# Caleb Flynn Turned a Worship Leader Into THIS Over 100,000 Texts

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Podcast: [Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary](https://stenobird.com/podcast/hidden-killers-with-tony-brueski-true-crime-news-commentary-5840426)
Published: 2026-09-25T18:00:00+00:00
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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 back. Flynn faces aggravated murder charges in the death of Ashley Flynn, 37, in Tipp City, Ohio on February 16, 2026. Prosecutors allege he shot Ashley twice in the back of the head while she slept and staged a burglary. Alleigha Botner testified for more than four hours, reading text after text. In May 2025, according to her testimony, Flynn wrote that he’d kill Ashley in a heartbeat if it wouldn’t send him to hell. By June, he was asking Botner to hire someone. When she asked for a future together, he told her he’d never joked about it. By July, Botner was texting back — calling Ashley “douche” and writing that she “needs to go.” Flynn’s reply, per testimony: he’d have a smile on his face the whole time. Botner wrote back: “Praise God.” The texts document a full year of the same pattern: death wishes as proof of devotion, a woman conditioned to treat his crisis as hers, emotional collapse every time she pushed for answers, a 40-day spiritual fast that replaced every deadline, and jealous surveillance wrapped in sacrifice talk. By September 2025, five months before the shooting, they were coordinating the permanent deletion of every message using methods Botner researched on ChatGPT. Cross-examination has not started. Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES &am…

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