March 30, 2023 • 42 mins
As a Colorado dentist faces murder charges connected to the poisoning death of his wife, new information shows James Craig asked his church for help in cleaning his basement, while his wife lay dying in the hospital.
Police say James Craig bought arsenic and cyanide and secretly poisoned his wife's protein shakes. Angela Craig had made many recent hospital visits, and checked into a hospital again, complaining of a severe headache and dizziness.
At around 2 p.m. she had a seizure. Craig was then moved to ICU and placed on life support. Her condition quickly declined and she died.
After Craig's death, one of James Craig's co-workers told a nurse that the dentist had ordered potassium cyanide which was delivered to the office. There was no medical reason for the order. Police seized the husband's computer and found disturbing searches.
Joining Nancy Grace Today
- Jarrett Ferentino - Pennsylvania Prosecutor and Principal at Pugliese, Finnegan, Shaffer & Ferentino; Facebook & Instagram: Jarrett Ferentino
- Dr. Patricia Wallace, PsyD, LMFT - Over 20 years of clinical experience with psychotic disorders, dual diagnoses, addictions, mood disorders, marriage/relationship problems, and everyday general problems.
- Christopher Byers - Former Police Chief, Johns Creek, Georgia: 25 Years as Police Officer; Now: Private Investigator and Polygraph Examiner with Lancaster Information services in Atlanta
- Dr. Maneesha Pandey - Chief Forensic Pathologist for Forensic Pathologists LLC in Ohio, Board-Certified Forensic Pathologist
- Jen Smith - Chief Reporter for DailyMail.com, Twitter: @Jen_e_smith
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. More details emerging about a
seemingly mild mannered family practice dentist. His wife turns up
dead in the hospital. Oh what a tangled web we
weave when first we practice to deceive. Wait till you
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hear this. I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thanks
for being with us here at Fox Nation and Serious
X one eleven. First of all, take a listen to
our friends at ABC. James a dentist at summer Brook
Dental Group in Aurora, seen here in this promotional video.
My approach to dentistry begins with sincerely listening to the patient,
his patiency. They relied on him to ease their anxiety.
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He always made sure that I was okay and comfortable.
And now I think my anxiety is even more because
I'm like, who do I trust? Okay, There's going to
be a lot more problems other than his dental patience,
wondering who can I trust? Listen to this. James Craig
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joined Summerbrook Dental in Aurora, Colorado, in two thousand and
six after getting a degree from the University of Missouri
Kansas City. James and his wife Angela are the proud
parents of six children between the ages of eight and
twenty five, girls and a boy. Angela loves posting pictures
on social media showing the family as their camping or
mountain biking, traveling, and visiting theme parks. Neighbors think highly
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of the family, and friends admire how they balance work
in a very large family. While Angela posts happy family
photos on Facebook, she shares a very different picture of
what's going on in their family with her sister. For years,
Angela has been the doting wife married to the successful
dentist with six children. But the fact is her husband
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has been addicted to pornography since he was a teenager.
He hasn't been a faith full husband. The dental clinic
filed for bankruptcy, and even though their finances that the
dental office and at home are in dire straits, James
recently blew two thousand dollars on a gambling bing. Okay,
well wait, it's bad enough to be addicted to porn,
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but now this dentist is messing with the family money. Okay,
bad goes to worse. Listen to our friends at GMA.
Last Wednesday, police say Angela went to University Hospital in Aurora.
She complained of a severe headache and dizziness. That same day,
Craig's business partner at the dental practice told the nurse
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he thought Angela had been poisoned. A few days earlier,
an employee saw potassium cyanide and a package addressed to Craig.
The box was shipped to his dentist office in Aurora.
The employee searched potassium cyanide when she learned Angela was
sick and realized she had symptoms similar to a poisoning,
and after multiple recent hospital visits, Angela again checked into
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a hospital Wednesday morning, complaining of a severe headache and dizziness.
Around two pm, she had a seizure, her condition rapidly declining,
doctors moving her to the ICU, where she was put
on life support before passing away Saturday. Also hearing from
our friends at KUSA before I bring in an all
star panel, just one more thing, Let me just put
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the cherry on top of the cake for you. In
addition to his porn addiction and blowing all the money,
I mean really the family money. You know what, if
you're not going to help me, don't hurt me, don't
spend all the family money gambling for Pete say well,
to top it off, he's definitely cheating. Take a listen
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to our friends at crime online. According to the affidavit,
while his wife Angela is fighting for her life in
the hospital, her devoted husband is emailing his mistress. Those
emails suggested that James told her something had happened to Angela,
and according to the affidavit, she reportedly responded with how
sorry she was for him and that she wished she
was helping him, not pulling him away. She stated she
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knew it had to be so hard what he was
going through, and that she wanted to be there for him,
but did not want to mix with his family and
friends and pretend to be only a friend when there
was something more. She wants to help him, then leave
him alone, let him work on his relationship with his
wife and his family. Oh never mind, he can't do that.
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His wife's dead. Joining me in all Star, Pelle, I
want to go first to the chief reporter at dailymail
dot com. This is Jen Smith. Jen Smith, the muses
coming fast and furious from of all people, a family
practiced dentist. You don't really think of a dentist as
being a philanderer, a cheater, porn addicted and blowing all
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the money. I mean, when I will never look at
my dentist the same way again, we'll not say. I mean, look,
the pieces of this very sad puzzle are really start
seemed to come together. No, Nancy, we knew that there
was a mistress. We knew that there were some financial trouble,
but this really just takes it into a whole different league.
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Wait a minute, Jim, I don't really agree with everything
you say, but you know, calling her a mistress is
kind of putting perfume on the pig. This is a
guy with six children. He is a sole financial support
for this family, and she's holding up in a hotel
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with him. Really, mistress seems kind of ephimistic. Do you
agree or disagree with that his mistress? Well? Perhaps, I mean, look,
however way you slice it, he was cheating on his wife.
He was with a woman he shouldn't have been with.
That's maybe the most generous way to phrase it, certainly
the most polite way to praise it for your listeners. Polite,
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that's a lot. I don't think our listeners were talking
about murder. Are hung up on calling her worse than
a mistress. Let's go to doctor Patricia Wallace, licensed Marriage
and Family therapists. You can find her at doctor pc
Wallace Therapy dot com. Doctor Wallace, he's bad enough, all right.
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He is the worst because he's the one that had
the duty to the wife and the six children. But
she ain't no saint either. She's got children and she
knows what she's doing. I mean, doctor, with all the
men out there, all the men in the world, why
pick one with a wife and six children. That's the
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same thing. When I was reading it, it's something in
his behavior that obviously she was attracted to. And it
could have been my opinion only, but it's something I
was able to kind of analyze and reading the story
and looking at him, that dark side of him, and
a lot of women seem to be attracted to that
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part of an individual for whatever reason it's unknown. It
gives the individual sense of power. Okay, you know what,
doctor Wallace, I'm trying to stay with you. I'm just
a JD sense of power. He's a dentist. I mean,
no offense to dentist all around the world, But what's
this a power that there? It's like a sense of
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control almost like I have that you know, I got it,
I made it happen. I have that etchem Unfortunately, yes,
I'm saying it. It is a sick thought. You know.
