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 finally got underway yesterday. 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 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 pac
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Good evening, everybody. I'm Nancy Grayson.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
This is the Friday Night special Crime Stories, and tonight
terrible news for a Colorado.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Dentist, a very popular.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Dentist accused of murdering his wife with poisoned shakes. Ret
Row again, Good evening. I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories,
and I want to thank you for being with us.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
A lawyer who.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Had been defending a Colorado dentist charged of killing his
wife with of course, I mean really poisoned shakes, has
just withdrawn from the case. Has he just figured out
he's got a liar for a client? Seriously, because he
did it just days before.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
The start of the murder.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Try now, wait, wait, wait for it, after allegedly setting
his own house on fire. Okay, just recently we covered
the case. I'm going to tell you all about it
of a lawyer who had called in bomb threats to
the courthouse because he wasn't ready to go to trial
(01:20):
and then even ended up killing his divorce client, a
beautiful woman, a mother killed her in an ambush so
he wouldn't have to go to trial. And now we
get a lawyer who sets fire to his own home
just before trial. Okay, you know what, I may not
(01:41):
like it, but as a judge, I would absolutely give
you a continuance. Anyway, Can we get to the facts
at hand? Or maybe he just realized he's stuck between
a rock and a hard spot. He's got to go
to trial and spout out a lot of things he
knows to be a lie.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Take a listen to our friend Jackie.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
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 Aurordendus trial finally got
under way yesterday. Hundreds of potential jurors were in centennials
(02:21):
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
(02:41):
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 sage James Craig even made
a botched murder for higher attempt on the cases lead
(03:04):
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 him.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
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.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
And a chemical that is found in eye drops.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
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?
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Craig?
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Listen to this After multiple recent 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 2 (04:18):
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.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Apparently, you know, college sweethearts.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Fall in love, they get married and immediately start having children.
That's how mom this young can have six children already, and.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
I don't get it.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
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 is
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our 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.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Nancy, she got incredibly sick.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
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 went to the same hospital
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like a week later.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
It was Steph Stephan.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Hold on, hold on, Stephan, I want to go straight
out to our shrink. Joining us in addition to incredible
panel of guests joining me Doctor cheven Scott, psychotherapist, author
of the Minds of mass Killers, so much.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
More, Doctor Chavon, thank you for being with us. Have
you ever noticed how women's symptoms just get discounted.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
They come in, I'm nauseous, I feel dizzy, I've got
this severe headache, when they're like.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Oh, you're fine, bye. You have been over and over
to Angela.
Speaker 7 (06:24):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Are all women quote hysterical? Yeah.
Speaker 8 (06:28):
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 2 (06:38):
Wait, wait, head blowing off right now?
Speaker 1 (06:45):
The w W syndrome. Is that what you just said?
Speaker 5 (06:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Yeah, whiney woman.
Speaker 8 (06:51):
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 2 (06:59):
Okay, I've got so much to say about that, but
it will get me totally sidetracked off. This woman angela
mother of six. Okay, back to you, Stephan Tubbs joining me,
who 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 6 (07:37):
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 1 (07:50):
Take a listen to this.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
My stomach feels fine, although at one point she said
she had nausea. But my head feels funny and dizzy,
very strange. I'm dizzy, eyes don't want to focus, I
don't feel right in my head.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
No, this is just weird. I'm dizzy in my head.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
My eyes are working slowly, my body's responding slowly. I
feel drugged. 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 1 (08:22):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
That does protest too much, you know, like when a
cop walks by and go, I don't have drugs on me.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Anyway, let's get back to it. Listen.
Speaker 9 (08:31):
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 for 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, headache, 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. Her condition
deteriorate quickly, and.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
There 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
(09:45):
read or whatever they call it in the hospital.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
When you're dying. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (09:48):
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 2 (09:57):
Eric fattis joining me, high profile try lawyer, TV legal
analysts founding partner Varner Fattus elite legal, former felony prosecutor.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Eric, Don't you just hate it when you're own client.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
He's not charged with anything out of the blue, said
I didn't drug you, because that's what he said.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Nobody said he did drug anybody.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
And 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, I hear you.
Speaker 10 (10:36):
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 merriage
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 certainly could
be triggering for both parties. But yeah, the gravity of
the statement and sort of it coming out of nowhere
(10:58):
is not lost on triggering.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
First of all, I don't know how that got popular triggering.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
For both parties. Are you telling me he the dentist
is triggered? What are you talking about? Why she's dead?
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Okay, why are you talking about him getting triggered?
Speaker 5 (11:14):
This conversation proceeded the death.
Speaker 10 (11:16):
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 add 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 (11:33):
Out rocky rocky.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
That's what you call a string of mistresses rocky, that's
more like an earthquake.
Speaker 10 (11:41):
It is a serious event which just could have further
been destabilizing for the relationship. When something serious happens 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.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
That's at least some defense, so likely for him.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Who is this guy?
Speaker 11 (12:01):
My name is doctor Jim Craig and I practice as
summer Brook 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 2 (12:16):
That's from the official Summerbrook Dentistry Facebook page.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I want to go straight.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Out to Phil Waters, former homicide detective from the Houston
PD President CEO Kindred Spirits Investigations and Security.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Phil.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
I know that Eric Fattis is going to turn purple
and tell me this means nothing. But when your husband,
the dentist 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 to
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what's going on.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
He dan homicide. Of course, we'd call that a clue.
Speaker 12 (13:01):
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 the proper dental work
on them. So in that particular setting, it does look
(13:25):
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 sense that are
you doing this for me?
