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[audio logo] Narrator: This time on Killers Caught on Camera. In Colorado. Will Snyder: It seemed like they were
the perfect American family. Narrator: A loving couple haunted by a mystery illness.
Ryan Brackley: How this healthy person could walk into the hospital and then now be brain dead.
It was a mystery to them. Narrator: And in Oregon-- [police siren wailing] --police follow a grim trail--
Jed McGuire: We see shoe prints leading out of the shed in blood. Narrator: --to find a missing mom of three.
Spencer Gwartney: You don't know if they're being held somewhere. You don't know if they're alive or dead.
[foreboding music] ♪ ♪ Man 1: Just sounds like something bad is happening to her.
Woman: We know what happened because the video tells us what happened. Man 2: I heard some gunshots.
- I need to get rid of the gun. - Man, that's cool. Man - The camera doesn't lie.
[audio logo] [brisk music] Narrator: In the US, Colorado, the town of Aurora. ♪ ♪
Ryan Brackley: Aurora is a very family-oriented, safe place to live, safe place to raise children.
Narrator: Since 1999, home to the Craigs. ♪ ♪ - The Craig family were well-known in the community.
Angela Craig was a stay-at-home mother of six children. She met Jim Craig, her husband, while he was in dental school.
They were known as leaders in their church community. From the outside looking in, this was a happy family.
Will Snyder: I became the piano teacher for the Craigs for a better part of five years.
Angela was a supermom. She was just so caring and thoughtful, and really wanted the best for her kids.
The family dynamic that I saw was an incredibly loving one from everybody in the family.
♪ ♪ Ryan Brackley: Dr. James Craig was a beloved dentist. James Craig: My approach to dentistry
begins with sincerely listening to the patient. I also have a very strong philosophy that a happy team
makes happy patients. Ryan Brackley: In the community, he was known as Jim Craig.
He was known as a great dad, a great family man, a great husband. Will Snyder: It seemed like they were
the perfect American family. ♪ ♪ [indistinct chatter] narrator: The Craigs' everyday normality was
captured on home surveillance. Narrator: When Jim was at his practice, Angela ran the home.
Ryan Brackley: She was really healthy. She lived an active lifestyle, but really, she focused on her children
and raising them and educating them and being the best wife that she could be to her husband, Jim.
narrator: But in the month of March, life in the Craig home would change forever.
[ominous music] Ryan Brackley: Angela got up early, as she often did. She worked out.
She rode her bike. She had a smoothie. Sometime that morning, she started to feel ill.
Will Snyder: I saw her at the beginning of a piano lesson, where she normally was on the couch in the living room.
I remember she wasn't feeling that well. - She was struggling to focus, and she texted her husband
and told him, "I'm not feeling well. I'm feeling dizzy." This was an otherwise healthy, athletic, active woman.
They decided it was best to take her into the urgent care at a local hospital. Prash Patel: Angela would possibly be thinking the worst.
And that's often what patients do think, that when they come in, they're not necessarily thinking that this could just be food poisoning.
And so what we're going to try and do is examine her, corroborate some of the things that she's thought
about or suffering from. But really, it's like a detective trying to piece all the clues together.
Ryan Brackley: First they drew blood, and then they did a CT scan, and then they did an MRI.
And at the end of this visit, the doctor just simply could not figure out what was wrong with her.
So they released her. They told her, if it gets worse, come back. On March 9, she went back to hospital.
And once again, reported these symptoms but she reported that they were getting worse
and the ER staff noticed she looked worse. They drew more blood from her and she and her husband
are texting back and forth. What's wrong with me? He was responsive and he took care of her.
Not a day went by, it's fair to say not hours went by, that he didn't tell her I love you
and I miss you. Julia Shaw: Jim keeps sending Angela messages, and it's so many messages in a way that isn't normal.
There's something super weird about writing to someone "I like checking in on you."
