July 27, 2025 • 17 mins
Reid Carter exposes the calculated cruelty of Colorado dentist James Craig, who allegedly poisoned his wife Angela with cyanide-laced protein shakes while carrying on a torrid affair with a Texas orthodontist. From secret email accounts and deadly internet searches to the mistress who broke down on the witness stand, discover how a three-week romance may have cost a mother of six her life. Plus, why Craig's own daughters are testifying against him and the jailhouse murder plot that proves his desperation. When a dental professional uses his medical knowledge to kill, even love becomes a weapon. Justice isn't always sterile, but it's absolutely riveting.
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Calarogus Shark Media. Good morning, I'm Read Carter, and welcome
to Celebrity Trials on this Sunday, July twenty seventh. Today
we're diving into one of the most calculated and cold
blooded murder cases currently unfolding in American courtrooms. It's the
story of James Craig, a Colorado dentist who allegedly used
(00:26):
his medical knowledge and access to poisons to slowly kill
his wife while carrying on a passionate affair with another woman.
This isn't a crime of passion or a moment of rage.
This is the story of systematic poisoning carried out over
ten days, disguised as loving gestures like making his wife
her mourning protein shake. It's a case that proves how
(00:46):
the most trusted people in our lives, medical professionals, spouse's parents,
can become the most dangerous when their secrets are threatened.
Let me paint you the picture of the Craig family
before everything unraveled. James Craig forty seven was a successful
dentist in Aurora, Colorado, with his own practice and a
(01:06):
reputation in the community. Angela Craig, forty three, was a
devoted mother of six children and an active member of
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints. From
the outside, they looked like the perfect Mormon family. James
was described as a loving father who was amazing with
his children. Angela was the devoted wife and mother who
(01:28):
kept the family together. They had been married for twenty
three years and seemed to have built a life that
many would envy. But beneath this carefully constructed facade was
a marriage built on lies, infidelity, and ultimately murder. James
Craig had been cheating on his wife throughout their entire marriage,
(01:48):
not just casual affairs, systematic calculated relationships with multiple women
that he managed like a part time business. He used
dating websites, maintainecks, great email accounts, and spent thousands of
dollars on these relationships while telling his wife he loved her.
Angela knew about the affairs. She had caught him cheating before,
(02:11):
but as a devout Mormon, she was committed to keeping
the family together. The defense would later describe her as
broken by his infidelity but determined to preserve their marriage
for religious and family reasons. This dynamic a serial cheater
who wouldn't divorce and a religious wife who wouldn't leave
created the perfect storm for what prosecutors say became premeditated murder.
(02:36):
In February twenty twenty three, James Craig attended a dental
conference in Las Vegas. It was there that he met
doctor Karen Kane, a Texas orthodontist who was going through
her own divorce. What started as professional networking quickly became
an intense romantic affair that would change both their lives forever.
Craig told Cain he was getting divorced and living separately
(02:59):
from his wife. He painted himself as a devoted father
who was handling the end of his marriage with grace
and consideration for his children. It was a complete lie,
but Cain believed every word. That was the thing that
drew me to him. Cain testified through tears. The conversations
were very deep and honest and vulnerable. We talked a
(03:21):
lot about faith. That was one of our primary connections.
Over the next three weeks, Craig and Cain exchanged over
four thousand text messages, numerous FaceTime calls, and love letters.
Craig told her things like I love you so much,
say the word, and I'm yours and suenya cunmigo, dream
(03:43):
with me my eternal love, and may Heaven let us
bloom together forever. But here's where this romance becomes deadly.
Craig had promised Cain she could visit him in Denver
in mid March. He had painted himself as a man
who was free to start a new life. The only
problem was that Angela Craig was very much still his wife,
(04:05):
still living in their family home, and still committed to
their marriage. As the date of Caine's visit approached, Craig
faced a problem that many cheating spouses encounter. How to
make his lies match reality. Most people would confess, cancel
the visit, or face the consequences of their deception. James
Craig chose murder. On February twenty seventh, twenty twenty three,
(04:31):
just three days after returning from Vegas, James Craig created
a new email account with the handle Jim and Dwaffles
using a computer in exam Room nine at his dental practice.
