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Dentist accused of 'heinous, callous and calculated' poisoning that left his wife medically brain dead

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A dentist has been accused of a "heinous, callous and calculated" poisoning that left his wife medically brain dead.

James Toliver Craig, 45, from Colorado, US, drove his wife to hospital on Wednesday after she was complaining of dizziness and intense headaches, according to Aurora Police Department.

When the 43-year-old arrived to hospital her condition soon deteriorated and she was moved to an intensive care ward.

The mum-of-6 had to be placed on a ventilator but medics soon took her off the life support machine on Sunday morning after she was left medically brain dead.

Doctors contacted police amid concerns she had been poisoned.


Patients of the dentist have been left in shock ( Image: Summerbrook Dental)
The Aurora Police Department's Major Crimes Homicide Unit determined the woman had been poisoned following an investigation into her death.

Division Chief Mark Hildebrand said in a statement: "When the suspicious details of this case came to light, our team of officers and homicide detectives tirelessly worked to uncover the truth behind the victim’s sudden illness and death.

"It was quickly discovered this was in fact a heinous, complex and calculated murder. I am very proud of our Major Crimes Homicide Unit’s hard work in solving this case and pursuing justice for the victim."

The dentist was arrested early Sunday morning on first-degree murder charges in connection with his wife's death.

Police arrested the dentist on Sunday morning
Police arrested the dentist on Sunday morning ( Image: Aurora Police Department)
The suspect, who graduated from dental school at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, was an associate professor at the University of Missouri Dental School, where he taught courses in Clinical Dentistry, Biochemistry and Histology.

The news has left Mr Craig's patients stunned as his Summerbrook Dental Group clients revealed they only saw him last week.

Patient Andrew Orth told Denver7: "He was literally the best dentist I ever had. That's why I recommended him to my mom. That's why I recommended my brother. So, it was a large clientele that came here under that trust."

The dentist and his wife, who have six children, were described as "incredibly nice people" by one patient who was left shocked at the news.

Danielle Travis said: "My first thought was really first of his kids, and then second of his employees who have also been incredibly nice people.

"I just can't imagine any kids, six kids, being without a mother and potentially even being without their father and again, someone who I would have never, ever expected to be in this kind of situation.”

The victim's name has not been released by police with the investigation still ongoing.
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www.mirror.co.uk

Dentist accused of poisoning his own wife after she was left brain dead

James Toliver Craig, 45, from Colorado, US, was arrested on Sunday morning just four days after he drove his wife to hospital after she complained of intense headaches and dizziness
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The Daily Beast just published an article 10 minutes ago that has more compelling details:

"A Colorado dentist accused of fatally poisoning his wife had been trading “intimate” and “sexually explicit” emails with an orthodontist in Austin, Texas, who had flown into town to see him while his spouse was sick in the hospital, according to an arrest warrant affidavit obtained by The Daily Beast.

James Toliver Craig intended “to end his wife’s life by searching for ways to kill someone undetected, providing her poisons that align with her hospitalized symptoms, and working on starting a new life with [his lover],” the affidavit states. (The Daily Beast has redacted the woman’s name from the document.)"

" Craig, 45, had a canister of deadly potassium cyanide delivered to his office two days before 43-year-old Angela Craig died of suspected cyanide poisoning, according to the affidavit, which contains disturbing new claims about the days before the mother of six’s murder.

Craig had searched online for “buy Oleander,” a poisonous plant, “how many grams of pure arsenic will kill a human,” and “Is Arsenic Detectable in Autopsy?” and accessed an article titled: “6 Deadly ‘Undetectable’ Poisons (and How to Detect Them),” the affidavit states, noting that a shipment of arsenic had been delivered to Craig’s house on March 4. (Craig also ordered $330 worth of oleandrin, an oleander derivative studied for use in treating cancer, from a scientific research company, which was intercepted by police, it says.)

At one point, a sales rep at a scientific supply company told Craig they would need a “usage statement” before they could send him the cyanide potassium, the affidavit states. Craig, using his personal Gmail account, said he was “a surgeon performing a craniofacial reconstruction,” and would be using the chemical James to “check and see if it will help with the layering of alternative metals,” it goes on. If it worked, the affidavit says, Craig claimed the technique would be “published as a paper in the National Institutes of Health.”"

