complex episodes such as walking, as we see in sleepwalking. >> in the morning they wouldnt be aware of any of this? >> they have ...

Oh, its from stephen. you know, we were playing rough or, you know, wrestling around, some type of sexual thing. >> eva, conflicted, perhaps confused, ignored the advice of her friends and even as the story goes, a mystical warning. >> she had gone to a psychic. she didnt tell the woman anything about her life and she said, youre in a relationship with a younger man. thats not your husband. eva was like, yeah, thats really weird, you know. and the psychic said, if you dont break it off, he will ...

He was wrong for her, and she seemed to know it. 17 years younger, no career, it couldnt last. >> she really did love her husband and wanted to reconcile that and move forward with their relationship. >> and yet as the months went by, eva and stephen carried on. >> she was open to me and my sister and just a few people about her relationship with stephen. but still hiding him. still keeping the extent of their relationship just between them. mostly because i dont think she was proud of it. >> bu...

Tape and later featured in an australian documentary on sleepwalking. >> is it possible in this case there was a sleep terror episode and a sleepwalking episode which would somehow happening at the same time and thus created this tremendous violence? >> its very likely. patients may wake up, be terrified, fulfill all the criteria for what we call sleep terror and then go on to develop a sleepwalking episode. >> dr. alon avidan runs the ucla sleep center in los angeles. he was not involved in the...

Doctor. >> a federal judge is ordering casey anthony to return money used to search for her daughter, caylee. now, back to our program. unfortunately, the best witness in the case is dead. she was gone. >> d.a. chris frisco had a problem, stephen reitz, under investigation for killing his girlfriend, eva. he claimed to be sleep walking, not in control when he beat and stabbed her to death. but judging from the violent crime scene and witnessing evas autopsy, frisco was convinced this had to be...

Ann curry. its case that would hinge on the mysteries of the mind and the science of sleep. we know people can talk in their sleep, walk in their sleep, even drive, all without realizing what theyre doing or remembering it afterwards. but is it possible to actually kill while being unconscious? heres keith morrison. >> it begins here at the moment of birth, something unconscious, uncontrolled. the half glimpsed world of sleep, soothing, amusing. sometimes terrifying. and on the rarest of occasio...

He got up, put on his coat, walked out the front door of his house, climbed into his car, drove 14 miles, a drive on which he encountered several major intersections. parked at his in-laws home, went inside, beat his father-in-law, leaving him barely alive, and then beat and stabbed to death his mother-in-law. then he got back into his car and drove away. >> and only realized what he had done after the episode and turned himself in to the police. >> he said he had been there and he had done it a...