The Visine Killer: James Craig's Bizarre Plot to Mask Murder Revealed
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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3 • 791 Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Prepare to unravel the meticulous, terrifying strategy behind a murder by milligram as we meticulously examine the alleged poisoning of Angela Craig. Prosecutors contend James Craig systematically administered deadly doses of cyanide and tetrahydrozoline, chillingly ordered using aliases and shipped directly to his dental office. This episode dissects the unique challenges and distinct advantages faced by prosecutors when building a case centered on poisoning, emphasizing how the slow, calculated, and insidious nature of such a crime significantly strengthens the argument for first-degree murder. We will meticulously analyze the damning digital breadcrumbs: a precise timeline of online searches for poisons, documented chemical purchases, and Angela's escalating medical symptoms directly correlating with her repeated hospital visits. A critical question arises: how does a defense attorney even begin to construct a plausible argument for a client who had such deadly substances delivered to their own place of business? We explore the chilling implications of James Craig's medical background, pondering whether his professional knowledge made the alleged act even more egregious in the eyes of potential jurors. Is there any conceivable legal pathway for the defense to argue "accidental poisoning" given the unequivocal toxicology reports? Furthermore, we investigate the perplexing use of seemingly innocuous Visine, questioning if it was a desperate act of improvisation or a calculated attempt to mask the poisoning as a natural, rapidly deteriorating illness, thereby deflecting suspicion. The psychological impact of a defendant appearing calm and smiling at a hospital while their spouse slowly succumbs to poison will be discussed, exploring how prosecutors can present such emotional details without appearing speculative, and whether juries are ultimately swayed more by these unsettling emotional cues or by the cold, hard science of forensic evidence.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:03.1 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:05.8 | There are different kinds of killers. |
| 0:07.5 | Some act in rage, some plan in silence, |
| 0:09.7 | and then there are the ones who know just enough to play God. |
| 0:15.5 | One calculated dose at a time. |
| 0:19.3 | That's a version of James Craig. |
| 0:20.9 | Prosecutors are showing to the jury, |
| 0:23.0 | not a man who snapped, a man who scheduled, |
| 0:26.5 | who used his professional know-how not to heal but to harm, |
| 0:30.8 | quietly, invisibly, and with clinical precision. |
| 0:36.2 | In this section, we're talking about murder by milligram, not bullets, not knives, not anything you'd see on a police procedural. |
| 0:45.8 | No, this was poison. |
| 0:47.9 | Cyanide ordered online. |
| 0:49.9 | Vizene bottles piled up by the dozen. |
| 0:52.5 | And a woman, Angela, who went from dizzy spells to a coma |
| 0:56.4 | to a slow, painful death, while her husband held her hand and sent picks to his side chick, |
| 1:05.5 | allegedly. The timeline is damning if it holds February 27th. He allegedly opens a fake email account. |
| 1:12.8 | Order cyanide searches for how to make poison from oleander and his arsenic detectable. |
| 1:20.6 | You know, normal searches. |
| 1:22.3 | March 6th, Angela goes to the ER for the first time. |
| 1:25.8 | Then again on March 9th by March 15th, she's brain dead. |
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