Speaker 5 (13:46):
Or are you doing this for some other purpose?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Okay, take a look at this fattest and that's from
the summer Brook Dentistry facebook page.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Just where we're getting that. Do you see somebody's pumping
iron in the gym all of a sudden?
Speaker 10 (13:57):
If he does, look a little jack there, defense is
going to say, so what, everyone is allowed to take
care of their own health. A'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 4 (14:17):
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. Just a
few minutes later, Angela has a severe seizure in her
vitals crash. While hospital staff attempt to revive Angela, Craig
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takes photos of his own conscious wife. Angela is stabilized
with the ventilator but declared brain dead.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
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 1 (15:02):
Stefan, Why is he taking pictures of.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
His wife as she's dying and they're desperately trying to
resuscitate her and she's got all kind of tubes in.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Her, well, what happened.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
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 2 (15:50):
Speaking of Domino's falling to doctor Ernest Schaioto, not only physician,
but attorney, biomedical engineer, toxicologist and author of Toxic Torte,
Medical and Legal Elements.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Doctor Chayoto, thank you for joining us.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
I'm sure in your residency and in practicing medicine, you've
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,
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and he's taking.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Pictures entirely unusual. Yes, doctor Hyoto.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Have you ever seen someone take photos of their wife
while she's 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.
Have you ever seen that happen, doctor Shaoto?
Speaker 1 (16:58):
No, I haven't either.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
I have investigated, prosecuted, and covered. I can't even count
the number of deaths and homicides to dotorshevon Scott.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
I'm right there, as.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
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,
(17:36):
I know something's wrong with it, but I don't know
what it is.
Speaker 8 (17:39):
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 as our
loved one was dying.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
So what in the world was he doing.
Speaker 8 (17:55):
I don't know that I have a good answer for that,
but it's definitely a red flag.
Speaker 13 (17:59):
Well, why if Angela is fighting for her life in
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
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there for him, but did not want to mix with
his family and friends and pretend to be only a
friend when there was something more.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Oh yeah, that's.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
So hard 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 here's about
him while his wife is lying there dying, he's emailing
his mistress, his hottie, and she says, I can't take it.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
I can't stand to.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Act like we're just friends when we're so much more.
Has everybody lost their minds?
Speaker 10 (18:57):
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 given them
an organ. You know that there's this is like that,
and then there's still infidelity. There are still cheating. Human
beings could do underhanded stuff. They do stuff that is
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surprising that it's hard to understand. And I think that
that could be what was going on here, and that
could be how the defense posters it to the jursey.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Well, you know, there's another whole thing there. Hold on
just a moment to your 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 1 (19:50):
That says it all. But some women would prefer the husband,
if they're going to.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Do anything, to just go have sex with somebody wham bam, done,
as opposed to to falling in love with someone.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Can you explain that odd sentiment?
Speaker 8 (20:05):
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
(20:26):
with your partner.
Speaker 7 (20:28):
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 2 (20:45):
You earlier heard podcast The Star of Arsenic Dds Stephan
Tubbs refer to Domino's began to fall Well here they go.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Listen, Still in the parking lot.
Speaker 14 (20:55):
After visiting Angela in the hospital, Ryan Redforn gets a
call from James Craig, his partner in Summerbrook. As Craig
starts to ask Redfern if he had said anything to
Angela's nurses, Redford 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 know what's in there.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
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 1 (21:28):
Craig tells Redfern.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
If he really is a friend, he and the remaining
office employees will not speak with cops anymore.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
He's red flag when somebody says, don't talk to the cops.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Another bizarre twist in the case of a Colorado dentist
accused of murdering his wife with poison milkshakes, his lawyer
sets his own the lawyer house on fire to get
out of trying the case of defending him. Robert Working,
a partner in l FD Defense along with his wife
(22:13):
Lisa Fine Moses, was arrested last weekend after Lee law
enforcement find him sitting on the porch of his house
as it burned behind him. This is according to the
Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office. Now he's not the first workings
withdrawal is the third time lawyers have removed themselves as
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defense attorneys for the dentist arrested after the death of
his wife and the mother of his wait for it,
six children. He has six children with the woman, and
then kills her. Really, prosecutors claimed the dentist started a
sex affair again not his first with the Texas orthodontist,
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and the next thing you know, his wife is dead.
But again, this is not the first time a lawyer
has gone to extreme measures to get off of a case.
Do you remember the name Gregory Moore because I will
never forget it. He is accused of brutally murdering a
Cleveland nurse in this bizarre plot to avoid taking her
(23:22):
case to court. And he's just a divorce lawyer for
Pete's sake, much less this guy who is defending a
murder case and sitting in front of his house burning down. Now,
Gregory Moore, that's a whole other can of worms. The
victim in that case, just a beautiful woman, Eliza Sherman,
(23:45):
was on her way to discuss the divorce case with
her lawyer when she was approached by a hooded figure
and stabbed ten times.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Again, that wasn't his first. He was accused of calling.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
In multiple bomb threat to courthouses to get out of
trying cases.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
But back to the case in chief.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Attorney Robert Working, a partner at LFM Defense along with
his wife.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
This must be LFM.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Lisa Fine Moore arrested last weekend after deputies find him
sitting on the porch of his house while it burned
to the ground. This, according to the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office,
all because we think he wanted to get off the
case of a Colorado dentist accused of murdering his wife.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Are the facts that bad in the.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Case, he said, The dominoes begin to fall.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
What about the dental practice partner, Yeah, Ryan Redfern.