It's definitely something that the individual within themselves feel like
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they've accomplished something. It's very tricky and it's I described it, yeah,
just bottom lyne It gives each individual as sense of power,
like they've accomplished something. You and are we talking about
the woman the mistress that's cheating with a dentist with
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six children accomplished what? I'm sorry, you're really losing me
the catch you know, I got it. Yes, it's very unfortunate,
but it happens. Guess a woman who is a mistress
of side piece as this now it's called you know,
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with a husband, the wife, six kids. Okay, something must
be going on there. This man, the image that he
projected to her that he had a lot of money,
had everything going on, and she eventually realized that he
didn't have all of that stuff. It's just like a thrill. Okay,
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wait a minute. So you think she was attracted to
him because he has this perfect life, seemingly with all
of the children in the home with the practice, all
of that. But she's got that too. Jan Smith is
joining us from Dalenmall dot com. She has a family
and she has a practice. What's her deal? Yeah, she
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does have her own family. She had a practice with
her husband, but she too had some financial problems with
that practice of her own. Much like Jim Quaig, this
woman her name's Karen Kane. She and her husband had
run their practice, their orthodontist practice in Texas, into financial
ruin and they were on the brink of divorce. They
had actually filed dwork papers. Unlike our murdering gentists in Colorado,
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this women and her family were splitting up. So whether
or not she was planning to be with Jim Craig
full time, perhaps that was the way that she hoped
it would go. Obviously, now it hasn't quite worked out
that way for her. Maybe it's some sort of escapism,
But whatever it is, she's another for and if given
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enough rope, I'm sure she would not have been the
last Take a listen to Dave Mackett. Crime online investigators
claimed Jim Craig was having an affair with the Texas
worth of dnist. The relationship was such that Craig even
brought her to town when his wife was in the hospital.
The name of this mistress Karen Kane, and it's being
reported that she was scheduled to fly into Colorado to
busy Craig the week and his wife died. Karen and
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her husband James, have two children and have been separated
since January of twenty twenty two. According to The New
York Post, neighbors say they haven't seen Karen since the
story broke. So she's hiding out, all right, Fine, So
she's got a family, and she's got a practice. Everything
in jeopardy over what sex? And I wonder how she
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feels now to find out she is by far not
the first mistress this dnnis has had. Hi, guys, Nancy
Grace here, Join us now on Fox Nation for our
brand new special, Children of Serial Killers, a Nancy Grace investigation.
Parents by day, Killers by night? But what about the
(11:07):
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by their parents crimes? What happens when they find out
mommy or Daddy's a killer? In this new special, we
investigate the lives of children of serial killers weaving the
timelines of the parents crimes into their home lives. Speaking
(11:29):
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com to watch Time Stories with Nancy Grace. Guys, I
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haven't even gotten to the updates yet, but the affair
is bad enough. But don't mass with the money. There's
six children to feed. Listen to our friends at Fox
thirty one. Craig Folifer bankruptcy in August of twenty twenty,
labeling he's dead as primarily business related, his estimated liabilities
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sitting between one and ten million dollars, the former employee
describing him as someone passionate about dynastry but wanted to
have it all. Okay, joining me right now. Jared Farrentino,
Pennsylvania prosecutor and now partner at Piglisi Finnegan, Schaeffer and Ferentino.
I think I've mentioned you already. I think your name
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should be first. You can find him on Instagram at
Jarrett Farantino. Jarrett, thank you for being with us. Okay,
ten million dollars in debt? Jin? Did I just hear
ten million dollars in debt? Jen Smith, Daily Mail? You
sure did. No. That was the estimated scope of his
debt when he failed for bankruptcy. But what we've found
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out called hard facts, Nancy, he was actually in two
million dollars a personal debt, and it was because he
made some really terrible investments in some dodgy cryptocurrency turned
out to be worth absolutely nothing. He gambled the family
pots with these really risky investment choices, and then by
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the time we came to find out about him, he
was really up to his neck. He filed for personal bankruptcy,
he filed for professional bankruptcy. Okay, Farantino, Really you got
the mistress who is knowingly sleeping with a guy? Was
six children, they're all over Facebook. You can't help. But no,
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he's quote happily married, all right, six children. He's a
sole source of support. Now I find out not only
is he out gambling, but he had to file bankruptcy,
personal and professional bankruptcy, Nancy. And quite honestly, this guy's
morally bankrupt. Clearly that's you know, the millions in debt
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are just the beginnings of his problem. It looks like
this guy was always looking for the next rush, the
next high it's high stakes gambling, high stakes crypto investments.
He paid his house off, he was living free and
clear in a million dollar house. In twenty nineteen, he
up ends that goes back into debt for a high
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risk cryptocurrency investment that went belly up, so he lost
that money. He's party to a lawsuit now. So it
seems to me this dentist likes these flights of fans,
the high risk, master manipulator, sociopathic personality. That was certainly mouthful.
I need to diagram all that, but you know how
you diagram sentences in the fourth grade, Because that was
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a lot, and I think I agree with all of it,
but hold on with all the register just for a moment,
you know. Back to doctor Patricia Wallace, Guys Licensed Marriage
a family therapist at doctor pc Wallace Therapy dot com.
I don't think I could enjoy gambling or cheating because
I'd be too worried about a getting caught and be
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what it would do to my family. I mean, think
about it. Who wants fifty percent of your children? I
don't want fifty percent. I want one hundred percent, even
if I have to share it with my husband. But
I want to take him to school. I want to
pick him up. I want to have dinner with them.
I don't want them to be at some crappy fast
food every Thursday night having dinner with dad and I
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have to sit home. Why would you risk all that
for what a role in the Hey? No, yeah, he seems,
and he may have been. I mean I agree with
the you know, being Morley bank rut. However, it seems,
and I'm going deep with this analytical theory here, that
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he obviously was in like a fight flight or freeze
type of moment. Wait, which moment are we talking about?
The first mistress, the second mistress, the gambling, the bankruptcy,
the third mistress, the fourth mistress? Well, I agree, what
one instant are we talking about? Because I mean, this
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is a long track record. I agree. And again, although
he may have had some fear instilled in him as
far as you know, but with the cryptocurrency and everything
going the way that it did, he was in a
moment where each incident. Every time something happened, it appears
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based on his behavior. Then okay, he thought about okay,
either I have to fight or I'm going to run
away from this. He chose to fight internally within himself
and doing all of these other less they abnormal things,
you know, engaging in these behaviors to help himself feel good. Okay,
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now I'm finally understanding you. Is this the same reason
men get to a certain age and they get a
new haircut, they start working out at the gym, and
then they go blow a lot of money on a
sports car. Yeah, yeah, okay, gotcha, I'm finally understanding what
you're saying. Well, we've been talking about the women, the money,
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the gambling, but what about the single most important thing.
Angela's dead. His wife is dead. Take a listener. Our
friends at CBS. He worked so hard to cover his tracks,
and it was really some of the workers at his
dental practice that helped off investigators to this. He had
a home computer and a laptop that he used frequently,
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according to those employees, but then one day they saw
him using a computer in an exam room after hours.
Investigators went back and what they found at that computer
is that he had created a new Google account, that
is where he had purchased on Amazon, buying some of
these medals that they believe was used in the poisoning. Okay,
he's online in an examination room, all alone, after hours,
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right there. Okay, guys, let's talk about what we're learning
in the last hours regarding this home, this family practice.
Dentist James Toller Craig joining me. Chris Buyer's former police chief,
John's Creek, now private investigator and polygrapher at Lancaster Services
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dot com. Chris, can I tell you what happened the
other day? I was in the kitchen and I love
to cook, and I was making dinner, and I looked
out the kitchen window and I saw, Yes, my husband
out in the driveway talking on his phone. Why does
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he have to be out in the driveway talking on
the phone. What does he does he have to say
out there? He can't say right there in the kitchen
with me, So of course I sneak up on him
and ambush him to find out what he's doing. Guess
what he was doing. He was listening to a book
on tape and trying to smoke a sneaky cigar. Yes,
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that's what was happening. He was trying to hide from
me because he knew I would raise hblel about him smoking.
He has a cigar like once a month that I
know of. Anyway, when I got closer enough to him,
I can hear him listening to some horrible, boring economic
treatise on tape. My ears started bleeding, and then I
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saw I smelled a cigar. But isn't that a tip
off when you see somebody sneaking off to use their
cell phone? Absolutely, and let me just say, you're the
last person that I would try to sneak something over
on like that. I wish you could see me sneaking out.
Even took off much industry, so won't make any noise
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sneaking out there. I caught of being good again. But
here you got a guy doing so much in secrets,
so nobody would hear about it. And I understand, to
Jim Smith joining us from dalimail dot com, what can
you tell me about an alternate email address? So yeah,
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I mean, he clearly thought he was more intelligent than
he was. He was using a different computer in his
dentist practice, the one that he owned, and then he
had this alternate email address. I think it was something
along the lenes of Jim and Waffles at gmail dot com.
