Download or read book Sleepwalking Murder written by C L Evans and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-08-02 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homicidal sleepwalking, also known as homicidal somnambulism or sleepwalking murder, is the act of killing someone during an episode of sleepwalking. This book explores the cases of sleepwalking killer that have been reported, and the verdicts of the cases.
Download or read book Sleepwalking Murder written by C Evans and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homicidal sleepwalking, also known as homicidal somnambulism or sleepwalking murder, is the act of killing someone during an episode of sleepwalking. This book explores the cases of sleepwalking killer that have been reported, and the verdicts of the cases.
Download or read book Murders in the United States written by R. Barri Flowers and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the assassination of President William McKinley on September 6, 1901, to the mass killing at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999, the 20th century saw many murderous events that are difficult to contemplate but have become a part of the national history. This reference book is divided into three parts. Part One, arranged chronologically, details 53 of the most famous murder cases of the 20th century in the United States. In Part Two, over 300 entries (alphabetically arranged by criminal) provide descriptions of crimes and are subdivided into male, female, and juvenile murderers; pair and group murderers; hate crime murderers; and school killings. Part Three features crime events related to over 40 selected victims. Cross references guide the reader to additional information. An index is included.
Download or read book The Sleepwalk Killers written by Leslie Watkins and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research by respected scientists has shown that America has about 8.4 million sleepwalkers and the UK has a little over 2.4 million. And somnambulists are known to have killed at least 70 people - with courts finding a huge percentage innocent of any crime. Few people suspected that 27-year-old Fraser, a loving and protective husband and father, was possessed by monsters which dominated him when he was asleep. These 'demons' goaded him into acts of savagery which culminated in the battering to death of his infant son Simon. Like other nightmare killers, a jury found him not guilty because he had been asleep at the time. Chief Inspector Robert Ledru of the Surete was a brilliant detective. In fact, his superiors in Paris rated him as possibly the most brilliant in France. He was also vain and arrogant until, that is, he realised he also suffered sleep problems and arrested himself for murder. Jo Ann, a Kentucky teenager in ankle socks goes on trial for her life after fighting an hour long gun battle with a burglar. Her father and little brother die in the shoot out. Twenty-four hours later she's charged with double murder. The intruder had existed only in her nightmare - and because of her sleepwalking her own shots had killed the people she loved. These are just three of the incredible cases explored in The Sleepwalk Killers - cases where nightmares are not just bad dreams and the violence very real.
Download or read book Sleepwalking Criminal Behavior and Reliable Scientific Evidence written by Mark R. Pressman and published by American Psychological Association (APA). This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a method and essential background knowledge for examining scientific evidence and testimony regarding sleep-related criminal behavior.
Download or read book I Have Struck Mrs Cochran with a Stake Sleepwalking Insanity and the Trial of Abraham Prescott written by Leslie Lambert Rounds and published by True Crime History. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the forgotten case of murder while sleepwalking changed history After creeping out of bed on a frigid January night in 1832, teenage farmhand Abraham Prescott took up an ax and thrashed his sleeping employers to the brink of death. He later explained that he'd attacked Sally and Chauncey Cochran in his sleep. The Cochrans eventually recovered but--to the astonishment of their neighbors--kept Prescott on, somehow accepting his strange story. This decision would come back to haunt them. While picking strawberries with Sally in an isolated field the following summer, Prescott used a fence post to violently kill the young mother. His explanation was again the same; he told Chauncey he'd fallen asleep and the next thing he knew, Sally was dead. Prescott's attorneys would use both a sleepwalking claim and an insanity plea in his defense, despite the historically dismal success rates of these arguments. In the two murder trials that followed, Prescott was convicted and sentenced to death both times. Prescott's crime has landmark significance, however, notably because many believed the boy was mentally ill and should never have been executed. The case also highlights the discriminatory role class plays in the American justice system. Using contemporaneous accounts as well as information from other insanity and sleepwalking defenses, author Leslie Lambert Rounds reconstructs the crime and raises important questions about privilege, societal discrimination against the mentally ill and the disadvantaged, and the unfortunate secondary role of women in history.
Download or read book Homicidal Sleepwalkers written by C L Evans and published by True Crime. This book was released on 2023-03-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homicidal sleepwalking, also known as homicidal somnambulism or sleepwalking murder, is the act of killing someone during an episode of sleepwalking. This book explores the cases of sleepwalking killer that have been reported, and the verdicts of the cases.
Download or read book Sleepwalker written by Wendy Corsi Staub and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “If you like Mary Higgins Clark, you’ll love Wendy Corsi Staub!” —#1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson Following on the heels of her gripping and sensational thriller, Nightwatcher, New York Times bestselling author Wendy Corsi Staub takes suspense to a whole new level with Sleepwalker. The second book in the remarkable series that began in the chaos and horror of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York City, Staub’s Sleepwalker picks up the story ten years later—when Allison MacKenna, who barely escaped death on that terrible day at the hands of a serial killer, realizes that the nightmare is not over…and it may be closer to home than she ever imagined. This is top-tier suspense fiction that fans of Lisa Gardner and Lisa Jackson won’t be able to put down.
