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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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Bryan Kohberger pleaded guilty to four murders six days after Judge Steven Hippler denied a defense request for more time. A filing unsealed on September 22, 2026, now reveals that the request was not only about discovery and trial preparation. His lawyers also wanted expert help communicating with Kohberger about the rulings against him and the decision to proceed to trial or resolve the case. 

The filing says Kohberger was struggling to rationally understand adverse rulings and incorporate them into a realistic assessment of his options. His attorneys did not claim he was legally incompetent. They did tell the court they needed more time to investigate his ability to make consequential decisions and to get assistance communicating with him about a possible plea. 

Judge Hippler denied the continuance. Six days later, Kohberger pleaded guilty. His new attorney Greg Rauch now argues that the sequence should be examined in post-conviction proceedings, while also acknowledging that the timing alone does not establish a constitutionally invalid plea. 

The same week, Kohberger's parents and sisters publicly supported his attempt to withdraw the plea. They told ABC News they want the complete truth tested in a trial rather than accepting what they describe as an improper plea. Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski to separate the family's emotional support from the legal question the court actually has to answer. 

Kohberger is serving four consecutive life sentences without parole and another ten years for burglary. A hearing on his request for a new judge and venue is set for October 15, 2026. His evidentiary hearing on post-conviction relief is scheduled for June 17, 2027. The newly unsealed filing does not erase his sworn plea. It does explain what his defense team was telling the judge before he made it. 

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The Caleb Flynn trial is giving jurors two very different kinds of evidence from the same man: a frantic 911 call made after Ashley Flynn was found shot and private messages prosecutors say were sent during the year before her death. The legal question is not whether either one sounds bad. It is what, if anything, they prove when placed together.
 
On the emergency call, Caleb reported that someone broke into the Tipp City home and shot Ashley. He told dispatch she had two shots to the head and referenced an open garage door before officers arrived. Prosecutors say investigators later found no intruder and allege Caleb staged the scene. Caleb has pleaded not guilty. 

The state's motive case includes more than 100,000 messages prosecutors say Caleb exchanged with a woman during an affair. In opening statements, Paul Watkins read messages attributed to Caleb about thinking of ways to kill Ashley without going to jail and saying he would kill her "in a heartbeat" if he could do so without going to hell.

The defense argues that terrible statements and marital betrayal are not the same thing as proof of homicide. 
Tony Brueski and former FBI behavioral expert Robin Dreeke analyze the 911 recording without treating vocal behavior as a verdict. They examine Caleb's claim that he froze after hearing gunfire, his focus on an intruder, and the difference between behavioral interpretation and physical evidence. Then they turn to the messages and the prosecution's effort to make those private words part of a larger timeline for the jury. 

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Nick Reiner's legal future now runs through two courtrooms. In the criminal case, Los Angeles prosecutors have taken the death penalty off the table. In probate court, Reiner is fighting for access to a trust he says could fund private counsel and basic needs while he awaits trial for the alleged killings of his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner. 

The District Attorney's Office announced September 15 that it will not seek capital punishment after reviewing the case and speaking with Nick's siblings. Reiner remains charged with two murders and special-circumstance allegations including multiple murders and lying in wait. He has pleaded not guilty. If convicted as charged, the stated maximum is life without parole. 

The trust case is narrower but could directly affect how the defense is financed. Reiner's lawyers say his parents created the Nick Reiner Children's Trust in 1993 and ordered half of it distributed when he turned 30. That birthday came in September 2023. Court filings place the overdue amount at about $558,000, with the trust now worth roughly $1.6 million. Reiner argues those funds became his before his parents' deaths and should not be frozen by the slayer statute. The trustee dispute has not been finally resolved. 

Former private attorney Alan Jackson has said his firm is prepared to return if money becomes available. Reiner's psychiatric history is also documented, but a formal insanity defense has not been publicly entered. That makes the October 23 probate hearing more than a money fight: it may determine what resources Reiner can bring into a case where his liberty is on the line. 

