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Man claims he found his wife dead after taking cough medicine

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A man charged with murdering his wife claimed he took too much cough medicine before finding her fatally stabbed beside him.
A North Carolina man charged with murdering his wife claimed he took too much cough medicine before finding her fatally stabbed beside him.
Matthew Phelps, 29, called 911 Friday after 1 a.m. to report that he had killed his wife Lauren Phelps who was stabbed multiple times in their Raleigh home, the News and Observer reported.
Lauren, also 29, was taken to a hospital where she was pronounced dead.
“I had a dream and then I turned on the lights and she’s dead on the floor, ” Phelps told a 911 dispatcher, according to the newspaper.
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“How? How? How?” the dispatcher asked.
“There’s blood all over me, and there’s a bloody knife on the bed, ” Phelps replied. “I think I did it.”
“I can’ t believe I did this, ” he continued after a long pause over the phone with the dispatcher.
Phelps admitted taking Coricidin, a cough and cold medicine, because it made him “feel good” and couldn’ t sleep at night.
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He also told the dispatcher he was covered in dried blood and didn’ t help his wife because he didn’ t know if she was breathing.
“Oh my God, ” he said. “Oh God. She didn’ t deserve this. Why?”
The couple was married for less than a year, according to the Observer.
Phelps has been charged with murder and is being held in Wake County Jail without bail.

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