October 11, 2025 • 55 mins
The lead up to James Craig’s trial was bizarre.....two postponements, three different attorney teams, five added charges and a crazy action from an attorney, who allegedly set his own house on fire. Still, the Aurora dentist’s trial began and ended after jurors heard from four mistresses who said James Craig told them his marriage was over, but a divorce would break him financially.
Crag faced six felony counts:
- Murder in the first degree
- Two counts of solicitation to commit tampering with physical evidence
- Three counts of solicitation to commit perjury in the first degree
Court Documents show Craig, jailed on a murder charge of his wife, Angela Craig, still allegedly worked to convince inmates, a former mistress and even one of his own children to tamper with evidence, to plant it to make it look like Angela Craig wanted to kill herself.
Prosecutors say James Craig even made a botched murder-for-hire attempt on the case’s lead detective just before a second attempt at trial last year. Craig allegedly offered people cash and dental work in return for a coverup .
Craig insists he ordered poison because she asked him to.
James Craig and his wife Angela were married for over 20 years. They created a beautiful family of six, loving, happy family, happy children. Between work and taking care of their children, the Craigs still manage to fit a workout into their daily routine. The husband and wife go for a run or hit the gym together almost every day, and when they return home, James Craig makes protein shakes or fruit smoothies for breakfast while Angela delves into getting the kids ready for the day.
Angela complains of having a really nasty headache, along with problems focusing her eyesight. She goes to the hospital saying she felt tingly and cold. Doctors cannot figure out what's wrong with her. Angela goes to the hospital multiple times, only to be sent home. When she goes back for a third time, that's when she's checked in and her condition deteriorates, coding quickly. Angela passes away.
One of Summer Brooks’ dental assistants recalls opening a package for Dr. Craig—that had potassium cyanide in it. She googles the symptoms of cyanide poisoning, and is horrified at how closely they match Angela’s symptoms. She immediately calls Craig’s partner, Ryan Redfearn, hoping he has some other explanation for the contents of the package...but he doesn’t. While visiting Angela, Redfearn tells a nurse about the cyanide, explaining there’s no medical use for the element in their practice. As a mandatory reporter, the nurse calls police.
With suspicions raised, Angela Craig is sent for an autopsy with additional toxicology screening. Tests reveal the otherwise healthy mom of six died of poisoning from both cyanide and tetrahydrozoline, a common ingredient in eyedrops. While investigators have no definitive evidence Angela’s food and drinks were poisoned with cyanide, the tests reveal her cyanide levels increased while she was in the hospital.
Police then check Craig's computer finding strange searches. One of them was how to poison someone, how to make poison and top five or top 10 undetectable poisons that people won't be able to find after
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, a beloved dentist, the picture
perfect husband who doated on his young wife, the mother
of what five of his children. She dies with a
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mystery illness, but his sugar baby double life is revealed.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Ill Gross, I'm.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Never going to be able to look at my dentists
the same way as long as I live. And I
know him because guess what he was looking at a
crown in my mouth and goes, do you remember me?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
And I actually did, but I couldn't place him.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
He was on a jury of mine, yes, but that's
nothing compared to this freak with a sugar baby pasted.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Ugh I means he Grace.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
This is Crime Stories.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
I want to thank you for being with us.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Correction.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Angela Craig was a mother of six who knew something
was horribly wrong after she went for a bike ride
and came home barely able to walk. It wasn't the
bike ride, it was the protein shape your loving, doting
dentist husband James Craig made for you. Yeah, you know
(01:34):
the rest of that story. He was responsible for a
long and premeditated plot of poisoning her. But before I
get into those details, I want to talk to you
about his quote sugar baby past. It's also ruining the
candy for me, sugar babies, which was one of my
favorites growing up.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Now this, yes, Craig.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Was up to his same old tricks. He's disgusting.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
He's not even all that.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
He's not even remotely attractive. I can say this. He's
got straight teeth. Okay, they're probably fake that, I don't care.
Multiple women state he started sexual end quote financial arrangements
with them long before Angela's death, on a sugar dating
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website called seeking dot com. Okay, what to stop everything
right there? What is a sugar baby?
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Can I tell you what a sugar baby is? It's
not the candy I grew up with. Okay, not that
at all. There's also a cosmetic brand, sugar Baby Cosmetics.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Let's see. It is a.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Book by Deroonica Lowe. It is a movie on B
E T. But it's of course the candy. But it's
commonly used to describe a person who gets money in
exchange for companionship i e.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Sex.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
It's called sugar dating. Sugar dating, Okay, it's just another
form of prostitution. Okay, being a sugar baby it's not
automatically illegal, but if you are getting money or gifts
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in exchange for sex, that's a prostitution that is illegal. Now,
this website we're talking about, that dentist Craig used seek
dot com. Okay, quote high income matchmaking. That's how it's
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described exclusive matchmaking for high earning professionals. This guy was
swimming in debt, his nostrils just barely above a sea
of debt. It says eighty percent success rate. Okay, elite
dating for high income Singlesugh. Anyway, that said he was
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meeting sugar babies well before he murdered his wife. Now
can we get into the details on the murder. Angela,
the mother of six, was declared brain dead after suffering
mystery symptoms that started ten days before. According to prosecutor,
the dentist Craig poisoned her protein shakes and secretly fed
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her deadly doses of cyanide, arsenic and more, including the
chemical found in eye.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Drops, ultimately killing her.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Also, this jury heard about a slew of mistresses, one
after the next, after the next, after the next. Her
family ultimately told all brain activity had ceased.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Now, on the eighth day of the.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Trial, Testimony kicked off from mistress number four, her name
Elizabeth Gore, told the Arapaho County jury she and the
porny dentist flew to Montana from Denver just a few
weeks after they met on a quote sugar dating site
(05:54):
called seeking dot com. Another so called sugar Bay be
Oh please, testified the previous day that would have been
day seven, that he also took her to Montana. After
a third mistress testified Craig bought her daughter a nine
(06:15):
thousand dollars car. All the mistresses agree that Craig was
unhappy in his marriage, but claimed a divorce would financially
destroy him.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
You know what else will destroy you?
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Trips skiing with all of your many mistresses and buying
them cars for their daughter.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Yeah, that'll break you to man.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Well, I'm sure the juriot had just about enough of
him for mistresses my rear end. What more do we
know about the so called porny dentist? Take a listen
to our friend Jackie Howard.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
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. Court documents show that Craig, jailed
on a murder charge of his wife, Angela, Craig still
allegedly worked to convince inmates, a former mistress, and even
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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 cases lead detective
just before a second attempt at trial last year. Craig
allegedly offered people cash and dental work in return for
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a cover up. Craig insists he ordered poison because his
wife asked.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Him to what happened to the must just say frisky
dentist who had begun yet another sex affair behind his
wife's back, clearly not his first, and this with a
fellow dental worker a Texas with the donnist.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
The dentist accused of poisoning.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
His wife shakes with cyanide and a chemical that is
found in eye drops. 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
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what happened to Angela Craig?
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Take a listen to this.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
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.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Passing away Saturday, joining me an all star panel to
make sense.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Of what we are learning.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
This mom of six six and she's still really young
as well.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Apparently no college sweethearts.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Fall in love, they get married and immediately start having children.
That's how mom this young can have six children already,
And I.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Don't get it.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
I want to go straight out to Stephan Tubb's host
of the podcast Arsenic Dds The Bizarre Case of Doctor
James Craig, which is an incredible podcast by the way. Okay,
I've done all this investigation and research, and I learned
even more by listening to that Arsenic Dds, The Bizarre
(09:26):
Case of Doctor James Craig. Stephan, I want to just
start with this young mom, Angela suddenly develops 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 6 (09:47):
Nancy, she got incredibly sick. And it wasn't just one
time in the hospital. It was multiple times that she
was feeling nauseous, that she just didn't feel something was right,
severe headaches, and she went to a local hospital. The
first time to the er. He was discharged and then
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went to the same hospital like a week later.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
It was Stephan, 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.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
So much more, Doctor Cheven, thank you for being with us.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Have you ever noticed how women's symptoms.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Just get discounted.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
They come in, I'm nauseous, I feel dizzy, I've got
this severe headachehere they're like, oh you're.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Fine, bye. Yeah, I've been over and over to Angela.
Speaker 7 (10:50):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Are all women quote hysterical?
