The pair of Wisconsin is charged in an alleged plot to track down, poison and kill the connections of the dating application

A boyfriend and a friend of the Wisconsin was accused of attempted murder for having pretended to poison two women whose man was previously met after meeting them online, the authorities said.

Paul Vanduyne Jr., 43, and Andrea Whitaker, 41, were each accused of attempted murder, aggravated battery, recklessly putting the public and harassment, according to criminal cases deposited in the Madison region, Wisconsin.

Friday, they each appeared before the court separately in Janesville, in the county of Dane, which also houses the state capital. The deposit was set at $ 10 million for Vanduyne, who said prosecutors have access to substantial resources and $ 4 million for Whitaker.

The pleadings were not seized and everyone remained in detention, according to prison files. The defendants have separate lawyers, who did not immediately respond to requests for comments.

One of the two victims – each of which met Vanduyne on a meeting application and only saw it a few times – described an experience discovering a stranger whom she made later, Whitaker was crouching next to her vehicle in her garage in April.

The woman is identified in judicial archives -expurred as the victim of the county of Dane; The other woman is identified as the victim of the county of rock. Dane’s county’s wife said on Friday before the court that she had met Vanduyne more than a year ago, had taken two dates with him and told her that she was not interested in seeing him again.

“I have never been his girlfriend, but he and Andrea developed the illusion I was,” she said in court on Friday. “This illusion was so strong, they tried to kill me. Their actions and motivations are disconnected from reality. The two showed their ability to evolve.”

Appearing at the audience of Vanduyne, the woman said that after discovering the allegations against the couple, she has people with her night, installed a security system and hides her vehicle.

“I need the protection of the court,” she said. “The community needs the protection of the court.”

The prosecutors said Vanduyne had met Whitaker online roughly in the same time he went out with the victims and exercised a virtually relationship when she took lessons in the field of pharmacology far from the region.

At the end of the lessons, she moved nearby and the two met in person in the spring, according to the stories presented in the cases of cases.

Vanduyne graduated from Princeton University over 20 years ago, the institution confirmed. He had a mechanical engineering career, said his lawyer in court on Friday. The documents in the Rock County case indicate that he recently divorced and started to go out with the victims after having met them on dating applications or sites that have not been appointed.

When he connected with Whitaker, both embarked on a plot against the victims, prosecutors said.

The victim of the Rock County drew the attention of the authorities in early May when a doctor of the Wisconsin Poison Center reported that a woman had been hospitalized with thallium in her system, according to court documents.

Thallium was once commonly used to kill rodents. Larcing largely due to accidental poisonings, household use in the United States has been prohibited since 1965 and commercially since 1975.

The doctor, identified only by a last name, said: “The only way a human could have this quantity of thallium in his system is to consume it intentionally.”

The prosecutors said that the victim did not report any suicidal action and had struggled to think of anyone who tried to poison him – the names she invented were checked – until Vanduyne came to my mind, according to the Rock County documents.

She told detectives on the texts she had received at the beginning of 2025 of the texts of the man whom she only knew Paul when they came out with almost two years earlier, they say.

She gave her number to the investigators and they started watching Vanduyne earlier this month, according to court documents.

She said he had sent his SMS in the spring after contactless months. In them, said the victim of the county of rock, he called her “badly” and criticized her for having made her girlfriend, Whitaker, killed herself when she discovered their meeting story, according to the documents.

Whitaker did not kill herself.

In fact, court documents allege that it was an integral part of the plot to kill the other two women that Vanduyne had dated, and they worked together to trap bottles of water and vehicles with poisons they bought or, in a case, made from scratch.

In the May incident who sent the Rock County victim to the hospital, the woman took her old school sister to the cinema, but the two fell ill, according to the documents. The victim took his vehicle to a dealership, where workers reported a harmful smell and threw a storage tote which, according to him, contained an unknown substance, they said.

Because the woman and her sister described a smell of rotten eggs, the detectives concluded that the substance was hydrogen sulfide, a toxic gas.

The Sheriff of the County of Rock Curtis said that the victim of the county of rock was still in a wheelchair following his poisoning. Without the medical care she received – including an antidote piloted during the night of California – she would probably have died, he said.

The alleged conspiracy had an impact on the other victim, Dane’s County’s wife, shortly after, in mid-May, when passers-by pointed out that someone entered his vehicle in a Costco parking lot twice, according to the documents.

A witness to the Costco car park said that he had seen a man entering a mini-duties Chrysler Pacifica who was traced in Vanduyne, authorities said in the documents.

After one of the incidents, the victim said he had drunk bottled water whom she left in her vehicle and noticing in a terrible taste, according to legal documents. The water has been tested positive for cyanide and thallium.

After realizing that the two victims may have the same authors, the authorities examined the vehicle of the victim of the Rock County and concluded that he was the subject of an introduction by break -in or attempts with brands similar to those made in Costco attempts, according to documents.

The detectives obtained the permission of a judge to follow the Vandanduyne movement and found him going to the residence of the victim of the county of rock, according to the documents. After this trip, according to the authorities, they found a track camera hung on a tree in front of the victim’s home.

In other cases, the couple worked together to use cyanide, thallium and heap in several attempts to poison the victims, once even by putting a powdery substance in the vehicle ventilation system of a victim, authorities announced in court documents.

Abrin can be manufactured by grinding the rose seeds, authorities said in the documents.

Thursday, a search in the mini-dinner of Vanduyne revealed a tanned bag with several bottles inside, according to court documents. The authorities found peas in the bag and a seed crusher at his home, according to documents.

A team of FBI dangerous materials has been called to help research and the members have taken an active part several times, according to documents.

The defendants had to appear in the Rock County court next week to face accusations of attempted murder and harassment for Vanduyne and attempted murder and to help a criminal for Whitaker.

Vanduyne is again due to the Dane County court on August 4. It must be an appearance on July 2.