Or wait, wait, wait, it was what something along the
lanes of Jim and Waffles at email or an aol
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or at hotmail dot call. My I don't recall which exactly,
but hardly a criminal mastermind. Oh okay, wait a minute,
Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait wait Jackie Sidney,
please find out is it hotmail? Is he still using hotmail?
I need to know that, just out of my own curiosity. Okay,
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go ahead, Jim Smith, so he's got an alternate email?
Did you say it was Jim and Waffles, gem and Waffles,
as in the waffles that we eat for breakfast. Yeah,
I'm thinking of him being all double O seven sneaking
around and is alias is Jim and Waffles? Okay, truly,
it's like something a teenager may do. Chris Buyers, please
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help me. I mean, I know I'm about to get
to what this poor lady suffered being poisoned to death,
a horrible, horrible and painful death. But can I just
take one moment to let it so ken that he
sneaks around to use his super secret Elios and he
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picks Jim and Waffles. Really do you know one of
my guinea pigs is named Waffles Rosie mcwaffle, specifically for
her full name. But okay, how Tom can this guy
be Chris Buyers? I mean, how many millions of times
have you said that when you're going through cases? What
an idiot? I thought you had to be smart to
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go to med school. I might have done that thirty
years ago if I known you could get through it
and have his level of intelligence. But hey, he just
matches the formula of the maggot that we see on
here all the time. Addiction a fair money issues? Oh wait, wait, wait,
wait wait did you say addiction? Did you say addiction? Porn? Addiction?
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Did you? Okay, stop right there, Chris or Buyers or
in this case, I'm gonna use your full name, Christopher Buyers.
Jim Smith, have you had it up to your eyeballs
with Hollywood stars? Every time they get caught cheating, they
say they have a sex addiction. A bit of a
convenient excuse, isn't it? Is that really a thing, doctor
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Patricia Wallace? I mean, every time I see a Hollywood
star cheating and they get caught, they suddenly go to
sex rehabit. Yeah, it's actually a thing to be addicted to.
Six born. That's usually what you know they work with,
unless they're going out hanvrying different encounters with many different
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people known or unknown. Yes, it's an actual disorder. You know.
In the past they called it being a hoe. Now
it's a sex addiction. Okay, you got Tiger Woods, Russell Brand,
David Dukovney, Rob Low, Michael Douglas, Eric Benet. I mean
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there's so many more. Oh, wait a minute, there's a
lot more. I'm just looking at a list you've got.
Did I already say Russell Brand? Have I already named him?
Lamar Odom, Kanye West? He claims he has a sex addiction.
Colin Ferrold did he claimed he also had a sex addiction.
I mean, there's so many I can't even name them all.
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I don't know about the sex addiction thing. Chris Buyers.
What leads you to believe that he is clinically addicted? Well,
I use that as a cop term. I'm not one
of these smart psychologists like we have on here. I
didn't mean that of a good thing. So you just
like throwing it around and now you're trying to explain
your back out of it. He put himself there was
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it was his actions that put him there, So I
did not mean that as an excuse for him. And
I've got another correction for you while I'm on you
like a cheap suit, Christopher Buyers. Doctor Menetia Pandey strenuously
objects to you calling the denist to doctor okay, because
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I think you have to go for like how many
years more to be a medical doctor. And for you,
Jen Smith, there is no more hotmail. I didn't know that.
Sidney just told me that. So Scott, no, it's defunct.
It's Gmail. So it's Joe and Waffles at gmail dot com.
As the waffle is the most important part of that
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that ratio right there. So guys, we've established that killers
are not always a smart but when you do not
just your wife and your mistress, but your whole church.
Take a listen to our friends at crime Online. With
his wife Angela is sick and in the hospital and
family on the Weighty Town, Dennis Jim Craig seeks the
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help of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day
Saints south Shore Ward. He and his family are very
active members of the South Shore Ward, and he takes
time to thank members for help with yard work, cleaning,
and meal preparation, all normal things during a time of need.
But it is the oddly specific request he makes that
has some members wondering if they have been used to
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cover up a crime. Members were asked to help organize
Craig's mudroom and basement at their home while Angela was
in the hospital. The source went on to say, quote,
it's quite common in the community for us to go
into somebody's house and help when there's a new baby
or a sickness, but the language of this request was
so heightened. It said they needed the mudroom organized and
their basement storage organized unquote. The source thing continued, looking
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back at the timing of the communication, I can't help
wondering if that was something Jim asked for knowing that
it might be a crime scene. Later jes Smith dalmail
dot Com, what yeah, I mean. The thing that really
is baffling about that request If by this point Angela
is in the hospital, she is dying slowly. She has
been poisoned, so we don't have where you might in
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other cases have a violent crime scene. This crime scene
pertains to the potassium. He was using stassium cyanide poison her.
So is that what he was trying to have members
of his church move around, reorganize people who have gone
to his home in good face, to help them and
what they perceived to be a tragedy. Was he trying
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to manipulate them into possibly getting rid of some of
the evidence that could be used against him. We're definitely
going to find out at the trial. I think Farantino
joining me a Pennsylvania prosecutor and named partner at Big
Lacy Finnegan, Schaeffer and Farantino, is this guy leaving a
track a mile wide? He's actually asking church members to
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come over, reorganize and clean up portions of his home.
Now they're wondering, did I just clean up a crime?
Say fancy when you look at his behavior after the fact,
after the poisoning, that is such powerful evidence against him,
whether or not he believed they were covering up something,
or perhaps there was a bottle there, perhaps there was
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some packaging there. You know, he'd ordered poison over the
period of days, different types, as we discussed, So who
knows what he was looking for them to do. But
the fact that he made that request will be powerful
evidence in the presentation. These bizarre behaviors in his office
and at his home afterwards just go to show you
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his mindset, his actions during that time, and just point
to his guilt. It's very powerful evidence. And there's another
aspect to it, whether they clean the crime scene or not.
Jen Smith joining me dailymail dot com, how dare He
might as well have written on the email, Hey, I'm
busy shocked up in a hotel in Denver with my mistress.
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Can you go clean my basement? Well that's it, I
mean completely and utterly morally bankrupt. Like we've already discussed.
It really seems like this guy has no limit to
how far he'll go to his own needs. And my
other question I think we are going to find out
is where were the children at this point? Is looking
after them? There are six of them, six members of
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the church who were going to help them. We knew
that they were the family Mormon and people in their
community really went to help them. I mean, did he
poll all the children off phone to them too? Guys
when we were talking about Jim and Waffles, we thought
at hotmail, but actually at gmail dot com is super
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secret double O seven Gmail handle. Well, he wasn't just
using it to contact his mistress. Take listen to our
cut twenty seven our friends at CBS. With that new
Google account, they then found some of the communication between
Jim and this orthodontist in Texas that he had been
talking to over the past month and visiting with. They
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believe that's the woman who was in the most recent affair.
So he had really started to use this other computer
that he didn't use before and trying to cover his tracks,
so that if they had searched his lapstop or searched
his phone, they wouldn't have had that evidence. But it
was those employees that noticed something weird. And when one
of those medals was actually shipped to the dental office,
he had told one employee that's a personal package, Please
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don't open that up. And it was another employee that
opened it up. And so it's kind of a several
other places in this investigation that all had to come
together to really help investigators try and tie this case together.
So when you say, hey, don't open that, of course
the person is going to open it. And before I
go to our expert doctor at Menetia Panday joining us
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Jim Smith, exactly what poisons was he having sent to
his office? Well, do we know of two so far?
He had some arsenic sense to his office, and he
also had this potassium cyanide, and that is what we
think he was using to poison Angela over the course
of several weeks, actually putting it in her protein shape,
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even helping her along or trying to reassure her when
she was complaining of sickness, dizziness, Nauja, he was sort
of still encouraging her to drink a fluids and you
know where those fluids were coming from. Crime stories with
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Nancy Grace. In the last hours, the defense team for
the dentist has demanded a gag order. In other words,
don't let anybody talk about the case and let it
leak out to the public. Well, it's a day late,
a dollar short for that. Take lest hour cut twenty
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two k c n C. In court, Craig's attorneys requested
a gag order. They complain publicities endangering the dentists trites.
