Caleb Flynn convicted ABC recalls trial evidence

Sep 29

ABC’s Alex Perez reports an Ohio jury convicting Caleb Flynn after less than three hours of deliberation. The package contrasts the defense’s burglary account with prosecutors’ claim that Flynn staged his wife Ashley’s killing, replaying the 911 call and Alleigha Botner’s testimony about their affair and messages. Ashley’s family remembers her through her daughters. Sentencing remains ahead, with possible life imprisonment without parole.

On September 29, an Ohio jury finds former pastor and American Idol contestant Caleb Flynn guilty of murdering his wife Ashley. Fox reports the conviction and prosecutors' staged-home-invasion account, with life imprisonment possible. ABC says deliberations lasted less than three hours, airs the guilty finding and Flynn's reaction, and revisits the defense's burglary/location account, prosecutors' nearly two-year-affair motive argument and former partner's testimony. The family remembers Ashley through her daughters. Those September reports leave sentencing ahead. At the October 5 sentencing hearing, Paul Watkins retrospectively describes guilty findings for aggravated murder, murder, felonious assault, evidence tampering and firearm specifications; Judge Jeannine Pratt confirms the jury's guilty findings on all nine counts. This is confirmation of the earlier verdict, not a new jury decision. The October 5 sentence is recorded separately.