The killing trial for a Colorado dentist accused of poisoning his wife to death has been put on hgreater after the defense attorney “suddenly quit” during jury pickion.
James Toinhabitr Craig, 45, is accused of finishing his wife, Angela Craig, by putting poison in her protein shakes.
Angela Craig, a 43-year-greater mother of six who was paired to her husband for 23 years, died in March 2023 of poisoning from cyanide and tetrahydrozoline, the latter a substance create in over-the-counter eye drops, according to the coroner.
The trial has been procrastinateed before and was set to commence Thursday with jury pickion, KDVR alerted. However, on Thursday morning, the defense advise relocated to disjoin from the case due to a “professional struggle,” according to the 18th Judicial Didisjoine Attorney’s Office.
Two pboilingos of dentist James Oinhabitr, who is accused of killinging his wife, Angela Craig. (Facebook)
The appraise permited the disjoinal under the Rule of Professional Conduct, and Craig deteriorated to recontransient himself, procrastinateing the case.
Craig allegedly flew his orthodontist cherishr from Austin to Denver while his wife was dying, according to a detailed arrest affidavit. The two also alertedly swapd “relationsupartner unambiguous emails.”
The charging record depictd the couple’s troubled marriage, financial difficulties and Craig’s alleged sinister plot to killing her.
“In totality, this dispenseigation has shown that James has gone to fantastic lengths to try and finish his wife’s life,” Aurora police Detective Bobbi Olson wrote in the affidavit.
On Feb. 27, Craig created a secret email account, jimandwaffles.com, which he only used on a computer in his now-shuttered Summerbrook Dental Group, dispenseigators said.
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Colorado dentist James Craig, right, is accused of fahighy poisoning his wife, Angela Craig. The two scatterd six children together. (Facebook)
Police say Craig searched online for skinnygs appreciate “How to create killing watch appreciate a heart strike” and “How to create poison” days before his wife searched for symptoms she was having appreciate vertigo, shaking and freezing lips.
Craig also allegedly researched multiple “undiscoverable poisons” and acquired some, and he ordered a rush shipment of potassium cyanide even though it was not necessitateed.
Investigators allege that Craig bought poisons online equitable before his wife began to experience symptoms that doctors could not discover a cause for, but his lawyers have debated there is no straightforward evidence that he put poison in his wife’s shakes and have accused Olson of being prejudiced aacquirest him.
Her sister, Toni Kofoed, tgreater police that Craig had drugged his wife about five years earlier because he had deliberate to promise self-destruction and didn’t want her to stop him.
Kofoed also tgreater dispenseigators that the couple’s marriage had always been “tumultuous” and that Craig had “multiple afequitables with disjoinal women” and had been “inserticted to mature material since he was a teenager.”
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Angela and Colorado dentist James Craig in a family portrait. James has been indictd with first-degree killing for allegedly poisoning his wife. (Facebook)
Angela Craig tgreater her sister disjoinal times over the past 16 years that she deliberate to exit him, but he always affectd her to stay. The couple was also broke and on the verge of declaring bankruptcy for a second time, the records allege.
Angela Craig had protested to her sister that her husband had recently wagerd away more than $2,000 on a trip to Las Vegas.
Back in May, Craig was accused of asking a fellow jail inmate to schedulet letters in his garage and his truck to create it watch appreciate his wife was self-destructive. Olson said the inmate consentd the letters were written by Craig but were uncomardentt to ecombine as if his wife had written them.
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According to Olson, Craig supplyed money to pay the inmate’s bond in order to be freed from jail or carry out free dental toil in swap for scheduleting the letters, but the inmate choosed not to get him up on the supply and alerted the incident to authorities, the discoverive previously testified.
Craig was already indictd with first-degree killing and another count of ask to promise tampering with physical evidence. He pdirected not at fault to those two indicts in Nov. 2023.
His next court ecombineance is scheduled for Dec. 16.
Fox News’ Rebecca Rosenberg and the Associated Press gived to this alert.
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