This wasn't for patient care or business purposes. This was
the beginning of a murder plot. Using this secret email account,
Craig began researching how to kill his wife without detection.
(04:54):
His search history reads like a how to manual for murder.
How to make murder look like a art attack. A
dosage of tetrahydrosylene that is fatal? How long does it
take to die from arsenic poisoning? Top five undetectable poisons
that show no signs of foul play. These weren't idle curiosities.
(05:14):
These were research queries for a man planning his wife's death,
and he was using his medical background to make those
searches more precise and deadly. On February twenty eighth, just
one day after creating the secret email account, Craig ordered
arsenic on Amazon. The timing is crucial. This was during
his intense romantic correspondence with Cain, when he was promising
(05:37):
her a future together and she was planning her visit
to Colorado. The evidence shows that Craig began poisoning his
wife on March sixth, twenty twenty three, exactly nine days
before Cain was scheduled to arrive in Denver. As prosecutor
Michael Morrow told the jury, he's got nine days to
solve this problem. He's got nine days to be the
(05:58):
man he promised to be. March sixth started like any
other morning. Angela Craig drank a protein shake her husband
made for her, something they often did for each other
as part of their healthy lifestyle. She worked out, but
then started feeling strange. Angela texted her husband, my stomach
feels fine, but my head feels funny and dizzy, very strange.
(06:21):
Craig missed his usual six forty five am staff meeting
at his dental practice, arriving closer to seven am. When
questioned by his office manager, Caitlin Romero, he apologized and
said his wife wasn't feeling well, possibly because he had
put too much protein powder in the shake he'd given her.
Think about that for a moment. Craig was already creating
(06:43):
cover stories for why his wife was getting sick, and
he was doing it with his employees, creating witnesses to
his supposed innocence. Angela's condition worsened throughout the day, and
Craig took her to advent Health Parker Hospital. Tests including
mri CT scan and blood work, showed nothing conclusive, so
(07:03):
she was sent home. But here's the most chilling detail.
While his wife was in the emergency room, Craig texted
his mistress Karen Kin, just for the record, I will
never drug you. Think about the psychology of that message.
While his wife was suffering from the poison he'd given her,
Craig was reassuring his lover that he would never do
(07:24):
the same thing to her. It's a level of calculated
cruelty that's almost incomprehensible. Back in a moment. Angela Craig
returned home from the hospital that first time, but her
(07:44):
symptoms continued. On March ninth, just three days later, her
condition deteriorated dramatically. There's a moment on March ninth where
her kids find her passed out fainted, Prosecutor Ryan Brackley
said in his opening statement. There's a moment on March
ninth where she crawls across the floor because she can't
get up, and she goes back to the hospital. This time,
(08:08):
Angela was admitted to advent Health Parker Hospital and remained
there until March fourteenth. Blood tests taken at eleven twenty
four a m on March ninth showed high and toxic
levels of arsenic in her system. But even as his
wife lay in the hospital with arsenic poisoning. Craig wasn't finished.
On March eighth, while Angela was fighting for her life,
(08:31):
Craig ordered potassium cyanide from a Nebraska based company called
Midland Scientific. He told the customer service representative, Cassie Rodriguez,
that he needed overnight shipping and that he intended to
use the cyanide for some type of seminar. He was
presenting it was another lie to cover his true intentions.