On the surface, that looks like a good thing. That looks like someone who's caring, who is considerate,
who's constantly voicing and expressing his love. But given the frequency, and given the amount of these texts
he's sending, it's, if anything, probably quite oppressive for Angela. And the question, of course, is why.
What is it in it for him when he should be at work? He should be doing basically anything else rather
than just constantly texting. And I think sometimes you get people who almost become addicted to texting.
And it's not that they are addicted to sending them, it's that they want to get the response.
They want the attention. They want someone else to think about them. And the best way to get someone else to think about you
is to send them a note, like, I'm thinking about you. Ryan Brackley: Angela remained in the hospital.
They took her through a battery of tests. On March 12, there is some hope. She looks like she's doing better.
March 13, the same. And they let her go home on March 14. But what's remarkable is they still have
no idea what's wrong with her. narrator: As the breadwinner, Jim had to juggle Angela's mystery illness and his work
schedule at the practice. Ryan Brackley: Throughout Angela's illness, he is keeping his medical staff posted on what's
happening with Angela. They're also concerned. ♪ ♪ And on the morning of March 15, she declined.
She became worse, really disoriented. Her stomach started to give her great issues.
At this point, her brother and her sister-in-law are in Colorado taking care of her.
So they took her now to a different hospital. [tense music] ♪ ♪ We see Angela Craig arriving with her brother.
She's feeling worse than she's ever felt. And she's telling the doctors that. ♪ ♪
narrator: An hour later, Jim Craig arrived and sent Angela's brother home. ♪ ♪
- This is James Craig walking into his wife's hospital room and spends some time.
James Craig comes out of the room and he approaches the nurse station, and he points at his arm and says,
she's saying that her arm hurts. And you see the nurses get up and head into the room
on an emergency basis. She had what is known as a crash. She became unconscious.
James Craig appears distressed and hospital staff stands by his side, gives him some comfort
as they continue to rush into Angela's room with their emergency equipment as additional personnel goes
into the room. At this point, they are fighting for Angela's life, while at the same time
having no idea what's wrong with her. And you could see James Craig with his phone in front of him.
He is both taking photos and texting that his wife is now crashing in the hospital.
♪ ♪ Julia Shaw: In the moment where Angela crashes, Jim starts taking pictures.
And maybe this is because he's feeling a sense of loss of control, and he knows that taking pictures
is something he can do and he can share what's going on. But if you think about this in the context of his
what seems like texting addiction, you could also say he's hyper-sharing, over-sharing his life, and he also
shares it with his colleagues. And that ends up being a big mistake. ♪ ♪ Ryan Brackley: While she was crashing,
a employee of Jim Craig's medical practice reported something very, very concerning.
Just days earlier, on March 13, a package arrived at the dental office and it was addressed to Jim Craig.
When the employee saw it had already been opened, she panicked because she was told by Jim Craig
to not open that package. Inside was marked with the hazardous material sign on it.
She saw that it was a delivery of potassium cyanide. [foreboding music] She wasn't sure why a dental practice
would be getting cyanide. While concerned, she just decided, you know what, he ordered this for a reason.
And I'm going to trust that. Prash Patel: Cyanide is a highly poisonous, but a natural substance.
Its main use has been in chemical warfare. So cyanide works as a poison at a cellular level.
It stops the cell from utilizing oxygen. So what you're getting is you're getting cellular damage.
And if you've got cellular damage to a large extent, what you've then got is organ failure.
Ryan Brackley: On March 15, when Angela was in the hospital crashing, the employee reported this suspicious delivery of cyanide.
When that was reported up the chain to the doctors who were now trying to figure out
what's wrong with this woman, that just set off light bulbs and bells and whistles
in their minds. And they immediately gave her an antidote for cyanide poisoning.
And it worked in many ways. It got her heart back to where it needed to be. It got her breathing back to where it needed to be.
But it could not reverse where her brain was at that point. One of the doctors explained what was happening
and what they could do next. And Jim Craig told them, don't do anything. Just stop.
