James Craig’s Double Life: How a “Loving Husband” Became a Suspected Killer
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 29 July 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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He was a dentist. A father of six. A man of faith. But prosecutors say James Craig was also a cold, calculated killer — slowly poisoning his wife with cyanide and Visine over multiple days while pretending to be the doting husband.
In this episode, I sit down with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott to unpack how someone maintains such a convincing public image while allegedly planning a murder behind closed doors. We’re not just talking about charm — we’re talking about full-scale emotional performance. The curated identity. The public mask. And how someone weaponizes trust so effectively that even their own family doesn't see it coming.
We break down how narcissistic personalities use charm and image management to build cover, how compartmentalization works in high-functioning offenders, and what signs families and communities often miss — or ignore.
If you’ve ever wondered how someone can live a lie this big, for this long, without cracking — this episode will walk you through exactly how it happens.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:03.2 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:05.8 | You don't see a nickname like the smoothie poisoning dentist |
| 0:10.4 | unless something has gone seriously and deeply wrong. |
| 0:15.2 | But what's so disturbing about the James Craig case |
| 0:17.9 | isn't just what he allegedly did. |
| 0:20.7 | It's how perfectly normal he looked |
| 0:22.7 | while doing it. This was a man with a dental practice, six kids, a church community, a mortgage, |
| 0:29.8 | no mugshots in the past, no angry neighbors whispering about him before it all came out. |
| 0:36.4 | James wasn't hiding in the shadows. |
| 0:38.2 | He was shaking hands in broad daylight. |
| 0:41.1 | And if prosecutors are right, he was allegedly using that exact persona to poison his wife, |
| 0:46.8 | one smoothie at a time, while texting her sweet nothings in between. |
| 0:52.7 | This episode is about that mask, the charm, |
| 0:55.3 | the curated life, the version of himself |
| 0:57.3 | that Craig built, maintained and allegedly weaponized, |
| 1:00.8 | even as his wife's death was imminent |
| 1:04.2 | and her health declined. |
| 1:06.3 | And his Google search history |
| 1:08.0 | started looking like a criminology syllabus from hell. |
| 1:12.4 | With me today is psychotherapist, Chavon Scott, author of the Mines of Mass Killers, available |
| 1:20.4 | wherever you get books and her new memoir also out, which is very, very good, Nightbird. |
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