(29 Jul 2025)
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Centennial, Colorado — 29 July 2025
1. Defendant James Craig in court
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Centennial, Colorado — 29 July 2025
2. Wide of courthouse
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Centennial, Colorado — 29 July 2025
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Mauro, Chief Deputy District Attorney:
"Angela Craig was innocent, she had no part in her death, and the only person who says otherwise is this man, the person guilty of the ultimate betrayal, her murder."
4. Defendant James Craig in court
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Mauro, Chief Deputy District Attorney:
"She is the ultra-marathon runner of dealing with this man’s betrayal, but she couldn’t outrun it in University Hospital on March 15th."
6. Defendant James Craig in court
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Mauro, Chief Deputy District Attorney:
"And this is how he describes his marriage to Carrie Hageseth for a month. He calls it a situation, a problem. He says he’s frustrated, stuck, trapped, hopeless, helpless. These are all his words. You have all of these text messages."
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Centennial, Colorado — 29 July 2025
8. Medium of courthouse
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Centennial, Colorado — 29 July 2025
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Mauro, Chief Deputy District Attorney:
"This pink top shaker bottle. This is a murder weapon, this is one of the murder weapons."
10. Defendant James Craig in court
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Lisa Fine Moses, defense attorney:
"But at the end of the day, 23 years of marriage, 20 some years of him cheating on Angela Craig. He broke her. He broke her heart, he broke her soul, he broke her. And we see it in her journal."
12. Defendant James Craig in court
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13. SOUNDBITE (English) Lisa Fine Moses, defense attorney:
"’I failed him.’ These are Angela Craig’s word, ‘I failed him. She says, I deserve better, and that I’ll be fine, but I can’t help but think it’s me. I’m not what he wants. It almost killed me when he said he didn’t love me and I wasn’t enough. I feel so sad and the weight of everything just seems to be crushing all the air out of me. All I want to do when that happens is crawl into bed and cry myself to sleep. I haven’t figured out yet if I should give in or push me."
14. James Craig emotional in court, wipes nose and eyes
15. Medium of Judge Shay Whitaker
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Lisa Fine Moses, defense attorney:
"If you take the blinders off, if you take the perception off and you step back and you look and you think, it is not as simple as they would like it to be."
17. Lawyer rubbing Craig’s back after closing arguments
18. Wide of courtroom
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Centennial, Colorado — 29 July 2025
19. Medium of courthouse doors
STORYLINE:
A Colorado dentist accused of killing his wife by gradually poisoning her wanted out of a marriage he felt trapped in, but didn’t want to seek a divorce to protect his money and image, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
During closing arguments in the murder trial of James Craig, Senior Chief Deputy Michael Mauro disputed Craig’s claim that his wife wanted to kill herself rather than get divorced. Mauro said Angela Craig was a hopeful person who had pushed forward through Craig’s infidelity for years while leaning on her faith.
After poisonings, including of his wife’s smoothies, failed to kill her, prosecutors allege, Craig gave her a fatal dose of cyanide as she lay in her hospital bed on March 15, 2023, as doctors tried to figure out what was ailing her. She was declared brain dead soon after.
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