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She was broken, not about to tell people about her marital struggles.

Those are the words of defense attorney Ashley Whittem during opening statements yesterday.

And today, the defense taking a much more aggressive approach to this entire case.

We're about to dig into it. Welcome to Surviving the Survivor. It is the true crime show that

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It is day two of the James Craig murder trial out in Arapaho County, Colorado, otherwise known

for the Aurora Theater shooting. We have the DA who prosecuted that case back for another day here.

It's already this case becoming

one of the wildest ones that we have ever covered here at STS. You've got it all. You've got a wife

who is dead from poison, a husband who was searching the internet for how to make a murder look

like a heart attack. You've got an alleged murder for higher plot from jail against a lead

detective. You've got a defense attorney charged with arson right now and the, of course,

the prerequisite affair that all these cases seem to happen. Let's bring in the best guess,

one of them having a bit of a tough time, I think, getting on. But you met him yesterday, and he is back today.

It is George H. Brockler, the former Arapaho County, DA, now a DA in the adjacent

county, I believe, back for day two of analysis.

And then we've got Sky Lazaro here, a formidable criminal defense attorney

out of the great state of Utah, who, uh, for you guys out in the true crime world, you know

her because she was defending Corey Richens, no longer. Cory Richens set to go on trial in

2026, but she stands accused of murdering her husband, Eric Richens, with five times the lethal

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