Cold med killer suspect heads to court; Mom charged with murder in daughter's DUI death

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 19 September 2017

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

A North Carolina man who blames an overdose of cold medicine for a bad dream that ended with his wife stabbed to death appears in court soon. Matthew Phelps calmly told a 911 dispatcher he was covered with dried blood and his wife was lifeless in their bed. Nancy Grace updates the cold medicine killer case with forensic psychiatrist Dr. Daniel Bober, radio host David Mack. An Alabama mother is jailed on a murder charge after her 10-year-old daughter died in a car crash. Karen Foster, allegedly was high on drugs when she crashed her car, killing daughter Malaya Peterson. Reporter Larry Meagher, forensics expert Sheryl McCollum, and psychoanalyst Dr. Bethany Marshall talk about the case with Nancy.

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0:00.0	February 2004, Maura Murray empties her bank account, drives four hours from school, crashes
0:07.0	her car, gets out and vanishes. Everybody has a theory. Was she murdered? Was it a suicide?
0:13.6	Did she run away? Join the search as an investigative reporter and former US Marshal
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0:24.8	investigative series The Disappearance of Maura Murray. It starts Saturday, September 23,
0:30.6	815 PM, 715 Central on Oxygen, the new network for crime.
0:42.4	Crime stories with Nancy Grace on Sirius XM Triumph channel 132.
0:48.4	This young aspiring pastor charged with murdering his Sunday school teacher wife.
0:52.9	I think I told my, what do you mean by that? What happened?
0:56.3	28-year-old Matthew Phelps arrested after a detailed and disturbing call to 911.
1:01.1	I had a dream and then I turned on the lights and she stood on the floor.
1:07.6	Between labored breaths and alarming admission.
1:10.3	I was blood all over me and there's a boy and I found the bed and I think I did it.
1:15.3	I can't believe this.
1:17.1	A disoriented sounding caller telling the dispatcher he took cough medicine to sleep the night before.
1:22.3	Qualifies that yes, it looks like I did kill her. The knife is here. I have blood all over me.
1:27.1	However, this medicine made me do it.
1:30.1	An aspiring pastor calls 911 and he sounds so disoriented, sobbing, breathing heavily.
1:42.0	As if you just run a marathon to reveal his young wife, his bride, really of just months,
1:49.2	was dead on the floor covered in blood.
1:53.3	No, it was not an armed intruder.
1:56.3	It was not a home invader. It was not a maniacal killer.
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