It was the prosecution’s timeline, it was the defendant’s timeline.

As testimony in James Craig’s murder trial continued into its ninth day Friday, prosecutors established their timeline of events leading up to the former Aurora dentist’s wife’s death by poisoning.

They also walked jurors through a sequence of events Craig provided them. 

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

Michael Mauro, senior chief deputy district attorney with the 18th Judicial District, spent the day walking the witness, Aurora Police Department Det. Bobbi Jo Olson, through a timeline of Craig’s and Angela Craig’s actions leading up to her hospitalization on March 15, 2023. The timeline included cellphone location data and surveillance footage from within the Craigs’ home.

It also included texts, emails and Google search data, all of which had already been entered into evidence. It was the first time in the trial that a cohesive sequence of events including the admitted evidence had been documented for the jury.

Prosecutors also noted that Craig was the beneficiary of four different life insurance policies that listed Angela as the insured party, with a combined coverage of $4 million. The prosecution did not say Friday how those policies could have connected to Craig’s alleged actions.

One of the videos included a clip alleging that Craig was carrying a syringe around his house just days before Angela’s death. Another showed him in the hospital on March 15, just before Angela’s crash, the one that would prove to be fatal. 

As Craig walked out the door leading to the bathroom, video showed him carrying a thin clear white object in his left hand, the prosecution noted. He then entered Angela’s room about 10 minutes later, leaving about 60 seconds after that to talk to the personnel at the nurses station.

As Craig was talking with the nurses, something in Angela’s room turned their attention away from him and they all ran inside. About seven minutes after, with the personnel still attending to the incident in Angela’s room, Craig was seen on camera walking out and down a hallway. 

That hallway was a dead end, only containing an exit and the hospital’s sharps container, Olson said on the stand.

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.

The prosecution’s timeline also included surveillance video of the couple’s kitchen. One clip, recorded the night of March 7, the day after Angela began feeling ill, caught an argument between her and Craig, 

“It may not be your fault if they didn’t do their due diligence, but its your fault they treated me differently,” Angela said on the video. “It’s your fault they treated me like I was a suicide risk and couldn’t be believed.”

“I also wanted a drug test done because you were accusing me,” Craig said in response. “I wanted that too.”

Angela also disputed the notion that she could be a suicide risk.

“Nobody in their right mind would ever think I’d kill myself before I’d kill you,” Angela said in the video. “Nobody. Name one person.”

But according to Craig’s own timeline, that’s exactly what she asked him to help her with. 

In a note written just after 1 a.m. on March 16 — the night Angela was pronounced brain-dead in the hospital — Craig constructed his own timeline of events. Within it, he admitted to several extramarital affairs, but said that when Angela found out about them she threatened to kill herself rather than get a divorce.

“I begged her not to do that but she said she couldn’t get a divorce,” said the timeline from Craig, read aloud during Olson’s testimony. “She talked about driving her car into a pylon, but was worried that she wouldn’t die but would just be maimed.”

Craig’s timeline also said that Angela started to research poisons that could kill her in a quick and painless manner. Olson noted on the stand that law enforcement never found any evidence of this research during their investigation.

In fact, earlier testimony revealed, she did internet searches to figure out why she was feeling so bad lately, with dizziness and weakness. 

While at first resisting his wife’s demands, Craig eventually had a “change of heart” and decided to help her, the timeline said.

Craig’s timeline detailed him researching four main poisons he thought would do the job: tetrahydrozoline, arsenic, cyanide and oleander.

The same four poisons have been linked to Craig throughout the duration of the trial. 

The timeline listed the arsenic poisoning as happening a few days after Angela was first admitted to the hospital on March 6. Within it, Craig said that Angela had asked him to put it in one of her protein shakes so she wouldn’t taste it.

That poisoning re-admitted Angela to the hospital on March 9. While there, she allegedly asked Craig to use a strong, fast-acting poison to get the job done the next time, his timeline said. 

But that sequence of events did not make sense, as Craig ordered the cyanide on March 8, prosecutors noted.

The defense, who had objections to former 18th Judicial District Investigator Garrett Lord’s discussion of Craig’s and Angela’s cellphone location data during Thursday’s testimony, maintained their objections to the use of that testimony on Friday.

Attorney Lisa Moses raised an objection on at least 10 separate occasions, with Judge Shay Whitaker noting many of them for the record before allowing the prosecution to proceed.

Olson’s testimony will continue on Monday at 8:30 a.m. in the Arapahoe County Courthouse as the trial enters its third week.