OH - Ashley Flynn, 37, Killed in Reported Home Invasion, Tipp City, 16 February 2026 *husband charged*

[osu]

“I just want to take care of my daughters. I’m not a risk.” he told the judge.

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5K views · 43 reactions | 2/20/26 - Caleb Flynn just had his arraignment hearing this morning. Hearing his voice made my blood boil. “I just want to take care of my daughters. I’m not a risk,” he told Judge Samuel Huffman before the judge set his bo

2/20/26 - Caleb Flynn just had his arraignment hearing this morning. Hearing his voice made my blood boil. “I just want to take care of my daughters. I’m not a risk,” he told Judge Samuel Huffman...

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[CrimeDawg123]

“I just want to take care of my daughters. I’m not a risk.” he told the judge.

Arraignment video:

5K views · 43 reactions | 2/20/26 - Caleb Flynn just had his arraignment hearing this morning. Hearing his voice made my blood boil. “I just want to take care of my daughters. I’m not a risk,” he told Judge Samuel Huffman before the judge set his bo

2/20/26 - Caleb Flynn just had his arraignment hearing this morning. Hearing his voice made my blood boil. “I just want to take care of my daughters. I’m not a risk,” he told Judge Samuel Huffman...

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Should have thought of that before he blew their mother away.

 

[osu]

Case report for incident 26TC01027

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[shadowsc]

Ew. Give me a break.

Ashley Flynn murder case: Husband’s attorney questions thoroughness of investigation​

Ashley Flynn murder case: Husband’s attorney questions thoroughness of investigation

Attorney for Ashley Flynn's husband accused of murder questions thoroughness of investigation.

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[K9Enzo]

@Mack the Knife thank you for transcribing the 911 call.

I hate this guy (CF).

CF says AF has two gun shots to the head but is also claiming the room is pitch black and the doors are locked. He never mentions hearing gun shots. He's apparently left the locked bedroom because he knows the garage door is open and mentions it more than once.

He stays in the bedroom, in the dark, w/ maybe the intruder in the house that just killed his wife. To me it sounds like someone could be in the home to kill the entire family. His children - zero priority.

“I rubbed her leg and said her name, she’s not answering.” Like she's just sleeping and he wants to gently wake her up. That's not how one would typically respond to seeing catastrophic head trauma. Operator tells him to get a towel, no pressure and CF says "I laid it on her head".

Vague - "I was with the children when it happened". Really? What is "it". ? Again, does not describe hearing anything.

When LE arrives the hysteria drops (he's relieved to be done with the 911 operators questions) and becomes more functional.

"Sir Sir Sir" (like his car is broke down on the side of the road and Triple A just showed up).

IMO

LISTEN: Caleb Flynn's 911 call to Tipp City Police

Tipp City Police have released the 911 call made by Caleb Flynn following his wife's death. He was eventually arrested and charged with her death.

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[iluvmua]

Another thing to consider when listening to CF's 911 call and many people don't know this. Most 911 systems begin recording as soon as the call connects to dispatch, which can be before the caller hears the operator speak. Considering this as potential, listen to the start of the call again before the operator speaks.

It is common for people in a crisis to escalate their emotions when they are speaking about the events. But, I just hear a small sigh before dispatch speaks, then he get's right into his bizarre hysteria.

Again, there is so much to unpack in this disaster of a 911 call. IMO

It reminds me of the Ryan Widmer 911 call back in 2008. Jmo

 

[scapa]

I know one article referred to this being an hours long investigation... I wouldn't be surprised if it was more like minutes.

Yep.

- Listened to 911 call
- Entered house
- Endured overwrought, dissembling, self-aggrandizing monologue from clearly guilty husband
- Eeny, meeny, miny, moe'd probable scenario, evidence of same and its likely location
- Managed warrants and assured safety of children
- Executed arrest
- Ignored feeble, self-serving denials thereafter

This may have been an emotionally complex -- sad, awful, maddening, despairing -- case, but the puzzle pieces were all there and in exactly the right places, awaiting only the legal stamps.

For shame, former pastor, husband and father. For shame.

 

[lucky181]

A high school friend of mine shot and killed his wife while she slept. He was having an affair with a coworker who he promised he would marry. His story was that someone broke in and killed his wife before he arrived home from his late night airport job. He was a former policeman. I have no idea why he thought he could get away with it. He confessed after several hours of questioning, was sentenced to 60 years and was released after serving 30 years. I would never have thought he would have done this.

