Ramya Nagesh

However, prosecution experts said, well, there are several things that tend against that.

The dog was barking, and he saw Mr. Falater telling the dog to lie down and be quiet.

Because when we're sleepwalking, we can commit a great deal of actions.

We can cook, we can get dressed, we can drive, and we can attack somebody.

But we can't do things that require complex, intelligent thought.

So concealing a crime, trying to tell your dog to be quiet to conceal your crime is

is evidence of a more intelligent, sort of complex thought.

The fact that Scott Folletto had been seen motioning his dog to be quiet, and then the fact he'd also hidden his clothes and the hunting knife in the back of his car, were said to be indicators that he'd been thinking about the crime and how to cover it up.

And so they said, well, that's not something you would do whilst you're asleep.

I mean, right, because if you don't know what you're doing, you don't care that your clothes are bloody.

Exactly.

Yeah.

You don't have the ability to think, oh, my clothes are bloody.

I better hide them in case the police go.

That takes a lot of, if we think about it, that takes quite a few steps of thought.

You have to think, well, the clothes are bloody.

Secondly, that will implicate me in a crime.

Thirdly, if the police see my bloody clothes, they'll realize I've committed this crime.

Fourthly, how am I going to hide it?

When you're sleepwalking, you're very objective focused.