The Sleepwalker Killing

{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox television | image = | image_size = | caption = | genre = Crime Drama | writer = [[June Callwood]] Lyle Slack | based_on = ''[[Unsolved Mysteries]]'' | starring = [[Hilary Swank]] [[Jeffrey Nordling]] [[Charles Esten]] [[Natalija Nogulich]] [[Lisa Darr]] | director = John Cosgrove | executive_producer = John Cosgrove Terry Dunn Meurer | producer = John Cosgrove Lyle Slack Cyrus Yavneh | music = Gary Malkin | cinematography = Eric Van Haren Noman | editor = Edward A. Warschilka | company = Cosgrove/Meurer Productions World International Network | network = [[NBC]] | released = {{start date|1997|4|28}} | runtime = 88 minutes | language = English | country = United States }} '''''The Sleepwalker Killing''''' also known as '''''From the Files of Unsolved Mysteries: The Sleepwalker Killing''''', is a 1997 TV movie based on a popular real-life case from the ''[[Unsolved Mysteries]]'' television series. The film was written by [[June Callwood]] and Lyle Slack and directed by John Cosgrove. Cosgrove also served as executive producer on the TV series.

==Plot== A segment from the ''[[Unsolved Mysteries]]'' TV series inspired this story, in which Mark Schall kills his mother-in-law and wounds his father-in-law in the middle of the night, then turns himself in. He claims, however, that he cannot remember the crime itself. His defense team finds evidence that suggests the crimes were committed while Mark was sleep walking. They build their defense around this theory.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120147/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1|title=The Sleepwalker Killing (TV Movie 1997)|date=28 April 1997|work=IMDb|accessdate=1 October 2014}}</ref>

==Cast== *[[Hilary Swank]] as Lauren Schall *[[Jeffrey Nordling]] as Det. Lloyd Boyko *[[Charles Esten]] as Mark Schall *[[Natalija Nogulich]] as Atty. Brooke McAdam *[[Lisa Darr]] as D.A. Mary Ellen Matulus *[[Sean Murray (actor)|Sean Murray]] as Christopher Lane *[[Victor Love]] as Det. Ike Nolan *[[Marisa Coughlan]] as Tanya Lane *[[Sam Anderson]] as Roth Lane *[[Julianna McCarthy]] as Eileen Hunter *[[Joel Polis]] as Asst. Atty. Jimmy *[[John Rubinstein]] as Dr. Frank Corrigan

==Releases== The TV movie was originally aired [[NBC]] on April 28, 1997 and was released later released on [[DVD]] on May 24, 2005.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/The-Sleepwalker-Killing-Hilary-Swank/dp/B00080Z5N4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1360547784&sr=8-1&keywords=sleepwalker+killing|title=Amazon.com: The Sleepwalker Killing: Hilary Swank, Jeffrey Nordling, Charles Esten, Natalija Nogulich, Lisa Darr, Sean Murray, Victor Love, Marisa Coughlan, Sam Anderson, Julianna McCarthy, Joel Polis, John Rubinstein, Eric Van Haren Noman, John Cosgrove, Cyrus Yavneh, Lyle Slack, Terry Dunn Meurer, June Callwood: Movies & TV|website=Amazon |date=24 May 2005 |publisher=|accessdate=1 October 2014}}</ref>

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