Speaker 8 (10:54):
Yeah, there's there's even something called the w W syndrome,
and that stands for whiney woman, and medical doctors have
been known to talk about the women.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Wait wait, head blowing off right now?
Speaker 3 (11:12):
The WuW syndrohn. Is that what you just said?
Speaker 8 (11:15):
Yeah, yeah, whitey woman. Yeah, I've read with some women
doctors have written books about this problem in the medical
profession where women are just dismissed and not taken seriously.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
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 researched and investigated this case. Just to the detail, Stephan, So,
(11:47):
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 (12:03):
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 3 (12:17):
Take a listen to this.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
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. My eyes don't want to focus.
I don't feel right in my head. No, this is
just weird. I'm dizzy in my head and my eyes
are working slowly. My body's responding slowly. I feel drugged.
Response from husband, the family man, Dennis. Given our history,
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I know that must be triggering. Just for the record,
I didn't drug you. Whoa okay? As Shakespeare said me
thinks that does protest too much, you know, like when
a cop walks by and go, I don't have drugs
on me.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Anyway, Let's get back to it. Listen.
Speaker 9 (12:57):
She was complaining of having a real 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 what's 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 and her
condition deteriorate quickly.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
And there you say, doctor Chavonne Scott with us, who
just dropped a bombshale mommie about the WW syndrome. Whiny
woman drum. 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
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means code read or whatever they call it in the hospital.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
When you're dying. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (14:15):
Yeah, just a horrifying, horrifying situation for a young woman
to be in with no explanation. It's hard to imagine
how frightened she must have been.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Eric Fattus joining me, high profile trial lawyer, TV legal
analysts founding partner Varner Fattest elite legal former felony prosecutor.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Eric, don't you just hate it.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
When you're own client who's not charged with anything out
of the blue said I didn't drug you?
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Because that's what he.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Said nobody said he did drug anybody, 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 he would jump
up and say that unless they drug the wife.
Speaker 10 (15:02):
I hear you.
Speaker 11 (15:02):
I mean, it's a curious statement, certainly suspicious in the
eyes of many, you know. On the other hand, I
think his defense is going to argue that the marriage
was on the rocks, things were tense, things were dicey,
and so you know, people say things that in the
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 is
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not lost off triggering.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
First of all, I don't know how that got popular
triggering for both parties. Are you telling me he the
dentist is triggered? What are you talking about? Why she's dead?
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Okay, why are you talking about him getting triggered?
Speaker 10 (15:40):
This conversation proceeded the death.
Speaker 11 (15:42):
What I was saying is that, you know, when the
relationship is super rocky, sometimes when there are serious medical
events that come up, or just serious life events, those
things can be can add to the to the tenseness
of the situation, the stress of the situation, and he
could have been experiencing distress as well.
Speaker 10 (15:58):
And sometimes things come.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Out rocky, rocky, that's what you call a string of
mistresses rocky.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
That's more like an earthquake.
Speaker 11 (16:07):
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, thanks for really distressing yours heightened emotionality,
and sometimes people just say things that's at least some
defense likely friend.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Who is this guy?
Speaker 12 (16:28):
My name is doctor Jim Craig and I practice as
a 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 1 (16:42):
That's from the official Summerbrook Dentistry Facebook page. I want
to go straight out to Feel Waters, former homicide detective
from the Houston PD President CEO Kindred Spirits Investigations and
Security Phil that Eric Fattis is going to turn purple
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and tell me this means nothing. But when you're a
husband the dentist who sits on one of those little
roly chairs all day long suddenly starts working out and
developing interests and getting sprayed hands, you better pay attention
what's going on here?
Speaker 13 (17:22):
In homicide, of course, we'd call that a clue to
watch his behavior and the things that he's doing there.
I mean, I guess in isolation for that setting, he
appears to be a very attentive dentist, and he's really
into what he's doing, and he's trying to entertain his clients,
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his patients as well as do the proper dental work
on them. In that particular setting, it does look like if,
of course we don't know what the timeline here is,
but if he's been hitting the gym and doing some
things that are trying to get his physique in a
better shape, that might be an indicator, of course, to
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his wife in a general sense that though are you
doing this for me or are you doing this for
some other purpose?
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Okay, take a look at this fattest and that's from
the summer Brook Dynasty facebook page. Just where we're getting that.
Do you say somebody's pomping iron in the gym.
Speaker 11 (18:22):
All of a sudden, he does look a little jack there.
Defense is going to say, so what, Everyone's allowed to
take care of their own health. That's the homicide detective
just said. Maybe he was taking care of himself to
sort of rekindle the flame with his wife at the time.
We just don't know, but but yeah, I mean, even
if the relationship was on the rocks and he was
preparing for something new, that's not a crime.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
When Angela is admitted to the hospital for the third
time in two weeks, James Craig only stops at the
hospital for half an hour before going out to get
food for his wife. Craig returns an hour and a
half later and goes into Angela's room alone.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Just a few minutes, Angela has.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
A severe seizure in her vitals crash. While hospital staff
attempt to revive Angela, Craig takes photos of his unconscious wife.
Angela is stabilized with the ventilator but decleared brain dead.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Takes photos of his wife before we go to a
renowned physician and biomedical engineer, doctor Ernest Chiodo. Let me
go back to Stephan Tubbs, host of arsenic dds Stefan.
Why is he taking pictures of his wife as she's
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dying and they're desperately trying to resuscitate her.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
And she's got all kind of tubes in her. What happened?
Speaker 6 (19:41):
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.
Speaker 10 (20:00):
He then calls the business partner and his wife.
Speaker 6 (20:03):
They had all done things as couples before, and this
was the goodbye when she was coding out at CU
Health and it was there that, to me, the entire
Domino started to fall.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Speaking of Domino's falling to doctor Ernest Shaoto, not only physician,
but attorney, biomedical engineer, toxicologist, and author of Toxic tort
Medical and Legal Elements.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Doctor Shayoto, thank you for joining us.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
I'm sure in your residency and in practicing medicine, you've
been in a lot of sickrooms.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
And even death rooms.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Do you not find that bizarre that he is taking
pictures of his wife as she's coding out, in other words,
as hospital personnel are furiously trying to save her life
and he's taking pictures.
Speaker 14 (20:58):
It's highly unusual.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Yes, doctor Chaoto, Have you ever seen someone take photos
of their wife while they're trying to resuscitate her and
bring her back to life, you know, pounding on her chest,
using those electrical stimulators on her chest. Everybody's screaming, everybody's
rushing into the room, and he's in the corner taking pictures.
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Have you ever seen that happen, doctor Chaoto? No, I
haven't either, and I have investigated, prosecuted, and covered. I
can't even count the number of deaths and homicides. To
doctor Chevon Scott, I'm right there. As Stephan Tubbs said,
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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.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
What does that mean? I mean, I know something's wrong
with it, but I don't know what it is.
Speaker 8 (22:06):
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 3 (22:19):
So what in the world was he doing?
Speaker 8 (22:22):
I don't know that I have a good answer for that,
but it's definitely a red flag.
Speaker 15 (22:25):
While his wife, 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 (22:53):
Oh yeah, that's 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 hears about him while his wife is lying there dying.
He's emailing his mistress, his hobbie, and she says, I
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can't take it.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
I can't stand to act.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Like we're just friends when we're so much more. Has
everybody lost their minds?
Speaker 10 (23:23):
On the surface, certainly problematic.
Speaker 11 (23:26):
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 can do underhanded stuff.
They do stuff that is surprising that it's hard to understand.
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And I think that that could be what was going
on here, and that could be how the defense posters
it to the jury.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Well, you know, there's another whole thing there.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Hold on just a moment to a doctor Chauven Scott,
many women would tell you, 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.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
I mean, if my husband did either one.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Basically, it's open marriage, open casket, bam.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
That says it all.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
But some women would prefer the husband, if they're going
to do anything, to just go have sex with somebody
wham bam done, as opposed to falling in love with someone.
Can you explain that odd sentiment.
Speaker 8 (24:31):
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
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bond with your partner.
Speaker 7 (24:54):
Colorado mom of six, Angela Craig spends the month of
March in and out of hospital, complaining of strange symptoms
for which doctors seem to have no answers. Meanwhile, her
dentist husband is receiving the sterious packages to his office.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
You earlier heard podcast The Star of Arsenic Dds Stephan
Tubbs refer to Domino's began to fall.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Well here they go listen.
