A Dentist accused of murdering his wife He has been accused of trying to instigate a fellow inmate to kill a detective investigating a murder case.
Prosecutors filed two new charges james craig Last week – solicitation to commit murder as well as solicitation to commit perjury. Charging documents do not specify who Craig allegedly wanted to kill, but Aurora police spokesman Joe Moylan confirmed late Wednesday that the alleged victim was an Aurora police detective.
Online court records did not list an attorney representing Craig as of Thursday. A judge gives permission to Craig's latest attorney, Harvey Steinberg get off the case On November 21, he cited a professional conflict, just as Craig was scheduled to be tried for first-degree murder in the death of Angela Craig. Prosecutors filed two new charges against Craig the next day.
Craig's trial has been delayed indefinitely. Craig, who has pleaded not guilty, is scheduled to appear in court with a new attorney on Dec. 16.
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According to the coroner, 43-year-old Angela Craig died in March 2023 from poisoning with cyanide and tetrahydrozoline, a substance found in over-the-counter eye drops. The couple was married for 23 years and had six children.
Craig had previously been accused of smuggling letters out of prison with an inmate tied to his adult daughter. According to prosecutors, this involved her being asked to make a fake video of Angela Craig asking Craig to bring her poison.
He is also accused of asking another inmate to plant forged journal entries at the Craig home that showed Angela Craig killed herself. According to court documents, the inmate refused. Craig's original defense team reported that the prisoner had contacted authorities only after the preliminary hearing to review evidence in the case, which was widely covered by the media.
Prosecutors also alleged that Craig tried to take a more detailed and complex approach blame his wifeIn court documents, he said he asked another former fellow inmate to find attractive women who would agree to testify at his trial that he had affairs with and that after Angela Craig found out, he asked her to leave. Had refused to help in entrapment.
Police have described it as an alleged conspiracy of James Craig. “Heinous, complex and premeditated murder.”
Three of Jim and Angela Craig's six children are living with James Craig's brother, “48 hours” reported earlier this year. The other three are now adults, including his daughter Meera. On Mother's Day 2023, Mira wrote this message on social media: “By tomorrow it will be two months since my mother passed away. I have no words to express the heartache that my siblings and I feel every day. “
Mira's last words in that post: “I love you so much mama”… “We miss you.”