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Sword and Scale contains adult themes and violence and is
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not intended for all audiences.
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Listener discretion is advised.
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And in the relationship that it got to the point
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where it was kind of like a game of chicken.
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As far as, oh, you won't do this. Oh, yes,
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I will. No, you won't.
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It become probably fairly toxic.
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If you've ever wanted a t-shirt or a hat or
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some other shit from our store, now would be a really, really,
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really good time to get it. In fact, it's probably
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your last chance. And if you buy something now, you're
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probably going to get a little bit of a benefit
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because we're trying to get rid of all this shit
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in the garage, all this stuff, this merch that I
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don't want. So we're giving out free extra shit when
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you order anything while supplies last. So head on over
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to our store. You can find the link on the
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top of the page at swordscale.com. And if you order anything,
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we're going to throw in a bunch of extra free
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shit in your size and send it to you also.
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So get cracking, as they say. Jim Craig arrives home
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to find it's surrounded by police.
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Say, Brian, we got the husband right here.
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After a day like today, it's the last thing he needs.
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With his six kids, most of his wife Angie's nine siblings,
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and members of his church, he and his family were
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gathering to grieve.
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So we've been directed by our detectives that nobody's allowed
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back inside the house.
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Okay.
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So it's basically a death investigation right now. Wow. Yeah.
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Great.
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It's just after 11 p.m. And that day had been
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emotionally exhausting for everyone. Over nine days, Angie went from
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suddenly ill to critically sick, and then suffered a seizure
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and was declared brain dead.
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Okay, so... Go back in at all soon?
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Well, we got the dogs
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We let them out. But other than that, nobody else
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can go inside. Do you know how long that goes on?
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I don't know how long it'll be. So we got
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our detectives coming out, so.
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The police were seizing the house as part of the
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investigation into Angie's death. No one could enter until further notice.
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After suffering a tragic loss, the family now had nowhere
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to stay. They huddled together in the chilly Colorado night
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and tried to decide where everyone should go. Most of
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them came from out of town as soon as Angie's
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condition worsened. They were staying in borrowed apartments and hotel rooms.
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Angie had six kids who needed a place to grieve.
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While the police would later make sure everyone had a
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place to stay, at the time they had other things
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on their minds.
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Yeah, hey, this is Baker. So I'm down at the
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Robertsdale address, and I have the husband here. Do you
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guys need him?
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I would assume.
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I'm still on the way to the office to get
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the briefing, but the brief briefing that I.
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Did get yesterday will need him to come to headquarters.
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If he will. Okay, I think he's willing to.
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Do you want me to just send him up there?
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Because there's only two of us sitting on.
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The house here. Send him up.
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Yeah, I think the officer's going to... Yeah, you're Jim, right? Yeah,
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the other officer's going to have some information for you.
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It sounds like you're going to have to go to
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headquarters and talk to the detectives.
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Yeah.
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Okay. We'll give you the address. This officer's going to
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give you the address. So I have some information that
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I think you guys are looking for.
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The police had only been informed of Angie's mystery illness
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after she coded. Hospital staff had also reported that Angie's
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husband wanted to terminate her care. To hospital staff, Jim
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seemed oddly okay with taking her off life support.
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Eager, even.
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In other words, the police already suspected him. Then for
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him to spontaneously say, I have some information I think
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you guys are looking for, and I'm probably going to
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lawyer up. That didn't make him look any less suspicious.
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Put it to you that way.
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So you don't want to go down there right now?
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I don't want to, no.
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Okay.
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Can you just hang tight one second? Sure. And then Brian,
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did he tell you that he made a spontaneous statement
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to me that He was going to hold you up. Yeah.
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Because it said two years. Okay.
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Yep.
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Jim waited to hear back from detectives en route. He
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had information, but he wanted a lawyer. He paced around
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and made odd, small talk about how, at first, he
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thought the gathering at his home was for a vigil. Eventually,
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he stood awkwardly nearby, hands in pockets, staring at the
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ground like a dork. He stood in the front porch
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of his large home on a nice subdivision of Aurora.
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But he couldn't go inside.
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I already told him that you're not interested in talking
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to anybody right now.
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Yeah, I am very interested in talking.
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Yeah.
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I am very interested in talking.
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But just not right now, right?
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Right.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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Okay. So you're free to go. Okay.
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Do you know when we'll be able to get back
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in our house?
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No idea.
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I'm sorry.
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I really don't. Can you tell me what to what end?
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I mean, I don't get enough. It's a death investigation
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right now.
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Yeah.
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Okay. So they got to protect all the crime scene. Yeah.
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Okay.
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Just in case, you know, this is, there is, it
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is a crime scene.
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I don't know.
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Okay.
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Anyway, right now we can't see anybody.
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Yeah.
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I mean, you're free to go, you know, you're not
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under arrest or anything like that.
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So they'll be, they'll be in touch with you.
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Over the next few days, the detectives did get in
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touch with Jim. And they didn't hide the fact that
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the investigation seemed to be solely focused on him. They
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seized his phone, his computers, his home surveillance system. They
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even seized computers from his dental practice. In that time,
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he grieved the loss of his wife. After three days
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in the ICU, they took her off life support. They
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crafted the obligatory Facebook announcement. They planned the funeral. It
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was difficult to bear. Jim would often leave his kids
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with his extended family for long periods of time. But
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after those few days, the lead detective had called Jim
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and told him he could come pick up his phone.
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They didn't seem to need it anymore. After the kids
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went to bed, Jim's brother drove him down to the
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police station to get it.
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Oh, how are you?
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Hi.
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Hi, Bob. You are under arrest. Okay. For street murder.
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Okay.
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Jim was met in the parking lot by both detectives
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and several patrol officers. It was a ruse. Before Jim
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even realized what was going on, they had his hands
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behind his back. His brother had no idea what was happening.
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For you and the family, I mean, obviously this is shocking.
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From our standpoint, he's responsible for Angie's death.
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Okay?
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No doubt in our mind.
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Okay?
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It's hard to wrap your mind around that, I understand,
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especially for these poor kids. But, you know, we would
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obviously take him into custody this quick if we were
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not sure in
our minds from our investigation that he's
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responsible for her death.
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Okay?
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Okay.
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So, in this case then, are we just supposed to
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proceed through the funeral without him?
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Yes.
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He's not going to be able to get out of jail.
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I mean, if you guys.
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Will he be able to attend the funeral?
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No.
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No.
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No.
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And I think if you really sit back and wrap
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your mind around it, I don't think he should be
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at the funeral when he's the one that caused the
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funeral to happen.
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He's so innocent.
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It's true. It's true.
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But I just want to give you a heads up
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that that's why we're here and that's why he's got
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to win.
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Whatever detectives had.
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Learned in those few days, they believed it strongly enough
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to ask a judge for a murder warrant almost immediately
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after Angie's death.
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Yeah, I mean, it's done. It's downloaded. I had to
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bring it back to the lab.
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But because we have all the info, that's not why
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I was coming here tonight. That wasn't.
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Nope.
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Tonight.
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No.
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I thought that's why I was coming.
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Right.
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So now you're here.
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So they do have an arrest warrant for the murder
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of Angela.
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My gosh.
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My gosh. Everyone grieves in their own way, I guess.
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Everyone reacts differently to bad news, but responding, my gosh,
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to the news that you've been charged with murder kind
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of undersells the surprise a little bit.
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So I know that.
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You've expressed a few times that you have the answers
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and want to tell us.
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I just want to give you that opportunity.
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To tell us what you know.
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And if you have insight on kind of what happened or,
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I mean, I know you've talked to DHS, Department of
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Human Services, and you've kind of alluded when I've talked
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to you.
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I just wanted to just give.
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You the opportunity. I really want that.
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I haven't had my phone, so I haven't been able
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to talk to the attorney that I reached out to,
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because as you can imagine, this is terrifying for me.
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And you both seem very nice and like you're on
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my side, but I know how this works. And I
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don't want to incriminate myself or say anything stupid, or
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there are answers. There are answers, and this makes a
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lot of sense once those answers come out, but I
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don't know how to navigate this. I've never done this before,
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and I'm scared to death.
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That's understandable.
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Yeah.
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Jim again dangles the idea of having all the answers.
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His wife died suddenly and mysteriously. What answers could he
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possibly have that he can't just share?
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What happens if.
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Right now I say I just really need an attorney
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with me and I can't talk to you? Then what
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happens next?
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Then uniformed officers here will just take you down to
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the jail.
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Okay.
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And then what happens if I talk to you and
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tell you everything I know?
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Then what?
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I still go to jail and I wait for 30
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to 60 days to see.
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If I can get out. Well, I don't know.
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I mean.
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You have a warrant, so you're going to go to
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jail today. I can't change that. Do you have something
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to say, and maybe I can verify it, and that'll
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clear you and take away all the evidence that I have.
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But again, nothing will change the fact that you're going.
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To go to jail today.
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Even the detectives seem confused by Jim. What a confusing, odd,
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awkward character he seems to be. His voice is low
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and raspy, as if he's been crying for days, or
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as if he's playing the Kevin Spacey character in Seven.
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He didn't behave like a typical murder suspect. He was polite,
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but frightened. Agreeable, but creepy. At times, he seemed almost
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naive about what was going on. But then he'd say
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something that suggested he understood far more than he was
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letting on. He said he wanted to cooperate and tell
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them everything, but he couldn't. Yet he kept letting little
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bits of his story slip out. He just couldn't shut
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that yapper, you know? Some of y'all have that same problem.
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I have all of the answers that you need, but
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I can't, I can't talk.
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I can't.
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The one attorney that I've talked to has said, don't
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say anything because you could just incriminate yourself and I'm
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totally naive in this.
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I don't know what I'm doing.
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And you both seem very nice, but I know that
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your job is to help me away.
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Well, Our job is to figure out what happened. Our
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point is not to put you away. It's to put
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the person away that caused this to your wife. And
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that's where we're at.
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What if that person is my wife?
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We don't have that information, though.
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What an interesting hypothetical question. What if the person responsible
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for my wife's death was my wife?
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Huh?
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What, what, what?
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Philosophy.
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Philosophy. Jim kept saying he had all the answers, but
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every time detectives gave him an opportunity to provide them,
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he stopped short. He seemed desperate to know what they
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knew without telling them what he knew.
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Oh, this is horrible.
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Detectives, what would you do if you were in my position?
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I feel for you. I really do.
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I trust you. So what would you do?
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And I can't give you your advice and I can't
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tell you what to do.
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Yeah.
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I mean, it's really just getting down to the truth.
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Yeah, but I don't want to incriminate myself. You know,
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I'm really being careful because I know how this looks.
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I knew exactly how this was going to look. Has
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the toxicology report come back?
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Um, for, for what?
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For Angela, I know they were running talks on her.
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I mean, there's a ton of toxicology. I mean, they
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just don't know what happened. They don't know what caused
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any of this, so.
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Toxicology? Angie had spent nine days suffering from a mysterious
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illness doctors couldn't identify. Why was Jim already talking about toxins?
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So then, what grounds did you arrest me under then?
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Again, I'm going to default to kind of what Detective
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Harris said. I mean, we have a lot of questions,
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as I'm sure you do. And I can't, so it's
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kind of when we get into talking about the actual
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specifics of the case, that really can't occur until we're
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either going to talk or we're not.