 

[CrimeDawg123]

Am I understanding that it was CF's gun? That the "intruder" took from CF's truck console?

 

[scapa]

Transcription of 911 call (by me):

Caleb Flynn: Yea
Dispatcher: Miami county 911
CF: Oh my god. Somebody, somebody broke into my home. Somebody broke into my home and shot my wife
Dispatcher: Are they still in there?
CF: I don't know--I, I don't know
Dispatcher: Okay, what's the address?
CF: 9932 Cunningham Court, Tipp City, Ohio, please please hurry. Please please hurry.
Dispatcher: Okay. What you, what are you seeing?
CF: My wife is, she's got two shots to her head, there's blood everywhere, oh my god, oh my god. Sir please, please, please please <unintelligible>
Dispatcher: Okay, ma'am I'm gonna need you to take a deep breath okay. Do you still see anybody, in the house?
CF: No, the door to the garage is wide open. Please hurry, please. Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god. My daughters are here, my, my daughters are here.
Dispatcher: Where is she at?
CF: She's in the bed, she's in the bed.
Dispatcher: Are you in there with her?
CF: Yea, I'm in the room. I'm looking at her, yes. Please
Dispatcher: <possibly: did you guys have> the door locked?
CF: We have the, the doors to the garage is locked but <unintelligble> house yes. Please. My <unintelligible> my <unintelligible>
Dispatcher: Where's that, where is that room at into the house? My partner's gonna <unintelligible> okay but I'm gonna need you to answer my questions to get you help as fast as I can, okay?
<some sort of mumbling cross talk>
CF: What questions?
Where are you guys at in the house?
CF: I'm in the bedroom with her right now,
Dispatcher: Okay
CF: my daughters are in their room <unintelligible, possibly just crying>
Dispatcher: You are not, you are not with the children?
CF: N--I was with the children when it happened
Okay, but you're not with them now?
CF: No they're in their room, they're not even awake. Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god. Sir please, please, please
Dispatcher: They're, they are heading that way, okay? I need you to take a deep breath for me. Are you, are you hearing anything?
CF: No, I, I rubbed her leg and said her name, she's not answering.
<Someone says "okay" but I can't tell who>
Dispatcher: Your daughter's not answering you?
CF: <Unintelligible sentence> What'd you say, what'd you say?
Dispatcher: Your daughter's not answering you?
CF: No, they're in the other <unintelligible> across the room. In the other, in their room.
Dispatcher: Okay, are you hearing any kind of noise inside the house?
CF: No, no, her face is, oh sir her face is white <unintelligible> ghost, please, please
Dispatcher: Okay, whose, whose face?
CF: My wife
Dispatcher: Your wife's face
CF: The one who, yes, the one who was shot
Dispatcher: She was, she was what?
CF: Shot I said!
Dispatcher: Okay where was she shot at?
CF: In the head, in the head <unintelligible> blood everywhere <sobbing>
Dispatcher: Okay, is she breathing?
CF: I, I, no, I don't think so. Ashley, Ashley baby, oh my god there's--no she's not.
Dispatcher: Okay, she's not responding to you?
CF: No, no. Oh my god oh my god oh my god
Dispatcher: Okay, do you see anybody in the house now?
CF: No, it's <stuttering>, it's pitch black and the doors are locked. The door leading to the garage door was wide open when I ran in there
Dispatcher: Okay, do you see any kind of vehicles
CF: Um, um, no, no. Wait, no, <unintelligible>, though, the door, there's a side door <unintelligible> the garage door that's open <unintelligible>
Dispatcher: Okay, okay I just need you to take a deep breath for me okay, they're getting there as quick as they can. Is that door still open?
CF: Yes it is, yes it is.
Dispatcher: Okay
CF: What do I do what do I do, what do I do?
Dispatcher: Is, is she breathing at all?
CF: I don't think <unintelligible>, please, <unintelligible>
Dispatcher: Okay, if you are comfortable, I want you to go and find a cloth and I want you to put a cloth on that gunshot wound
CF: Uh a towel?
Dispatcher: Yea a towel but do not apply direct pressure to it, just put it on that blood wound, okay?
CF: Okay, <unintelligible>, oh my god, <unintelligible>
Dispatcher: Okay I just need you to take a deep breath for me, okay?
CF: Okay, okay
Dispatcher: Just get that cloth and I want you to put it on that wound, but don't apply direct pressure to it, okay?
CF: Yea, I, I
Dispatcher: <unintelligible> as quick as they can, okay?
CF: I laid it on her head
Dispatcher: Okay. Where are, the juveniles, are they okay, have you checked on them?
CF: They're, I haven't checked on them, <unintelligible>
Dispatcher: Okay, can you, can you go check on the juveniles for me?
CF: The police is here, the police is here
Dispatcher: Okay. Can you go check on the juveniles for me
CF: <unintelligible, something about cops, I think he may be saying they just left>
Dispatcher: Okay, I need you to go check on the juveniles for me, okay?
CF: They're still, they're still sleeping.
Dispatcher: Okay, you still see them breathing, you don't see any wounds on them?
CF: No, no. No. The cops are here, the cops just pulled--sir, sir, sir! Sir! The cop is, the cop is here.
<Barking is heard, I think three barks>
Dispatcher: Okay, I want you to. Okay, open the door for him so he can get in to her, okay?
CF: <unintelligible>, sir! Sir!
<more barking>
CF: What? I don't know, <unintelligible> the door to the garage it was wide open. I'm her, I'm his, her husband.
<Sounds like LEO is saying something, "so is he still here?">
CF: No, I don't think so
LEO: <unclear, but sounds like something about putting the dog away>
CF: Yea. <unintelligible>
<Police radio audible>
LEO: <Unclear, possibly "I've got to check it/her out first">
CF: Okay
Dispatcher: Ma'am, ma'am, do you still <unintelligible> on the phone here?
CF: <unintelligible> there was a door, all the way to the right, that was open, behind it, <unintelligible>
LEO: <unintelligible>
CF: Yes?
<unintelligible>
CF: My daughters are in the bedroom over there, they're still asleep
LEO: Are you sure? <unintelligible>
<unintelligible>
CF: Oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god
<a lot of indistinguishable noises that are probably a combination of LEOs, the police radio, Caleb, and possibly his daughters>
<call ends>

