Cold medicine killer: Did cough syrup make sleeping pastor kill wife?

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 7 September 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

A wanna-be pastor who blames a cold medicine overdose for the nightmare murder of his wife faces the death penalty if convicted. Nancy Grace, crime scene investigator Sheryl McCollum, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Daniel Bober and radio host David Mack update the case of alleged cold med killer Matthew Phelps. This episode also includes Dr. Bethany Marshall and reporter Carmen Coya Van Duijn join us to discuss an abused girl in New York and the Penn State frat death case.

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1:10.6	This young aspiring pastor charged with murdering his Sunday school teacher wife.
1:15.1	I think I told my what do you mean by that what happened.
1:18.6	28 year old Matthew Phelps arrested after a detailed and disturbing call to 911.
1:23.4	I had a dream and I turned on the lights and she's dead on the floor.
1:28.4	I have found hell.
1:29.8	Between labored breaths and alarming admission.
1:32.6	I have blood all over me and there's a bloody knife on the bed and I think I did it.
1:37.6	I can't believe this.
1:39.1	A disoriented sounding caller telling the dispatcher he took cough medicine to sleep the night before.
1:44.4	Qualifies that yes, it looks like I did kill her.
1:47.4	The knife is here. I have blood all over me.
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