Verdict Reached In Murder Trial Of Former Dentist Accused Of Posioning His Wife's Protein Shakes

A Colorado assemblage has reached a verdict successful nan execution proceedings of James Craig, a former dentist accused of fatally dosing his wife’s macromolecule shakes pinch a venomous cocktail that included medicine recovered successful oculus drops.

In closing arguments Tuesday successful Arapahoe County District Court successful Centennial, charismatic Michael Mauro said Craig, a begetter of six, killed Angela Craig, 43, aft having cheated connected her for astir of their 23 years together and developed a fatal crippled to flight their marriage.

James Craig's defense countered that Angela Craig, of Aurora, died by suicide. Attorney Lisa Fine Moses told nan assemblage that her client's “constant” cheating was a motive for her to return her ain life.

Angela and James Craig.Facebook

"Twenty-some years of him cheating connected Angela Craig — he collapsed her," Moses said. "He collapsed her heart, her soul."

Angela Craig was hospitalized connected March 15, 2023, and died 3 days later aft a terrible seizure.

The Arapahoe County coroner initially believed that a fatal dose of arsenic and cyanide killed her, though her decease was later attributed to cyanide and tetrahydrozoline, nan medicine utilized successful oculus drops.

Authorities highlighted Craig’s online hunt history — he sought accusation astir whether arsenic was detectable successful an autopsy — and his online purchases. Weeks earlier his wife’s death, James Craig ordered potassium cyanide from Amazon and had it delivered to his dental practice, according to an affidavit successful support of an apprehension warrant.

“This is not a man who wants to get divorced,” Mauro, elder main lawman charismatic pinch Colorado’s 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office, said successful his closing argument.

“If he wants to get divorced, she’s serving it up to him connected a metallic platter,” he said.

Other motives, Mauro said, were financial — Craig wanted his wife’s money — and appearances. He didn’t want to beryllium tainted by a divorce, Mauro said.

Angela Craig's macromolecule shakes, Mauro said, became his execution weapon.

Moses said nan prosecution presented nary grounds that James Craig was nan personification who dosed nan shakes.

“They want you to guess,” she said. “You don’t get to guess. You do not cognize if this was voluntarily aliases involuntarily ingested.”