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[Music] this is a story that has obviously shaken Colorado it's stunned the world a Colorado dentist accused of
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poisoning his wife's protein shakes was charged today with her murder you have got to be effing kidding me that guy was
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my dentist hi I'm Dr Jim Craig you just don't see stories like this maybe in a Hollywood bad script 45-year-old James
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Craig is accused of putting Arsenic and cyanide in her protein shakes he's allegedly ordering potassium Cyanide and
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arsenic online you have got to be kidding me Jim and Angela Craig seemingly had everything successful dental practice
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beautiful large family they seemingly to me were in love investigators say he researched poisons in the days leading
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up to his wife's death I couldn't believe the allegations I couldn't believe the story I couldn't believe the
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mug shot there's my dentist a mugot good afternoon Colorado I'm stepan tubs I'm a
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talk show host here in Denver late breaking news this after I was told by several people you got to do a podcast
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on this people want to know so we started a podcast called arsenic DDS welcome to the first episode
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of this like the truth another new development at like to know why Jim Craig is an
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innocent man until proven guilty if the allegations are true why did my former dentist kill his wife her symptoms
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dizziness blurred vision headache slowed responsiveness what does that tell you yeah that's really
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worrisome I'm Dr Jeff Le Point I'm a Emergency Physician and toxicologist arsonic will be absorbed
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very rapidly and you would probably start getting sick pretty quick what about potassium cyanide cyanide is one
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of the most effective poisons you're being suffocated on a cellular level Angela Craig is getting sicker and
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sicker and sicker and sicker and she'd she'd quickly be declared brain dead Dr Jim
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Craig is accused of premeditated first-degree murder in the poisoning death of his wife
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Angela there does seem like there's substantial evidence in the case the arrest warrant was 52 pages long I'm
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Skyla zyro I'm a criminal defense lawyer the spouse is a very easy target he's entered a plea of not guilty maybe he's
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the most convenient person to look at if I'm the defense on this you go after the
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state and you say you didn't go look at things you should have looked at he administered alleged ly the poison via
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her protein shakes the state hasn't presented you any evidence that the poison was actually in the drink you
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can't show that he did it I wouldn't say this is a slam dunk case there's no motive here what is the
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[Music] motive [Music] [Music] under that vast Rocky Mountain Sky on March 18th 2023 in the Denver suburb of
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Aurora Angela Craig died just Days Later former radio personality Stephan tubs began his
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podcast about The Sensational case and the unimaginable news I want to personally send our condolences to the
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friends and family of Angela Craig just 43 years old she passed away declared brain dead and not lost on me is the
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fact that this family has been temporarily destroyed Jim Craig had been almost immediately charged with the
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first-degree murder of his wife Angela he has pleaded not guilty the story of the dentist his wife and the allegedly
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poisoned shakes would be told around the world come on a dentist allegedly ordering potassium
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Cyanide and arsenic really but it was all as painfully real as a dentist [Music]
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drill Dr Craig and Angela Craig were just like two peas in a pod the two of them in the office was cute cuz they
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would play pranks on each other all day on Chelsea at Toya got to know Jim and Angela when she worked for Dr Craig at
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Summerbrook Dental they seemed like the perfect couple until according to Colorado cops James took his shot at the
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Perfect Crime investigators say he researched poisons in the days leading up to his wife's death the idea that the
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dentist stood accused of murdering Angela his wife of 23 years seemed incomprehensible because the Craigs
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seemed so close it just was heartbreaking for everyone and I felt bad my name is Dr Jim Craig and I
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practice at Summerbrook Dental Group coming up on our left the former home of Summerbrook Dental is it this one over
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here it's that one right there for tubs this office building once home to Summerbrook has become a tragic
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Touchstone the last time that I had eye contact with Dr Jim Craig he gave me a root canal
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I thought he was a great guy I got incredibly competent friendly care he was a family man we talked about
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his family his kids I I met his wife Angela was the heart and soul of that family mother to their six children
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and a Hands-On partner in what seemed like a thriving business she was not somebody just to sit there and and stay
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quiet she was engaged in the the dental practice she was somebody who was talking about ideas and their marketing
