August 15, 2025 • 48 mins
The lead up to James Craig’s trial has been bizarre.....two postponements, three different attorney teams, five added charges and a crazy action from an attorney, who allegedly set his own house on fire. Still, the Aurora dentist’s trial began and ended after jurors heard from four mistresses who said James Craig told them his marriage was over, but a divorce would break him financiall.
Crag faced six felony counts:
- Murder in the first degree
- Two counts of solicitation to commit tampering with physical evidence
- Three counts of solicitation to commit perjury in the first degree
Court Documents show Craig, jailed on a murder charge of his wife, Angela Craig, still allegedly worked to convince inmates, a former mistress and even one of his own children to tamper with evidence, to plant it to make it look like Angela Craig wanted to kill herself.
Prosecutors say James Craig even made a botched murder-for-hire attempt on the case’s lead detective just before a second attempt at trial last year. Craig allegedly offered people cash and dental work in return for a coverup .
Craig insists he ordered poison because she asked him to.
James Craig and his wife Angela were married for over 20 years. They created a beautiful family of six, loving, happy family, happy children. Between work and taking care of their children, the Craigs still manage to fit a workout into their daily routine. The husband and wife go for a run or hit the gym together almost every day, and when they return home, James Craig makes protein shakes or fruit smoothies for breakfast while Angela delves into getting the kids ready for the day.
Angela complains of having a really nasty headache, along with problems focusing her eyesight. She goes to the hospital saying she felt tingly and cold. Doctors cannot figure out what's wrong with her. Angela goes to the hospital multiple times, only to be sent home. When she goes back for a third time, that's when she's checked in and her condition deteriorates, coding quickly. Angela passes away.
One of Summer Brooks’ dental assistants recalls opening a package for Dr. Craig—that had potassium cyanide in it. She googles the symptoms of cyanide poisoning, and is horrified at how closely they match Angela’s symptoms. She immediately calls Craig’s partner, Ryan Redfearn, hoping he has some other explanation for the contents of the package...but he doesn’t. While visiting Angela, Redfearn tells a nurse about the cyanide, explaining there’s no medical use for the element in their practice. As a mandatory reporter, the nurse calls police.
With suspicions raised, Angela Craig is sent for an autopsy with additional toxicology screening. Tests reveal the otherwise healthy mom of six died of poisoning from both cyanide and tetrahydrozoline, a common ingredient in eyedrops. While investigators have no definitive evidence Angela’s food and drinks were poisoned with cyanide, the tests reveal her cyanide levels increased while she was in the hospital.
Police then check Craig's computer finding strange searches. One of them was how to poison someone, how to make poison and top five or top 10 undetectable poisons that people won't be able to
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace Friday Night Special Crime Stories.
The Colorado Dentist aka the Porny Dentist case goes to
a jury and a verdict as the haunting final words
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of his wife, a dying mother of six comes before
the jury as four mistresses testify at his murder trial.
I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. I want to
thank you for being with us this Friday Night. A
Colorado murder trial jury hears the haunting last words of
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a mother of six as she died in her hospital bed,
and they were why do I heart Angela? The mother
of six, was declared brain dead after bring mystery symptoms
that started ten days before. According to prosecutors, the dentist
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Craig poisoned her protein shakes and secretly fed her deadly
doses of cyanide, arsenic and more, including the chemical found
in eye drops.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Ultimately killing her.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Also, this jury heard about a slew of mistresses, one
after the next, after the next, after the next. Her
family ultimately told all brain activity had ceased.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Now.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
On the eighth, the day of the.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Trial, testimony kicked off from mistress number four, her name
Elizabeth Gore, told the Arapaho County jury. She and the
porny dentist flew to Montana from Denver, just a few
weeks after they met on a quote sugar dating site
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called saking dot com. Another so called sugar baby Oh please,
testified the previous day that would have been day seven.
Then he also took her to Montana. After a third
mistress testified, Craig bought her daughter a nine thousand dollars car.
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All the mistresses agree that Craig was unhappy in his marriage,
but claimed a divorce would financially destroy him.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
You know what else will destroy you?
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Trips skiing with all of your many mistresses and buying
them cars for their daughter.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Yeah, that'll break you to man.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Well, I'm sure the juriot had just about enough of
him for mistress's my rear end. What more do we
know about the so called porny dentist?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Take a listen to our friend Jackie Howard.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
The lead up to James Craig trial has been bizarre.
Two postponements, three different attorney teams, five added charges, and
a crazy action from an attorney who allegedly set his
own house on fire. Still, the auroradendus trial finally got
under way yesterday. Hundreds of potential jurors were in centennials
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a Rapahoe County Justice Center, filling out questionnaires and being
questioned by attorneys. Forty six year old Craig faces six
felony counts murder in the first degree, two counts of
solicitation to commit tampering with physical evidence, three counts of
solicitation to commit perjury in the first degree. Court documents
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show that Craig jailed on a murder charge of his wife, Angela.
Craig still allegedly worked to convince inmates, a former mistress,
and even one of his own children to tamper with evidence,
to plant it to make it look like Angela Craig
wanted to kill herself. Prosecutors say James Craig even made
a botched murder for higher attempt on the cases lead
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detective just before a second attempt at trial last year,
Craig allegedly offered people cash and dental work in return
for a cover up. Craig insists he ordered poison because
his wife asked.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Him to what happened to the must just say frisky
dentist who had begun yet another sex affair behind his
wife's back, clearly not his first, and this with a
fellow dental worker, a Texas orthodonist. The dentist accused of
poisoning his wife shakes with cyanide and a chemical.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
That is found in eye drops.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Wow, if he put as much thought into fixing his
marriage as he did and to how to murder his wife,
that probably be the happiest couple on earth. That said,
what do we know about what happened to Angela Craig
take a listen to this.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
After multiple reason hospital visits, Angela again checked into a
hospital Wednesday morning, complaining of a severe headache in 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.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Saturday, joining me an all star panel to make sense
of what we are learning This mom of six six
and she's still really young as well. Apparently, you know,
college sweethearts fall in love, they get married and immediately
start having children. That's how mom this young can have
six children already.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
And I don't get it.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
I want to go straight out to Stephan Tubb's host
of the podcast Arsenic Dds The Bizarre Case of Doctor
James Craig, which is an incredible podcast by the way. Okay,
I've done all this investigation and research and I learned
even more by listening to that Arsenic Dds The Bizarre
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Case of Doctor James Craig. Stephan, I want to just
start with this young mom, Angela suddenly developed all these symptoms.
Nobody can figure out what's wrong with her, and she
just bam dies. Now tell me about her original sentence,
Stephan Tubbs Nancy.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
She got incredibly sick and it wasn't just one time
in the hospital. It was multiple times that she was
feeling nauseous, that she just didn't feel something was right,
severe headaches, and she went to a local hospital. The
first time to the er, it was discharged, and then
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went to the same hospital like a week later.
Speaker 6 (06:46):
It was a.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Step Stephan, hold on, hold on, Stephan, I want to
go straight out to our shrink.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Joining us.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
In addition to incredible panel of guests joining me, Doctor
Chevron Scott, psychotherapist off of the Minds of mass Killers.
So much more, Doctor Chavon, thank you for being with us.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Have you ever noticed how women's symptoms just get discounted.
They come in.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
I'm nauseous, I feel dizzy, I've got this severe headache,
and they're like, oh.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
You're fine.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Bye.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
You have been called over and over to Angela. What
is it? Are all women quote hysterical?
Speaker 7 (07:25):
Yeah, there's even something called the w W syndrome, and
that stands for whiney women, and medical doctors have been
known to talk about the women.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Wait, wait, head blowing off right now?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
The w W syndrome? Is that what you just said? Yeah, yeah,
whiney woman.
Speaker 7 (07:48):
Yeah, I've read some women doctors have written books about
this problem in the medical profession where women are just
dismissed and not taken seriously.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Okay, I've got so much to say about but it
will get me totally sidetracked off. This woman, angela mother
of six, Okay, back to you. Stephan Tubbs joining me,
has research and investigated this case. Just to the detail. Stephan, So,
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she had headaches, a severe headache. I think from what
I recall, that's what really made her decide to go
to the hospital. She was having nausea and felt dizzy,
but it was the headaches. I think she was worried
that she was having a stroke because the headache was
so severe.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Yeah, she was very very ill. She was very, very
concerned about her own health and safety. This is a
mother of six. Not all of the children were inside
the home, but she's incredibly sick and wondering how the
hell she got sick.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Take a listen to this.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
My stomach feels fine, although at one point she said
she had nausea, But my head feels funny and dizzy,
very strange.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I'm dizzy. My eyes don't want to focus.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
I don't feel right in my No, this is just weird.
I'm dizzy in my head. My eyes are working slowly,
my body's responding slowly.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
I feel drugged.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Response from husband, the family man, Dennis, Given our history,
I know that must be triggering. Just for the record,
I didn't drug you. Whoa okay, as Shakespeare said me.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
That does protest too much, you know, like when a
cop walks by and.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Go, I don't have drugs on me. Anyway, Let's get
back to it. Listen.
Speaker 8 (09:28):
She was complaining of having a really nasty headache. She
was also complaining about her eyesight. She was having trouble focusing.
She said that she felt tingly. She said that she
felt cold. She's concerned that it could be a sinus infection,
and then there's some conversation about maybe she's diabetic. No
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one is able to find an answer or what is
causing this otherwise healthy mother of six to be feeling
these horrendous symptoms. She goes back a few days later,
March ninth, same symptoms, nausea, dizziness, HEADI, even some vomiting. Again,
the doctors can't figure out which wrong with her. They
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send her home, and then when she goes back for
a third time, that's when she's checked in on. Her
condition deteriorate quickly, and there.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
You see doctor Chevon Scott with us who just dropped
a Bombshelle mommie about the WW syndrome, whiny woman syndrome.