Court documents shown a search on Craig's computer asking how
many greens of barsnik will kill a human. There is
also an invoice for the purchase of the poisoned potassium cyanide.
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Earlier this week we spoke with friends of the Craigs.
It definitely felt bad for the family and when I
heard what really happened, just like Karen described as punching
the cut. You know, if you look at the trail
he's left behind, you may, like we've been talking, think
he's a big idiot. But what could be more, let
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me just say innocent than church friends cleaning your place
to help you out with your children unwillingly getting rid
of crime evidence. If that effect happened, is he crazy
or crazy? Like a fox? Joining me right now? Doctor
Menetia Pandey, Doctor Pandey, chief forensic pathologist for Forensic Pathologist
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else in Ohio, a forensic pathologist and you can find
doctor Pandey at the forensic pathologist dot com. Doctor Pandee,
we've been working up to this moment. How many grains
of arsenic would it take to kill a human? And
what is your reaction to the poisons that were put
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into a protein shake to kill the mother of six?
So arsenic can be you know, you have to put
quite a bit of it in your food or any
kind of shake. However, like for sanide, you don't need
that much. Now, what would sanide do to a person
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side would immediately got cause dizziness, They will cause headaches,
They will cause immediate drop in blood pressure and you
will just fall down. And what happened at dud interfere
with your ability to use oxygen. So after the days
preceding her death of her complying I feel dizzy, I
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feel like I'm going to pass out. I feel sick
to my stomach. Are those symptoms consistent with potassium cyanide?
I would think that potassium cyanide has a more acute
entomology in terms of like once you're exposed to it,
you're likely to die very quickly. Those are probably have
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symptoms of arsenic Oh, I see, I see. I found
it interesting that Angela Angela Craig, the deceased mom of six,
had been to the hospital multiple times before, but the
doctors could not diagnose her. They couldn't figure out what
was wrong. I think, of course, I'm just a JD.
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You're the MD that in the blood panels or the
urine analysis that they didn't search for poisons. That's not
a typical thing for which they would search. That's correct,
if you don't have a high index of suspicion in
terms of this person could potentially be poisoned normally in
the hospitals, they won't check for those. What type of
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suffering did she endure before her death? She must have
suffered quite a bit in terms of like you having
severe headache, her heart would stop, or she's having dizziness
and she's like breathing. She got able to breathe. I'm
very curious about the way that she passed away. Was
she in pain, was she on meds? We don't know,
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and we won't know until those medical records are revealed.
But I do know this. Jarif Farantino, he the husband,
was not there at her side. He was texting her, Oh,
how I wish I could be with you as she
was dying. He was with his mistress hold up in
a hotel, ring Nancy. One text he sent her said
(35:48):
I have empathy for you, which, as shocking as all
those texts were, that one is the most telling because
clearly he lacks empathy for his wife. He's not by
her side, not holding her hand as she's suffering from
some quote unquote suspicious illness. That they haven't even identified.
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He's hold up with another woman while his wife, mother
of six of his six children, is on her deathbed.
That is the shocking part of this case. He put
her there, he poisoned her over a period of time,
and essentially makes those texts from that place away from
her side. It's just it's so shocking. This is not
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the first time that a mistress has been tangled up
with a guy who murders his wife. The name Kelsey Barrett,
I'll never forget it. Kelsey Brett is a beautiful, young
single mom of a little girl now dead, the so
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called other woman, a rodeo queen, takeless an hour, cut
thirteen em our friends at Inside Edition. Her name is
Crystal Lee and she is a registered nurse in Twin Falls, Idaho.
Published reports say the FBI is investigating her in connection
with Kelsey Barrett's disappearance. Lee lives about thirty five miles
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from where the missing mom's cell phone last pained three
days after she was seen at a supermarket on Thanksgiving Day.
Here's what we know about Lee. She is thirty two
years old and a divorced mother of two. She is
active in rodeo and was once crowned Miss Magic Valley
Stampede Queen. She and Phrasey reportedly met at a rodeo
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He's a blacksmith. Just before his alleged wedding to Kelsey Barrett.
She suddenly goes missing. Let me point out her body
was never found. Now listen to eleven m ABC Now,
thirty two year old nurse from Twin Falls, Idaho, is
set to make a deal with prosecutors in the case
of missing mom Kelsey Barrett. Family members of Crystal Lee
(37:57):
tell ABC News she will plead guilty this week to
at least one charge. Lee, her family says, has known
Barras's fiance Patrick Frazy for decades. He's already been charged
with Barret's murder. Her body has not been found. Tell
me about Crystall Lee's exact relationship to Phrasie and her
alleged role in the case remain a mystery. Barrett was
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last seeing Thanksgiving Day in this surveillance video, shopping with
the one year old daughter she had with Frazy. Three
days after she vanished, investigators say her cell phone was
detected hundreds of miles away. Her phone did end up
in Idaho, Multiple law enforcement sources tell ABC News. Lee
is suspected of driving Berets's cell phone to Idaho attempting
to get rid of it. I wonder if she thought, Wow,
(38:41):
why am I getting rid of a cell phone out
in the middle of nowhere? The rodeo Queen dragged into
Patrick Phrasie's murderous plot, and then of course who could
forget kill her dad? Chris Watts take a listen to
clip two m And it was always hit or miss,
Like it wasn't every day thing. It was just when
I saw him, we just started talking and we just
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kind of had a lot in common and just hit
it off. So we'd always have, you know, pretty good conversations.
And then I don't know, one day he told me
that he had kids and started talking on his kids
and then mentioned, yes that I have a wife, but
we're getting separated, so okay, And when do you think
that was when he said all that? So specifically when
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he told you he was getting separated from his wife.
Was that within the first couple of weeks that you
knew him, or was that later on you said you
met him around May or June. Yeah, it was still
well she Shann Watts ends up dead along with both
of their little girls. Now the girlfriend you're hearing right
(39:44):
there in Nicole Kissinger had nothing to do with the
murder plot or anything connected to it. We can never
forget the seminal case of Scott Peterson and his girlfriend
Amber Fry. Remember me and he thought he was clairvoyant
because he said, Wow, Amber, this will be my first
Christmas without my wife. And guess what it was after
(40:05):
he killed her. Take listen to our friends at NBC.
I met Scott Peterson November twentieth, two thousand and two.
Scott told me he was not married. We did have
a romantic relationship. She was Amber Fry. Amber secretly helped
the police by recording her calls with Scott. As soon
(40:25):
as I plug in her little recorder of the phone rings,
he called, oh boy. The Amber Fry had nothing to
do with the death or cover up Lacy and Connor's death.
But once again she's led down the garden path like
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many other mistresses. So question do you, Christopher Buyers In
the current case the quote other woman is not accused
of taking part in any way in the death of
the dentist's wife, Angela Craig, but I guarantee you she
will be a fountain of information when they start aligning
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and comparing times he's missing to times his wife got ill,
to times he was with his mistress. Absolutely, she's going
to be able to put so many of the puzzle
people in the order of the timeline of all of this.
So she is going to be just like you said,
she is going to be a wealth of information for
the prosecution in this same much, let's share a farantino.
(41:31):
If you've blurted out something like my wife is dying,
or my wife is dead, or I'm going to be
a widow, or my wife has this illness or that ailment.
If he made statements to her like Scott Peterson may
to Amber Fry, a jury is going to be standing
on their ears. Those admissions, as you know, Nancy, are
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exceptions to hear. Say it's a defendant's own statements, and
they are powerful at the in that courtroom, statements to
the mistress while he's lying next to her about his
dying wife are very telling, and every prosecutor would love
to have a statement like that. And pursuing a conviction
of doctor Craig in this case, despite the defense's near
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requests for a gag order filed In the last days.
