DENVER (AP) — Police imagine a Colorado dentist laced his spouse’s pre-workout protein shakes with arsenic and cyanide, finally killing his partner so he may very well be with a lady he was having an affair with, in keeping with courtroom paperwork.
James Craig, 45, was arrested on suspicion of first-degree homicide Sunday, shortly after his spouse died after being taken off life help throughout her third journey to the hospital this month. Based on courtroom data, he’s being represented by the general public defender’s workplace, which doesn’t touch upon instances.
Craig is scheduled to look in courtroom Thursday to be taught whether or not prosecutors have determined to file fees in opposition to him.
As Angela Craig languished within the hospital, with docs unable to determine what was improper together with her, police within the Denver suburb of Aurora allege her husband was assembly with a fellow dentist who flew in for visits with him.
Police started investigating Craig after his dental apply companion and good friend, Ryan Redfearn, advised a nurse that Craig had ordered potassium cyanide though they didn’t want it for his or her work, in keeping with an arrest warrant laying out proof gathered by investigators.
After allegedly Googling questions like, “Is Arsenic Detectable in Post-mortem?” investigators imagine Craig put arsenic in one of many protein shakes he routinely made for his spouse for his or her exercises on March 6 after which, after she survived, he ordered a rush cargo of potassium cyanide that he advised the provider was wanted for a surgical procedure.
Craig had requested an workplace supervisor to not open that bundle however one other worker did, resulting in its discovery and eventual disclosure to authorities, the doc mentioned.
The supply of a 3rd substance he’s accused of ordering, Oleandrin, was intercepted by authorities after they started investigating him, the doc mentioned. Oleandrin is a toxic substance present in leaves of the oleander plant.
Craig advised Redfearn that he ordered the potassium cyanide for his spouse and advised a social employee that she had been suicidal and depressed since he requested for a divorce in December though neither of the couple’s youngsters mentioned something about suicide makes an attempt, in keeping with the arrest affidavit.
Redfearn additionally advised investigators that Craig was on the verge of chapter and had been having issues in his marriage, in keeping with the doc. Angela Craig’s sister, Toni Kofoed, advised police that Craig had drugged his spouse about 5 years in the past with an unknown drug as a result of he mentioned he deliberate to kill himself and didn’t need her to have the ability to save him.
Kofoed believes that incident is what Craig referenced in a sequence of texts between Angela and James Craig about her signs after she first fell sick on March 6. Based on the arrest affidavit, James Craig wrote: “Given our historical past I do know that should be triggering. Only for the file, I didn’t drug you. I’m tremendous nervous although.”
Final week, two days earlier than Angela was declared mind lifeless, the lady police say he was having an affair with wrote Craig an e mail expressing sympathy about what he was going by means of, in keeping with the doc. Nevertheless, she mentioned she didn’t assume it was proper for her to combine in with those that had gathered to mourn Angela as a result of she didn’t need to “conceal what I really feel for you.”