Speaker 6 (24:40):
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 Feuter records at the
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dental practice were very easy for police investigators. But it
was the package of potassium cyanide 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. She
(25:22):
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 start to fall.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Hey, joining me.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Doctor Ernest Toyoto attorney, physician, biomedical engineer, toxicologist and author
of Toxic Torque, Medical and Legal Elements. Doctor Toyoto explain
what the symptoms of that particular poison would be.
Speaker 15 (25:51):
Well, there's a number of different poisons involved, but cyanide
you just really have very rare at the loss of
blood pressure, loss of consciousness, and very rapid depth arsnic
You tend to get peripheral neuropathy, you get burning in
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the the in your hands and feet. 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. It's a it's a what
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they call an alpha agonist. It causes constriction of blood
vessels 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 the wife.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
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 (27:07):
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.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
For the day.
Speaker 9 (27:18):
We think he was using to poison Angula over the
course of several weeks, actually including it in her protein shapes,
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 fluid.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Okay, let me understand something, Stephan Tubbs joining me. Isn't
it true that on a prior occasion she had gotten
stabilized and then he goes out and comes back and
brings her food like a doting husband in the hospital,
and suddenly she goes into seizures.
Speaker 6 (27:53):
That's true. Yeah, she was in the hospital. Remember three
different times. She was in the hospital, three different times.
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
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in and keep in mind all of these text messages
that are 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 2 (28:25):
Stephan Tubbs are you telling me he would email her
or text her in the hospital say can I bring
you a smoothie?
Speaker 6 (28:33):
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 then.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
The other shoe drops listen.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
With suspicions raised, Angela Craig is sent for an autopsy.
The additional toxicology screening test revealed 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 sinide levels increased while she was
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in the hospital.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Stephan Tubbs, her levels increased while she's in the hospital.
Speaker 6 (29:27):
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.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
In the hospital.
Speaker 6 (29:42):
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 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 auto but I.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Mean to me, Stephan, it would all blow up when
the dental assistant opens up a package and it's cyanide.
Speaker 6 (30:08):
Oh remember though, Nancy, it was supposed to be a
ring for Angela. I mean, the Kakamami stories just were
over and over.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Where do you get cyanide?
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Stephan? You can just order it up on Amazon. I mean,
where do you get cyanide?
Speaker 6 (30:23):
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 show.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
That was a joke. Are you serious? You can get
cyanide on Amazon?
Speaker 6 (30:37):
There you go right there on your screen. Yeah, I'm
going to buy this on Amazon. First of all, somebody
bezos arsenic? Yeah arsenic?
Speaker 5 (30:44):
But you yeah? And then look at this.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Podcast 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 arsenic. Right,
don't open this, Okay, So what happens Stephan when the
dental assistant opens up a box and it's arsenic?
Speaker 6 (31:09):
I think her eyes abow 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, cats 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
fast 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 2 (31:50):
Doctor Earnest Schioto joining us, a renowned physician and lawyer
and author. Doctor Chioto she couldn't taste something odd in
her protein shakes. I mean, what does arsenic or cyanide taste.
Speaker 15 (32:06):
Arsenake is going to taste sort of have a garlet
sort of taste, whereas cyanide really wouldn't. Sometimes it is
an order of bitter almonds. So whether or not she
could taste the arsenake or cyanide would really be a
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matter of how much was in the shape. This small
amount you may not taste it.
Speaker 9 (32:34):
He clearly thought he was more intelligent than he was.
He was using a different computer in his dentist practice,
the one that he owned, and then he had this
alternate email address. I think it was something along the
lenes of Jim and Waffles at gmail dot com.
Speaker 16 (32:49):
At gmail or at aol or at hotmail dot com.
I don't recall which you exactly, but hardly a criminal mastermind.
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.
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He gambled the family part with these really risky investment choices.
Speaker 9 (33:17):
And then by the time we came to find out
about him, he.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Was really up to his neck.
Speaker 9 (33:22):
He filed for personal bankruptcy, he foiled it for professional bankruptcy.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Oh my stars. Eric fattis renowned attorney. Don't you just
hate it when your mastermind client just uses a fake
email to find out all about Cyanide and order arsenic
from Amazon.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
That really worked.
Speaker 5 (33:47):
Well, Nancy.
Speaker 10 (33:48):
You know that there is a potential alternsive 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. Sinide can be used to hurt others, but
I 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 2 (34:10):
You know, Eric, you know something you've got to tell
and I better better 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
(34:32):
and the arsenic for himself, right.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
You're equally consistent with that? Well, what about this?
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Have you ever had a client try to suborn perjury?
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Kind of a deal? Dancers for perjury? Listen?
Speaker 17 (34:52):
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 her a call.
Over the phone, Craig tells Rebecca Walden he'll give her
(35:13):
a 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 1 (35:24):
So Faddest Dancers for Perjury.
Speaker 10 (35:28):
Thoughts 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. He's getting desperate. He
needs to do something to try to change things. And
this is the sort of hair brain scheme.
Speaker 5 (35:43):
He came up with. It's problematic, but doesn't mean he
committed murder.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Okay, I had a funny feeling you would say that
about the dentures for perjury scheme? Well, what about hatties
for dentures Hatties ato t t I E S Listen Fattest.
Speaker 14 (35:58):
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 2 (36:27):
Okay, what happens, Stephan Tubbs? Where do the hotties enter
the scene in.
Speaker 6 (36:32):
A desperate plea to get out of the Arapaho County jail.
I mean, at this point, there's no death penalty in Colorado.
Speaker 5 (36:40):
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.
Speaker 6 (36:53):
Jim Craig is trying 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.
Speaker 5 (37:05):
Starts to create that doubt.
Speaker 6 (37:09):
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.