The potassium cyanide was delivered to Craig's dental office on
(08:54):
March thirteenth, the same day Angela was released from the
hospital after her second admission. Office manager Caitlin Romero testified
that she found the package and was shocked to see
it contained potassium cyanide. She had no idea why a
dental office would need such a dangerous substance. When she
showed it to Craig, he seemed nervous and told her
(09:15):
he would take care of it. Angela Craig was readmitted
to the hospital for the final time on March fifteenth,
twenty twenty three. About three hours after arriving, she had
a seizure and unexplained rapid medical decline, which led to
her being placed on life support in the hospital's intensive
care unit, but prosecutors say Craig wasn't finished with his
(09:38):
murder plot even with his wife on life support. They
alleged that Craig administered a final fatal dose of cyanide
to Angela while she was in the hospital. He didn't
go into that room to save Angela's life, Prosecutor Ryan
Brackley said, he didn't go into that room to fight
for her life or support her. He went into that
room to murder her, to deliberately and intentionally end her
(10:00):
life with a fatal dose of cyanide. On March eighteen,
twenty twenty three, Angela Craig was pronounced brain dead. The
Arapahoe County Coroner ruled her cause of death as acute
cyanide and tetrahydrosylene poisoning, with subacute arsenic poisoning listed as
a significant condition. She was forty three years old. She
(10:23):
left behind six children and a community that believed she
had died from a mysterious illness. In one of the
most callous aspects of this case, Karen Kin arrived in
Denver on March sixteenth, just two days before Angela Craig
was pronounced dead. Craig had maintained his romantic correspondence with
Cain throughout his wife's poisoning, keeping up the pretense that
(10:46):
he was a divorced man free to pursue a new relationship.
Cain testified that she spent several days in Denver with
Craig while his wife lay dying in the hospital. She
said Craig kept her updated on Angela's condition, portrayed himself
as a caring ex husband dealing with his former wife's
mysterious illness. At this point, I mean today, in today's world,
(11:09):
I really don't know anything, Doctor Karen Kin told the
jury about her relationship with Craig. She called her past
self foolish and said she now doesn't know what was
real and what wasn't in their relationship. When prosecutors read
her a text where she had told Craig, I don't
want to watch her, meaning Angela's heartbreak, so mine can
(11:29):
find joy, Cain choked up and her hand hovered over
her heart. On March nineteenth, the day after Angela Craig died,
Craig was arrested. Detective Bobby Olsen contacted Cain at her
hotel before she flew back to Texas, and Cain learned
for the first time that the man she thought she
(11:50):
loved was accused of murdering his wife. Perhaps the most
heartbreaking aspect of this trial has been the testimony from
Craig's own daughters. These young women, who lost their mother
and now face the reality that their father may have
killed her, took the witness stand to tell the truth
about what they witnessed. Craig's oldest daughter testified that her
(12:12):
father did not want an autopsy conducted on her mother.
He didn't want to satisfy their curiosities and have them
poking at her. She said he told her after Angela's death,
when the daughter expressed concerns about her mother's illness being
hereditary and that she might have passed it on to
her youngest children, she testified that her father stayed quiet,
(12:32):
a telling reaction for a medical professional who should have
been able to provide reassurance about genetic versus environmental causes
of illness. But perhaps most shocking was the testimony about
Craig's attempts to manipulate evidence from behind bars. Craig's daughter
testified that her father asked her to create a deep
fake video of her mother with step by step instructions
(12:55):
in a letter written in his handwriting, I love you.
I'm sorry to even have to ask ask you for
this help. The letter read, Craig wanted his daughter to
make it appear that Angela had wanted him to order
the poisons that killed her, essentially asking his child to
help him frame her dead mother for suicide. The letter
included detailed instructions buy a cheap laptop, install a private
(13:17):
network and dark web browser, pay for the project using
a prepaid Visa gift card, and create a video that
appeared to have been made before Angela's death. He wanted
his daughter to burn the video to thumb drives, find
them in her mother's bag, and then destroy the laptop.
During her emotional testimony, Craig's oldest daughter said that while
(13:38):
her mother struggled like anyone else, she wouldn't have taken
her own life. We were making plans, the twenty one
year old woman said, as if murdering his wife wasn't enough.
Prosecutors say Craig tried to orchestrate additional murders from behind
bars while awaiting trial. Craig allegedly tried to pay his
cellmate and others to cut his tracks, including offering twenty
(14:02):
thousand dollars to kill Detective Bobby Olsen, the lead investigator
in his case. During a February twenty twenty five hearing,
prosecutors introduced a letter they said Craig wrote to a
fellow inmate, calling Olson the worst dirtiest detective in the world.
