MIAMI COUNTY — UPDATE @ 3:12 p.m.:
For a full rundown of Day 7, READ HERE.
UPDATE @ 3:08 p.m.:
Judge Pratt said they will break for the day.
Judge Pratt said they have one more video to show the jury and it is lengthy.
They are going to resume at 8:45 Monday morning, Judge Pratt says. She says for the jurors to be at the courthouse at 8:30.
UPDATE @ 2:07 p.m.:
They’re playing an interview with Caleb Flynn at the Tipp City Police Department. This is starting at 4:28 a.m. on Feb. 16th. They’re in an interview room.
UPDATE @ 2:06 p.m.:
Hansen is excused from the stand and the witness list.
The next witness the State calls is Det. Sgt. Mike Morgan of the Tipp City Police Dept.
UPDATE @ 1:36 p.m.:
It’s also where Alleigha Botner worked as a worship leader and where she and Caleb met.
UPDATE @ 1:32 p.m.:
The next witness the state calls is Jordan Hansen, Lead Pastor of Christian Life Center.
That’s the Flynn’s church.
UPDATE @ 1:31 p.m.:
Det. Zachary Farkas with the Dayton Police Dept. and FBI Safe Streets Task Force was on the stand when they played the videos on Wednesday. Farkas said he had gotten the videos as part of his work on the investigation.
It’s RING camera video from Stratman’s house. No cross-examination. And he’s off the stand.
And excused from the witness list.
UPDATE @ 1:30 p.m.:
The surveillance video he has is the clips the FBI showed us earlier this week − that showed Botner coming and going from her pastor’s house the night of the 15th and the morning of the 16th (the day of Ashley’s murder).
UPDATE @ 1:23 p.m.:
The next witness the State calls isJoseph Stratman of Vandalia.
He lives on Hurst Drive, the same street where Alleigha Botner was house-sitting for her pastor.
UPDATE @ 1:20 p.m.:
The court is back in session after the lunch break.
UPDATE @ 12:11 p.m.:
The court will break for lunch and be back at 1:15 p.m.
UPDATE @ 11:10 a.m.:
Court returns from break.
UPDATE @ 10:51 a.m.:
The court will have a morning recess.
UPDATE @ 10:30 a.m.:
Special Agent Kinzig testified, when asked by Prosecutor Watkins, that the tip that came in about someone supposedly being hired as a hitman to kill Ashley Flynn turned out not to be true. She said the person they interviewed about it who was reported to FBI as the person who said something about this supposed murder-for-hire plot, admitted to the FBI in an interview that he had offered it as a “general theory” as to what happened while talking about the case after Ashley’s death with a friend, said he offered it as “conjecture,” told the FBI he did not believe it to be true, and that the person whom he theorized had been hired to kill Ashley did not have any personal connection to Ashley, Caleb, or their families.
UPDATE @ 10:05 a.m.:
Special Agent Wilhelm is off the stand and excused from the witness list.
The state has called FBI Special Agent Andrea Kinzig to the stand. She’s been with the Dayton office of the FBI since 2010.
UPDATE @ 9:15 a.m.:
Court has resumed for the seventh day, and the sixth day of witness testimony.
Friday’s proceedings begin by resuming the testimony of Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation Special Agent Joseph Wilhelm.
INITIAL REPORT:
Day 7 of Caleb Flynn’s Murder Trial is expected to get underway on Friday morning.
More testimony from the prosecution is expected today.
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During Thursday’s testimony, Flynn’s mistress Alleigha Botner read text messages between her and Flynn, leading up to the death of Ashley Flynn.
Flynn is accused of shooting and killing his wife, Ashley, in February of this year.
Binders full of printed copies of the more than 107,000 messages Botner exchanged with Caleb Flynn during their affair.
Botner read hundreds of messages that displayed disdain for Ashley Flynn and her family, with communication at times becoming violent.
John Bedell will be in court on Friday for up-to-the-minute updates.
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