Transcriber's gripe: Reels are very annoying to transcribe!

Brilliant -- many thanks. Could not have listened to that one without chucking something and am in clinic today...

Kudos to the dispatcher, imagine eyes were rolling throughout, and to LE for a seemingly quick, clean wrap-up.

Is it time for a "divorce can suck, but it's better than..." PSA?

 

[Chimera]

Yeah, I don't see this guy as the type who is going to confess to anything. He is going to make the state work for his conviction, denying until the end, but I suspect he had GSR on him when checked, and LE may have found the gun at the home and matched it to the bullets that killed AF. As to possible motive, if there is another love interest in the picture, and I suspect there likely may be, someone knows about it, and if they don't already, LE soon will. JMO

Emphasis mine.
Yes indeed.
And even if he wore gloves I'm thinking LE were using the heavy equipment to dig up anything he may have discarded ?
Imo.

 

[Summerliz03]

From the limited details we have, it really seems like he was a complete idiot if he thought he was going to get away with this. His story is extremely unbelievable, his barely seemed to try to cover his tracks, his call to 911 was ridiculous. I feel like he had planned to do this for a while so is he just that dumb to not try to come up with a better crime that wouldn’t be figured out in a matter of days/hours? Ugh, I feel so terribly for his daughters and RIP Ashley.

 

[Chimera]

Ew. Give me a break.

Ashley Flynn murder case: Husband’s attorney questions thoroughness of investigation​

Ashley Flynn murder case: Husband’s attorney questions thoroughness of investigation

Attorney for Ashley Flynn's husband accused of murder questions thoroughness of investigation.

www.daytondailynews.com

Oh my goodness.
I get it that CF needs proper representation as would we all.
But his atty.'s going to have an uphill road with this loser and the swiftness of LE identifying him as the perp. !
Omo.

 

[tlcya]

Ew. Give me a break.

Ashley Flynn murder case: Husband’s attorney questions thoroughness of investigation​

Ashley Flynn murder case: Husband’s attorney questions thoroughness of investigation

Attorney for Ashley Flynn's husband accused of murder questions thoroughness of investigation.

www.daytondailynews.com

It’s disturbing the speed at which this occurred,” said defense attorney L. Patrick Mulligan of Dayton law firm Moermond & Mulligan who is representing Caleb Flynn. “I question the thoroughness” of the investigation.

that is rich indeed. I question his client's grey matter. very ill conceived plan start to finish. Of course it was a speedy arrest, his client isn't the brightest of God's children MOO

 

[SteveP]

Am I understanding that it was CF's gun? That the "intruder" took from CF's truck console?

