Former "American Idol" contestant Caleb Flynn repeatedly talked about wanting his wife dead and once told his mistress he was "thinking about ways to kill her," the woman testified Wednesday in his Ohio murder trial.Alleigha Botner, who testified she had an affair with Flynn for roughly a year and a half and had given him an ultimatum about their relationship just weeks before the killing, told jurors his comments about Ashley Flynn grew increasingly disturbing in the months before she was fatally shot inside the couple’s Tipp City home."At first it was, ‘I want her dead.I wish she was gone,’" Botner testified.TEACHER FOUND DEAD WITH THROAT SLIT; DETECTIVES SCRUTINIZE HUSBAND’S SHIFTING STORYShe recalled Flynn later telling her, "If I could kill her and not go to jail, I would."Caleb Flynn becomes emotional in court during his murder trial in Ohio.
Flynn is accused of killing his wife, Ashley Flynn, in February 2026 and staging the scene to look like a break-in.(COURTESY: WKEF)Then, she told jurors, his comments escalated further.TEEN PLANNED MIDDLE SCHOOL MASSACRE BEFORE MAKING DEADLY ‘LAST-MINUTE CHOICE’ TO KILL MOM: OFFICIAL"One night he was up really late thinking about — told me that he was thinking about ways to kill her," Botner said.The comments about wanting Ashley to die came at least once a month, Botner testified.Prosecutors later walked Botner through thousands of messages recovered from the relationship, including one attributed to Flynn from February 2025 that read, "I need her to die, to cheat again, to leave."Other messages attributed to Flynn included, "I want her dead and gone" and, after Botner asked what she could do for him, "kill her."CALIFORNIA MOM BEGGED FOR HELP BEFORE EX GUNNED HER DOWN IN FRONT OF THEIR 4-YEAR-OLD SON: DAAlleigha Botner testifies Wednesday in the Ohio murder trial of former "American Idol" contestant Caleb Flynn.
Prosecutors say Botner had an affair with Flynn before his wife, Ashley Flynn, was killed.(CR...