August 23, 2025 • 18 mins
A Colorado dentist, a devoted wife, and a plan that prosecutors said was “absolutely stunning” in its cruelty.
Angela Craig thought she was drinking protein shakes. Behind the scenes, James Craig was ordering poisons, searching how to make murder look like a heart attack, and carrying on multiple affairs. When Angela collapsed and doctors couldn’t explain why her condition kept getting worse, suspicion turned to the one person who should have been by her side.
This is the update.
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https://murderandlove.com/dentist-allegedly-poisons-wife-to-start-new-relationship-james-craig/
In this update, we follow the trial that revealed just how far James Craig would go to escape his marriage—and the shocking evidence that sealed his fate.
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Angela Craig thought she was drinking protein shakes. Behind the scenes, James Craig was ordering poisons, searching how to make murder look like a heart attack, and carrying on multiple affairs. When Angela collapsed and doctors couldn’t explain why her condition kept getting worse, suspicion turned to the one person who should have been by her side.
This is the update.
You can listen to the initial episode and how this case all started here:
https://murderandlove.com/dentist-allegedly-poisons-wife-to-start-new-relationship-james-craig/
In this update, we follow the trial that revealed just how far James Craig would go to escape his marriage—and the shocking evidence that sealed his fate.
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Find the sources used in this episode and learn more about how to support Love and Murder: Heartbreak to Homicide and gain access to even more cases, including bonus episodes, ad-free and intro-free cases, case files and more at: https://murderandlove.com
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Angela Craig was a vibrant forty three year old mom
of six who seemed to have it all until she
suddenly felt deathly sick on March twenty twenty three. What
started as dizziness and fatigue quickly spiraled into multiple hospitalizations,
and within days she was brain dead. Her husband, James Craig,
(00:21):
a Colorado dentist with a long history of infidelity, had
been researching poisons and ordering cyanide arsenic and I'm not
even going to try and say this tetraides tetra hydrosaline.
Alekira said that I was going to try and say
them that I immediately tried to say it. Prosecutors say
he slipped these into her protein shake as a calculated
(00:42):
plan to kill her and avoid a costly divorce. But
the twist, even after her death, James didn't stop scheming.
He allegedly tried to frame Angela as suicidal, recruit inmates
to plant evidence, and even put out a hit on
the lead detective. Want the full case, go to listen
to the full episode on our site Murderinlove dot com
(01:04):
and you won't believe how deep this case goes. But
what today's episode is is an update of this case.
So if you didn't hear the case of James Craig before,
then the link is in the show notes below. You
can also find it on our website Murderinlove dot com
and listen to that case before you come and listen
to this update. So, James Craigs's murder trial started on
(01:28):
Tuesday July fifteenth, twenty twenty five. He pleaded not guilty
to his charges of first degree murder, solicitation to commit
murder in the first degree, two counts of solicitation to
commit tampering with physical evidence, and two counts of solicitation
to commit perjury in the first degree. The trial went
over twelve days and wrapped up with closing arguments on
(01:51):
July twenty ninth. The prosecution, led by Assistant DA Ryan
Brackley and Senior Chief Deputy DA Michael Maury, laid out
what they called an absolutely stunning case. Now you know,
it has to be insane for it to be absolutely stunning.
Witness after witness, document after document, and evidence quote never
(02:15):
stopped getting worse. They called nearly fifty people to the
stand and submitted more than ten thousand pages of documents
and two terrabytes of data. Do you know how big
two terra bytes is. Their argument was that James poisoned
his wife over a ten day span with arsenic cyanide
(02:36):
and tetrahized drosaline. Angela, they said, had no idea what
was happening to her and played no role in her
own death. James's motive was that he wanted out of
his marriage, but he didn't want to deal with the
financial mess of divorce.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
They said.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
He saw murder as a cheaper, easier option and spent
days ordering poisons and research in how to get away
with it. Here's what the prosecution brought to court. Number
one they talked about the poison trail. Toxicology confirmed the
lethal levels of cyanide and tetra hydrasa line. I'm probably
saying it wrong by now in his wife's system. Medical
(03:16):
experts testify that Angela's symptoms matched cyanide poisoning, and her
levels actually went up after she was hospitalized. Number two.
