Man tells 911 he thinks he stabbed his wife to death in his sleep

A man calling 911 in North Carolina told the operator he woke up from a dream and found his wife stabbed to death in their bedroom.

Raleigh Police charged 28-year-old Matthew Phelps with murder Friday after he made the shocking emergency call about his 29-year-old wife, Lauren Ashley-Nicole Phelps.

In the 911 call placed around 1.10am, the dispatcher can heard asking Phelps 'exactly what happened.'

He sighed and replied, 'I think I killed my..,' according to a 911 recording that was made public Friday afternoon.

'What do you mean by that, what happened,' the 911 operator asked Phelps.

'I had a dream and then I turned on the lights and she's dead on the floor,' Phelps said.

'How? How? How?' the dispatcher asked.

'There's blood all over me, and there's a bloody knife on the bed. I think I did it.'

'OK,' the dispatcher said after a long pause before asking him to stay on the phone.

'I can't believe I did this,' Phelps said. 'I can't believe I did this.'

The dispatcher then begins to ask him a few questions about his wife of less than a year, and Phelps can be heard becoming emotional.

The dispatcher asked him if his wife his awake right now, to which he replied and said 'she's not breathing.'

'Do you think she is beyond any help,' the dispatcher asked.

'I think so. I'm too scared to get close to her,' Phelps said.

He said that he took more cold medicine before going to sleep and that he had no idea what time it was.

'I took more medicine than I should have. I took Coricidin Cough and Cold because I know it can make you feel good and sometimes I can't sleep at night,' he explained.

Toward the end of the seven-minute 911 call, Phelps started sobbing, saying his wife didn't deserve this as he said the blood had dried on him.

Hours before her death, his wife had posted a video on her Facebook page where she was selling a product for Scentsy, a candle company.

According to his Facebook page, Phelps worked at Dunlap Lawn Service. He graduated from Kentucky's Clear Creek Baptist Bible College in 2011 where he studied evangelism and mission.

Phelps did not have a criminal record and it's unclear if he has a lawyer.

He was transported to the Wake County jail and he is being held without benefit of bail.

Phelps will make his first court appearance on Tuesday.

His wife's funeral is scheduled for 11am on Monday at Hope Lutheran Church in Wake Forest, North Carolina.

A YouCaring fundraiser page has been created to raise money 'to help ease the financial burden for her grieving family,' the page reads.

More than $5,000 towards the $20,000 goal has been raised as of Monday morning.