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Actions. >> then, as they wrapped up their interview with reitz, the detectives got one more surprise. >> his parting question was, do i get to go home with mom and dad? they're here to pick me up. can i go home with them? i said, i don't think so. you're under arrest for a murder. >> reitz was flown back from catalina to los angeles later that same day. so was eva's body for the autopsy. the medical examiner confirmed steve reitz's gruesome confession regarding the cause of death, the deep slash to the spinal cord. >> i attended the autopsy. that's not standard protocol for a prosecutor. i at...

>> dr. alon avidan runs the ucla sleep center in los angeles. he was not involved in the case but has studied sleepwalking for years. it's 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 wouldn't be aware of any of this? >> they have no recollection. >> if someone has a history of sleepwalking like stephen reitz was claiming, and ...

Cause of the wounds. that's what i do to shark fishing. >> i said, why would you recognize that? he said, when i was a commercial fisherman, that's how we killed the sharks. we'd sever their spinal and incapacitate the sharks. >> he must have done the same thing to eva but somehow thinking she was an intruder, must have, he told them. but it was really on a guess. reitz insisted he remembered virtually nothing of his violent attack on eva. >> i see bits and flashes of it, you know, but i don't -- but it's hard to believe. i really, i mean, it's hard to believe but i've had other roommates that...

Wives in bed. >> or perhaps even killing their girlfriends in catalina. diagnosis or no, ken parks was charged with first degree murder, just like stephen reitz was. parks spent a couple of years in jail before he went on trial here and his defense made the case that he should be found not guilty. because he was completely unconscious of what he had done. >> their argument was that he committed this crime being completely unaware of what he was doing. >> and would never have done it had he been conscious? >> would never have done it had he been conscious and aware. >> after a lengthy and well ...

Reitz had cooked up in the moments after the killing? or was his claim actually legitimate? reitz's parents who by now arrived at the station in catalina also claimed that their son had a history of sleepwalking. >> they relayed at least one, maybe two incidents that they were aware of that they knew that he had slept-walked in the past. >> they also told detectives stephen was under treatment for bipolar disorder. >> he said he forgot his bipolar medicine during the interview and she had given him some kind of a prescription that she had for anxiety or something like this. >> suddenly this co...