His search history. He looked up quote how to make
murder look like a heart attack? Also quote is arsenic detectable?
(03:36):
Also quote fatal dose of cyanide? And more searches. Number three,
the receipts or he had ordered arsenic cyanide and cases
of vizine. Potassium cyanide was also shipped to his dental office.
Did you, sir, have a receipt for arsenic and did
(03:57):
you hold a receipt for your records? I guess your
business records for cyanide? I mean that is meticulous book
keeping right there. Number four. They talked about how he
did it. Surveillance footage and testimony showed him mixing protein
shakes for Angela in a pink lid shaker cup. He
(04:18):
also wrote a note on his phone admitting that he'd
filled capsules with cyanide and prep the syringe. Did you
write notes on your phone?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Are you serious?
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Dear diary? I want to write about how I'm just
going to fill these capsules with cyanide and prep a syringe.
Number five. They talked about his motive. Multiple affear partners
testified for the prosecution. One even said that James had
once joked about quote purging his wife. Another said that
(04:50):
he had complained that a divorce would leave him broke.
You know how you don't go through a divorce that
would leave you broke? I don't know, don't cheat on her, Like,
if you're so worried about how a divorce is gonna
leave you, then just stay unhappy in your marriage. That's
literally it, like, just stay unhappy in your marriage then
otherwise get a divorce and be a big boy. His text,
(05:12):
messages and behavior painting the picture of a man desperately
trying to escape his marriage. For six, they brought forth
his former cell mates, who said David tried to plant
fake journals, create a deep fake video of Angela confessing
suicidal thoughts, and even offered money to take out Detective
Bobby Olsen. He told one cell mate that it was
(05:34):
just a quote game of chicken. Number seven, they brought
forth Angela's journal. It was entered into evidence to shut
down the suicide theory. Angela wrote about heartbreak and betrayal,
but never once about suicide. Even though most of the
case was circumstantial, it was a lot of circumstantial that
(05:54):
proved it was a lot of circumstantial that looked like
it was hard evidence. Everything pointed to the same thing.
Prosecutors didn't need a smoking gun. They built a story
that when you looked at everything altogether, it painted a
picture of a man who wanted out of his marriage
so badly he chose murder over divorce, a man who
(06:17):
wasn't just cheating, he was scheming, calculating, and willing to
go to disturbing lengths to rewrite the story. Now, defense
attorney Lisa Moses didn't argue that Angela wasn't poisoned or
that she didn't die. How wait, how would you have
argued that she didn't die because she's literally buried? Okay,
(06:40):
she acknowledged both were true, because I mean, literally, all
the facts are there. She can't not acknowledge it. But
what the defense was gonna do was all about injecting doubt,
questioning the state's version of events, and pointing fingers at
what they claimed was a flawed investigation. They didn't call
a single witness. Instead, they leaned hard on the idea
(07:01):
that the case was built on quote, assumptions, speculations, and
tunnel vision. Like, my thing is literally you acknowledge she
was poisoned, and I guess you have to acknowledge that
she was dead. But as a defense, even though you
know you're holding a murderer, you're deciding to inject doubt
in opening statements. Defense attorney Ashley Whitman described Angela as
(07:25):
broken by James's cheating and still committed to making the
marriage work. She told the jury not to get swayed
by emotion or how much they disliked James's behavior, just
to focus on whether the state actually proved their case.
