{"id":49775,"date":"2017-09-05T01:34:46","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T01:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=49775"},"modified":"2017-09-05T01:37:25","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T01:37:25","slug":"north-carolina-husband-thinks-killed-wife-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=49775","title":{"rendered":"North Carolina: Husband thinks he killed wife in his sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A North Carolina man is using the bad dream defense \u2014 telling a 911 operator he awoke from slumber to find his wife stabbed to death and drenched in blood, reports said.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Phelps, 28, told the operator in Raleigh early Friday that he fell asleep after taking too much cold medicine and may have accidentally killed his wife in his sleep,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/abc13.com\/mans-bizarre-911-confession-released-in-wifes-murder\/2374720\/\">ABC 13 reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think I killed my\u2026,\u201d Phelps said to the operator, according to the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do you mean by that? What happened?\u201d the dispatcher asked.<\/p>\n<div class=\"e3lan e3lan-in-post1\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI had a dream and then I turned on the lights and she\u2019s dead on the floor \u2026 I have blood all over me and there\u2019s a bloody knife on the bed. I think I did it. I can\u2019t believe this,\u201d Phelps told the dispatcher.<\/p>\n<p>Raleigh police charged Phelps with murder on Friday shortly after he made the emergency call. His wife, Lauren Ashley-Nicole Phelps, 29, was found dead from multiple stab wounds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a dream and then I turned on the lights and she\u2019s dead on the floor,\u201d Phelps can be heard saying on the call.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow? How?\u201d the dispatcher asked.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the call, which lasted 7 minutes, Phelps sobbed to the operator and said his wife didn\u2019t deserve what happened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s not moving at all. Oh my God. She didn\u2019t deserve this,\u201d Phelps said.<\/p>\n<p>He told dispatchers he took the cough medicine Coricidin because he has trouble sleeping.<\/p>\n<p>The makers of the drug told ABC there\u2019s no evidence to suggest it\u2019s associated with violent behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Police don\u2019t believe the crime was a random act and Phelps is being held without bond. He\u2019s due back in court Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A North Carolina man is using the bad dream defense \u2014 telling a 911 operator he awoke from slumber to find his wife stabbed to death and drenched in blood, reports said. 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