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Caleb Flynn’s recorded account of the night Ashley Flynn was killed came under direct questioning as Det. Sgt. Mike Morgan returned to the stand and showed jurors more of Flynn’s police interview.
The video included Flynn drawing a map for investigators to illustrate what he said happened and where. Detectives questioned him about what he heard that woke him and continued probing his description of the night Ashley was killed inside their Tipp City home.
Eventually, an officer stopped circling the central question.
“Did you do this?”

Flynn asked the officer to repeat it. After hearing it again, his answer was “No.”

Detectives also told Flynn that he would be investigated and that evidence would be presented to a grand jury. Flynn continued denying that he harmed Ashley, saying, “I did not touch my wife.”

Flynn has pleaded not guilty to 11 charges, including aggravated murder, in the death of his wife, Ashley Flynn. Prosecutors allege the former American Idol contestant and worship pastor killed Ashley and staged the scene to look like a burglary. The defense says a home intruder killed Ashley and police focused on Caleb too quickly.
This time, jurors aren’t hearing somebody characterize Flynn’s explanation for him. They’re watching the interview and hearing his answers themselves.
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The woman the state called to convict Caleb Flynn had to read one of her own messages to the jury this week, and then confirm she wrote it. It was about Ashley Flynn. It was five words. And Caleb's reply was "that makes two of us."
This is part two of a three-part panel on Alleigha Botner's testimony with retired FBI agents Robin Dreeke and Jennifer Coffindaffer, and it's about what she did. Three clips. The July 10 message and her "I didn't mean it." A September 2 exchange, five months before the murder, in which the two of them try to figure out whether Ashley kept photos of their messages, Caleb offers to check his wife's phone while she's asleep, and Botner tells him to be careful, asks what his cover story will be, and signs off with "Perfect." And her August 22 answer to his "thinking of ways to kill her" message: "I'm not asking that you take her life, obviously," followed by an ultimatum, "her or me," and "time is ticking."
Ashley Flynn was shot twice in the head in her Tipp City home on February 16, 2026. Prosecutors say her husband did it and staged an intruder. On cross-examination Botner said she has no charges and was promised nothing. The panel works the question the jury can't avoid: was she being played, or was she pushing?
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Eight months before Ashley Flynn was killed, Caleb Flynn sent his girlfriend a request. Alleigha Botner read it aloud in his murder trial, along with her answer, and it's the message this episode is built around.
Retired FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke and 25-year FBI veteran Jennifer Coffindaffer join me for three clips from Botner's second day on the stand. June 12, 2025: the request, her reply, and his "I've never joked about it." July 4: "please take her out," "I'd have a smile on my face the whole time," and "not even for a second" when she asks whether he'd miss Ashley's parents, the same people he worked for every day. August 22: the 4 a.m. message about "ways to kill her and not go to jail," and the part that didn't make the headlines, that he'd driven past her apartment half a dozen times and sat across the street from her job weeping.
Caleb Flynn is charged with aggravated murder in the February 16, 2026 shooting of his wife in their Tipp City, Ohio home. Prosecutors say he shot her while she slept and called 911 claiming an intruder had broken in. His lawyers say the state is trying an affair, not a murder.
The panel works the line between a man who vents and a man who decides, and where in these three clips he crosses it, if he does. Parts two and three cover what she did with those messages and what the defense did to her on cross-examination.
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The final hours before Ashley Flynn's death left jurors with a trail of messages, promises, ChatGPT screenshots, and deleted communications. Alleigha Botner testified that Caleb Flynn was telling her February 16, 2026 would be the day he finally acted.
Botner said she believed he meant divorce. According to her testimony, Flynn described a Monday-morning plan that included talking to Ashley, their daughters and Ashley's parents, asking about a job, booking a hotel, and moving out. She also told jurors that on February 15 she used ChatGPT for information about divorce, proof of an affair, and deleting messages, then sent Flynn screenshots. Their communications continued into the early hours of February 16.
Ashley Flynn was found dead hours later. Flynn reported an intruder, but prosecutors allege he killed Ashley and staged the home to support that account. Flynn has pleaded not guilty. Botner testified that after learning Ashley was dead, she asked Flynn whether he was involved and later deleted the messages because she feared their affair would be uncovered. She also acknowledged initially hiding the affair from the FBI.
Eric Faddis joins Tony Brueski to examine how jurors may be instructed to handle this kind of evidence. The state is using timing and communications in its premeditation case. The defense has room to argue that Botner herself understood Flynn's final-night promises as plans to end his marriage, not plans to kill his wife.
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The Vinton County case involving 16 children has reached a legal split that could reshape every prosecution connected to it. Gary Siders Sr. has been found incompetent to stand trial and not restorable. His lawyer expects the case against him to end, while prosecutors still have the option of seeking civil commitment instead of continuing toward trial. 
Gary Sr. was one of four adults charged after investigators found 16 children in a Hamden home on June 30. Authorities said most of the children had been confined to a small room under deplorable conditions. Seven were hospitalized and two were flown to trauma centers. Gary Sr. is now out on a recognizance bond with GPS monitoring. 
Elizabeth Siders remains jailed and faces a broader set of charges. She has 19 child-endangerment counts and four additional felony counts involving a teenage relative, bringing the total to 23. She pleaded not guilty to the newer charges on September 16, and her combined bond stands at $550,000. Her defense has also requested a competency evaluation. 
Gary Siders Jr. and Christina Siders requested evaluations as well. Competency is a procedural question, not a verdict on the underlying allegations, but it can decide whether a defendant ever reaches a jury. True Crime Today examines how one finding of incompetency has become the first major test for the entire Siders prosecution and what the court must decide next for the three remaining defendants. 
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