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🗓️ 2 August 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Week in review. |
0:02.3 | I look back at the most prolific stories of the week. |
0:05.2 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
0:08.4 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
0:10.9 | You don't see a nickname like the smoothie poisoning dentist |
0:15.5 | unless something has gone seriously and deeply wrong. |
0:20.3 | But what's so disturbing about the James Craig case isn't just what he allegedly did. |
0:25.4 | It's how perfectly normal he looked while doing it. |
0:30.1 | This was a man with a dental practice, six kids, a church community, a mortgage, no mugshots in the past, no angry neighbors, whispering about |
0:38.6 | him before it all came out. James wasn't hiding in the shadows. He was shaking hands in broad daylight. |
0:45.9 | And if prosecutors are right, he was allegedly using that exact persona to poison his wife, |
0:52.0 | one smoothie at a time, while texting her sweet nothings in between. |
0:57.9 | This episode is about that mask, the charm, the curated life, the version of himself that Craig |
1:03.3 | built, maintained and allegedly weaponized, even as his wife's death was imminent and her health |
1:10.1 | declined. And his Google search history started looking |
1:13.8 | like a criminology syllabus from hell. |
1:17.6 | With me today is psychotherapist, Chavon Scott, author of the minds of mass killers available |
1:25.6 | wherever you get books and her new memoir also out which is very |
1:28.7 | very good night bird highly recommend both of them to you how someone can present as a devoted father |
1:39.0 | husband doctor and allegedly slow motion killer we're going into the psychology behind compartmentalization, |
1:46.0 | how people split themselves and diversions that never touch. We'll talk about charm as camouflage, |
1:54.4 | the emotional anesthesia that lets someone act loving while doing real harm and how families and communities often don't spot it until it's way too late. |
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