I mean, are you also going to tell them not
to look at the facts and everything like that, because
I mean, the facts are there and you're literally just
(07:47):
acting like they're stupid. Don't think about how much you
don't like how James acts right now, just focus on
if the state is actually telling the truth. Not us,
not us, no, no, no, no, not us the state. The
defense argued that it was still quote unclear how Angela
ingested the poison, and there was still no quote definitive,
(08:08):
definitive evidence that James actually gave it to her. How else? Okay,
I'm not evenna ask. They painted the Crags as a
quote complex but loving couple, saying James was a quote
flawed husband, sure, but not a killer. The defense also
claimed that the Crags weren't strapped for cash, their mortgage
(08:29):
was paid off, the house was worth about a million,
and they already had four million dollars in life insurance.
So why would James kill Angela? Me let me, let
me my hand is raised. I can answer that because
he literally said that he would go broke trying to
divorce her. So even though he had all this money,
he didn't want to lose even one dollar of his
(08:50):
money to divorce because in his head, he probably would
have lost half of everything he had, which he would
have still been a millionaire. But he was just a
less of a millionaire. So that's why he wanted to
kill her instead of get a divorce. Then the defense
leaned into Angela's journal entries, calling her quote emotionally vulnerable
(09:13):
and suggesting she may have been manipulative or desperate to
maintain a perfect image due to their Mormon faith, so
she would write in her journal where nobody's looking, and
still try to keep that perfect image quote unquote Is
that what you're trying to tell me? Nobody's looking in
her journal, but she's still trying to be fake in
(09:33):
her journal. They tried to float the idea that she
took her own life, and even use James's iPhone note
where he claimed Angela had asked him to help her die,
So you use his iPhone note that he wrote himself
to point that as proof that Angela was suicidal. Bombastic
side eye. They also went after the investigation pointed out
(09:57):
that not all devices in the home were searched, the
hospital's sharp's containers weren't checked, and there were gaps in
the surveillance footage. So you're blaming Angela and you're blaming
the hospital, but you're not blaming James. Got it. They
also tried to frame James's initial cooperation with police as
a sign of innocence. In the end, the defense threw
(10:20):
everything they could at the wall, spaghetti, the kitchen sink,
their firstborn child. But even without a single eyewitness or
assigned confession, the state's case was layered with damning details.
The evidence may have been circumstantial, but it told a consistent,
horrific story. Every search, every purchase, every shady move painted
(10:42):
James as a man who wanted a clean slate, no strings,
no divorce court, no financial hit. Like I said, he
wanted to keep every single penny of his millions, even though,
like I said, if she walked away with half, he'd
still been in the millions, and all he had to
do was rebuild. Drewing closing arguments, Prosecutor Mario said, James
(11:05):
quote lied and fabricated false narratives, and everything pointed to him.
Assistant D. A. Brackley said reading James's own words in
context was very, very difficult, especially knowing what he was
really planning. On July thirtieth, twenty twenty five, after two
full days and more than eight hours of deliberation, the
(11:26):
jury came back with their decision. James Craig was found
guilty on every charge to prosecution brought against him. Guilty
of first degree murder for poisoning his wife, guilty of
soliciting Casey Bohannon to tamper with evidence, guilty of soliciting
Nathaniel Harris to commit first degree murder, and guilty of
(11:50):
solicited Hassani Constantinidis to commit perjury in the first degree.
He was found not guilty of the lesser charge of
manslaughter by Aiden's suicide, which the defense had specifically asked
the jury to consider. The jury rejected that theory completely.
The prosecution said, quote. He was convicted on all charges
(12:11):
and the not guilty verdict was for a charged defense
introduced not the state. Immediately after the verdict was read,
Judge Shay Whittaker handed down James's sentence life in prison
without the possibility of parole for first degree murder mandatory
in Colorado. On top of that, James received the maximum
(12:32):
sentences for each of the other charges, all to be
served consecutively. Then came the victim impact statements. Angela's eldest
daughter stood in front of the court and said, quote,
life and the world will truly never be the same
without my mom. She then described the pain of losing
her hero and realized that her hero was her mom,
(12:53):
not her father.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
He was supposed to be my hero and instead he'll
forever be a villain in my book. During her statement,
James sobbed openly. Angela's sister Tony Kofoed told James that
he was quote dishonest, a cheat, and a heartless excuse
of a human being, praising Angela as quote the picture
(13:16):
of hope and optimism, a woman who never stopped trying
to love a man who didn't deserve her. Another sister,
Catherine Pray, called him a pretender and a liar and
a snake in the grass. Angela's brother, Mark Prey, asked
him to at least apologize to their parents who stood
in the hospital room as their daughter slipped away quote,
(13:39):
so they don't have to suffer any more, he said.
