When Kristen Kelly Ruskey reported that her husband, John Anthony Ruskey III, from Goleta, California, in Santa Barbara County, may have been drugged without knowing it and was experiencing a severe reaction, it set off an urgent but ultimately misleading chain of events.
But toxicology results have now revealed a far different and more tragic reality: both Kristen and her husband died from carbon monoxide poisoning, with ethanol as a contributing factor, dispelling early fears that drugs directly caused their deaths, according to the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office.