Craig also allegedly offered someone twenty thousand dollars to find
(14:23):
people to falsely testify that Angela Craig planned to die
by suicide. He tried to convince inmates to create false
evidence and testimony that would support his claim that his
wife had killed herself. These aren't the actions of an
innocent man. These are the desperate moves of a killer
trying to escape responsibility for his crimes. The James Craig
(14:44):
case represents a particularly chilling form of domestic violence medical murder.
Craig used his knowledge as a dental professional and his
access to controlled substances to slowly torture and kill his
wife over more than a week. What makes this case
a spec disturbing is the premeditation and calculation involved. This
(15:04):
wasn't a crime of passion or a moment of rage.
This was systematic, methodical murder disguised as loving care. Craig
made his wife's mourning protein shakes, a gesture that should
represent love and care between spouses. Instead, he turned this
daily ritual into a delivery system for poison. Every morning.
(15:26):
When Angela drank that shake, she was trusting the man
who was slowly killing her. The digital evidence in this
case is overwhelming. Craig's Internet searches show a man researching
how to commit undetectable murder. His timeline shows careful planning
and execution. His attempts to manipulate his own children and
orchestrate additional murders from jail show a complete absence of
(15:48):
conscience or remorse. Defense attorney Ashley Withham has argued that
Craig loved his wife but was a serial cheater, and
that Angela may have taken her own life, but the
evidence paid it's a different picture a narcissistic manipulator who
saw his wife as an obstacle to his selfish desires
and decided to eliminate her rather than face the consequences
(16:09):
of his lies. The James Craig trial continues this week
and will be following every development as prosecutors present their
case against this alleged medical murderer. The evidence we've seen
so far, the internet searches, the poison purchases, the systematic timeline,
the victim's own children testifying against him, paints a picture
(16:29):
of calculated evil hiding behind the facade of professional respectability.
On Monday, we'll bring you the latest developments from the courtroom,
including testimony about Craig's jailhouse murder plot, and any response
from the defense. This is a case that shows how
the people we trust most medical professionals, spouses, parents, can
(16:50):
become the most dangerous when their secrets are threatened. That's
celebrity trials for today. I'm read Carter. Remember when someone
uses their professional knowledge to commit murder, they're not just
taking a life, They're betraying every principle of the profession
they claim to serve. Justice isn't always medical, but it's
(17:13):
absolutely riveting. Have a great Sunday, and we'll see you
back here tomorrow with more developments from the Craig trial.
Calarogus Shark Media. Good morning, I'm Read Carter, and welcome
to Celebrity Trials on this Sunday, July twenty seventh. Today
we're diving into one of the most calculated and cold
blooded murder cases currently unfolding in American courtrooms. It's the
story of James Craig, a Colorado dentist who allegedly used
(00:26):
his medical knowledge and access to poisons to slowly kill
his wife while carrying on a passionate affair with another woman.
This isn't a crime of passion or a moment of rage.
This is the story of systematic poisoning carried out over
ten days, disguised as loving gestures like making his wife
her mourning protein shake. It's a case that proves how
(00:46):
the most trusted people in our lives, medical professionals, spouse's parents,
can become the most dangerous when their secrets are threatened.
Let me paint you the picture of the Craig family
before everything unraveled. James Craig forty seven was a successful
dentist in Aurora, Colorado, with his own practice and a
(01:06):
reputation in the community. Angela Craig, forty three, was a
devoted mother of six children and an active member of
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints. From
the outside, they looked like the perfect Mormon family. James
was described as a loving father who was amazing with
his children. Angela was the devoted wife and mother who
(01:28):
kept the family together. They had been married for twenty
three years and seemed to have built a life that
many would envy. But beneath this carefully constructed facade was
a marriage built on lies, infidelity, and ultimately murder. James
Craig had been cheating on his wife throughout their entire marriage,
(01:48):
not just casual affairs, systematic calculated relationships with multiple women
that he managed like a part time business. He used
dating websites, maintainecks, great email accounts, and spent thousands of
dollars on these relationships while telling his wife he loved her.