Speaker 10 (25:21):
Still in the parking lot.
Speaker 16 (25:22):
After visiting Angela in the hospital, Ryan Redfern 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 5 (25:44):
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 3 (25:55):
Craig tells Redfern.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
If he really is a friend, he and the remaining
office employees will not speak with cops anymore.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Huge red flag when somebody says, don't talk to the cops.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Crime stories with Nancy.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Grace Seeking dot Com.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
I'm quoting Seeking is a community that celebrates the pursuit
of exceptional connections. Our platform empowers success minded. I don't
think success was on his mind. Success minded individuals to
embrace their desires and foster meaningful relationships rooted in intention, authenticity,
(26:42):
and honesty. What a crop of bs? Okay, honesty. This
guy was juggling multiple women while his wife dying in
the hospital, and long before that. This is gross. Sugar babies? Oh,
is Seeking still a sugar daddy website? Okay? There was
(27:07):
a predecessor called Seeking Arrangements that was not even embarrassed.
It gave sugar babies and daddies asylum. Now seeking dot
com claims it's not a sugar baby haven, but that's
where they met. I'm just telling you what the facts are.
The facts that came out at trial. Now, remember the
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jury heard from four mistresses, and you know that's got
to be the tip of the iceberg.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Those are four that we know of, you know, listen
to this.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Witnesses also testified at trial that Craig, the dentist this
way everybody hates dentists, asked his teen daughter to fabricate
a deep fake exonerating him by showing her own mother
asking him for poison, as well as the former salemate
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who said that Dennis ordered hits on the lead detective
from behind bars.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
What is wrong with this man? Is he at all
self aware? Does he even know he's alive? Does he
even know what he has done?
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Ordering a hit on the detective from behind bars, asking
his teen daughter to create a deep fake where her
dead mom asks for poison. Oh, what more do we
know about the case. The dominoes begin to fall. What
about the dental practice partner?
Speaker 10 (28:39):
Yeah, Ryan Redfern.
Speaker 6 (28:40):
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, stop talking, get
a lawyer to backtrack. We're talking about arsenic that was
allegedly purchased online. And I mean the computer records at
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the dental practice were very easy for police investigators. But
it was the package of potassium cyanid that was delivered
to the actual dentist's office opened by some you know employee.
She starts to go what is this potassium siyanide? She
literally sees the skull and crossbones on the packaging.
Speaker 10 (29:23):
She looks it up. It clicks in her mind.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
Wait a minute, this is exactly these are the kinds
of symptoms that Angela Craig is experiencing. She then calls Redfern,
the partner, and that's how the domino starts to fall.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
By joining me.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
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 14 (29:52):
Well, there's a number of different poisons involved, but cyani
you just really have very rapid loss of blood pressure,
loss of consciousness and very rapid depth arsenic. You tend
to get periphoneuropathy and burning in the in your hands
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and feet. It's more of a slow poison. It was
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 they call an alpha agonist.
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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.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
The wife, guys, we look carefully at the movements and
actions leading up to her last hospitalization and what led
up to the previous two hospitalizations.
Speaker 16 (31:07):
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
for the day.
Speaker 9 (31:19):
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 Business NLGA. He was sort
of still encouraging her to.
Speaker 14 (31:36):
Drink a sluid.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
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 (31:54):
That's true. Yeah, she was in the hospital. Remember three
different times. She was in the hospital, three different times.
Reading the affidavit, which reads like a bad Hollywood script,
it looks like investigators feel she is consistently being offered
the food and in primary fashion, the protein shakes while
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she's 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 1 (32:26):
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 (32:34):
One thousand percent that is in the affidavit. I've seen
the screenshots of the text messages. She's in the hospital
three different times. There's text messaging. I mean dozens and
dozens of them, if not hundreds of them, going back
and forth, do you feel like something? What do you
feel like? Can I bring you anything? And it was
usually in the form of a smoothie and.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Then the other shoe drops listen.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
With suspicions raised, Angela Craig is sent for an autopsy
with additional toxicology screening. Test revealed the otherwise healthy mom
of six died of poisoning from both sinide and tetrahydrosylene,
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 1 (33:21):
Stephen Tubbs, her levels increased while she's in the hospital.
Speaker 6 (33:28):
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 10 (33:41):
In the hospital. I mean, to me, it was and
remains unprecedented.
Speaker 6 (33:45):
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 autopsy revealed.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
But I mean, to me, Stephan, it would all blow
up when the dental assistant opens up a package and
it's cyanide.
Speaker 6 (34:09):
Oh remember though, Nancy, it was supposed to be a
ring for Angela. I mean, the Kakamami stories just were
over and over.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Where do you get cyanide? Stephan?
Speaker 1 (34:20):
You can just order it up on Amazon? I mean,
where do you get cyanide?
Speaker 6 (34:24):
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 h that.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Was a joke. Are you serious? You can get cyanide
on Amazon?
Speaker 6 (34:38):
There you go right there on your screen. Yeah, I'm
going to buy this on Amazon. First of all, somebody
beso arsenic, Yeah, arsenic? But you yeah.
Speaker 10 (34:48):
And then look at.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
This packcast 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 the arsenic, right,
don't open this, okay, So what happens Stephan when the
dental assistant opens up a box and it's arsenic?
Speaker 6 (35:10):
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.
Speaker 10 (35:19):
Well, gots out of the bag.
Speaker 6 (35:21):
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,
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?
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And of course the lie was, oh that's really it's
a gift.
Speaker 10 (35:48):
It was it was a ring for Angela. Well, there
was no ring inside.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Doctor Earnest Chioto 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 tastelite.
Speaker 14 (36:07):
Arsenake's 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 matter
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of how much was in the shape. The small amount
you may not taste it.
Speaker 9 (36:34):
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, at
gmail or at AOL or at hotmail dot com. I
don't recall which you exactly, but hardly a criminal mastermind.
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He was actually in two million dollars of personal debt,
and it was because he made some really terrible investments
in some dodgy crypto currency turned out to be worth
absolutely nothing.
Speaker 10 (37:12):
He gambled the family part.
Speaker 9 (37:14):
With these really risky investment choices, and then by the
time we came to find out about him, he was really.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
Up to his neck. He filed for personal.
Speaker 9 (37:24):
Bankruptcy, he foiled it for professional bankruptcy.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
Oh my stars. Eric fattis renowned attorney.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
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 3 (37:47):
That really worked.
Speaker 10 (37:48):
Well, Nancy.
Speaker 11 (37:49):
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. SINID 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 other people
and might use surreptitious means to try to procure it,
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which it sounds like you do.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
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.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
It out right like you're throwing a frisbee. You're just
throwing it at me.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
That he really ordered the cyanide and the arsenic for himself, right.
Speaker 3 (38:37):
You're equally consistent with that? And what about this?
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Have you ever had a client try to suborn perjury?
Speaker 3 (38:48):
Kind of a deal? Dancers for Perjury listen.
Speaker 17 (38:53):
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 implans. 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 (39:25):
So faddest Dancers for Perjury thoughts not the best.
Speaker 10 (39:30):
Deal, certainly a bad look.
Speaker 11 (39:32):
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 he came
up with. It's problematic, but doesn't mean he committed murder.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
Okay, I had a funny feeling you would say that
about the dentures for perjury scheme? Well, what about hatties
for dentures? Hatties at O T T I E S
listen fattest.
Speaker 16 (39:59):
In early twenty two, 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
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authorities that Angela confronted them about Craig's affairs, then recruited
them to help her frame Craig for her murder.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
Okay, what happens, Stephan Tubbs, where do the hotties enter
the scene?
Speaker 6 (40:33):
In a desperate plea to get out of the Arapaho
County jail. I mean, at this point there's no death
penalty in Colorado. He has nothing to lose. He's been
accused of trying a solicitation for murder of the lead
detective in this I mean, it's not just the hotties
or the free teeth or whatever. Jim Craig is trying
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any way that he can, at least according to those
of us following the case closely, him, do whatever he
can to possibly grasp at straws to convince one juror
once this thing finally starts to create that.
Speaker 10 (41:09):
Doubt. But it's been crazy. The hits just keep on coming.
Speaker 6 (41:13):
I literally, less than two weeks ago had a guy
reach out to me. Don't know him from anybody, He says, Hey,
I was serving in the Appaho County detention facility with
Craig until last October. You won't believe what he told me.
He even gave me a letter. It's crazy, and it continues.
