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Kevin Reddington’s Rule 25 motion in the Lindsay Clancy case now attacks something more basic than criminal responsibility: whether the Commonwealth proved she committed the killings at all.

At the September 29 hearing in Plymouth Superior Court, Clancy’s defense attorney laid out what he described as a two-part argument for a required finding of not guilty. Reddington returned to his earlier request for a bifurcated trial, which would have separated the question of whether Clancy committed the charged acts from whether she was criminally responsible because of mental disease or defect. He argued that structure would have allowed the defense to contest the Commonwealth’s proof without forcing Clancy to incriminate herself while also presenting an insanity defense.

Reddington then went after the investigation itself. He challenged what he characterized as inconsistencies and investigative failures surrounding the deaths of Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 7 months, and Lindsay Clancy’s alleged attempt to harm herself on January 24, 2023. Most strikingly, he argued that Clancy’s alleged confession should not be treated as reliable proof, claiming it was a planted memory rather than an independent recollection.

Then came the second half of the Rule 25 argument. Even if the court finds sufficient evidence that Clancy committed the acts, Reddington argued the Commonwealth still failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that she was criminally responsible. His position is that prosecutors did not establish that Clancy was not experiencing psychosis when the children died.

Clancy has pleaded not guilty to three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation. Her first trial ended in a mistrial after the jury could not reach a unanimous verdict. Rule 25 now puts a different question before Judge William Sullivan: whether the evidence was legally sufficient to permit the case to continue.

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After forty prosecution witnesses and 107,000 text messages, Caleb Flynn’s defense attorneys gave the jury one sentence: “A man can fail as a husband without being a murderer.” Then they rested. Zero witnesses. Zero experts.

The prosecution’s case was built from Caleb’s own words. The state’s digital analyst organized his texts with mistress Alleigha Botner into categories — “Kill Ashley, Ashley Dead/Gone, Rid of Ashley” and “About Hating Ashley,” which contained ninety-five messages over ten months. On February 10, 2025, he wrote: “I need her to die.” He called his wife “douche” and texted Botner: “Kill douche.”

Caleb told Botner what divorce would cost — his daughters, his income, his house, and his position at the church where they both worked. He promised to leave. He promised again. He never did. By February 2026, Botner had planned a date with someone else.

In September 2025, Botner researched how to permanently erase their communications across four platforms and sent Caleb the instructions. Her assessment: “Not even lawyers with a subpoena.” The prosecution recovered everything.

On February 14, Caleb texted: “I’m free. Shouldn’t text or leave any trails.” On February 15: “Actions will come tomorrow.” At 12:42 AM, now February 16: “It’s happening, Alleigha.” At 12:45: “I choose you. Goodnight.” Ashley Flynn was found shot twice in her home that morning.

When Botner heard, she asked Caleb: “Were you behind this?” Closing arguments begin Tuesday. The jury has already read the texts.

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Paul Watkins got the prosecution's last word in the Caleb Flynn trial, and he used it to answer the defense point by point. His rebuttal connected evidence and timelines while highlighting statements prosecutors characterize as Caleb's lies in the case surrounding the death of Ashley Flynn.

Caleb Flynn, 40, has pleaded not guilty to 11 charges, including aggravated murder. Ashley was killed inside the couple's Tipp City, Ohio home on February 16, 2026. Prosecutors allege Caleb killed her and staged a home-invasion burglary. The defense says an actual burglar killed Ashley and that investigators decided Caleb was responsible before the evidence justified that conclusion.

Defense attorney L. Patrick Mulligan had just argued that the State's case was circumstantial and that prosecutors proved Caleb had an affair, but did not prove he killed Ashley. Rebuttal was Watkins' opportunity to tell jurors why the State believes that argument fails.

Rather than treating individual evidence as separate questions, Watkins tied the pieces back to the prosecution's timeline and the statements it says do not hold up. That distinction matters because the two sides are asking jurors to use the same evidence in fundamentally different ways.

