"I THINK I DID IT" -- MURDER OF LAUREN PHELPS, NC

[Carsman]

We've heard murders blamed on Twinkies, anti-depressants, booze, sleep-walking, and medical marijuana. But I don't think I've ever heard the 'cough medicine defense' before now.



Matthew Phelps of Raleigh was charged with murder Friday after he made an emergency call. When police responded, authorities say his 29-year-old Sunday school teacher wife Lauren Ashley-Nicole Phelps was dead from stab wounds. RIP.

In the 911 call, Phelps -- a lawn worker an aspiring pastor who graduated from Creek Baptist Bible College in Kentucky -- told the operator he took more cold medicine then he should have and woke up after his dream with blood all over him and a knife on the bed he shared with his wife of one year.

Matthew Phelps is heard on the call saying, "I think I killed my…." When a dispatcher asks him what happened, he says, "I had a dream, and then I turned on the lights and she's dead on the floor."

"I have blood all over me and there's a bloody knife on the bed and I think I did it." Toward the end of the seven-minute 911 call, Matthew Phelps started sobbing, saying his wife didn't deserve this.

What must they have taught him in that Bible College?