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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 lone holdout in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial is now part of a legal inquiry the defense is asking the court to authorize. Michael Desronvil voted to hold Clancy criminally responsible while the other 11 jurors favored a verdict of not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility. After the September 4 mistrial, public records revealed legal problems in Desronvil's background that were not part of the public trial record when he was seated. 

Those records include a dismissed domestic assault case, a civil restraining order involving his teenage nephew that was active when jury selection took place, and eviction proceedings. Kevin Reddington wants the court to inspect Desronvil's sealed questionnaire and determine whether he accurately answered questions about prior arrests, charges, and court orders. The defense also wants information about alleged cellphone use during deliberations. Desronvil denies the central criticism of his deliberations and says he had no doubt about his position. 

The courtroom fight follows Patrick Clancy's 60 Minutes interview, where he described the months before the killings from inside the family home. Patrick said mental illness can be 'tragically deceptive.' He recalled Lindsay's lack of sleep, deep depression, intrusive thoughts, repeated treatment, and a psychiatric hospitalization that ended days before the family celebrated Cora's birthday. He also said Lindsay later described January 24 as something she remembered like a dream. 

Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke put the two developments side by side without turning either into more than the record supports. Patrick can describe what he saw, but he cannot retroactively diagnose what everyone missed. The defense can identify troubling juror history, but it still has to show why it matters legally. On September 29, Judge Sullivan is expected to confront motions aimed at both the juror controversy and whether a second prosecution would violate double-jeopardy protections. 

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Caleb Flynn's defense chose confession over concealment on one part of the case: the affair. Attorney Emily Smith opened with Proverbs, admitted Flynn had been unfaithful and had lied, and argued that those facts may explain a damaged marriage without proving that Flynn killed Ashley. 

The legal fight is over whether prosecutors can connect that personal motive evidence to the physical case. Flynn says an intruder stole his 9mm handgun from his Ford pickup and entered the Tipp City home. Prosecutors allege Flynn staged a burglary after Ashley was killed. Investigators have not recovered the weapon. 

BCI Special Agent David Hammond testified that the garage entry door showed no signs of forced entry consistent with the burglaries he had investigated. Defense attorney Patrick Mulligan challenged that conclusion on cross, emphasizing that the locks were unlocked and questioning what Hammond could actually establish about the timing of the door damage. 

The affair will not remain an opening-statement admission. The woman prosecutors connect to Flynn is expected to testify, and Flynn's daughters are also witnesses. The court has barred video of the juveniles while allowing their testimony to be audio-recorded. 

Robin Dreeke and Jennifer Coffindaffer analyze a defense strategy built around separating character from criminal proof. They also put the towel detail back into its evidentiary lane: first responders found it over Ashley's head, but the first officer testified that Flynn said he had placed it there after a 911 dispatcher instructed him to cover her. Flynn has pleaded not guilty. 

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Bryan Kohberger wants a court to revisit the guilty plea that ended his Idaho murder case, just as authorities warn that unredacted crime-scene photos have allegedly reached social-media creators. The two developments put a closed prosecution back under scrutiny without turning either allegation into a proven fact.
 
A YouTube creator with more than 9,000 subscribers said publicly that she had unredacted images and was waiting to get more. On September 15, 2026, the Latah County Prosecutor's Office, Moscow Police and Idaho State Police said an unknown source had allegedly supplied sensitive material to journalists and online creators. The agencies asked anyone holding the photographs not to distribute them. 

Idaho had already built legal barriers around the material. Judge Megan Marshall ordered bodies and immediately surrounding blood blacked out in City of Moscow releases. Idaho State Police posted nearly 2,800 crime-scene images in January 2026 and removed them later that day. 

The Goncalves family said the images were live by the end of a 12-minute warning call. Senate Bill 1250 later exempted death-investigation photographs from public disclosure. 