Speaker 5 (37:23):
You won't believe what he told me. He even gave
me a letter. It's crazy and it continues.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
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
(37:49):
with a patient in two thousand and nine, and provides
personal information about his children in an attempt to make
their lives seem credible.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
Crime stories with Nancy Grace, an Aurora, Colorado, Dennist's lawyer
withdraws from the case after his arson arrest. Also, we've
learned that Craig's initial November twenty twenty fourth trial was
thrown off the rails when his then attorney cited new
(38:26):
information from discovery that compelled him to step down. Gee
like what he did it now, Workings withdrawal after the
arson marks another example of a lawyer leaving Craig's defense
team just as it's about to go to trial.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
Craig has a.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
Slew of charges against him in addition to murder, soliciting,
tampering with evidence, perjury, another case, another charge of soliciting murder,
attempting to arrange multiple murders from behind bars. Now, in
another bizarre twist, after the lawyer Working's arrest, his wife,
(39:13):
Lisa Moses, who is co counsel for Craig, remains on
the case. She's there still with attorney Ashley with them
and they will represent Craig moving into the trial. Now,
all the documents related to the arson had been sealed
(39:34):
for some reason, claiming it is connected to the murder
trial in some way. There's no doubt, according to reports,
that it was an arson because fire crews found evidence
of an incendiary accelerant that means gas or tiling or
some flammable liquid, and that raises questions about exactly what went.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
On that night. That's said I'm going to go.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
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 of the facts we're learning.
But we have a mother of six dead, not just dead,
but suffering for months from sinaide and artistic poisoning before
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she died.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
Okay, you say it's not the husband. I say it is.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
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 authorities his dead wife
(40:47):
confronted him about his affairs and that she was going
to commit suicide. So your suicide fantasy is actually hatching
and the defendant's mind. All right, So he's taking your queue.
But he's soliciting suborning, for lack of a better word,
(41:09):
perjury by Hatties to say his dead 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.
(41:30):
Have a detective murdered?
Speaker 1 (41:35):
What about it?
Speaker 10 (41:36):
You know, 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 hon show in this investigation,
perhaps the investigation falls apart of certainly not lawful, certainly
(41:59):
not okay, but but but also not the same thing
as proving him guilty of murdering his What.
Speaker 2 (42:05):
Doctor Earnest Chaoto joining US renowned physician and author not
a Saoto, what does a victim experience as they die
from cyanide or arsenic poisoning?
Speaker 15 (42:18):
Well, if it's they're they're going to be different. Arsenic
is going to be sort of a slow, agonizing gap,
or as cyanide is going to be very rapid. You know,
you're you're really going to end up with sufficient cyanide,
You're going to end up dying with the moments. So
(42:41):
they're really two different types of gap due to two
very different.
Speaker 2 (42:48):
Toxic pheil waters joining us form a homicide detective Houston, PD,
President of Kindred Spirits Investigations dot com. You know, you
and I have handled a lot of murders, a lot
of homicides, be they involuntary, voluntary, or mouse murder.
Speaker 1 (43:10):
It takes a special kind of mind, would.
Speaker 2 (43:12):
You agree, Phil? This is not getting angry and pulling
a gun and shooting. This is months and months of planning,
of scheming, of Google searches, and lovingly feeding your wife
protein shakes laced with poison and then watching her suffer.
Speaker 5 (43:32):
Phil, well, exactly, you know this is a This is
an evil act on this guy's part.
Speaker 12 (43:40):
I won't even recognize him by saying his name, and
we see this.
Speaker 5 (43:46):
This is a he is obsessed with killing his wife,
murdering his wife, 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.
(44:06):
And so when he's going into these.
Speaker 12 (44:09):
Search engines and trying to figure out what kind of
poison is the best one he's and that kind of thing.
I'll tell you what, 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
(44:30):
sort of a story that's going to take the suspicion
away from you. Everything he did in the process here
pointed to him. So when we get in 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
(44:57):
of isolation that we're talking about, where you know, he's
cheat and that didn't make him a murder and.
Speaker 5 (45:01):
So forth and so on.
Speaker 12 (45:02):
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,
(45:23):
when I was listening to that discussion, I'm more prone
to believe that he was going to use those pictures
to gain some sympathy.
Speaker 5 (45:31):
From the woman that he was wanting to squire around.
Speaker 12 (45:36):
So you know, he had a purpose for all the
things that he did, and it was just it was
just kind of stupid.
Speaker 5 (45:45):
Is as stupid does.
Speaker 12 (45:46):
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.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
With, And and you know another thing, feel as you
and I you as a homicide detective, me as a
felony prosecutor, we would go about our business every day
not thinking that an inmate behind bars is trying to
have us killed, have us killed to thwart the investigation.
(46:20):
I bet you never thought about that while you were detecting.
Speaker 5 (46:23):
No, when I.
Speaker 12 (46:24):
Worked in narcotics, I did have a contract put out
on me, so I'm a little familiar with it.
Speaker 2 (46:28):
But we all, for Pete's sake, we've all gotten death rests.
Speaker 1 (46:33):
The first one I had was faxed over from the
Fulton County Jail. Didn't take too much to figure that
one out.
Speaker 2 (46:38):
But Roance, Yes, Yes, the level of arrogance to think
he can get away with everything and fix it all
by doing a dentures for perjury scheme and having the
lead detective murdered. This woman is dead and probably her
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last thoughts were, Who's going to take care of my children?
This murder trial is going forward, come hell or high water.
We wait as justice unfolds. Now, when I said Friday
Night special, see this was special.