Let's let nature take its course. And that was very concerning to the doctors. And by the 21st of March, 2023, Angela Craig was declared dead.
[foreboding music] ♪ ♪ How this healthy woman could walk into the hospital and then now be dead, it was a mystery to them.
And a full-on police investigation started. In the police investigation and part
of their search of the Craig residence, they learned that there were a number of cameras.
We believe that Jim Craig didn't know that those cameras were still recording, but they were.
Ryan Brackley: It was this glimpse behind closed doors of life in the Craig residence.
And for the most part, it was life as normal. It was a loving family. It was a loving couple.
[indistinct chatter] But the cameras also captured some really concerning video footage that took place
during the course of Angela's illness, in the course of Angela getting sick. And that's Jim Craig making a number
of smoothies for his wife. [foreboding music] narrator: His smoothie recipes included
an ingredient not commonly found in something meant for human consumption. Ryan Brackley: He was searching for where can one buy arsenic.
♪ ♪ narrator: Jim Craig was captured on camera clutching his delivery of arsenic.
It was 48 hours before Angela's first trip to the hospital. - The reason that arsenic historically has been used
as a poison for almost 1,000, 2,000 years is that arsenic is odorless. It's tasteless.
But what's mysterious about it is on small levels, it can mimic a variety of other illnesses,
so it's easy to hide. narrator: As part of the investigation, toxicology labs retested all the blood
samples taken from Angela during her 10-day decline. ♪ ♪ Ryan Brackley: When Angela Craig first
walked into hospital on March 6, the FBI found evidence of arsenic in her blood,
but not enough to kill her. The tests from the morning of March 15 showed cyanide, but again, not enough to kill her.
But most importantly, there was a second blood draw the night of March 15, where they found deadly amounts of cyanide
in Angela's blood system. So the only logical, reasonable, believable inference was that someone gave Angela cyanide
while she was in the hospital. narrator: Closer analysis of Jim's movements in the hospital led to a chilling revelation.
Ryan Brackley: We could see James Craig walking out of his wife Angela's room in the afternoon
of March 15, 2023. And he goes into a bathroom in the emergency department, and he's in the bathroom for a couple of minutes.
♪ ♪ When James Craig walks out of the bathroom, you could see him reach into his pocket
and he has in his hand a syringe. [tense music] He walks into his wife's room with some
of the medical personnel with that syringe in his pocket. It's also notable throughout many of the hospital visits,
in this case, that James Craig is wearing the familiar blue scrubs of a physician.
Although he was never there as a physician, he was always there to support his wife or, in this scenario,
to administer a lethal dose of cyanide to his wife. ♪ ♪ narrator: The lethal dose was administered
in private, just out of frame, minutes before Jim Craig called in the emergency response team.
♪ ♪ Prash Patel: When Angela was given a fatal dose of cyanide, the results would have been very quick and catastrophic.
Our body has been designed to be a highly effective transport system. Our body needs oxygen. It needs fuel, it needs energy.
Obviously, our brain is the most vital organ that requires that oxygen. What we've got
is we've got a poison, effectively hijacking that highly efficient transport system.
Wherever the poison is, the cells are unable to use oxygen. And that is the same as putting a person underwater,
drowning them. Within three to four minutes, you've got irreversible brain death.
Sadly, Angela didn't stand a chance at that point. narrator: Investigators pored over
Jim Craig's personal messages to try to find an explanation. Why would a happily married family
man suddenly turn to murder? Ryan Brackley: We found out that Jim was having intimate contact with a number of women.
Towards the end of Angela's life, there were three women that he was texting back and forth
and seeing back and forth. ♪ ♪ narrator: Even as his wife was dying, Jim had other things on his mind.
Ryan Brackley: At this point, they are fighting for Angela's life, and you could see James Craig with his phone in front of him,
and he is texting at least one of the women that he's having intimate contact with.