Judge Wintaker told James that he left behind quote a
path of destruction as wide as a tornado and just
as devastating. Prosecutor Amy Patten called it justice for Angela. Quote.
He vowed to love, protect and honor her, and instead
he deceived her, He cheated on her, he lied to her,
(14:02):
and he killed her. Angela's family said they're elated knowing
James will never be able to do this to another person,
and while his legal team will almost certainly appeal, prosecutors
say they're more than ready to defend this conviction in
higher court. What started as a mystery and otherwise healthy
woman suddenly collapsing ended with a staggering amount of evidence,
(14:26):
a courtroom full of heartbreak, and a jury that didn't
buy a single word of James Craig's lies. What do
you think about this update? Like I said, if you
missed the first case that talked about the entire thing,
please go back and listen to it because it's crazy.
So go back and listen to that. The link to
it is in the show notes below, or you could
(14:47):
just go to the website Murderinlove dot com and just
search James Craigs's name and it'll bring up the Also,
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Angela Craig was a vibrant forty three year old mom
of six who seemed to have it all until she
suddenly felt deathly sick on March twenty twenty three. What
started as dizziness and fatigue quickly spiraled into multiple hospitalizations,
and within days she was brain dead. Her husband, James Craig,
(00:21):
a Colorado dentist with a long history of infidelity, had
been researching poisons and ordering cyanide arsenic and I'm not
even going to try and say this tetraides tetra hydrosaline.
Alekira said that I was going to try and say
them that I immediately tried to say it. Prosecutors say
he slipped these into her protein shake as a calculated
(00:42):
plan to kill her and avoid a costly divorce. But
the twist, even after her death, James didn't stop scheming.
He allegedly tried to frame Angela as suicidal, recruit inmates
to plant evidence, and even put out a hit on
the lead detective. Want the full case, go to listen
to the full episode on our site Murderinlove dot com
(01:04):
and you won't believe how deep this case goes. But
what today's episode is is an update of this case.
So if you didn't hear the case of James Craig before,
then the link is in the show notes below. You
can also find it on our website Murderinlove dot com
and listen to that case before you come and listen
to this update. So, James Craigs's murder trial started on
(01:28):
Tuesday July fifteenth, twenty twenty five. He pleaded not guilty
to his charges of first degree murder, solicitation to commit
murder in the first degree, two counts of solicitation to
commit tampering with physical evidence, and two counts of solicitation
to commit perjury in the first degree. The trial went
over twelve days and wrapped up with closing arguments on
(01:51):
July twenty ninth. The prosecution, led by Assistant DA Ryan
Brackley and Senior Chief Deputy DA Michael Maury, laid out
what they called an absolutely stunning case. Now you know,
it has to be insane for it to be absolutely stunning.
Witness after witness, document after document, and evidence quote never
(02:15):
stopped getting worse. They called nearly fifty people to the
stand and submitted more than ten thousand pages of documents
and two terrabytes of data. Do you know how big
two terra bytes is. Their argument was that James poisoned
his wife over a ten day span with arsenic cyanide
(02:36):
and tetrahized drosaline. Angela, they said, had no idea what
was happening to her and played no role in her
own death. James's motive was that he wanted out of
his marriage, but he didn't want to deal with the
financial mess of divorce.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
They said.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
He saw murder as a cheaper, easier option and spent
days ordering poisons and research in how to get away
with it. Here's what the prosecution brought to court. Number
one they talked about the poison trail. Toxicology confirmed the
lethal levels of cyanide and tetra hydrasa line. I'm probably
saying it wrong by now in his wife's system. Medical
(03:16):
experts testify that Angela's symptoms matched cyanide poisoning, and her
levels actually went up after she was hospitalized. Number two.