Kohberger's family now backs his post-conviction effort and says it wants the complete truth addressed through a trial. Kohberger claims his former lawyers induced a false confession through bad advice, false promises and threats. At the July 2, 2025 plea hearing, however, he told Judge Steven Hippler that no one threatened him, no one promised him anything beyond the deal, and no one told him to answer untruthfully. He said the plea was voluntary and that he was guilty. 

His petition also highlights hair from Ethan Chapin's right hand. Defense expert Ruth Ballard had examined one hair from that location before the plea and found it morphologically consistent with Chapin's own reference sample. The next fight turns on evidence. What can Kohberger prove now that changes the sworn answers the court relied on when accepting his guilty plea? 

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The first version of the Ashley Flynn homicide came from Caleb Flynn himself. He called 911 at 2:31 a.m. on February 16 and said somebody had broken into the family's Tipp City, Ohio, home and shot Ashley. He told the dispatcher she had two shots to her head and repeatedly referenced the open garage door as the apparent way into the house. 

Prosecutors allege that explanation was staged. Their case says Caleb killed Ashley and tried to make the home look as though an intruder had come through. Ashley Flynn, 37, was a volleyball coach, substitute teacher, and mother of two daughters who were inside the home that night. Caleb Flynn has pleaded not guilty to every charge. 

The garage detail has now moved from a 911 claim to sworn courtroom testimony. Ohio BCI Senior Special Agent David Hammond testified that the damage to the garage side door was inconsistent with the forced-entry burglaries he had investigated. The defense has pushed back on the investigation and previously described the case as a rush to judgment. 

Tony Brueski is joined by former FBI Behavioral Analysis Program chief Robin Dreeke and former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer to compare the call with the scene. They focus on what investigators can legitimately learn from a caller's words without treating emotion as proof. Flynn's 11-count indictment includes aggravated murder, murder, felonious assault, tampering with evidence, and intimidation charges. The prosecution wants jurors to see the garage as part of a staged break-in. The defense says an accusation built quickly is still only an accusation until the state proves it. 

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Every ruling went against Bryan Kohberger in the spring of 2025, and according to a memo unsealed in his post-conviction case, none of them got through to him. His attorneys told Judge Steven Hippler in a sealed filing that he wasn't incorporating those losses into any rational picture of his case, and asked for time and an expert to talk him through a plea.

Hippler said no on June 26. Kohberger admitted to four murders on July 2. I trace that sequence from the DeSales survey where he asked criminals what they were thinking and feeling, through the sentencing where he said "I respectfully decline." It ends at the handwritten petition blaming the three lawyers who kept him off death row.

Kohberger's new counsel argues Hippler should be removed because his own denial sits inside the story. Prosecutors call the effort a fishing expedition. October 15 is the hearing on the judge.

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The Caleb Flynn trial and the Bryan Kohberger plea fight both turn on what someone put in writing, and Eric Faddis, a defense attorney and former prosecutor, takes me through both. Alleigha Botner, who testified she had an affair with Flynn, told an Ohio jury he called Ashley Flynn names like "spawn of Satan" and said he'd kill her if he could avoid jail. She read a March 2025 exchange that ended in a two-word answer. She testified that on February 15, 2026, he promised to protect her at all costs, and that she sent him ChatGPT instructions on deleting their messages from his phone. Ashley was shot the next morning. Flynn says an intruder did it and has pleaded not guilty. Out of Idaho, an unsealed filing shows Anne Taylor's team sought expert help communicating with Kohberger in May 2025, while denying he was incompetent. Greg Rauch argues the plea should never have been accepted.

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Caleb Flynn sat for two voluntary interviews with Det. Sgt. Mike Morgan, and prosecutors played both for the jury investigating the death of Ashley Flynn. One exchange ended with Caleb telling the detective, “It feels like you're pointing at me.”

