 True crime stories you should know part 3. This is Lauren Phelps. Lauren was your average young woman who was dedicated to her family, deeply involved in her church, and madly in love with her husband, Matthew. Both Lauren and Matthew were active members of the local church, with Lauren being a Sunday school teacher and Matthew training to become a minister or a pastor. Matthew had a strange obsession with horror movies, particularly movies involving serial killers like American Psycho. Not only this, but he had major issues with his spending and got the couple into serious financial trouble. To top this off, he was also having a secret affair after having only been married to his wife for around a year. This all reached a boiling point one evening in 2017. As far as we can tell, Lauren likely confronted Matthew about his affair, and that's when he flew off the handle. He attacked his wife, inflicting more than 120 wounds. He then called the police and claimed the crime was because of him taking too much cough syrup. He was promptly found guilty and sent to prison.