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their message tubs helped refine that message working on some of Summer Brook's advertising he witnessed how
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those two P's in a pod work side by side with Angela pitching in as one of Jim's
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office managers I thought it was kind of cool you know you've got a husband and wife huge family I thought it was it was
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great to see a small Colorado business operated by by you know husband and wife Welcome to our third edition of
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this podcast tub's podcast would delve into the disturbing details of Angela's medical Journey how and why she was
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allegedly murdered that account from police is contained in this 52 page arrest warrant in nearly 34 years of
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being a newsman the most unbelievable and seemingly thorough arrest affidavit I have ever read the warrant alleges
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that James has shown the planning and intent to end his wife's Life by searching for ways to kill someone
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undetected this was not the James Craig that I knew Dentistry can be expensive Dentistry can be scary Dentistry can be
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uncomfortable the James Craig Aurora knew was on display that March 6 2023 the day Angela's Odyssey began Jim
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was at Summerbrook when Angela texted from home my eyes don't want to focus she texted I feel
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drugged and Jim headed right home he picked up Angela and drove to the ER at Parker Adventist Hospital she
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reported feeling dizzy and weak doctors fast went to work she ends up going into
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the hospital first time was March 6 is that correct that's right March 6 was her first time into the hospital at the
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time George Brock was another force in Colorado talk radio this is the George show I'll be he is also the former
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elected district attorney for aaho County where Angela lived and would die rattling this community this is a huge
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story like Stephan tubs brockler has immersed himself in the details of Angela's Final Days A desperate twoe
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ordeal but on that March 6th as the hours passed in the ER there were lots of questions but few answers they really
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didn't have a good answer for what she was going through and they end up uh releasing her and sending her
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home home where Angela appeared to think she was safe in her marriage at least that's how she sounded in messages the
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couple sent each other with Angela now home recuperating from her ER visit there were texts that would suggest a
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very supportive loving relationship Jim texts I love you it was so nice hanging out with you and just watching a show
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and snuggling Angela texts Jim hi Baby I love your face back home the busy couple picked up
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the daily routine that sustained them Jim and Angela apparently worked out in the morning they worked out together and
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one of the things that Jim did for his wife was to prepare her a protein shake it was an absolute routine this was just
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part of the normal day Jim texts I'll need to ask what you're hungry for and bring it to you you I'm kind of feeling
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just a smoothie or something I'm not feeling anything Angela replies don't bring anything I'll eat something
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here within 24 hours Angela's symptoms came back fast and strong she headed back to Parker Adventist this time she
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would be admitted the doctors and nurses are trying they're conducting tests they
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just cannot figure out what is ailing this relatively normal and healthy 43y old
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woman all of the steps that the doctors and medical staff had taken seemed to not be
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working was a real [Music] mystery there was nothing that would be even remotely a red flag or this is a rocky
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troubled marriage none of that at all with Angela still terribly sick in March of 2023 she was back at Parker
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Adventist a second time now as an admitted patient according to the warrant during her stay Angela texted
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her husband Jim now I'm hungry and he texted back later that he was bringing food writing okay I got you of the
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loving husband who wants to see his wife remain healthy that arrest warrant contains numerous texts detailing how as
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Angela was hospitalized Jim went back and forth from their home to her bedside to Summerbrook a husband seemingly
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supporting his wife and caring for their kids he's continuing to go to work and I
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don't begrudge him for that he's got a family of six kids and the warrant would show that
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apparent trust that Angela placed in Jim how she reached out to him to share her
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symptoms texting I'm cold super tired weak shaky and dizzy and Jim sent compassionate text to
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Angela I love you and miss you and I'm so worried I wish you were healthy enough to come home tonight and snuggle
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me Angela Craig was so sick it seemed that all her symptoms had returned she had horrible headaches
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horrible nausea she was dizzy and doctors were at a loss we struggling to figure out what
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in the hell is causing this what is making her sick and they just could not get an