Now we're on round three. Okay, she's at the hospital
a third time. They keep sending her home and sending
her home. Now she codes. I guess that means code
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read or whatever they call it in the hospital when
you're dying.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (10:46):
Yeah, just a horrifying, horrifying situation for a young woman
to be in with no explanation. It's hard to imagine
how frightened she must have been.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Eric Fattu is joining me, high profile trial lawyer, TV
Legal analysts founding partner Varner Fattest elite legal, former felony prosecutor.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Eric. Don't you just hate.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
It when you're own client who's not charged with anything,
out of the blue said I didn't drug you, Because
that's what he said.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Nobody said he did drug anybody, and.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
All of a sudden he goes, just, FYI, I didn't
drug you. If my husband said FYI, I didn't drug you,
I'm going to need a defense attorney because who would
jump up and say that unless they drug the wife?
Speaker 9 (11:33):
I hear you.
Speaker 10 (11:34):
I mean, it's a curious statement, certainly suspicious in the
eyes of many, you know. On the other hand, I
think his defense is going to argue that the marriage
was on the rocks, things were tense, things were dicey,
and so you know, people say things that in the
heat of an event like this, that that's certainly to
be triggering for both parties. But yeah, the gravity of
the statement and sort of it coming out of nowhere
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is not lost on triggering.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
First of all, I don't know how that got popular
triggering for both parties? Are you telling me? He the
dentist is triggered. What are you talking about? Why she's dead? Okay,
why are you talking about him getting triggered?
Speaker 5 (12:12):
This conversation proceeded the death.
Speaker 10 (12:13):
What I was saying is that, you know, when the
relationship is super rocky, sometimes when there are serious medical
events that come up, or just serious life events, those
things can be can add to the to the tenseness
of the situation, the stress of the situation, and he
could have been experiencing distress as well, and sometimes things come.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Out rocky rocky. That's what you call a string of
mistresses rocky. That's more like an earthquake.
Speaker 10 (12:39):
It is a serious event which just could have further
been destabilizing for the relationship when something serious happens, when
when your spouse is sick, I think defense is going
to argue that, hey, things were really distressing, yours heightened emotionality,
and sometimes people just say things that's at least some defense,
so likely for him.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Who is this guy?
Speaker 11 (12:59):
My name is doctor Jim Craig and I practice as
a Summerbrook dental group. My approach to dentistry begins with
sincerely listening to the patient and wanting to find out
more about where they're coming from, and what they're looking
for and what they want.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
That's from the official Summerbrook Dentistry Facebook page.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
I want to go straight out.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
To Feel Waters, former homicide detective from the Houston PD
President CEO Kindred Spirits Investigations and Security, Phil. I know
that Eric Fattis is going to turn purple and tell
me this means nothing. But when your husband, the dentist
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who sits on one of those little roly chairs all
day long, suddenly starts working out and developing interests in
getting sprayed hands, you better pay attention.
Speaker 9 (13:53):
What's going on dan homicide. Of course, we'd call that
a clue to watch his behavior and the things that
he's doing there. I mean, I guess in isolation for
that setting, he appears to be a very attentive dentist
and he's really into what he's doing, and he's trying
to entertain his clients, his patients as well as do
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the proper dental work on them. So in that particular setting,
it does look like if, of course we don't know
what the timeline here is, but if he's been hitting
the gym and doing some things that are trying to
get his physique in a better shape. That might be
an indicator, of course, to his wife in a general
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sense that are you doing this for me or are
you doing this for some other purpose?
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Okay, take a look at this fattest and that's from
the summer Brook Dentistry facebook page. Just where we're getting that.
Do you see somebody's pumping iron in the gym all
of a sudden?
Speaker 10 (14:55):
If he does, look a little jack there. Defense is
going to say, so what, Everyone's allowed to take care
of their own health. That's the homicide detective just said.
Maybe he was taking care of himself to sort of
rekindle the flame with his wife at the time. We
just don't know, but but yeah, I mean, even if
the relationship was on the rocks and he was preparing
for something new, that's not a crime.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
When Angela is admitted to the hospital for the third
time in two weeks, James Craig only stops at the
hospital for half an hour before going out to get
food for his wife. Craig returns an hour and a
half later and goes into Angela's room alone.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Just a few minutes.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Later, Angela has a severe seizure in her vitals, crash
While hospital staff attempt to revive Angela, Craig takes photos
of his own conscious wife. Angela is stabilized with the
ventilator but declared brain dead.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Takes photos of his wife before we go to a
renowned physician and biomedical engineer, doctor Ernest Shiodo. Let me
go back to Stephan Tubbs, host of Arsenic Dds.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Stephan, why is he taking pictures.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Of his wife as she's dying and they're desperately trying
to resuscitate her and she's got all kind of tubes
in her?
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Well, what happened?
Speaker 5 (16:12):
He's at the foot of the bed and it's almost
as if he's almost halfway out of that room. Nancy,
it was bizarre to see for the first time, But
this is really the goodbye. I think he was taking
it for some of her family that were not in town.
She has a huge family. They mostly primarily live in Utah,
but he was there. He then calls the business partner
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and his wife. They had all done things as couples before,
and this was the goodbye when she was coding out
at CU Health and it was there that, to me,
the entire Domino started to fall.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Speaking of Domino's falling to doctor Ernest Schaioto, not only physician,
but attorney, biomedical engineer, toxicologist, and author of talks tort,
medical and Legal Elements. Doctor Chayoto, thank you for joining us.
I'm sure in your residency and in practicing medicine, you've
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been in a lot of sick rooms and even death rooms.
Do you not find that bizarre that he is taking
pictures of his wife as she's coding out, in other words,
as hospital personnel are furiously trying to save her life,
and he's taking pictures.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Entirely unusual?
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Yes, doctor Shayoto.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Have you ever seen someone take photos of their wife
while they're trying to resuscitate her and bring her back
to life, you know, pounding on her chest, using those
electrical stimulators on her chest. Everybody's screaming, everybody's rushing into
the room, and he's in the corner taking pictures.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Have you ever seen that happen, doctor Shaoto? No, I
haven't either, and I have.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Investigated, prosecuted, and covered. I can't even count the number
of deaths and homicides.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
To doctor chevon Scott, I'm right there.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
As Stephan Tubbs said, that was when the weirdness was
marked and noted when he was taking picture. I don't
care what he says this is to send to her
extended family. That's bs technical legal term. What does that mean?
I mean, I know something's wrong with it, but I
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don't know what it is.
Speaker 7 (18:37):
Yeah, it's a puzzle to me as well, because it
seems so out of the normal range of human behavior.
None of us can put ourselves in that situation and
imagine that we'd be picking up a camera.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
As our loved one was dying. So what in the
world was he doing.
Speaker 7 (18:53):
I don't know that I have a good answer for that,
but it's definitely a red flag.
Speaker 12 (18:57):
While his wife, Angela is fighting for her life the hospital,
her devoted husband is emailing his mistress. James told her
something had happened to Angela, and she responded with how
sorry she was for him and that she wished she
was helping him, not pulling him away. She stated she
knew it had to be so hard what he was
going through, and that she wanted to be there for him,
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but did not want to mix with his family and
friends and pretend to be only a friend when there
was something more.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Oh yeah, that's so hard.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
On a mistress when she has to pretend to just
be friends in front of his wife. I hate when
that happens. Fattest, What do you have to say to that?
What about when a jury hears about him while his
wife is lying there dying, he's emailing his mistress, his hottie,
and she says, I.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Can't take it.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
I can't stand to act like we're just friends, but
we're so much more. Has everybody lost their minds?
Speaker 10 (19:55):
On the surface, certainly problematic. It's going to be difficult
to neutralize for the defense, you know, I think that
they might consider something like, you know, there have been
instances where even a person's wife has like giving them
an organ. You know that there's this is like that,
and then there's still in fidelity. There is still cheating
human beings to do underhanded stuff. They do stuff that
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is surprising that it's hard to understand, and I think
that that could.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
Be what was going on here, and that.
Speaker 9 (20:22):
Could be help.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
The defense posters it to the Jersey.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
But you know there's another whole thing there.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Hold on just a moment to a doctor chauven Scott,
many women would tell not me, but many women would
tell you I'd rather my husband just go have sex
with somebody than to actually fall in love. I mean
if my husband did either one. Basically, it's open marriage,
open casket, bam.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
That says it all.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
But some women would prefer the husband, if they're going
to do anything, to just go have sex with somebody
wham bam done, as opposed to falling in love with someone.
Can you explain that odd sentiment?
Speaker 7 (21:03):
The difference between having that kind of deep attachment with somebody,
I guess would be the love and so yeah, there
are even people who have very open marriages where sexual
exploits outside of the relationship are absolutely fine, But the
idea is that you always have your primary emotional bond
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with your partner.
Speaker 13 (21:26):
Colorado mom of six, Angela Craig spends the month of
March in and out of hospitals complaining of strange symptoms
for which doctors seem to have no answers. Meanwhile, her
dentist husband is receiving my sterious packages to his office.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
You earlier heard podcast The Star of Arsenic Dds Stefan
Tubbs refer to Domino's began to fall.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Well, here they go listen.
Speaker 14 (21:52):
Still in the parking lot after visiting Angela in the hospital.
