Denver (AP) – A few days before his doctors died after suffering from mysterious symptoms, Angela Craig On the lack of support, she faced her husband, James, in her suburban Denver kitchen.
In that 2023 argument, the monitoring video of the house was captured, he accused her of suggesting the hospital staff that she was suicidal, showing court documents.
Prosecutors say that James Craig caused diseases that eventually killed his wife by poisoning his protein shake and trying to see that he killed herself. Their case on murder and other allegations begins on Monday with questioning of potential gamblers.
The 43 -year -old Angela Craig died in March 2023 during the third visit to the hospital that month. Toxicology tests later determined that it died of toxicity from cyanide and tetrahydrozoline, an ingredient found in over-the-counter iPes.
The couple had 23 years old and had six children.
Craig has requested not to be guilty of allegations of allegations for murder, pleading and urging for the first-degree murder, to commit murder and urge.
Police say Craig tried to make evidence to kill his wife
Prosecutors say the 47 -year -old dentist allegedly bought Arsenic online when his wife started experiencing symptoms like dizziness and headache, for which doctors could not get any reason, the prosecutors say.
At the time of his arrest, the police said Craig was trying to start a new life amid financial troubles and a fellow was having a relationship with the dentist. Prosecutors said they had cases with two other women, but have not expanded a motive in their wife’s death.
Craig lawyers have argued that the police were biased against him and claimed that his wife’s shake containers tested did not indicate poison. He has questioned the credibility of a prison prisoner, who said that Craig offered him $ 20,000 to kill the chief investigator of the case, an alleged conspiracy for which Craig is also on testing.
To avoid being accountable, the prosecutors said, Craig tried to make evidence that his wife killed herself.
The prosecutors said they tried to get another fellow prisoner to put a fraudulent letter at Craig’s house to show that his wife was suicide. Then, in the weeks, prepared to prosecute Craig in November, the prosecutors said that they had also sent letters to the prisoner’s ex -wife, allegedly tried to kill the investigator, offering him $ 20,000 for each person, which he could wrongly testify that his wife had planned to die from suicide, she said.
Returns from the last Craig Attorney case
As the jury’s selection was about to begin, his lawyer, Harvey Steinberg, asked to withdraw the lawyers, citing a rule, if a customer is considered criminal or disagree.
Another lawyer for the Craig, Robert Working later argued that investigators did not see if Craig wrote letters or investigated them against their handwriting. Vicing also stated that the prisoner and his ex -wife were prosecuted for forgery for their roles in an alleged fraud ring in 2005, suggesting that they could not be trusted.
To protect Craig, with his wife and law companion, Lisa Fine Moses, withdrew himself from this month’s case after accusing him of arson of his own house. Working lawyer, David Beller said that he was getting mental health treatment and the public has been asked to show him grace.
Moses did not immediately return the telephone and email messages seeking comments.
Prosecutors plan to show a video of the couple’s argument
On defense objections, prosecutors plan to show the gamblers a video of the argument in the kitchen.
Angela Craig told her husband after her first visit to the hospital, “It is your mistake that she treated me as I had a suicide risks, as I had done myself, and as I didn’t agree,” Angela Craig told her husband after her first visit to the hospital.
The prosecutors assured that the judge gamblers should watch the video as they said that it dismisses the potential claims that Angela Craig poisoned himself – possibly trying to stop her from divorce – or to frame them and if they divorce they take advantage of it.
Senior Chief Deputy District Attorney Michael Maor recently wrote in a court filed, “His mental state is anger and frustration, not suicide or frustration to keep the defendant in marriage,”
One of the brothers -in -law of Angela Craig, Mark Prayer said last year that James Craig had not only orchestrated his sister’s “pain and death”, but also disregarded for others including his children.
An online search
Prosecutors say that James Craig discovered online for answers such as “how to kill a heart attack” and “Is a corpse to detect arsenic in the exam?”
Following the initial attempts to kill his wife, Craig accused the prosecutors, considered for surgery, ordered a shipment of potassium cyanide. Shipment was accidentally discovered by an employee in his dental practice in Denver suburb of Arora on March 13, 2023. The employee reported this to the office manager two days later when Angela Craig returned to the hospital for third and last time.
Craig’s business partner, Ryan Redrison, told a nurse with Angela Craig that she was worried that she could be poisoned with cyanide. The nurse told that the police, who started their investigation on the same day.
Angela Craig died after days.
Choline Slevin, Associated Press