Alfred Ruf in an interrogation (Wayne County Sheriff’s Office).
An Indiana man captured on interrogation video pointed fingers at two women, accusing them of devising a scheme in which he tampered with his wife’s Coca-Cola. However, the man admitted to carrying out the deed despite the alleged murder plot involving the women.
Wayne County sheriff’s investigators tried to pin Alfred Ruf down on precisely when the supposed co-conspirators voiced their plan.
“And you’re saying they hinted around to it. There’s no hinting around to this,” one of them said. “It’s either they said it or they didn’t say it.”
In a shocking narrative, Ruf described a series of incidents where he spiked his wife’s Coke with a substance. He then claimed that while she was asleep, he engaged in intimate acts with one of the women or they performed for him. The motive behind the murder plot, as per Ruf, was related to life insurance money.
Ruf maintained he did not know what the substance was, and that it was their goal, not his, to attempt murder.
“I didn’t want to kill her,” he said.
As an investigator pointed out, however, Ruf nonetheless carried out the action: “But you were the one giving her the stuff in order to do it.”
Ruf stands alone as the sole individual responsible for the incident. Authorities from Wayne County have not disclosed whether the other women will face charges. Ruf is currently serving a four-year prison term, with an additional five years suspended, for aggravated battery. The court considered mitigating factors such as the man’s age of 72, his past law-abiding behavior, his cooperation with law enforcement, and his demonstration of genuine remorse over the events.
“The crime was a result of circumstances unlikely to recur,” the court wrote.