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answer as Angela stayed in the hospital without a diagnosis Jim Craig was in touch with
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his friends Michelle and Ryan Redfern a fellow dentist Ryan had recently become business partners with Jim he would
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later tell police Ryan Redfern went to dental school with Jim Craig all those 20 plus years ago he'd known him all
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that time he was a close Confidant and with Angela so sick according to the warrant Jim also texted with Ryan's wife
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Michelle Redfern train as a nurse what were they texting about the texts were really the kinds of things you would
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exchange with someone who's another Medical Professional I mean he was talking about blood pressure he was
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talking about concerns that doctors had expressed about symptomology that should
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have resolved by now but one of Jim's texts in retrospect seemed Odd as it appeared he was making light of Angela's
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mysterious illness Jim Craig texts Michelle Redfern quote if it wasn't my wife this would be kind of a fun puzzle to
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try to work out exclamation point who says that still a bad joke in times of Crisis
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isn't unusual says former da brockler everybody reacts to trauma differently and James Craig seemed worried it had
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been four hectic days since Angela was admitted 1:00 a.m. in the desolate Hospital
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corridors police say Jim told others he was sleeping on a stool next to Angela when her Vital Signs
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crashed doctors responded through the night I have thought about every agonizing minute that Angela Craig was
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in [Music] but over the next day Angela seemed to stabilize and on March 14th still with
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no answers as to why she was sick Angela was released from Parker for a second time once again Angela came home to her
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husband of 23 years but she wouldn't be home for long within a day she started feeling sick
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again so on March 15th she was admitted to nearby University Hospital there would be more tubes and
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tests and monitors Jim was soon by her side they had no idea what was wrong with
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her police say Jim didn't stay long at first within half an hour he drove home from the
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hospital then about an hour and a half later he returned carrying food cops say he then went into Angela's
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room alone soon after Angela had a seizure and once again her Vital Signs crashed
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it was critical Jim Craig took these photos of Angela as Hospital staff tried to save
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her Angela once so fully of life was put on life support what medical staff didn't know
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at the time was that days earlier a package had reportedly arrived at Jim Craig's
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office authorities say what was in the package ordered by Jim Craig himself would become key evidence in this case
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Craig allegedly told a staff member that he would be receiving a personal package
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and not to open it Jim Craig said don't open this package somebody did she sees the words
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potassium cyanide why are we getting potassium cyanide to a Colorado dentist's office
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Angela Craig was on life support fighting to survive Jim Craig texted the photos he
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took to Michelle Redfern writing crash intubated doc says she's very very worried Michelle and Ryan raced to the
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hospital Ryan would later tell police he watched as Jim Craig broke down he saw Craig crying after speaking to doctors
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about Angela's prognosis yep he did say he saw him crying afterwards but according to police Ryan Redfern was far
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from convinced those tears were real that's because on his way to the hospital he had gotten a call from a
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staff member at the office the call was to alert Redfern about that package marked pottassium cyanide that had
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arrived at Summerbrook Dental allegedly addressed and later given to Jim Craig and there's The Dominoes that are now
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folling one after the other Ryan Redfern led the way he does what any other normal person would do according to
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police while Angela was on life support Ryan tells a nurse that Jim Craig recently ordered pottassium
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cyanide adding that there was no medical reason or purpose to order potassium cyanide for a dental practice the nurse
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being a mandatory reporter calls Aurora Police and I mean it's like that within 5 hours probably even less there is a
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member of the homicide unit with Aurora PD at University Hospital cops started asking questions then according to the
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warrant Ryan received a call from James personal cell phone tell me about that phone call I think Ryan and his wife are
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in the parking lot of the hospital when Jim calls them according to police Jim asked Ryan if he had said anything to
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the hospital staff Ryan confirmed that he had and told Jim that he knew what Jim had ordered and Jim replied that the
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package was a ring for Angela and that he wanted to surprise her and Ryan says it's not a ring we know what was in
