CNN – A portrait of the dentist and father of six emerges in an affidavit of probable cause for an arrest warrant accusing him of killing his wife by lacing her protein shakes with poison in 2023.
In the lengthy affidavit, people who knew James Craig, 46, described his purported descent:
A risk taker with a dental practice that was struggling financially and a tumultuous marriage.
Over more than 50 pages, an Aurora Police Department homicide detective laid out evidence – including witness statements, text messages and computer search histories – revealing what the department’s investigations division chief called “a heinous, complex and calculated murder.”
The affidavit of probable cause said, “James has shown the planning and intent 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 another woman.
On what was to be the first week of Craig’s trial, prosecutors and police accused him of plotting the murder of an Aurora detective who investigated the case.
Craig faces two additional felony charges including solicitation to commit first-degree murder, according to a court filing by prosecutors with the 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office.
The defendant attempted to convince a fellow inmate to commit the murder, according to police and the amended complaint. The document does not disclose the intended target, but Aurora police confirmed to CNN it was one of the detectives who investigated the case.
Neither the complaint nor the police department identified the detective in the alleged murder plot. The 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office has declined to provide more information.
The new charges were filed November 22, one day after Craig’s defense attorney, Harvey Steinberg, withdrew from the case …