Ryan Redforn gets a call from James Craig, his partner
in Summerbrook. As Craig's starts to ask Redfern if he
had said anything to Angela's nurses, Redferd cuts him off,
saying he told the nurses about the package Craig received
at the office. Craig says the package contained a ring
for Angela, but Redfern replies, it's not a ring. We
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know what's in there.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
After their phone call, James Craig sends Ryan Redfern a
flurry of angry texts, accusing him of creating huge problems
by getting police involved without talking to him first.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Craig tells Redfern, if.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
He really is a friend, he and the remaining office
employees will not speak with cops anymore.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
He's red flag when somebody says, don't talk to the cop.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Crime stories with Nancy Grace.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
In the Last Days, a jury hands down a verdict
and let me tell you right now, I saved it
for Friday night because it is a Friday Night special guilty.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Guilty. Prosecutors argued the dentists poured.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
His wife smoothies and other drinks full of syinide arsenic
and the chemical found in eye drops is called tetra
hyghdrasylen tetra high drasolen. Now, remember the jury heard from
four mistresses, and you know that's got to be the
tip of the iceberg. Those are four that we know of,
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you know, listen to this. Witnesses also testified at trial
that Craig, the dentist this way everybody hates dentists, asked
his teen daughter to fabricate a deep fake exonerating him
by showing her own mother asking him for poison, as
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well as a former salmate who said the dentists ordered
hits on the lead detective from behind bars.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
What is wrong with this man? Is he at all
self aware? Does he even know he's alive? Does he
even know what he has done?
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Ordering a hit on the detective from behind bars, asking
his teen daughter to create a deep fake where her
dead mom asks for poison.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Oh, what more do we.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Know about the case? The dominoes begin to fall. What
about the dental practice partner?
Speaker 5 (24:25):
Yeah, Ryan Redford, some would consider him to be the
hero in this because he's the one that after the
phone call, and as you just outlined on the program.
He tells Jim via the cell phone. He says, Jim
stopped talking, get a lawyer to backtrack. We're talking about
arsenic that was allegedly purchased online. I mean, the computer
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records at the dental practice were very easy for police investigators.
But it was the package of potassium cyani that was
delivered to the actual dentist's office opened by some you
know employee. She starts to go what is this potassium cyanide?
She literally sees the skull and crossbones on the packaging.
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She looks it up. She clicks in her mind, wait
a minute, this is exactly these are the kinds of
symptoms that Angela Craig is experiencing. She then calls Redfern,
the partner, and that's how the domino starts to fall.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
By joining me.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Doctor Ernest Toyoto, attorney, physician, biomedical engineer, toxicologist, and author
of Toxic Tortue, Medical and Legal Elements. Doctor Toyoto explain
what the symptoms of that particular poison would be.
Speaker 6 (25:38):
Well, there's a number of different poisons involved, but cyanide,
you just really have very rapid loss of blood pressure,
loss of consciousness, and very rapid depth, parsnick, you tend
to get peripheral neuropathy, get burning in your hands and feet.
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It's more of a slow poison. It's really interesting. Is
a tetrahydral zoline, which is interestingly found in eye drops
to get the redness out of your eyes, what they
call an alpha agonist. It causes constriction of blood vessels
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and that causes confusion, can cause loss of consciousness, coma,
and that sounds a lot more like the symptoms that
she was having in the hospital.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
The wife, guys, we look carefully at the movements and
the actions leading up to her last hospitalization and what
led up to the previous two hospitalizations.
Speaker 14 (26:53):
Listen, the husband and wife go for a run or
hit the gym together almost every day, and when they
return home, James Craig makes protein shakes or fruit smoothies
for breakfast, while Angela delves into getting the kids ready
for the day.
Speaker 8 (27:05):
We think he was using to poison angula over the
course of several weeks, actually incutting it in her protein shakes,
even helping her along or trying to reassure her when
she was complaining of sickness, dizziness, nauga. He was sort
of still encouraging her to drink the fluid.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Okay, let me understand something, Stephan Tubbs joining me. Isn't
it true that on a prior occasion she had gotten
stabilized and.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Then he goes out and comes.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Back and brings her food like a doating husband in
the hospital and suddenly she goes into seizures.
Speaker 5 (27:40):
That's true. Yeah, she was in the hospital.
Speaker 9 (27:42):
Remember three different times.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
She was in the hospital, three different times. Reading the affidavit,
which reads like a bad Hollywood script, it looks like
investigators feel she is consistently being offered the food and
in primary fashion, the protein shakes while she's in And
keep in mind all of these text messages that are
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going back and forth. Do you feel like a smoothie?
Is there anything I can bring you? And this goes
on for the better part of the month of March.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Stephan Tubbs, are you telling me he would email her
or text her in the hospital say can I bring
you a smoothie?
Speaker 5 (28:19):
One thousand percent that is in the affidavit. I've seen
the screenshots of the text messages. She's in the hospital
three different times. There's text messaging. I mean dozens and
dozens of them, if not hundreds of them, going back
and forth, do you feel like something? What do you
feel like? Can I bring you anything? And it was
usually in the form of a smoothie, And.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Then the other shoe drops listen.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
With suspicions raised, Angela Craig is sent for an autopsy
with additional toxicology screening test reveal the otherwise healthy mom
of six died of poisoning from both sinide and tetrahydrozolene,
a common ingredient in eye drops. While investigators have no
definitive evidence Angela's food and drinks were poisoned with cyanide,
the test reveal her cyanide levels increased while she was
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in the hospital.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Stephan Tubbs, her levels increased while she's in the hospital.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
Yeah, I think that was probably the biggest shocker in
a shocking story in the Denver metro area that we
got wored and read the autopsy her levels of cyanide
increased while she's in the hospital. I mean to me,
it was and remains unprecedented. I've never heard a story
like that, and doctors didn't know again what they were
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looking for, right, And it was just when the domino
started to fall, and people started to talk the business
partner that they started to look into. Wait a minute,
these are the signs of poisoning. And certainly we know
what the autopsy revealed.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
But I mean, to me, Stephan, it would all blow
up when the dental assistant opens up a package and
it's cyanide.
Speaker 5 (29:55):
Oh remember though, Nancy, it was supposed to be a
ring for Angela. I mean the kakamame. Many stories just
were over and over.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Here do you get cyanide? Stefan, You can just order
it up on Amazon? I mean, where do you get cyanide?
Speaker 5 (30:10):
So one of the two there were purchase orders for
Amazon dot com, which was amazing. I can't believe it
was either cyanide or the potassium shie.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
That was a joke. Are you serious? You can get
cyanide on Amazon?
Speaker 5 (30:24):
There you go, right there on your screen. Yeah, I'm
going to buy this on Amazon. First of all, somebody
bezos arsenic? Ye, arsenic? Yeah? And then look at this packs.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Left inside residence's mailbox. So I guess he thought he
was being super smart by having it delivered to the
dentist office so his wife wouldn't find the arsenic. Right,
don't open this okay, So what happens Stephan when the
dental assistant opens up a box and it's arsenic?
Speaker 5 (30:56):
I think her eyes about bugged out of her head,
is what happened. She sees this package, she opens it up.
Another office assistant came in and said, you weren't supposed
to open that. Well, gts out of the bag. She
sees the skull and crossbones, and then she again puts
the pieces together. Wait a minute, potassium cyanide. She calls
doctor Redfern, the partner of Jim Craig, and says, uh,
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you got a package here, and then that's where you
pass forward, you know. Redfern confronts Jim Craig and says,
why are you buying potassium cyanide for the dental practice?
And of course the lie was, oh, that's really it's
a gift. It was it was a ring for Angela.
Well there was no ring inside.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Doctor Ernest Scioto joining us a renowned physician and lawyer
and author. Doctor Chiyoto, she couldn't taste something odd in
her protein shakes. I mean, what does arsenic or cyanide
tastes like.
Speaker 6 (31:53):
Arsk is gonna taste sort of him a dialet sort
of taste or is cyanide really wouldn't Sometimes it is
in order of bitter almonds, So whether or not she
could taste the artsnake or cyanide would really be a
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matter of how much was in the shape. His small amount,
you may not taste it.
Speaker 8 (32:20):
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
lines of Jim and wattles at gmail dot com, at
gmail or at AOL or at hotmail dot com. I
don't recall which you exactly, but hardly a criminal mastermind.
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He was actually in two million dollars of personal debt,
and it was because he made some really terrible investments
in some dodgy cryptocurrency turned out to be worth absolutely nothing.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
He gambled.
Speaker 8 (32:58):
The family thought these really risky investment choices, and then
by the time we came to find out about him,
he was.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Really up to his neck.
Speaker 8 (33:08):
He filed for personal bankruptcy, he felt, or professional bandkruptcy.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Oh my stars. Eric fattis renowned attorney. Don't you just
hate it when you're a mastermind. Client just uses a
fake email to find out all about cyanide and order
Arsenic from Amazon.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
That really worked well, Nancy.
Speaker 10 (33:35):
You know that there is a potential alternative explanation as
to why I was doing that, as we've talked about.
His marriage of twenty three years was on the rocks.
He had filed for bankruptcy twice, he had a history
of depression. A sinide could be used to hurt others,
but it can also be used to hurt oneself, and
that's something that one might not want to broadcast to
other people and might use surreptitious means to try to procure,
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which it sounds like you do.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
You know, Eric, you know something you've got to tell
and I better to inform you about it before you
go to Vegas. The crazier your arguments get the faster
you talk, And I love that about you. And I'm
telling you because I really don't think you can stop yourself.
But that said, so you're suggesting now, you're just spinning
it out right like you're throwing a frisbee. You're just
throwing it at me that he really ordered the cyanide
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in the Arsenic for himself, right.
Speaker 10 (34:22):
You just say equally consistent with that?
Speaker 2 (34:27):
What about this?
