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Phoebe Judge

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Criminal
Like a Bad Dream

They drove back to Lindsay's house, and her roommate told her what he'd seen, the open garage, the bathtub overflowing.

Criminal
Like a Bad Dream

Since Lindsay didn't remember what had happened that night, she wondered if at one point she might have had something to drink.

Criminal
Like a Bad Dream

She didn't really think so, but she and her roommate checked.

Criminal
Like a Bad Dream

They went through the whole house, including the trash, and didn't find any sign that she'd been drinking.

Criminal
Like a Bad Dream

But she had taken a sleeping pill.

Criminal
Like a Bad Dream

For more than ten years, Lindsay had been having trouble sleeping.

Criminal
Like a Bad Dream

Her doctor prescribed her pills to help.

Criminal
Like a Bad Dream

And every so often, the medication would stop helping, and her doctor would switch her prescription.

Criminal
Like a Bad Dream

Trazodone, Lunesta, then Ambien, and the generic version of Ambien, Zolpidem.

Criminal
Like a Bad Dream

This is Criminal.

Criminal
Like a Bad Dream

In November of 1937, an article appeared in a Sunday newspaper magazine called the American Weekly

Criminal
Like a Bad Dream

It described a detective named Robert LeDrew, who, 50 years earlier, was sent to a city on the coast of France to investigate a case of sailors who'd gone missing.

Criminal
Like a Bad Dream

Ramya Nagesh is a lawyer in the U.K.,

Criminal
Like a Bad Dream

A man had been found on the beach.

Criminal
Like a Bad Dream

He'd been shot.

Criminal
Like a Bad Dream

His belongings seemed untouched, so it didn't look like a robbery.

Criminal
Like a Bad Dream

Robert LeDrew was put in jail.

Criminal
Like a Bad Dream

To make sure it was possible that he could have killed someone in his sleep, the police gave him a gun full of blanks to sleep with.

Criminal
Like a Bad Dream

And one night, he got out of bed and shot at a guard, still asleep.

Criminal
Like a Bad Dream

The American Weekly reported that he was diagnosed with homicidal somnambulism, caused by overstraining his mind, and that he spent the remaining 50 years of his life on a farm, sleeping in a room with bars, under police supervision.