The Sleepwalking Killer - 662
Generation Why: True Crime
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🗓️ 9 February 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Scarborough, Canada, 1987. Kenneth Parks walked into a local police station, bleeding from severe cuts on his hands, and confessed to murder. He claimed he was sleepwalking when he drove to his in-laws’ home and stabbed them. What ensued was a case that set a precedent in Canadian law and became a foundational reference for medical professionals.
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | It's a lot of How are you doing tonight, Aaron? |
| 0:37.3 | I'm doing okay. How are you, Justin? |
| 0:39.3 | I'm doing great. We're covering a case tonight about sleepwalking. And I will say this, Aaron. |
| 0:48.2 | I have talked to a lot of people about sleep disorders, ranging from night terrors to sleepwalking. We typically associate |
| 0:57.5 | sleepwalking with maybe somebody getting up and walking downstairs, somebody getting out of bed, |
| 1:03.7 | or possibly even going downstairs and making themselves a peanut butter and jelly sandwich |
| 1:08.7 | and eating it and not realizing eating a bag of chips |
| 1:11.8 | and not remembering not having any memory of that. But typically it's very basic motor function |
| 1:18.6 | type activities. And I will say that I have spoken to people who have gone way beyond |
| 1:26.3 | eating a bag of chips in their sleep, have done some pretty |
| 1:29.4 | intricate or complex things. But that said, I don't know if that will explain or alleviate the |
| 1:35.9 | story we're talking about tonight. Well, one thing that I have in my mind is there have literally |
| 1:41.5 | been times where I drove back home from somewhere and I actually |
| 1:45.6 | didn't remember the entire journey. It's like my body was on autopilot. Yeah. And I wonder if |
| 1:51.4 | anyone in our audience has had that happen or something to do with sleepwalking. And if you |
| 1:56.6 | have had that, please write into us because we'd like to share some of these stories on our |
| 2:01.0 | Patreon when we do a beyond the episode on this episode. Yeah. We have our Patreon, patreon.com |
| 2:08.3 | slash Generation Y. Cool out there. Write to us. We'll read your stories. We have lots of extra |
| 2:14.8 | content out there. We've been doing the history of Generation Y too, right, Aaron? |
| 2:19.5 | It's kind of our own stories about how we got here. |
| 2:23.3 | So if you head out there, at least as of right now, it's early January. |
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