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I watched the opening statements today and took some notes.
PROSECUTION
*The prosecutor jumped around a lot by detailing three different timelines (Angela’s illness timeline, his affair timeline, and the poisoning timeline), but I combined them into one timeline for these notes.
Toxicology reports show that Angela Craig died of poisoning from arsenic, cyanide, and tetrahydrozoline (AKA Visine).
The prosecution doesn’t have to prove motive. Although, there are several possibilities (his dental practice was in trouble and he was having an affair).
In the years prior to Angela’s death, Craig often communicated with women he’d meet on a website for “sugar babies”. On the website seeking.com, Craig advertised that he was worth $10 million. He said he was not looking to change his situation and would require discretion. He said he was looking to meet up once a month or so, maybe for travel while out of town for work.
He spent a lot of time talking with these women, and the jury will meet some of them. But his relationship with an orthodontist named Karin was different than his previous relationships. They met at a work conference in Las Vegas. She was going through a divorce and had been separated for about a year. The two begin a very emotionally strong relationship. Craig led Karin to believe that he was also going through a divorce and said he had his own apartment. He and Karin spoke frequently after the conference, and they make plans for Karin to visit him in Aurora. They sent over 4,000 texts to each other and shared over 80 expressions of love.
November 2022
Angela catches Craig cheating and they discuss the possibility of divorce. Craig wants to stay together and make it work.
February 2023
Craig meets Karin at a dental convention.
February 27, 2023
Craig creates a new email account from a computer linked to an exam room at this dental office.
March 1, 2023
Angela attends a genealogy conference in Utah with her sister.
Angela texts Craig and asks him if he’s still communicating with other women.
Craig texts Karin and says it would “really just be easier if Angela would stay gone.”
Craig begins to search the internet for information about arsenic (if it can be detected during an autopsy, where to buy it, etc.)
Craig purchases arsenic on the internet.
March 4
Arsenic arrives at the Craig home.
March 5
Angela returns home from the conference in Utah.
March 6
Craig makes Angela a smoothie.
Angela texts Craig and says she feels weird (heavy, dizzy, and lethargic).
Later, Angela goes to the hospital.
The hospital runs a bunch of tests but can’t find anything wrong with her, so they discharge her.
Craig texts Karin to say that Angela is ill and had to go to the hospital.
The date on Karin’s plane ticket (to visit Craig in Aurora) is changed from March 9 to March 16.
Craig searches the internet for information about tetrahydrozoline (Visine) on the same laptop in the office exam room that he used to create a new email account.
March 7
Angela goes to Urgent Care for a second opinion, but they can’t figure out what’s wrong with her either and send her home.
Craig buys large quantities of Visine from the supermarket.
March 8
Craig orders cyanide on the internet by claiming it’s for a surgical procedure and has it shipped to his dental office.
Craig notifies his office manager that he’s expecting a package and instructs her not to open it.
March 9
Angela has another smoothie and her symptoms worsen.
Angela faints and her kids find her passed out. There’s another moment when Angela must crawl across the floor because she’s too weak to stand up.
Angela returns to the hospital and sees the same doctor (Dr. Peko) in the ER. Dr. Peko admits Angela for more testing.
March 11
Angela crashes – her heart skyrockets – after Craig visits her at the hospital. The doctors fight to keep her alive.
Angela stabilizes over the next few days and becomes frustrated with the hospital’s inability to provide answers.
Craig takes a picture of Angela in the hospital and sends it to Karin.
March 13
The cyanide arrives at Craig’s dental office and his staff mistakenly open the package.
March 14
Angela is discharged from the hospital and immediately begins to search Google for information about different ailments (destructive sleep apnea, internal tremors, diabetes, stroke, heart problems).
Craig texts Karin that Angela is accusing him of making her sick.
March 15
Craig texts Karin to say he’ll be going dark on his phone but not to worry.
Craig gives Angela’s siblings (who are in town helping them out with the kids) a capsule that he claims to be an antibiotic and asks them to make sure Angela takes it when she wakes up.
Angela’s siblings later text Craig to confirm she’d taken “her medication”.
Angela almost immediately takes a turn for the worse.
