Overview

• A jury found James Craig guilty Wednesday of first-degree murder and five related felonies, concluding a two-week trial in Centennial.
• Prosecutors detailed a premeditated scheme, citing Craig’s online poison research, an Amazon order for potassium cyanide and hospital security images of a syringe.
• The Arapahoe County coroner ruled that Angela Craig died in March 2023 from acute cyanide and tetrahydrozoline poisoning after multiple hospitalizations.
• Defense counsel advanced a suicide theory based on depression and infidelity, and rested without calling witnesses, but jurors rejected that explanation after nine hours of deliberation.
• Craig faces sentencing before Judge Shay Whitaker and is set to receive life in prison without the possibility of parole under Colorado law.