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Have you ever had a client try to suborn perjury
kind of a deal?
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Dentures for perjury listen.
Speaker 15 (34:39):
According to prosecutors, this isn't the first time James Craig
has tried to recruit fake witnesses. James Craig gets friendly
with several inmates at the arapa Ho Detention Center and
learns William Billy Walden's mother hates her dentures but can't
afford implants. Craig asks Walden to let him talk to
his mom the next time he gives a recall Over
the phone.
Speaker 9 (34:58):
Craig tells Rebecca Walden he'll give her a.
Speaker 15 (35:00):
Brand new set of teeth when he gets out, saying
he's certain to get off because he didn't kill his wife.
Craig gets Walden's address and tells her he'll give her
more details in a letter.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
So fattest Dancers for Perjury thoughts.
Speaker 10 (35:15):
Not the best deal, certainly a bad look. But on
the other hand, defense is going to say, hey, look
he was He's been in jail for a long time,
he's been adamant about his innocence.
Speaker 9 (35:24):
He's getting desperate.
Speaker 10 (35:25):
He needs to do something to try to change things,
and this is the sort of hair brain scheme he
came up with.
Speaker 5 (35:30):
It's problematic, but doesn't mean he committed murder.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Okay, I had a funny feeling you would say that
about the dancers for perjury scheme? Well, what about haughties
for dentures? Hatties at O T T I E S
Listen fattest.
Speaker 14 (35:45):
In early twenty twenty four, a letter from Craig to
Rebecca Walden, inmate William Walden's mother, was returned to the
Rapahoe Detention Center as undeliverable. The letter contains an offer
to provide Rebecca Walden with free dental implants if she
recruits several young attractive women to pose as Craig's affair partners.
Craig instructs Walden to have the women tell authorities that
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Angela confronted them about Craig's affairs, then recruited them to
help her frame Craig for her murder.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
Okay, what happens, Stephan Tubbs, where do the hotties enter
the scene?
Speaker 5 (36:19):
In a desperate plea to get out of the Arapaho
County jail, I mean at this point, there's no death
penalty in Colorado. He has nothing to lose. He's been
accused of trying a solicitation for murder of the lead
detective in this I mean, it's not just the hotties
or the free teeth or whatever. Jim Craig is trying
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any way that he can, at least according to those
of us following the case closely watching him do whatever
he can to possibly grasp at straws to convince one
juror once this thing finally starts to create that.
Speaker 9 (36:55):
Doubt.
Speaker 5 (36:55):
But it's been crazy. The hits just keep on coming.
I literally less than two weeks ago had a guy
reach out to me. Don't know him from anybody, He says, Hey,
I was serving in the Appaho County Detention facility with
Craig until last October. You won't believe what he told me.
He even gave me a letter. It's crazy, and it continues.
Speaker 4 (37:15):
In the letters to Constantiniis, Craig offers a blank check
in exchange for spoofed texts, phone records, and doctored photographs
that can help convince authorities. Constantinidis knew Angela in life,
and that the mom of six was suicidal after learning
of his latest affair. Craig details some of his previous
affairs in the letter, admitting he first cheated on Angela
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with a patient in two thousand and nine, and provides
personal information about his children.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
In an attempt to make their lives seem credible.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Crime stories with Nancy Grace, I hope you're sitting down.
More evidence came in that one of the many, many
mistresses of James Craig, the pornie dentist, testified he sent
her a photo of his wife as she lied dying
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in the hospital. What he sent his mistress a photo
of his wife in the hospital bed as she was dying.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Oh? Man, oh.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
He then asked the mistress to come visit him, just
a few hours after he learned his wife, the mother
of his six children, was brain dead.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
You know, I convict him right there.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
I would convict him right there, but there was so
much more evidence, hard evidence, not me just disliking him.
I'm going to go back to Eric Faddis, veteran trial
lawyer defense attorney. In all seriousness, I've been pulling your
leg a little bit with the fantastical nature of some
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of the facts.
Speaker 6 (39:03):
We're learning.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
But we have a mother of six dead, not just dead,
but suffering for months from sinaide and arsenic poisoning before
she died.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
Okay, you say it's not the husband.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
I say it is. He's still innocent. He has not
been proven guilty in a court of law. But let's
just take a look at what we're hearing right now.
Not only did he try to arrange quote Hattie's attractive
women to claim they were his sex partners to tell
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authorities his dead wife confronted him about his affairs and
that she was going to commit suicide. So your suicide
fantasy is actually hatching in the defendant's mind. All right,
So he's taking your cue. But he's soliciting suborn for
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lack of a better word, perjury by Hatties to say
his dad wife confronted them. Not only that he has
a dancers for perjury scheme with somebody else. Now we're learning,
according to Stephan Tubbs, we're learning he tried to order
a hit on a detective. Have a detective murdered?
Speaker 2 (40:27):
What about it?
Speaker 6 (40:28):
You know?
Speaker 10 (40:29):
I think what he'll say is that a person who
feels that they are innocent, they are being railroaded. They
have been in jail for a long period of time,
months and months, that they don't feel like they have
a way to get out, they're going to resort to
desperate acts. And perhaps in his mind he thought that, hey,
if I eliminate the head honp Show in this investigation,
perhaps the investigation falls apart. Certainly not lawful, certainly not okay,
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but but also not the same thing as proving him
guilty of murdering his wife.
Speaker 1 (40:57):
Doctor Ernestchado joining US, renown physician and author not to
what does a victim experience as they die from cyanide
or arsenic poisoning?
Speaker 6 (41:10):
Well, if they're they're going to be different. Arsenic is
going to be sort of a slow, agonizing gap, or
as cyanide can be very rapid, you're really going to
end up with sufficient cyanide, you're going to end up
dying with the moments. So they're really two different types
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of gap due to two very different.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
Toxic Pheil Waters joining US former homicide detective Houston p D,
President of Kindred Spirits Investigations dot com. You know, Phil,
you and I have handled a lot of murders, a
lot of homicides, be they involuntary voluntary or murder. It
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takes a special kind of mind, would you agree, Phil?
This is not getting angry and pulling a gun and shooting.
This is months and months of planning, a scheming of
Google searches and lovingly feeding your wife protein shakes laced
with poison and in watching her suffer, Phil.
Speaker 9 (42:25):
Well, exactly, you know this is a This is an
evil act on this guy's part. I won't even recognize
him by saying his name, and we see this. This
is he is obsessed with killing his wife, murdering his wife,
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the mother of his six children. And this is something
that for as you put it, for months has been
thinking about this every minute of every day. And so
when he's going into these search engines and trying to
figure out what kind of poison is the best one
to use, and that kind of thing. I'll tell you what.
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It's just I hope he's a better dentist than he
was a murderer, because what he did is idiotic in
terms of trying to accomplish the task, which is murder
his wife and try to have some sort of a
story that's going to take the suspicion away from you.
Everything he did in the process here pointed to him.
(43:32):
So when we get these investigations, we always look for
affirmative links. We let the evidence take us where we
need to be, and it's always a journey for the truth.
In this particular, I listened to the defense with all
due to respect. These episodes of isolation that we're talking about,
where you know, he's cheating, that didn't make him a
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murder and so on and so on. This has to
be looked at in a timeline of events. If we
can determine when this started, and then of course we
know where it ended and what were the events that
occurred in between that got us to that point. You know,
this taking pictures and so forth of the of his
wife in the hospital when she's dying. You know, when
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I was listening to that discussion, I'm more prone to
believe that he was going to use those pictures to
gain some sympathy from the woman that he was wanting
to a squire around. So you know, he had a
purpose for all the things that he did, and it
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was just it was just kind of stupid. Is as
stupid does It just continued to get more idiotic as
he went through this process, thinking that what people are
going to believe this story that he's come up with.
Speaker 1 (44:48):
And you know another thing, phil as you and I
You as a homicide detective, me as a fellony prosecutor,
we would go about our business every day not s
king that an inmate behind bars is trying to have
us killed, have us killed to thwart the investigation. I
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bet you never thought about that while you were detecting.
Speaker 9 (45:15):
No, when I worked in Narconics, I did have a
contract put out on me, so I'm a little familiar
with it. But we all, for.
Speaker 1 (45:22):
Pete's sake, we've all gotten death threats. The first one
I had was faxed over from the Fulton County Jail.
Didn't take too much to figure that one out. But arrogance, yes, yes,
the level of arrogance to think he can get away
with everything and fix it all by doing a dentures
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for perjury scheme and having the lead detective murdered.
Speaker 2 (45:49):
This woman is dead and.
Speaker 1 (45:52):
Probably her last thoughts were Who's going to take care
of my children?
Speaker 2 (45:58):
Prosecutors alleged to a jury.
Speaker 1 (46:00):
James Craig, the Colorado Dennis considered his wife a quote problem.
Speaker 2 (46:06):
Really, he didn't think.
Speaker 1 (46:08):
That when she gave birth to his six children, Diddy
and poisoned her with a combination of cyanide arsenic and
toutra hydrosylene that is in eye drops. It constricts your
if you put it in your eyes, it constricts the
veins in your eyes, so you don't see the red
in your eyes.
Speaker 2 (46:26):
Does the same thing to someone's heart.
Speaker 1 (46:29):
It constricts the blood vessels around the heart and gives
you a heart attack. Now again, the third oldest child, Annabelle,
testified about one of his many many plots, including soliciting
first degree murder and tampering with physical evidence and suborning
perjury from behind bars. Her dad, she testified under oath,
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called her from behind bars shortly after his arrest and
asked her to create a deep fake claiming that the
mom wanted the poisoning the letter that he wrote, admitted
to pass sex affairs and told the daughter her parents
had been playing a quote game of chicken with Craig,
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claiming Angela asked him to order the fatal poisons.
