GUILTY CO - Angela Craig, 43, mother of 6, allegedly poisoned by cyanide in protein shake by dentist husband, Aurora, Mar 2023 @2

[mickey2942]

Defense: "There is NO defense".

Exactly.

The State of Colorado has more than proved the case against JC. We don't even hear JC on the stand. And least Alex Murdaugh took the stand in his own defense. JC doesn't want to answer to the staggering amount of evidence against him.

Culture plays a huge part in this. The LDS culture, would never support a husband, priesthood holder, providing means to kill his wife. And I don't believe for a second that Angela wanted to leave her life, children, family, and commit suicide.

If she did, she would have sought counseling and support. And she definitely wouldn't have been going to the hospital, so sick, all of the time. She kept sending such heartbreaking text messages to JC about how sick she was...desperately trying to figure out what was wrong with her...I guess JC won't have to answer about any of that.

Or any of the schemes he concocted to have "fake" Angela friends talk about her suicide wishes.

Or the life insurance policies...

 

[casesensitive]

I know that this sounds superficial (sorry) but I wonder if this total will show up in court with clean hair for once. He is so disgusting and I am so enraged.

 

[Anika]

Defense: "There is NO defense".

Exactly.

The State of Colorado has more than proved the case against JC. We don't even hear JC on the stand. And least Alex Murdaugh took the stand in his own defense. JC doesn't want to answer to the staggering amount of evidence against him.

Culture plays a huge part in this. The LDS culture, would never support a husband, priesthood holder, providing means to kill his wife. And I don't believe for a second that Angela wanted to leave her life, children, family, and commit suicide.

If she did, she would have sought counseling and support. And she definitely wouldn't have been going to the hospital, so sick, all of the time. She kept sending such heartbreaking text messages to JC about how sick she was...desperately trying to figure out what was wrong with her...I guess JC won't have to answer about any of that.

Or any of the schemes he concocted to have "fake" Angela friends talk about her suicide wishes.

Or the life insurance policies...

Not to mention... he didn't Google "how to make a suicide look like a heart attack."

 

[mickey2942]

Not to mention... he didn't Google "how to make a suicide look like a heart attack."

There is SO much I didn't mention. But the absolute worst, were reading those heartbreaking test messages to JC from Angela. She was so ill, and looking to him for support. Angela wasn't "suicidal". She was murdered.

I am interested in how long the Jury will take to deliberate.

 

[Megnut]

There is something especially dark and depraved about this dentist.

To see another human being suffer and not respond with empathy? Instead to administer more toxin? It's grossly inhumane. Inhuman. His wife, the mother of their children, no less. It's horrifying.

I feel so sad for the children, unfairly robbed of their mom, forced to experience the worst of what humanity has to offer. Utter inhumanity.

JMO

 

[Anika]

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I am interested in how long the Jury will take to deliberate.

I was hoping they'd be done before I even finished typing this sentence. So obvious and heinous.

 

[ch_13]

I am interested in how long the Jury will take to deliberate.

It may take a little time, simply because there are six counts. Just to go through the juror instructions and vote could take a couple of hours even if everyone is in agreement. Plus, from the trial reports it sounds like the defense will go hard at the witness tampering count during closing. So they may want to spend some extra time discussing that one in particular.

But I don't think it will be a long wait.

 

[Izzylizzy]

Live now

 

[Cindizzi]

 

[Cindizzi]

 

[Izzylizzy]

I can see why the defense abruptly rested after Det. Olson's testimony.
Reading some of it then listening tonight to Lauren @ HTC I could have sworn Olson transferred from the Canton or Boston police departments after getting her certificate in how to search and seize evidence for a possible murder.
I'll be counting how many times the defense mentions her name during closing.,
Quite the discouraging testimony today.
IMO

 

[Cindizzi]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1950065245860307303

 

[Dotta]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1950064002408513685

 

[Niner]