Evidence is pouring out from the investigation, and every bit
of it compounds what we know. Angela Craig died a
painful and horrible death, and our children are now going
to be left without parents. We wait as justice enter falls.
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Goodbye for
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. More details emerging about a
seemingly mild mannered family practice dentist. His wife turns up
dead in the hospital. Oh what a tangled web we
weave when first we practice to deceive. Wait till you
(00:29):
hear this. I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thanks
for being with us here at Fox Nation and Serious
X one eleven. First of all, take a listen to
our friends at ABC. James a dentist at summer Brook
Dental Group in Aurora, seen here in this promotional video.
My approach to dentistry begins with sincerely listening to the patient,
his patiency. They relied on him to ease their anxiety.
(00:52):
He always made sure that I was okay and comfortable.
And now I think my anxiety is even more because
I'm like, who do I trust? Okay, There's going to
be a lot more problems other than his dental patience,
wondering who can I trust? Listen to this. James Craig
(01:12):
joined Summerbrook Dental in Aurora, Colorado, in two thousand and
six after getting a degree from the University of Missouri
Kansas City. James and his wife Angela are the proud
parents of six children between the ages of eight and
twenty five, girls and a boy. Angela loves posting pictures
on social media showing the family as their camping or
mountain biking, traveling, and visiting theme parks. Neighbors think highly
(01:35):
of the family, and friends admire how they balance work
in a very large family. While Angela posts happy family
photos on Facebook, she shares a very different picture of
what's going on in their family with her sister. For years,
Angela has been the doting wife married to the successful
dentist with six children. But the fact is her husband
(01:55):
has been addicted to pornography since he was a teenager.
He hasn't been a faith full husband. The dental clinic
filed for bankruptcy, and even though their finances that the
dental office and at home are in dire straits, James
recently blew two thousand dollars on a gambling bing. Okay,
well wait, it's bad enough to be addicted to porn,
(02:17):
but now this dentist is messing with the family money. Okay,
bad goes to worse. Listen to our friends at GMA.
Last Wednesday, police say Angela went to University Hospital in Aurora.
She complained of a severe headache and dizziness. That same day,
Craig's business partner at the dental practice told the nurse
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he thought Angela had been poisoned. A few days earlier,
an employee saw potassium cyanide and a package addressed to Craig.
The box was shipped to his dentist office in Aurora.
The employee searched potassium cyanide when she learned Angela was
sick and realized she had symptoms similar to a poisoning,
and after multiple recent hospital visits, Angela again checked into
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a hospital Wednesday morning, complaining of a severe headache and dizziness.
Around two pm, she had a seizure, her condition rapidly declining,
doctors moving her to the ICU, where she was put
on life support before passing away Saturday. Also hearing from
our friends at KUSA before I bring in an all
star panel, just one more thing, Let me just put
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the cherry on top of the cake for you. In
addition to his porn addiction and blowing all the money,
I mean really the family money. You know what, if
you're not going to help me, don't hurt me, don't
spend all the family money gambling for Pete say well,
to top it off, he's definitely cheating. Take a listen
(03:43):
to our friends at crime online. According to the affidavit,
while his wife Angela is fighting for her life in
the hospital, her devoted husband is emailing his mistress. Those
emails suggested that James told her something had happened to Angela,
and according to the affidavit, she reportedly responded with how
sorry she was for him and that she wished she
was helping him, not pulling him away. She stated she
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knew it had to be so hard what he was
going through, and that she wanted to be there for him,
but did not want to mix with his family and
friends and pretend to be only a friend when there
was something more. She wants to help him, then leave
him alone, let him work on his relationship with his
wife and his family. Oh never mind, he can't do that.
(04:29):
His wife's dead. Joining me in all Star, Pelle, I
want to go first to the chief reporter at dailymail
dot com. This is Jen Smith. Jen Smith, the muses
coming fast and furious from of all people, a family
practiced dentist. You don't really think of a dentist as
being a philanderer, a cheater, porn addicted and blowing all
(04:52):
the money. I mean, when I will never look at
my dentist the same way again, we'll not say. I mean, look,
the pieces of this very sad puzzle are really start
seemed to come together. No, Nancy, we knew that there
was a mistress. We knew that there were some financial trouble,
but this really just takes it into a whole different league.
(05:13):
Wait a minute, Jim, I don't really agree with everything
you say, but you know, calling her a mistress is
kind of putting perfume on the pig. This is a
guy with six children. He is a sole financial support
for this family, and she's holding up in a hotel
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with him. Really, mistress seems kind of ephimistic. Do you
agree or disagree with that his mistress? Well? Perhaps, I mean, look,
however way you slice it, he was cheating on his wife.
He was with a woman he shouldn't have been with.
That's maybe the most generous way to phrase it, certainly
the most polite way to praise it for your listeners. Polite,
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that's a lot. I don't think our listeners were talking
about murder. Are hung up on calling her worse than
a mistress. Let's go to doctor Patricia Wallace, licensed Marriage
and Family therapists. You can find her at doctor pc
Wallace Therapy dot com. Doctor Wallace, he's bad enough, all right.
(06:16):
He is the worst because he's the one that had
the duty to the wife and the six children. But
she ain't no saint either. She's got children and she
knows what she's doing. I mean, doctor, with all the
men out there, all the men in the world, why
pick one with a wife and six children. That's the
(06:40):
same thing. When I was reading it, it's something in
his behavior that obviously she was attracted to. And it
could have been my opinion only, but it's something I
was able to kind of analyze and reading the story
and looking at him, that dark side of him, and
a lot of women seem to be attracted to that
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part of an individual for whatever reason it's unknown. It
gives the individual sense of power. Okay, you know what,
doctor Wallace, I'm trying to stay with you. I'm just
a JD sense of power. He's a dentist. I mean,
no offense to dentist all around the world, But what's
this a power that there? It's like a sense of
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control almost like I have that you know, I got it,
I made it happen. I have that etchem Unfortunately, yes,
I'm saying it. It is a sick thought. You know.
It's definitely something that the individual within themselves feel like
(07:47):
they've accomplished something. It's very tricky and it's I described it, yeah,
just bottom lyne It gives each individual as sense of power,
like they've accomplished something. You and are we talking about
the woman the mistress that's cheating with a dentist with
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six children accomplished what? I'm sorry, you're really losing me
the catch you know, I got it. Yes, it's very unfortunate,
but it happens. Guess a woman who is a mistress
of side piece as this now it's called you know,
(08:30):
with a husband, the wife, six kids. Okay, something must
be going on there. This man, the image that he
projected to her that he had a lot of money,
had everything going on, and she eventually realized that he
didn't have all of that stuff. It's just like a thrill. Okay,
(08:53):
wait a minute. So you think she was attracted to
him because he has this perfect life, seemingly with all
of the children in the home with the practice, all
of that. But she's got that too. Jan Smith is
joining us from Dalenmall dot com. She has a family
and she has a practice. What's her deal? Yeah, she
(09:14):
does have her own family. She had a practice with
her husband, but she too had some financial problems with
that practice of her own. Much like Jim Quaig, this
woman her name's Karen Kane. She and her husband had
run their practice, their orthodontist practice in Texas, into financial
ruin and they were on the brink of divorce. They
had actually filed dwork papers. Unlike our murdering gentists in Colorado,
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this women and her family were splitting up. So whether
or not she was planning to be with Jim Craig
full time, perhaps that was the way that she hoped
it would go. Obviously, now it hasn't quite worked out
that way for her. Maybe it's some sort of escapism,
But whatever it is, she's another for and if given
(10:01):
enough rope, I'm sure she would not have been the
last Take a listen to Dave Mackett. Crime online investigators
claimed Jim Craig was having an affair with the Texas
worth of dnist. The relationship was such that Craig even
brought her to town when his wife was in the hospital.