Speaker 1 (47:18):
You believe me. Nancy Grace signing off, goodbye,
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Good evening, everybody. I'm Nancy Grayson.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
This is the Friday Night special Crime Stories, and tonight
terrible news for a Colorado.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Dentist, a very popular.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Dentist accused of murdering his wife with poisoned shakes. Ret
Row again, Good evening. I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories,
and I want to thank you for being with us.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
A lawyer who.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Had been defending a Colorado dentist charged of killing his
wife with of course, I mean really poisoned shakes, has
just withdrawn from the case. Has he just figured out
he's got a liar for a client? Seriously, because he
did it just days before.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
The start of the murder.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Try now, wait, wait, wait for it, after allegedly setting
his own house on fire. Okay, just recently we covered
the case. I'm going to tell you all about it
of a lawyer who had called in bomb threats to
the courthouse because he wasn't ready to go to trial
(01:20):
and then even ended up killing his divorce client, a
beautiful woman, a mother killed her in an ambush so
he wouldn't have to go to trial. And now we
get a lawyer who sets fire to his own home
just before trial. Okay, you know what, I may not
(01:41):
like it, but as a judge, I would absolutely give
you a continuance. Anyway, Can we get to the facts
at hand? Or maybe he just realized he's stuck between
a rock and a hard spot. He's got to go
to trial and spout out a lot of things he
knows to be a lie.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Take a listen to our friend Jackie.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
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 Aurordendus trial finally got
under way yesterday. Hundreds of potential jurors were in centennials
(02:21):
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
(02:41):
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 sage 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 him.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
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.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
And a chemical that is found in eye drops.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
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?
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Craig?
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Listen to this After multiple recent 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 2 (04:18):
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.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Apparently, you know, college sweethearts.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Fall in love, they get married and immediately start having children.
That's how mom this young can have six children already, and.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
I don't get it.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
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 is
(05:00):
our 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.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Nancy, she got incredibly sick.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
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 went to the same hospital
(05:47):
like a week later.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
It was Steph Stephan.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Hold on, hold on, Stephan, I want to go straight
out to our shrink. Joining us in addition to incredible
panel of guests joining me Doctor cheven Scott, psychotherapist, author
of the Minds of mass Killers, so much.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
More, Doctor Chavon, thank you for being with us. Have
you ever noticed how women's symptoms just get discounted.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
They come in, I'm nauseous, I feel dizzy, I've got
this severe headache, when they're like.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Oh, you're fine, bye. You have been over and over
to Angela.
Speaker 7 (06:24):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Are all women quote hysterical? Yeah.
Speaker 8 (06:28):
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 2 (06:38):
Wait, wait, head blowing off right now?
Speaker 1 (06:45):
The w W syndrome. Is that what you just said?
Speaker 5 (06:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Yeah, whiney woman.
Speaker 8 (06:51):
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 2 (06:59):
Okay, I've got so much to say about that, but
it will get me totally sidetracked off. This woman angela
mother of six. Okay, back to you, Stephan Tubbs joining me,
who has research and investigated this case. Just to the detail, Stephan, So,
(07:20):
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 6 (07:37):
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 1 (07:50):
Take a listen to this.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
My stomach feels fine, although at one point she said
she had nausea. But my head feels funny and dizzy,
very strange. I'm dizzy, eyes don't want to focus, I
don't feel right in my head.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
No, this is just weird. I'm dizzy in my head.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
My eyes are working slowly, my body's responding slowly. I
feel drugged. 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 1 (08:22):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
That does protest too much, you know, like when a
cop walks by and go, I don't have drugs on me.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Anyway, let's get back to it. Listen.
Speaker 9 (08:31):
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
(08:51):
one is able to find an answer for 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, headache, 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. Her condition
deteriorate quickly, and.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
There 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
(09:45):
read or whatever they call it in the hospital.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
When you're dying. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (09:48):
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 2 (09:57):
Eric fattis joining me, high profile try lawyer, TV legal
analysts founding partner Varner Fattus elite legal, former felony prosecutor.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Eric, Don't you just hate it when you're own client.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
He's not charged with anything out of the blue, said
I didn't drug you, because that's what he said.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Nobody said he did drug anybody.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
And 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, I hear you.
Speaker 10 (10:36):
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 merriage
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 certainly could
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 (11:00):
First of all, I don't know how that got popular triggering.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
For both parties. Are you telling me he the dentist
is triggered? What are you talking about? Why she's dead?
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Okay, why are you talking about him getting triggered?
Speaker 5 (11:14):
This conversation proceeded the death.
Speaker 10 (11:16):
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 add 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 (11:33):
Out rocky rocky.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
That's what you call a string of mistresses rocky, that's
more like an earthquake.
Speaker 10 (11:41):
It is a serious event which just could have further
been destabilizing for the relationship. When something serious happens 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.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
That's at least some defense, so likely for him.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Who is this guy?
Speaker 11 (12:01):
My name is doctor Jim Craig and I practice as
summer Brook 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 2 (12:16):
That's from the official Summerbrook Dentistry Facebook page.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I want to go straight.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Out to Phil Waters, former homicide detective from the Houston
PD President CEO Kindred Spirits Investigations and Security.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Phil.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
I know that Eric Fattis is going to turn purple
and tell me this means nothing. But when your husband,
the dentist 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 to
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what's going on.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
He dan homicide. Of course, we'd call that a clue.
Speaker 12 (13:01):
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 the proper dental work
on them. So in that particular setting, it does look
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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 sense that are
you doing this for me?
Speaker 5 (13:46):
Or are you doing this for some other purpose?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Okay, take a look at this fattest and that's from
the summer Brook Dentistry facebook page.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Just where we're getting that. Do you see somebody's pumping
iron in the gym all of a sudden?