Angela knew about the affairs. She had caught him cheating before,
(02:11):
but as a devout Mormon, she was committed to keeping
the family together. The defense would later describe her as
broken by his infidelity but determined to preserve their marriage
for religious and family reasons. This dynamic a serial cheater
who wouldn't divorce and a religious wife who wouldn't leave
created the perfect storm for what prosecutors say became premeditated murder.
(02:36):
In February twenty twenty three, James Craig attended a dental
conference in Las Vegas. It was there that he met
doctor Karen Kane, a Texas orthodontist who was going through
her own divorce. What started as professional networking quickly became
an intense romantic affair that would change both their lives forever.
Craig told Cain he was getting divorced and living separately
(02:59):
from his wife. He painted himself as a devoted father
who was handling the end of his marriage with grace
and consideration for his children. It was a complete lie,
but Cain believed every word. That was the thing that
drew me to him. Cain testified through tears. The conversations
were very deep and honest and vulnerable. We talked a
(03:21):
lot about faith. That was one of our primary connections.
Over the next three weeks, Craig and Cain exchanged over
four thousand text messages, numerous FaceTime calls, and love letters.
Craig told her things like I love you so much,
say the word, and I'm yours and suenya cunmigo, dream
(03:43):
with me my eternal love, and may Heaven let us
bloom together forever. But here's where this romance becomes deadly.
Craig had promised Cain she could visit him in Denver
in mid March. He had painted himself as a man
who was free to start a new life. The only
problem was that Angela Craig was very much still his wife,
(04:05):
still living in their family home, and still committed to
their marriage. As the date of Caine's visit approached, Craig
faced a problem that many cheating spouses encounter. How to
make his lies match reality. Most people would confess, cancel
the visit, or face the consequences of their deception. James
Craig chose murder. On February twenty seventh, twenty twenty three,
(04:31):
just three days after returning from Vegas, James Craig created
a new email account with the handle Jim and Dwaffles
using a computer in exam Room nine at his dental practice.
This wasn't for patient care or business purposes. This was
the beginning of a murder plot. Using this secret email account,
Craig began researching how to kill his wife without detection.
(04:54):
His search history reads like a how to manual for murder.
How to make murder look like a art attack. A
dosage of tetrahydrosylene that is fatal? How long does it
take to die from arsenic poisoning? Top five undetectable poisons
that show no signs of foul play. These weren't idle curiosities.
(05:14):
These were research queries for a man planning his wife's death,
and he was using his medical background to make those
searches more precise and deadly. On February twenty eighth, just
one day after creating the secret email account, Craig ordered
arsenic on Amazon. The timing is crucial. This was during
his intense romantic correspondence with Cain, when he was promising
(05:37):
her a future together and she was planning her visit
to Colorado. The evidence shows that Craig began poisoning his
wife on March sixth, twenty twenty three, exactly nine days
before Cain was scheduled to arrive in Denver. As prosecutor
Michael Morrow told the jury, he's got nine days to
solve this problem. He's got nine days to be the
(05:58):
man he promised to be. March sixth started like any
other morning. Angela Craig drank a protein shake her husband
made for her, something they often did for each other
as part of their healthy lifestyle. She worked out, but
then started feeling strange. Angela texted her husband, my stomach
feels fine, but my head feels funny and dizzy, very strange.
(06:21):
Craig missed his usual six forty five am staff meeting
at his dental practice, arriving closer to seven am. When
questioned by his office manager, Caitlin Romero, he apologized and
said his wife wasn't feeling well, possibly because he had
put too much protein powder in the shake he'd given her.
Think about that for a moment. Craig was already creating
(06:43):
cover stories for why his wife was getting sick, and
he was doing it with his employees, creating witnesses to
his supposed innocence. Angela's condition worsened throughout the day, and
Craig took her to advent Health Parker Hospital. Tests including
mri CT scan and blood work, showed nothing conclusive, so
(07:03):
she was sent home. But here's the most chilling detail.
While his wife was in the emergency room, Craig texted
his mistress Karen Kin, just for the record, I will
never drug you. Think about the psychology of that message.