[foreboding music] ♪ ♪ Julia Shaw: What's remarkable in this situation is that Jim Craig is also texting one of the three women
he's having an affair with. And he's sending her messages. He's saying he's so concerned.
And that, again, feels quite performative, like he's showing, look, I do care about the women in my life.
I care about my wife. But also maybe there's like a hint of, but I care about you more.
I think it could be that he's almost, like, addicted to further get reactions out of people
and to further show people that you're a good person. So almost your whole life becomes a sort of performance
in order to get attention from other people, particularly in his case, women. ♪ ♪
Ryan Brackley: Jim Craig was arrested and taken into custody for first degree murder charges.
James Craig: I have all of the answers that you need, but I can't talk, I can't--
I guess the one attorney that I've talked to has said, don't say anything because you can just incriminate yourself.
And I'm totally naive at this. I don't know what I'm doing. And you both seem very nice.
But I know your job is to put me away. interrogator: And our point is not to put you away.
It's to put the person away that caused this to your wife. And that-- that's where we're at.
- --is my life. - Jim Craig wants everyone to believe that Angela Craig was suicidal, that Angela Craig
had this death wish. - I'm sorry that I didn't just let her go through with this years ago.
Ryan Brackley: He kept telling us this was an assisted suicide. Jim Craig was putting all of this on Angela.
- I was scared to death. I don't know what to do. I want desperately to talk to you because I trust you.
- And he was trying to present himself as a grieving husband, a grieving father of six kids
who just lost their mother. - Well, you have a warrant, so you're going to go to jail today.
- What did you say on the second one? First-- - With intent after deliberation. - What does that mean?
interrogator: Basically, after deliberation, that you deliberated it, you thought--
and had intent to do it, had intent. Julia Shaw: What Jim Craig is doing here is he's leaning into the fact that poisoning is what's
called an equivocal death. In other words, you can't tell by looking at someone whether a crime has actually occurred.
It could be that she took poison on purpose, as in, it's a suicide. And so I think he's leaning into this,
this ambiguity that comes with the type of murder he's chosen. interrogator: Thank you.
Thank you. Ryan Brackley: Jim Craig pled not guilty to the charges. He wanted to have his day in court
and that's what we gave him. ♪ ♪ Narrator: The videos from the 10 days of Angela's slow death
became the prosecution's star digital witness. - Those videos showed Angela fighting for her life
and trying to figure out why she was sick. - This is after Angela started feeling sick,
after she had been to hospital, and she was frustrated. - That, to us, was very powerful evidence that behind
closed doors, in a video clip that Jim Craig probably thought nobody would ever find, that nobody would ever see,
she's saying "I'm not suicidal." [foreboding music] - In hindsight, this is a really dark moment,
because he's already starting to lay the groundwork for the potential of her being suicidal.
And it almost feels like she can kind of tell that he's using this strategy as a way
to control her and to control the way that the doctors interact with her. But I wonder if we take it back to his attention-seeking,
I wonder if the idea she's having isn't so much he's trying to kill me, but he's
trying to get attention because he's the good guy who brought in the suicidal wife.
And they've been married for a long time. They have six kids together. So I think at this point, there's
no world in which she thinks that he is capable of murdering her. ♪ ♪ narrator: On July 31, 2025, a jury
found Jim Craig guilty of first-degree murder by poisoning. The judge handed down a life sentence.
Ryan Brackley: In my 35 years of doing this work, I have never seen such a calculating, cold,
planned, deliberated murder. Jim Craig watched his wife get sick. And rather than help her, made her sicker.
And when she just did not die as quick as he wanted her to, he murdered her in her hospital bed.
♪ ♪ Will Snyder: Angela should be remembered as the supermom that she was. She was over the top caring.
She was a special person. So I'd like her to be remembered for that, how special she really was.