Morgan testified that he responded to the Flynn home, conducted another walk-through and observed Ashley deceased. In the garage, Morgan said he noticed damage around the side door but did not believe it was consistent with forced entry. He contacted Ohio BCI to assist with the investigation. Other trial testimony has likewise focused on investigators’ conclusion that the garage-door damage did not match the home-invasion account.

During the first interview, Flynn gave Morgan his timeline. He said Ashley put their daughters to bed around 8:30 p.m.; the couple went to bed around 11; and Ashley later asked him to sleep on the couch because he was coughing. Flynn said he woke after hearing the dog, went into the girls’ room, lay on a bunk and then heard two shots. He said he ran into the garage, found the side door wide open and closed it before going to Ashley and calling 911.

Flynn also told Morgan about a “weird salesman” who had allegedly come to the family home and another encounter involving a strange man who allegedly told Ashley, “I know where you live.” Morgan asked Flynn to list the guns and ammunition in the home.

In the second interview, Morgan asked about the marriage and told Flynn investigators would check Ashley’s messages for possible conflicts. Flynn said they had a “normal marriage” and that neither phone would show marital trouble. Caleb has pleaded not guilty; his defense maintains investigators rushed to blame him.

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The Nick Reiner trust dispute now turns on a conversation with his mother. Successor trustee Jodi Pais Montgomery argues the $558,000 due on Nick's 30th birthday never left the trust because he consented to leaving it there, a claim she traces to something Michele Singer Reiner reportedly told a prior trustee. Under that reading he is owed nothing until he turns 35 in 2028. Nick's August declaration says no trustee ever told him the money was his or asked his permission to hold it.

Why it matters: Montgomery says California's slayer statute could redirect the money to Jake and Romy after a conviction, so a payout now can't be clawed back. Nick's attorneys counter that money vested two years before the deaths was never inheritance, that a chunk came from his grandfather, and that a trustee already paid Alan Jackson's firm in April. His lawyers also say the trustees have spent over $250,000 of the trust fighting him.

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The prosecution used a neighbor’s surveillance system to tighten its timeline around Alleigha Botner. Joseph Stratman testified that his cameras showed no evidence of an outside intruder entering the property where she was house-sitting, while three clips showed a car leave, return, and leave again. Prosecutors used those videos to argue Alleigha was at the house during the window when they allege Ashley Flynn was killed.

Caleb Flynn, Ashley’s husband, has pleaded not guilty to 11 charges, including aggravated murder. The defense maintains Ashley was killed by an intruder during a burglary and says investigators settled on Caleb too quickly.

Jordan Hansen, pastor of Christian Life Center, testified about another part of the state’s case: church rules. He said relationships between staff members and volunteers are prohibited unless the people are married, and an extramarital affair would also violate policy. Hansen testified that Alleigha was staying at his home at the time and resigned from CLC the following weekend.

The defense used cross-examination to establish a limitation in the surveillance picture. Hansen said his house had no cameras inside or outside, with farmland and an open field behind it. Stratman’s videos may show what passed his cameras. They do not turn the entire property into a camera-covered box.

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Alleigha Botner testified in the Caleb Flynn murder trial that she spent part of the evening of February 15, 2026 asking ChatGPT questions and sending Flynn the answers. She told jurors she was afraid a divorce would bring out the messages Ashley had already seen, and that investigators might search Flynn's phone. She said she also asked him about their Venmo transactions. By early the next morning, Ashley Flynn had been shot. Botner, a former intern at Flynn's church who testified she had an affair with him, admitted she later lied to the FBI about the relationship. On the stand, she said she now hates Flynn because she believes he murdered his wife. Flynn, a former American Idol contestant, has pleaded not guilty to aggravated murder and told police an intruder broke in. Eric Faddis, defense attorney and former prosecutor, helps me weigh a witness whose own conduct is part of the timeline.