The name of this mistress Karen Kane, and it's being
reported that she was scheduled to fly into Colorado to
busy Craig the week and his wife died. Karen and
(10:23):
her husband James, have two children and have been separated
since January of twenty twenty two. According to The New
York Post, neighbors say they haven't seen Karen since the
story broke. So she's hiding out, all right, Fine, So
she's got a family, and she's got a practice. Everything
in jeopardy over what sex? And I wonder how she
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feels now to find out she is by far not
the first mistress this dnnis has had. Hi, guys, Nancy
Grace here, Join us now on Fox Nation for our
brand new special, Children of Serial Killers, a Nancy Grace investigation.
Parents by day, Killers by night? But what about the
(11:07):
sons and daughters of brutal murderers? Are they forever haunted
by their parents crimes? What happens when they find out
mommy or Daddy's a killer? In this new special, we
investigate the lives of children of serial killers weaving the
timelines of the parents crimes into their home lives. Speaking
(11:29):
directly with sons and daughters of serial killers, including the
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(11:50):
com to watch Time Stories with Nancy Grace. Guys, I
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haven't even gotten to the updates yet, but the affair
is bad enough. But don't mass with the money. There's
six children to feed. Listen to our friends at Fox
thirty one. Craig Folifer bankruptcy in August of twenty twenty,
labeling he's dead as primarily business related, his estimated liabilities
(12:36):
sitting between one and ten million dollars, the former employee
describing him as someone passionate about dynastry but wanted to
have it all. Okay, joining me right now. Jared Farrentino,
Pennsylvania prosecutor and now partner at Piglisi Finnegan, Schaeffer and Ferentino.
I think I've mentioned you already. I think your name
(12:58):
should be first. You can find him on Instagram at
Jarrett Farantino. Jarrett, thank you for being with us. Okay,
ten million dollars in debt? Jin? Did I just hear
ten million dollars in debt? Jen Smith, Daily Mail? You
sure did. No. That was the estimated scope of his
debt when he failed for bankruptcy. But what we've found
(13:19):
out called hard facts, Nancy, he was actually in two
million dollars a personal debt, and it was because he
made some really terrible investments in some dodgy cryptocurrency turned
out to be worth absolutely nothing. He gambled the family
pots with these really risky investment choices, and then by
(13:42):
the time we came to find out about him, he
was really up to his neck. He filed for personal bankruptcy,
he filed for professional bankruptcy. Okay, Farantino, Really you got
the mistress who is knowingly sleeping with a guy? Was
six children, they're all over Facebook. You can't help. But no,
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he's quote happily married, all right, six children. He's a
sole source of support. Now I find out not only
is he out gambling, but he had to file bankruptcy,
personal and professional bankruptcy, Nancy. And quite honestly, this guy's
morally bankrupt. Clearly that's you know, the millions in debt
(14:26):
are just the beginnings of his problem. It looks like
this guy was always looking for the next rush, the
next high it's high stakes gambling, high stakes crypto investments.
He paid his house off, he was living free and
clear in a million dollar house. In twenty nineteen, he
up ends that goes back into debt for a high
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risk cryptocurrency investment that went belly up, so he lost
that money. He's party to a lawsuit now. So it
seems to me this dentist likes these flights of fans,
the high risk, master manipulator, sociopathic personality. That was certainly mouthful.
I need to diagram all that, but you know how
you diagram sentences in the fourth grade, Because that was
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a lot, and I think I agree with all of it,
but hold on with all the register just for a moment,
you know. Back to doctor Patricia Wallace, Guys Licensed Marriage
a family therapist at doctor pc Wallace Therapy dot com.
I don't think I could enjoy gambling or cheating because
I'd be too worried about a getting caught and be
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what it would do to my family. I mean, think
about it. Who wants fifty percent of your children? I
don't want fifty percent. I want one hundred percent, even
if I have to share it with my husband. But
I want to take him to school. I want to
pick him up. I want to have dinner with them.
I don't want them to be at some crappy fast
food every Thursday night having dinner with dad and I
(15:56):
have to sit home. Why would you risk all that
for what a role in the Hey? No, yeah, he seems,
and he may have been. I mean I agree with
the you know, being Morley bank rut. However, it seems,
and I'm going deep with this analytical theory here, that
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he obviously was in like a fight flight or freeze
type of moment. Wait, which moment are we talking about?
The first mistress, the second mistress, the gambling, the bankruptcy,
the third mistress, the fourth mistress? Well, I agree, what
one instant are we talking about? Because I mean, this
(16:38):
is a long track record. I agree. And again, although
he may have had some fear instilled in him as
far as you know, but with the cryptocurrency and everything
going the way that it did, he was in a
moment where each incident. Every time something happened, it appears
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based on his behavior. Then okay, he thought about okay,
either I have to fight or I'm going to run
away from this. He chose to fight internally within himself
and doing all of these other less they abnormal things,
you know, engaging in these behaviors to help himself feel good. Okay,
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now I'm finally understanding you. Is this the same reason
men get to a certain age and they get a
new haircut, they start working out at the gym, and
then they go blow a lot of money on a
sports car. Yeah, yeah, okay, gotcha, I'm finally understanding what
you're saying. Well, we've been talking about the women, the money,
(17:42):
the gambling, but what about the single most important thing.
Angela's dead. His wife is dead. Take a listener. Our
friends at CBS. He worked so hard to cover his tracks,
and it was really some of the workers at his
dental practice that helped off investigators to this. He had
a home computer and a laptop that he used frequently,
(18:04):
according to those employees, but then one day they saw
him using a computer in an exam room after hours.
Investigators went back and what they found at that computer
is that he had created a new Google account, that
is where he had purchased on Amazon, buying some of
these medals that they believe was used in the poisoning. Okay,
he's online in an examination room, all alone, after hours,
(18:32):
right there. Okay, guys, let's talk about what we're learning
in the last hours regarding this home, this family practice.
Dentist James Toller Craig joining me. Chris Buyer's former police chief,
John's Creek, now private investigator and polygrapher at Lancaster Services
(18:54):
dot com. Chris, can I tell you what happened the
other day? I was in the kitchen and I love
to cook, and I was making dinner, and I looked
out the kitchen window and I saw, Yes, my husband
out in the driveway talking on his phone. Why does
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he have to be out in the driveway talking on
the phone. What does he does he have to say
out there? He can't say right there in the kitchen
with me, So of course I sneak up on him
and ambush him to find out what he's doing. Guess
what he was doing. He was listening to a book
on tape and trying to smoke a sneaky cigar. Yes,
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that's what was happening. He was trying to hide from
me because he knew I would raise hblel about him smoking.
He has a cigar like once a month that I
know of. Anyway, when I got closer enough to him,
I can hear him listening to some horrible, boring economic
treatise on tape. My ears started bleeding, and then I
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saw I smelled a cigar. But isn't that a tip
off when you see somebody sneaking off to use their
cell phone? Absolutely, and let me just say, you're the
last person that I would try to sneak something over
on like that. I wish you could see me sneaking out.
Even took off much industry, so won't make any noise
(20:16):
sneaking out there. I caught of being good again. But
here you got a guy doing so much in secrets,
so nobody would hear about it. And I understand, to
Jim Smith joining us from dalimail dot com, what can
you tell me about an alternate email address? So yeah,
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I mean, he clearly thought he was more intelligent than
he was. He was using a different computer in his
dentist practice, the one that he owned, and then he
had this alternate email address. I think it was something
along the lenes of Jim and Waffles at gmail dot com.
Or wait, wait, wait, it was what something along the
lanes of Jim and Waffles at email or an aol
(21:01):
or at hotmail dot call. My I don't recall which exactly,
but hardly a criminal mastermind. Oh okay, wait a minute,
Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait wait Jackie Sidney,
please find out is it hotmail? Is he still using hotmail?
I need to know that, just out of my own curiosity. Okay,
(21:22):
go ahead, Jim Smith, so he's got an alternate email?