Speaker 2 (47:22):
That's when he wanted.
Speaker 1 (47:23):
A quote deep fake video of mom saying she asked
Craig to order cyanide arsenic and oleander and she was
going to take it herself, dragging his daughter into this.
The letter written by him offered instructions including buying a
cheap laptop, installing a VPN, a private network, and using
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the dark Web, even asking his daughter to set up
an anonymous email and buying a prepaid visa gift card.
Speaker 9 (47:56):
I mean.
Speaker 1 (47:59):
Held his own daughter to burn the video onto thumb drives,
tell investigators she found them amongst her mother's things and
then destroyed the laptop. He pulled his own.
Speaker 2 (48:11):
Daughter into this.
Speaker 1 (48:13):
Colorado dentist James Craig guilty and the deadly poisoning of
his wife through her smoothies. Now sentenced to life behind
bars with no possibility of parole. So now when I
said Friday Night Special, see this was special.
Speaker 2 (48:30):
You believe me? Nancy Grace Sonning off goodbye,
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace Friday Night Special Crime Stories.
The Colorado Dentist aka the Porny Dentist case goes to
a jury and a verdict as the haunting final words
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of his wife, a dying mother of six comes before
the jury as four mistresses testify at his murder trial.
I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. I want to
thank you for being with us this Friday Night. A
Colorado murder trial jury hears the haunting last words of
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a mother of six as she died in her hospital bed,
and they were why do I heart Angela? The mother
of six, was declared brain dead after bring mystery symptoms
that started ten days before. According to prosecutors, the dentist
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Craig poisoned her protein shakes and secretly fed her deadly
doses of cyanide, arsenic and more, including the chemical found
in eye drops.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Ultimately killing her.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Also, this jury heard about a slew of mistresses, one
after the next, after the next, after the next. Her
family ultimately told all brain activity had ceased.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Now.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
On the eighth, the day of the.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Trial, testimony kicked off from mistress number four, her name
Elizabeth Gore, told the Arapaho County jury. She and the
porny dentist flew to Montana from Denver, just a few
weeks after they met on a quote sugar dating site
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called saking dot com. Another so called sugar baby Oh please,
testified the previous day that would have been day seven.
Then he also took her to Montana. After a third
mistress testified, Craig bought her daughter a nine thousand dollars car.
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All the mistresses agree that Craig was unhappy in his marriage,
but claimed a divorce would financially destroy him.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
You know what else will destroy you?
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Trips skiing with all of your many mistresses and buying
them cars for their daughter.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Yeah, that'll break you to man.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Well, I'm sure the juriot had just about enough of
him for mistress's my rear end. What more do we
know about the so called porny dentist?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Take a listen to our friend Jackie Howard.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
The lead up to James Craig trial has been bizarre.
Two postponements, three different attorney teams, five added charges, and
a crazy action from an attorney who allegedly set his
own house on fire. Still, the auroradendus trial finally got
under way yesterday. Hundreds of potential jurors were in centennials
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a Rapahoe County Justice Center, filling out questionnaires and being
questioned by attorneys. Forty six year old Craig faces six
felony counts murder in the first degree, two counts of
solicitation to commit tampering with physical evidence, three counts of
solicitation to commit perjury in the first degree. Court documents
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show that Craig jailed on a murder charge of his wife, Angela.
Craig still allegedly worked to convince inmates, a former mistress,
and even one of his own children to tamper with evidence,
to plant it to make it look like Angela Craig
wanted to kill herself. Prosecutors say James Craig even made
a botched murder for higher attempt on the cases lead
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detective just before a second attempt at trial last year,
Craig allegedly offered people cash and dental work in return
for a cover up. Craig insists he ordered poison because
his wife asked.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Him to what happened to the must just say frisky
dentist who had begun yet another sex affair behind his
wife's back, clearly not his first, and this with a
fellow dental worker, a Texas orthodonist. The dentist accused of
poisoning his wife shakes with cyanide and a chemical.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
That is found in eye drops.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Wow, if he put as much thought into fixing his
marriage as he did and to how to murder his wife,
that probably be the happiest couple on earth. That said,
what do we know about what happened to Angela Craig
take a listen to this.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
After multiple reason hospital visits, Angela again checked into a
hospital Wednesday morning, complaining of a severe headache in 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.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Saturday, joining me an all star panel to make sense
of what we are learning This mom of six six
and she's still really young as well. Apparently, you know,
college sweethearts fall in love, they get married and immediately
start having children. That's how mom this young can have
six children already.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
And I don't get it.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
I want to go straight out to Stephan Tubb's host
of the podcast Arsenic Dds The Bizarre Case of Doctor
James Craig, which is an incredible podcast by the way. Okay,
I've done all this investigation and research and I learned
even more by listening to that Arsenic Dds The Bizarre
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Case of Doctor James Craig. Stephan, I want to just
start with this young mom, Angela suddenly developed all these symptoms.
Nobody can figure out what's wrong with her, and she
just bam dies. Now tell me about her original sentence,
Stephan Tubbs Nancy.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
She got incredibly sick and it wasn't just one time
in the hospital. It was multiple times that she was
feeling nauseous, that she just didn't feel something was right,
severe headaches, and she went to a local hospital. The
first time to the er, it was discharged, and then
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went to the same hospital like a week later.
Speaker 6 (06:46):
It was a.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Step Stephan, hold on, hold on, Stephan, I want to
go straight out to our shrink.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Joining us.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
In addition to incredible panel of guests joining me, Doctor
Chevron Scott, psychotherapist off of the Minds of mass Killers.
So much more, Doctor Chavon, thank you for being with us.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Have you ever noticed how women's symptoms just get discounted.
They come in.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
I'm nauseous, I feel dizzy, I've got this severe headache,
and they're like, oh.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
You're fine.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Bye.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
You have been called over and over to Angela. What
is it? Are all women quote hysterical?
Speaker 7 (07:25):
Yeah, there's even something called the w W syndrome, and
that stands for whiney women, and medical doctors have been
known to talk about the women.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Wait, wait, head blowing off right now?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
The w W syndrome? Is that what you just said? Yeah, yeah,
whiney woman.
Speaker 7 (07:48):
Yeah, I've read some women doctors have written books about
this problem in the medical profession where women are just
dismissed and not taken seriously.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Okay, I've got so much to say about but it
will get me totally sidetracked off. This woman, angela mother
of six, Okay, back to you. Stephan Tubbs joining me,
has research and investigated this case. Just to the detail. Stephan, So,
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she had headaches, a severe headache. I think from what
I recall, that's what really made her decide to go
to the hospital. She was having nausea and felt dizzy,
but it was the headaches. I think she was worried
that she was having a stroke because the headache was
so severe.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Yeah, she was very very ill. She was very, very
concerned about her own health and safety. This is a
mother of six. Not all of the children were inside
the home, but she's incredibly sick and wondering how the
hell she got sick.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Take a listen to this.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
My stomach feels fine, although at one point she said
she had nausea, But my head feels funny and dizzy,
very strange.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I'm dizzy. My eyes don't want to focus.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
I don't feel right in my No, this is just weird.
I'm dizzy in my head. My eyes are working slowly,
my body's responding slowly.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
I feel drugged.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Response from husband, the family man, Dennis, Given our history,
I know that must be triggering. Just for the record,
I didn't drug you. Whoa okay, as Shakespeare said me.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
That does protest too much, you know, like when a
cop walks by and.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Go, I don't have drugs on me. Anyway, Let's get
back to it. Listen.
Speaker 8 (09:28):
She was complaining of having a really nasty headache. She
was also complaining about her eyesight. She was having trouble focusing.
She said that she felt tingly. She said that she
felt cold. She's concerned that it could be a sinus infection,
and then there's some conversation about maybe she's diabetic. No
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one is able to find an answer or what is
causing this otherwise healthy mother of six to be feeling
these horrendous symptoms. She goes back a few days later,
March ninth, same symptoms, nausea, dizziness, HEADI, even some vomiting. Again,
the doctors can't figure out which wrong with her. They
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send her home, and then when she goes back for
a third time, that's when she's checked in on. Her
condition deteriorate quickly, and there.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
You see doctor Chevon Scott with us who just dropped
a Bombshelle mommie about the WW syndrome, whiny woman syndrome.
Now we're on round three. Okay, she's at the hospital
a third time. They keep sending her home and sending
her home. Now she codes. I guess that means code
(10:43):
read or whatever they call it in the hospital when
you're dying.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (10:46):
Yeah, just a horrifying, horrifying situation for a young woman
to be in with no explanation. It's hard to imagine
how frightened she must have been.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Eric Fattu is joining me, high profile trial lawyer, TV
Legal analysts founding partner Varner Fattest elite legal, former felony prosecutor.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Eric. Don't you just hate.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
It when you're own client who's not charged with anything,
out of the blue said I didn't drug you, Because
that's what he said.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Nobody said he did drug anybody, and.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
All of a sudden he goes, just, FYI, I didn't
drug you. If my husband said FYI, I didn't drug you,
I'm going to need a defense attorney because who would
jump up and say that unless they drug the wife?
Speaker 9 (11:33):
I hear you.
Speaker 10 (11:34):
I mean, it's a curious statement, certainly suspicious in the
eyes of many, you know. On the other hand, I
think his defense is going to argue that the marriage
was on the rocks, things were tense, things were dicey,
and so you know, people say things that in the
heat of an event like this, that that's certainly to
be triggering for both parties. But yeah, the gravity of
the statement and sort of it coming out of nowhere
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is not lost on triggering.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
First of all, I don't know how that got popular
triggering for both parties? Are you telling me? He the
dentist is triggered. What are you talking about? Why she's dead? Okay,
why are you talking about him getting triggered?