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I would like to contact the attorney that I was
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thinking of using, and I reached out to him, and
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then you guys took my phone, and I don't know
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if they've tried to reach out to me or not.
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And there's basically a straight-up.
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Written, here's everything that happened from my iPhone that I
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wrote the night before you took my phone. I wanted
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to sit down and figure out the timeline so that
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I could remember.
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Exactly what happened and when. I mean, that's all there.
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And so I don't know.
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I don't know.
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I'm so sorry.
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I don't know what to take to the scene.
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You don't have to be sorry. I mean, this is
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a scary
situation.
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I know.
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And I didn't do this. I don't know how to
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exonerate myself. I don't know what to do. I'm scared
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to death. I don't know what to do.
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I want desperately to talk to you because I trust you,
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but what happens if you guys just put me on?
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What happens if you're not really on my side? Or
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I could say something that makes me look horrible, and
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then somebody's attorney with an ax to grind puts me away.
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I don't want that.
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It was a good idea for Jim to contact a
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lawyer because... They were not on his side. They never are.
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What Jim didn't know was how much of the final
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weeks of Angie's life detectives had already reconstructed. And while
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he tried not to speak to the police, pieces of
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another explanation kept appearing in what he said.
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I'm sorry that we're hearing of this situation.
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I am too. I'm sorry that I didn't just let
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her go through with this here today.
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What a chatty Cathy this guy is. He sounds like
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Adam Bush. Before police ever arrested him, Jim had already
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typed out a detailed timeline of the days leading up
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to Angie's collapse. In the interview, he wanted to know
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about toxicology. He made a cryptic remark about wishing he'd
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Let her go through with this years ago. And again
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and again, he insisted there were answers that would eventually
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make everything make sense. To the police, the story was
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already clear. They believed they already knew who killed Angie.
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What they still needed to understand was why.
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Now we take you to Aurora, where we're gathering new
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information on what investigators are calling a heinous, complex, and
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calculated murder.
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An Aurora dentist and a father of six is in
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jail tonight.
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Crazy, crazy story.
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Accused of murdering his wife. The only thing more shocking
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than the sudden death of a loved one is their
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spouse being arrested in connection. The only thing more shocking
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than that is the whole country knowing about it. The
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story of the Aurora dentist plotting to kill his wife
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made national and eventually international news Angie's family and even
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Jim's relatives couldn't believe it Jim and Angie had been
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married for more than 20 years They lived a privileged
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life They had all the material things, you know They
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also raised six kids, two of whom are now adults.
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Their oldest son was starting a family of his own.
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The Craigs seemed happy. Their group of family and friends
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was tight and had been for years. Jim's best friend
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from childhood was still his best friend. They had grown
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up together, and even their wives became best friends.
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Andrew's Nikki's best friend, has been, always will be. She's
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the best, she's the greatest friend that Nikki's ever had.
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We went to dental school in the same place, and
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so we lived close to them. We lived like three
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doors down from Jim and Angie. Our friends lived on
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our street.
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They were at our wedding. We've raised 10 kids together, so.
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We'd hang out a lot. Our kids were at their
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house all the time. Our kids still went to their house.
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To Mike and Nikki Harmon, Jim and Angie's relationship was great.
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They had spent years as each other's best friends. Jim
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met Angie in college. They got married in December of
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1999 when she was only 20 and Jim was 22.
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Jim was ambitious and charismatic and Angie loved that. He
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even started his own business during his first year of
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dental school.
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He created a business and like actually made some pretty
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good money like He was doing it out of his
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little townhome dental school, right?
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And it's like, who has time to do that? He does.
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He types like 100 words a minute. He has a
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photographic memory.
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Jim made about $ 100, 000 that year before he was sued
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and had to take his product off the market. After
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dental school, the friend stayed in touch. Jim graduated in
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06 and moved to Aurora, Colorado to start his own practice.
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When Mike Harmon graduated and was considering moving to Colorado also,
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Jim offered him a job. They needed health insurance.
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And Jim said, well, I'm looking for an associate. I've
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got group insurance. I'll put her on day one if
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you want to come work for me. And it was
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kind of like, well, yeah, I mean, like, that would
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be an answer to kind of our problems right now. Like,
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you get a job, you get insurance, like, all the things.
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So that's what we did. So they worked together for
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two years, a little over two years. He would help anyone,
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do whatever, like really generous.
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And life unfolded from there. Between the Craggs and the Harmans,
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the best friends would raise ten kids together. You couldn't
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tell where one family started and the other ended. That's
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how close they were. And the Harmans were witness to
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their love.
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They entertained all the time, New Year's Eve parties, you know,
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like making dinner.
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He got into cooking for a while. That was a hobby.
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That was one of them. Like he was making creme
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brulee and crab legs.
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You know, like they went on vacation all the time
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and all the things.
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And we went on a cruise with them. And Jim
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was just, he was filming Angie, like I love you.
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And he was very over the top with everything.
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To anyone looking on, Jim and Angie were deeply in love.
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They raised a family, enjoyed life, and even worked together.
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Angie ran the front office and Jim did the dentistry.
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But behind the facade of a loving couple and happy family,
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Angie was struggling to keep it all together. Very few
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people knew about Angie's struggles. One who did was her
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older sister, Toni. About five years before her death, Angie
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called her sister one day, a day they normally wouldn't talk.
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And so I was cooking dinner and I pick up
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the phone.
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I'm like, hello?
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I'm like, Sunday, what are you doing? And she was crying.
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And I said, what's wrong? And she said, I should
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probably start from the beginning. And I'm thinking, the beginning
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of what? I mean, if I could help you understand
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how much time I'd spent with them. Our kids are
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the same age. I'm 13 years older than her, but
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we got married three months apart. We saw each other
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all the time. And yeah, my baby was 10 months
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when she was having her first. And, you know, so
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I'm thinking, and he was always very nice, very, you
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should come and we should this, and we love having you.
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And so she said, he, she told me that he
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had multiple kind of hookups. back then. Okay. That's the
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conversation she and we had, that he'd had a bunch
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of hookups and said he'd been addicted to porn for
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17 years. And then he told her that he'd had
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an affair or had a, a fling or whatever with
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somebody at a dental conference and that he came home
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and announced that he'd been having an affair and he
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was leaving her. And she was distraught, of course, because
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she'd been trying to hold their family together for all
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these years. Um, And she was trying to figure out
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whether she should just leave or try to fight for
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it or see is he serious.
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Angie was deeply religious and highly devoted to her family.
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She wanted to keep it together at almost any cost.
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But Jim's multiple affairs were just the tip of the iceberg.
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Hidden beneath the glossy exterior of their life were more secrets.
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I'm a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of
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Latter-day Saints.
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He is too.
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And so is Angie. And so he lost membership privileges
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a couple of years ago for adultery. I didn't know
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this at the time. And he approached me. Him and
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Angie came to our house to sort of like tell
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us what was going on.
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The precipice for it, I guess, was not like, we
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need to get this off our chest. It actually was
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more that within our church, he was going through a
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counsel process.
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Like a disciplinary council for what has happened.
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And my husband was going to be sitting on that
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disciplinary council. So he was like, before you show up
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on Thursday night for this meeting, let me tell you
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what's been going on. He's like, it got.
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So bad at one point. I drugged her one night.
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I was going to kill myself.
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He goes, I gave Angie this so she could sleep.
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So she could sleep through the night. He didn't say drug.
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I was going to inject myself with this.
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I didn't want her to wake me up because I
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knew she would try to stop me.
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I wanted to protect Angie.
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I wanted to protect Angie.
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Jim's act, and his confession to it, shattered the image
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that their best friends had of them. They drifted apart
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after that. Angie felt alone.
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I think part of it was like, now that you
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know all our crap, it's weird. You know, like.
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Angie had confided in her sister, Tony, too. Tony started
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to see through Jim's behavior.
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And then she called me one day and she was mad.
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And I'm like, of course, nature of life when someone's
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cheated on you, right? And she said that he had
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sedated her and his reasoning behind that was that he
505
00:27:43.910 --> 00:27:46.369
sedated her so that she wouldn't wake up so he
506
00:27:46.410 --> 00:27:48.930
could go in their bathroom and kill himself. And she
507
00:27:48.950 --> 00:27:50.880
was just angry that he had sedated her and she
508
00:27:50.890 --> 00:27:54.099
didn't know that she was being sedated. Because she takes
509
00:27:54.140 -->
00:27:57.440
lots of allergy meds and she's got all kinds of,
510
00:27:57.460 --> 00:28:00.279
she's had sinus infections, I mean tons. So it's not
511
00:28:00.319 --> 00:28:04.740
unusual for her husband who can prescribe medicine to give
512
00:28:04.779 --> 00:28:08.759
her something. But it was a paradigm shift because now
513
00:28:08.839 --> 00:28:10.960
she's not focused on the affair. She's focused on, oh
514
00:28:11.140 --> 00:28:14.589
my gosh, he's going to kill himself. And I know
515
00:28:14.650 --> 00:28:19.589
at the time they were both going to multiple or
516
00:28:19.630 --> 00:28:24.730
had begun going to multiple counselors. She was in therapy,
517
00:28:25.690 --> 00:28:28.569
individual therapy to deal with the effects of his affairs
518
00:28:28.630 --> 00:28:32.079
and the years of betrayal. And because she wanted to
519
00:28:32.099 --> 00:28:35.220
keep her family together. And then she was in couples
520
00:28:35.240 --> 00:28:38.420
therapy with him. And then he went to three different therapists,
521
00:28:38.440 --> 00:28:44.200
like a sex addiction therapist, individual therapy. Like mental health
522
00:28:44.259 --> 00:28:45.660
and then couples.
523
00:28:46.759 --> 00:28:49.750
Both Jim and Angie would start going to therapy. And
524
00:28:49.769 --> 00:28:53.089
things seemed to be getting better. But soon Jim would
525
00:28:53.109 --> 00:28:55.269
have to file for bankruptcy after COVID.
526
00:28:56.109 --> 00:29:01.299
Because he had done severe damage to his practice. He
527
00:29:01.359 --> 00:29:04.619
wasn't going to work for real. He was canceling patients.
528
00:29:05.140 --> 00:29:06.140
He was spending money.
529
00:29:07.029 --> 00:29:10.269
They spend money like it's going out of style. We
530
00:29:10.289 --> 00:29:12.309
thought they were so well off. It's like, oh yeah,
531
00:29:12.710 --> 00:29:16.359
like they were working really hard to make it look
532
00:29:16.380 --> 00:29:20.500
that way. I think for a while they were probably okay.
533
00:29:21.460 --> 00:29:25.339
Financially it was probably okay. I think for a lot
534
00:29:25.420 --> 00:29:31.609
while Angie probably didn't know. But for sure there came
535
00:29:31.619 --> 00:29:35.970
a day where it was like, do we have money?
536
00:29:37.190 --> 00:29:39.670
We still have like a ton of cars and all
537
00:29:39.710 --> 00:29:41.339
kinds of I was like, yeah, I don't know what
538
00:29:41.359 --> 00:29:42.799
they're doing, but it's not good.