Angela’s siblings drive her back to the hospital and she’s readmitted.
When Craig arrives at the hospital, he suggests to Angela’s brother that he take a break. The brother leaves and Angela immediately crashes.
Craig texts Karin to let her know that Angela crashed and had to be intubated. He then asks her if she’s still planning to come to Aurora tomorrow.
Craig’s office manager tells his business partner about the cyanide delivery and his partner immediately notifies a nurse at the hospital.
Doctors administer an anti-cyanide antidote. Angela shows some improvement, but it’s too late – she’s already brain dead.
March 16 - 17
Craig spends time with Karin while Angela lies brain dead in the hospital.
March 18
Angela Craig dies.
The Craigs had marriage problems, but they were a very loving family. You’ll hear one doctor call Craig a doting husband. They were members of the LDS church, and religion was very important to Angela.
There were surveillance cameras throughout the home, not just in the kitchen. The kitchen is the only video that had audio. The jury will see still photos that show the Craigs were very loving towards each other.
The cheating had been happening for 23 years – the entirety of their marriage. There were lots of women, not just three or four. And there was nothing special about his relationship with Karin. There were lots of texts with other women.
In 2021, the Craigs filed for bankruptcy. His dental practice did have financial issues, so he brought in a partner. But they always paid the mortgage on the time, the kids were well taken care of, they went on vacations… and Angela knew about the financial problems. It wasn’t like Craig had gotten himself into such a bad spot financially that he couldn’t tell his wife, and she contributed to the situation.
Part of the broken marriage was doing right by the church. She knew Craig was cheating, and he was candid with her about it. But Angela really wanted the family to stay together and move past it. Craig wanted to be better and spoke to his bishop about it. He had anxiety. The jury will hear from his own daughter about his struggles with anxiety and addiction.
He was a broken person, and he was broken when he was sitting in jail. He’d just lost his wife. He’d been arrested because LE looked at the case with blinders on. He’d lost his children because he’d been arrested. His children have now lost both their mother and father. He’s anxious and did some not so great things in jail. A broken person in a dark place can lead people to do things that are out of character.
Angela was also a very broken person. She was a stay-at-home mom of six and was feeling very isolated. Witnesses will describe her as extremely private. She’s a Mormon and the family unit is very important to her. Saving face, being a strong mother was very important to her, and she wasn’t about to tell people about her internal struggles or marital struggles. She wanted attention. Her own daughter will describe her that way and describe her as manipulative.
Video from kitchen surveillance after her first visit to the hospital:
Angela tells Craig that no one would ever believe she tried to kill herself. She then goes on to say that the hospital may have tried harder if he’d not made it seem like she’d done this to herself. Craig says he didn’t tell the doctor that she might’ve done this to herself. He simply asked if they were planning to do a drug panel. He then says he wanted the drug panel because she was accusing him of doing something to her. Angela says that no part of his conversation with the doctor had to do with him defending her or being there for her. She says, “you weren’t there for me”.
[I’m not really sure why the defense thought it was a good idea to play this video because it does nothing but make her own client look bad. There’s also quite a bit of audio redacted.]
The cyanide delivery made the detectives have tunnel vision. LE didn’t find Angela’s journal during their official search of the home, but somehow her family found it and turned it over to LE. But only parts of it. In the journal, she talks about her struggles and how Craig’s cheating broke her. LE never found any arsenic or cyanide. They also never obtained surveillance from Craig’s dental office. They limited their search to start on February 27 even though there were women before that. They never interviewed the church bishop. All of the terms Angela searched for came from her phone. Her laptop was never taken or searched. The search of the home was very poorly done.
His attorney points out the Craig’s food storage in photographs of the home. She compares this to the large amounts of Visine that Craig purchased. They bought in bulk because there were 8 of them.
She then went into the definition of reasonable doubt and what the prosecution has to prove to the jury.
PROSECUTION
*The prosecutor jumped around a lot by detailing three different timelines (Angela’s illness timeline, his affair timeline, and the poisoning timeline), but I combined them into one timeline for these notes.
Toxicology reports show that Angela Craig died of poisoning from arsenic, cyanide, and tetrahydrozoline (AKA Visine).