Did you say it was Jim and Waffles, gem and Waffles,
as in the waffles that we eat for breakfast. Yeah,
I'm thinking of him being all double O seven sneaking
around and is alias is Jim and Waffles? Okay, truly,
it's like something a teenager may do. Chris Buyers, please
(21:44):
help me. I mean, I know I'm about to get
to what this poor lady suffered being poisoned to death,
a horrible, horrible and painful death. But can I just
take one moment to let it so ken that he
sneaks around to use his super secret Elios and he
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picks Jim and Waffles. Really do you know one of
my guinea pigs is named Waffles Rosie mcwaffle, specifically for
her full name. But okay, how Tom can this guy
be Chris Buyers? I mean, how many millions of times
have you said that when you're going through cases? What
an idiot? I thought you had to be smart to
(22:28):
go to med school. I might have done that thirty
years ago if I known you could get through it
and have his level of intelligence. But hey, he just
matches the formula of the maggot that we see on
here all the time. Addiction a fair money issues? Oh wait, wait, wait,
wait wait did you say addiction? Did you say addiction? Porn? Addiction?
(22:48):
Did you? Okay, stop right there, Chris or Buyers or
in this case, I'm gonna use your full name, Christopher Buyers.
Jim Smith, have you had it up to your eyeballs
with Hollywood stars? Every time they get caught cheating, they
say they have a sex addiction. A bit of a
convenient excuse, isn't it? Is that really a thing, doctor
(23:11):
Patricia Wallace? I mean, every time I see a Hollywood
star cheating and they get caught, they suddenly go to
sex rehabit. Yeah, it's actually a thing to be addicted to.
Six born. That's usually what you know they work with,
unless they're going out hanvrying different encounters with many different
(23:35):
people known or unknown. Yes, it's an actual disorder. You know.
In the past they called it being a hoe. Now
it's a sex addiction. Okay, you got Tiger Woods, Russell Brand,
David Dukovney, Rob Low, Michael Douglas, Eric Benet. I mean
(23:57):
there's so many more. Oh, wait a minute, there's a
lot more. I'm just looking at a list you've got.
Did I already say Russell Brand? Have I already named him?
Lamar Odom, Kanye West? He claims he has a sex addiction.
Colin Ferrold did he claimed he also had a sex addiction.
I mean, there's so many I can't even name them all.
(24:19):
I don't know about the sex addiction thing. Chris Buyers.
What leads you to believe that he is clinically addicted? Well,
I use that as a cop term. I'm not one
of these smart psychologists like we have on here. I
didn't mean that of a good thing. So you just
like throwing it around and now you're trying to explain
your back out of it. He put himself there was
(24:40):
it was his actions that put him there, So I
did not mean that as an excuse for him. And
I've got another correction for you while I'm on you
like a cheap suit, Christopher Buyers. Doctor Menetia Pandey strenuously
objects to you calling the denist to doctor okay, because
(25:01):
I think you have to go for like how many
years more to be a medical doctor. And for you,
Jen Smith, there is no more hotmail. I didn't know that.
Sidney just told me that. So Scott, no, it's defunct.
It's Gmail. So it's Joe and Waffles at gmail dot com.
As the waffle is the most important part of that
(25:23):
that ratio right there. So guys, we've established that killers
are not always a smart but when you do not
just your wife and your mistress, but your whole church.
Take a listen to our friends at crime Online. With
his wife Angela is sick and in the hospital and
family on the Weighty Town, Dennis Jim Craig seeks the
(25:46):
help of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day
Saints south Shore Ward. He and his family are very
active members of the South Shore Ward, and he takes
time to thank members for help with yard work, cleaning,
and meal preparation, all normal things during a time of need.
But it is the oddly specific request he makes that
has some members wondering if they have been used to
(26:06):
cover up a crime. Members were asked to help organize
Craig's mudroom and basement at their home while Angela was
in the hospital. The source went on to say, quote,
it's quite common in the community for us to go
into somebody's house and help when there's a new baby
or a sickness, but the language of this request was
so heightened. It said they needed the mudroom organized and
their basement storage organized unquote. The source thing continued, looking
(26:29):
back at the timing of the communication, I can't help
wondering if that was something Jim asked for knowing that
it might be a crime scene. Later jes Smith dalmail
dot Com, what yeah, I mean. The thing that really
is baffling about that request If by this point Angela
is in the hospital, she is dying slowly. She has
been poisoned, so we don't have where you might in
(26:50):
other cases have a violent crime scene. This crime scene
pertains to the potassium. He was using stassium cyanide poison her.
So is that what he was trying to have members
of his church move around, reorganize people who have gone
to his home in good face, to help them and
what they perceived to be a tragedy. Was he trying
(27:11):
to manipulate them into possibly getting rid of some of
the evidence that could be used against him. We're definitely
going to find out at the trial. I think Farantino
joining me a Pennsylvania prosecutor and named partner at Big
Lacy Finnegan, Schaeffer and Farantino, is this guy leaving a
track a mile wide? He's actually asking church members to
(27:35):
come over, reorganize and clean up portions of his home.
Now they're wondering, did I just clean up a crime?
Say fancy when you look at his behavior after the fact,
after the poisoning, that is such powerful evidence against him,
whether or not he believed they were covering up something,
or perhaps there was a bottle there, perhaps there was
(27:55):
some packaging there. You know, he'd ordered poison over the
period of days, different types, as we discussed, So who
knows what he was looking for them to do. But
the fact that he made that request will be powerful
evidence in the presentation. These bizarre behaviors in his office
and at his home afterwards just go to show you
(28:17):
his mindset, his actions during that time, and just point
to his guilt. It's very powerful evidence. And there's another
aspect to it, whether they clean the crime scene or not.
Jen Smith joining me dailymail dot com, how dare He
might as well have written on the email, Hey, I'm
busy shocked up in a hotel in Denver with my mistress.
(28:40):
Can you go clean my basement? Well that's it, I
mean completely and utterly morally bankrupt. Like we've already discussed.
It really seems like this guy has no limit to
how far he'll go to his own needs. And my
other question I think we are going to find out
is where were the children at this point? Is looking
after them? There are six of them, six members of
(29:01):
the church who were going to help them. We knew
that they were the family Mormon and people in their
community really went to help them. I mean, did he
poll all the children off phone to them too? Guys
when we were talking about Jim and Waffles, we thought
at hotmail, but actually at gmail dot com is super
(29:22):
secret double O seven Gmail handle. Well, he wasn't just
using it to contact his mistress. Take listen to our
cut twenty seven our friends at CBS. With that new
Google account, they then found some of the communication between
Jim and this orthodontist in Texas that he had been
talking to over the past month and visiting with. They
(29:44):
believe that's the woman who was in the most recent affair.
So he had really started to use this other computer
that he didn't use before and trying to cover his tracks,
so that if they had searched his lapstop or searched
his phone, they wouldn't have had that evidence. But it
was those employees that noticed something weird. And when one
of those medals was actually shipped to the dental office,
he had told one employee that's a personal package, Please
(30:07):
don't open that up. And it was another employee that
opened it up. And so it's kind of a several
other places in this investigation that all had to come
together to really help investigators try and tie this case together.
So when you say, hey, don't open that, of course
the person is going to open it. And before I
go to our expert doctor at Menetia Panday joining us
(30:29):
Jim Smith, exactly what poisons was he having sent to
his office? Well, do we know of two so far?
He had some arsenic sense to his office, and he
also had this potassium cyanide, and that is what we
think he was using to poison Angela over the course
of several weeks, actually putting it in her protein shape,
(30:54):
even helping her along or trying to reassure her when
she was complaining of sickness, dizziness, Nauja, he was sort
of still encouraging her to drink a fluids and you
know where those fluids were coming from. Crime stories with
(31:21):
Nancy Grace. In the last hours, the defense team for
the dentist has demanded a gag order. In other words,
don't let anybody talk about the case and let it
leak out to the public. Well, it's a day late,
a dollar short for that. Take lest hour cut twenty
(31:42):
two k c n C. In court, Craig's attorneys requested
a gag order. They complain publicities endangering the dentists trites.
Court documents shown a search on Craig's computer asking how
many greens of barsnik will kill a human. There is
also an invoice for the purchase of the poisoned potassium cyanide.