Speaker 10 (13:57):
If he does, look a little jack there, defense is
going to say, so what, everyone is allowed to take
care of their own health. A'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 4 (14:17):
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. Just a
few minutes later, Angela has a severe seizure in her
vitals crash. While hospital staff attempt to revive Angela, Craig
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takes photos of his own conscious wife. Angela is stabilized
with the ventilator but declared brain dead.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
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 1 (15:02):
Stefan, Why is he taking pictures of.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
His wife as she's dying and they're desperately trying to
resuscitate her and she's got all kind of tubes in.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Her, well, what happened.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
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 2 (15:50):
Speaking of Domino's falling to doctor Ernest Schaioto, not only physician,
but attorney, biomedical engineer, toxicologist and author of Toxic Torte,
Medical and Legal Elements.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Doctor Chayoto, thank you for joining us.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
I'm sure in your residency and in practicing medicine, you've
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,
(16:30):
and he's taking.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Pictures entirely unusual. Yes, doctor Hyoto.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Have you ever seen someone take photos of their wife
while she's 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.
Have you ever seen that happen, doctor Shaoto?
Speaker 1 (16:58):
No, I haven't either.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
I have investigated, prosecuted, and covered. I can't even count
the number of deaths and homicides to dotorshevon Scott.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
I'm right there, as.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
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,
(17:36):
I know something's wrong with it, but I don't know
what it is.
Speaker 8 (17:39):
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 as our
loved one was dying.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
So what in the world was he doing.
Speaker 8 (17:55):
I don't know that I have a good answer for that,
but it's definitely a red flag.
Speaker 13 (17:59):
Well, why if Angela is fighting for her life in
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
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there for him, but did not want to mix with
his family and friends and pretend to be only a
friend when there was something more.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Oh yeah, that's.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
So hard 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 here's about
him while his wife is lying there dying, he's emailing
his mistress, his hottie, and she says, I can't take it.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
I can't stand to.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Act like we're just friends when we're so much more.
Has everybody lost their minds?
Speaker 10 (18:57):
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 given them
an organ. You know that there's this is like that,
and then there's still infidelity. There are still cheating. Human
beings could do underhanded stuff. They do stuff that is
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surprising that it's hard to understand. And I think that
that could be what was going on here, and that
could be how the defense posters it to the jursey.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Well, you know, there's another whole thing there. Hold on
just a moment to your 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 1 (19:50):
That says it all. But some women would prefer the husband,
if they're going to.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Do anything, to just go have sex with somebody wham bam, done,
as opposed to to falling in love with someone.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Can you explain that odd sentiment?
Speaker 8 (20:05):
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
(20:26):
with your partner.
Speaker 7 (20:28):
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 2 (20:45):
You earlier heard podcast The Star of Arsenic Dds Stephan
Tubbs refer to Domino's began to fall Well here they go.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Listen, Still in the parking lot.
Speaker 14 (20:55):
After visiting Angela in the hospital, Ryan Redforn gets a
call from James Craig, his partner in Summerbrook. As Craig
starts to ask Redfern if he had said anything to
Angela's nurses, Redford 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 know what's in there.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
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 1 (21:28):
Craig tells Redfern.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
If he really is a friend, he and the remaining
office employees will not speak with cops anymore.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
He's red flag when somebody says, don't talk to the cops.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Another bizarre twist in the case of a Colorado dentist
accused of murdering his wife with poison milkshakes, his lawyer
sets his own the lawyer house on fire to get
out of trying the case of defending him. Robert Working,
a partner in l FD Defense along with his wife
(22:13):
Lisa Fine Moses, was arrested last weekend after Lee law
enforcement find him sitting on the porch of his house
as it burned behind him. This is according to the
Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office. Now he's not the first workings
withdrawal is the third time lawyers have removed themselves as
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defense attorneys for the dentist arrested after the death of
his wife and the mother of his wait for it,
six children. He has six children with the woman, and
then kills her. Really, prosecutors claimed the dentist started a
sex affair again not his first with the Texas orthodontist,
(22:57):
and the next thing you know, his wife is dead.
But again, this is not the first time a lawyer
has gone to extreme measures to get off of a case.
Do you remember the name Gregory Moore because I will
never forget it. He is accused of brutally murdering a
Cleveland nurse in this bizarre plot to avoid taking her
(23:22):
case to court. And he's just a divorce lawyer for
Pete's sake, much less this guy who is defending a
murder case and sitting in front of his house burning down. Now,
Gregory Moore, that's a whole other can of worms. The
victim in that case, just a beautiful woman, Eliza Sherman,
(23:45):
was on her way to discuss the divorce case with
her lawyer when she was approached by a hooded figure
and stabbed ten times.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Again, that wasn't his first. He was accused of calling.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
In multiple bomb threat to courthouses to get out of
trying cases.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
But back to the case in chief.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Attorney Robert Working, a partner at LFM Defense along with
his wife.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
This must be LFM.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Lisa Fine Moore arrested last weekend after deputies find him
sitting on the porch of his house while it burned
to the ground. This, according to the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office,
all because we think he wanted to get off the
case of a Colorado dentist accused of murdering his wife.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Are the facts that bad in the.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Case, he said, The dominoes begin to fall.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
What about the dental practice partner, Yeah, Ryan Redfern.
Speaker 6 (24:40):
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 Feuter records at the
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dental practice were very easy for police investigators. But it
was the package of potassium cyanide 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. She
(25:22):
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 start to fall.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Hey, joining me.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Doctor Ernest Toyoto attorney, physician, biomedical engineer, toxicologist and author
of Toxic Torque, Medical and Legal Elements. Doctor Toyoto explain
what the symptoms of that particular poison would be.
