2025 brought a fair share of stories throughout Colorado, from the Eastern Plains to the Western Slope — none may have been more captivating than a murder trial in Centennial this summer.
After three weeks of testimony, a jury found former Aurora dentist James Craig guilty of murdering his wife Angela in 2023 with lethal doses of several chemicals, including cyanide, arsenic and tetrahydrozoline — the active ingredient in Visine.
During the trial, two of Craig’s six children, all with Angela, took the stand and recounted their relationship with their father and late mother. One of the defendant’s daughters, Annabelle, spoke of how her father directed her from jail to frame her mother’s death as a suicide.
Craig’s trial wasn’t the only thing that kept people glued to their screens this summer. On the Western Slope, the Lee fire grew to become one of the largest in state history, feasting on a plethora of dry fuel to move rapidly and evade crews…