That was certainly the implication. Do we know that the gun was actually found? On the court document, it states for firearm, '9mm handgun', no make or model, which makes me wonder if it was actually recovered, or whether they just knew that from shell casings left at scene.

 

[Chimera]

Transcription of 911 call (by me):

Caleb Flynn: Yea
Dispatcher: Miami county 911
CF: Oh my god. Somebody, somebody broke into my home. Somebody broke into my home and shot my wife
Dispatcher: Are they still in there?
CF: I don't know--I, I don't know
Dispatcher: Okay, what's the address?
CF: 9932 Cunningham Court, Tipp City, Ohio, please please hurry. Please please hurry.
Dispatcher: Okay. What you, what are you seeing?
CF: My wife is, she's got two shots to her head, there's blood everywhere, oh my god, oh my god. Sir please, please, please please <unintelligible>
Dispatcher: Okay, ma'am I'm gonna need you to take a deep breath okay. Do you still see anybody, in the house?
CF: No, the door to the garage is wide open. Please hurry, please. Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god. My daughters are here, my, my daughters are here.
Dispatcher: Where is she at?
CF: She's in the bed, she's in the bed.
Dispatcher: Are you in there with her?
CF: Yea, I'm in the room. I'm looking at her, yes. Please
Dispatcher: <possibly: did you guys have> the door locked?
CF: We have the, the doors to the garage is locked but <unintelligble> house yes. Please. My <unintelligible> my <unintelligible>
Dispatcher: Where's that, where is that room at into the house? My partner's gonna <unintelligible> okay but I'm gonna need you to answer my questions to get you help as fast as I can, okay?
<some sort of mumbling cross talk>
[B][SIZE=5]CF: What questions?[/SIZE][/B]
Where are you guys at in the house?
CF: I'm in the bedroom with her right now,
Dispatcher: Okay
CF: my daughters are in their room <unintelligible, possibly just crying>
Dispatcher: You are not, you are not with the children?
CF: N--I was with the children when it happened
Okay, but you're not with them now?
CF: No they're in their room, they're not even awake. Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god. Sir please, please, please
Dispatcher: They're, they are heading that way, okay? I need you to take a deep breath for me. Are you, are you hearing anything?
CF: No, I, I rubbed her leg and said her name, she's not answering.
<Someone says "okay" but I can't tell who>
Dispatcher: Your daughter's not answering you?
CF: <Unintelligible sentence> What'd you say, what'd you say?
Dispatcher: Your daughter's not answering you?
CF: No, they're in the other <unintelligible> across the room. In the other, in their room.
Dispatcher: Okay, are you hearing any kind of noise inside the house?
CF: No, no, her face is, oh sir her face is white <unintelligible> ghost, please, please
Dispatcher: Okay, whose, whose face?
CF: My wife
Dispatcher: Your wife's face
CF: The one who, yes, the one who was shot
Dispatcher: She was, she was what?
CF: Shot I said!
Dispatcher: Okay where was she shot at?
CF: In the head, in the head <unintelligible> blood everywhere <sobbing>
Dispatcher: Okay, is she breathing?
CF: I, I, no, I don't think so. Ashley, Ashley baby, oh my god there's--no she's not.
Dispatcher: Okay, she's not responding to you?
CF: No, no. Oh my god oh my god oh my god
Dispatcher: Okay, do you see anybody in the house now?
CF: No, it's <stuttering>, it's pitch black and the doors are locked. The door leading to the garage door was wide open when I ran in there
Dispatcher: Okay, do you see any kind of vehicles
CF: Um, um, no, no. Wait, no, <unintelligible>, though, the door, there's a side door <unintelligible> the garage door that's open <unintelligible>
Dispatcher: Okay, okay I just need you to take a deep breath for me okay, they're getting there as quick as they can. Is that door still open?
CF: Yes it is, yes it is.
Dispatcher: Okay
CF: What do I do what do I do, what do I do?
Dispatcher: Is, is she breathing at all?
CF: I don't think <unintelligible>, please, <unintelligible>
Dispatcher: Okay, if you are comfortable, I want you to go and find a cloth and I want you to put a cloth on that gunshot wound
CF: Uh a towel?
Dispatcher: Yea a towel but do not apply direct pressure to it, just put it on that blood wound, okay?
CF: Okay, <unintelligible>, oh my god, <unintelligible>
Dispatcher: Okay I just need you to take a deep breath for me, okay?
CF: Okay, okay
Dispatcher: Just get that cloth and I want you to put it on that wound, but don't apply direct pressure to it, okay?
CF: Yea, I, I
Dispatcher: <unintelligible> as quick as they can, okay?
CF: I laid it on her head
Dispatcher: Okay. Where are, the juveniles, are they okay, have you checked on them?
CF: They're, I haven't checked on them, <unintelligible>
Dispatcher: Okay, can you, can you go check on the juveniles for me?
CF: The police is here, the police is here
Dispatcher: Okay. Can you go check on the juveniles for me
CF: <unintelligible, something about cops, I think he may be saying they just left>
Dispatcher: Okay, I need you to go check on the juveniles for me, okay?
CF: They're still, they're still sleeping.
Dispatcher: Okay, you still see them breathing, you don't see any wounds on them?
CF: No, no. No. The cops are here, the cops just pulled--sir, sir, sir! Sir! The cop is, the cop is here.
<Barking is heard, I think three barks>
Dispatcher: Okay, I want you to. Okay, open the door for him so he can get in to her, okay?
CF: <unintelligible>, sir! Sir!
<more barking>
CF: What? I don't know, <unintelligible> the door to the garage it was wide open. I'm her, I'm his, her husband.
<Sounds like LEO is saying something, "so is he still here?">
CF: No, I don't think so
LEO: <unclear, but sounds like something about putting the dog away>
CF: Yea. <unintelligible>
<Police radio audible>
LEO: <Unclear, possibly "I've got to check it/her out first">
CF: Okay
Dispatcher: Ma'am, ma'am, do you still <unintelligible> on the phone here?
CF: <unintelligible> there was a door, all the way to the right, that was open, behind it, <unintelligible>
LEO: <unintelligible>
CF: Yes?
<unintelligible>
CF: My daughters are in the bedroom over there, they're still asleep
LEO: Are you sure? <unintelligible>
<unintelligible>
CF: Oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god
<a lot of indistinguishable noises that are probably a combination of LEOs, the police radio, Caleb, and possibly his daughters>
<call ends>