539
00:29:43.059 --> 00:29:44.200
Like it's all fake.
540
00:29:44.759 --> 00:29:48.089
But I think after a while it became, everyone thinks
541
00:29:48.109 --> 00:29:49.069
that we're this thing.
542
00:29:49.769 --> 00:29:50.029
Right.
543
00:29:50.049 --> 00:29:51.789
Like the keeping up with the Joneses. Yeah.
544
00:29:51.829 --> 00:29:53.849
And they were like, people think that we're happy and
545
00:29:53.890 --> 00:29:57.029
people think that we're well off and all the things.
546
00:29:57.109 --> 00:29:58.650
And it was like, it's.
547
00:29:58.609 --> 00:29:59.519
All a house of cards.
548
00:30:00.539 --> 00:30:04.940
They looked like they had money, but didn't, really. They
549
00:30:04.960 --> 00:30:09.009
looked happy, but Jim admitted to having multiple affairs. They
550
00:30:09.029 --> 00:30:14.009
were going to need therapy, together and individually. Except Jim
551
00:30:14.710 --> 00:30:16.089
still thought they should get divorced.
552
00:30:17.009 --> 00:30:20.690
So he continued to press. You need to leave me.
553
00:30:21.369 --> 00:30:23.799
I'm not good for you. I was in the kitchen
554
00:30:23.859 --> 00:30:26.079
and he said, I decided the best thing for you
555
00:30:26.119 --> 00:30:29.140
to do is to divorce me. I'm not good for you.
556
00:30:29.200 --> 00:30:33.019
I've ruined your life. And I think that is the best.
557
00:30:33.880 --> 00:30:36.779
So he didn't flat out say, like, I am leaving you. Like,
558
00:30:37.039 --> 00:30:39.640
I filed for divorce. No, he wanted her to leave him.
559
00:30:40.039 --> 00:30:40.220
Right.
560
00:30:40.259 --> 00:30:41.980
So it was kind of just leave me.
561
00:30:42.000 --> 00:30:42.440
I'm not good.
562
00:30:42.460 --> 00:30:44.559
You need to leave me. You need to divorce me.
563
00:30:44.779 --> 00:30:45.880
It's the best thing.
564
00:30:47.019 --> 00:30:49.839
Angie tried to fix her marriage to help her husband
565
00:30:50.660 --> 00:30:54.960
and maintain her life. Then on December 9th, just three
566
00:30:55.059 --> 00:30:58.849
months before her death, she had caught Jim doing something odd.
567
00:30:59.660 --> 00:31:02.680
So on December 9th at 1.08 p.m., that's a Friday.
568
00:31:02.710 --> 00:31:06.289
I'm not ready to talk yet, just yet. But I
569
00:31:06.349 --> 00:31:08.869
need to reach out because I'm feeling really broken and
570
00:31:08.930 --> 00:31:13.809
really alone. I'm leaving Jim. Not until after Christmas, but
571
00:31:13.839 --> 00:31:16.680
he's made it impossible to stay. I don't really have
572
00:31:16.720 --> 00:31:20.200
a plan yet. Mostly I'm just alternating between crying and numb.
573
00:31:20.440 --> 00:31:22.119
I hope you're there for me, or I know you're
574
00:31:22.140 --> 00:31:24.559
there for me. And I love you for it. I'll
575
00:31:24.599 --> 00:31:27.400
talk when I can. And I miss my mom.
576
00:31:28.349 --> 00:31:29.009
So December 10th.
577
00:31:29.829 --> 00:31:33.450
How are you holding up? I'm exhausted. I'm hungry and
578
00:31:33.470 --> 00:31:35.720
my head hurts and I need a nap. It wasn't
579
00:31:35.740 --> 00:31:38.740
what I thought it was. So here's where he shifted
580
00:31:38.799 --> 00:31:43.380
the narrative. It wasn't what I thought it was. And
581
00:31:43.440 --> 00:31:46.700
I'm staying. But it's something and it's a mess and
582
00:31:46.759 --> 00:31:49.680
I'll have to call and explain. It's all just so
583
00:31:49.740 --> 00:31:53.829
broken and stupid.
December 11th. I don't even know what
584
00:31:53.869 --> 00:31:57.210
to explain or how to explain what happened. So I'm
585
00:31:57.230 --> 00:32:00.250
going to give you the short version. I thought Jim
586
00:32:00.269 --> 00:32:03.829
was cheating again. He wasn't. He was lying and talking
587
00:32:03.869 --> 00:32:06.859
to other people, mostly women online, but none of it
588
00:32:06.900 --> 00:32:11.059
was even emotional, sexual, or personal. What it boils down
589
00:32:11.140 --> 00:32:13.480
to is Jim needs to finish digging into his broken
590
00:32:13.519 --> 00:32:18.349
relationship with his mom. His need for validation from and
591
00:32:18.440 --> 00:32:21.309
control over women in whatever way he can get it
592
00:32:21.789 --> 00:32:24.789
is strong, and I don't doubt if I hadn't found out,
593
00:32:25.029 --> 00:32:27.130
this would have eventually gone the way it did last time.
594
00:32:28.200 --> 00:32:31.000
He found a website for people who are struggling financially
595
00:32:31.019 --> 00:32:34.079
and need help where they're supposed to be able to
596
00:32:34.119 --> 00:32:38.670
find odd jobs for money. But it has really turned
597
00:32:38.690 --> 00:32:42.690
into a site for predators who give money and expect sex.
598
00:32:44.049 --> 00:32:47.630
Fancy prostitution. He was giving money and feeling like the
599
00:32:47.670 --> 00:32:50.690
best human ever when he didn't demand sex, but he
600
00:32:50.730 --> 00:32:54.319
was lying to me and talking to other women frequently.
601
00:32:54.950 --> 00:32:57.769
His explanation, it was in order to get them to
602
00:32:57.829 --> 00:33:00.970
like him and think he was amazing, and then he
603
00:33:01.029 --> 00:33:02.549
moved on to the next person.
604
00:33:03.390 --> 00:33:06.150
Jim was spending money they didn't have, giving it to
605
00:33:06.269 --> 00:33:09.819
women he didn't know, just so he could get that warm,
606
00:33:10.059 --> 00:33:10.799
fuzzy feeling.
607
00:33:11.839 --> 00:33:12.170
Weird.
608
00:33:13.180 --> 00:33:16.339
Time would pass. Angie and Jim would stay together, and
609
00:33:16.440 --> 00:33:20.119
Jim's new partnership with Ryan Redfern was helping him work
610
00:33:20.400 --> 00:33:23.089
his way out of debt. They seemed to be through
611
00:33:23.130 --> 00:33:26.849
the rough patch in their marriage. The weekend before her
612
00:33:26.890 --> 00:33:30.809
mysterious illness started, Angie spent time with her sister, Toni,
613
00:33:31.299 --> 00:33:36.339
in Utah. They attended Roots Tech, a genealogy convention.
614
00:33:37.039 --> 00:33:38.579
You guys went and did normal things.
615
00:33:39.460 --> 00:33:40.900
It was a normal... Normal.
616
00:33:40.980 --> 00:33:43.740
I picked her up. We went downtown. We got dinner.
617
00:33:43.759 --> 00:33:46.430
We went to the hotel. My other sister-in-law was waiting
618
00:33:46.470 --> 00:33:46.869
for us.
619
00:33:47.950 --> 00:33:51.569
Of course, Toni asked Angie how
things were going with Jim.
620
00:33:52.369 --> 00:33:54.559
And she said, I think it's been good for him
621
00:33:54.599 --> 00:33:56.539
to just be there with the kids. It's a good distraction.
622
00:33:56.680 --> 00:33:59.259
He's had to, you know, just take their kids sounded.
623
00:33:59.839 --> 00:34:02.049
I never spoke to him, but it sounded like he
624
00:34:02.069 --> 00:34:04.829
was in good spirits. She felt confident. She wasn't overly.
625
00:34:05.490 --> 00:34:05.809
Anxious.
626
00:34:06.190 --> 00:34:08.210
She was leaving all the classes to call. And she
627
00:34:08.250 --> 00:34:11.809
didn't come back after? Upset, no. She came back and
628
00:34:11.829 --> 00:34:13.289
we'd all sit around and talk and eat all the
629
00:34:13.309 --> 00:34:15.449
snacks we brought that we probably shouldn't be eating. Right,
630
00:34:15.690 --> 00:34:17.570
because that's what we do when we go to sleep.
631
00:34:18.090 --> 00:34:20.000
She'd set her alarm and set her white noise and
632
00:34:20.079 --> 00:34:21.860
go to sleep and she was up first taking a
633
00:34:21.880 --> 00:34:26.539
shower and normal. 100% normal.
634
00:34:27.380 --> 00:34:29.659
They had a great weekend and to Tony it seemed
635
00:34:29.679 --> 00:34:32.619
like Angie and Jim were working through their issues, but
636
00:34:33.449 --> 00:34:38.030
The next day, Monday, March 6th, the happy, joking, carefree
637
00:34:38.130 --> 00:34:39.489
Angie was gone.
638
00:34:40.269 --> 00:34:42.690
I can't really explain because my brain doesn't want to work.
639
00:34:43.210 --> 00:34:45.989
Something feels really weird in my head. And my body
640
00:34:46.050 --> 00:34:47.730
is sluggish and Jim's going to take me to the
641
00:34:47.769 --> 00:34:50.590
doctor this morning. I said, well, that's not good and
642
00:34:50.639 --> 00:34:53.320
a little scary. When are you going in? He took
643
00:34:53.340 --> 00:34:55.139
the girls to a friend and he should be home soon.
644
00:34:55.880 --> 00:34:57.619
I said, well, what do you think it is? She said,
645
00:34:57.679 --> 00:35:01.019
no idea. You going to the ER? Do you have
646
00:35:01.039 --> 00:35:04.210
an appointment? She said, the ER. I said, keep me
647
00:35:04.250 --> 00:35:06.170
posted or I'll check in in a while to see
648
00:35:06.230 --> 00:35:09.340
if there's an answer. Are you nervous? She goes, I'm
649
00:35:09.380 --> 00:35:12.199
not necessarily nervous. I just don't understand why I went
650
00:35:12.260 --> 00:35:14.599
from perfect. Because she rode her bike like she did
651
00:35:14.659 --> 00:35:18.519
every morning, had a protein shake that she said Jim
652
00:35:18.539 --> 00:35:23.679
made for her, and then went to not feeling well. Yeah,
653
00:35:23.780 --> 00:35:25.340
and then she just went to not feeling well.
654
00:35:26.199 --> 00:35:29.639
Angie's illness was sudden enough and severe enough for Jim
655
00:35:29.659 --> 00:35:32.409
to take her to the emergency room. She would
be
656
00:35:32.449 --> 00:35:35.489
released that same day with no explanation of her symptoms.
657
00:35:36.619 --> 00:35:39.210
The following day, Toni texted to check in on her.
658
00:35:39.960 --> 00:35:44.760
So she says, Tuesday morning, 8.43, I said, okay, spill it.