Speaker 15 (25:51):
Well, there's a number of different poisons involved, but cyanide
you just really have very rare at the loss of
blood pressure, loss of consciousness, and very rapid depth arsnic
You tend to get peripheral neuropathy, you get burning in
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the the in your hands and feet. 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. It's a it's a what
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they call an alpha agonist. It causes constriction of blood
vessels 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 the wife.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
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 (27:07):
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.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
For the day.
Speaker 9 (27:18):
We think he was using to poison Angula over the
course of several weeks, actually including it in her protein shapes,
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 fluid.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Okay, let me understand something, Stephan Tubbs joining me. Isn't
it true that on a prior occasion she had gotten
stabilized and then he goes out and comes back and
brings her food like a doting husband in the hospital,
and suddenly she goes into seizures.
Speaker 6 (27:53):
That's true. Yeah, she was in the hospital. Remember three
different times. She was in the hospital, three different times.
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
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in and keep in mind all of these text messages
that are 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 2 (28:25):
Stephan Tubbs are you telling me he would email her
or text her in the hospital say can I bring
you a smoothie?
Speaker 6 (28:33):
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 then.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
The other shoe drops listen.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
With suspicions raised, Angela Craig is sent for an autopsy.
The additional toxicology screening test revealed 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 sinide levels increased while she was
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in the hospital.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Stephan Tubbs, her levels increased while she's in the hospital.
Speaker 6 (29:27):
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.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
In the hospital.
Speaker 6 (29:42):
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 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 auto but I.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Mean to me, Stephan, it would all blow up when
the dental assistant opens up a package and it's cyanide.
Speaker 6 (30:08):
Oh remember though, Nancy, it was supposed to be a
ring for Angela. I mean, the Kakamami stories just were
over and over.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Where do you get cyanide?
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Stephan? You can just order it up on Amazon. I mean,
where do you get cyanide?
Speaker 6 (30:23):
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 show.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
That was a joke. Are you serious? You can get
cyanide on Amazon?
Speaker 6 (30:37):
There you go right there on your screen. Yeah, I'm
going to buy this on Amazon. First of all, somebody
bezos arsenic? Yeah arsenic?
Speaker 5 (30:44):
But you yeah? And then look at this.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Podcast 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 arsenic. Right,
don't open this, Okay, So what happens Stephan when the
dental assistant opens up a box and it's arsenic?
Speaker 6 (31:09):
I think her eyes abow 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, cats 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,
(31:31):
you got a package here, and then that's where you
fast 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 2 (31:50):
Doctor Earnest Schioto joining us, a renowned physician and lawyer
and author. Doctor Chioto she couldn't taste something odd in
her protein shakes. I mean, what does arsenic or cyanide taste.
Speaker 15 (32:06):
Arsenake is going to taste sort of have a garlet
sort of taste, whereas cyanide really wouldn't. Sometimes it is
an order of bitter almonds. So whether or not she
could taste the arsenake or cyanide would really be a
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matter of how much was in the shape. This small
amount you may not taste it.
Speaker 9 (32:34):
He clearly thought he was more intelligent than he was.
He was using a different computer in his dentist practice,
the one that he owned, and then he had this
alternate email address. I think it was something along the
lenes of Jim and Waffles at gmail dot com.
Speaker 16 (32:49):
At gmail or at aol or at hotmail dot com.
I don't recall which you exactly, but hardly a criminal mastermind.
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.
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He gambled the family part with these really risky investment choices.
Speaker 9 (33:17):
And then by the time we came to find out
about him, he.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Was really up to his neck.
Speaker 9 (33:22):
He filed for personal bankruptcy, he foiled it for professional bankruptcy.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Oh my stars. Eric fattis renowned attorney. Don't you just
hate it when your mastermind client just uses a fake
email to find out all about Cyanide and order arsenic
from Amazon.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
That really worked.
Speaker 5 (33:47):
Well, Nancy.
Speaker 10 (33:48):
You know that there is a potential alternsive 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. Sinide can be used to hurt others, but
I 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 2 (34:10):
You know, Eric, you know something you've got to tell
and I better better 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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and the arsenic for himself, right.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
You're equally consistent with that? Well, what about this?
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Have you ever had a client try to suborn perjury?
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Kind of a deal? Dancers for perjury? Listen?
Speaker 17 (34:52):
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 her a call.
Over the phone, Craig tells Rebecca Walden he'll give her
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a 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 1 (35:24):
So Faddest Dancers for Perjury.
Speaker 10 (35:28):
Thoughts 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. He's getting desperate. He
needs to do something to try to change things. And
this is the sort of hair brain scheme.
Speaker 5 (35:43):
He came up with. It's problematic, but doesn't mean he
committed murder.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Okay, I had a funny feeling you would say that
about the dentures for perjury scheme? Well, what about hatties
for dentures Hatties ato t t I E S Listen Fattest.
Speaker 14 (35:58):
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 2 (36:27):
Okay, what happens, Stephan Tubbs? Where do the hotties enter
the scene in.
Speaker 6 (36:32):
A desperate plea to get out of the Arapaho County jail.
I mean, at this point, there's no death penalty in Colorado.
Speaker 5 (36:40):
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.
Speaker 6 (36:53):
Jim Craig is trying 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.
Speaker 5 (37:05):
Starts to create that doubt.
Speaker 6 (37:09):
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.
