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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Read more…
On the last night of Ashley Flynn’s life, her husband was messaging another woman until after midnight. That’s what Alleigha Botner told the jury in the Caleb Flynn murder trial, testifying for the prosecution. She said Flynn promised her “actions Read more…