The prosecution doesn’t have to prove motive. Although, there are several possibilities (his dental practice was in trouble and he was having an affair).
In the years prior to Angela’s death, Craig often communicated with women he’d meet on a website for “sugar babies”. On the website seeking.com, Craig advertised that he was worth $10 million. He said he was not looking to change his situation and would require discretion. He said he was looking to meet up once a month or so, maybe for travel while out of town for work.
He spent a lot of time talking with these women, and the jury will meet some of them. But his relationship with an orthodontist named Karin was different than his previous relationships. They met at a work conference in Las Vegas. She was going through a divorce and had been separated for about a year. The two begin a very emotionally strong relationship. Craig led Karin to believe that he was also going through a divorce and said he had his own apartment. He and Karin spoke frequently after the conference, and they make plans for Karin to visit him in Aurora. They sent over 4,000 texts to each other and shared over 80 expressions of love.
November 2022
Angela catches Craig cheating and they discuss the possibility of divorce. Craig wants to stay together and make it work.
February 2023
Craig meets Karin at a dental convention.
February 27, 2023
Craig creates a new email account from a computer linked to an exam room at this dental office.
March 1, 2023
Angela attends a genealogy conference in Utah with her sister.
Angela texts Craig and asks him if he’s still communicating with other women.
Craig texts Karin and says it would “really just be easier if Angela would stay gone.”
Craig begins to search the internet for information about arsenic (if it can be detected during an autopsy, where to buy it, etc.)
Craig purchases arsenic on the internet.
March 4
Arsenic arrives at the Craig home.
March 5
Angela returns home from the conference in Utah.
March 6
Craig makes Angela a smoothie.
Angela texts Craig and says she feels weird (heavy, dizzy, and lethargic).
Later, Angela goes to the hospital.
The hospital runs a bunch of tests but can’t find anything wrong with her, so they discharge her.
Craig texts Karin to say that Angela is ill and had to go to the hospital.
The date on Karin’s plane ticket (to visit Craig in Aurora) is changed from March 9 to March 16.
Craig searches the internet for information about tetrahydrozoline (Visine) on the same laptop in the office exam room that he used to create a new email account.
March 7
Angela goes to Urgent Care for a second opinion, but they can’t figure out what’s wrong with her either and send her home.
Craig buys large quantities of Visine from the supermarket.
March 8
Craig orders cyanide on the internet by claiming it’s for a surgical procedure and has it shipped to his dental office.
Craig notifies his office manager that he’s expecting a package and instructs her not to open it.
March 9
Angela has another smoothie and her symptoms worsen.
Angela faints and her kids find her passed out. There’s another moment when Angela must crawl across the floor because she’s too weak to stand up.
Angela returns to the hospital and sees the same doctor (Dr. Peko) in the ER. Dr. Peko admits Angela for more testing.
March 11
Angela crashes – her heart skyrockets – after Craig visits her at the hospital. The doctors fight to keep her alive.
Angela stabilizes over the next few days and becomes frustrated with the hospital’s inability to provide answers.
Craig takes a picture of Angela in the hospital and sends it to Karin.
March 13
The cyanide arrives at Craig’s dental office and his staff mistakenly open the package.
March 14
Angela is discharged from the hospital and immediately begins to search Google for information about different ailments (destructive sleep apnea, internal tremors, diabetes, stroke, heart problems).
Craig texts Karin that Angela is accusing him of making her sick.
March 15
Craig texts Karin to say he’ll be going dark on his phone but not to worry.
Craig gives Angela’s siblings (who are in town helping them out with the kids) a capsule that he claims to be an antibiotic and asks them to make sure Angela takes it when she wakes up.
Angela’s siblings later text Craig to confirm she’d taken “her medication”.
Angela almost immediately takes a turn for the worse.
Angela’s siblings drive her back to the hospital and she’s readmitted.
When Craig arrives at the hospital, he suggests to Angela’s brother that he take a break. The brother leaves and Angela immediately crashes.
Craig texts Karin to let her know that Angela crashed and had to be intubated. He then asks her if she’s still planning to come to Aurora tomorrow.