Tuesday, July 29th:
*Trial continues (Day 11)-CLOSING ARGUMENTS (@ 9am MT) - CO - *Angela Dawn Pray Craig (43) poisoned (potassium cyanide) by husband & left her brain dead & taken off life support (arrived at hospital on Mar. 16, 2023) & died Mar. 18, 2023, Aurora. *James Toliver Craig (45/now 47) arrested (3/19/23), charged (3/23/23), formally charged (7/12/23) & arraigned (10/9/23) with 1st degree premeditated murder after deliberations & tampering with physical evidence. Amended charges (4/12/24): 1st degree murder (F1) & 2 counts of solicitation to commit with physical evidence [1 for an inmate & 1 for family member]. Added charges [11/21/24] solicitation to commit 1st degree murder [of Aurora Police Detective] & solicitation to commit perjury in the 1st degree. Held without bond. Bond set at $10M on 6/28/23. Plead not guilty (10/9/23 to murder & on 2/14/25 to Solicitation).
Added charges [4/11/25] with Solicitation to commit tampering with physical evidence. Arapahoe County
Jury selection began on 7/10/25 & ended on 7/14/25. Jury: 12 jurors & 3 alternates.
Trial began on 7/15/25 & prosecutors & defense rested their cases on 7/28/25.
Judge Shay K. Whitaker presiding. Senior Chief Deputy DA Michael Mauro, Assistant DA Ryan Brackley & Deputy DA Osama Maagrebi. Defense attorneys Lisa Fine Moses & Ashley Whitham.
Case & Court info from 3/16/23 thru 7/3/25 & Jury Selection Day 1-3 [7/10-7/14/24] & Trial Day 1-9 (7/15-25/25) reference post #66 here:
https://websleuths.com/threads/co-a...ntist-husband-aurora-mar-2023-2.749361/page-4
7/28/25 Monday, Trial Day 10: State witness: Detective Bobbi Olson returns on stand [see posts 68, page 4 & #92 & 95, page 5].
Prosecutor rested their case, as did the defense [see posts #91, 98 & 99, page 5]. Closing arguments tomorrow, Tuesday, 7/29/25.

 

[jepop]

And doesn't dovetail with his other ridiculous narrative that she killed herself in order to frame him.

Gaslighters think they're credible -- and in the context of marriage, they have partners who are invested in their marriages and families, might be under coercive control, might have tiring or untiring hope, don't want to give up or (a thousand other reasons) --

But jurors have no such loyalty.

Jury is asking the exact same questions. And must be shaking their heads.

Trying to create trainable doubt about how the drugs got in her. IMO just making himself look WORSE (if that's possible).

JMO

Great post megnut. Man oh man, he is reprehensible...a pathetic, see-through bs artist. What a delusional loser...trying to claim Angela did this to herself is the low of lows.

He deserves life without the chance of parole, owing to zero remorse and his calculated, victim blaming fabrications. This a*hole reminds me of that delusional Robert Telles who murdered journalist Jeff German a few years back. His delusion manifested differently in that he got on the stand and tried to convince the jury he was set up, but the level of delusion and self absorption is similar. Imo the evidence against Telles was overwhelming, as it is in this case for Craig.

Craig is an extremely dangerous person. I cannot see a jury coming back with anything but guilty on all counts. None of the defense's attacks on the poor lead investigator who this **** also believed he was entitled to murder, amount to anything which could raise reasonable doubt as to his guilt. Jmo

 

[jepop]

From when his partner first discovered he ordered the cyanide and Craig said it was a game of chicken, to trying to involve his paramours, then trying to get his cell mate and another inmate to find questionable people for hire and have the detective killed, to trying to get his own daughter involved in his scheme.

The suicide thing was just another scheme that he was trying since he was caught.

moo

I agree, moo it was a back up plan if worst came to worst. In his abominable arrogance I don't think he thought his searches using the room 9 computer at the dental business were going to be discovered and hence his purchase of the poisons. Seems the office manager also threw a spanner in the works when she looked into the opened envelope and discovered his cyanide delivery.

Seems obvious to me that from the moment his business partner confronted him on March 15th he put plan B into action, writing that fiction for the cops the next day and making sure he supplied extra hints in his written communications with Karen Cain. He was trying, unsuccessfully apart from Karen Cain at that juncture, to manipulate everyone he knew. I can't see how the jury could see it any other way. Jmo

 

[Seattle1]

Shocking new revelations about father in attempted 'honor killing'

Ihsan Ali, 44, and his wife Zahraa Subhi Mohsin Ali, 40, are charged with second-degree attempted murder and attempted kidnapping after the attack on October 18.

www.dailymail.co.uk

7/29/25

According to Craig's timeline, he'd returned home from a dental conference in late February to ask for a divorce after meeting his new orthodontist paramour - but Angela refused and 'said she was just going to end her life.'

