Jean Rollin
Jean Michel Rollin Roth Le Gentil (3 November 193815 December 2010) was a French film director, actor, and novelist best known for his work in the fantastique genre.
Homicidal sleepwalking
In 1887, Robert Le Dru, a French police detective, was asked to investigate the murder of André Monet on the beach at Le Havre. Examining the evidence--the fatal bullet and some footprints--he decided that he himself had been sleepwalking on the beach and had fired the fatal shot. Le Dru turned himself in after drawing that conclusion. While in jail, he was given a gun loaded with blanks. One night he got up and fired at one of the guards at point blank range. This convinced the authorities he was telling the truth about his sleepwalking. From then until his death he lived on a farm outside Paris, under 24-hour watch.