Ex-'American Idol' contestant faces new charges over alleged murder of wife in Ohio home

Caleb Flynn, 39, a erstwhile "American Idol" contestant, has been indicted connected aggravated execution and aggregate further charges aft authorities accidental helium killed his wife, Ashley Flynn, astatine their Ohio location connected Feb. 16.

A Miami County expansive assemblage returned an 11-count indictment charging Flynn with aggravated murder, 3 counts of murder, 2 counts of felonious assault, 3 counts of tampering with grounds and 2 counts of intimidation of a witnesser successful a transgression case, according to tribunal records reviewed by Fox News Digital. Several of the charges see firearm specifications.

Flynn had antecedently been charged with murder, 2 counts of felonious battle with a deadly limb and 2 counts of tampering with evidence.

Prosecutors allege Flynn utilized a 9mm handgun and staged the transgression country successful an effort to mislead investigators. Flynn has pleaded not guilty, and his enslaved was antecedently acceptable astatine $2 million.

Ashley and Caleb Flynn successful an undated photograph with their 2 children. (GoFundMe)

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Flynn, prosecutors say, betwixt Feb. 16 and Feb. 18, besides allegedly attempted to intimidate a witnesser successful the days pursuing the shooting. The indictment does not place the witness.

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Audio from a 911 telephone antecedently obtained by Fox News Digital shows Flynn telling a dispatcher that idiosyncratic broke into his location and changeable his wife.

"Oh my god, idiosyncratic broke into my home, idiosyncratic broke into my location and changeable my wife," Caleb Flynn said. "My wife, she's got 2 shots to her head, there's humor everywhere. Oh my god, ohio my god, ohio my God."

Body camera footage shows Caleb Flynn reacting to his wife’s execution wrong their location successful Tipp City, Ohio connected Feb. 16, 2026. (Tipp City Police Department)

Only Ashley and Caleb Flynn arsenic good arsenic their 2 children were wrong the location during the incident.

"RP and juvenile girl are locked successful a bedroom," the dispatcher told police, according to the outlet.  "Just a correction — the juveniles are going to beryllium successful their ain rooms dormant currently."

Caleb Flynn's booking photograph from Miami County Jail, Dayton, Ohio, Thursday, February 19, 2026. (Miami County Jail)

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In a erstwhile connection to Fox News Digital, Caleb Flynn's attorney, L. Patrick Mulligan, said prosecutors rushed to impeach his lawsuit of murder.

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"Caleb Flynn entered a plea of Not Guilty this greeting and looks guardant to defending this case. We are some disappointed and acrophobic astir the abbreviated timeline and seeming unreserved to judgement successful this case," Mulligan said. "When the authorities runs retired of leads oregon can't make leads and looks astatine a surviving spouse successful cases specified arsenic these, the accidental of a wrongful condemnation increases."

Caleb Flynn successful a 2013 "American Idol" Hometown Interview. Caleb is the hubby of Ashley Flynn, who was changeable and killed successful her Ohio location connected Monday, February 16, 2026. (YouTube/American Idol)

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Caleb Flynn was a contestant connected "American Idol" and talked astir his emotion for his woman during an interrogation to beryllium connected the amusement successful 2013 during a Hometown Interview segment.

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"I perfectly emotion the Lord. I emotion my woman much than anything. She is very, precise pretty. ... I emotion her," Caleb Flynn said. "But, you know, I'm conscionable a mean idiosyncratic who perfectly loves to sing much than thing successful the world."

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Fox News Digital's Adam Sabes contributed to this report.