This episode isolates the rebuttal and the prosecution's final response before deliberations: what the State says connects, what it says Caleb lied about, and what jurors must decide for themselves.
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Closing arguments in the Caleb Flynn murder trial came down to what jurors believe the evidence can actually establish. Miami County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Matthew Joseph urged them to consider the evidence together, arguing that its combined weight is overwhelming. Lead defense attorney L. Patrick Mulligan answered with a much narrower question: where is the proof that Caleb killed Ashley Flynn?

Caleb Flynn, 40, has pleaded not guilty to 11 charges, including aggravated murder, stemming from the death of his wife, Ashley, inside their Tipp City home on February 16, 2026. Prosecutors allege Caleb staged the scene to look like a home invasion. His defense says Ashley was killed during a burglary and investigators focused on Caleb too quickly.

Joseph's closing treated the case as a collection of evidence that must be viewed in context rather than as disconnected pieces. Mulligan argued that circumstantial evidence does not relieve prosecutors of their burden to prove Caleb committed the killing beyond a reasonable doubt.

Mulligan also confronted the affair directly. His position to the jury was that prosecutors had established Caleb was unfaithful to Ashley, but that proving an affair is not the same thing as proving murder.

Then came the line that defined the defense closing: “You make the call.” This episode puts both arguments side by side before the jury begins making exactly that call.
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Ohio BCI agent David Hammond spent twelve hours processing the Flynn crime scene and concluded it was a homicide staged to look like a burglary. When Detective Mike Morgan sat down with Caleb Flynn for a second interview on February 16, he walked the evidence out one piece at a time — and every piece was aimed.

The side door to the garage was not latched but showed tool marks and interior damage consistent with being forced from inside. Morgan told Caleb that didn't make sense. The blood evidence placed the shooter at point-blank range, at the foot of the bed — the spot Caleb described standing when he went to shake Ashley. Morgan used Caleb's own words to put him in the shooter's position. And when Caleb challenged the detective to verify the marriage with any neighbor, Morgan replied that they already had.

Tony and retired FBI behavioral expert Robin Dreeke play each clip and read the interrogation technique underneath — what a detective is doing when he shares evidence with a suspect, and what Caleb Flynn's agreement with every detail revealed.

Caleb Flynn has pleaded not guilty to all charges. He is presumed innocent until proven otherwise.

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When Detective Mike Morgan asked Caleb Flynn about text messages with his wife Ashley, the phone was empty. Caleb said he deletes them for storage. When Morgan asked about marital problems, Caleb said none whatsoever. When Morgan asked who might want to hurt Ashley, Caleb had two strangers ready — a man selling flags and a man at Ashley's school.

The jury has now heard what prosecutors allege Caleb Flynn left out of this conversation. More than a hundred thousand messages with a twenty-four-year-old woman from their church, according to trial testimony. Messages prosecutors say included one about thinking of ways to kill Ashley and not go to jail, and a text sent hours before this interview that prosecutors allege said: I choose you, I'm free, actions will come tomorrow.

Tony and retired FBI behavioral expert Robin Dreeke play the clips and break down what it looks like when someone walks into an interrogation room with a story already constructed. The clean phone. The rehearsed denials. The church-going family portrait. Robin identifies the behavioral markers in each clip that told Detective Morgan what Caleb Flynn's words were not saying.

Caleb Flynn has pleaded not guilty to aggravated murder and all related charges. He is presumed innocent until proven otherwise.

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"I'm not trying to manipulate you." Caleb Flynn typed that sentence to his mistress in October 2025, near the end of a message that told her what she had to do before he'd leave his wife. What he did seven days later is the part of the Caleb Flynn trial texts that turns a year of messages into a pattern. Tony translates them, line by line.

The frame is simple. Caleb Flynn writes something, and Tony tells you what it actually meant to the twenty-three-year-old reading it. When he calls his wife by a nickname instead of Ashley, that's one move. When he types "I hate her" for the fortieth time, that's another. When he apologizes for his girlfriend's thoughts, that's gaslighting, and Tony explains the term in one breath: someone does a thing, you react, and they tell you the reaction is the problem.