" Remarkably, this wasn’t the first time Craig had tried to poison his wife, Angela, according to the affidavit. Her sister told cops the 45-year-old “had multiple affairs with several women… had been addicted to pornography since he was a teenager, and drugged Angela approximately five to six years ago,” it states."

And so forth and so on.


www.thedailybeast.com

Dentist Poisoned Wife to Death to Start ‘New Life’ With Paramour, Cops Allege

The wife’s sister told police that James Toliver Craig was a serial philanderer—and had even drugged his spouse years before her death, an arrest affidavit states.
www.thedailybeast.com
 
How do you stay with someone who has poisoned you? I mean, staying after multiple affairs is certainly not something I'd do, but it's nowhere near the level of "Get me the fuck out of this relationship ASAP" that literally trying to kill me would.

Especially by poisoning... It has me wondering how she got poisoned again, like, did she start trusting him around the things she ingests?
 
cubby said:
@Hermy Hello my new friend:), I've been rewatching Columbo for the last couple weeks, I'm down to the last episode tonight. Try "Rockford Files", "Banacek" and the original "Magnum PI", so much better than the new ones. I've been looking for "MacMillan and Wife", but haven't found that one yet.
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I especially liked the episode with Donald Pleasence (was it Any Port in a Storm?) and the one where Joyce Van Patten owns a museum with her brother who wants to sell it so she kills him.
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El_Fapo_Del_Nino said:
Dentists have an inferiority complex to real doctors.
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That's because they always look "down in the mouth."
 
cubby said:
@Hermy Hello my new friend:), I've been rewatching Columbo for the last couple weeks, I'm down to the last episode tonight. Try "Rockford Files", "Banacek" and the original "Magnum PI", so much better than the new ones. I've been looking for "MacMillan and Wife", but haven't found that one yet.
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I loved Jim Rockford. What do you think about the "new" Hawaii Five-0?
 
Blunderbuss Firozabad said:
The Daily Beast just published an article 10 minutes ago that has more compelling details:

"A Colorado dentist accused of fatally poisoning his wife had been trading “intimate” and “sexually explicit” emails with an orthodontist in Austin, Texas, who had flown into town to see him while his spouse was sick in the hospital, according to an arrest warrant affidavit obtained by The Daily Beast.

James Toliver Craig intended “to end his wife’s life by searching for ways to kill someone undetected, providing her poisons that align with her hospitalized symptoms, and working on starting a new life with [his lover],” the affidavit states. (The Daily Beast has redacted the woman’s name from the document.)"

" Craig, 45, had a canister of deadly potassium cyanide delivered to his office two days before 43-year-old Angela Craig died of suspected cyanide poisoning, according to the affidavit, which contains disturbing new claims about the days before the mother of six’s murder.

Craig had searched online for “buy Oleander,” a poisonous plant, “how many grams of pure arsenic will kill a human,” and “Is Arsenic Detectable in Autopsy?” and accessed an article titled: “6 Deadly ‘Undetectable’ Poisons (and How to Detect Them),” the affidavit states, noting that a shipment of arsenic had been delivered to Craig’s house on March 4. (Craig also ordered $330 worth of oleandrin, an oleander derivative studied for use in treating cancer, from a scientific research company, which was intercepted by police, it says.)

At one point, a sales rep at a scientific supply company told Craig they would need a “usage statement” before they could send him the cyanide potassium, the affidavit states. Craig, using his personal Gmail account, said he was “a surgeon performing a craniofacial reconstruction,” and would be using the chemical James to “check and see if it will help with the layering of alternative metals,” it goes on. If it worked, the affidavit says, Craig claimed the technique would be “published as a paper in the National Institutes of Health.”"

" Remarkably, this wasn’t the first time Craig had tried to poison his wife, Angela, according to the affidavit. Her sister told cops the 45-year-old “had multiple affairs with several women… had been addicted to pornography since he was a teenager, and drugged Angela approximately five to six years ago,” it states."

