An Ohio jury convicted Caleb Flynn of murdering his wife, Ashley Flynn, on October 5, 2026, and he was sentenced to life without parole. He maintains that a home intruder was the killer. Prosecutors' sentencing memo says Flynn told each daughter privately he did not plan to come see them; the defense objected and the judge overruled it. Prosecutors also allege Flynn told his daughters to deny being coached, and one daughter asked him a question he could not answer. Counts two through six merge into count one, with firearm specifications and consecutive tampering terms running before the life sentence.