Colorado dentist's murder trial put on hold after defense 'suddenly quit' prior to jury selection

The execution proceedings for a Colorado dentist accused of poisoning his woman to decease has been enactment connected clasp aft the defence lawyer "suddenly quit" during assemblage selection.

James Toliver Craig, 45, is accused of sidesplitting his wife, Angela Craig, by putting poison successful her macromolecule shakes.

Angela Craig, a 43-year-old parent of six who was joined to her hubby for 23 years, died successful March 2023 of poisoning from cyanide and tetrahydrozoline, the second a substance recovered successful over-the-counter oculus drops, according to the coroner.

The trial has been delayed before and was acceptable to statesman Thursday with assemblage selection, KDVR reported. However, connected Thursday morning, the defence counsel moved to retreat from the lawsuit owed to a "professional conflict," according to the 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office. 

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Two photos of dentist James Oliver, who is accused of murdering his wife, Angela Craig.  (Facebook)

The justice allowed the withdrawal under the Rule of Professional Conduct, and Craig declined to correspond himself, delaying the case.

Craig allegedly flew his orthodontist person from Austin to Denver portion his woman was dying, according to a elaborate apprehension affidavit. The 2 besides reportedly exchanged "sexually explicit emails."

The charging papers described the couple's troubled marriage, fiscal difficulties and Craig's alleged sinister crippled to execution her.

"In totality, this probe has proven that James has gone to large lengths to effort and extremity his wife's life," Aurora constabulary Detective Bobbi Olson wrote successful the affidavit. 

On Feb. 27, Craig created a concealed email account, jimandwaffles.com, which helium lone utilized connected a machine successful his now-shuttered Summerbrook Dental Group, investigators said.

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Colorado dentist James Craig, right, is accused of fatally poisoning his wife, Angela Craig. The 2 shared six children together. (Facebook)

Police accidental Craig searched online for things similar "How to marque execution look similar a bosom attack" and "How to marque poison" days earlier his woman searched for symptoms she was having similar vertigo, shaking and acold lips.

Craig besides allegedly researched aggregate "undetectable poisons" and purchased some, and helium ordered a unreserved shipment of potassium cyanide adjacent though it was not needed.

Investigators allege that Craig bought poisons online conscionable earlier his woman began to acquisition symptoms that doctors could not find a origin for, but his lawyers person argued determination is nary nonstop grounds that helium enactment poison successful his wife’s shakes and person accused Olson of being biased against him.

Her sister, Toni Kofoed, told constabulary that Craig had drugged his wife astir 5 years earlier due to the fact that helium had planned to perpetrate termination and didn't privation her to halt him.

Kofoed besides told investigators that the couple's matrimony had ever been "tumultuous" and that Craig had "multiple affairs with respective women" and had been "addicted to pornography since helium was a teenager."

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Angela and Colorado dentist James Craig successful a household portrait. James has been charged with first-degree execution for allegedly poisoning his wife. (Facebook)

Angela Craig told her sister respective times implicit the past 16 years that she planned to permission him, but helium ever convinced her to stay. The mates was besides broke and connected the verge of declaring bankruptcy for a 2nd time, the documents allege.

Angela Craig had complained to her sister that her hubby had precocious gambled distant much than $2,000 connected a travel to Las Vegas.

Back successful May, Craig was accused of asking a chap jailhouse inmate to works letters successful his store and his motortruck to marque it look similar his woman was suicidal. Olson said the inmate believed the letters were written by Craig but were meant to look arsenic if his woman had written them.

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According to Olson, Craig offered wealth to wage the inmate's enslaved successful bid to beryllium released from jailhouse oregon execute escaped dental enactment successful speech for planting the letters, but the inmate decided not to instrumentality him up connected the connection and reported the incidental to authorities, the detective antecedently testified.

Craig was already charged with first-degree murder and different number of solicitation to perpetrate tampering with carnal evidence. He pleaded not blameworthy to those 2 charges successful Nov. 2023.

His next tribunal appearance is scheduled for Dec. 16.

Fox News' Rebecca Rosenberg and the Associated Press contributed to this report. 

Stepheny Price is writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business. Story tips and ideas tin beryllium sent to stepheny.price@fox.com