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there I mean this is a testament to Ryan Redford a decades long friendship was about to be tested then
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shattered this Tale was once again told in a text revealed in that warrant as the next morning James Craig pleaded
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with his pal and partner texting in part I want to make an urgent plea to you please don't talk to anyone including
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any law enforcement officers you are under no obligation to answer their questions unless you are served as
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subpoena and you will do more damage than good to my family by continuing to insert yourself into
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this how damning is that text in itself I'm trying to think of all the innocent applications of the phrase please don't
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talk to the police I can't come up with any it's a desperate effort to try to keep Ryan from cooperating any farther
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with law enforcement but if that's what he was trying to do it was too late police had already launched their
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[Music] investigation on March 18th 2023 Angela was taking off life support friend wife mother of six Angela
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Craig was [Music] dead I was in complete shock and complete disbelief in my head I'm like
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this is crazy it's not true I thought maybe it was an accident but investigators didn't think
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so just hours after Angela died Dr James Craig would be arrested and charged with
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the first-degree murder of his wife Angela there's my dentist a mug shot James Craig would plead not
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guilty months later Angela's autopsy would be released that autopsy States Angela died from a lethal concentration
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of Cyanide and a lethal concentration of tetra hydrosaline the chemical found in
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some ey drops and it says that Angela had toxic concentrations of arsenic in her blood in those two earlier hospital
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visits to think about what Angela Craig endured this woman was in agony dying for so long just a week before
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Angela got sick according to the warrant Jim Craig said up a new email account using the Alias Jim and waffles and used
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it to research multiple poisons all part of his plan according to investigators to murder Angela one particular Google
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search how many grams of pure arsenic will kill a human Craig investigators say also found
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these videos popular for many reasons we have cyanide with titles like top five undetect able poisons that show no sign
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of Foul Play arsenic is virtually undetectable and police say on the same day he did that online research James
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Craig made a purchase arsenic and had it delivered straight to his family's mailbox I think he legitimately believed
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that he would be able to poison his wife she would die he would have her cremated
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and then they'd move on poison some call it the recipe for a perfect crime a silent Invisible Killer no blood no gun
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no fingerprints even doctors can have a hard time spotting it it's a pretty rare
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medical sub specialty Dr Jeff Lao is the director of the division of medical toxicology at San Diego's Kaiser
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Permanente Hospital if it's a poison or a Venom that's what we specialize you're
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that guy yeah so we asked him and Dr Leo focused in on the alleged actions of James Craig and the final days of
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Angela's life he reviewed the arrest warrant for us and some of the deadly drugs it lists let's start with arsenic
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okay um yeah arsenic is a very famous poison it's uh not detectable by taste or odor Dr La Point says Angela's
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symptoms in those first two hospital visits are consistent with arsenic poisoning nause and vomiting lower blood
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pressure higher blood pressure generally lower how much would kill a person it does not take very much but police say
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there was more a week after he purchased that arsenic they alleged Craig as Jim and Waffles went back online he ordered
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a second poison beguiling and beautiful oleandrin what is that so oleandrin is a
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toxin found in Oleander I'm thinking of those white flowers yeah they're really beautiful yeah as lovely as a rose only
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deadly it prevents the heart from beating very efficiently but after 3 days the oleandrin hadn't
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been delivered that's when investigators say Jim Craig up the ante cops say he placed this order with the medical
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supply company for his strongest toxin yet pottassium cyanide Sinai is one of the most
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effective poisons that exist just a micro do could kill you then yeah a very small amount per kilogram and you're
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you're not going to live when you are Poisoned With cide you're being suffocated on a cellular
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level it's a very potent poison your victim would die very rapidly cyanide is so deadly that you
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need a medical license to buy it my name is Dr Jim Craig and and police say that
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when Dr James Craig placed his order from a medical supply company he stated he needed it for a complex dental
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procedure there's no use for potassium cide in my practice or I can't think of uh many medical practices so a dentist