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Digital crime investigator Andrea Kinzig faced a defense cross-examination in the Caleb Flynn trial that put an unpursued tip squarely in front of the jury. Kinzig testified that investigators did not follow up on Zachary McIntosh's tip about a supposed hit on Caleb Flynn by Chris Hill because Tipp City Police and the FBI collectively agreed not to pursue it. Flynn is charged in the death of his wife, Ashley Flynn, and has pleaded not guilty.

Kinzig also testified about the Flynn home's Blink camera system. According to records obtained from Amazon, she said cameras at the front door, back door, and living room were last online on January 26, weeks before Ashley's death. During cross, Kinzig acknowledged that, theoretically, Alleigha Botner's reported loss of a laptop could have been a ruse.

The defense highlighted communications that cast Caleb in a positive light, including affectionate texts between Caleb and Ashley with repeated "I love you" messages. Redirect brought the fight over context. Kinzig testified that the defense records were cherry-picked rather than a complete communications history, and she said she could not verify the accuracy of the data she was shown.

The defense says Ashley was killed by a home invader and investigators rushed to judgment. Prosecutors allege Caleb staged the scene to resemble a burglary.

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Caleb Flynn is charged with aggravated murder, murder, felonious assault, tampering with evidence, and intimidation in the death of his wife Ashley Flynn, 37, in Tipp City, Ohio. Prosecutors allege he shot her twice in the back of the head on February 16, 2026 while she slept, then staged a burglary. His defense says the state has no recovered murder weapon and no eyewitness.

The prosecution’s central witness is Alleigha Botner — a 23-year-old worship leader who spent more than four hours reading twelve months of text messages to the jury. Over more than 100,000 messages, according to her testimony, the texts moved from Flynn complaining about his marriage to both of them discussing how to make Ashley disappear.

In May 2025, per testimony, Flynn texted that he’d kill Ashley in a heartbeat. By June, he was asking Botner to hire someone. She asked for a future; he told her he’d never been joking. By July, Botner was texting in his language — calling Ashley “douche” and writing that she “needs to go.” Flynn’s reply, per testimony: he’d smile the whole time. Botner texted back: “Praise God.”

The messages reveal five moves repeated for a year: death wishes served as devotion, helplessness trained into her, emotional crisis deployed against every hard question, a 40-day spiritual fast used to replace real deadlines, and jealous surveillance framed as sacrifice. By September, five months before the shooting, they were coordinating the permanent deletion of these messages using methods Botner researched on ChatGPT. Cross-examination has not begun.

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Andrea Kinzig's digital-forensics testimony in the Caleb Flynn trial introduced a different kind of surveillance evidence. Kinzig testified that Ashley Flynn's sister, Kayla Heyt, abused a service to monitor Alleigha Botner's Instagram account.

The special agent also described several snoop reports Caleb Flynn ran on Botner's accounts and testified about emails between Flynn and Botner. After days of jurors hearing about the affair through messages and witness testimony, Kinzig's evidence focused on the electronic activity surrounding those relationships.

Flynn has pleaded not guilty in the killing of his wife, Ashley Flynn. Prosecutors allege he killed Ashley and staged the scene as a home invasion. The defense says an intruder killed Ashley and investigators focused on Caleb too quickly.

Kinzig's testimony gives jurors more digital artifacts to evaluate, but the significance of those records remains something the attorneys must establish. Monitoring an account, running a report and exchanging an email can show activity. The fight in court is over what that activity means in the murder case.

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The Caleb Flynn defense used its cross-examination of Special Agent Joseph Wilhelm to challenge one of the prosecution’s technical evidence streams: the data recovered from the iPhones. The defense framed the digital evidence as unreliable and pressed the idea that jurors should be cautious about what those phone artifacts actually prove.

Wilhelm is a cyber crime investigator and digital-forensics specialist who previously described the extraction process used on Caleb Flynn’s phone. His direct testimony covered digital artifacts including deleted apps, incognito activity, Apple Watch data and other device information. Cross-examination shifted the focus from what was recovered to how much trust the jury should place in it.