Speaker 4 (41:29):
In the letters to Constantinidis, Craig offers a blank check
in exchange for spoofed texts, phone records, and doctored photographs
that can help convince authorities. Constantinidis knew Angela in life,
and that the mom of six was suicidal after learning
of his latest affair. Craig details some of his previous
affairs in the letter, admitting he first cheated on Angela
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with a patient in two thousand and nine, and provides
personal information about his children in an attempt to make
their lives incredible.
Speaker 3 (42:05):
Crime stories with Nancy Greece. What a creep.
Speaker 1 (42:11):
I cannot even say. This dentist is insane. He's just disgusting.
One hospital worker describes dentist Craig as quote doting. He
kept going to nurses and doctors asking about his wife's
mystery illness. He repeatedly updated her nine siblings through a
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big text chain. All the while he is writing a
quote sugar baby while his wife, Angela is in the hospital.
Quote I just woke up dreaming about making love to you.
I love you and want you.
Speaker 2 (42:48):
Can I just, you know, slap him right now?
Speaker 1 (42:52):
Can I just? I can't reach him, but I want to.
As his wife late dying, he was not only plotting
to kill her, but he was intent on meeting up
with quote sugar babies. Oh. The jurors heard excerpts from
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Angela's diaries, her journals, she agonized over her marriage and
about her husband's repeat affairs. She knew about affairs, but
I don't think she knew he was actively trying to
hook up with sugar babies and giving them money to
do that, all the while he was attending group counseling
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and therapy to work on the marriage. I mean, the
degree of deception just looking at his face. I want
to slap him so much. Then I want to cut
the cross out of all of his pants and burn
them in the front yard and stir them like I'm
stirring a big bowl of grits. Okay, back to what
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matters this beautiful mom of six, her life and her death.
Not only did he try to arrange quote hatties attractive
women to claim they were his sex partners to tell
authorities his dead wife confronted him about his affairs and that.
Speaker 3 (44:22):
She was going to commit suicide.
Speaker 1 (44:24):
So your suicide fantasy is actually hatching in the defendant's mind.
Speaker 3 (44:33):
All right, So he's taking.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
Your cue, but he's soliciting, suborning, for lack of a
better word, perjury by haughties to say his dead wife
confronted them. Not only that he has eight dentures for
perjury scheme with somebody else. Now we're learning according to
Stephan Tubbs, he tried to order a hit on a detective.
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Have a detective murdered?
Speaker 3 (45:07):
What about it?
Speaker 14 (45:08):
You know?
Speaker 11 (45:09):
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.
Speaker 10 (45:19):
To resort to desperate acts.
Speaker 11 (45:21):
And perhaps in his mind he thought that, hey, if
I eliminate the head honchhow in this investigation, perhaps the
investigation falls apart. Certainly not lawful, certainly not okay, but
also not the same thing as proving him guilty of murdering.
Speaker 1 (45:37):
His What doctor Ernest Chaoto joining US renowned physician and author,
not to Shayoto, what does a victim experience as they
die from cyanide or arsenic poisoning?
Speaker 14 (45:50):
Well, if they're going to be different, arsenic is going
to be sort of a slow, agonizing death, or as
cyanides can be very rapid, you're really going to end
up with sufficient cyanide, You're going to end up dying
with the moments. So they are really two different types
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of gap due to two very different.
Speaker 1 (46:20):
Toxic pheil waters joining us former homicide detective Houston, PD,
President of Kindred Spirits Investigations dot com. You know, Phil,
you and I have handled a lot of murders, a
lot of homicides, be they involuntary, voluntary, or mouse murder.
Speaker 3 (46:42):
It takes a special kind of mind, would.
Speaker 1 (46:44):
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 in watching her suffer
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feel well exactly.
Speaker 10 (47:06):
You know, this is a.
Speaker 13 (47:09):
This is an evil act on this guy's part. I
won't even recognize him by saying his name, and we
see this and 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,
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has been thinking about this every minute of every day.
And so when he's going into these search engines and
trying to figure out what kind of poison is the
best one, he's and that kind of thing.
Speaker 10 (47:46):
I'll tell you.
Speaker 13 (47:47):
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 murder his
wife and try to have some sort of a story
that's going to take the suspicion away from you. Everything
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he did in the process here pointed to him. So
when we get these investigations, we always look for affirmative links.
We let the evidence take us where we need to be,
and it's always a journey for the truth. In this
particular guy, I listened to the defense with all due
to respect. These these episodes of isolation that we're talking about,
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where you know, he's cheating, that didn't make him a
murder and so on and so on. This has to
be looked at in a timeline of events. If we
can determine when this started, and then of course we
know where it ended and what were the events that
occurred in between that got us to the point. You know,
this taking pictures and so forth of the of his
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wife in the hospital when she's dying. You know, when
I was listening to that discussion, I'm more prone to
believe that he was going to use use those pictures
to gain some sympathy from the woman that he was
wanting to.
Speaker 10 (49:07):
A squire around.
Speaker 13 (49:08):
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 10 (49:17):
Is as stupid?
Speaker 13 (49:18):
Does it just continue to get more idiotic as you
went through this process, thinking that what people are going
to believe this story that he's come up with.
Speaker 1 (49:28):
And you know another thing, Phil, 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. I bet you
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never thought about that while you were detecting.
Speaker 10 (49:55):
No, when I.
Speaker 13 (49:56):
Worked in narcotics, I did have a contract put out
on me. So I'm a little familiar.
Speaker 1 (50:01):
We all, for Pete's sake, we've all gotten death thrusts.
The first one I had was faxed over from the
Fulton County Jail.
Speaker 3 (50:08):
Didn't take too much to figure that one out.
Speaker 15 (50:10):
But it is.
Speaker 1 (50:13):
Arrogance, 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.
Speaker 3 (50:29):
This woman is dead and.
Speaker 1 (50:32):
Probably her last thoughts were Who's going to take care
of my children? Prosecutors alleged to a jury James Craig
the Colorado Dennis considered his wife a quote problem.
Speaker 3 (50:46):
Really he didn't think that when she gave birth to
his six children.
Speaker 1 (50:51):
Diddy and poisoned her with a combination of cyanide, arsenic
and tetra hydrozylene that is in eyedrops. It constricts your
or if you put it in your eyes, it constricts
the veins in your eyes so you don't see the
red in your eyes. Does the same thing to someone's heart.
It constricts the blood vessels around the heart and gives
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you a heart attack.
Speaker 3 (51:14):
Now again.
Speaker 1 (51:15):
The third oldest child, Annabelle, testified about one of his
many many plots, including soliciting first degree murder and tampering
with physical evidence and suborning perjury.
Speaker 3 (51:28):
From behind bars.
Speaker 1 (51:31):
Her dad, she testified under oath, called her from behind
bars shortly after his arrest and asked her to create
a deep fake, claiming that the mom wanted the poisoning.
The letter that he wrote admitted to pass sex affairs
and told the daughter her parents have been playing a
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quote game of Chicken with Craig, claiming Angela asked him
to order the fatal poisons. That's when he wanted a
quote deep fake video of mom saying she asked Craig
to order Cyanide, Arsenic and Oleander, and she was going
to take it herself, dragging his daughter into this. The
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letter written by him offered instructions including buying a cheap laptop,
installing a VPN, a private network, and using the dark Web,
even asking his daughter to set up an anonymous email,
and buying a prepaid Visa gift card.
Speaker 5 (52:36):
I mean.
Speaker 1 (52:39):
He then told his own daughter to burn the video
onto thumb drives, tell investigators she found them amongst her
mother's things, and then destroyed the laptop.
Speaker 3 (52:49):
He pulled his own daughter into this.
Speaker 1 (52:52):
If you're sitting down, you may need to lay down.
I've managed to dig up dentist Craig's profile on the
Sugar dating site that listed him as rich and married
but looking what married but looking okay? As I've told
my husband many many times, open marriage, open casket for you,
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okay to this guy's website love the outdoors, love to travel. Wait,
let me rephrase love the outdoors as I run from
hotel to motel, Love to travel as I dash out
of my home to the car. I spotted a tree
as I'm hopping in the car to meet you at
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a cheap motel. I love snowboarding, mountain biking, fly fishing, hiking,
and camping in my spare time. While I'm not trying
to have sex with sugar babies, I love to work
out and consider myself to be in decent shape, especially
the pelvic area.
