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Five chilling words dentist told sugar baby before he 'poisoned his wife' revealed in stunning murder trial testimony
A dentist lavished a single broke mother he met on a sugar dating website with gifts and money while he fantasized about killing his wife, his murder trial heard on Wednesday.
Carrie Hageseth, who met James Craig in the fall of 2022 on said he'd explained to her the plot of the movie The Purge – where you can kill anyone within 24 hours and not face any consequences - and referenced his wife.
Hageseth told the court: 'He didn't say specifically her but said that he knew how he would be able to get away with … injecting somebody in the neck with a substance.'
The dentist 'mentioned he could use potassium chloride, or potassium something, because it was untraceable,' the mother and Lyft driver sensationally told the court. 'It would be one injection.'
Craig, 47, is charged with first-degree murder in connection with the March 2023 death of his wife, Angela, 43. Prosecutors allege he killed her with by poisoning her shakes and administering cyanide, arsenic and tetrahydrozoline, a chemical found in eyedrops.
Motives, they claim, include Craig's financial troubles and extramarital romance - particularly a budding relationship with a Texas orthodontist he met at a February 2023 conference in Las Vegas.
The defense has put forth that Angela was suicidal and 'manipulative' - and that the orthodontist was just the latest in a long line of women.
Throughout their 'arrangement,' Hageseth testified on Wednesday, Craig bought her daughter a $9,000 car, gave each of her kids $100 for Christmas, paid thousands in attorney fees for her divorce and financed meals and hotel room stays.
Initially Craig said he was married but separated, though Hageseth testified she later learned the truth.
'He told me that he was not happy and that he was trying to figure out how to get divorced,' she said.
Craig told her that 'financial separation from [Angela] was near impossible … One thing I remember specifically is that he said that it'd make him completely broke and destitute, such as the situation that I was in.'
It wasn't long before Craig asked her: 'Do you know anyone who can help me with my problem down here?
'I can pay handsomely,' he told Hageseth. 'I want to be with you.'
She believed 'problem' 'to mean his wife.'
'I said, 'I think you should hit up a homeless person,'' Hageseth testified that she answered.
'Basically find somebody that doesn't have much to lose.'
Hageseth told the court the relationship ended on February 18, 2023 - days before Craig struck up a new romance with a Texas orthodontist he met at a dental conference in Las Vegas.
That woman, Karin Cain, testified tearfully on Tuesday about how Craig claimed to be in the final stages of divorce, continuing to woo her as he allegedly poisoned his wife.
And Hageseth wasn't the only user who testified in Craig's trial on Wednesday.
Jordan Ivey told the court she met Craig on the site in October 2022 and the relationship continued until January 2023.
He lavished her with meals, money and even took her on vacation to Montana during their romance, she said.
Ivey knew he was married and considering divorce - which Craig told her was unfeasible because of 'the kids and monetary reasons.'
'There were multiple times he mentioned being unhappy, not being happy at home, having fights' with Angela, she said.
When he mentioned divorce in December 2022 - three months before his wife's murder - Ivey testified she responded: 'Is that something you're sure you want to do?
'Don't do that because of me.'
Describing the relationship on Wednesday, she noted Craig's 'excessive texting,' how he often said he missed her and how he even sent photos of his kids.
'To me, it was not very serious,' she said. 'I felt like it was more serious for him than it was for me.'
The trial continues on Thursday.
