Two of James Craig’s siblings-in-law recounted their sister’s final days during the Aurora dentist’s murder trial on Thursday.

Craig, 47, faces six felony counts in connection with the death his wife, Angela Craig in March 2023, including first-degree murder, solicitation to tamper with physical evidence and solicitation to commit perjury. Prosecutors allege he killed her with fatal doses of poison.

Mark Pray, Craig’s brother-in-law, testified on Thursday morning how he and his wife, Renee, had driven about 12 hours through a snowstorm to Denver from their home in Utah after they heard about Angela medically crashing on March 12.

They stayed at the Craigs’ home and took care of the children while Angela was in the hospital, he said. They first visited her on the night of March 13 after going out to dinner to celebrate Annabelle Craig’s birthday before bringing her home from the hospital the following night.

“I’m shaky inside, but I’m not shaking on the outside,” Pray recounted Angela saying that night.

Dressed in a blue button-down shirt, his short greying hair a wispy shadow on top of his head, Pray tilted his head and slightly arched his right eyebrow as attorneys questioned him about the morning of March 15, when he took Angela back to the hospital.

That morning, Pray said, Craig told him to give Angela a dose of clindamycin, an antibiotic, saying it was for a sinus infection she had. 

When Michael Mauro, a senior chief deputy district attorney for the 18th Judicial District, asked Pray if he gave her the dose that morning, the witness paused for about five seconds before saying, “I did.”

He then described finding her doubled over in the bedroom about 20 minutes after giving her the dose, unable to hold herself up. He then carried her out to his car and took her back to the hospital.

Around lunchtime that day, Pray recounted Craig meeting him at the hospital and bringing sandwiches for them to eat. During that time, Craig told Pray he was welcome to go back to the house, an offer he accepted.

Maybe 10 minutes into the drive home, he got a call from his sister, Toni, who said that Angela had crashed and he needed to drive back, Pray said.

Pray’s wife, Renee, who testified after, confirmed that Craig wanted to make sure Angela had taken the medication that morning, and that he questioned their decision to take her to the hospital. 

“He thought she should be resting, instead of being moved around,” Renee Pray said. “He wanted her to be at home.”

Angela died on March 18, 2023, at Denver’s University Hospital from lethal doses of several toxins, including cyanide, arsenic and tetrahydrozoline — the active ingredient in Visine. In the week leading up to her death, she had visited the hospital multiple times, feeling weak and dizzy.

Angela’s sister, Toni Kofoed, also took the stand on Thursday, testifying that she had known about the Craigs’ marital problems since Angela first told her about James Craig cheating in 2018.

While the two decided to stay together after the first incident — with both participating in individual and couples therapy — marital issues arose again in early December 2022, when Angela texted Kofoed that she had found evidence on Craig’s computer that he was again cheating on her, Kofoed said.

Angela said his actions had made it impossible to stay in the marriage, and that she was thinking of leaving after Christmas, Kofoed testified.

But the following day, Angela changed her tune, Kofoed said.

After talking to her husband about his infidelity, Craig had convinced her that he wasn’t really cheating, and that the women he was meeting on a dating website were not romantic or intimate partners, Kofoed said. 

“It wasn’t what I thought,” a Dec. 11, 2023 text message from Angela read. “It’s all just so broken and stupid.”

James Craig's partner in extramarital affair takes stand in murder trial

Kofoed said she did not believe that to be true.

“It was what she thought it was, it was what I thought it was,” Kofoed said while at the stand.

She also noted that Craig would occasionally tell his wife that she should leave him and that she deserved better. Then they’d deal with the situation and after he’d tell her he wanted to stay together.

“Leave, stay, back and forth — there were a lot of back and forths between them,” Defense Attorney Lisa Moses said.

Later in the day, former 18th Judicial District investigator Garrett Lord, an expert in cellphone data analysis, was led through a presentation he made using cellphone location data collected from the Craigs’ phones. 

During the walkthrough, conducted by Deputy District Attorney Osama Magrebi, Lord highlighted that, based on the location data, Craig’s cellphone device appeared to travel from the University of Colorado hospital on March 15 — after Angela had just been admitted — to his home, where he stayed for about 10 minutes before traveling back north to the hospital.

During the cross-examination, defense attorney Ashley Whitham noted that devices don’t always ping off the closes cell towers, just the ones with the best quality signal.

Lord countered by saying that generally devices ping the tower they are closest in distance to.

Craig’s trial will continue at 8:30 a.m. Friday in 18th Judicial District Judge Shay Whitaker’s Arapahoe County courtroom.