Dentist accused of poisoning wife plotted deaths of the case’s lead investigator and 3 others from jail, prosecutors say

Colorado prosecutors on Friday argued additional charges against James Craig, a dentist accused of fatally poisoning his wife, as new details were revealed in court about how he allegedly tried to get a fellow inmate to kill a detective on the case.

Colorado prosecutors on Friday argued additional charges against James Craig, a dentist accused of fatally poisoning his wife, as new details were revealed in court about how he allegedly tried to get a fellow inmate to kill a detective on the case. The dentist and father of six has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and other charges in the death of his wife, Angela Craig, who was 43. He is accused of killing her by lacing her protein shakes with poison in 2023. During a preliminary court hearing Friday in Centennial, prosecutors said James Craig is facing additional new felony charges related to plotting the killing of four people: solicitation to commit murder and solicitation to commit perjury. “The worst, dirtiest detective in the world is on my case. Her name is Bobbi Olson, we have to discredit her,” James Craig wrote in a letter from jail, referring to the lead detective investigating his wife’s murder. Craig allegedly tried to convince a fellow inmate, Nathaniel Harris, to kill Olson; along with an officer referred to in court only as Officer Hillstrand, who investigators say they have not been able to identify; and two other inmates, Tommy Nunley and Roderic “Rodger” Crittenden, both of whom were housed in the detention facility’s medical unit with Craig, prosecutors said. Prosecutors called two witnesses to testify in the nearly-three hour long hearing.