659
00:35:45.159 --> 00:35:49.420
How are things this morning? She said, bad. Now I'm
660
00:35:49.480 --> 00:35:52.449
stuffy and seeing spots. Honestly though, I think I'm sick
661
00:35:52.489 --> 00:35:54.550
and this is one of those lovely side effects. See,
662
00:35:54.570 --> 00:35:57.190
she goes immediately to some kind of ear infection or something.
663
00:35:57.610 --> 00:35:59.630
Inner ear infection and everything that comes with it.
664
00:36:00.590 --> 00:36:05.260
Angie suffered from Almost chronic sinus and ear infections. She
665
00:36:05.300 --> 00:36:10.510
had severe allergies to all animals. So whenever she felt bad,
666
00:36:10.570 --> 00:36:15.030
she would default to that diagnosis. Tony wasn't convinced that
667
00:36:15.369 --> 00:36:17.010
an ear infection fit.
668
00:36:17.909 --> 00:36:20.329
I said, someone give me a good remedy for a headache,
669
00:36:20.349 --> 00:36:23.309
4-ivuprofen and a Midol. She's like, yeah, I took them
670
00:36:23.369 --> 00:36:25.349
about three hours ago, but I think I need sleep
671
00:36:25.369 --> 00:36:28.199
for the rest of it. I said, and food. So
672
00:36:28.280 --> 00:36:32.360
I had him deliver Panera. So I said, she's like,
673
00:36:32.400 --> 00:36:34.420
I'm alone with the babies for an hour or so.
674
00:36:34.900 --> 00:36:38.239
And then I can sleep. I've been slowly snacking. I
675
00:36:38.280 --> 00:36:40.199
also punched myself in the nose trying to wrangle the
676
00:36:40.219 --> 00:36:43.159
wrap off my arm yesterday. So that's not helping. So
677
00:36:43.179 --> 00:36:45.159
do you feel like you need some help? Is your
678
00:36:45.179 --> 00:36:48.300
dizziness ready? Or is your dizziness really bad? Jim just
679
00:36:48.340 --> 00:36:50.659
told me you passed out this morning. Be honest. How
680
00:36:50.699 --> 00:36:53.579
are you feeling? She said, he's such a bum.
681
00:36:53.800 --> 00:36:54.099
I did.
682
00:36:54.139 --> 00:36:58.940
But that wasn't not long after I woke up. I
683
00:36:58.980 --> 00:37:03.050
still felt a lot like yesterday, vision still blurred and
684
00:37:03.070 --> 00:37:04.789
stuff as well as spots in my eyes and a
685
00:37:04.829 --> 00:37:07.090
huge headache. I got up and tried to feed the
686
00:37:07.110 --> 00:37:08.869
bird and got dizzy, so I put my hand on
687
00:37:08.889 --> 00:37:11.849
the island. I have no memory of falling. I'm much
688
00:37:11.909 --> 00:37:15.690
better now, no spots, no blurriness, just tired. I said,
689
00:37:15.710 --> 00:37:18.260
it's good that you're at least feeling somewhat better. She said,
690
00:37:19.820 --> 00:37:22.340
I worked out on Monday for crying out loud. I
691
00:37:22.400 --> 00:37:24.980
was fine until all of a sudden I wasn't.
692
00:37:26.019 --> 00:37:29.690
No diagnosis seemed to fit. Her symptoms came and went,
693
00:37:29.769 --> 00:37:34.650
and their severity fluctuated. It didn't make any sense. She
694
00:37:34.710 --> 00:37:38.329
hoped she would get better, but then, suddenly, she got worse.
695
00:37:39.369 --> 00:37:42.389
Wednesday, 6.23, did you get a nap? Did it help? Hi,
696
00:37:42.690 --> 00:37:45.590
she didn't respond, which is highly, as you can see, unusual.
697
00:37:46.590 --> 00:37:49.550
Wednesday at 6 something. Wednesday at 6.23, I said, did
698
00:37:49.570 --> 00:37:50.280
you get a nap?
699
00:37:50.320 --> 00:37:50.840
Did it help?
700
00:37:51.780 --> 00:37:54.099
Hi, sorry, yesterday was a rough headache and nausea day.
701
00:37:54.929 --> 00:37:58.639
So now this is Thursday? This is Thursday at 6.56 a.m.
702
00:37:59.780 --> 00:38:01.960
Yesterday was a rough headache and nausea day, and I
703
00:38:01.980 --> 00:38:05.579
took meds and went to bed as soon as someone
704
00:38:06.300 --> 00:38:09.460
big got home. I'm dizzy and tired, and my muscles
705
00:38:09.480 --> 00:38:11.780
don't want to work today, but I'm hoping that will
706
00:38:11.800 --> 00:38:14.510
go away. The headache seems to be gone. I'm drinking
707
00:38:14.530 --> 00:38:15.489
a protein drink and.
708
00:38:15.429 --> 00:38:16.670
Lots of liquids this morning.
709
00:38:17.730 --> 00:38:20.409
Angie would go back to the emergency room on Thursday,
710
00:38:21.030 --> 00:38:24.920
three days after her symptoms started. As hospital staff started
711
00:38:25.119 --> 00:38:30.300
administering tests, they uncovered another more troubling symptom.
712
00:38:31.239 --> 00:38:33.139
She goes, I will absolutely admit that my blood pressure
713
00:38:33.159 --> 00:38:36.019
has been lower than usual. But I wonder if it
714
00:38:36.099 --> 00:38:40.269
is something to do with how sedentary I've been. Just
715
00:38:40.389 --> 00:38:43.170
now it was 78 over 55.
716
00:38:43.170 --> 00:38:44.050
Super young nurse.
717
00:38:44.929 --> 00:38:49.869
I even hear her panicking as she relays the info
718
00:38:49.889 --> 00:38:50.730
to the other nurse.
719
00:38:51.829 --> 00:38:55.150
The hospital ended up admitting she Angie to observe her overnight.
720
00:38:56.050 --> 00:38:58.750
They thought it would be just one night, but she
721
00:38:58.789 --> 00:39:00.030
was still there through the weekend.
722
00:39:01.079 --> 00:39:01.460
Sunday.
723
00:39:02.460 --> 00:39:07.179
So he texts us at 1 0 8 AM. And
724
00:39:07.199 --> 00:39:10.579
it's just crashed tonight. That's how he started. I was
725
00:39:10.599 --> 00:39:12.449
sleeping by her in the hospital on a stool next
726
00:39:12.469 --> 00:39:14.230
to the bed. And suddenly a couple of nurses came
727
00:39:14.250 --> 00:39:16.889
into the room and said that our oxygen saturation was
728
00:39:16.909 --> 00:39:18.630
down in the fifties and they were trying to
revive
729
00:39:18.670 --> 00:39:22.019
her to get her awake and breathing. She was super lethargic,
730
00:39:22.099 --> 00:39:25.340
difficult to arouse. They were finally able to get her
731
00:39:25.380 --> 00:39:28.130
stabilized on oxygen, and they just came in and took
732
00:39:28.150 --> 00:39:29.969
a bunch of blood samples to see if she was okay.
733
00:39:30.730 --> 00:39:33.190
if there's an infection in her blood. And they are
734
00:39:33.269 --> 00:39:36.909
also going to check for troponins, troponin levels, which is
735
00:39:36.949 --> 00:39:39.179
something I think to do with her heart. The doctor
736
00:39:39.219 --> 00:39:42.420
has ordered an EEG this morning in case she's had
737
00:39:42.440 --> 00:39:46.179
a seizure. I didn't know anything was even wrong. It
738
00:39:46.199 --> 00:39:48.320
just seemed like she was snoring really loudly next to
739
00:39:48.380 --> 00:39:51.219
me in my inner bed. Anyway, she's stable now, and
740
00:39:51.260 --> 00:39:54.780
I hope this message doesn't wake anybody up. Just wanted
741
00:39:54.800 --> 00:39:55.610
you all to know.
742
00:39:56.409 --> 00:40:00.150
With yet another sudden symptom, family and friends were starting
743
00:40:00.170 --> 00:40:03.230
to get really scared. No one knew what was going
744
00:40:03.289 --> 00:40:06.849
on with Angie. All of a sudden, her oxygen levels
745
00:40:06.889 --> 00:40:11.320
were low. By Tuesday, her symptoms had improved, and she
746
00:40:11.360 --> 00:40:16.559
was discharged from the hospital, still with no diagnosis. She
747
00:40:16.599 --> 00:40:19.280
returned home with an oxygen tank and a blood pressure
748
00:40:19.380 --> 00:40:20.869
cuff But when I.
749
00:40:20.829 --> 00:40:23.130
Got home, I went in to greet her, and she
750
00:40:23.150 --> 00:40:25.050
was sacked out on the bed and looked super tired
751
00:40:25.090 --> 00:40:28.570
and pale. She's cold, and she asked me to put
752
00:40:28.690 --> 00:40:31.349
my hand on her back and tell her if she
753
00:40:31.369 --> 00:40:34.159
was shaking or not. She wasn't, but I guess she
754
00:40:34.199 --> 00:40:38.500
felt like she was. So she was having these internal tremors,
755
00:40:39.460 --> 00:40:42.539
and she felt like she was shaking outside, but you
756
00:40:42.579 --> 00:40:44.679
couldn't feel it, but she could feel it on the inside.
757
00:40:45.519 --> 00:40:49.230
All my research says that's central nervous system damage. And
758
00:40:49.309 --> 00:40:50.849
she said, and then she talked to me a little
759
00:40:50.889 --> 00:40:52.929
bit about the tremors. And I'm like, that's really weird.
760
00:40:52.969 --> 00:40:54.309
And she goes, I don't know what it is, but
761
00:40:54.329 --> 00:40:56.190
I'm hoping as I get better, it'll just go away.
762
00:40:56.710 --> 00:41:00.929
And then Jim says, hey, Ange, here, take your clindamycin.
763
00:41:02.280 --> 00:41:06.960
And I said, why is she on clindamycin? And he's like, oh,
764
00:41:07.019
--> 00:41:08.480
it's for her sinus infection.
765
00:41:09.260 --> 00:41:12.780
Angie made it through the night. But by the next morning, Wednesday,
766
00:41:12.880 --> 00:41:17.199
March 15th, nine days after her illness started, she went
767
00:41:17.239 --> 00:41:20.860
back to the hospital. She was really dizzy and had
768
00:41:20.920 --> 00:41:25.440
trouble standing, in addition to her other symptoms. Jim was
769
00:41:25.480 --> 00:41:29.119
at work, so Angie's brother took her. Jim would arrive
770
00:41:29.159 --> 00:41:32.800
later and relay information to the rest of the family.
771
00:41:33.480 --> 00:41:39.809
How are things? Super lethargic. Stats? He sent me a picture.
772
00:41:39.889 --> 00:41:43.030
He said, BP is low. Well, clearly I can see that.
773
00:41:43.210 --> 00:41:44.909
I know how to read it. And I said, I
774
00:41:44.989 --> 00:41:48.289
see that. You're probably like, you guys are so snotty.
775
00:41:48.329 --> 00:41:48.469
Yeah.
