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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 was a sleep terror episode and a sleepwalking episode which was somehow happening at the same time an...

Much anything she wanted to do, because i don't really think he had a job. and i think they'd 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, i'm with somebody that's 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 career, it couldn't last. >> she really did love her husband and wanted to reconcile that and mo...

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 that's 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 disorder and tests confirmed parks had period of awakening from deep sleep and a strong propensity to ...

>> 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 ...

Oh, it's 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 didn't tell the woman anything about her life and she said, you're in a relationship with a younger man. that's not your husband. eva was like, yeah, that's really weird, you know. and the psychic said, if you don't break it off, he will kill you. >> i think that she knew she had gotten in a little bit too deep. i think we've all ...