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Surviving the Survivor: #BestGuests in True Crime

Opening Statements Finally Start After Non-Stop Drama & a Murder-for-Hire Plot Behind Bars

Surviving the Survivor: #BestGuests in True Crime

Big Pond Podcasts

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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0:00.0

Welcome to the global phenomenon, surviving the survivor, where we bring you the best guests in all of true crime.

0:07.6

Here's your host, Emmy Award winning journalist Joel Waldman.

0:11.6

He did not go into that room to save Angela's life.

0:15.4

He went into that room with a fatal dose of cyanide.

0:20.9

Those were the words this morning in Aurora, Colorado from prosecutor Ryan Brackley,

0:27.5

as opening statements commenced and are obviously now finished in this unbelievable case

0:35.1

out of Arapaho County, Colorado, involving a one-time, well-known

0:42.3

dentist named James Craig in the murder, poisoning murder of his wife, Angela. He is accused in the most

0:52.1

horrific way of murdering her, that he was living a double life,

0:56.8

that he was struggling financially, that his dental firm was struggling, married with six kids.

1:03.3

He was having an affair.

1:04.7

He had the time to do that.

1:06.5

His wife, and he described as religious, the wife more so in the LDS Church.

1:13.3

And prosecutors say that James Craig just wanted to start over with a girlfriend,

1:20.2

girl, girlfriend named Karen Kane, and we are going to discuss all this and who she is

1:25.4

and how it affects this unbelievable case with an

1:30.1

amazing number of twists and turns. Here to kick it off, we've got a familiar face of the show,

1:37.1

Chris Decker, criminal defense attorney out of the Denver, Colorado area. He also covers some

1:42.8

rural areas of Colorado. And if you've seen Colin McAllen,

1:47.0

who is a crowd favorite along with Chris here out of the Denver area, then please welcome in his

1:53.1

partner in crime. In law, as they say, Russell Hebbott's here. And he is a Denver-based criminal defense attorney and a former

2:03.6

deputy district attorney where this trial is taking place in Arapaho County, Colorado.

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