Arkansas Woman Attempts To Kill Snoring Husband With Butcher’s Knife: ‘He Kept Me Awake’

An Arkansas woman has been charged with attempted first degree murder because she was so incensed by her husband’s persistent snoring that she repeatedly stabbed him with a butcher’s knife as he slept.

Dawn Weiser, 44, of Springdale, pleaded not guilty in court on Wednesday, in spite of leaving her husband with a punctured spleen, lacerated liver and three other stab wounds.

Just prior to the attack, she was sleeping in a spare room with her one of her two children. This followed an argument about snoring that had taken place earlier in the evening with her 43-year-old husband, Doug Weiser.

The allegation is that she crept back into the bedroom in the early hours of the morning and began stabbing her husband with a butcher’s knife. He awoke, immediately took the knife from her, and then called the police.

Her explanation to the police was that she was awakened by a loud noise during the night, and walked in to find her husband with stab wounds. She insisted that an intruder was responsible for the stabbing, despite her husband saying that it was her.

Police Investigators say Dawn eventually confessed to stabbing her husband and hiding the knife She told police she simply couldn’t stand being kept awake any longer. She was so angry at her husband’s snoring that it became a fixation for her, and she even wrote about it on social media.

Only a week before the alleged attack she wrote on her Twitter account: “A certain someone is about to have an appointment made to address SNORING. #notnamingnames.”

Details of the attack became public as Mrs Weiser made her first court appearance on an attempted first degree murder charge. She pleaded not guilty and has been sent for trial in December.

The court was told that her husband – not surprisingly – had filed for divorce a week after the alleged attack.