While his wife was suffering from the poison he'd given her,
Craig was reassuring his lover that he would never do
(07:24):
the same thing to her. It's a level of calculated
cruelty that's almost incomprehensible. Back in a moment. Angela Craig
returned home from the hospital that first time, but her
(07:44):
symptoms continued. On March ninth, just three days later, her
condition deteriorated dramatically. There's a moment on March ninth where
her kids find her passed out fainted, Prosecutor Ryan Brackley
said in his opening statement. There's a moment on March
ninth where she crawls across the floor because she can't
get up, and she goes back to the hospital. This time,
(08:08):
Angela was admitted to advent Health Parker Hospital and remained
there until March fourteenth. Blood tests taken at eleven twenty
four a m on March ninth showed high and toxic
levels of arsenic in her system. But even as his
wife lay in the hospital with arsenic poisoning. Craig wasn't finished.
On March eighth, while Angela was fighting for her life,
(08:31):
Craig ordered potassium cyanide from a Nebraska based company called
Midland Scientific. He told the customer service representative, Cassie Rodriguez,
that he needed overnight shipping and that he intended to
use the cyanide for some type of seminar. He was
presenting it was another lie to cover his true intentions.
The potassium cyanide was delivered to Craig's dental office on
(08:54):
March thirteenth, the same day Angela was released from the
hospital after her second admission. Office manager Caitlin Romero testified
that she found the package and was shocked to see
it contained potassium cyanide. She had no idea why a
dental office would need such a dangerous substance. When she
showed it to Craig, he seemed nervous and told her
(09:15):
he would take care of it. Angela Craig was readmitted
to the hospital for the final time on March fifteenth,
twenty twenty three. About three hours after arriving, she had
a seizure and unexplained rapid medical decline, which led to
her being placed on life support in the hospital's intensive
care unit, but prosecutors say Craig wasn't finished with his
(09:38):
murder plot even with his wife on life support. They
alleged that Craig administered a final fatal dose of cyanide
to Angela while she was in the hospital. He didn't
go into that room to save Angela's life, Prosecutor Ryan
Brackley said, he didn't go into that room to fight
for her life or support her. He went into that
room to murder her, to deliberately and intentionally end her
(10:00):
life with a fatal dose of cyanide. On March eighteen,
twenty twenty three, Angela Craig was pronounced brain dead. The
Arapahoe County Coroner ruled her cause of death as acute
cyanide and tetrahydrosylene poisoning, with subacute arsenic poisoning listed as
a significant condition. She was forty three years old. She
(10:23):
left behind six children and a community that believed she
had died from a mysterious illness. In one of the
most callous aspects of this case, Karen Kin arrived in
Denver on March sixteenth, just two days before Angela Craig
was pronounced dead. Craig had maintained his romantic correspondence with
Cain throughout his wife's poisoning, keeping up the pretense that
(10:46):
he was a divorced man free to pursue a new relationship.
Cain testified that she spent several days in Denver with
Craig while his wife lay dying in the hospital. She
said Craig kept her updated on Angela's condition, portrayed himself
as a caring ex husband dealing with his former wife's
mysterious illness. At this point, I mean today, in today's world,
(11:09):
I really don't know anything, Doctor Karen Kin told the
jury about her relationship with Craig. She called her past
self foolish and said she now doesn't know what was
real and what wasn't in their relationship. When prosecutors read
her a text where she had told Craig, I don't
want to watch her, meaning Angela's heartbreak, so mine can
(11:29):
find joy, Cain choked up and her hand hovered over
her heart. On March nineteenth, the day after Angela Craig died,
Craig was arrested. Detective Bobby Olsen contacted Cain at her
hotel before she flew back to Texas, and Cain learned
for the first time that the man she thought she
(11:50):
loved was accused of murdering his wife. Perhaps the most
heartbreaking aspect of this trial has been the testimony from
Craig's own daughters. These young women, who lost their mother
and now face the reality that their father may have
killed her, took the witness stand to tell the truth
about what they witnessed. Craig's oldest daughter testified that her
(12:12):
father did not want an autopsy conducted on her mother.
