Narcissistic Killer Pretends To Help Police Solve Wife's Murder - LONG - Part ONE
October 3, 2026
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5 min readOn the evening of March 13, 2023, a dentist named Jim Craig sat in a hospital waiting room while his wife Angie lay dying. Doctors still could not explain why a healthy woman in her forties had spent two weeks cycling through bouts of violent nausea, fainting spells, and crashing vitals. Then Jim's business partner, Ryan Redfern, pulled a hospital nurse aside with information that would upend everything: a box of potassium cyanide had been delivered to Jim's dental office that very morning, addressed to him personally, marked "personal" and "do not open."
The Unfolding of a Suspicious Illness
Angie Craig first fell ill on March 6, the Monday after returning from a genealogy conference in Utah. According to Jim, she woke up, they shared a protein shake he had made—with what he described as three times the normal amount of pre-workout caffeine—then did a Peloton workout. Afterwards, Jim's daughter found Angie lethargic on the bedroom floor, barely responsive. Jim took her to the ER, where doctors ran tests and found nothing conclusive. She was sent home.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (01:05) **Scene One: The Crime Scene & Initial Contact** - Police respond to a death investigation at the Craig home and speak with a woman named Erin, who claims to be the wife of the victim's husband, Jim.
- 2 (12:10) **Homicide Investigators Question Ryan Redfern** - Jim's business partner, Ryan, is interviewed about Jim's financial troubles, his rocky marriage, and the timeline of Angie's mysterious illness.
- 3 (27:30) **The Suspicious Package and the Office Manager's Account** - Ryan reveals that on the night of March 6th, Jim went back to his office and ordered a "personal" package, which was later discovered to contain potassium cyanide.
- 4 (41:40) **Confronting Jim at the Hospital** - After Angie is declared brain dead, Ryan confronts Jim about the cyanide, leading to a bizarre phone call where Jim changes his story multiple times.
- 5 (56:50) **Jim's Reaction and the Police Are Called** - As the reality of the situation sets in, Jim's focus shifts to how the situation looks for him, and Ryan decides to go to the police.
- 6 (62:09) **Ryan's Wife Michelle is Interviewed** - Michelle Redfern provides her perspective on the events, including Jim's strange texts and the phone call where he admitted to buying the cyanide.
- 7 (86:36) **Michelle's Timeline of the Final Day** - Michelle describes the chaotic final day, from learning Angie was being coded to the moment Jim was told she wouldn't make it.
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