Speaker 2 (53:55):
Wealthy but prudent.
Speaker 1 (53:56):
No you're not. You're going bankrupt. I require discretion so
my wife won't find out. Not looking to change my situation.
In other words, the divorce would be costly. Would like
to meet at once a month or so. That's romantic.
Maybe for travel when I have to go out of
town for work. Oh oh, that's fun. We can stay
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in the hotel and order crappy room service. I am
a dentist grut a note you know they've got a
very high suicide rate, and own other businesses as well.
Speaker 2 (54:27):
Really, what business is that?
Speaker 1 (54:29):
I am a guest speaker at many dental conventions. Oh,
that makes for sparkling personality and meetings. So I travel
about once a month, sometimes internationally. What to Canada, I
mean this guy? Oh okay, wait a minute, stop everything.
I'm looking at a picture that he posted of himself
naked in bed with just a sheep barely covering his
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crych areat looking quote playful obviously in a hotel somewhere.
Excuse me, I just got a vomit, just a little
bit in my mouth right now as we go to
air tonight. Apparently Craig is plotting his appeal.
Speaker 2 (55:06):
Good luck with that. The only way you're getting out
of this is.
Speaker 1 (55:10):
If a majority of the judges on the appellate court
are sugar babies, and I don't think that's going to happen.
Speaker 3 (55:19):
Good night'
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, a beloved dentist, the picture
perfect husband who doated on his young wife, the mother
of what five of his children. She dies with a
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mystery illness, but his sugar baby double life is revealed.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Ill Gross, I'm.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Never going to be able to look at my dentists
the same way as long as I live. And I
know him because guess what he was looking at a
crown in my mouth and goes, do you remember me?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
And I actually did, but I couldn't place him.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
He was on a jury of mine, yes, but that's
nothing compared to this freak with a sugar baby pasted.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Ugh I means he Grace.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
This is Crime Stories.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
I want to thank you for being with us.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Correction.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Angela Craig was a mother of six who knew something
was horribly wrong after she went for a bike ride
and came home barely able to walk. It wasn't the
bike ride, it was the protein shape your loving, doting
dentist husband James Craig made for you. Yeah, you know
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the rest of that story. He was responsible for a
long and premeditated plot of poisoning her. But before I
get into those details, I want to talk to you
about his quote sugar baby past. It's also ruining the
candy for me, sugar babies, which was one of my
favorites growing up.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Now this, yes, Craig.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Was up to his same old tricks. He's disgusting.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
He's not even all that.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
He's not even remotely attractive. I can say this. He's
got straight teeth. Okay, they're probably fake that, I don't care.
Multiple women state he started sexual end quote financial arrangements
with them long before Angela's death, on a sugar dating
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website called seeking dot com. Okay, what to stop everything
right there? What is a sugar baby?
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Can I tell you what a sugar baby is? It's
not the candy I grew up with. Okay, not that
at all. There's also a cosmetic brand, sugar Baby Cosmetics.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Let's see. It is a.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Book by Deroonica Lowe. It is a movie on B
E T. But it's of course the candy. But it's
commonly used to describe a person who gets money in
exchange for companionship i e.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Sex.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
It's called sugar dating. Sugar dating, Okay, it's just another
form of prostitution. Okay, being a sugar baby it's not
automatically illegal, but if you are getting money or gifts
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in exchange for sex, that's a prostitution that is illegal. Now,
this website we're talking about, that dentist Craig used seek
dot com. Okay, quote high income matchmaking. That's how it's
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described exclusive matchmaking for high earning professionals. This guy was
swimming in debt, his nostrils just barely above a sea
of debt. It says eighty percent success rate. Okay, elite
dating for high income Singlesugh. Anyway, that said he was
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meeting sugar babies well before he murdered his wife. Now
can we get into the details on the murder. Angela,
the mother of six, was declared brain dead after suffering
mystery symptoms that started ten days before. According to prosecutor,
the dentist Craig poisoned her protein shakes and secretly fed
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her deadly doses of cyanide, arsenic and more, including the
chemical found in eye.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Drops, ultimately killing her.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Also, this jury heard about a slew of mistresses, one
after the next, after the next, after the next. Her
family ultimately told all brain activity had ceased.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Now, on the eighth day of the.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Trial, Testimony kicked off from mistress number four, her name
Elizabeth Gore, told the Arapaho County jury she and the
porny dentist flew to Montana from Denver just a few
weeks after they met on a quote sugar dating site
(05:54):
called seeking dot com. Another so called sugar Bay be
Oh please, testified the previous day that would have been
day seven, that he also took her to Montana. After
a third mistress testified Craig bought her daughter a nine
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thousand dollars car. All the mistresses agree that Craig was
unhappy in his marriage, but claimed a divorce would financially
destroy him.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
You know what else will destroy you?
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Trips skiing with all of your many mistresses and buying
them cars for their daughter.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Yeah, that'll break you to man.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Well, I'm sure the juriot had just about enough of
him for mistresses my rear end. What more do we
know about the so called porny dentist? Take a listen
to our friend Jackie Howard.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
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. Court documents show that Craig, jailed
on a murder charge of his wife, Angela, Craig still
allegedly worked to convince inmates, a former mistress, and even
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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 cases lead detective
just before a second attempt at trial last year. Craig
allegedly offered people cash and dental work in return for
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a cover up. Craig insists he ordered poison because his
wife asked.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Him to what happened to the must just say frisky
dentist who had begun yet another sex affair behind his
wife's back, clearly not his first, and this with a
fellow dental worker a Texas with the donnist.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
The dentist accused of poisoning.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
His wife shakes with cyanide and a chemical that is
found in eye drops. 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
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what happened to Angela Craig?
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Take a listen to this.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
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.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Passing away Saturday, joining me an all star panel to
make sense.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Of what we are learning.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
This mom of six six and she's still really young
as well.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Apparently no college sweethearts.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Fall in love, they get married and immediately start having children.
That's how mom this young can have six children already,
And I.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Don't get it.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
I want to go straight out to Stephan Tubb's host
of the podcast Arsenic Dds The Bizarre Case of Doctor
James Craig, which is an incredible podcast by the way. Okay,
I've done all this investigation and research, and I learned
even more by listening to that Arsenic Dds, The Bizarre
(09:26):
Case of Doctor James Craig. Stephan, I want to just
start with this young mom, Angela suddenly develops 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 6 (09:47):
Nancy, she got incredibly sick. And it wasn't just one
time in the hospital. It was multiple times that she
was feeling nauseous, that she just didn't feel something was right,
severe headaches, and she went to a local hospital. The
first time to the er. He was discharged and then
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went to the same hospital like a week later.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
It was Stephan, 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.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
So much more, Doctor Cheven, thank you for being with us.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Have you ever noticed how women's symptoms.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Just get discounted.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
They come in, I'm nauseous, I feel dizzy, I've got
this severe headachehere they're like, oh you're.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Fine, bye. Yeah, I've been over and over to Angela.
Speaker 7 (10:50):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Are all women quote hysterical?
Speaker 8 (10:54):
Yeah, there's there's even something called the w W syndrome,
and that stands for whiney woman, and medical doctors have
been known to talk about the women.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Wait wait, head blowing off right now?
Speaker 3 (11:12):
The WuW syndrohn. Is that what you just said?
Speaker 8 (11:15):
Yeah, yeah, whitey woman. Yeah, I've read with some women
doctors have written books about this problem in the medical
profession where women are just dismissed and not taken seriously.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
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 researched 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 (12:03):
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 3 (12:17):
Take a listen to this.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
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. My eyes don't want to focus.
I don't feel right in my head. No, this is
just weird. I'm dizzy in my head and my eyes
are working slowly. My body's responding slowly. I feel drugged.
Response from husband, the family man, Dennis. Given our history,
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I know that must be triggering. Just for the record,
I didn't drug you. Whoa okay? As Shakespeare said me
thinks that does protest too much, you know, like when
a cop walks by and go, I don't have drugs
on me.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Anyway, Let's get back to it. Listen.
Speaker 9 (12:57):
She was complaining of having a real 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 what's 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 and her
condition deteriorate quickly.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
And there you say, doctor Chavonne Scott with us, who
just dropped a bombshale mommie about the WW syndrome. Whiny
woman drum. 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
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means code read or whatever they call it in the hospital.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
When you're dying. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (14:15):
Yeah, just a horrifying, horrifying situation for a young woman
to be in with no explanation. It's hard to imagine
how frightened she must have been.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Eric Fattus joining me, high profile trial lawyer, TV legal
analysts founding partner Varner Fattest elite legal former felony prosecutor.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Eric, don't you just hate it.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
When you're own client who's not charged with anything out
of the blue said I didn't drug you?