♪ ♪ [audio logo] [foreboding music] Julia Shaw: In murder cases where you've got false promises of monogamy, you've
got someone telling their partner, their spouse, their husband, their wife that you are the only one for me,
but they're actually cheating on them, either by sending hundreds of texts a day to other people,
or by engaging in romantic relationships otherwise, that might be something you can get away
with in the context of a relationship where you can conceal your phone, you can conceal all the digital footprints you have.
But as soon as a murder investigation takes place in the digital age, and they are forensically examining every message you've ever sent,
what this false monogamy can reveal is a bad character, a pattern of lies. And it can lead police to motive.
♪ ♪ [audio logo] narrator: In the US, Oregon, the Emerald city of Eugene. Jed McGuire: Eugene is a beautiful area.
We're about an hour and a half from the coast and from the snow and the mountains.
Spencer Gwartney: We have, in Lane County, a lot of rural areas, and there's forest everywhere around you.
That whole area is basically a great place to hide a body. [foreboding music] Jed McGuire: On August 5, 2016, at about 10:00 PM,
one of our patrol officers was driving in the north part of Eugene, and he saw a vehicle.
officer: [on radio] 1, can you confirm that's a stolen Oregon plate on a Buick?
Jed McGuire: License check of the registration showed that the vehicle was stolen out of another county.
That officer tried to make a traffic stop of that vehicle. officer: [on radio] Get on your face, buddy.
I want to talk to you real quick. Jed McGuire: When the vehicle pulled over, the driver fled on foot.
officer: [on radio] 1, pursuit. Northbound of New York. You're under arrest! - He failed to obey lawful order for him to stop.
officer: [on radio] Show me your hands! Show me your hands! Spencer Gwartney: They did manage to arrest him.
But that fleeing added to the concern about the whole case. The driver was Jeremy Milutin.
Police officers tried to ask him about the car, and he immediately requested to speak to a lawyer.
The police officer searched the vehicle. What he found was a little bit bizarre.
Found a pair of bloody female underwear, and he also found a wallet belonging to Cheryl Hart.
Jed McGuire: They did ask him about the ID that belonged to this woman. He claimed that he did not know her.
The trunk release had been disabled and the officers were not able to get into the trunk.
That suggested there was more to the story than just a stolen vehicle. Patrol officers contacted Cheryl's mother.
Sheri Melling: It was 2:00 AM, August 5, the police come to my door here and they said, where's Cheryl?
And we said, what are you talking about? We don't know. She's with Jeremy. Jed McGuire: Mr. Milutin said that he did
not know his own girlfriend. That really raised our hackles. That really told us that something bad might
have happened in this case, and we needed to figure out what that was. Sheri Melling: I was up all night
calling around, even waking people up, I didn't care. Lisa Hart: My mom called and said that my sister was missing
and Jeremy's in jail. I remember thinking, no, she's hiding somewhere safe and she'll come back, you know.
Spencer Gwartney: When police learned that she hadn't been seen or communicated with in some time,
that became less of a yellow flag and more of a red flag. Sheri Melling: Cheryl was very, very kind person.
On Christmases, she would always bring in the people that didn't have anywhere else to go.
We would just talk, talk, talk. I could just stop by her house and just see what's going on,
or she'd just stop up here. narrator: Cheryl was 35 and had two boys and one girl.
Sheri Melling: She loved babies. Loved her children. Dylan Hart: I was her youngest, I was 10.
She was really strong headed, very independent, you know. As long as you knew mom was around, you're fine.
She didn't need anyone, but she always wanted someone. narrator: In 2015, Cheryl rekindled
a relationship with her childhood sweetheart, Jeremy Milutin. Dylan Hart: I looked up to Jeremy,
and I cared about Jeremy a lot. He told me that he would try to teach me how to be a man.
Sheri Melling: He was kind. He was fine. He helped out. It was good. And then it got bad.
♪ ♪ He wouldn't let us see Cheryl. He just kept her inside. And it was this gradual controlling thing.
Dylan Hart: She tried her best to shield us all from him, but I was scared. I was always scared.