Speaker 5 (12:12):
This conversation proceeded the death.
Speaker 10 (12:13):
What I was saying is that, you know, when the
relationship is super rocky, sometimes when there are serious medical
events that come up, or just serious life events, those
things can be can add to the to the tenseness
of the situation, the stress of the situation, and he
could have been experiencing distress as well, and sometimes things come.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Out rocky rocky. That's what you call a string of
mistresses rocky. That's more like an earthquake.
Speaker 10 (12:39):
It is a serious event which just could have further
been destabilizing for the relationship when something serious happens, when
when your spouse is sick, I think defense is going
to argue that, hey, things were really distressing, yours heightened emotionality,
and sometimes people just say things that's at least some defense,
so likely for him.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Who is this guy?
Speaker 11 (12:59):
My name is doctor Jim Craig and I practice as
a Summerbrook dental group. My approach to dentistry begins with
sincerely listening to the patient and wanting to find out
more about where they're coming from, and what they're looking
for and what they want.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
That's from the official Summerbrook Dentistry Facebook page.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
I want to go straight out.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
To Feel Waters, former homicide detective from the Houston PD
President CEO Kindred Spirits Investigations and Security, Phil. I know
that Eric Fattis is going to turn purple and tell
me this means nothing. But when your husband, the dentist
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who sits on one of those little roly chairs all
day long, suddenly starts working out and developing interests in
getting sprayed hands, you better pay attention.
Speaker 9 (13:53):
What's going on dan homicide. Of course, we'd call that
a clue to watch his behavior and the things that
he's doing there. I mean, I guess in isolation for
that setting, he appears to be a very attentive dentist
and he's really into what he's doing, and he's trying
to entertain his clients, his patients as well as do
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the proper dental work on them. So in that particular setting,
it does look like if, of course we don't know
what the timeline here is, but if he's been hitting
the gym and doing some things that are trying to
get his physique in a better shape. That might be
an indicator, of course, to his wife in a general
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sense that are you doing this for me or are
you doing this for some other purpose?
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Okay, take a look at this fattest and that's from
the summer Brook Dentistry facebook page. Just where we're getting that.
Do you see somebody's pumping iron in the gym all
of a sudden?
Speaker 10 (14:55):
If he does, look a little jack there. Defense is
going to say, so what, Everyone's allowed to take care
of their own health. That's the homicide detective just said.
Maybe he was taking care of himself to sort of
rekindle the flame with his wife at the time. We
just don't know, but but yeah, I mean, even if
the relationship was on the rocks and he was preparing
for something new, that's not a crime.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
When Angela is admitted to the hospital for the third
time in two weeks, James Craig only stops at the
hospital for half an hour before going out to get
food for his wife. Craig returns an hour and a
half later and goes into Angela's room alone.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Just a few minutes.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Later, Angela has a severe seizure in her vitals, crash
While hospital staff attempt to revive Angela, Craig takes photos
of his own conscious wife. Angela is stabilized with the
ventilator but declared brain dead.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Takes photos of his wife before we go to a
renowned physician and biomedical engineer, doctor Ernest Shiodo. Let me
go back to Stephan Tubbs, host of Arsenic Dds.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Stephan, why is he taking pictures.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Of his wife as she's dying and they're desperately trying
to resuscitate her and she's got all kind of tubes
in her?
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Well, what happened?
Speaker 5 (16:12):
He's at the foot of the bed and it's almost
as if he's almost halfway out of that room. Nancy,
it was bizarre to see for the first time, But
this is really the goodbye. I think he was taking
it for some of her family that were not in town.
She has a huge family. They mostly primarily live in Utah,
but he was there. He then calls the business partner
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and his wife. They had all done things as couples before,
and this was the goodbye when she was coding out
at CU Health and it was there that, to me,
the entire Domino started to fall.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Speaking of Domino's falling to doctor Ernest Schaioto, not only physician,
but attorney, biomedical engineer, toxicologist, and author of talks tort,
medical and Legal Elements. Doctor Chayoto, thank you for joining us.
I'm sure in your residency and in practicing medicine, you've
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been in a lot of sick rooms and even death rooms.
Do you not find that bizarre that he is taking
pictures of his wife as she's coding out, in other words,
as hospital personnel are furiously trying to save her life,
and he's taking pictures.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Entirely unusual?
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Yes, doctor Shayoto.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Have you ever seen someone take photos of their wife
while they're trying to resuscitate her and bring her back
to life, you know, pounding on her chest, using those
electrical stimulators on her chest. Everybody's screaming, everybody's rushing into
the room, and he's in the corner taking pictures.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Have you ever seen that happen, doctor Shaoto? No, I
haven't either, and I have.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Investigated, prosecuted, and covered. I can't even count the number
of deaths and homicides.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
To doctor chevon Scott, I'm right there.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
As Stephan Tubbs said, that was when the weirdness was
marked and noted when he was taking picture. I don't
care what he says this is to send to her
extended family. That's bs technical legal term. What does that mean?
I mean, I know something's wrong with it, but I
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don't know what it is.
Speaker 7 (18:37):
Yeah, it's a puzzle to me as well, because it
seems so out of the normal range of human behavior.
None of us can put ourselves in that situation and
imagine that we'd be picking up a camera.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
As our loved one was dying. So what in the
world was he doing.
Speaker 7 (18:53):
I don't know that I have a good answer for that,
but it's definitely a red flag.
Speaker 12 (18:57):
While his wife, Angela is fighting for her life the hospital,
her devoted husband is emailing his mistress. James told her
something had happened to Angela, and she responded with how
sorry she was for him and that she wished she
was helping him, not pulling him away. She stated she
knew it had to be so hard what he was
going through, and that she wanted to be there for him,
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but did not want to mix with his family and
friends and pretend to be only a friend when there
was something more.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Oh yeah, that's so hard.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
On a mistress when she has to pretend to just
be friends in front of his wife. I hate when
that happens. Fattest, What do you have to say to that?
What about when a jury hears about him while his
wife is lying there dying, he's emailing his mistress, his hottie,
and she says, I.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Can't take it.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
I can't stand to act like we're just friends, but
we're so much more. Has everybody lost their minds?
Speaker 10 (19:55):
On the surface, certainly problematic. It's going to be difficult
to neutralize for the defense, you know, I think that
they might consider something like, you know, there have been
instances where even a person's wife has like giving them
an organ. You know that there's this is like that,
and then there's still in fidelity. There is still cheating
human beings to do underhanded stuff. They do stuff that
(20:16):
is surprising that it's hard to understand, and I think
that that could.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
Be what was going on here, and that.
Speaker 9 (20:22):
Could be help.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
The defense posters it to the Jersey.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
But you know there's another whole thing there.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Hold on just a moment to a doctor chauven Scott,
many women would tell not me, but many women would
tell you I'd rather my husband just go have sex
with somebody than to actually fall in love. I mean
if my husband did either one. Basically, it's open marriage,
open casket, bam.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
That says it all.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
But some women would prefer the husband, if they're going
to do anything, to just go have sex with somebody
wham bam done, as opposed to falling in love with someone.
Can you explain that odd sentiment?
Speaker 7 (21:03):
The difference between having that kind of deep attachment with somebody,
I guess would be the love and so yeah, there
are even people who have very open marriages where sexual
exploits outside of the relationship are absolutely fine, But the
idea is that you always have your primary emotional bond
(21:23):
with your partner.
Speaker 13 (21:26):
Colorado mom of six, Angela Craig spends the month of
March in and out of hospitals complaining of strange symptoms
for which doctors seem to have no answers. Meanwhile, her
dentist husband is receiving my sterious packages to his office.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
You earlier heard podcast The Star of Arsenic Dds Stefan
Tubbs refer to Domino's began to fall.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Well, here they go listen.
Speaker 14 (21:52):
Still in the parking lot after visiting Angela in the hospital.
Ryan Redforn gets a call from James Craig, his partner
in Summerbrook. As Craig's starts to ask Redfern if he
had said anything to Angela's nurses, Redferd cuts him off,
saying he told the nurses about the package Craig received
at the office. Craig says the package contained a ring
for Angela, but Redfern replies, it's not a ring. We
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know what's in there.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
After their phone call, James Craig sends Ryan Redfern a
flurry of angry texts, accusing him of creating huge problems
by getting police involved without talking to him first.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Craig tells Redfern, if.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
He really is a friend, he and the remaining office
employees will not speak with cops anymore.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
He's red flag when somebody says, don't talk to the cop.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Crime stories with Nancy Grace.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
In the Last Days, a jury hands down a verdict
and let me tell you right now, I saved it
for Friday night because it is a Friday Night special guilty.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Guilty. Prosecutors argued the dentists poured.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
His wife smoothies and other drinks full of syinide arsenic
and the chemical found in eye drops is called tetra
hyghdrasylen tetra high drasolen. Now, remember the jury heard from
four mistresses, and you know that's got to be the
tip of the iceberg. Those are four that we know of,
(23:25):
you know, listen to this. Witnesses also testified at trial
that Craig, the dentist this way everybody hates dentists, asked
his teen daughter to fabricate a deep fake exonerating him
by showing her own mother asking him for poison, as
(23:48):
well as a former salmate who said the dentists ordered
hits on the lead detective from behind bars.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
What is wrong with this man? Is he at all
self aware? Does he even know he's alive? Does he
even know what he has done?
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Ordering a hit on the detective from behind bars, asking
his teen daughter to create a deep fake where her
dead mom asks for poison.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Oh, what more do we.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Know about the case? The dominoes begin to fall. What
about the dental practice partner?
