A dentist from Denver, Colorado, he was accused of killing his wife to run away with her lover. He would have done it by poisoning his protein shakes.
The case that moves the state has James Toliver Craig, 45, as the notorious protagonist. According to the affidavit of the arrest warrant obtained by the Daily Beast, the dentist took his lover, also an orthodontist, to Texas while Angelamother of his six children, died in hospital because of him.
The investigation showed that Craig allegedly searched the Internet with what poisons he could have poisoned his wife without being caught. She finally settled on the toxic potassium cyanide, which he had sent to his office two days before the 43-year-old started feeling ill.
The statement said Angela was admitted to hospital with headaches and dizziness and that since last Wednesday her health has deteriorated rapidly.
Finally, On Sunday, she was pronounced brain dead and disconnected from the life support that was keeping her alive.
The woman had similar problems since the beginning of March, so much so that there is a message from her to her husband in which she warns that she has dizziness. That time, police attributed it to consuming arsenic, another poison James allegedly used to kill her.
A toxic relationship…
The affidavit reveals that the marriage had many problems. He had deceived Angela several times and would also try to poison her on another occasion..
The victim’s sister told police her former brother-in-law had “multiple affairs with women”, that he had been “addicted to pornography since he was a teenager” and that he “drugged Angela about five or six years ago”.
He said Angela told her sister that Craig drugged her because he wanted to kill himself and didn’t want her to try to save him.
This person also claimed that Craig, at the time of his wife’s murder, was on the verge of bankruptcy. for the second time in his life.
suspicious attitude
On March 13, James told his office manager that he would receive a personal package and not that the world would open it.
However, his plan didn’t go well: another employee of his office who had not been notified of the shipment accidentally opened the package.
When the manager was resealing the product, he found a biohazard label and saw a circular container engraved with “Potassium Cyanide.” The manager then investigated what the chemical was used for and put the two together, as he knew his boss’s wife was not in good health.
This information reached the ears of a nurse at the hospital where Angela was and Craig found himself on the ropes: she would be the one to call the police to investigate James.
Craig’s defense was similar to past ones: He said he ordered potassium cyanide for his wife because she was suicidal. He claimed he asked because he didn’t have the medical credentials to do so.
The investigation showed that Angela had never shown any signs of suicidal thoughts. Division Chief of the Aurora Police Department, Marcus Hildebranddescribed the alleged poisoning as “a heinous, complex and calculated murder”.
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Source: Clarin
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