(32:05):
Earlier this week we spoke with friends of the Craigs.
It definitely felt bad for the family and when I
heard what really happened, just like Karen described as punching
the cut. You know, if you look at the trail
he's left behind, you may, like we've been talking, think
he's a big idiot. But what could be more, let
(32:31):
me just say innocent than church friends cleaning your place
to help you out with your children unwillingly getting rid
of crime evidence. If that effect happened, is he crazy
or crazy? Like a fox? Joining me right now? Doctor
Menetia Pandey, Doctor Pandey, chief forensic pathologist for Forensic Pathologist
(32:55):
else in Ohio, a forensic pathologist and you can find
doctor Pandey at the forensic pathologist dot com. Doctor Pandee,
we've been working up to this moment. How many grains
of arsenic would it take to kill a human? And
what is your reaction to the poisons that were put
(33:19):
into a protein shake to kill the mother of six?
So arsenic can be you know, you have to put
quite a bit of it in your food or any
kind of shake. However, like for sanide, you don't need
that much. Now, what would sanide do to a person
(33:39):
side would immediately got cause dizziness, They will cause headaches,
They will cause immediate drop in blood pressure and you
will just fall down. And what happened at dud interfere
with your ability to use oxygen. So after the days
preceding her death of her complying I feel dizzy, I
(34:01):
feel like I'm going to pass out. I feel sick
to my stomach. Are those symptoms consistent with potassium cyanide?
I would think that potassium cyanide has a more acute
entomology in terms of like once you're exposed to it,
you're likely to die very quickly. Those are probably have
(34:21):
symptoms of arsenic Oh, I see, I see. I found
it interesting that Angela Angela Craig, the deceased mom of six,
had been to the hospital multiple times before, but the
doctors could not diagnose her. They couldn't figure out what
was wrong. I think, of course, I'm just a JD.
(34:44):
You're the MD that in the blood panels or the
urine analysis that they didn't search for poisons. That's not
a typical thing for which they would search. That's correct,
if you don't have a high index of suspicion in
terms of this person could potentially be poisoned normally in
the hospitals, they won't check for those. What type of
(35:04):
suffering did she endure before her death? She must have
suffered quite a bit in terms of like you having
severe headache, her heart would stop, or she's having dizziness
and she's like breathing. She got able to breathe. I'm
very curious about the way that she passed away. Was
she in pain, was she on meds? We don't know,
(35:28):
and we won't know until those medical records are revealed.
But I do know this. Jarif Farantino, he the husband,
was not there at her side. He was texting her, Oh,
how I wish I could be with you as she
was dying. He was with his mistress hold up in
a hotel, ring Nancy. One text he sent her said
(35:48):
I have empathy for you, which, as shocking as all
those texts were, that one is the most telling because
clearly he lacks empathy for his wife. He's not by
her side, not holding her hand as she's suffering from
some quote unquote suspicious illness. That they haven't even identified.
(36:09):
He's hold up with another woman while his wife, mother
of six of his six children, is on her deathbed.
That is the shocking part of this case. He put
her there, he poisoned her over a period of time,
and essentially makes those texts from that place away from
her side. It's just it's so shocking. This is not
(36:31):
the first time that a mistress has been tangled up
with a guy who murders his wife. The name Kelsey Barrett,
I'll never forget it. Kelsey Brett is a beautiful, young
single mom of a little girl now dead, the so
(36:53):
called other woman, a rodeo queen, takeless an hour, cut
thirteen em our friends at Inside Edition. Her name is
Crystal Lee and she is a registered nurse in Twin Falls, Idaho.
Published reports say the FBI is investigating her in connection
with Kelsey Barrett's disappearance. Lee lives about thirty five miles
(37:15):
from where the missing mom's cell phone last pained three
days after she was seen at a supermarket on Thanksgiving Day.
Here's what we know about Lee. She is thirty two
years old and a divorced mother of two. She is
active in rodeo and was once crowned Miss Magic Valley
Stampede Queen. She and Phrasey reportedly met at a rodeo
(37:35):
He's a blacksmith. Just before his alleged wedding to Kelsey Barrett.
She suddenly goes missing. Let me point out her body
was never found. Now listen to eleven m ABC Now,
thirty two year old nurse from Twin Falls, Idaho, is
set to make a deal with prosecutors in the case
of missing mom Kelsey Barrett. Family members of Crystal Lee
(37:57):
tell ABC News she will plead guilty this week to
at least one charge. Lee, her family says, has known
Barras's fiance Patrick Frazy for decades. He's already been charged
with Barret's murder. Her body has not been found. Tell
me about Crystall Lee's exact relationship to Phrasie and her
alleged role in the case remain a mystery. Barrett was
(38:18):
last seeing Thanksgiving Day in this surveillance video, shopping with
the one year old daughter she had with Frazy. Three
days after she vanished, investigators say her cell phone was
detected hundreds of miles away. Her phone did end up
in Idaho, Multiple law enforcement sources tell ABC News. Lee
is suspected of driving Berets's cell phone to Idaho attempting
to get rid of it. I wonder if she thought, Wow,
(38:41):
why am I getting rid of a cell phone out
in the middle of nowhere? The rodeo Queen dragged into
Patrick Phrasie's murderous plot, and then of course who could
forget kill her dad? Chris Watts take a listen to
clip two m And it was always hit or miss,
Like it wasn't every day thing. It was just when
I saw him, we just started talking and we just
(39:03):
kind of had a lot in common and just hit
it off. So we'd always have, you know, pretty good conversations.
And then I don't know, one day he told me
that he had kids and started talking on his kids
and then mentioned, yes that I have a wife, but
we're getting separated, so okay, And when do you think
that was when he said all that? So specifically when
(39:23):
he told you he was getting separated from his wife.
Was that within the first couple of weeks that you
knew him, or was that later on you said you
met him around May or June. Yeah, it was still
well she Shann Watts ends up dead along with both
of their little girls. Now the girlfriend you're hearing right
(39:44):
there in Nicole Kissinger had nothing to do with the
murder plot or anything connected to it. We can never
forget the seminal case of Scott Peterson and his girlfriend
Amber Fry. Remember me and he thought he was clairvoyant
because he said, Wow, Amber, this will be my first
Christmas without my wife. And guess what it was after
(40:05):
he killed her. Take listen to our friends at NBC.
I met Scott Peterson November twentieth, two thousand and two.
Scott told me he was not married. We did have
a romantic relationship. She was Amber Fry. Amber secretly helped
the police by recording her calls with Scott. As soon
(40:25):
as I plug in her little recorder of the phone rings,
he called, oh boy. The Amber Fry had nothing to
do with the death or cover up Lacy and Connor's death.
But once again she's led down the garden path like
(40:47):
many other mistresses. So question do you, Christopher Buyers In
the current case the quote other woman is not accused
of taking part in any way in the death of
the dentist's wife, Angela Craig, but I guarantee you she
will be a fountain of information when they start aligning
(41:10):
and comparing times he's missing to times his wife got ill,
to times he was with his mistress. Absolutely, she's going
to be able to put so many of the puzzle
people in the order of the timeline of all of this.
So she is going to be just like you said,
she is going to be a wealth of information for
the prosecution in this same much, let's share a farantino.
(41:31):
If you've blurted out something like my wife is dying,
or my wife is dead, or I'm going to be
a widow, or my wife has this illness or that ailment.
If he made statements to her like Scott Peterson may
to Amber Fry, a jury is going to be standing
on their ears. Those admissions, as you know, Nancy, are
(41:54):
exceptions to hear. Say it's a defendant's own statements, and
they are powerful at the in that courtroom, statements to
the mistress while he's lying next to her about his
dying wife are very telling, and every prosecutor would love
to have a statement like that. And pursuing a conviction
of doctor Craig in this case, despite the defense's near
(42:16):
requests for a gag order filed In the last days.
Evidence is pouring out from the investigation, and every bit
of it compounds what we know. Angela Craig died a
painful and horrible death, and our children are now going
to be left without parents. We wait as justice enter falls.
(42:38):
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