Speaker 5 (24:25):
Yeah, Ryan Redford, some would consider him to be the
hero in this because he's the one that after the
phone call, and as you just outlined on the program.
He tells Jim via the cell phone. He says, Jim
stopped talking, get a lawyer to backtrack. We're talking about
arsenic that was allegedly purchased online. I mean, the computer
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records at the dental practice were very easy for police investigators.
But it was the package of potassium cyani that was
delivered to the actual dentist's office opened by some you
know employee. She starts to go what is this potassium cyanide?
She literally sees the skull and crossbones on the packaging.
(25:09):
She looks it up. She clicks in her mind, wait
a minute, this is exactly these are the kinds of
symptoms that Angela Craig is experiencing. She then calls Redfern,
the partner, and that's how the domino starts to fall.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
By joining me.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Doctor Ernest Toyoto, attorney, physician, biomedical engineer, toxicologist, and author
of Toxic Tortue, Medical and Legal Elements. Doctor Toyoto explain
what the symptoms of that particular poison would be.
Speaker 6 (25:38):
Well, there's a number of different poisons involved, but cyanide,
you just really have very rapid loss of blood pressure,
loss of consciousness, and very rapid depth, parsnick, you tend
to get peripheral neuropathy, get burning in your hands and feet.
(26:02):
It's more of a slow poison. It's really interesting. Is
a tetrahydral zoline, which is interestingly found in eye drops
to get the redness out of your eyes, what they
call an alpha agonist. It causes constriction of blood vessels
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and that causes confusion, can cause loss of consciousness, coma,
and that sounds a lot more like the symptoms that
she was having in the hospital.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
The wife, guys, we look carefully at the movements and
the actions leading up to her last hospitalization and what
led up to the previous two hospitalizations.
Speaker 14 (26:53):
Listen, the husband and wife go for a run or
hit the gym together almost every day, and when they
return home, James Craig makes protein shakes or fruit smoothies
for breakfast, while Angela delves into getting the kids ready
for the day.
Speaker 8 (27:05):
We think he was using to poison angula over the
course of several weeks, actually incutting it in her protein shakes,
even helping her along or trying to reassure her when
she was complaining of sickness, dizziness, nauga. He was sort
of still encouraging her to drink the fluid.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Okay, let me understand something, Stephan Tubbs joining me. Isn't
it true that on a prior occasion she had gotten
stabilized and.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Then he goes out and comes.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Back and brings her food like a doating husband in
the hospital and suddenly she goes into seizures.
Speaker 5 (27:40):
That's true. Yeah, she was in the hospital.
Speaker 9 (27:42):
Remember three different times.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
She was in the hospital, three different times. Reading the affidavit,
which reads like a bad Hollywood script, it looks like
investigators feel she is consistently being offered the food and
in primary fashion, the protein shakes while she's in And
keep in mind all of these text messages that are
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going back and forth. Do you feel like a smoothie?
Is there anything I can bring you? And this goes
on for the better part of the month of March.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Stephan Tubbs, are you telling me he would email her
or text her in the hospital say can I bring
you a smoothie?
Speaker 5 (28:19):
One thousand percent that is in the affidavit. I've seen
the screenshots of the text messages. She's in the hospital
three different times. There's text messaging. I mean dozens and
dozens of them, if not hundreds of them, going back
and forth, do you feel like something? What do you
feel like? Can I bring you anything? And it was
usually in the form of a smoothie, And.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Then the other shoe drops listen.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
With suspicions raised, Angela Craig is sent for an autopsy
with additional toxicology screening test reveal the otherwise healthy mom
of six died of poisoning from both sinide and tetrahydrozolene,
a common ingredient in eye drops. While investigators have no
definitive evidence Angela's food and drinks were poisoned with cyanide,
the test reveal her cyanide levels increased while she was
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in the hospital.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Stephan Tubbs, her levels increased while she's in the hospital.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
Yeah, I think that was probably the biggest shocker in
a shocking story in the Denver metro area that we
got wored and read the autopsy her levels of cyanide
increased while she's in the hospital. I mean to me,
it was and remains unprecedented. I've never heard a story
like that, and doctors didn't know again what they were
(29:35):
looking for, right, And it was just when the domino
started to fall, and people started to talk the business
partner that they started to look into. Wait a minute,
these are the signs of poisoning. And certainly we know
what the autopsy revealed.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
But I mean, to me, Stephan, it would all blow
up when the dental assistant opens up a package and
it's cyanide.
Speaker 5 (29:55):
Oh remember though, Nancy, it was supposed to be a
ring for Angela. I mean the kakamame. Many stories just
were over and over.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Here do you get cyanide? Stefan, You can just order
it up on Amazon? I mean, where do you get cyanide?
Speaker 5 (30:10):
So one of the two there were purchase orders for
Amazon dot com, which was amazing. I can't believe it
was either cyanide or the potassium shie.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
That was a joke. Are you serious? You can get
cyanide on Amazon?
Speaker 5 (30:24):
There you go, right there on your screen. Yeah, I'm
going to buy this on Amazon. First of all, somebody
bezos arsenic? Ye, arsenic? Yeah? And then look at this packs.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Left inside residence's mailbox. So I guess he thought he
was being super smart by having it delivered to the
dentist office so his wife wouldn't find the arsenic. Right,
don't open this okay, So what happens Stephan when the
dental assistant opens up a box and it's arsenic?
Speaker 5 (30:56):
I think her eyes about bugged out of her head,
is what happened. She sees this package, she opens it up.
Another office assistant came in and said, you weren't supposed
to open that. Well, gts out of the bag. She
sees the skull and crossbones, and then she again puts
the pieces together. Wait a minute, potassium cyanide. She calls
doctor Redfern, the partner of Jim Craig, and says, uh,
(31:18):
you got a package here, and then that's where you
pass forward, you know. Redfern confronts Jim Craig and says,
why are you buying potassium cyanide for the dental practice?
And of course the lie was, oh, that's really it's
a gift. It was it was a ring for Angela.
Well there was no ring inside.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Doctor Ernest Scioto joining us a renowned physician and lawyer
and author. Doctor Chiyoto, she couldn't taste something odd in
her protein shakes. I mean, what does arsenic or cyanide
tastes like.
Speaker 6 (31:53):
Arsk is gonna taste sort of him a dialet sort
of taste or is cyanide really wouldn't Sometimes it is
in order of bitter almonds, So whether or not she
could taste the artsnake or cyanide would really be a
(32:16):
matter of how much was in the shape. His small amount,
you may not taste it.
Speaker 8 (32:20):
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
lines of Jim and wattles at gmail dot com, at
gmail or at AOL or at hotmail dot com. I
don't recall which you exactly, but hardly a criminal mastermind.
(32:45):
He was actually in two million dollars of personal debt,
and it was because he made some really terrible investments
in some dodgy cryptocurrency turned out to be worth absolutely nothing.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
He gambled.
Speaker 8 (32:58):
The family thought these really risky investment choices, and then
by the time we came to find out about him,
he was.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Really up to his neck.
Speaker 8 (33:08):
He filed for personal bankruptcy, he felt, or professional bandkruptcy.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Oh my stars. Eric fattis renowned attorney. Don't you just
hate it when you're a mastermind. Client just uses a
fake email to find out all about cyanide and order
Arsenic from Amazon.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
That really worked well, Nancy.
Speaker 10 (33:35):
You know that there is a potential alternative explanation as
to why I was doing that, as we've talked about.
His marriage of twenty three years was on the rocks.
He had filed for bankruptcy twice, he had a history
of depression. A sinide could be used to hurt others,
but it can also be used to hurt oneself, and
that's something that one might not want to broadcast to
other people and might use surreptitious means to try to procure,
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which it sounds like you do.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
You know, Eric, you know something you've got to tell
and I better to inform you about it before you
go to Vegas. The crazier your arguments get the faster
you talk, And I love that about you. And I'm
telling you because I really don't think you can stop yourself.
But that said, so you're suggesting now, you're just spinning
it out right like you're throwing a frisbee. You're just
throwing it at me that he really ordered the cyanide
(34:19):
in the Arsenic for himself, right.
Speaker 10 (34:22):
You just say equally consistent with that?
Speaker 2 (34:27):
What about this?
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Have you ever had a client try to suborn perjury
kind of a deal?
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Dentures for perjury listen.
Speaker 15 (34:39):
According to prosecutors, this isn't the first time James Craig
has tried to recruit fake witnesses. James Craig gets friendly
with several inmates at the arapa Ho Detention Center and
learns William Billy Walden's mother hates her dentures but can't
afford implants. Craig asks Walden to let him talk to
his mom the next time he gives a recall Over
the phone.
Speaker 9 (34:58):
Craig tells Rebecca Walden he'll give her a.
Speaker 15 (35:00):
Brand new set of teeth when he gets out, saying
he's certain to get off because he didn't kill his wife.
Craig gets Walden's address and tells her he'll give her
more details in a letter.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
So fattest Dancers for Perjury thoughts.
Speaker 10 (35:15):
Not the best deal, certainly a bad look. But on
the other hand, defense is going to say, hey, look
he was He's been in jail for a long time,
he's been adamant about his innocence.
Speaker 9 (35:24):
He's getting desperate.
Speaker 10 (35:25):
He needs to do something to try to change things,
and this is the sort of hair brain scheme he
came up with.
Speaker 5 (35:30):
It's problematic, but doesn't mean he committed murder.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Okay, I had a funny feeling you would say that
about the dancers for perjury scheme? Well, what about haughties
for dentures? Hatties at O T T I E S
Listen fattest.