When you see someone else, the strongest person you know get knocked down, it drives you like wild.
And you're like, well, if she's not strong, then what am I supposed to do? Lisa Hart: She just thought she loved him, I guess.
You can't tell somebody who they can be with. But I didn't understand why she would be with him.
He didn't bring anything to the table. He didn't provide in any way for her. We would be in each other's faces, me and him, at times.
♪ ♪ Sheri Melling: I think it made him even more controlling when he knew we were angry.
Shawn Katz: Family members, people outside a relational system, are going to see things a little clearer, and possibly
sooner than before the people in the relationships. There's a tricky dynamic and dance
going on between Cheryl, her support system, and Jeremy. And the nature of coercive and controlling relationships
is that you try to isolate the person from their support system so that they don't have undue influence against you.
While Cheryl might have had concerns about his behavior because she spoke to her family,
it seems like she wasn't in full acknowledgment of it and it was a little bit in denial,
and it's going to have felt really frustrating and scary for her family to see Cheryl stay
in a relationship that was not healthy, and not good for her, and had many abusive elements.
narrator: In the last days of July, Cheryl and Jeremy went on a spontaneous road trip.
Sheri Melling: It was very unusual for her to just take off and we were very angry.
There was a lot of anger, mostly at him like, what in the world is going on? Why would you be with him over your kids?
So we didn't know what to think. narrator: It was just days after they left together that Jeremy was stopped
by police without Cheryl. officer: [on radio] 1, can you confirm that's a stolen
Oregon plate on a Buick? narrator: In custody, Jeremy refused to talk to investigators.
But in a phone call with his mom, he insisted he dropped Cheryl off at a campsite near Eugene.
Sheri Melling: When Jeremy said he dropped her off at a campsite, you're hoping that's true.
You're hoping beyond hope that that is true. ♪ ♪ Spencer Gwartney: Cheryl's family made a huge effort
to try and find her. They had people, volunteers, putting up missing posters and
things like that in Eugene. Lisa Hart: You're driving down a road and every side road,
you have to go down there. You have to search it. Because what if it was that one?
narrator: Police went back to the stolen car to look for more clues about Cheryl's last known journey.
Jed McGuire: When we searched the vehicle, we found a bottle of bleach. It was the house brand for a grocery store in Eugene.
Spencer Gwartney: We're then able to get surveillance footage from that store at about 7 o'clock
in the morning on August 5. ♪ ♪ Jed McGuire: It showed a man driving up in the same car
that the patrol officers found, and then going in and purchasing a bottle of bleach.
We were able to identify that person on the video as Jeremy Milutin. ♪ ♪ Why is he buying bleach?
Bleach is used to clean things up. And that added another layer of concern that he was trying to destroy evidence.
narrator: The bleach in the stolen car appeared to be related to a clumsy attempt
to hide evidence. Spencer Gwartney: The trunk couldn't be opened. It had been tampered with.
We actually had to crawl through the car into the trunk to search it. And what they found inside the trunk of the car
was a lot of blood. ♪ ♪ Jed McGuire: We released that image of Mr. Milutin buying
the bleach, and requested assistance from anybody in the community. Narrator: The images circulated of Jeremy buying bleach
prompted a lead from a friend who'd recently seen them both. Jed McGuire: He told us Cheryl and Jeremy had the desire
to elope to get married, but when they ran out of money, they had to turn around and come back.
Shawn Katz: It's an unfortunate but common thing where people think, if we get married,
if we have children that that will fix the relationship. In some ways, I would blame Hollywood.
We are fed this narrative that you find your soulmate and will live happily ever after.
But given that the relationship was already disturbing, there was already violence in it,
we all have to face reality, and we often don't want to face reality. And we just put our heads in the sand
and have wishful thinking that, you know, it's fine when it's really not fine. ♪ ♪
narrator: The friend told investigators that Cheryl and Jeremy had camped out in a shed owned by his sister.