Caleb Flynn has pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from the murder of his wife, Ashley Flynn. Prosecutors allege Caleb killed Ashley at their Tipp City home and staged the scene as a home invasion. His attorneys maintain an intruder killed Ashley and investigators focused on Caleb too quickly.

The defense’s questioning was an attack on reliability, not proof by itself that the digital evidence was inaccurate. No specific technical concession establishing that the evidence was unreliable is included in the testimony details provided. The jury will ultimately determine how much weight that evidence deserves.

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Alleigha Botner told jurors in the Caleb Flynn murder trial what Flynn promised her in the last hours before his wife was killed. She testified that on February 14, 2026, after a Saturday church service, Flynn told her he'd already informed Ashley he was divorcing her. Botner said she answered that she didn't believe him, because he'd said it too many times. She also warned him, she testified, that she might never want to be with him again, and he cried. By Sunday night she was reading his promises on her phone, and she read them to the jury. Botner admitted her own worry that weekend was losing her job if the affair came out. Ashley Flynn was shot in the family's Tipp City home early on February 16. Flynn is charged with aggravated murder and has pleaded not guilty. Eric Faddis, a defense attorney and former prosecutor, helps me separate what that weekend proves from what it only suggests.

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What Caleb Flynn called his wife behind her back is now evidence in his Ohio murder trial. Alleigha Botner, who testified she had an affair with Flynn, told jurors that when they first met he said Ashley wasn't worthy of her own first name. The prosecutor had her say every replacement name out loud from the witness stand. Then he asked what Botner herself called Ashley, and she admitted she used most of the same ones. Flynn, a former American Idol contestant, is on trial for aggravated murder in Ashley Flynn's shooting death at their Tipp City home, and he has pleaded not guilty. Botner also testified Flynn told her he'd kill Ashley if he could avoid jail. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis explains why the state wants a jury to hear that cruelty, and why the defense might want jurors to hear who else said it.

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The juror who single-handedly blocked Lindsay Clancy's acquittal allegedly had a restraining order against him for violence against a child while he sat in judgment of a mother who killed hers. And now a judge wants to see his questionnaire.

On September 21, 2026, Judge William Sullivan granted a motion from Clancy's defense attorney Kevin Reddington to produce the holdout's sealed juror questionnaire, preserve related records, and conduct a limited inquiry. The motion alleges the juror may have concealed his criminal history and an active court order during jury selection.

Michael Desronvil was arrested in Brockton in 2021 after he allegedly grabbed his then-wife by the throat and threw her into a dresser. The charge was dismissed. Separately, his teenage nephew obtained a restraining order after alleging Desronvil assaulted him. A judge found the teenager met all elements based on legitimate fear of physical violence. That order was active while Desronvil served on the Clancy jury at Plymouth Superior Court.

Fellow jurors have also alleged Desronvil used his cellphone during deliberations. Reddington wants the phone surrendered to a neutral examiner. A juror accessing outside material during deliberations is the one category that pierces the legal protection shielding jury secrecy.

Desronvil disputes other jurors' accounts through counsel, saying he had no doubts about Clancy's guilt. The defense is building a double-jeopardy argument with newly added attorney Martin Weinberg: if the juror was unqualified, the jury was broken, and the mistrial doesn't count. The next hearing is September 29. DA Tim Cruz has not announced whether he will retry Clancy.

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One woman allegedly read 100,000 messages from a man describing plans to kill his wife and stayed in the relationship. One family watched their son confess to killing four college students and is now publicly backing his claim that the confession was forced.

Psychotherapist and author Shavaun Scott joins Tony for a three-part conversation covering two of the biggest cases in the country.

Caleb Flynn, the former American Idol contestant and worship pastor, is on trial in Miami County, Ohio, for the aggravated murder of his wife Ashley. Prosecutors say the messages between Flynn and his mistress show a man planning murder while texting his wife love messages with the other hand.

