Former Idol Contestant Pleads Not Guilty in Wife's Murder

Caleb Flynn, a 39-year-old former American Idol contestant and music pastor from Tipp City, Ohio, pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges of murdering his wife, Ashley Flynn, in their family home earlier this week. The 37-year-old Ashley was found shot to death in the master bedroom around 2:30 a.m. on Monday, with police alleging that Flynn used his own 9mm handgun to fire two shots into her head before staging the scene to suggest a burglary.

Flynn placed a frantic 911 call shortly after the shooting, telling the dispatcher that an intruder had broken into the home on Cunningham Court and shot his wife. "Oh my God, somebody broke into my home, somebody broke into my home and shot my wife," he said in the nearly eight-minute recording, released publicly on Friday. He described finding Ashley unresponsive with blood everywhere, her face pale, and noted that the garage door was wide open. Flynn also mentioned that their two elementary-school-aged daughters were asleep in their rooms and unharmed, adding that the house was pitch black and he feared the intruder might still be inside. First responders arrived to find Ashley nonresponsive and pronounced her dead at the scene. The...