His search history. He looked up quote how to make
murder look like a heart attack? Also quote is arsenic detectable?
(03:36):
Also quote fatal dose of cyanide? And more searches. Number three,
the receipts or he had ordered arsenic cyanide and cases
of vizine. Potassium cyanide was also shipped to his dental office.
Did you, sir, have a receipt for arsenic and did
(03:57):
you hold a receipt for your records? I guess your
business records for cyanide? I mean that is meticulous book
keeping right there. Number four. They talked about how he
did it. Surveillance footage and testimony showed him mixing protein
shakes for Angela in a pink lid shaker cup. He
(04:18):
also wrote a note on his phone admitting that he'd
filled capsules with cyanide and prep the syringe. Did you
write notes on your phone?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Are you serious?
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Dear diary? I want to write about how I'm just
going to fill these capsules with cyanide and prep a syringe.
Number five. They talked about his motive. Multiple affear partners
testified for the prosecution. One even said that James had
once joked about quote purging his wife. Another said that
(04:50):
he had complained that a divorce would leave him broke.
You know how you don't go through a divorce that
would leave you broke? I don't know, don't cheat on her, Like,
if you're so worried about how a divorce is gonna
leave you, then just stay unhappy in your marriage. That's
literally it, like, just stay unhappy in your marriage then
otherwise get a divorce and be a big boy. His text,
(05:12):
messages and behavior painting the picture of a man desperately
trying to escape his marriage. For six, they brought forth
his former cell mates, who said David tried to plant
fake journals, create a deep fake video of Angela confessing
suicidal thoughts, and even offered money to take out Detective
Bobby Olsen. He told one cell mate that it was
(05:34):
just a quote game of chicken. Number seven, they brought
forth Angela's journal. It was entered into evidence to shut
down the suicide theory. Angela wrote about heartbreak and betrayal,
but never once about suicide. Even though most of the
case was circumstantial, it was a lot of circumstantial that
(05:54):
proved it was a lot of circumstantial that looked like
it was hard evidence. Everything pointed to the same thing.
Prosecutors didn't need a smoking gun. They built a story
that when you looked at everything altogether, it painted a
picture of a man who wanted out of his marriage
so badly he chose murder over divorce, a man who
(06:17):
wasn't just cheating, he was scheming, calculating, and willing to
go to disturbing lengths to rewrite the story. Now, defense
attorney Lisa Moses didn't argue that Angela wasn't poisoned or
that she didn't die. How wait, how would you have
argued that she didn't die because she's literally buried? Okay,
(06:40):
she acknowledged both were true, because I mean, literally, all
the facts are there. She can't not acknowledge it. But
what the defense was gonna do was all about injecting doubt,
questioning the state's version of events, and pointing fingers at
what they claimed was a flawed investigation. They didn't call
a single witness. Instead, they leaned hard on the idea
(07:01):
that the case was built on quote, assumptions, speculations, and
tunnel vision. Like, my thing is literally you acknowledge she
was poisoned, and I guess you have to acknowledge that
she was dead. But as a defense, even though you
know you're holding a murderer, you're deciding to inject doubt
in opening statements. Defense attorney Ashley Whitman described Angela as
(07:25):
broken by James's cheating and still committed to making the
marriage work. She told the jury not to get swayed
by emotion or how much they disliked James's behavior, just
to focus on whether the state actually proved their case.
I mean, are you also going to tell them not
to look at the facts and everything like that, because
I mean, the facts are there and you're literally just
(07:47):
acting like they're stupid. Don't think about how much you
don't like how James acts right now, just focus on
if the state is actually telling the truth. Not us,
not us, no, no, no, no, not us the state. The
defense argued that it was still quote unclear how Angela
ingested the poison, and there was still no quote definitive,
(08:08):
definitive evidence that James actually gave it to her. How else? Okay,
I'm not evenna ask. They painted the Crags as a
quote complex but loving couple, saying James was a quote
flawed husband, sure, but not a killer. The defense also
claimed that the Crags weren't strapped for cash, their mortgage
(08:29):
was paid off, the house was worth about a million,
and they already had four million dollars in life insurance.