Bryan Kohberger pleaded guilty to the Idaho student murders and was sentenced to four consecutive life sentences. He filed a handwritten petition claiming he was coerced into confessing. His family just released a statement to ABC News demanding a proper trial.

Scott examines the psychology of denial, manipulation, compartmentalized lives, and the people who stand beside someone accused of the unthinkable.

Flynn has pleaded not guilty. Kohberger's hearing is set for June 2027.

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Special Agent Joseph Wilhelm testified about what investigators recovered from Caleb Flynn's iPhone, including digital artifacts showing multiple apps deleted on February 15, 2026. Among them were Instagram, GroupMe and ChatGPT - one day before the death of Caleb's wife, Ashley Flynn.

Wilhelm told jurors that settings on the iPhone prevented his first extraction attempt from succeeding. He switched forensic tools and was able to perform a full extraction. That data, he testified, also contained artifacts associated with incognito browsing.

Then came the wearable data. Wilhelm walked through information from an Apple Watch identified as @CalebApplesWatch, including recorded steps, AirPods connections and a final heart-rate recording at 2:10:11 a.m. Investigators also recovered the audio file of a song Caleb wrote for Alleigha Botner. Jurors heard the song in court.

Caleb has pleaded not guilty to charges in Ashley's murder. Prosecutors allege he killed her and staged the scene as a home invasion, while the defense maintains an intruder was responsible. Wilhelm's testimony does not make the interpretation for the jury. It gives them timestamps, device activity and recovered artifacts to place beside the competing accounts of that night.

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Mark Leeman held a police sketch up in front of three appeals judges on September 21, 2026. It shows a young man with curly brown hair, drawn from the description of the eyewitness the state relied on to put Richard Allen on the Monon High Bridge. The jury that convicted Allen in the Delphi murders never saw it. Prosecutors had moved to keep both sketches out as irrelevant and hearsay, and Judge Fran Gull agreed on the morning of opening statements.

The jury also watched videos of Allen in his Westville cell with the sound off. Gull ruled the audio was hearsay because it was his own voice and he wasn't testifying. On it, according to the appeal record, Allen calls himself a king and says he started World War III. A metallurgist hired to challenge the bullet match was kept out because Gull ruled he wasn't a firearms expert.

The state's written brief concedes Allen had a "period of psychosis" and argues he confessed before and after it. Its lawyer told the court he was held in solitary longer than policy allows because he wasn't safe anywhere else, and that under Indiana case law those conditions aren't coercion.

Allen's side wants a new trial because it says the state broke him first and then built a case on what he said. The state's side wants the 130 years upheld because it says any mistake at trial was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt. It says Allen's own words to police, placing him on the trail that afternoon, carry the case on their own.

The judges asked the state more than once whether the jury would have convicted anyway. The answer to that question is the whole appeal. There's no deadline, and Gull retires at the end of 2026 either way.

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Alleigha Botner's cross-examination gave Caleb Flynn's defense room to challenge both her credibility and the context of the messages jurors have spent hours hearing. Botner testified that she initially told the FBI she did not believe Caleb murdered his wife, Ashley Flynn. During a second FBI interview, after she had retained an attorney, she said she did believe Caleb killed Ashley.

Defense attorneys also presented messages portraying Botner as jealous and deeply invested in Caleb leaving his marriage. She acknowledged sending roughly twice as many messages to Caleb as he sent to her, according to the questioning, and admitted she repeatedly wrote that she hated Ashley and wanted her gone. In another message, Botner referenced Caleb having taken her virginity and expressed resentment over the relationship.

Botner also testified that Caleb's description of his marriage did not always match what she observed. Ashley appeared loving toward Caleb, she said, and the couple still went to restaurants and on dates. Botner acknowledged Caleb may have been lying to her when he claimed to hate Ashley.