776
00:41:49.179 --> 00:41:51.780
I said, I see that. What's the plan? Did she
777
00:41:51.820 --> 00:41:54.920
take anything different yesterday when she got home than she
778
00:41:54.940 --> 00:41:59.219
has been taking? He said, clindamycin for sinus infection. They
779
00:41:59.250 --> 00:42:02.969
don't think that had anything to do with it. And
780
00:42:03.010 --> 00:42:05.269
I said, what are they saying? A bunch of nothing.
781
00:42:05.909 --> 00:42:09.289
They want physical therapy to evaluate her. They tried, but
782
00:42:09.329 --> 00:42:12.690
she was too ataxic. They want to keep her overnight
783
00:42:12.730 --> 00:42:16.489
and try again tomorrow. The next thing I get, he says,
784
00:42:16.670 --> 00:42:21.340
hang on, crash. And I'm panicked. I'm five minutes from
785
00:42:21.380 --> 00:42:22.400
my oldest sister's house.
786
00:42:22.840 --> 00:42:23.420
I'm driving.
787
00:42:23.480 --> 00:42:25.960
I'm thinking, oh, my gosh, I'm going to die trying
788
00:42:25.980 --> 00:42:28.639
to get there because I'm shaking profusely. I said, what
789
00:42:28.699 --> 00:42:31.519
crashed him? Are they able to bring her back? I
790
00:42:31.559 --> 00:42:33.840
don't know what's going on. They think seizure. Are they looking?
791
00:42:33.880 --> 00:42:36.780
Are they still working on her? Lots. Intubating her. Why?
792
00:42:36.960 --> 00:42:39.239
Now I know it's really bad because they're intubating her.
793
00:42:40.019 --> 00:42:42.960
Can't get the tube in. Emergency anesthesia team is paged.
794
00:42:43.099 --> 00:42:43.340
What?
795
00:42:43.519 --> 00:42:43.880
Why?
796
00:42:44.119 --> 00:42:48.179
She's not maintaining her airway, bagging her. Cannot get the
797
00:42:48.219 --> 00:42:51.329
breathing tube in. What does the anesthesia team do? Get
798
00:42:51.369 --> 00:42:53.469
the tube in. Are they there yet? I mean, I'm
799
00:42:53.489 --> 00:42:57.630
just panicking. He's like chest x-ray to make sure the
800
00:42:57.650 --> 00:43:00.449
tube is in. There's 16 people in the room. BP
801
00:43:00.489 --> 00:43:00.849
is low.
802
00:43:00.949 --> 00:43:01.380
How low?
803
00:43:01.449 --> 00:43:04.800
Systolic, 60s. I'm assuming they're not saying much. Is Mark back?
804
00:43:04.860 --> 00:43:05.320
No, no.
805
00:43:05.340 --> 00:43:08.659
Another picture. What are they doing? I don't know. Talking
806
00:43:08.699 --> 00:43:11.300
frantically a lot. The doctor stepped out to talk to
807
00:43:11.340 --> 00:43:12.659
me and they called her back in. 57 over 45.
808
00:43:12.639 --> 00:43:13.079
Anything? No news.
809
00:43:15.500 --> 00:43:17.139
She came out and said she heard me say the
810
00:43:17.159 --> 00:43:19.780
word stable. She said she is not stable. She used
811
00:43:19.800 --> 00:43:23.639
the word tenuous and said she's very, very worried and
812
00:43:23.760 --> 00:43:25.579
should be responding by now, but she's not.
813
00:43:26.920 --> 00:43:30.179
Angie took a turn for the worse, and it wasn't
814
00:43:30.199 --> 00:43:34.789
looking good at all. Doctors seemed to be really worried
815
00:43:34.829 --> 00:43:39.070
about her brain. The news spread through family and friends.
816
00:43:40.050 --> 00:43:43.289
There was a rush to get to the hospital. Ryan
817
00:43:43.329 --> 00:43:46.760
Redferne Jim's boss and friend from dental school canceled the
818
00:43:46.800 --> 00:43:49.820
rest of his appointments that day and went to support Jim.
819
00:43:50.559 --> 00:43:54.340
But as I'm pulling into the campus, Jackie, our director
820
00:43:54.380 --> 00:43:59.949
of operations, calls. And she says, Dr. Ryan, I have
821
00:44:00.670 --> 00:44:02.809
Caitlin on the phone as well. I just wanted to
822
00:44:02.849 --> 00:44:06.369
let you know. Caitlin, can you tell Dr. Ryan what
823
00:44:06.409 --> 00:44:10.769
happened on Monday? And Caitlin is the office manager for
824
00:44:10.829 --> 00:44:16.809
Summerbrook Dental for Jim's practice. She said that two Mondays ago,
825
00:44:17.510 --> 00:44:20.880
so the first Monday, the March 6th date when Angie
826
00:44:21.280 --> 00:44:24.559
initially got sick, so Dr. Jim had to leave the
827
00:44:24.679 --> 00:44:29.599
office early, really early in the day, obviously, to go
828
00:44:30.079 --> 00:44:31.579
get his wife and take her to the hospital for
829
00:44:31.599 --> 00:44:34.800
the first time. And Jim came back to the office
830
00:44:36.360 --> 00:44:39.940
after being with his wife all day at the hospital,
831
00:44:40.000 --> 00:44:42.360
and she's getting admitted. He came back at some point,
832
00:44:42.900 --> 00:44:47.860
He was on a computer in one of the operatories
833
00:44:48.280 --> 00:44:50.239
in the dark, which she thought was weird because he's
834
00:44:50.260 --> 00:44:52.300
got an office. Why wasn't he on his office computer?
835
00:44:53.300 --> 00:44:54.590
And she walked by and said, hey, is there anything
836
00:44:54.610 --> 00:44:55.269
I can do for you?
837
00:44:56.409 -->
00:44:58.090
And he said no.
838
00:44:58.510 --> 00:45:03.349
And then after she left, like 30 minutes after she left,
839
00:45:03.389 --> 00:45:05.300
she said that she got this text message that said,
840
00:45:05.900 --> 00:45:07.539
There's a package that's going to come.
841
00:45:07.780 --> 00:45:09.150
It's personal. Don't open it.
842
00:45:09.159 --> 00:45:12.679
The package didn't come. It came on Monday, this Monday,
843
00:45:12.880 --> 00:45:18.949
two days ago. And Katie, one of the other front
844
00:45:18.989 --> 00:45:23.349
desk gals at the office, started to accidentally open the package.
845
00:45:24.630 --> 00:45:29.409
And soon, as she was opening it, Caitlin realized that
846
00:45:29.469 --> 00:45:31.389
that was the package that Dr.
847
00:45:31.889 --> 00:45:32.909
Craig had said, don't open.
848
00:45:33.510 --> 00:45:37.210
Caitlin said that she did look inside And what she saw,
849
00:45:37.510 --> 00:45:39.650
whatever it was, was labeled potassium cyanide.
850
00:45:40.510 --> 00:45:47.380
Potassium cyanide is highly toxic and is not used for dentistry.
851
00:45:48.400 --> 00:45:51.420
It prevents the body from properly using oxygen, which can
852
00:45:52.079 --> 00:45:56.920
cause confusion, seizures, loss of consciousness, coma, and even death.
853
00:45:57.980 --> 00:46:00.559
Ryan knew this as he arrived at the hospital.
854
00:46:01.360 --> 00:46:02.590
Jim's actually outside and.
855
00:46:04.210 --> 00:46:06.739
We hug and he cries and we both cry and
856
00:46:07.469 --> 00:46:08.119
we go upstairs.
857
00:46:08.960 --> 00:46:11.400
Jim gets a phone call from one of the doctors.
858
00:46:11.420 --> 00:46:12.500
I don't know which doctor.
859
00:46:13.500 --> 00:46:15.679
And as Jim was on the phone looking out the window,
860
00:46:15.699 --> 00:46:21.039
I followed the nurse and gave him what I just learned.
861
00:46:21.820 --> 00:46:26.590
Once the nurse heard about Ryan's suspicions, hospital staff immediately
862
00:46:26.650 --> 00:46:31.130
contacted the forensic nurse. They tried to give Angie the antidote,
863
00:46:31.190 --> 00:46:33.389
but the damage was already done.
864
00:46:34.269 --> 00:46:37.650
And so when the doctors came, I was just like,
865
00:46:37.929 --> 00:46:38.710
here comes a whole.
866
00:46:38.570 --> 00:46:39.210
Slew of doctors.
867
00:46:39.230 --> 00:46:41.349
There was like five of them. I was like, this
868
00:46:41.369 --> 00:46:43.460
is not good. And I knew that was going to
869
00:46:43.480 --> 00:46:43.880
be bad news.
870
00:46:43.940 --> 00:46:46.019
And as soon as the door opened, after, you know,
871
00:46:46.019 --> 00:46:49.559
10 minutes, Jim came out and was just bawling. And
872
00:46:49.599 --> 00:46:51.300
they basically told him that she's not going.
873
00:46:51.199 --> 00:46:51.500
To make it.
874
00:46:52.280 --> 00:46:57.429
The forensic nurse, a mandatory reporter, called 911.
875
00:46:57.429 --> 00:46:58.179
911.
876
00:46:58.179 --> 00:47:04.400
We have a suspected cyanide, potassium cyanide poisoning. He does
877
00:47:04.440 --> 00:47:06.030
not know we're calling you guys either.
878
00:47:06.050 --> 00:47:06.119
Okay.
879
00:47:08.800 --> 00:47:12.940
Cause a lot of issues because he's wanting, my understanding is.
880
00:47:12.900 --> 00:47:15.679
To withdraw care on her pretty quickly.
881
00:47:15.949 --> 00:47:18.250
And so we're trying to, you know, get you guys
882
00:47:18.309 --> 00:47:21.409
involved in trying to figure out medical decision and all that.
883
00:47:21.969 --> 00:47:23.650
His name is Jim.
884
00:47:23.789 --> 00:47:26.349
J-I-M, last name Craig, C-R-A-I-G.
885
00:47:27.289 --> 00:47:29.320
So he's urgently trying to withdraw care.
886
00:47:29.340 --> 00:47:32.380
Yes, he's trying not to delay it.
887
00:47:33.239 --> 00:47:37.889
Angie was brain dead and unlikely to survive without the
888
00:47:37.929 --> 00:47:42.030
machines keeping her breathing. While Jim cried and grieved with
889
00:47:42.070 --> 00:47:47.230
his family, Ryan left. A short time later, Jim called him.
890
00:47:48.010 --> 00:47:51.429
He says, Ryan, I got some disturbing news. And I said,
891
00:47:51.449 --> 00:47:58.480
he said, did you say something to somebody? And I said, yeah,
892
00:47:59.840 --> 00:48:02.739
I did. And I told him exactly what I said
893
00:48:02.780 --> 00:48:06.280
to the nurse. And I said, Jim, what was in
894
00:48:06.300 --> 00:48:08.840
the package? I said, did you order a package?
895
00:48:09.500 --> 00:48:11.070
He said, kind of pause.
896
00:48:11.119 --> 00:48:13.869
And he said, yeah, I did. I said, what was
897
00:48:13.889 --> 00:48:16.269
in the package? He goes, oh, it was a ring for,
898
00:48:16.630 --> 00:48:18.070
it was a ring for Angie. It was going to
899
00:48:18.090 --> 00:48:22.090
be a surprise. And I said, Jim, that's not what
900
00:48:22.110 --> 00:48:26.570
was in the package. And he goes, what do you mean?