So why would James kill Angela? Me let me, let
me my hand is raised. I can answer that because
he literally said that he would go broke trying to
divorce her. So even though he had all this money,
he didn't want to lose even one dollar of his
(08:50):
money to divorce because in his head, he probably would
have lost half of everything he had, which he would
have still been a millionaire. But he was just a
less of a millionaire. So that's why he wanted to
kill her instead of get a divorce. Then the defense
leaned into Angela's journal entries, calling her quote emotionally vulnerable
(09:13):
and suggesting she may have been manipulative or desperate to
maintain a perfect image due to their Mormon faith, so
she would write in her journal where nobody's looking, and
still try to keep that perfect image quote unquote Is
that what you're trying to tell me? Nobody's looking in
her journal, but she's still trying to be fake in
(09:33):
her journal. They tried to float the idea that she
took her own life, and even use James's iPhone note
where he claimed Angela had asked him to help her die,
So you use his iPhone note that he wrote himself
to point that as proof that Angela was suicidal. Bombastic
side eye. They also went after the investigation pointed out
(09:57):
that not all devices in the home were searched, the
hospital's sharp's containers weren't checked, and there were gaps in
the surveillance footage. So you're blaming Angela and you're blaming
the hospital, but you're not blaming James. Got it. They
also tried to frame James's initial cooperation with police as
a sign of innocence. In the end, the defense threw
(10:20):
everything they could at the wall, spaghetti, the kitchen sink,
their firstborn child. But even without a single eyewitness or
assigned confession, the state's case was layered with damning details.
The evidence may have been circumstantial, but it told a consistent,
horrific story. Every search, every purchase, every shady move painted
(10:42):
James as a man who wanted a clean slate, no strings,
no divorce court, no financial hit. Like I said, he
wanted to keep every single penny of his millions, even though,
like I said, if she walked away with half, he'd
still been in the millions, and all he had to
do was rebuild. Drewing closing arguments, Prosecutor Mario said, James
(11:05):
quote lied and fabricated false narratives, and everything pointed to him.
Assistant D. A. Brackley said reading James's own words in
context was very, very difficult, especially knowing what he was
really planning. On July thirtieth, twenty twenty five, after two
full days and more than eight hours of deliberation, the
(11:26):
jury came back with their decision. James Craig was found
guilty on every charge to prosecution brought against him. Guilty
of first degree murder for poisoning his wife, guilty of
soliciting Casey Bohannon to tamper with evidence, guilty of soliciting
Nathaniel Harris to commit first degree murder, and guilty of
(11:50):
solicited Hassani Constantinidis to commit perjury in the first degree.
He was found not guilty of the lesser charge of
manslaughter by Aiden's suicide, which the defense had specifically asked
the jury to consider. The jury rejected that theory completely.
The prosecution said, quote. He was convicted on all charges
(12:11):
and the not guilty verdict was for a charged defense
introduced not the state. Immediately after the verdict was read,
Judge Shay Whittaker handed down James's sentence life in prison
without the possibility of parole for first degree murder mandatory
in Colorado. On top of that, James received the maximum
(12:32):
sentences for each of the other charges, all to be
served consecutively. Then came the victim impact statements. Angela's eldest
daughter stood in front of the court and said, quote,
life and the world will truly never be the same
without my mom. She then described the pain of losing
her hero and realized that her hero was her mom,
(12:53):
not her father.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
He was supposed to be my hero and instead he'll
forever be a villain in my book. During her statement,
James sobbed openly. Angela's sister Tony Kofoed told James that
he was quote dishonest, a cheat, and a heartless excuse
of a human being, praising Angela as quote the picture
(13:16):
of hope and optimism, a woman who never stopped trying
to love a man who didn't deserve her. Another sister,
Catherine Pray, called him a pretender and a liar and
a snake in the grass. Angela's brother, Mark Prey, asked
him to at least apologize to their parents who stood
in the hospital room as their daughter slipped away quote,
(13:39):
so they don't have to suffer any more, he said.
