SARASOTA - Police are questioning the account of an 88-year-old man who said he killed his wife with carbon monoxide to end her suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
Paul Armbruster told detectives last month that he could no longer care for his 82-year-old wife, Virginia Adele Armbruster, who had been released from a nursing home Oct. 22, the day before she died.
He also told detectives that he intended to kill himself, but that his attempts failed.
Detectives said preliminary tests show Adele Armbruster died of suffocation.
They say there were red marks around her nose and mouth, and cuts to her wrist, neck, face, head and right hand and arm.