901
00:48:26.789 --> 00:48:30.820
And I was like, the Patrick package was opened. And
902
00:48:30.840 --> 00:48:32.360
he's like, no, it wasn't.
903
00:48:32.619 --> 00:48:33.940
I said, yes, it was Jim.
904
00:48:34.739 --> 00:48:38.860
Jim, I know what's in the package. And he wouldn't
905
00:48:38.900 --> 00:48:42.099
admit to what was in the package. And I said, Jim,
906
00:48:42.860 --> 00:48:44.909
potassium cyanide was in the package. Why do you have
907
00:48:44.949 --> 00:48:50.329
potassium cyanide? I said, why do you need potassium cyanide?
908
00:48:51.449 --> 00:48:56.909
And he said, he's like, there's.
909
00:48:55.460 --> 00:48:58.320
A lot of pauses with deep breaths.
910
00:49:00.000 --> 00:49:07.949
And he said, He goes, I ordered it for her.
911
00:49:10.849 --> 00:49:14.630
And he basically said that he had ordered the potassium
912
00:49:14.670 --> 00:49:17.469
cyanide at her request. I said, why did you order
913
00:49:17.510 --> 00:49:19.650
potassium cyanide? It's like if she wanted to kill
herself.
914
00:49:19.820 --> 00:49:23.610
and commit suicide, then why didn't you let her do
915
00:49:23.650 --> 00:49:26.170
it her way? Why did you guys just get a
916
00:49:26.190 --> 00:49:28.789
divorce if it was that bad? You know, I'm asking
917
00:49:28.809 --> 00:49:31.110
these questions and he doesn't have any really any answers.
918
00:49:31.530 --> 00:49:33.380
He said, I bought it. I didn't think she would.
919
00:49:33.389 --> 00:49:37.380
I actually didn't think she would use it. He starts
920
00:49:37.760 --> 00:49:39.300
saying things like, Ryan, what have you done?
921
00:49:40.510 --> 00:49:41.409
Ryan, what have you done?
922
00:49:41.429 --> 00:49:44.869
Yeah, Ryan, what have you done? And then he starts
923
00:49:44.889 --> 00:49:46.849
saying things like, this is going to come back on me.
924
00:49:46.869 --> 00:49:48.239
They're going to think I did this.
925
00:49:49.800 --> 00:49:53.840
This looks bad. I said, Jim. I said, yeah, it does.
926
00:49:53.860 --> 00:49:56.800
I said, I think you should stop talking to me.
927
00:49:57.480 --> 00:49:58.659
I said, I think you need a lawyer.
928
00:49:59.570 --> 00:50:02.030
Jim would return home later that night to find it
929
00:50:02.170 --> 00:50:08.030
surrounded by police. Detectives believed they understood what Jim did
930
00:50:08.090 --> 00:50:12.389
to Angie. In time, they would build a theory for why.
931
00:50:13.449 --> 00:50:16.190
But what they could never have known was how far
932
00:50:16.349 --> 00:50:41.170
Jim would go to keep them from proving it. Jim
933
00:50:41.269 --> 00:50:45.309
Craig was arrested for the poisoning of his wife, Angie.
934
00:50:46.179 --> 00:50:50.219
To most who knew the Craigs, it was unbelievable. To
935
00:50:50.260 --> 00:50:52.179
his kids, it was unfathomable.
936
00:50:52.940 --> 00:50:56.500
She tried really hard to protect him. Her oldest boy
937
00:50:57.059 --> 00:51:02.739
might know like this much. And you can tell by
938
00:51:02.780 --> 00:51:06.679
the way they're reacting to what's happening. They can't believe,
939
00:51:07.239 --> 00:51:10.300
they don't believe that he would do that. Their statements
940
00:51:10.539 --> 00:51:14.219
are He loved my mom so much. He would never
941
00:51:14.340 --> 00:51:18.079
do this. They have it all wrong. Someone else must
942
00:51:18.119 --> 00:51:18.699
have done it.
943
00:51:19.780 --> 00:51:23.039
And when Jen said Angie killed herself, his kids couldn't
944
00:51:23.059 --> 00:51:23.929
make any sense of it.
945
00:51:24.559 --> 00:51:27.440
So when she asked me that, it was maybe somebody
946
00:51:27.519 --> 00:51:30.960
else did it. What was the poison? And I had
947
00:51:30.980 --> 00:51:33.559
decided that if the older kids asked me point blank,
948
00:51:33.619 --> 00:51:35.079
if they asked me a straight up question, I was
949
00:51:35.099 --> 00:51:37.599
going to answer it straight up. So I asked her,
950
00:51:37.639 --> 00:51:40.699
I said, do you really want to know? And she said, no.
951
00:51:41.460 --> 00:51:44.119
And I said, it was cyanide. And she looked at
952
00:51:44.139 --> 00:51:47.039
me and she said, what is cyanide used for? I said,
953
00:51:47.119 --> 00:51:51.800
nothing medical. It's plastics, metal. You have to have a
954
00:51:51.820 --> 00:51:54.900
specific license. You can't just have it. But how would
955
00:51:54.920 --> 00:52:00.639
he get it? I said, he ordered it and had
956
00:52:00.679 --> 00:52:01.639
it sent to his office.
957
00:52:02.780 --> 00:52:04.980
But why would he do that? What if someone's setting
958
00:52:05.000 --> 00:52:07.179
him up? What if someone sent it to his office
959
00:52:07.260 --> 00:52:09.550
and it wasn't him? And what if someone else gave
960
00:52:09.570 --> 00:52:11.679
it to my mom? And I said, tell me who
961
00:52:12.840 --> 00:52:15.550
you tell me who and I'm all over it.
962
00:52:16.320 --> 00:52:16.510
Yeah.
963
00:52:16.639 --> 00:52:18.360
And she's like, but my dad wouldn't have done. And
964
00:52:18.389 --> 00:52:20.469
then she asked about the suicide. And I said, Mira,
965
00:52:20.489 --> 00:52:24.530
if your mom was going to commit suicide, she wouldn't
966
00:52:24.570 --> 00:52:28.889
take something slowly to put herself in absolute pain and
967
00:52:29.110 --> 00:52:32.090
fear for 10 days. That's not how people that are
968
00:52:32.110 --> 00:52:35.110
going to commit suicide do that. And she's like, but
969
00:52:35.150 --> 00:52:37.650
my dad wouldn't do that to her. He wouldn't do that.
970
00:52:38.840 --> 00:52:42.030
And it's hard. Because I know why they feel that way.
971
00:52:42.889 --> 00:52:46.599
Because the morning my sisters called me, I felt that way.
972
00:52:46.619 --> 00:52:50.400
I thought, there's no way. And then I started to
973
00:52:50.440 --> 00:52:54.539
think about it all. I have never broke down. I just,
974
00:52:54.599 --> 00:52:56.050
this case, I feel so bad.
975
00:52:57.369 --> 00:52:58.130
It is tragic.
976
00:52:58.230 --> 00:52:59.269
I hate this case.
977
00:53:00.090 --> 00:53:04.670
The whole case was so tragic and unbearable that even
978
00:53:04.710 --> 00:53:08.869
the detectives struggled to get through the conversations. And Angie's
979
00:53:08.909 --> 00:53:11.469
kids were left trying to understand how any of it
980
00:53:11.550 --> 00:53:15.349
could be true. The autopsy found that Angie's cause of
981
00:53:15.389 --> 00:53:21.179
death was acute cyanide and tetrahydrozoline poisoning, with subacute arsenic
982
00:53:21.239 --> 00:53:26.340
poisoning as a significant contributing condition. Jim's search history suggested
983
00:53:26.360 --> 00:53:30.619
that he thought about this long and hard. It suggested
984
00:53:30.840 --> 00:53:34.719
he planned it. Like a rube, this guy's search history
985
00:53:34.760 --> 00:53:39.420
included things like How many grams of pure arsenic will
986
00:53:39.500 --> 00:53:44.320
kill a human? Is arsenic detectable
in an autopsy? And
987
00:53:45.340 --> 00:53:48.679
how to make murder look like a heart attack? What
988
00:53:48.719 --> 00:53:53.489
an amateur. He also watched videos about deadly poisons and
989
00:53:53.570 --> 00:53:57.389
substances that could kill without obvious signs of foul play.
990
00:53:58.449 --> 00:54:01.769
It's incredible to me that in 2026, a grown-ass adult
991
00:54:02.550 --> 00:54:09.769
doesn't know the very basics of information technology. There's a record, people,
992
00:54:10.829 --> 00:54:15.469
and you can't delete it. It's called the internet. It's
993
00:54:15.510 --> 00:54:20.250
called the cloud. It's a glorious digital cage, and we're
994
00:54:20.369 --> 00:54:24.510
already in it. You get it? Detectives also found that
995
00:54:24.610 --> 00:54:31.380
Jim created a new email address, jimandwaffles at gmail.com. He
996
00:54:31.409 --> 00:54:36.579
attached this newly created Amazon account with his seeking.com account.
997
00:54:37.619 --> 00:54:44.969
With a new Amazon account, he ordered 99.9999% pure crystalline arsenic,
998
00:54:45.869 --> 00:54:49.989
another highly toxic substance. It was delivered on March 4th,
999
00:54:50.050 --> 00:54:54.610
two days before Angie became ill. Speaking of the cloud,
1000
00:54:54.690 --> 00:54:59.239
that Amazon, man. That's a real convenient service, you know?
1001
00:55:00.239 --> 00:55:02.480
I use it all the time. Not for this, though.
1002
00:55:03.440 --> 00:55:07.679
His Seeking.com account included a tagline, by the way. explaining
1003
00:55:07.719 --> 00:55:11.949
the name Jim and Waffles. It's because they're both nice
1004
00:55:12.340 --> 00:55:15.909
to wake up to, he said. You can stop gagging now.
1005
00:55:16.829 --> 00:55:20.670
Evidence also showed he ordered oleander. It's almost like he
1006
00:55:20.690 --> 00:55:24.590
was checking off every box. The oleander plant is a
1007
00:55:24.739 --> 00:55:28.360
poisonous shrub, but it had not yet been delivered, so
1008
00:55:29.179 --> 00:55:32.199
he didn't get around to using that, too. And of course,
1009
00:55:32.579 --> 00:55:36.889
there was the potassium cyanide order and delivery. which outed
1010
00:55:36.909 --> 00:55:39.650
him in the first place. It was delivered just two
1011
00:55:39.670 --> 00:55:44.420
days before she was declared brain dead. Investigators looked for
1012
00:55:44.519 --> 00:55:50.000
evidence that James had purchased a product containing tetrahydrozoline, and
1013
00:55:50.500 --> 00:55:53.380
they found it. They found it. It's pretty easy, actually.
