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Criminal

Like a Bad Dream

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.739.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

One day in 2011, Lindsey Schweigert’s roommate came home to an open garage, a missing dog, and an overflowing bathtub. Lindsey remembers waking up in police custody. Ramya Nagesh is the author of A Practical Guide to Insane and Non-Insane Automatism in Criminal Law – Sleepwalking, Blackouts, Hypoglycaemia, and Other Issues. Say hello on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. Sign up for our occasional newsletter. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts. Sign up for Criminal Plus to get behind-the-scenes bonus episodes of Criminal, ad-free listening of all of our shows, invitations to virtual events, special merch deals, and more. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:34.1

Let's talk about the day in March of 2011.

0:38.3

Maybe just kind of very detailed step by step what you did, you know, that evening, where you'd been, and then what the day had been like.

0:45.3

Gosh, I remember it so vividly.

0:48.3

So I had actually, the night before, I had returned from a trip at the Pentagon where I was working on a large project with the government.

0:57.9

I was jet lagged. I was exhausted. I'd gotten in really late. So the next day, I remember sleeping in. I remember doing some things around the house. And then I went to fill my prescription.

1:11.2

After I did that, I remember making myself a nice dinner.

1:15.2

Lindsay Schweigert lived in a house in St. Louis.

1:18.5

After dinner, she says she went to bed early, around 8 p.m.

1:23.1

Lindsay's roommate got home a few hours later.

1:26.0

First thing he noticed was that my garage was up and the car was gone.

1:30.6

I never left my garage up, ever.

1:33.1

You could get right into the house that way.

1:34.8

It was late at night.

1:35.9

I would never do that.

1:37.5

Second thing he noticed, the dog was gone.

1:40.0

And then he went into the bathroom and the water in the bathtub was overflowing.

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