The recently released coroner’s report about the accidental deaths of well-known Goleta farmers Jay and Kristen Ruskey includes even more tragic details of the night that the couple were killed by carbon monoxide poisoning at a friends’ home in Cambria.
Though the document does not contradict the cause of death, it does explain that medics arrived at the house earlier that night to treat Jay. Kristen told them that he’d taken a psychedelic mushroom-laced chocolate, but he declined to go to the hospital for further observation.
Less than six hours later, both were found unresponsive by their friends — Jay in the bedroom and Kristen on the floor in an adjacent laundry room…