That's when they both began researching poisons, he insisted - though no such searches were found on Angela's phone, Olson testified. Instead, trial testimony and exhibits have shown Angela made desperate searches for her symptoms while trying to figure out what was making her so sick.

Her friends and family have also testified that she loved life, loved being a mother and was in no way suicidal.

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Sorry, Jimmy -- we believe Angela!

She told us she was done with you and your lying ways and was ready to end the marriage after Christmas. But then you convinced her you weren't cheating, sugar baby Carrie needed a room for the night, and a safe car to drive. You swore her to secrecy-- not to confide in her sister but Angela wasn't feeling it. She was soon texting you from UT. Just before she left her sister's to return to Colorado, she texted if you were still communicating with your other women.

So no, Jimmy, you didn't ask for a divorce in February, and Angela wasn't suicidal! We don't believe you, and neither do the jurors! MOO

 

[iamshadow21]

Shocking new revelations about father in attempted 'honor killing'

Ihsan Ali, 44, and his wife Zahraa Subhi Mohsin Ali, 40, are charged with second-degree attempted murder and attempted kidnapping after the attack on October 18.

www.dailymail.co.uk

7/29/25

According to Craig's timeline, he'd returned home from a dental conference in late February to ask for a divorce after meeting his new orthodontist paramour - but Angela refused and 'said she was just going to end her life.'

That's when they both began researching poisons, he insisted - though no such searches were found on Angela's phone, Olson testified. Instead, trial testimony and exhibits have shown Angela made desperate searches for her symptoms while trying to figure out what was making her so sick.

Her friends and family have also testified that she loved life, loved being a mother and was in no way suicidal.

_____________________________________________________

Sorry, Jimmy -- we believe Angela!

She told us she was done with you and your lying ways and was ready to end the marriage after Christmas. But then you convinced her you weren't cheating, sugar baby Carrie needed a room for the night, and a safe car to drive. You swore her to secrecy-- not to confide in her sister but Angela wasn't feeling it. She was soon texting you from UT. Just before she left her sister's to return to Colorado, she texted if you were still communicating with your other women.

So no, Jimmy, you didn't ask for a divorce in February, and Angela wasn't suicidal! We don't believe you, and neither do the jurors! MOO

As former LDS - if he had asked for a divorce, there is about a zero percent chance she wouldn't immediately schedule a meeting with her bishop. The whole church doctrine revolves around the sanctification and preservation of the nuclear family. And the bishop is the third party in the marriage when there is difficulty and conflict. Everything is laid before him, whether he's a therapist or bricklayer by trade for his paying job.

MOO

 

[Tealgrove]

Well, the Prosecution will sum up today and hopefully the Defence will make it quick. Judge needs to do his thing. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the Jury begins deliberations later today?

I’m thinking if all goes smoothly today we could actually see Guilty stamped across the top of this thread by late afternoon.

 

[Izzylizzy]

As former LDS - if he had asked for a divorce, there is about a zero percent chance she wouldn't immediately schedule a meeting with her bishop. The whole church doctrine revolves around the sanctification and preservation of the nuclear family. And the bishop is the third party in the marriage when there is difficulty and conflict. Everything is laid before him, whether he's a therapist or bricklayer by trade for his paying job.

MOO

I was wondering about that because AC was a devoted LDS Chrisitan.



Soon before AC was murdered I think it was to Tony, AC's sister that AC told her something like JC having or will be going to a "new" therapist for his addiction, so it was tried before during the years to no avail.
We don't know all that the addiction may have encompassed.

Did JC even attend church and was involved in it?
What would have happened to JC had she/he gone to the Bishop?
There's AC's journal entries from 2009 so we know his cheating went on for more than a decade and we don't know what else was involved.

I'm thinking more along the lines that AC would never go to the Bishop being the very private person she was and also that it could interfere with her high-standing within the church and the community and if she was advised that divorce would be acceptable it could also affect her lifestyle which her prior best friend Nicole Harmon testified as materialisticly "horrible"
IMO

Colorado dentist drugged wife years before alleged poisoning murder, friend testifies

Angela Craig's best friend takes the stand in Colorado murder trial, testifying that she never expressed wanting to die and that James Craig had previously admitted to drugging her.

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