Speaker 5 (37:23):
You won't believe what he told me. He even gave
me a letter. It's crazy and it continues.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
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
(37:49):
with a patient in two thousand and nine, and provides
personal information about his children in an attempt to make
their lives seem credible.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
Crime stories with Nancy Grace, an Aurora, Colorado, Dennist's lawyer
withdraws from the case after his arson arrest. Also, we've
learned that Craig's initial November twenty twenty fourth trial was
thrown off the rails when his then attorney cited new
(38:26):
information from discovery that compelled him to step down. Gee
like what he did it now, Workings withdrawal after the
arson marks another example of a lawyer leaving Craig's defense
team just as it's about to go to trial.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
Craig has a.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
Slew of charges against him in addition to murder, soliciting,
tampering with evidence, perjury, another case, another charge of soliciting murder,
attempting to arrange multiple murders from behind bars. Now, in
another bizarre twist, after the lawyer Working's arrest, his wife,
(39:13):
Lisa Moses, who is co counsel for Craig, remains on
the case. She's there still with attorney Ashley with them
and they will represent Craig moving into the trial. Now,
all the documents related to the arson had been sealed
(39:34):
for some reason, claiming it is connected to the murder
trial in some way. There's no doubt, according to reports,
that it was an arson because fire crews found evidence
of an incendiary accelerant that means gas or tiling or
some flammable liquid, and that raises questions about exactly what went.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
On that night. That's said I'm going to go.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
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 of the facts we're learning.
But we have a mother of six dead, not just dead,
but suffering for months from sinaide and artistic poisoning before
(40:21):
she died.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
Okay, you say it's not the husband. I say it is.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
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 authorities his dead wife
(40:47):
confronted him about his affairs and that she was going
to commit suicide. So your suicide fantasy is actually hatching
and the defendant's mind. All right, So he's taking your queue.
But he's soliciting suborning, for lack of a better word,
(41:09):
perjury by Hatties to say his dead 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.
(41:30):
Have a detective murdered?
Speaker 1 (41:35):
What about it?
Speaker 10 (41:36):
You know, 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 hon show in this investigation,
perhaps the investigation falls apart of certainly not lawful, certainly
(41:59):
not okay, but but but also not the same thing
as proving him guilty of murdering his What.
Speaker 2 (42:05):
Doctor Earnest Chaoto joining US renowned physician and author not
a Saoto, what does a victim experience as they die
from cyanide or arsenic poisoning?
Speaker 15 (42:18):
Well, if it's they're they're going to be different. Arsenic
is going to be sort of a slow, agonizing gap,
or as cyanide is going to be very rapid. You know,
you're you're really going to end up with sufficient cyanide,
You're going to end up dying with the moments. So
(42:41):
they're really two different types of gap due to two
very different.
Speaker 2 (42:48):
Toxic pheil waters joining us form a homicide detective Houston, PD,
President of Kindred Spirits Investigations dot com. You know, you
and I have handled a lot of murders, a lot
of homicides, be they involuntary, voluntary, or mouse murder.
Speaker 1 (43:10):
It takes a special kind of mind, would.
Speaker 2 (43:12):
You agree, Phil? This is not getting angry and pulling
a gun and shooting. This is months and months of planning,
of scheming, of Google searches, and lovingly feeding your wife
protein shakes laced with poison and then watching her suffer.
Speaker 5 (43:32):
Phil, well, exactly, you know this is a This is
an evil act on this guy's part.
Speaker 12 (43:40):
I won't even recognize him by saying his name, and
we see this.
Speaker 5 (43:46):
This is a he is obsessed with killing his wife,
murdering his wife, 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.
(44:06):
And so when he's going into these.
Speaker 12 (44:09):
Search engines and trying to figure out what kind of
poison is the best one he's and that kind of thing.
I'll tell you what, 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
(44:30):
sort of a story that's going to take the suspicion
away from you. Everything he did in the process here
pointed to him. So when we get in 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
(44:57):
of isolation that we're talking about, where you know, he's
cheat and that didn't make him a murder and.
Speaker 5 (45:01):
So forth and so on.
Speaker 12 (45:02):
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,
(45:23):
when I was listening to that discussion, I'm more prone
to believe that he was going to use those pictures
to gain some sympathy.
Speaker 5 (45:31):
From the woman that he was wanting to squire around.
Speaker 12 (45:36):
So you know, he had a purpose for all the
things that he did, and it was just it was
just kind of stupid.
Speaker 5 (45:45):
Is as stupid does.
Speaker 12 (45:46):
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.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
With, And and you know another thing, feel as you
and I you as a homicide detective, me as a
felony prosecutor, we would go about our business every day
not thinking that an inmate behind bars is trying to
have us killed, have us killed to thwart the investigation.
(46:20):
I bet you never thought about that while you were detecting.
Speaker 5 (46:23):
No, when I.
Speaker 12 (46:24):
Worked in narcotics, I did have a contract put out
on me, so I'm a little familiar with it.
Speaker 2 (46:28):
But we all, for Pete's sake, we've all gotten death rests.
Speaker 1 (46:33):
The first one I had was faxed over from the
Fulton County Jail. Didn't take too much to figure that
one out.
Speaker 2 (46:38):
But Roance, Yes, Yes, the level of arrogance to think
he can get away with everything and fix it all
by doing a dentures for perjury scheme and having the
lead detective murdered. This woman is dead and probably her
(47:01):
last thoughts were, Who's going to take care of my children?
This murder trial is going forward, come hell or high water.
We wait as justice unfolds. Now, when I said Friday
Night special, see this was special.
Speaker 1 (47:18):
You believe me. Nancy Grace signing off, goodbye,
Host
Nancy Grace
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