Jed McGuire: When we walked into the carport of this residence, I immediately saw
something that kind of looked like an oil spot. I said, that looks like blood to me.
♪ ♪ We see shoe prints leading out of the shed in blood. ♪ ♪ Inside the shed, we found blood on the mattress.
♪ ♪ We also found a package of bungee cords, packing tape, and we thought that was relevant.
We just didn't know exactly how it was at the time. Spencer Gwartney: That blood that's right there,
that's Cheryl Hart's. You don't know if that person is being held somewhere. You don't know if they're alive or dead.
narrator: Without knowing whether Cheryl was OK, detectives needed a break to find Jeremy.
Spencer Gwartney: The owner of the shed was missing money and credit cards. We got the bank records, and it showed
a number of transactions, not just in Eugene but also in Klamath Falls. We were able to get surveillance footage from each
and every one of those stores. One of the most stunning videos that we got was from a car wash.
narrator: Security cameras filmed the same stolen vehicle that Jeremy was driving when he was arrested.
Jed McGuire: One of the things I've never come across in my career was somebody washing a stolen car.
Spencer Gwartney: What that video shows us is he's trying to get rid of Cheryl Hart's blood.
♪ ♪ narrator: With the car washed, Jeremy continued his clean up operation. The stolen credit card led detectives to more cameras.
Jed McGuire: He purchases a shower, exits the store. Shortly, he'll come back in and he's
carrying this large backpack. He enters the code, goes into the restroom. You notice what he's wearing.
45 minutes or so later, you'll see him come out and, look, he's wearing a totally different outfit.
Pants are rolled up, different hair. His tattoos are still visible, and you can see he's
now wearing a different hat. He's still got the same backpack, though. This is the clothing that he was wearing at the traffic stop
the night of August 5, 2016. ♪ ♪ What this does is it tells us he's in there not just showering, but he's washing away evidence.
He's washed the car so far. Now he's washing himself. ♪ ♪ Spencer Gwartney: The one thing that we never see in all
of this video is Cheryl Hart. And that's pretty notable. And if we weren't sure before that she had been murdered,
that did it. ♪ ♪ Sheri Melling: When we were standing in the police department, the Eugene Police Department,
we were shown the videos and Cheryl wasn't there. Jeremy's in jail. He was not saying anything.
I think it was cruel and pretty evil of him, really. We're blindly searching. We have no clue where to go.
narrator: Jeremy was still in custody, but not for much longer. Spencer Gwartney: At this point,
Jeremy was still only charged with, at best, unlawful use of a vehicle. We didn't have a body.
And you can prove a murder without a body, but it is extremely hard. But on August 9 at 12:21, Jeremy
makes a terrible mistake. He's on a phone call with his mom. - That, to us, was a huge indicator that if he's saying
he's looking at a life sentence, then Cheryl must be deceased. Because you don't go to jail for life for a stolen car.
♪ ♪ Spencer Gwartney: The picture this is building for investigators is that something happened
in Eugene, and that Jeremy almost certainly took Cheryl Hart somewhere near Klamath Falls.
♪ ♪ Jed McGuire: This investigation spans several hundred miles. In between Eugene and Klamath Falls, it's a lot of forest,
it's a lot of high desert, which really leads to endless possibilities of where could Cheryl be.
We really wanted to solve this case before the snow hit, because with the snow on the ground,
it would be near impossible to find any remains. ♪ ♪ narrator: But after four weeks, police
got some new information. Spencer Gwartney: Law enforcement received a tip from a gentleman who was aware of the case
and aware of the vehicle that Jeremy was driving. He actually recalled seeing that vehicle
on a very remote back road in Klamath County. That caused a search effort from volunteers.
On September 10, they found human remains. They found Cheryl. [somber music] Dylan Hart: My grandma pulled me in and hugged me,
and told me she had passed. And I don't quite remember how I reacted. My brother told me I'd screamed or something,
but my brains blocked that out, like, for a long time. ♪ ♪ Lisa Hart: It took a month, but it
was definitely a relief to have found her because we wouldn't stop. We'd be searching to this day.