Transcriber's gripe: Reels are very annoying to transcribe!

@Mack the Knife :
Thank you for transcribing this !
Much appreciated.

Lol at the dispatcher referring to CF as "Ma'am".

Re. the bolded bit : Hmmm... A slip of the tongue, perhaps ?
He wasn't expecting to have to answer questions because he was, you know, distraught ?
Jmo.

Eta : Also from the 911 call, the dogs' barking was barely heard if at all, but increased when he said "Sir, sir, sir"; as in -- they barked when strangers pulled up to the house ?

Imo.

 

[Chimera]

Case report for incident 26TC01027

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Thanks @osu .
Hmm, two shell casings on the floor ?
In the 911 call, CF says she was shot three times ?
Jmo.

 

[lexinyc2013]

I have a relative that every time they do something despicable excuses it by saying, "but God wants me to be happy". I think this guy is similar. It's a lifetime of grandiosity fueled by his religious narcissism. That's my take.

Thank you for that comparison... That helps me understand better how his insane mind could lead to this.. Wow.

 

[lexinyc2013]

his high pitched fake distressed crying hyperventilating act served only to make the dispatcher believe they were talking with a female. Ma'am? ma'am. What an awful human CF is.

I heard someone with very high pitched screaming one time.. They were having a psychotic break. Wouldn't surprise me if after his lawyers say it looks too bad to plead not guilty, the sicko pleads insanity.

 

[lexinyc2013]

“I just want to take care of my daughters. I’m not a risk.” he told the judge.

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5K views · 43 reactions | 2/20/26 - Caleb Flynn just had his arraignment hearing this morning. Hearing his voice made my blood boil. “I just want to take care of my daughters. I’m not a risk,” he told Judge Samuel Huffman before the judge set his bo

2/20/26 - Caleb Flynn just had his arraignment hearing this morning. Hearing his voice made my blood boil. “I just want to take care of my daughters. I’m not a risk,” he told Judge Samuel Huffman...

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What worries me is with the way some judges can rule these days, they actually let him do that. I don't think any judge could be so incredibly dumb, but you never know.