And so forth and so on.


www.thedailybeast.com

Dentist Poisoned Wife to Death to Start ‘New Life’ With Paramour, Cops Allege

The wife’s sister told police that James Toliver Craig was a serial philanderer—and had even drugged his spouse years before her death, an arrest affidavit states.
www.thedailybeast.com
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Damn that’s a lot of evidence, I bet he’s gonna plead to avoid the death penalty or try to get a shot at parole. Plus it sounds like he doesn’t have the money to fight it, unless some bloodsucker like Jose Baez does it pro bono.
 
Alxprkrkrls said:
Damn that’s a lot of evidence, I bet he’s gonna plead to avoid the death penalty or try to get a shot at parole. Plus it sounds like he doesn’t have the money to fight it, unless some bloodsucker like Jose Baez does it pro bono.
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The minute that sales rep started asking questions, he should have abondoned that plan forever.

Here he is in giddier times...

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His new girlfriend was an orthodontist, and she probably makes a lot more money than him. She was the answer to his financial problems, could probably pay for a nanny, and hadn't heard the story about the time he went into a Dennys not 5 minutes after Jenny Garth left, a zillion times, etc.

She probably had no clue about his plans for her usefulness to his narcissism.


His wife and six kids.
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Even though he's been caught, I'll bet he still believes he's going to squiggle out of it.
I'm surprised he didn't order the poisons thru his girlfriends office, so he could point the finger at her if it was detected.
Or start a rumor months prior, that his wife was having an affair with a married exterminator. Just to throw a few more suspects into the pool.

He's insanely over-confident.
 
Blunderbuss Firozabad said:
The Daily Beast just published an article 10 minutes ago that has more compelling details:

"A Colorado dentist accused of fatally poisoning his wife had been trading “intimate” and “sexually explicit” emails with an orthodontist in Austin, Texas, who had flown into town to see him while his spouse was sick in the hospital, according to an arrest warrant affidavit obtained by The Daily Beast.

James Toliver Craig intended “to end his wife’s life by searching for ways to kill someone undetected, providing her poisons that align with her hospitalized symptoms, and working on starting a new life with [his lover],” the affidavit states. (The Daily Beast has redacted the woman’s name from the document.)"

" Craig, 45, had a canister of deadly potassium cyanide delivered to his office two days before 43-year-old Angela Craig died of suspected cyanide poisoning, according to the affidavit, which contains disturbing new claims about the days before the mother of six’s murder.

Craig had searched online for “buy Oleander,” a poisonous plant, “how many grams of pure arsenic will kill a human,” and “Is Arsenic Detectable in Autopsy?” and accessed an article titled: “6 Deadly ‘Undetectable’ Poisons (and How to Detect Them),” the affidavit states, noting that a shipment of arsenic had been delivered to Craig’s house on March 4. (Craig also ordered $330 worth of oleandrin, an oleander derivative studied for use in treating cancer, from a scientific research company, which was intercepted by police, it says.)

At one point, a sales rep at a scientific supply company told Craig they would need a “usage statement” before they could send him the cyanide potassium, the affidavit states. Craig, using his personal Gmail account, said he was “a surgeon performing a craniofacial reconstruction,” and would be using the chemical James to “check and see if it will help with the layering of alternative metals,” it goes on. If it worked, the affidavit says, Craig claimed the technique would be “published as a paper in the National Institutes of Health.”"

" Remarkably, this wasn’t the first time Craig had tried to poison his wife, Angela, according to the affidavit. Her sister told cops the 45-year-old “had multiple affairs with several women… had been addicted to pornography since he was a teenager, and drugged Angela approximately five to six years ago,” it states."

And so forth and so on.


www.thedailybeast.com

Dentist Poisoned Wife to Death to Start ‘New Life’ With Paramour, Cops Allege

The wife’s sister told police that James Toliver Craig was a serial philanderer—and had even drugged his spouse years before her death, an arrest affidavit states.
www.thedailybeast.com
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Wow! What a douchebag! Ugh his portrait from his dental brochure screams "Chad" "brah" "guy" the {real} INNER -Craig-, texting while driving his Land Rover... Make an example out of him!
 
Crazy Cat Lady said:
What are the chances that he would have cheated on his orthodontist chick if his plan had worked out? He's a serial cheater.
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For sure!

The Orthodontist likely checked off the boxes that he prioritized- the ones that benefited him, made his life easier.

I don't think people that are capable of loving others carry out a murder plan to kill their spouse. To get them out of the way, or benefit from life insurance.
 
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