He didn't want to satisfy their curiosities and have them
poking at her. She said he told her after Angela's death,
when the daughter expressed concerns about her mother's illness being
hereditary and that she might have passed it on to
her youngest children, she testified that her father stayed quiet,
(12:32):
a telling reaction for a medical professional who should have
been able to provide reassurance about genetic versus environmental causes
of illness. But perhaps most shocking was the testimony about
Craig's attempts to manipulate evidence from behind bars. Craig's daughter
testified that her father asked her to create a deep
fake video of her mother with step by step instructions
(12:55):
in a letter written in his handwriting, I love you.
I'm sorry to even have to ask ask you for
this help. The letter read, Craig wanted his daughter to
make it appear that Angela had wanted him to order
the poisons that killed her, essentially asking his child to
help him frame her dead mother for suicide. The letter
included detailed instructions buy a cheap laptop, install a private
(13:17):
network and dark web browser, pay for the project using
a prepaid Visa gift card, and create a video that
appeared to have been made before Angela's death. He wanted
his daughter to burn the video to thumb drives, find
them in her mother's bag, and then destroy the laptop.
During her emotional testimony, Craig's oldest daughter said that while
(13:38):
her mother struggled like anyone else, she wouldn't have taken
her own life. We were making plans, the twenty one
year old woman said, as if murdering his wife wasn't enough.
Prosecutors say Craig tried to orchestrate additional murders from behind
bars while awaiting trial. Craig allegedly tried to pay his
cellmate and others to cut his tracks, including offering twenty
(14:02):
thousand dollars to kill Detective Bobby Olsen, the lead investigator
in his case. During a February twenty twenty five hearing,
prosecutors introduced a letter they said Craig wrote to a
fellow inmate, calling Olson the worst dirtiest detective in the world.
Craig also allegedly offered someone twenty thousand dollars to find
(14:23):
people to falsely testify that Angela Craig planned to die
by suicide. He tried to convince inmates to create false
evidence and testimony that would support his claim that his
wife had killed herself. These aren't the actions of an
innocent man. These are the desperate moves of a killer
trying to escape responsibility for his crimes. The James Craig
(14:44):
case represents a particularly chilling form of domestic violence medical murder.
Craig used his knowledge as a dental professional and his
access to controlled substances to slowly torture and kill his
wife over more than a week. What makes this case
a spec disturbing is the premeditation and calculation involved. This
(15:04):
wasn't a crime of passion or a moment of rage.
This was systematic, methodical murder disguised as loving care. Craig
made his wife's mourning protein shakes, a gesture that should
represent love and care between spouses. Instead, he turned this
daily ritual into a delivery system for poison. Every morning.
(15:26):
When Angela drank that shake, she was trusting the man
who was slowly killing her. The digital evidence in this
case is overwhelming. Craig's Internet searches show a man researching
how to commit undetectable murder. His timeline shows careful planning
and execution. His attempts to manipulate his own children and
orchestrate additional murders from jail show a complete absence of
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conscience or remorse. Defense attorney Ashley Withham has argued that
Craig loved his wife but was a serial cheater, and
that Angela may have taken her own life, but the
evidence paid it's a different picture a narcissistic manipulator who
saw his wife as an obstacle to his selfish desires
and decided to eliminate her rather than face the consequences
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of his lies. The James Craig trial continues this week
and will be following every development as prosecutors present their
case against this alleged medical murderer. The evidence we've seen
so far, the internet searches, the poison purchases, the systematic timeline,
the victim's own children testifying against him, paints a picture
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of calculated evil hiding behind the facade of professional respectability.
On Monday, we'll bring you the latest developments from the courtroom,
including testimony about Craig's jailhouse murder plot, and any response
from the defense. This is a case that shows how
the people we trust most medical professionals, spouses, parents, can
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become the most dangerous when their secrets are threatened. That's
celebrity trials for today. I'm read Carter. Remember when someone
uses their professional knowledge to commit murder, they're not just
taking a life, They're betraying every principle of the profession
they claim to serve. Justice isn't always medical, but it's
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absolutely riveting. Have a great Sunday, and we'll see you
back here tomorrow with more developments from the Craig trial.
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