1014
00:55:53.400 --> 00:55:59.119
It's right there in the history. Digital fingerprints have proven
1015
00:55:59.159 --> 00:56:03.510
to be much more useful than actual fingerprints, in case
1016
00:56:03.530 --> 00:56:08.670
you haven't noticed. Over two days, Wednesday, March 8th, and Thursday,
1017
00:56:08.849 --> 00:56:12.469
March 9th, the day Angie was hospitalized the first time,
1018
00:56:12.909 --> 00:56:17.480
he bought 19 bottles of Vizine. You see, the active
1019
00:56:17.519 --> 00:56:21.539
ingredient in Vizine, the chemical that takes the red out
1020
00:56:21.559 --> 00:56:26.090
of your eyes, is highly toxic if you ingest it.
1021
00:56:27.030 --> 00:56:29.409
And it'll give you the shits, boy, I'll tell you that.
1022
00:56:29.449 --> 00:56:33.710
But don't try it. It will kill you. To prosecutors...
1023
00:56:33.980 --> 00:56:38.019
The combination of poisons helped explain the way Angie's symptoms
1024
00:56:38.139 --> 00:56:42.590
changed over time. They believe Jim first poisoned her protein
1025
00:56:42.630 --> 00:56:46.989
shake with arsenic on March 6th. She became sick and
1026
00:56:47.090 --> 00:56:50.690
almost immediately went to the hospital and was sent home
1027
00:56:50.710 --> 00:56:55.849
without a diagnosis. Over the next few days, investigators believe
1028
00:56:56.389 --> 00:57:01.329
tetrahydrozoline was also introduced, which helped explain some of her
1029
00:57:01.409 --> 00:57:05.829
shifting symptoms. Her condition worsened until she was admitted to
1030
00:57:05.869 --> 00:57:11.429
the hospital, where she gradually improved. Then, the cyanide arrived
1031
00:57:11.489 --> 00:57:16.750
on March 13th. Angie was discharged the next day, and
1032
00:57:16.929 --> 00:57:20.559
within 24 hours, she was back at the hospital in
1033
00:57:20.619 --> 00:57:25.139
even worse condition. Then, there was the surveillance footage from
1034
00:57:25.159 --> 00:57:28.619
the hospital. It showed Jim entering the frame with what
1035
00:57:28.639 --> 00:57:32.579
appeared to be a syringe concealed in his hand. It
1036
00:57:32.619 --> 00:57:36.170
showed him entering Angie's room and seconds later come out
1037
00:57:36.190 --> 00:57:39.750
to tell the nurse Angie was complaining about arm pain.
1038
00:57:40.750 --> 00:57:46.550
She coded within seconds after that. That syringe was never found.
1039
00:57:47.570 --> 00:57:51.809
Then there was his ongoing affair. He met an orthodontist
1040
00:57:51.889 --> 00:57:54.889
from Texas at a convention and had been seeing her
1041
00:57:55.030 --> 00:58:00.079
for weeks. How boringly predictable. It wasn't evidence that he
1042
00:58:00.159 --> 00:58:06.090
poisoned Angie, but The timing was suspicious. He had, after all,
1043
00:58:06.150 --> 00:58:09.469
arranged for her to come to Colorado. And she arrived
1044
00:58:09.530 --> 00:58:12.349
while Angie was on life support.
1045
00:58:13.130 --> 00:58:20.920
He at no point seemed stressed or anxious or... I mean, really,
1046
00:58:20.960 --> 00:58:22.380
I had to drag it out. I'm like, are you
1047
00:58:22.420 --> 00:58:26.559
sure you're okay? Because he seemed okay. We met on
1048
00:58:26.619 --> 00:58:29.090
a Thursday and then went home on Saturday. So we
1049
00:58:29.179 --> 00:58:32.800
spent this Thursday evening getting to know each other. And
1050
00:58:32.820 --> 00:58:35.289
then we texted until like, you
know, 4 a.m.
1051
00:58:35.329 --> 00:58:35.789
That night.
1052
00:58:35.869 --> 00:58:38.730
Then the next day we, you know, spent pretty much
1053
00:58:38.909 --> 00:58:42.510
the day together. He told me they hadn't been living together.
1054
00:58:42.530 --> 00:58:46.610
He had an apartment. If I had known what was true,
1055
00:58:46.630 --> 00:58:50.119
I would not have been with this person.
1056
00:58:50.900 --> 00:58:54.920
They were in constant communication after they met. But they
1057
00:58:54.940 --> 00:58:57.219
had only known each other for three weeks.
1058
00:58:58.159 --> 00:59:01.840
There's no way I motive. There's been no planning a
1059
00:59:01.900 --> 00:59:03.340
future together.
1060
00:59:03.360 --> 00:59:08.610
The evidence seemed overwhelming, but there was still something prosecutors
1061
00:59:08.849 --> 00:59:13.559
could not show the jurors. No camera, witness, or physical
1062
00:59:13.659 --> 00:59:18.780
evidence captured James actually putting poison into something Angie consumed.
1063
00:59:19.559 --> 00:59:23.070
But before they could go to trial to argue their case,
1064
00:59:24.250 --> 00:59:26.369
Jim had other plans.
1065
00:59:27.260 --> 00:59:30.179
The second daughter told a completely different story about a
1066
00:59:30.260 --> 00:59:33.539
different episode. She described getting a phone call from the
1067
00:59:33.599 --> 00:59:36.400
jail from her father, who asked her to come down
1068
00:59:36.500 --> 00:59:39.539
and bail another inmate out. He told her the inmate
1069
00:59:39.579 --> 00:59:42.340
was a cousin of hers. She didn't know this person,
1070
00:59:42.360 --> 00:59:44.099
but she has a big family, and so she said
1071
00:59:44.119 --> 00:59:47.139
it was believable. She bailed this man out, and he
1072
00:59:47.219 --> 00:59:50.539
handed her a letter from her father. It asked her
1073
00:59:50.579 --> 00:59:54.159
to buy a burner laptop, and create a deep fake
1074
00:59:54.400 --> 00:59:58.679
video that would show her now dead mother saying that
1075
00:59:58.840 --> 01:00:02.309
she got James Craig to order these poisons and that
1076
01:00:02.349 --> 01:00:06.210
she took them herself. He described how she should use
1077
01:00:06.449 --> 01:00:08.869
the dark web to make this happen, how she should
1078
01:00:08.909 --> 01:00:12.329
destroy the laptop afterwards. Instead of doing any of that,
1079
01:00:12.690 --> 01:00:15.429
that second daughter took the letter to police.
1080
01:00:15.800 --> 01:00:18.760
Craig wanted police to find letters at his house that
1081
01:00:18.800 --> 01:00:22.789
suggested his wife, Angela, was suicidal and found out about
1082
01:00:22.809 --> 01:00:23.269
an affair.
1083
01:00:23.530 --> 01:00:26.650
Police say that James Craig tried to persuade a former
1084
01:00:26.769 --> 01:00:30.699
inmate to help him find women who would give false testimony.
1085
01:00:30.199 --> 01:00:31.000
At his murder trial.
1086
01:00:31.380 --> 01:00:34.099
She said Craig wrote a letter to a former jailmate
1087
01:00:34.139 --> 01:00:37.750
in April asking him to find one or two attractive women,
1088
01:00:38.130 --> 01:00:40.250
people who would be willing to lie to the district
1089
01:00:40.289 --> 01:00:41.769
attorney and his attorneys.
1090
01:00:42.130 --> 01:00:45.750
The prosecution also called another former inmate who testified Craig
1091
01:00:45.809 --> 01:00:48.250
wanted him to find someone to kill the detective in
1092
01:00:48.289 --> 01:00:51.010
the case and to get pictures of a deputy's son.
1093
01:00:51.730 --> 01:00:55.519
Jim would eventually face five additional charges for his actions
1094
01:00:55.619 --> 01:00:59.880
behind bars. Two counts of solicitation to commit tampering with
1095
01:00:59.960 --> 01:01:04.920
physical evidence. two counts of solicitation to commit first-degree perjury,
1096
01:01:05.920 --> 01:01:11.389
and one count of solicitation to commit first-degree murder. And
1097
01:01:11.429 --> 01:01:15.289
those alleged efforts did not come out of nowhere. Even
1098
01:01:15.309 --> 01:01:19.050
before his arrest, Jim had been hinting that Angie might
1099
01:01:19.070 --> 01:01:21.889
have taken her own life. He had written out a
1100
01:01:21.929 --> 01:01:26.570
detailed timeline, asked about toxicology, and suggested he had answers
1101
01:01:26.989 --> 01:01:30.829
that would eventually explain everything. Prosecutors would later argue that
1102
01:01:31.070 --> 01:01:34.639
some of what he did from jail was aimed at
1103
01:01:34.719 --> 01:01:40.119
making the suicide story look real. As those allegations piled up,
1104
01:01:40.320 --> 01:01:45.690
several attorneys requested removal as counsel. The repeated changes delayed
1105
01:01:45.869 --> 01:01:49.949
the case. But eventually the trial did begin.
1106
01:01:49.969 --> 01:02:02.659
This case is really about broken people. broken marriage, broken perceptions,
1107
01:02:04.519 --> 01:02:08.949
broken investigation. You may not like him.
1108
01:02:09.610 --> 01:02:12.849
You may not think he's a good husband, but that's
1109
01:02:12.869 --> 01:02:15.710
not what you're here to decide. This case from the
1110
01:02:15.769 --> 01:02:18.570
very beginning started with blinders.
1111
01:02:20.090 --> 01:02:21.809
So as a defense, we're going to ask.
1112
01:02:21.690 --> 01:02:26.179
You to remove the blinders from this case and to
1113
01:02:26.219 --> 01:02:30.199
look at everything. It was over for law enforcement, right?
1114
01:02:30.619 --> 01:02:31.639
They had tunnel vision.
1115
01:02:33.880 --> 01:02:36.599
It was all about the husband, Dr. Craig, who worked
1116
01:02:36.639 --> 01:02:38.900
at the dentist's office where cyanide was delivered.
1117
01:02:39.119 --> 01:02:41.659
Cheated on his wife constantly.
1118
01:02:44.969 --> 01:02:45.510
They did.
1119
01:02:45.530 --> 01:02:49.630
They proved beyond a reasonable doubt that he was not faithful.
1120
01:02:51.269
--> 01:02:52.650
That they proved.
1121
01:02:54.329 --> 01:02:59.309
But this idea that somehow this was some sort of motive.
1122
01:03:02.670 --> 01:03:04.150
Was nothing new.
1123
01:03:04.809 --> 01:03:07.510
She's just like all the rest of the women.
1124
01:03:07.909 --> 01:03:12.980
That cheating, that wanting her husband to be better, it
1125
01:03:13.059 --> 01:03:13.519
broke her.
1126
01:03:14.460 --> 01:03:17.460
The defense argued that the investigation had focused on Jim
1127
01:03:17.619 --> 01:03:22.480
so much that they never considered any other possibility. Like
1128
01:03:22.579 --> 01:03:24.050
Angie being suicidal.
1129
01:03:24.500 --> 01:03:25.000
For example.
1130
01:03:26.039 --> 01:03:29.119
Instead, they thought Jim's affairs were not a motive for
1131
01:03:29.139 --> 01:03:32.400
him to kill his wife, but an emotional weight on
1132
01:03:32.519 --> 01:03:37.199
Angie that finally broke her. The prosecution didn't need to
1133
01:03:37.260 --> 01:03:41.800
prove a motive, but Jim had them all. Of course,
1134
01:03:42.199 --> 01:03:46.190
he was in dire financial straits, and Angie did have
1135
01:03:46.269 --> 01:03:50.469
life insurance. Of course, he was having an affair and
1136
01:03:50.690 --> 01:03:54.789
was dissatisfied with his marriage. But why not just Divorce her?