Speaker 14 (35:45):
In early twenty twenty four, a letter from Craig to
Rebecca Walden, inmate William Walden's mother, was returned to the
Rapahoe Detention Center as undeliverable. The letter contains an offer
to provide Rebecca Walden with free dental implants if she
recruits several young attractive women to pose as Craig's affair partners.
Craig instructs Walden to have the women tell authorities that
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Angela confronted them about Craig's affairs, then recruited them to
help her frame Craig for her murder.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
Okay, what happens, Stephan Tubbs, where do the hotties enter
the scene?
Speaker 5 (36:19):
In a desperate plea to get out of the Arapaho
County jail, I mean at this point, there's no death
penalty in Colorado. He has nothing to lose. He's been
accused of trying a solicitation for murder of the lead
detective in this I mean, it's not just the hotties
or the free teeth or whatever. Jim Craig is trying
(36:41):
any way that he can, at least according to those
of us following the case closely watching him do whatever
he can to possibly grasp at straws to convince one
juror once this thing finally starts to create that.
Speaker 9 (36:55):
Doubt.
Speaker 5 (36:55):
But it's been crazy. The hits just keep on coming.
I literally less than two weeks ago had a guy
reach out to me. Don't know him from anybody, He says, Hey,
I was serving in the Appaho County Detention facility with
Craig until last October. You won't believe what he told me.
He even gave me a letter. It's crazy, and it continues.
Speaker 4 (37:15):
In the letters to Constantiniis, Craig offers a blank check
in exchange for spoofed texts, phone records, and doctored photographs
that can help convince authorities. Constantinidis knew Angela in life,
and that the mom of six was suicidal after learning
of his latest affair. Craig details some of his previous
affairs in the letter, admitting he first cheated on Angela
(37:36):
with a patient in two thousand and nine, and provides
personal information about his children.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
In an attempt to make their lives seem credible.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Crime stories with Nancy Grace, I hope you're sitting down.
More evidence came in that one of the many, many
mistresses of James Craig, the pornie dentist, testified he sent
her a photo of his wife as she lied dying
(38:12):
in the hospital. What he sent his mistress a photo
of his wife in the hospital bed as she was dying.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Oh? Man, oh.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
He then asked the mistress to come visit him, just
a few hours after he learned his wife, the mother
of his six children, was brain dead.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
You know, I convict him right there.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
I would convict him right there, but there was so
much more evidence, hard evidence, not me just disliking him.
I'm going to go back to Eric Faddis, veteran trial
lawyer defense attorney. In all seriousness, I've been pulling your
leg a little bit with the fantastical nature of some
(39:02):
of the facts.
Speaker 6 (39:03):
We're learning.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
But we have a mother of six dead, not just dead,
but suffering for months from sinaide and arsenic poisoning before
she died.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
Okay, you say it's not the husband.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
I say it is. He's still innocent. He has not
been proven guilty in a court of law. But let's
just take a look at what we're hearing right now.
Not only did he try to arrange quote Hattie's attractive
women to claim they were his sex partners to tell
(39:37):
authorities his dead wife confronted him about his affairs and
that she was going to commit suicide. So your suicide
fantasy is actually hatching in the defendant's mind. All right,
So he's taking your cue. But he's soliciting suborn for
(40:00):
lack of a better word, perjury by Hatties to say
his dad wife confronted them. Not only that he has
a dancers for perjury scheme with somebody else. Now we're learning,
according to Stephan Tubbs, we're learning he tried to order
a hit on a detective. Have a detective murdered?
Speaker 2 (40:27):
What about it?
Speaker 6 (40:28):
You know?
Speaker 10 (40:29):
I think what he'll say is that a person who
feels that they are innocent, they are being railroaded. They
have been in jail for a long period of time,
months and months, that they don't feel like they have
a way to get out, they're going to resort to
desperate acts. And perhaps in his mind he thought that, hey,
if I eliminate the head honp Show in this investigation,
perhaps the investigation falls apart. Certainly not lawful, certainly not okay,
(40:52):
but but also not the same thing as proving him
guilty of murdering his wife.
Speaker 1 (40:57):
Doctor Ernestchado joining US, renown physician and author not to
what does a victim experience as they die from cyanide
or arsenic poisoning?
Speaker 6 (41:10):
Well, if they're they're going to be different. Arsenic is
going to be sort of a slow, agonizing gap, or
as cyanide can be very rapid, you're really going to
end up with sufficient cyanide, you're going to end up
dying with the moments. So they're really two different types
(41:35):
of gap due to two very different.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
Toxic Pheil Waters joining US former homicide detective Houston p D,
President of Kindred Spirits Investigations dot com. You know, Phil,
you and I have handled a lot of murders, a
lot of homicides, be they involuntary voluntary or murder. It
(42:02):
takes a special kind of mind, would you agree, Phil?
This is not getting angry and pulling a gun and shooting.
This is months and months of planning, a scheming of
Google searches and lovingly feeding your wife protein shakes laced
with poison and in watching her suffer, Phil.
Speaker 9 (42:25):
Well, exactly, you know this is a This is an
evil act on this guy's part. I won't even recognize
him by saying his name, and we see this. This
is he is obsessed with killing his wife, murdering his wife,
(42:45):
the mother of his six children. And this is something
that for as you put it, for months has been
thinking about this every minute of every day. And so
when he's going into these search engines and trying to
figure out what kind of poison is the best one
to use, and that kind of thing. I'll tell you what.
(43:07):
It's just I hope he's a better dentist than he
was a murderer, because what he did is idiotic in
terms of trying to accomplish the task, which is murder
his wife and try to have some sort of a
story that's going to take the suspicion away from you.
Everything he did in the process here pointed to him.
(43:32):
So when we get these investigations, we always look for
affirmative links. We let the evidence take us where we
need to be, and it's always a journey for the truth.
In this particular, I listened to the defense with all
due to respect. These episodes of isolation that we're talking about,
where you know, he's cheating, that didn't make him a
(43:53):
murder and so on and so on. This has to
be looked at in a timeline of events. If we
can determine when this started, and then of course we
know where it ended and what were the events that
occurred in between that got us to that point. You know,
this taking pictures and so forth of the of his
wife in the hospital when she's dying. You know, when
(44:15):
I was listening to that discussion, I'm more prone to
believe that he was going to use those pictures to
gain some sympathy from the woman that he was wanting
to a squire around. So you know, he had a
purpose for all the things that he did, and it
(44:35):
was just it was just kind of stupid. Is as
stupid does It just continued to get more idiotic as
he went through this process, thinking that what people are
going to believe this story that he's come up with.
Speaker 1 (44:48):
And you know another thing, phil as you and I
You as a homicide detective, me as a fellony prosecutor,
we would go about our business every day not s
king that an inmate behind bars is trying to have
us killed, have us killed to thwart the investigation. I
(45:12):
bet you never thought about that while you were detecting.
Speaker 9 (45:15):
No, when I worked in Narconics, I did have a
contract put out on me, so I'm a little familiar
with it. But we all, for.
Speaker 1 (45:22):
Pete's sake, we've all gotten death threats. The first one
I had was faxed over from the Fulton County Jail.
Didn't take too much to figure that one out. But arrogance, yes, yes,
the level of arrogance to think he can get away
with everything and fix it all by doing a dentures
(45:43):
for perjury scheme and having the lead detective murdered.
Speaker 2 (45:49):
This woman is dead and.
Speaker 1 (45:52):
Probably her last thoughts were Who's going to take care
of my children?
Speaker 2 (45:58):
Prosecutors alleged to a jury.
Speaker 1 (46:00):
James Craig, the Colorado Dennis considered his wife a quote problem.
Speaker 2 (46:06):
Really, he didn't think.
Speaker 1 (46:08):
That when she gave birth to his six children, Diddy
and poisoned her with a combination of cyanide arsenic and
toutra hydrosylene that is in eye drops. It constricts your
if you put it in your eyes, it constricts the
veins in your eyes, so you don't see the red
in your eyes.
Speaker 2 (46:26):
Does the same thing to someone's heart.
Speaker 1 (46:29):
It constricts the blood vessels around the heart and gives
you a heart attack. Now again, the third oldest child, Annabelle,
testified about one of his many many plots, including soliciting
first degree murder and tampering with physical evidence and suborning
perjury from behind bars. Her dad, she testified under oath,
(46:53):
called her from behind bars shortly after his arrest and
asked her to create a deep fake claiming that the
mom wanted the poisoning the letter that he wrote, admitted
to pass sex affairs and told the daughter her parents
had been playing a quote game of chicken with Craig,
(47:17):
claiming Angela asked him to order the fatal poisons.
Speaker 2 (47:22):
That's when he wanted.
Speaker 1 (47:23):
A quote deep fake video of mom saying she asked
Craig to order cyanide arsenic and oleander and she was
going to take it herself, dragging his daughter into this.
The letter written by him offered instructions including buying a
cheap laptop, installing a VPN, a private network, and using
(47:47):
the dark Web, even asking his daughter to set up
an anonymous email and buying a prepaid visa gift card.
Speaker 9 (47:56):
I mean.
Speaker 1 (47:59):
Held his own daughter to burn the video onto thumb drives,
tell investigators she found them amongst her mother's things and
then destroyed the laptop. He pulled his own.
Speaker 2 (48:11):
Daughter into this.
Speaker 1 (48:13):
Colorado dentist James Craig guilty and the deadly poisoning of
his wife through her smoothies. Now sentenced to life behind
bars with no possibility of parole. So now when I
said Friday Night Special, see this was special.
Speaker 2 (48:30):
You believe me? Nancy Grace Sonning off goodbye,
Host
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