Craig’s office manager tells his business partner about the cyanide delivery and his partner immediately notifies a nurse at the hospital.
Doctors administer an anti-cyanide antidote. Angela shows some improvement, but it’s too late – she’s already brain dead.
March 16 - 17
Craig spends time with Karin while Angela lies brain dead in the hospital.
March 18
Angela Craig dies.
- a medical professional will testify that the amount of cyanide in Angela’s system could only be the result of Craig administering it in the hospital
- Craig wrote his daughter a letter and asked her to fake evidence to suggest Angela had committed suicide
- Craig then offered to pay an inmate to break into his house and plant fake evidence that members of his church would find and turn over the police (going so far as to draw the inmate a map of his home)
- Craig then offered to pay a different inmate to solicit women who would be willing to testify and say they were friends with Angela and that Angela had expressed suicidal ideations
- Craig then tried to solicit an inmate to kill the lead detective to prevent him from testifying
The Craigs had marriage problems, but they were a very loving family. You’ll hear one doctor call Craig a doting husband. They were members of the LDS church, and religion was very important to Angela.
There were surveillance cameras throughout the home, not just in the kitchen. The kitchen is the only video that had audio. The jury will see still photos that show the Craigs were very loving towards each other.
The cheating had been happening for 23 years – the entirety of their marriage. There were lots of women, not just three or four. And there was nothing special about his relationship with Karin. There were lots of texts with other women.
In 2021, the Craigs filed for bankruptcy. His dental practice did have financial issues, so he brought in a partner. But they always paid the mortgage on the time, the kids were well taken care of, they went on vacations… and Angela knew about the financial problems. It wasn’t like Craig had gotten himself into such a bad spot financially that he couldn’t tell his wife, and she contributed to the situation.
Part of the broken marriage was doing right by the church. She knew Craig was cheating, and he was candid with her about it. But Angela really wanted the family to stay together and move past it. Craig wanted to be better and spoke to his bishop about it. He had anxiety. The jury will hear from his own daughter about his struggles with anxiety and addiction.
He was a broken person, and he was broken when he was sitting in jail. He’d just lost his wife. He’d been arrested because LE looked at the case with blinders on. He’d lost his children because he’d been arrested. His children have now lost both their mother and father. He’s anxious and did some not so great things in jail. A broken person in a dark place can lead people to do things that are out of character.
Angela was also a very broken person. She was a stay-at-home mom of six and was feeling very isolated. Witnesses will describe her as extremely private. She’s a Mormon and the family unit is very important to her. Saving face, being a strong mother was very important to her, and she wasn’t about to tell people about her internal struggles or marital struggles. She wanted attention. Her own daughter will describe her that way and describe her as manipulative.
Video from kitchen surveillance after her first visit to the hospital:
Angela tells Craig that no one would ever believe she tried to kill herself. She then goes on to say that the hospital may have tried harder if he’d not made it seem like she’d done this to herself. Craig says he didn’t tell the doctor that she might’ve done this to herself. He simply asked if they were planning to do a drug panel. He then says he wanted the drug panel because she was accusing him of doing something to her. Angela says that no part of his conversation with the doctor had to do with him defending her or being there for her. She says, “you weren’t there for me”.
[I’m not really sure why the defense thought it was a good idea to play this video because it does nothing but make her own client look bad. There’s also quite a bit of audio redacted.]
The cyanide delivery made the detectives have tunnel vision. LE didn’t find Angela’s journal during their official search of the home, but somehow her family found it and turned it over to LE. But only parts of it. In the journal, she talks about her struggles and how Craig’s cheating broke her. LE never found any arsenic or cyanide. They also never obtained surveillance from Craig’s dental office. They limited their search to start on February 27 even though there were women before that. They never interviewed the church bishop. All of the terms Angela searched for came from her phone. Her laptop was never taken or searched. The search of the home was very poorly done.
His attorney points out the Craig’s food storage in photographs of the home. She compares this to the large amounts of Visine that Craig purchased. They bought in bulk because there were 8 of them.
She then went into the definition of reasonable doubt and what the prosecution has to prove to the jury.
