Mistress Details 107,000 Messages in Caleb Flynn Trial as Texts Tie Feb. 16 to Wife's Killing
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Updated · Fox News · Sep 26
Mistress Details 107,000 Messages in Caleb Flynn Trial as Texts Tie Feb. 16 to Wife's Killing
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Sep 26
Summary
107,000-plus messages took center stage as Alleigha Botner spent two days telling jurors Caleb Flynn repeatedly wrote that he wanted wife Ashley Flynn dead before her Feb. 16 killing.
May 2025 to Feb. 15 texts included lines such as "If I could literally kill her ... I would," a request to "hire someone," and a midnight message saying "It's happening" before Ashley was shot in the head, prosecutors say.
Josh Ritter, a former prosecutor, said Botner's testimony gives jurors a motive by linking Flynn's affair, his desire to leave the marriage and the timing of his messages to the night of the killing.
Defense lawyers countered that prosecutors cherry-picked inflammatory language from an intense affair, that Flynn may have meant he would announce a divorce on Feb. 16, and that no murder weapon, eyewitness or gunshot residue ties him directly to the shooting.