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Lauren Hugelmaier: It Wasn't the Cough Medicine
Serial Napper
English - April 08, 2024 23:35 - 26 minutes - 24.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 128 ratingsTrue Crime serial napper true crime crime unsolved murder international Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In the early morning hours of September 1st, 2017, around 1 am, a North Carolina 911 dispatcher receives a phone call from 29-year-old Matthew Phelps, an aspiring pastor. He says, “I think I killed my wife. 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. I can’t believe this.”
Matthew claimed that he had “accidentally” stabbed his wife to death while under the influence of cough medicine. 29-year-old Lauren Hugelmaier lay on their bedroom floor, having been stabbed 123 times. While the medicine that Matthew had taken can cause euphoria, agitation, and even psychoses, would a jury believe it as a defence to murder? Perhaps not, after Matthew’s dark side, history of violence and a secret Instagram account was revealed.
If you or someone you know may be in a dangerous relationship, domestic violence, or an abusive relationship, call The National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1–800–799–7233 or go to www.thehotline.org.
Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPJVefybEaM
https://people.com/crime/cold-medicine-killer-pastor-pleads-guilty-murdering-wife/
https://medium.com/crimebeat/the-cough-syrup-killer-the-case-of-lauren-hugelmaier-a42d15c98653
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article219420090.html
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