A love story that started on Instagram and resulted in marriage between an aspiring pastor and a Sunday School teacher, ended in a gruesome nightmare last Friday after the man allegedly stabbed his loving wife to death after drinking too much cough medicine.

“I had a dream and then I turned on the lights and she’s dead on the floor,” the would-be pastor Matthew Phelps, 28, said in a 911 call about the death of his wife, Lauren, at their Raleigh, North Carolina, home.

“Um, I have blood all over me and there’s a bloody knife on the bed and I think I did it,” he calmly explained on the call that lasted just over seven minutes.

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