James Craig asked his jail cellmate, Nate Harris, to help him find someone to create false information about his case and someone to kill the lead detective on the case, Harris testified in the seventh day of Craig’s murder trial Wednesday.

Also on Wednesday, the jury heard from Carrie Hegeseth, a “sugarbaby” who met Craig on a dating website called Seeking, who said Craig had told her he knew how he could kill someone without getting caught, she testified.

In jail, Craig told Harris he was falsely accused of murdering his wife and said he helped her commit suicide. He said investigators on the case were “out to get him.”

Craig, 47, faces six felony counts in connection with the death his wife, Angela, 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.

Craig then asked Harris — who testified he has spent a lot of time in-and-out of prison — to help him find someone who could find and kill the case’s lead investigator, Aurora Police Department Det. Bobbi Olson, Harris told the jury.

Craig also wanted to hire someone, specifically Harris’s legal-but-separated wife Kasiani “Kasi” Konstantinidis, who could “make up information” about his case to “lead investigators in another direction.”

Deputies recovered a letter from Craig requesting this service from Kasi, which Harris and his current partner, identified as “Loretta,” told authorities about, he said.

Harris initially said he would only agree to testify if he were not in custody, but testified Wednesday in custody because “(Loretta) told me to,” he said. 

Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Nicholas Hudson recovered the letter from Craig and Harris’s cell, and testified to as much Wednesday.

Hudson read parts of the letter out loud to the jury.

In the letter, Craig claimed he was “unjustly” accused of a crime and asked the person he wrote the letter to, Kasi, to fill several false witness roles.

Craig wanted Kasi to play the role of a friend of Angela’s who Angela had confided in that she was suicidal and had threatened Craig with suicide in the past to manipulate him, according to the letter.

Craig also requested Kasi find other false witnesses, offering her $20,000 for each false witness she found. 

In a terse back-and-forth cross examination, defense attorney Ashley Whitham questioned Harris’ relationship with Loretta, calling it “up-and-down.”

She also questioned Harris’s willingness to testify, and he said multiple times he was not benefitting in any way from being there. 

Hageseth took the witness stand Wednesday afternoon, glancing briefly at Craig, before telling the jury that he had told her he knew how he could kill someone and not get caught.

Craig, who is on trial for allegedly poisoning his wife, Angela, in March 2023, met Hageseth on Seeking, a website that pairs “sugardaddies” with “sugarbabies,” and paid for Hageseth’s daughter’s $9,000 car and her divorce attorney. 

During their relationship in late 2022, Craig told Hageseth he was trying to divorce Angela but couldn’t afford to do so. During one of their meetings, Craig brought up the movie “The Purge,” saying he knew how he could kill someone without getting caught, adding that he could use an “untraceable” injection of “potassium fluoride or potassium something,” she said.

Medical professionals previously told jurors Angela Craig had an extremely high level of potassium cyanide in her blood, which caused her death.

Jordan Ivey also met Craig on Seeking, she testified after Hageseth. He told her he “loved his wife a lot, but there were a lot of things he was missing in his relationship,” Ivey told the jury.

The trial will continue at 8:30 a.m. Thursday in 18th Judicial District Judge Shay Whitaker’s courtroom.