145: Homicidal Somnambulist, Kenneth Parks | Canada

Evidence Locker True Crime

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

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🗓️ 20 June 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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In May 1987, Ken Parks walked into a Toronto police station, covered with blood. He was horrified and confused and told the duty officer that he may have hurt someone. As it turned out, Ken was asleep when he beat and stabbed his mother-in-law to death. Because he was not awake when he committed the brutal crime, he was acquitted. His case made Canadian legal history and people are still divided on the issue.

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1:02.5	Just before 5 a.m. on the morning of May 24, 1987, 23-year-old Ken Parks walked into
1:08.4	a Toronto police station, covered in blood.
1:11.6	The on-duty officer thought he looked a bit dazed and out of sorts.
1:15.7	Ken made his way to the front desk, looking down at his blood-due clothing in hands, and
1:19.7	said,
1:21.5	I just killed someone with my bare hands.
1:23.5	My God, I just killed someone.
1:25.4	I've just killed two people.
1:26.4	My God, I've just killed two people with my hands.
1:28.6	My hands, I just killed my mother and father-in-law.
1:32.0	I stabbed and beat them to death.
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