Colorado dentist found guilty of fatally poisoning wife

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A Colorado dentist has been found guilty of fatally poisoning his wife.
James Craig stood trial for the 2023 murder of his wife, Angela Craig. Prosecutors claimed he purchased arsenic and over-the-counter eye drops and secretly dosed his wife through her protein shakes and gave her a dose of cyanide while she was ill in the hospital.
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Angela Craig, 43, was hospitalized three times over the span of 10 days. On March 15, 2023, when she was admitted to the hospital for the last time, she was put on a ventilator. Soon after, the mother of six was declared medically brain dead and taken off life support, officials said.
A jury in Arapahoe County found the Aurora dentist guilty of first-degree murder on Wednesday as well as all five other counts, including solicitation to commit tampering with evidence, solicitation to commit perjury and solicitation to commit murder.
Prosecutors argued that he murdered his wife to get out of his marriage -- throughout which he was unfaithful -- without hurting his image. The defense, meanwhile, claimed the cheating led Angela Craig to be suicidal and that he was helping to fulfill her wishes.
In the weeks before Angela Craig died, authorities said James Craig used a computer at his dental practice and made searches including: "Is there such thing as an undetectable poison?" and "How long does it take to die from arsenic poisoning?"
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Prosecutors said during the trial that while Angela Craig was hospitalized for the last time, he gave her a dose of cyanide. A toxicology expert who testified during the trial said she had nearly twice the lethal limit of cyanide in her system at the time of her death.
Toxicology tests determined Angela Craig died of poisoning from cyanide and tetrahydrozoline, an ingredient commonly found in over-the-counter eye drops, according to the coroner.
James Craig did not take the stand and no witnesses were called by the defense during the two-week trial.
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