Number 9 Emma Evans
In early September of 2015, Welsh woman Emma Evans was enjoying a holiday to Mallorca,
with her husband and their eldest child. The room that the 37-year-old was staying in didn’t
have air conditioning. To better cope with the heat and humidity, on September the 2nd,
Evans went to sleep on the balcony. The woman had what was described as a “propensity to sleepwalk”
but it was also reported that she’d consumed a considerable amount of alcohol that night.
At some point, Evans sleepwalked over the edge of the balcony and fell to the ground, over 50 feet,
sustaining fatal injuries. A Swansea coroner recorded a verdict of accidental death. Today's
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In late 2013, Rob Williams visited colleagues at a hotel, in Waltham Cross, England, after a work
Christmas party. 27-year-old Williams, who was prone to sleepwalking, was staying elsewhere and
had joined two of his colleagues for a night of drinking. The following morning, the others woke
up and found that he wasn’t there. They noticed that the window was open but didn’t think much
of it. They assumed that Williams had left, even though his coat and shoes were still in the room.
The men went to get breakfast and took his belongings back to the office with them.
Later that day, the secretary of the firm, where the men worked, contacted Williams’
partner to inquire about his whereabouts. It was then that the alarm was raised. Later,
in the afternoon, a workman in a 1st-floor room noticed Williams lying on a rain-soaked roof.
He’d sleepwalked out of the window and fallen 13 feet. After he was knocked unconscious, Williams
spent the night freezing on the roof. He was taken to the hospital with advanced hypothermia
and severe head injuries. After five days in the intensive care unit, he passed away, on Christmas
day, without ever regaining consciousness. Number 7 Crushed by Dumpster Truck
On September the 5th of 2012, the body of a 50-year-old man was discovered by staff
at a material recycling facility in Wirral, England. Local police determined that his
death had been the result of a tragic accident. The unnamed man, believed to have been homeless,
had fallen asleep inside a wheelie bin. As the bin was emptied into a compactor truck, the
man was horrifically crushed and sustained fatal head injuries. His death was just one of several
similar occurrences. In 2016, the body of Anthony Todd was discovered at a landfill in Tallahassee,
Florida. A bulldozer driver saw his leg sticking out of a trash pile. It was theorized that Todd
had climbed inside a dumpster, to stay warm, and had fallen into a deep sleep. The 43-year-old
failed to wake up when the garbage truck emptied the contents of the dumpster and was crushed.
In 2021, an Australian teenager, named Spencer Benbolt, had fallen asleep in a wheelie bin,
along with two other boys. When the garbage truck came around, the others woke up. One was able to
jump out and alert the driver. However, by the time the maw of the machine came to a halt,
Benbolt had already been fatally crushed. Number 6 Anusha Ranganathan
In June of 2018, Anusha Ranganathan fell asleep behind the wheel of her car
and crashed into 70-year-old Patricia Robinson, on a road in Oxfordshire, England. At the time,
Ranganathan was tired after a sleepless night with her 18-month-old son, who’d had heart surgery. The
41-year-old businesswoman believed that she was fit to drive. However, as she drifted to sleep,
she veered her Toyota into the opposite lane and crashed into the pensioner’s Nissan Juke. After
the frontal collision, both vehicles ended in a waterlogged roadside ditch. Ranganathan’s baby,
who was in the car at the time, fell from his car seat. Good Samaritans, who’d witnessed the brutal
crash, found him crying in the foot space and extracted both him and his mother, just before
the Toyota burst into flames. They also pulled out Robinson as there was a threat of the flames
extending to her car as well. Ranganathan and her child survived. However, Robinson’s injuries were
described as being the most extensive suffered by a person without resulting in immediate death.
She’d ruptured nearly every organ in her body. The grandmother-of-four died in the hospital nearly
five weeks later. Ranganathan pled guilty to death by dangerous driving and was given a sentence of
two and a half years in prison. Number 5 Erin Piche-Pitts
In December of 2009, Florida teenager Erin Piche-Pitts fell asleep while breastfeeding her
13-day-old daughter. When she woke up, Piche-Pitts found that the baby was unresponsive. She was
rushed to the hospital and subsequently pronounced dead. Doctors determined that she’d succumbed to
asphyxia "due to probable overlay and co-sleeping" and ruled the death accidental. In the years
that followed, Piche-Pitts was arrested for a slew of offenses which included, among others,
domestic battery, larceny, and burglary. In 2016, while pregnant with her second child, 25-year-old
Piche-Pitts was arrested for methamphetamine possession and spent a month in jail. Considering
the past incident as well as her criminal record, she was ordered to attend classes on the dangers
of co-sleeping. Before taking her son home from the hospital, that September, Piche-Pitts was
again given detailed instructions on how to safely put a baby to bed. A few weeks later, when her
18-day-old son woke up crying, Piche-Pitts took him from his bassinet. She placed him on the bed
with his head in the crook of her arm. A few hours later, in an incident that mirrored the first,
Piche-Pitts woke up to find that her newborn was unresponsive. The child passed away in a Winter
Haven hospital. Piche-Pitts was charged with manslaughter after the authorities determined
the child had died due to her own negligence. Number 4 Cullen Green
On a Sunday night, in 2016, Cullen Green attended a wedding at a venue in Harris County,
Texas. 27-year-old Green, believed to have been inebriated at the time,
fell asleep in an outdoor bathroom. He awoke up in the early hours of Monday, after the guests had
all left and the owner had locked up. Confused, Green forced his way through the locked door and
broke into the venue’s main hall. It was then that he was confronted by an on-site property manager.
