‘FELT BAD’: Man drugged wife’s sodas in attempt to kill her and marry her daughter

Published Aug 29, 2024  •  Last updated 0 minutes ago  •  2 minute read

Mugshot of Alfred Ruf, who admitted to poisoning his wife's sodas so he could marry her daughter. Richmond Police Department

An Indiana man admitted to poisoning his wife for months in an attempt to kill her, then marry her daughter.

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Alfred Rus, 71, was sentenced to four years in prison earlier this week after pleading guilty to aggravated battery posing a risk of death.

Rus told police that had been “spiking” his wife’s Coca-Cola with a poisonous “off-white powdery substance” given to him by his wife’s daughter, according to a probable cause affidavit obtained by USA Today.

The investigation into Ruf began in 2022 when his wife, 51-year-old Lisa Bishop, reported him to the Wayne County Sheriff’s Department, claiming her husband was trying to poison her.

Bishop provided a deputy with a Coke can that she had drank from and later cut open.

At the bottom of the can was an “off-white residue,” the court document read.

The victim was tested and several drugs including MDMA and cocaine were found in her system — which she claimed she didn’t knowing take.

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Rus told cops he had taken his wife to the hospital six times because she was experiencing “unexplained headaches, drowsiness, diarrhea and more” as a result of the poisoning.

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He eventually confessed to his wife that he had been drugging her drinks because he “felt bad,” then later revealed to officers it was so he could marry her daughter.

Rus revealed to authorities that he was in a sexual relationship with Bishop’s daughter from a previous marriage, the affidavit states.

He told police his wife’s daughter gave him the pill bottle with the powdery substance in September 2021 and she and a female friend instructed him to put it in her mother’s drink, the court document continued.

They would then wait for Bishop to fall asleep before her daughter and her daughter’s friend would put on a “show” for the man and perform “sex acts on each other,” which he admitted to paying the women to do, the affidavit said.

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He also told authorities that while he was having sex with one of the women, the other would steal some of his wife’s personal items.

Ruf was the only person charged in connection with the crimes, the outlet reported.

It is unclear if the daughter or the daughter’s friend face any charges.

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