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Because that's what he.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Said nobody said he did drug anybody, 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 he would jump
up and say that unless they drug the wife.
Speaker 10 (15:02):
I hear you.
Speaker 11 (15:02):
I mean, it's a curious statement, certainly suspicious in the
eyes of many, you know. On the other hand, I
think his defense is going to argue that the marriage
was on the rocks, things were tense, things were dicey,
and so you know, people say things that in the
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 is
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not lost off triggering.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
First of all, I don't know how that got popular
triggering for both parties. Are you telling me he the
dentist is triggered? What are you talking about? Why she's dead?
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Okay, why are you talking about him getting triggered?
Speaker 10 (15:40):
This conversation proceeded the death.
Speaker 11 (15:42):
What I was saying is that, you know, when the
relationship is super rocky, sometimes when there are serious medical
events that come up, or just serious life events, those
things can be can add to the to the tenseness
of the situation, the stress of the situation, and he
could have been experiencing distress as well.
Speaker 10 (15:58):
And sometimes things come.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Out rocky, rocky, that's what you call a string of
mistresses rocky.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
That's more like an earthquake.
Speaker 11 (16:07):
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, thanks for really distressing yours heightened emotionality,
and sometimes people just say things that's at least some
defense likely friend.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Who is this guy?
Speaker 12 (16:28):
My name is doctor Jim Craig and I practice as
a 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 1 (16:42):
That's from the official Summerbrook Dentistry Facebook page. I want
to go straight out to Feel Waters, former homicide detective
from the Houston PD President CEO Kindred Spirits Investigations and
Security Phil that Eric Fattis is going to turn purple
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and tell me this means nothing. But when you're a
husband the dentist who sits on one of those little
roly chairs all day long suddenly starts working out and
developing interests and getting sprayed hands, you better pay attention
what's going on here?
Speaker 13 (17:22):
In homicide, of course, we'd call that a clue to
watch his behavior and the things that he's doing there.
I mean, I guess in isolation for that setting, he
appears to be a very attentive dentist, and he's really
into what he's doing, and he's trying to entertain his clients,
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his patients as well as do the proper dental work
on them. In that particular setting, it does look like if,
of course we don't know what the timeline here is,
but if he's been hitting the gym and doing some
things that are trying to get his physique in a
better shape, that might be an indicator, of course, to
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his wife in a general sense that though are you
doing this for me or are you doing this for
some other purpose?
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Okay, take a look at this fattest and that's from
the summer Brook Dynasty facebook page. Just where we're getting that.
Do you say somebody's pomping iron in the gym.
Speaker 11 (18:22):
All of a sudden, he does look a little jack there.
Defense is going to say, so what, Everyone's allowed to
take care of their own health. That's the homicide detective
just said. Maybe he was taking care of himself to
sort of rekindle the flame with his wife at the time.
We just don't know, but but yeah, I mean, even
if the relationship was on the rocks and he was
preparing for something new, that's not a crime.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
When Angela is admitted to the hospital for the third
time in two weeks, James Craig only stops at the
hospital for half an hour before going out to get
food for his wife. Craig returns an hour and a
half later and goes into Angela's room alone.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Just a few minutes, Angela has.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
A severe seizure in her vitals crash. While hospital staff
attempt to revive Angela, Craig takes photos of his unconscious wife.
Angela is stabilized with the ventilator but decleared brain dead.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Takes photos of his wife before we go to a
renowned physician and biomedical engineer, doctor Ernest Chiodo. Let me
go back to Stephan Tubbs, host of arsenic dds Stefan.
Why is he taking pictures of his wife as she's
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dying and they're desperately trying to resuscitate her.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
And she's got all kind of tubes in her. What happened?
Speaker 6 (19:41):
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.
Speaker 10 (20:00):
He then calls the business partner and his wife.
Speaker 6 (20:03):
They had all done things as couples before, and this
was the goodbye when she was coding out at CU
Health and it was there that, to me, the entire
Domino started to fall.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Speaking of Domino's falling to doctor Ernest Shaoto, not only physician,
but attorney, biomedical engineer, toxicologist, and author of Toxic tort
Medical and Legal Elements.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Doctor Shayoto, thank you for joining us.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
I'm sure in your residency and in practicing medicine, you've
been in a lot of sickrooms.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
And even death rooms.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Do you not find that bizarre that he is taking
pictures of his wife as she's coding out, in other words,
as hospital personnel are furiously trying to save her life
and he's taking pictures.
Speaker 14 (20:58):
It's highly unusual.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Yes, doctor Chaoto, Have you ever seen someone take photos
of their wife while they're trying to resuscitate her and
bring her back to life, you know, pounding on her chest,
using those electrical stimulators on her chest. Everybody's screaming, everybody's
rushing into the room, and he's in the corner taking pictures.
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Have you ever seen that happen, doctor Chaoto? No, I
haven't either, and I have investigated, prosecuted, and covered. I
can't even count the number of deaths and homicides. To
doctor Chevon Scott, I'm right there. As Stephan Tubbs said,
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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.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
What does that mean? I mean, I know something's wrong
with it, but I don't know what it is.
Speaker 8 (22:06):
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 3 (22:19):
So what in the world was he doing?
Speaker 8 (22:22):
I don't know that I have a good answer for that,
but it's definitely a red flag.
Speaker 15 (22:25):
While his wife, 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 (22:53):
Oh yeah, that's 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 hears about him while his wife is lying there dying.
He's emailing his mistress, his hobbie, and she says, I
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can't take it.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
I can't stand to act.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Like we're just friends when we're so much more. Has
everybody lost their minds?
Speaker 10 (23:23):
On the surface, certainly problematic.
Speaker 11 (23:26):
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 can do underhanded stuff.
They do stuff that is surprising that it's hard to understand.
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And I think that that could be what was going
on here, and that could be how the defense posters
it to the jury.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Well, you know, there's another whole thing there.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Hold on just a moment to a doctor Chauven Scott,
many women would tell you, 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.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
I mean, if my husband did either one.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Basically, it's open marriage, open casket, bam.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
That says it all.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
But some women would prefer the husband, if they're going
to do anything, to just go have sex with somebody
wham bam done, as opposed to falling in love with someone.
Can you explain that odd sentiment.
Speaker 8 (24:31):
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
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bond with your partner.
Speaker 7 (24:54):
Colorado mom of six, Angela Craig spends the month of
March in and out of hospital, complaining of strange symptoms
for which doctors seem to have no answers. Meanwhile, her
dentist husband is receiving the sterious packages to his office.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
You earlier heard podcast The Star of Arsenic Dds Stephan
Tubbs refer to Domino's began to fall.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Well here they go listen.
Speaker 10 (25:21):
Still in the parking lot.
Speaker 16 (25:22):
After visiting Angela in the hospital, Ryan Redfern 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 5 (25:44):
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 3 (25:55):
Craig tells Redfern.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
If he really is a friend, he and the remaining
office employees will not speak with cops anymore.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Huge red flag when somebody says, don't talk to the cops.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Crime stories with Nancy.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Grace Seeking dot Com.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
I'm quoting Seeking is a community that celebrates the pursuit
of exceptional connections. Our platform empowers success minded. I don't
think success was on his mind. Success minded individuals to
embrace their desires and foster meaningful relationships rooted in intention, authenticity,
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and honesty. What a crop of bs? Okay, honesty. This
guy was juggling multiple women while his wife dying in
the hospital, and long before that. This is gross. Sugar babies? Oh,
is Seeking still a sugar daddy website? Okay? There was
(27:07):
a predecessor called Seeking Arrangements that was not even embarrassed.
It gave sugar babies and daddies asylum. Now seeking dot
com claims it's not a sugar baby haven, but that's
where they met. I'm just telling you what the facts are.
The facts that came out at trial. Now, remember the
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jury heard from four mistresses, and you know that's got
to be the tip of the iceberg.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Those are four that we know of, you know, listen
to this.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Witnesses also testified at trial that Craig, the dentist this
way everybody hates dentists, asked his teen daughter to fabricate
a deep fake exonerating him by showing her own mother
asking him for poison, as well as the former salemate
(28:03):
who said that Dennis ordered hits on the lead detective
from behind bars.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
What is wrong with this man? Is he at all
self aware? Does he even know he's alive? Does he
even know what he has done?