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ordering arsenic pottassium Cyanide and oleandrin what does that suggest to you someone who's trying to collect
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poison but this father and husband would offer a very different story about why he wanted those deadly
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poisons what do you make of Ryan red Fern's Choice chat now with the 48 Hours team on Facebook andex
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[Music] detectives suspected Jim Craig had bought all those poisons to kill his wife but they wanted to know why they
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would find a lead miles away from Aurora on a trip Jim Craig made and a woman he
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met just before Angela got sick doesn't it just always seem like there's another
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woman involved always almost always what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas it's a rule of the road there but
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investigators allege it is yet one more rule James Craig didn't think he had to play by when he met Karen Kane Karen
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Kane an orthodontist from Austin Texas she meets Jim Craig at a dental conference in Las
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Vegas it was February 23rd a week and a half before Angela Craig first went to the hospital the doctor
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was traveling alone and he rolled the dice they strike up a relationship they hit it off it's a
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whirlwind a few weeks later according to the warrant Karen Kane would fly to Colorado and rendevu in this hotel with
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James Craig he would use that newly created email Jim and Waffles to flirt with her it's not illegal to have a
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Affairs Sky Lazaro is an experienced defense attorney familiar with cases involving poison James Craig and his
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attorney declined our request for an interview Lazaro reviewed the case against Jim Craig for 48 hours and she
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identified potential weaknesses is it reasonable that that you would kill your wife to be with someone that you had had
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a 10-day relationship with the common defense strategy is Affairs do not make a murderer right one doesn't
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automatically mean you did the other at the time she visited Jim in Colorado Karen Kane did seem to know
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Angela was very sick and in the hospital in fact she had sent a concerned email to Jim it read in part hi honey I am so
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sorry for what has transpired this week in your world I am praying for you and seeking God's wisdom for this time I
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love you but there is no evidence to suggest Karen Kane knew anything more nothing that I have seen gives any
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indication that she knew that Jim was trying to kill his wife and according to investigators Jim
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Craig lied to Karen telling her that he filed for divorce and was living separate in an apartment he gives the
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standard male typical I'm going through a divorce no he's not and a detective said she told them
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her relationship with Jim was intimate but not sexual Karen Kane sent 48 Hours an email writing I had absolutely
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nothing to do with this horrific crime and my heart is absolutely broken for Angela Craig and her family and she says
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she is cooperating fully with the police and prosecution Karen Kane met the wrong guy
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at the wrong time she didn't know anything tubs and brockler imply maybe no one knew anything about who Jim Craig
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really was his pristine image loving parent church member dedicated husband now all being questioned and as cops
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continue to investigate another possible motive emerged one of the things that surprised me in this story is the
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Financial duress that Summer Brook DL was under in fact Jim Craig's business had
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filed for bankruptcy in 2020 shortly after his then friend Ryan Redfern signed on as a partner financial
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problems financial problems he was way in over his head then in debt way in over his
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head and at a preliminary hearing in 2023 prosecutors argued that Jim Craig had about three .4 million reasons to
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kill his wife the value of Angela's life insurance Jim had liabilities in excess
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of $2 million and we know that from some of the bankruptcy filings but Lazaro says she's not convinced those financial
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problems give James Craig a motive for murder is this sort of the the portrait of a desperate man not necessarily we
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see businesses go through bankruptcy all the time and come out the other side and as for any poisons he may have
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ordered Lazaro States those purchases may not even be illegal he can legitimately purchase it cuz he has a
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DEA number as a doctor as a dentist right right having it isn't murder mhm administering it
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right but according to the arrest paperwork Jim Craig might have thought he had that figured out too authorities
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say he could have slipped the poison into one of those protein shakes he so often made the morning routine at home
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for example yeah on that morning of March 15th the day Angela Craig would finally crash
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before she was taken to the hospital she was home with Jim investigators say that's when he may have made her one of
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those protein shakes and laced it with potassium cyanide it is tasteless it is odorless it is colorless it is really