It was also heartbreaking because she was my best friend. Yeah. ♪ ♪ Jed McGuire: At the scene, we had found electrical cords and
some bungee cords that had been used to wrap up Cheryl's body. Spencer Gwartney: During the autopsy,
the medical examiner noted the ligature around her neck, damage that is typically
associated with strangulation. Cheryl Hart had a pacemaker implanted. And from that, we were able to determine her heart stopped
at 11:17 PM on August 4. ♪ ♪ Sheri Melling: You don't die just with a pacemaker.
I mean, it kicks you back on. And that's a tough one to think about, because so many women are strangled.
And if I even hear a story, then that comes back that she had a pacemaker. I don't know.
I try not to think about it. ♪ ♪ narrator: In search of a motive, police downloaded the messages off Jeremy's phone.
- One of the things that we found on his cell phone were messages to other women.
Sexual messages. narrator: It looked like Cheryl had caught wind of Jeremy's infidelity.
- Cheryl, posing as Jeremy, had been texting, saying, I found the woman of my dreams.
I'm not interested in you. Please don't contact me again. Well, Jeremy found out about this.
One of the first messages he sent after he came back into town was to this woman,
and she asked, who was that? And he said, oh, that was nobody. Well, that nobody is Cheryl who he just killed.
He's already out looking for another relationship. This is another view into the soul of Jeremy Milutin.
Shawn Katz: You're getting to the kind of common nature of domestic violence and coercive,
controlling relationships, where traditionally it's a man who wants to maintain control, whose self-esteem and
self-worth is based on feeling loved and getting the attention that they feel they deserve or want.
And when they don't get what they want, they will turn to extreme acts of either violence
or worse-- in this case, murder-- instead of actually processing and managing and handling
their own emotional reactions. ♪ ♪ Spencer Gwartney: Now that we have Cheryl's body,
we are able to finally charge Jeremy with murder. ♪ ♪ On May 22, 2018, Jeremy pled guilty.
On June 1 of 2018, he was sentenced to 30 years in prison. ♪ ♪ Lisa Hart: Shortly after that, everybody
moved to our family house. We're all closer. We are closer. We cherish each other more because we lost
someone we cherished so much. Dylan Hart: We all just feel her presence. If we're all in the same room, I
already know she's just there. How could she not be? So I always feel like she's always around.
♪ ♪ Jed McGuire: When Cheryl's body was recovered, she had a necklace on. Took it from evidence, cleaned it up,
and I went to a jewelry store and I asked them for a box, and I mailed it to her mother.
I felt that was maybe what Cheryl would gift her mother. ♪ ♪ Sheri Melling: She was wearing that when she was-- she
was taken and when they found her. And it means a lot. It's a part of her. It's been hard, but she's touched a lot of people.
Her positivity has really helped us. ♪ ♪ She's my baby girl. ♪ ♪ [audio logo] [intriguing music]
♪ ♪

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Brief Summary

Angela Craig's mysterious illness leads to murder charges against her husband, while Cheryl Hart's disappearance uncovers a controlling relationship and eventual murder.

Key points

A Mysterious Illness. Angela Craig's sudden decline from health to brain death puzzled everyone.
The Perfect American Family. The Craigs appeared to be a loving family, but a mystery illness changed everything.
Suspicious Delivery. A package containing potassium cyanide raises alarms during Angela's hospital stay.
Jim Craig's Arrest. Jim Craig was arrested for first-degree murder after his wife's mysterious death.
A Life Sentence. Jim Craig was found guilty of first-degree murder by poisoning and sentenced to life.
The Start of a Pursuit. A police officer spots a stolen vehicle, leading to a foot chase and arrest.

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The camera doesn't lie.

A man reflects on the evidence captured on video.

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