In a weary groan that barely cleaved for words, Rudi Adolph Koos, 80, admitted Wednesday that a life in which he once took up arms for the Third Reich also included the kitchen-floor strangulation of his longtime wife.
The guilty plea to third-degree murder for the slaying of Waltraud “Trudi” Koos will likely send him to prison for at least five years, attorneys said.
That did not seem to bother Koos, who called police Jan. 6 to say he choked his 75-year-old wife to death in a rage in their Souderton apartment. Her offense, he said, was laughing off his suspicions of an affair.
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