From there it climbs. "I need her to die" turned into "Please hire someone," and five months in the girlfriend was the one typing "I want to kill her, Caleb." His answer was "That makes two of us." When she asked him in writing to get a divorce instead of taking Ashley's life, he replied that he'd "work on getting rid of her."

He put God on every delay, including a secret forty-day fast he swore on his daughters' lives no one knew about. The defense told jurors none of it was real, just a cheating husband telling a young woman what she wanted to hear. Two of his own texts answer that. "I've never joked about it," from June. And from July, his description of the past sixteen months: trying to "control and manufacture" something that would work for them.

Prosecutors allege he shot Ashley as she slept on February 16, 2026 and then staged the house to look like a break-in. Caleb Flynn has pleaded not guilty to aggravated murder and the related counts. Tony closes on the September messages about Ashley's phone, and the excuse Caleb had ready in case she woke up.

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On September 2, 2025, Caleb Flynn and Alleigha Botner spent an evening trying to figure out whether Ashley Flynn still had photos of their messages. Caleb had a plan for finding out, and it depended on Ashley being asleep. Botner's replies were "be careful," "what would be your excuse," and "Perfect." Five months later Ashley was shot in her sleep.

The full three-part panel on Botner's testimony in the Caleb Flynn trial, with retired FBI agents Robin Dreeke and Jennifer Coffindaffer. Part one, his messages: "hire someone" and "I've never joked about it" in June; "please take her out" in July; "ways to kill her and not go to jail" and crying in his truck outside her job in August. Part two, hers: the July 10 message she says she didn't mean, the September 2 phone plan, and her August 22 answer, "I'm not asking that you take her life, obviously," then "time is ticking." Part three, the cross: what she Googled in the three days after the murder, her "I don't think he could ever be capable," and the list of what police never did with her: no search, no DNA, no prints, no charges, no deal.

Caleb Flynn is accused of killing his wife on February 16, 2026 in their Tipp City home and staging an intruder. He has pleaded not guilty. Every word in this episode came from the prosecution's own witness, on direct and on cross.

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Bryan Kohberger's own defense team raised a concern about their client with the judge weeks before he pleaded guilty to four murders, and that filing is now public. The sealed May 20, 2025 memo, unsealed on September 22, 2026, shows Anne Taylor's team asked for more time to investigate Kohberger himself, not just the evidence. They also wanted expert assistance communicating with him about how the case could end. Judge Steven Hippler said no on June 26, 2025, and Kohberger pleaded guilty on July 2. His new lawyer, Greg Rauch, argues Hippler knew about the problem and took the plea anyway, and he's seeking Hippler's removal and a path to withdraw the plea. The state points to the moment Kohberger told the court he was pleading freely. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis explains how prosecutors defend a plea against a memo written by the defendant's own lawyers.

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Samantha Reeb spent her direct testimony showing jurors timelines built from Caleb Flynn’s interviews and digital data. On cross-examination, the defense started asking what those timelines might not tell them.

The Ohio BCI criminal intelligence analyst testified that she created timelines from Flynn’s statements to police, information provided by investigators, and data recovered from Flynn’s iPhone.

Then defense counsel turned to Ashley Flynn’s phone.

Reeb testified about notes recovered from Ashley’s iPhone, including one indicating problems within her marriage to Caleb. That gave jurors another piece of the relationship history from Ashley’s own digital records.

The defense also questioned Reeb about communications involving Alleigha Botner. Counsel asked specifically about messages in which Botner may have expressed hatred toward Ashley or said she wanted Ashley dead. Based on the testimony details provided, Reeb’s response to those specific questions was not established.

Flynn has pleaded not guilty in the death of his wife, Ashley Flynn. Prosecutors allege he murdered Ashley and staged a burglary. The defense argues investigators rushed toward Caleb instead of adequately pursuing the possibility of an intruder.

The prosecution used Reeb’s analysis to organize Flynn’s digital footprint. The defense is now using the same witness to make jurors look at the wider digital record.

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