A physical altercation ensued that concluded with the manager shooting Green several times.
He was airlifted to a nearby hospital, in serious condition, but doctors expected he would recover.
It’s unclear what legal actions, if any, were taken against Green or the manager.
Number 3 Jai Ram
In March of 2016, an Indian man was buried alive in concrete after falling asleep at a
construction site. 24-year-old Jai Ram was part of a team working at the Pench River Dam Project, in
Madhya Pradesh. Ram was taking a nap inside a duct when the other workers started filling it with
concrete, without checking if anyone was inside. They then used a steam roller to level the gravel,
in the early hours of the morning. It was only after Ram’s family had reported him missing that
a second team reexamined the site and noticed a hand sticking out of the gravel. After digging
through the concrete, they were able to retrieve Ram’s body. The others in his crew fled after the
authorities claimed they’d be arrested for culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
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in the comments section below Number 2 Matthew Phelps
On September the 1st of 2017, Matthew Phelps brutally murdered his wife, Lauren,
at their home in Raleigh, North Carolina. Matthew called 911 and claimed he’d awoken to find himself
covered in blood, his wife dead and a knife on the bed. He told a dispatcher “I think I did it”
but added that he’d taken excessive cough medicine because he had trouble sleeping. Lauren was
found in the fetal position on the floor of the couple’s bedroom. An autopsy would subsequently
determine that she’d been stabbed 123 times. In his defense, Matthew claimed that he wasn’t aware
of his actions at the time and that he’d killed his wife in a medicine-induced dream. While it
is recognized as a phenomenon, there aren’t many cases of homicidal sleepwalking and their veracity
is mostly disputed. During the deepest stages of slow-wave sleep, the brain will sometimes
get stuck between being asleep and awake, allowing people to unconsciously perform various actions.
The connection between sleepwalking and murder isn’t well-understood, but it’s believed to
involve other factors like stress, anxiety, depression, drugs or alcohol. Matthew and Lauren,
both 29, had only been married for about a year and, as the victim’s family reported,
seemed perfectly happy together. During the trial, aspersions would be cast on Matthew’s defense
when it emerged that he’d privately wondered to a friend what it would be like to kill somebody.
He also harbored an obsession for “American Psycho” and its serial-killer protagonist,
Patrick Bateman. Additionally, there’d been problems in the marriage, stemming from Matthew’s
excessive spending, with Lauren restricting his finances and threatening to end their
relationship. To avoid the death penalty, Matthew ultimately pled guilty to first degree murder
and was sentenced to life without parole. Number 1 Death of 16 Indian Workers
In 2020, 16 migrant workers were run over by a train, in the Indian state of Maharashtra,
after falling asleep on the tracks. Many of the country’s industrial branches were suddenly
stopped, on March the 24th, as a consequence of the pandemic lockdown. Fearing they would
starve to death, numerous migrant workers chose to return to their home villages.
Since the few bus and train lines that were operational followed irregular schedules,
many were forced to walk home. 20 workers, employed by an ironworks factory in Jalna,
had been walking towards a station, in Aurangabad, hoping to eventually catch a train home.
After a grueling trek of over 26 miles, the exhausted workers rested on the tracks.
They’d been walking along the train lines for some time and hadn’t seen any go by. They, therefore,
assumed the lines weren’t operational because of the restrictions. Unfortunately, as they slept,
a freight train started travelling their way. The conductor reportedly tried to alert them as did a
few of the workers who’d been sleeping besides the tracks. With no time to react, 16 of the
workers were mowed down. A mangled mass of body parts and personal belongings littered the tracks
in the train’s wake. In the aftermath, Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted that he was
"extremely anguished by the loss of lives”. Thanks for watching! Once a month, randomly,
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