71-year-old man poisons his wife 12 times to marry her daughter

A 71-year-old Indian man, Alfred Ruf, has been sentenced to four years in prison after he confessed that he poisoned his wife’s Coca-Cola cans with drugs to murder her and marry her daughter.

Ruf used drugs, including cocaine and MDMA, on his wife, Liza Bishop, to carry out the act.

He pleaded guilty to aggravated battery posing a risk of death.

Court documents reveal that Ruf claimed the daughter had promised to marry him once her mother was out of the picture, which they planned to achieve by poisoning her and benefiting from her life insurance policy.

According to the report, the case dates back to 2021, when Ruf spiked his 51- 51-year-old wife, Liza Bishop, drinks with substances on multiple occasions.

This led Bishop to experience mysterious symptoms such as headaches, drowsiness, and diarrhoea.

She was taken to the hospital six times in a few weeks and tested positive for drugs she didn’t take. It was at this period she noticed a powdery residue in her soft drinks.

By January 2022, Bishop suspected foul play and contacted the authorities.

Ruf confessed to her that he was trying to poison her and later admitted to law enforcement that he had been “spiking” her drinks with drugs obtained from her 31-year-old daughter.

He also confessed that he had a sexual relationship with Bishop’s daughter.

Ruf disclosed that Bishop’s daughter and her friend instructed him to lace his wife’s drinks with drugs to make her sleep for about 13 hours.

“Alfred would then sprinkle some of the white powder in (his wife’s) Coca-Cola can and then wait for her to fall asleep,” read the probable cause affidavit. “(The women) would then come to Alfred’s residence and put more of an unknown substance in (Ruf’s wife’s) drink and have her drink it.

During this time, the two women would come to the house, dress in Bishop’s clothes, and perform sexual acts on each other, as part of a scheme to clear the way for Ruf to marry the daughter.

Ruf admitted to poisoning Bishop’s drinks 12 times between September and December 2021, knowing that the drug could kill her

Authorities are investigating the other two in connection with the case to bring them to book.