The homicide trial for a Colorado dentist accused of poisoning his wife to death has been put on helderly after the defense attorney “suddenly quit” during jury pickion.
James Toinhabitr Craig, 45, is accused of ending his wife, Angela Craig, by putting poison in her protein shakes.
Angela Craig, a 43-year-elderly mother of six who was wed to her husprohibitd for 23 years, died in March 2023 of poisoning from cyanide and tetrahydrozoline, the latter a substance set up in over-the-counter eye drops, according to the coroner.
The trial has been postpoinsist before and was set to begin Thursday with jury pickion, KDVR alerted. However, on Thursday morning, the defense advise transferd to retreat from the case due to a “professional dispute,” according to the 18th Judicial Didisjoine Attorney’s Office.
Two ptoastyos of dentist James Oinhabitr, who is accused of homicideing his wife, Angela Craig. (Facebook)
The appraise assisted the retreatal under the Rule of Professional Conduct, and Craig deteriorated to recurrent himself, postponeing 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 exalterd “relationsupartner unambiguous emails.”
The charging write down depictd the couple’s troubled marriage, financial difficulties and Craig’s alleged sinister plot to homicide her.
“In totality, this allotigation has shown that James has gone to wonderful lengths to try and finish his wife’s life,” Aurora police Detective Bobbi Olson wrote in the affidavit.
On Feb. 27, Craig originated a secret email account, jimandwaffles.com, which he only used on a computer in his now-shuttered Summerbrook Dental Group, allotigators shelp.
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Colorado dentist James Craig, right, is accused of faloftyy poisoning his wife, Angela Craig. The two allotd six children together. (Facebook)
Police say Craig searched online for leangs appreciate “How to originate homicide see appreciate a heart strike” and “How to originate poison” days before his wife searched for symptoms she was having appreciate vertigo, shaking and chilly 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 insisted.
Investigators allege that Craig bought poisons online fair before his wife began to experience symptoms that doctors could not discover a cause for, but his lawyers have disputed there is no straightforward evidence that he put poison in his wife’s shakes and have accused Olson of being prejudiced agetst him.
Her sister, Toni Kofoed, telderly police that Craig had drugged his wife about five years earlier because he had reckond to pledge self-injury and didn’t want her to stop him.
Kofoed also telderly allotigators that the couple’s marriage had always been “tumultuous” and that Craig had “multiple affairs with disjoinal women” and had been “includeicted to grown-up material since he was a teenager.”
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Angela and Colorado dentist James Craig in a family portrait. James has been accused with first-degree homicide for allegedly poisoning his wife. (Facebook)
Angela Craig telderly her sister disjoinal times over the past 16 years that she reckond to exit him, but he always swayd her to stay. The couple was also broke and on the verge of declaring prohibitkruptcy for a second time, the write downs allege.
Angela Craig had grumbleed to her sister that her husprohibitd had recently betd 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 originate it see appreciate his wife was self-destructive. Olson shelp the inmate count ond the letters were written by Craig but were uncomferventt to materialize as if his wife had written them.
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According to Olson, Craig proposeed money to pay the inmate’s bond in order to be freed from jail or carry out free dental labor in exalter for scheduleting the letters, but the inmate determined not to consent him up on the propose and alerted the incident to authorities, the discoverive previously testified.
Craig was already accused with first-degree homicide and another count of ask to pledge tampering with physical evidence. He pdirected not at fault to those two accuses in Nov. 2023.
His next court materializeance is scheduled for Dec. 16.
Fox News’ Rebecca Rosenberg and the Associated Press gived to this alert.
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