Judge Wintaker told James that he left behind quote a
path of destruction as wide as a tornado and just
as devastating. Prosecutor Amy Patten called it justice for Angela. Quote.
He vowed to love, protect and honor her, and instead
he deceived her, He cheated on her, he lied to her,
(14:02):
and he killed her. Angela's family said they're elated knowing
James will never be able to do this to another person,
and while his legal team will almost certainly appeal, prosecutors
say they're more than ready to defend this conviction in
higher court. What started as a mystery and otherwise healthy
woman suddenly collapsing ended with a staggering amount of evidence,
(14:26):
a courtroom full of heartbreak, and a jury that didn't
buy a single word of James Craig's lies. What do
you think about this update? Like I said, if you
missed the first case that talked about the entire thing,
please go back and listen to it because it's crazy.
So go back and listen to that. The link to
it is in the show notes below, or you could
(14:47):
just go to the website Murderinlove dot com and just
search James Craigs's name and it'll bring up the Also,
what I'm going to try and do is find videos
of the entire trial and put it in the Patreon.
So that's part of like bonuses you get as a
LAMB subscriber. So at the three dollars a month tier,
not only do you get ad free and commercial free episodes,
(15:08):
but you get the case files, case extra stuff like that,
which is pictures of the crime scene, pictures of the
victim and of the perpetrator, videos of the trial if
I'm able to find it. So I believe there's videos
of the trial of this case, and if I could
find all of them, then I'll put the trial together
into Patreon from day one to day twelve. If you
want to catch the entire trial patreon dot com a
(15:30):
forward slash Love and Murder, you can get that at
the three dollars a month tier, or you can get
any of the higher tiers and you'll get those same
bonuses plus more. And like I told you in Monday's case,
the reason why I even started the Patreon or even
tell you all about the Patreon in every episode. Is
because this show is listener funded. I did try to
(15:51):
do the sponsor route, but sponsors usually tell you how
they want to hear the case told, and usually they
don't want you like passing the blame even though you
can clearly see that people are doing stuff wrong, and
they don't want you to do that. They just want
you to tell the story like you know, a robot.
But I come out here. I'm the voice of the victim.
I think about how the family feels, how frustrated they are,
(16:16):
you know what I'm saying. So I relay that, and
I don't want to change the way that I tell
the cases. I don't want to change the way that
I tell the story. I've had so many friends of
victims' family of victims reach out to me and tell
me that they really feel they get like closure or
they get some sense of peace in the way that
I tell the case. So this is for the voice
(16:37):
of the victims. Why would I not listen to their
family and instead listen to sponsors just for money, you
know what I'm saying. So this podcast is listener funded.
I want y'all to be the sponsors y'all have an
opportunity to be the voice of the victim. You are
the only ones who can tell me how to run
(16:57):
this show. So as a sponsor of the show, you
would be the ones who say, Hey, Kai, don't do
this or do this. And this is why I reach
out to you to join the Patreon. I don't want
free money. I'm giving you a service. When you join
the Patreon, you get extra so you get more cases
and you get more work that I put into the podcast.
So it's not free money I'm asking for. So if
(17:19):
you want to go into the Patreon check it out.
You're under no contract, so if you want to cancel,
you can cancel. But if you want to continue supporting
the show, then I'll be greatly appreciated. You can start
out as low as a three dollars a month tear,
and there are other tears in there where you get
more bonuses as you as the tears go up. Patreon
dot com forward Slash, Love and Murder. Thank you so
(17:41):
much for joining me, Thank you so much for supporting
the show, and I will see you in the next episode.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Bye.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
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