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hideable inside something like a shake and highly lethal that's highly lethal but attorney Lazaro counters the
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evidence may not be there she has reviewed the transcripts from that July 2023 preliminary hearing and says
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there's nothing there that shows Jim Craig put poison in Angela's shakes they went and tested everything in the house
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and didn't find any trace evidence of there being arsenic or cyanide or anything in the
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protein powder in the protein bottles the state hasn't presented you any evidence that the poison was actually in
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the drink and Lazaro says the defense can paint a picture of Jim Craig as a kind
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and attentive partner Jim's text messages to Angela are extremely loving and extremely caring he repeatedly asks
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her how she's doing he tells her he loves her so if Jim Craig didn't poison his wife who did
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Craig had a story to tell about that go behind the scenes with the 48 Hours postmortem
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podcast welcome to the first episode of as stefen tubs reported on his podcast there may be another story to tell about
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Jim Craig and what happened to Angela the story wasn't about murder it was about suicide Craig says to the business
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partner on the phone she was just playing chicken according to the warrant when Ryan Redfern confronted Jim about the
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cyanide Jim allegedly said that Angela asked him to order it for her that it was all a dare kind of a deadly game of
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chicken According to Jim Craig she's been threatening suicide and this game of chicken is now
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are you going to are you going to take it but according to that 52-page warrant none of Angela's family members told
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police she was suicidal a more likely argument for the defense says attorney Lazaro is that Jim Craig had been
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looking for Cyanide not to kill Angela but to kill himself there was some statements that he in fact was suicidal
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not her at that preliminary hearing in 2023 Jim Craig's defense team said Jim had spoken to a friend about his own
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past plans to die by Suicide and that Dr Craig had made a statement to that friend that he was going to die by
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Suicide with something that was not traceable the defense pointed out that Jim suffered from depression and went to
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counseling in the past and as the defense indicated Jim told Angela at one point that he had
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actually drugged her years earlier when he had tried to kill himself hoping that
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while she was drugged she wouldn't be able to stop him it sounds like there had been something that he had tried
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before with her mhm that he had drugged her so that she would fall asleep so that he could go essentially kill
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himself and she wouldn't be there to render any Aid or call for help and remember when Angela first
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started feeling sick and she texted Jim I feel drugged Craig's defense points out that he texted back given our
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history I know that must be triggering just for the record I didn't drug you the defense said this text supports the
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story of Jim Craig's past depression and suicide attempts but Lazaro says it's unlikely
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the defense would try to tell a jury that Jim and Angela were both trying to die by Suicide you have to pick one at
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some point and it's either she's suicidal or that he's suicidal and this is why he bought the
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drugs but perhaps the most compelling evidence authorities say they have is what Angela Craig left behind in her own
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blood that autopsy revealed something investigators find remarkable the levels of cyanide in Angela's body actually
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increased while she was in the hospital on that final day the possible implication tubs wonders if prosecutors
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will contend Craig gave his wife more poison in the hospital if the allegations are true this is about as
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cruel as it gets period Jim Craig's defense has hired its own toxicologist and and come his trial
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for murder Sky Lazaro says Jim Craig innocent until proven guilty May himself be portrayed as a victim of cops too
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eager to make a fast arrest it's essentially a three-day investigation Jim Craig's quick arrest she says could
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be a weakness for the state you decided from the get-go that this had to be poisoning this was the foregone
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conclusion so you never went and looked for anything else and as for that idea that poison might
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be the key to someone trying to commit the perfect crime toxicologist Dr Jeff Leo says that is just plain wrong you're
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going to get caught that's an important message yeah very there are ways that these will be traced and you will be
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found you'll be [Music] found and while Angela's friends and family are waiting for their day in
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court they are left with photographs and their memories three of Jim and Angela's six
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children are living with Jim Craig's brother the other three are now adults living on their own including their
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