'He attacked our cleaning lady': Woman working at her desk realizes her husband stabbed their housekeeper to death before driving away, cops say

A antheral successful North Carolina is accused of stabbing his housekeeper to decease portion his woman was location earlier driving distant crossed authorities lines.

Matthew Vukmer, 53, is charged with first-degree murder successful the decease of 54-year-old Paula Floyd, according to the Orange County Sheriff's Office. He waived his extradition this week during a tribunal proceeding successful Grayson County, Virginia, meaning helium volition soon beryllium returned to North Carolina to look the charge.

On the greeting of March 6, Vukmer was astatine his location successful the Wyngate assemblage extracurricular Hillsborough, North Carolina, which is located immoderate 35 miles northwest of the authorities superior of Raleigh. Also wrong the location were Vukmer's woman and Floyd.

Vukmer's woman was seemingly moving astatine her table erstwhile she heard Floyd autumn and noticed the pistillate had been stabbed. The wife's 911 telephone reviewed by determination Fox affiliate WGHP reveals the consequent moments successful the home.

"My hubby was upstairs and helium said helium heard idiosyncratic and came down," Vukmer's woman told the 911 dispatcher. "He attacked our cleaning woman due to the fact that helium thought she was idiosyncratic else!"

The woman reportedly referenced however Floyd was a person of theirs during the call. "I don't cognize what helium thought she was," she added, with Vukmer astatine 1 constituent seemingly saying successful the background, "We got Vladimir Putin."

As the exigency telephone continued, Vukmer's woman stated that she saw her hubby get into his motortruck and thrust away, believing helium was searching for help.

As it turned out, Vukmer was seemingly heading northbound for the authorities border.

The Orange County Sheriff's Office successful North Carolina that time stated that it had obtained the execution complaint against Vukmer and was searching for him aft helium near his location successful a acheronian Ford Super Duty truck. Investigators reportedly spoke with his woman and, acting with her help, believed helium whitethorn person traveled to occidental Virginia, per country CBS affiliate WNCN.

Hours later, astatine astir 5:15 p.m., authorities took Vukmer into custody successful Grayson County, Virginia, astir 145 miles away. The North Carolina instrumentality enforcement bureau said helium "declined to talk to investigators and requested an attorney."

"We cognize the household and friends of Paula Floyd experienced a life-shattering lawsuit today, and we proceed to widen our condolences," the sheriff's bureau added astatine the time. "It is our anticipation that they instrumentality immoderate tiny measurement of comfortableness knowing that her assailant is successful custody."

Floyd is remembered successful her obituary arsenic a "lifelong subordinate of the assemblage she loved and a agleam beingness successful the lives of everyone who knew her."

She "worked arsenic a self-employed housekeeper, but those who knew her champion would accidental her existent enactment successful beingness was caring for people," the obituary continues. "She had a acquisition for making others consciousness welcome, valued, and loved. To Paula, household was ne'er constricted to blood—it included anyone fortunate capable to transverse her path."

Floyd had a hubby and 2 sons.