Caleb Flynn has pleaded not guilty in Ashley Flynn's killing. Prosecutors allege he staged the crime scene to resemble a burglary. The defense maintains a home intruder killed Ashley. Botner testified she has not been charged in connection with the murder and received no promise from prosecutors.

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Bryan Kohberger confessed to the murders of four University of Idaho students in July 2025 as part of a deal to avoid the death penalty. He was sentenced to four consecutive life sentences. One year later, he filed a handwritten petition claiming the confession was coerced and that he is actually innocent.

Now his family is publicly backing him. In a statement to ABC News, the Kohbergers said their support comes from their need to see "the complete and unvarnished truth." They want a proper trial. The Goncalves family responded by calling Kohberger "a mosquito you just can't seem to swat."

Psychotherapist and author Shavaun Scott joins Tony to examine the psychology of a family choosing the public spotlight after everything they've already endured. Is this a family in denial, a calculated PR operation, or a convicted killer running a manipulation campaign from behind bars?

An evidentiary hearing on Kohberger's petition is set for June 2027.

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The Caleb Flynn jury heard Alleigha Botner describe a sudden return to intense communication just before Ashley Flynn's death. Botner testified that Caleb contacted her again in mid-February, and by February 15 the two were exchanging hundreds of messages about divorce, work and where they might live.

One message attributed to Caleb said, "February 16th. A day I'll never forget." Botner testified that she believed he was talking about leaving Ashley and beginning the divorce process. The next morning, after hearing Ashley had been killed, Botner said she messaged Caleb: "I just heard the news. What is going on. Is this real?"

Botner also testified that she resigned from Christian Life Center because she expected the affair to come out. She said the last time she saw Caleb before court was February 16, when he told her, "It didn't happen the way we thought it would, did it?"

Caleb Flynn has pleaded not guilty to charges including aggravated murder. Prosecutors allege he killed Ashley and staged the home as a burglary scene. His defense says Ashley was killed by an intruder. Botner's testimony gives jurors her interpretation of Caleb's words before the killing - and the words she says he used afterward.

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On the last night of Ashley Flynn’s life, Caleb Flynn’s girlfriend went to ChatGPT and searched how to permanently delete messages from his phone. She screenshotted the instructions and sent them to him. Hours later, Ashley was shot twice in the head.

Alleigha Botner testified in Flynn’s Miami County murder trial about the affair, the texts, and what she did on Valentine’s Day weekend 2026. She told the jury Flynn talked about wanting Ashley dead for months — and that she heard it, stayed with him, and never warned anyone.

She testified Flynn laid out a step-by-step divorce plan for Monday morning, February 16. His last text that night: “Good night, tomorrow’s a big day, I got to get to bed.” She said she believed he meant divorce.

When she learned Ashley was dead, she testified her first thought was “too much of a coincidence.” She texted Flynn asking if he was involved, then deleted the text. She denied the affair to the FBI four days later. Botner told the jury she hates him now because she believes he killed his wife. The defense didn’t object — and they haven’t asked her a single question yet. Cross-examination starts Thursday.

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Alleigha Botner's testimony in the Caleb Flynn trial laid out a months-long series of ultimatums. She said her texts through November and December 2025 repeatedly told Caleb to leave his wife, Ashley Flynn, before Christmas or lose the relationship with Botner.

Christmas Eve passed. Botner testified that she gave Caleb another deadline: January 11. When that date arrived, she said she sent a message saying the deadline was over and she was moving on. Caleb responded January 12 that he was sorry and understood it was over, according to her testimony. On February 3, Botner said Caleb contacted her again with lyrics from a song he had written for her.

Caleb has pleaded not guilty to charges including aggravated murder in Ashley's death. Prosecutors allege he killed Ashley and staged a home invasion; his defense maintains the home invasion was real and investigators focused on him too quickly.

For jurors, these messages establish a timeline of pressure, separation and renewed contact. They also give both sides something concrete to argue about: what Caleb's return to Botner meant as February 16 approached.

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