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Ordering a hit on the detective from behind bars, asking
his teen daughter to create a deep fake where her
dead mom asks for poison. Oh, what more do we
know about the case. The dominoes begin to fall. What
about the dental practice partner?
Speaker 10 (28:39):
Yeah, Ryan Redfern.
Speaker 6 (28:40):
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, stop talking, get
a lawyer to backtrack. We're talking about arsenic that was
allegedly purchased online. And I mean the computer records at
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the dental practice were very easy for police investigators. But
it was the package of potassium cyanid that was delivered
to the actual dentist's office opened by some you know employee.
She starts to go what is this potassium siyanide? She
literally sees the skull and crossbones on the packaging.
Speaker 10 (29:23):
She looks it up. It clicks in her mind.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
Wait a minute, this is exactly these are the kinds
of symptoms that Angela Craig is experiencing. She then calls Redfern,
the partner, and that's how the domino starts to fall.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
By joining me.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
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 14 (29:52):
Well, there's a number of different poisons involved, but cyani
you just really have very rapid loss of blood pressure,
loss of consciousness and very rapid depth arsenic. You tend
to get periphoneuropathy and burning in the in your hands
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and feet. It's more of a slow poison. It was
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 they call an alpha agonist.
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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.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
The wife, guys, we look carefully at the movements and
actions leading up to her last hospitalization and what led
up to the previous two hospitalizations.
Speaker 16 (31:07):
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
for the day.
Speaker 9 (31:19):
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 Business NLGA. He was sort
of still encouraging her to.
Speaker 14 (31:36):
Drink a sluid.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
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 (31:54):
That's true. Yeah, she was in the hospital. Remember three
different times. She was in the hospital, three different times.
Reading the affidavit, which reads like a bad Hollywood script,
it looks like investigators feel she is consistently being offered
the food and in primary fashion, the protein shakes while
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she's 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 1 (32:26):
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 (32:34):
One thousand percent that is in the affidavit. I've seen
the screenshots of the text messages. She's in the hospital
three different times. There's text messaging. I mean dozens and
dozens of them, if not hundreds of them, going back
and forth, do you feel like something? What do you
feel like? Can I bring you anything? And it was
usually in the form of a smoothie and.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Then the other shoe drops listen.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
With suspicions raised, Angela Craig is sent for an autopsy
with additional toxicology screening. Test revealed the otherwise healthy mom
of six died of poisoning from both sinide and tetrahydrosylene,
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 1 (33:21):
Stephen Tubbs, her levels increased while she's in the hospital.
Speaker 6 (33:28):
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 10 (33:41):
In the hospital. I mean, to me, it was and
remains unprecedented.
Speaker 6 (33:45):
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 autopsy revealed.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
But I mean, to me, Stephan, it would all blow
up when the dental assistant opens up a package and
it's cyanide.
Speaker 6 (34:09):
Oh remember though, Nancy, it was supposed to be a
ring for Angela. I mean, the Kakamami stories just were
over and over.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Where do you get cyanide? Stephan?
Speaker 1 (34:20):
You can just order it up on Amazon? I mean,
where do you get cyanide?
Speaker 6 (34:24):
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 h that.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Was a joke. Are you serious? You can get cyanide
on Amazon?
Speaker 6 (34:38):
There you go right there on your screen. Yeah, I'm
going to buy this on Amazon. First of all, somebody
beso arsenic, Yeah, arsenic? But you yeah.
Speaker 10 (34:48):
And then look at.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
This packcast 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 the arsenic, right,
don't open this, okay, So what happens Stephan when the
dental assistant opens up a box and it's arsenic?
Speaker 6 (35:10):
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.
Speaker 10 (35:19):
Well, gots out of the bag.
Speaker 6 (35:21):
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,
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?
(35:44):
And of course the lie was, oh that's really it's
a gift.
Speaker 10 (35:48):
It was it was a ring for Angela. Well, there
was no ring inside.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Doctor Earnest Chioto 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 tastelite.
Speaker 14 (36:07):
Arsenake's 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 matter
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of how much was in the shape. The small amount
you may not taste it.
Speaker 9 (36:34):
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, at
gmail or at AOL or at hotmail dot com. I
don't recall which you exactly, but hardly a criminal mastermind.
(36:59):
He was actually in two million dollars of personal debt,
and it was because he made some really terrible investments
in some dodgy crypto currency turned out to be worth
absolutely nothing.
Speaker 10 (37:12):
He gambled the family part.
Speaker 9 (37:14):
With these really risky investment choices, and then by the
time we came to find out about him, he was really.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
Up to his neck. He filed for personal.
Speaker 9 (37:24):
Bankruptcy, he foiled it for professional bankruptcy.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
Oh my stars. Eric fattis renowned attorney.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
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 3 (37:47):
That really worked.
Speaker 10 (37:48):
Well, Nancy.
Speaker 11 (37:49):
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. SINID 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 other people
and might use surreptitious means to try to procure it,
(38:09):
which it sounds like you do.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
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.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
It out right like you're throwing a frisbee. You're just
throwing it at me.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
That he really ordered the cyanide and the arsenic for himself, right.
Speaker 3 (38:37):
You're equally consistent with that? And what about this?
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Have you ever had a client try to suborn perjury?
Speaker 3 (38:48):
Kind of a deal? Dancers for Perjury listen.
Speaker 17 (38:53):
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 implans. 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
(39:14):
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 (39:25):
So faddest Dancers for Perjury thoughts not the best.
Speaker 10 (39:30):
Deal, certainly a bad look.
Speaker 11 (39:32):
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 he came
up with. It's problematic, but doesn't mean he committed murder.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
Okay, I had a funny feeling you would say that
about the dentures for perjury scheme? Well, what about hatties
for dentures? Hatties at O T T I E S
listen fattest.
Speaker 16 (39:59):
In early twenty two, 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
(40:20):
authorities that Angela confronted them about Craig's affairs, then recruited
them to help her frame Craig for her murder.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
Okay, what happens, Stephan Tubbs, where do the hotties enter
the scene?
Speaker 6 (40:33):
In a desperate plea to get out of the Arapaho
County jail. I mean, at this point there's no death
penalty in Colorado. He has nothing to lose. He's been
accused of trying a solicitation for murder of the lead
detective in this I mean, it's not just the hotties
or the free teeth or whatever. Jim Craig is trying
(40:55):
any way that he can, at least according to those
of us following the case closely, him, do whatever he
can to possibly grasp at straws to convince one juror
once this thing finally starts to create that.
Speaker 10 (41:09):
Doubt. But it's been crazy. The hits just keep on coming.
Speaker 6 (41:13):
I literally, less than two weeks ago had a guy
reach out to me. Don't know him from anybody, He says, Hey,
I was serving in the Appaho County detention facility with
Craig until last October. You won't believe what he told me.
He even gave me a letter. It's crazy, and it continues.
Speaker 4 (41:29):
In the letters to Constantinidis, 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
(41:50):
with a patient in two thousand and nine, and provides
personal information about his children in an attempt to make
their lives incredible.
Speaker 3 (42:05):
Crime stories with Nancy Greece. What a creep.
Speaker 1 (42:11):
I cannot even say. This dentist is insane. He's just disgusting.
One hospital worker describes dentist Craig as quote doting. He
kept going to nurses and doctors asking about his wife's
mystery illness. He repeatedly updated her nine siblings through a
(42:32):
big text chain. All the while he is writing a
quote sugar baby while his wife, Angela is in the hospital.
Quote I just woke up dreaming about making love to you.
I love you and want you.
Speaker 2 (42:48):
Can I just, you know, slap him right now?
Speaker 1 (42:52):
Can I just? I can't reach him, but I want to.
As his wife late dying, he was not only plotting
to kill her, but he was intent on meeting up
with quote sugar babies. Oh. The jurors heard excerpts from
(43:14):
Angela's diaries, her journals, she agonized over her marriage and
about her husband's repeat affairs. She knew about affairs, but
I don't think she knew he was actively trying to
hook up with sugar babies and giving them money to
do that, all the while he was attending group counseling
(43:37):
and therapy to work on the marriage. I mean, the
degree of deception just looking at his face. I want
to slap him so much. Then I want to cut
the cross out of all of his pants and burn
them in the front yard and stir them like I'm
stirring a big bowl of grits. Okay, back to what
(43:59):
matters this beautiful mom of six, her life and her death.
