There’s a document in the Bryan Kohberger case that prosecutors never saw and the families never knew existed until September 2026. Filed under seal by his original defense team, it told the judge their client couldn’t fold adverse rulings into a rational read of where he stood. Weeks later he Read more…
I sat down with Eric Faddis, defense attorney and former prosecutor, on two cases. The first is the Caleb Flynn murder trial in Miami County, Ohio. Alleigha Botner, a prosecution witness and Flynn’s former girlfriend, told jurors Flynn said at least once a month that he wanted his wife dead. Read more…
Det. Sgt. Mike Morgan put Caleb Flynn’s own recorded police interviews in front of the jury, including the moment Flynn told him, “It feels like you’re pointing at me.” Morgan testified about his response to the Tipp City home where Ashley Flynn was found deceased and about two voluntary interviews Read more…
Three trustees have held Nick Reiner’s money since his parents were found dead, and each gave a different reason for keeping it. Matthew Fishburn never paid the age-30 distribution. Paul Kanin questioned Nick’s competence even though the trust requires two physicians’ statements to make that call, then paid Alan Jackson’s Read more…
Joseph Stratman’s cameras didn’t show an outside intruder approaching the home where Alleigha Botner was house-sitting. Prosecutors instead played three surveillance clips that Stratman testified showed a car leaving, returning, and leaving again – evidence the state used to place Alleigha at the house during the period it says Ashley Read more…
Alleigha Botner told the jury in the Caleb Flynn trial what she was doing on her phone the night before Ashley Flynn was killed, and who she was sending it to. The former church intern testified for the prosecution that she was worried the affair would come out in a Read more…
Special Agent Andrea Kinzig returned to the stand in Caleb Flynn’s trial for the murder of his wife, Ashley Flynn, and the defense zeroed in on an investigative lead that went nowhere. Kinzig testified that a tip from Zachary McIntosh about a supposed hit on Caleb by Chris Hill was Read more…
Five moves, twelve months, and more than 100,000 texts — that’s what the prosecution’s central witness described from the stand as she read her own messages with Caleb Flynn to the jury. Messages that show a 23-year-old worship leader going from receiving death wishes about Flynn’s wife to sending them Read more…
Special Agent Andrea Kinzig took the Caleb Flynn jury deeper into the digital evidence, and one finding widened the picture beyond Flynn and Alleigha Botner. Kinzig testified that Kayla Heyt, Ashley Flynn’s sister, abused a service to monitor Botner’s Instagram account. Kinzig also testified about several snoop reports Caleb Flynn Read more…
Special Agent Joseph Wilhelm returned to the Caleb Flynn trial under cross-examination, and the defense aimed directly at the digital evidence extracted from the iPhones. Defense questioning framed that evidence as unreliable, challenging how much confidence jurors should place in the phone data presented by the state. Wilhelm, a cyber Read more…