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disappearance and murder of Ashley Flynn. On February 16, 2006, at roughly 2.30 in the morning,

a man in Tip City, Ohio called 911. He frantically explained

that someone had broken into his home and shot his wife. There was blood everywhere, he said.

She wasn't breathing, and their two young daughters were asleep down the hall.

Officers arrived in four minutes. The woman, 37-year-old Ashley Elizabeth Flynn, was found dead in her bed in the master bedroom, shot twice in the head. Two nine-millimeter shell casings lay on the floor near the foot of the bed. Her husband, Caleb Carl Flynn, told police the door to the garage was wide open. He said the family's dogs had woken him and that he'd heard a gunshot

and that he froze before finding Ashley. Body camera footage showed him crying, hyperventilating,

and vomiting into a trash can. He seemed distraught calling his mother in Minnesota and Ashley's

mother. He asked officers what he was supposed to do with his daughters. Police deployed

K-9 units, flew a drone, canvassed ring doorbell footage, pulled regional flock camera data, and

used a backhoe to lift a backyard shed, and yet they found no outside suspect. What they did find

was a crime scene that didn't match the story. The side door to the garage,

the supposed void of entry, had a large refrigerator positioned directly in front of it. To open that

door, someone inside the house would have had to push it out of the way. Replacing it from outside

was functionally impossible. Additionally, the center console of Caleb's truck, parked in the garage, was open.

That was where he told officers he kept his handgun.

Court documents would later state that investigators had been led astray by a stage scene.

No one had broken in.

The only people in the house were Caleb, Ashley, their two daughters, and their two dogs.

So who was Ashley Flynn?

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