1137
01:03:55.150 --> 01:03:59.139
Why spend days slowly poisoning her to death? Jim wanted
1138
01:03:59.159 --> 01:04:01.460
the marriage to end, but he didn't want to be
1139
01:04:01.519 --> 01:04:04.739
the one to end it. He wanted Angie to divorce
1140
01:04:04.820 --> 01:04:07.460
him so that he could maintain some semblance of the
1141
01:04:07.500 --> 01:04:10.179
life he had. He didn't want to be viewed as
1142
01:04:10.300 --> 01:04:13.960
a bad husband or bad father. The optics of it,
1143
01:04:14.469 --> 01:04:18.590
you know? So why not just kill instead? He didn't
1144
01:04:18.610 --> 01:04:21.090
want to expose his financial problems or his affairs. He
1145
01:04:21.130 --> 01:04:24.289
didn't want his family, his friends, his colleagues... to view
1146
01:04:24.329 --> 01:04:27.679
him differently. He didn't want to lose his standing in
1147
01:04:27.699 --> 01:04:30.880
the church. There's so many people that are so focused
1148
01:04:30.940 --> 01:04:33.360
on the optics of something that they never look at
1149
01:04:33.400 --> 01:04:38.679
their own fucking actions objectively. It happens to everybody, I guess,
1150
01:04:38.940 --> 01:04:42.440
to some extent. But boy, is it apparent these days.
1151
01:04:43.519 --> 01:04:48.010
The defense would rest, calling no witnesses. The jury would
1152
01:04:48.030 --> 01:04:52.269
deliberate for eight hours over two days before returning with
1153
01:04:52.309 --> 01:04:57.760
a verdict. Jim was guilty on all charges. At his sentencing,
1154
01:04:58.179 --> 01:05:01.639
his eldest daughter delivered her impact statement.
1155
01:05:02.469 --> 01:05:03.110
I was the.
1156
01:05:03.070 --> 01:05:08.570
Second child of my mom and dad, her oldest daughter,
1157
01:05:08.690 --> 01:05:12.170
and although I may not have been hers, she was
1158
01:05:12.210 --> 01:05:12.969
my best friend.
1159
01:05:15.929 --> 01:05:17.489
A lot of people keep telling.
1160
01:05:17.210 --> 01:05:21.860
Me that my mom is here with me, but I
1161
01:05:21.980 --> 01:05:25.780
hope more than anything that she's not. I hope she's
1162
01:05:25.800 --> 01:05:30.260
worked so much better. I was supposed to be able
1163
01:05:30.320 --> 01:05:35.420
to plan my sister's weddings with my mom, even though there.
1164
01:05:35.320 --> 01:05:36.940
Was nothing in the world I wanted to do less
1165
01:05:37.260 --> 01:05:39.219
than plan weddings.
1166
01:05:40.440 --> 01:05:42.139
I was supposed to be able to share with her
1167
01:05:42.159 --> 01:05:48.829
the stories, the things happening in my life, and The
1168
01:05:48.889 --> 01:05:56.070
projects that I started, it never finished. I was supposed
1169
01:05:56.110 --> 01:06:01.070
to be able to trust my dad. He was supposed
1170
01:06:01.090 --> 01:06:04.409
to be my hero, and instead he'll forever be the
1171
01:06:04.449 --> 01:06:05.289
villain in my book.
1172
01:06:07.320 --> 01:06:10.960
And it hurts so bad every day.
1173
01:06:10.980 --> 01:06:11.139
And I.
1174
01:06:12.880 --> 01:06:14.019
Miss her so much.
1175
01:06:15.480 --> 01:06:18.150
And I know there were so many more people that
1176
01:06:18.170 --> 01:06:21.269
would love to be able to stand up and say a.
1177
01:06:21.269 --> 01:06:23.909
Lot about my mom and how wonderful she was.
1178
01:06:24.010 --> 01:06:27.030
And some people who would love to stand up and remind.
1179
01:06:26.590 --> 01:06:30.010
Us some of the stupid things she did and said
1180
01:06:30.159 --> 01:06:32.579
and some of her crazy moments.
1181
01:06:34.760 --> 01:06:35.920
But I think.
1182
01:06:37.360 --> 01:06:38.639
I speak for everyone.
1183
01:06:38.300 --> 01:06:39.320
When I say that.
1184
01:06:42.480 --> 01:06:47.650
Life and the world The loss the six children of
1185
01:06:47.710 --> 01:06:49.670
Jim and Angie felt.
1186
01:06:49.550 --> 01:06:50.739
Is hard to imagine.
1187
01:07:15.800 --> 01:07:19.710
They didn't just lose their mother, their friend. They lost
1188
01:07:19.730 --> 01:07:22.849
their father, too. Jim Craig was sentenced to life in
1189
01:07:22.929 --> 01:07:27.829
prison without the possibility of parole. Additional time was added
1190
01:07:28.630 --> 01:07:32.880
to be served consecutively with the other charges. There isn't
1191
01:07:32.900 --> 01:07:36.289
a single satisfying answer as to why he did it.
1192
01:07:37.420 --> 01:07:41.659
There were affairs and financial problems. There was a life
1193
01:07:42.000 --> 01:07:46.719
and reputation he had spent years trying to maintain. Any
1194
01:07:46.820 --> 01:07:49.820
one of those things might explain part of what happened,
1195
01:07:49.900 -->
01:07:55.099
but none explain why divorce wasn't enough. One way to
1196
01:07:55.139 --> 01:07:58.559
understand it is that Jim wanted a way out without
1197
01:07:58.599 --> 01:08:02.059
losing the life he had built. But when things stopped
1198
01:08:02.260 --> 01:08:05.679
going the way he wanted, he kept trying to control
1199
01:08:05.699 --> 01:08:10.079
the outcomes. First, he tried to control his marriage. Then
1200
01:08:11.099 --> 01:08:14.539
he controlled Angie's illness. Then he tried to control the
1201
01:08:14.619 --> 01:08:18.960
outcome of the trial. But everything he was trying to preserve,
1202
01:08:19.020 --> 01:08:24.279
he lost anyway. His wife was dead. His children were
1203
01:08:24.319 --> 01:08:27.199
left without their mother, and their father was in prison
1204
01:08:27.359 --> 01:08:30.090
for the rest of his life. They would later file
1205
01:08:30.149 --> 01:08:33.470
a civil suit against their father, his practice, and the
1206
01:08:33.510 --> 01:08:38.310
company that supplied the potassium cyanide. When the sentence was announced,
1207
01:08:39.149 --> 01:08:45.029
there was no applause. There was nothing to celebrate. The
1208
01:08:45.050 --> 01:08:48.279
trial was over, but life continued. For the Craig children
1209
01:08:48.319 --> 01:08:54.489
would never be the same. And the clearest contradiction in
1210
01:08:54.510 --> 01:08:58.750
the entire case had already been captured years earlier. Inside.
1211
01:08:59.949 --> 01:09:00.569
the Craig home.
1212
01:09:01.630 --> 01:09:03.609
Nobody in their right mind would ever think I would
1213
01:09:03.640 --> 01:09:05.060
kill myself before I killed you.
1214
01:09:05.899 --> 01:09:07.079
Nobody.
1215
01:09:08.500 --> 01:09:09.319
Name one person.
1216
01:09:10.380 --> 01:09:12.760
It may not be your fault that they didn't do
1217
01:09:12.819 --> 01:09:16.600
their due diligence or anything like that, but it's your
1218
01:09:16.640 --> 01:09:19.439
fault they treated me differently. It's your fault they treated
1219
01:09:19.479 --> 01:09:22.430
me like I was a suicide risk, like I did
1220
01:09:22.489 --> 01:09:26.609
it to myself. And like nothing I said could be believed.
1221
01:09:26.630 --> 01:09:29.149
Because I didn't say to her, I'm afraid she did
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this to herself.
1223
01:09:30.210 --> 01:09:32.170
I just said, are you going to do a drug panel?
1224
01:09:34.189 --> 01:09:35.270
You think that's not enough?
1225
01:09:36.420 --> 01:09:38.899
Neither of us said, neither of us said, I think
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01:09:38.939 --> 01:09:40.960
she did this to herself, or I think she took drugs,
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01:09:41.020 --> 01:09:43.220
or I think that, neither of us said that.
1228
01:09:43.579 --> 01:09:45.460
And how do you think it would have gone.
1229
01:09:45.420 --> 01:09:46.779
If you had actually defended me?
1230
01:09:47.569 --> 01:09:49.500
Well, I also wanted a drug trial because you were
1231
01:09:49.520 --> 01:09:50.119
accusing me.
1232
01:09:51.520 --> 01:09:52.779
I wanted that for me, too.
1233
01:09:53.380 --> 01:09:57.619
Yeah, well, everything about that whole NAFRA interaction was 100%
1234
01:09:57.619 --> 01:09:59.710
selfish and had nothing to do with being there for me.
1235
01:10:00.930 --> 01:10:03.409
You weren't there for me because you were too concerned
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01:10:03.430 --> 01:10:04.050
about what.
1237
01:10:03.909 --> 01:10:04.970
You were concerned about.
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01:10:18.609 --> 01:10:21.729
Well, the end of the year is both very close
1239
01:10:21.810 --> 01:10:24.729
and very far away. So we got plenty of time here.
1240
01:10:24.850 --> 01:10:29.300
We got a lot of more episodes to come until
1241
01:10:29.359 --> 01:10:34.159
we finally shut the lights down in the studio forever. Yes,
1242
01:10:34.380 --> 01:10:37.800
I do actually intend to do what I said I
1243
01:10:37.840 --> 01:10:40.460
was going to do. I don't know why you would
1244
01:10:40.479 --> 01:10:42.890
think otherwise. I've never lied to you. I've never said
1245
01:10:42.899 --> 01:10:45.689
I'm going to do something and not do it. We
1246
01:10:45.909 --> 01:10:48.829
are shutting down at the end of the year. That
1247
01:10:48.890 --> 01:10:54.560
is a fact. And I'll let you know why and
1248
01:10:54.600 --> 01:10:58.020
all that later on. But for now, we still have
1249
01:10:58.039 --> 01:11:00.239
a little time together, baby, before you have to go
1250
01:11:00.279 --> 01:11:02.439
back to your family, you know, and your life and
1251
01:11:03.159 --> 01:11:06.939
all that. Let's just enjoy the time we have here.
1252
01:11:06.970 --> 01:11:07.930
How about that?
1253
01:11:08.970 --> 01:11:12.850
Thanks, everybody, that's stuck around this long. Thanks to everybody.
1254
01:11:13.390 --> 01:11:17.729
that has ever bought a membership. And even if you've
1255
01:11:17.750 --> 01:11:21.430
just supported us for one month, we so much appreciate
1256
01:11:21.569 --> 01:11:25.590
all of you. You're all in my heart for all eternity.