Download or read book Somnambulism Sleepwalking and Secrets in Victorian Literature written by Zainab Ayoub and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-06-28 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never has the role of women in society been so convoluted as the Victorian era. From gracious to the grotesque, repressed to the risque, it would be an understatement to suggest that the Victorian was the embodiment of all that is meant to be pure. In this book, the author seeks to delve deeper into the minds of characters in Victorian literature to ascertain just how unstable and universal the issues of suppression the issues of secrets have on these characters.
Download or read book THE NEW THEORY OF CONSCIOUSNESS written by DELANIN FADAHUNSY and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new theory by observation and deduction, identifies that consciousness originated from nothing(zero; at the origin of living cells) and progressed in a gradual continuum through plant (vegetative) to reptiles to mammals to humans, illuminating how organisms attained those different levels, including the 'Permanent Access Memory (PAM) Hypothesis' in gaining self-consciousness. This theory discusses that mammals can only sleep at the level of reptilian consciousness (the sleep-wake consciousness) as the mammalian and human consciousness levels are sharp, focused cognitive states at which sleep is impossible. Rapid Eye Movement Behavioural Disorder (RBD) is the first safety net preventing mammals, at sleep, from falling through the consciousness-continuum into coma (vegetate consciousness) or death, and sleepwalking is the last vital safety net, if and when RBD fails; because even though a necessity for sleep, the reptilian consciousness is unsafe for mammals, due to the danger of sleeping through the Consciousness - Continuum to coma. It has now revealed, quite unexpectedly, the fact that in the state of consciousness referred to as sleepwalking, any act of aggression is impossible. Key word: Consciousness-Continuum. Updates, additions, discussions or contributions are available and welcome on www.delaninfadahunsysconsciousness.co.uk
Download or read book Death of a Jewish American Princess written by Shirley Frondorf and published by Villard. This book was released on 2013-07-10 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1982, a sensational murder trial in Phoenix, Arizona, reverberated throughout the legal community. Restaurateur Steven Steinberg, who killed his wife by stabbing her 26 times, was acquitted; his legal defense portrayed the victim as an overpowering "Jewish American Princess" whose excesses may have provoked her violent end. Examining the structure of the defense's case, Frondorf, an attorney who was previously a psychiatric social worker, follows the theme that made Elana Steinberg the villain, instead of the victim, of the piece. The defense's forensic presentation, bolstered by testimony from psychiatrists, maintained that Steinberg committed the crime while sleepwalking, an abnormality allegedly brought on by the intemperate spending of his wife. Frondorf recreates the trial whose outcome scarred the tightly knit Jewish community of Phoenix.
Download or read book Sleepwalker written by Karen Robards and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Karen Robards' new thrilling contemporary suspense novel features the electric attraction between a cop and thief.
Download or read book Edgar Huntly written by Charles Brockden Brown and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Edgar Huntly Or Memoirs of a Sleep walker written by Charles Brockden Brown and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often described as a "gothic novel," this is a classic American tale of mystery and murder with exciting and dramatic plot twists. Charles Brockden Brown is the most frequently studied and republished practitioner of the "early American novel," or the US novel between 1789 and roughly 1820. This volume contains a critical edition of Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly, the third of his novels to be published in 1799 and the first to deal with the American wilderness. The basis of the text is the first edition, printed and published by Hugh Maxwell in Philadelphia late in the year, but the "Fragment" printed independently in Brown's Monthly Magazine earlier in 1799 supplies some readings in Chapters 17-20. The Historical Essay, which follows the text, covers matters of composition, publication, historical background, and literary evaluation, and the Textual Essay discusses the transmission of the text, choice of copy-text, and editorial policy. A general textual statement for the entire edition appears in Volume I of the series.
Download or read book The Sleepwalker written by Helen McCloy and published by Orion. This book was released on 2014-03-14 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marian Tansey appears to be living a happy life. She has great friends, a job in a thrift shop, and she has just bought a new car. She may even be falling in love with Dick Lang, who sold it to her. She could be on top of the world, but there are a few clouds in the sky. There is a mystery surrounding the car. It has been 'borrowed' during the night by someone unknown. But most of all there's the frightening fact that, although she hasn't admitted it to any of her friends or colleagues, Marian lost her memory a year or two ago and has no idea who she is. Then, there is a murder ...
Download or read book The Twenty four Hour Mind written by Rosalind D. Cartwright and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-16 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Twenty-four Hour Mind, sleep researcher Rosalind Cartwright brings together decades of research into the bizarre sleep disorders known as 'parasomnias' to propose a new theory of how the human brain works consistently throughout waking and sleeping hours, based upon research showing that one of the primary purposes of sleep is to aid in regulating emotions and processing experiences that occur during waking hours.
Download or read book Management of Sleep Disorders in Psychiatry written by Amit Chopra and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Virtually every biological function in humans depends on normal sleep homeostasis to maintain normalcy. As will be evidenced throughout this volume, sleep and its disturbance are intimately linked to normal brain function and psychiatric disorders, respectively"--
