Scott Falater: My Thoughts

If you haven’t seen the ABC 20/20 show While He Was Sleeping, you might want to watch it before you read my opinion here.

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This space has been left blank on purpose so I don’t spill the beans before you watch the show…ready? Scroll down.

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Scott Falater comes across as a simple man, who doesn’t seem to carry a lot of emotions. He doesn’t fit an irate, jealous or angry husband–the type who might murder his wife in a fit of rage. However, his lack of emotions may or may not be an indicator that you cannot ignore.

Watching him speak throughout the show, I can’t help but wonder did he just tire of his “dumpy” wife?

Cold calculating people who suffer from anti-social personality and a lack of emotions are the type to do this. Could he be one of them? His flat affect raised an eyebrow to keep an open mind.

On Falater’s sleep walking, as I mentioned I am very familiar with sleep walking. I had dozens of episodes into my teens. But I find his story rang untrue.

Here is why: If you’ve ever witnessed or been a sleepwalker, you know the sleepwalkers sense of reality is off, and their ability to understand their surroundings isn’t normal. They are asleep.

They may get some sense of normalcy for minutes, but it gets changed by the subconscious dream state. It’s like two world’s collide and they aren’t connected. Most people have heard people who had to use the bathroom while sleep walking and peed in strange places (which thankfully I didn’t do!). You get the drift.

Essentially sleepwalkers behavior is less normal, if you will, less “accurate” at what they do because of their altered state. And while it is possible someone could drive a car, or could harm a person, I believe there would be telltale signs of disoriented actions that still support a sleepwalking event.

If Falater was sleepwalking, he might of stuffed his clothes in some odd place–like in a toilet or food pantry or refrigerator, but not in the trunk of his car, which was too perfect. He may have injured or seriously harmed his wife but he wouldn’t come to get her a second time pushing her in the pool.

It is precisely the lack of disoriented actions by Falater that truly make me doubt him. He is too precise. Yes, he missed the blood on his neck and when it is pointed out, he immediately tries to remove it. That doesn’t hit me as dream-oriented. That hit me as guilty behavior.

Think of your own dreams. Your dreams don’t flow in a logical and normal fashion. You get flashes of things that don’t connect, that don’t add up–they flow oddly and weirdly.

But the most telling part for me was at the end of the show, when 20/20 chatted with Falater.

Falater said, “I cannot swear on a stack of bibles…that I was sleepwalking. All I can say is I do not know what happened.”

What????????

Would you EVER say that if you truly had no memory of killing your wife????

Um, no, you wouldn’t. I wouldn’t even think to say that!!!

What you would likely say is something to the effect of I don’t know what happened that night, but I can swear on a stack of bibles I was not consciously awake and knowingly doing this to my wife. I loved her. I’m devastated and will suffer this tragedy a lifetime — or something like that!

No, in my opinion, Scott Falater slipped up and revealed the truth. He was so relaxed he leaked it out. He killed his wife while awake and knows it. He knows he is where he belongs and will not be set free. He is resigned to it for good reason!