Not only did he try to arrange quote hatties attractive
women to claim they were his sex partners to tell
authorities his dead wife confronted him about his affairs and that.
Speaker 3 (44:22):
She was going to commit suicide.
Speaker 1 (44:24):
So your suicide fantasy is actually hatching in the defendant's mind.
Speaker 3 (44:33):
All right, So he's taking.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
Your cue, but he's soliciting, suborning, for lack of a
better word, perjury by haughties to say his dead wife
confronted them. Not only that he has eight dentures for
perjury scheme with somebody else. Now we're learning according to
Stephan Tubbs, he tried to order a hit on a detective.
(45:02):
Have a detective murdered?
Speaker 3 (45:07):
What about it?
Speaker 14 (45:08):
You know?
Speaker 11 (45:09):
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.
Speaker 10 (45:19):
To resort to desperate acts.
Speaker 11 (45:21):
And perhaps in his mind he thought that, hey, if
I eliminate the head honchhow in this investigation, perhaps the
investigation falls apart. Certainly not lawful, certainly not okay, but
also not the same thing as proving him guilty of murdering.
Speaker 1 (45:37):
His What doctor Ernest Chaoto joining US renowned physician and author,
not to Shayoto, what does a victim experience as they
die from cyanide or arsenic poisoning?
Speaker 14 (45:50):
Well, if they're going to be different, arsenic is going
to be sort of a slow, agonizing death, or as
cyanides can be very rapid, you're really going to end
up with sufficient cyanide, You're going to end up dying
with the moments. So they are really two different types
(46:15):
of gap due to two very different.
Speaker 1 (46:20):
Toxic pheil waters joining us former homicide detective Houston, PD,
President of Kindred Spirits Investigations dot com. You know, Phil,
you and I have handled a lot of murders, a
lot of homicides, be they involuntary, voluntary, or mouse murder.
Speaker 3 (46:42):
It takes a special kind of mind, would.
Speaker 1 (46:44):
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 in watching her suffer
(47:04):
feel well exactly.
Speaker 10 (47:06):
You know, this is a.
Speaker 13 (47:09):
This is an evil act on this guy's part. I
won't even recognize him by saying his name, and we
see this and 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,
(47:32):
has been thinking about this every minute of every day.
And so when he's going into these search engines and
trying to figure out what kind of poison is the
best one, he's and that kind of thing.
Speaker 10 (47:46):
I'll tell you.
Speaker 13 (47:47):
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 murder his
wife and try to have some sort of a story
that's going to take the suspicion away from you. Everything
(48:07):
he did in the process here pointed to him. So
when we get these investigations, we always look for affirmative links.
We let the evidence take us where we need to be,
and it's always a journey for the truth. In this
particular guy, I listened to the defense with all due
to respect. These these episodes of isolation that we're talking about,
(48:30):
where you know, he's cheating, that didn't make him a
murder and so on and so on. This has to
be looked at in a timeline of events. If we
can determine when this started, and then of course we
know where it ended and what were the events that
occurred in between that got us to the point. You know,
this taking pictures and so forth of the of his
(48:51):
wife in the hospital when she's dying. You know, when
I was listening to that discussion, I'm more prone to
believe that he was going to use use those pictures
to gain some sympathy from the woman that he was
wanting to.
Speaker 10 (49:07):
A squire around.
Speaker 13 (49:08):
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 10 (49:17):
Is as stupid?
Speaker 13 (49:18):
Does it just continue to get more idiotic as you
went through this process, thinking that what people are going
to believe this story that he's come up with.
Speaker 1 (49:28):
And you know another thing, Phil, 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. I bet you
(49:52):
never thought about that while you were detecting.
Speaker 10 (49:55):
No, when I.
Speaker 13 (49:56):
Worked in narcotics, I did have a contract put out
on me. So I'm a little familiar.
Speaker 1 (50:01):
We all, for Pete's sake, we've all gotten death thrusts.
The first one I had was faxed over from the
Fulton County Jail.
Speaker 3 (50:08):
Didn't take too much to figure that one out.
Speaker 15 (50:10):
But it is.
Speaker 1 (50:13):
Arrogance, 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.
Speaker 3 (50:29):
This woman is dead and.
Speaker 1 (50:32):
Probably her last thoughts were Who's going to take care
of my children? Prosecutors alleged to a jury James Craig
the Colorado Dennis considered his wife a quote problem.
Speaker 3 (50:46):
Really he didn't think that when she gave birth to
his six children.
Speaker 1 (50:51):
Diddy and poisoned her with a combination of cyanide, arsenic
and tetra hydrozylene that is in eyedrops. It constricts your
or if you put it in your eyes, it constricts
the veins in your eyes so you don't see the
red in your eyes. Does the same thing to someone's heart.
It constricts the blood vessels around the heart and gives
(51:12):
you a heart attack.
Speaker 3 (51:14):
Now again.
Speaker 1 (51:15):
The third oldest child, Annabelle, testified about one of his
many many plots, including soliciting first degree murder and tampering
with physical evidence and suborning perjury.
Speaker 3 (51:28):
From behind bars.
Speaker 1 (51:31):
Her dad, she testified under oath, called her from behind
bars shortly after his arrest and asked her to create
a deep fake, claiming that the mom wanted the poisoning.
The letter that he wrote admitted to pass sex affairs
and told the daughter her parents have been playing a
(51:54):
quote game of Chicken with Craig, claiming Angela asked him
to order the fatal poisons. That's when he wanted a
quote deep fake video of mom saying she asked Craig
to order Cyanide, Arsenic and Oleander, and she was going
to take it herself, dragging his daughter into this. The
(52:17):
letter written by him offered instructions including buying a cheap laptop,
installing a VPN, a private network, and using the dark Web,
even asking his daughter to set up an anonymous email,
and buying a prepaid Visa gift card.
Speaker 5 (52:36):
I mean.
Speaker 1 (52:39):
He then told his own daughter to burn the video
onto thumb drives, tell investigators she found them amongst her
mother's things, and then destroyed the laptop.
Speaker 3 (52:49):
He pulled his own daughter into this.
Speaker 1 (52:52):
If you're sitting down, you may need to lay down.
I've managed to dig up dentist Craig's profile on the
Sugar dating site that listed him as rich and married
but looking what married but looking okay? As I've told
my husband many many times, open marriage, open casket for you,
(53:14):
okay to this guy's website love the outdoors, love to travel. Wait,
let me rephrase love the outdoors as I run from
hotel to motel, Love to travel as I dash out
of my home to the car. I spotted a tree
as I'm hopping in the car to meet you at
(53:36):
a cheap motel. I love snowboarding, mountain biking, fly fishing, hiking,
and camping in my spare time. While I'm not trying
to have sex with sugar babies, I love to work
out and consider myself to be in decent shape, especially
the pelvic area.
Speaker 2 (53:55):
Wealthy but prudent.
Speaker 1 (53:56):
No you're not. You're going bankrupt. I require discretion so
my wife won't find out. Not looking to change my situation.
In other words, the divorce would be costly. Would like
to meet at once a month or so. That's romantic.
Maybe for travel when I have to go out of
town for work. Oh oh, that's fun. We can stay
(54:16):
in the hotel and order crappy room service. I am
a dentist grut a note you know they've got a
very high suicide rate, and own other businesses as well.
Speaker 2 (54:27):
Really, what business is that?
Speaker 1 (54:29):
I am a guest speaker at many dental conventions. Oh,
that makes for sparkling personality and meetings. So I travel
about once a month, sometimes internationally. What to Canada, I
mean this guy? Oh okay, wait a minute, stop everything.
I'm looking at a picture that he posted of himself
naked in bed with just a sheep barely covering his
(54:51):
crych areat looking quote playful obviously in a hotel somewhere.
Excuse me, I just got a vomit, just a little
bit in my mouth right now as we go to
air tonight. Apparently Craig is plotting his appeal.
Speaker 2 (55:06):
Good luck with that. The only way you're getting out
of this is.
Speaker 1 (55:10):
If a majority of the judges on the appellate court
are sugar babies, and I don't think that's going to happen.
Speaker 3 (55:19):
Good night'
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