Former American Idol contestant and pastor found guilty of murdering wife
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A former Ohio music pastor who once appeared on the TV talent show American Idol has been found guilty of murdering his wife.
一位曾经出现在电视选秀节目"美国偶像"上的前俄亥俄州音乐牧师因谋杀妻子而被判有罪。
Caleb Flynn, 40, fatally shot Ashley Flynn twice in the back of the head while she was asleep in bed at their Ohio home on 16 February this year, then he tried to claim that burglars had shot her.
卡莱布*弗林,40,致命射击阿什利*弗林后脑勺两次，而她在床上睡着了在他们的俄亥俄州家16今年二月,然后，他试图声称窃贼已经拍了她.
The jury deliberated for less than three hours before reaching its verdict.
陪审团审议了不到三个小时才作出裁决.
Flynn was also found guilty of the other eight charges against him, which included aggravated murder and tampering with evidence. He faces life in prison without parole.
弗林还被判犯有对他的其他八项指控，其中包括加重谋杀和篡改证据。 他面临无假释的终身监禁。
Closing arguments ended on Tuesday in Flynn's trial, wrapping up eight days of testimony that included a song played in court that prosecutors say he wrote dedicated to the woman he was having an affair.
在弗林的审判中，结束辩论于周二结束，结束了八天的证词，其中包括一首在法庭上播放的歌曲，检察官说他写了一首献给他有外遇的女人的歌曲。
Throughout the trial, the prosecution presented evidence including police body camera footage, and activity on Flynn's iPhone and Apple Watch around the time of the murder.
在整个审判过程中，检方提出了证据，包括警方的身体摄像头镜头，以及谋杀发生时Flynn的iPhone和Apple Watch上的活动。
They also called dozens of witnesses, including his former mistress Alleigha Botner, whom he met while she was an intern at his church.
他们还传唤了数十名证人，包括他的前情妇Alleigha Botner，他在他的教堂实习时遇到了她。
Some of their 100,000 exchanged text messages were read aloud in court. The defence called no witnesses.
他们的100,000条交换的短信中的一些在法庭上大声朗读。 辩方没有传唤证人。
"I was up until 4am last night crying, literally thinking of ways to kill her and not go to jail," Flynn wrote in a message to Botner, 24, in August 2025.
弗林在2025年8月给24岁的博特纳的一封信中写道："我昨晚一直哭到凌晨4点，从字面上想办法杀死她而不是坐牢。"
In another message, he wrote: "I just want her dead and gone."
在另一条消息中，他写道："我只想让她死了，走了。"
During closing arguments on Tuesday, Miami County Prosecuting Attorney Paul Watkins leaned heavily into Flynn's text exchanges, which he said demonstrated Flynn's "hatred" for his wife.
在周二的闭幕辩论中，迈阿密县检察长保罗*沃特金斯（Paul Watkins）重重地倚靠在弗林的文字交流中，他说这表明了弗林对妻子的"仇恨"。
An emotional Flynn was seen in court at times sniffling and wiping tears from his eyes.
一个情绪激动的弗林在法庭上被看到，有时嗅着，擦着眼泪。
Watkins also said that when police arrived at the family's home in Tipp City in the early hours on 16 February, Flynn told police he had been lying in his daughters' bedroom when he heard gunfire.
沃特金斯还说，当警方于2月16日凌晨抵达蒂普市的家中时，弗林告诉警方，当他听到枪声时，他一直躺在女儿的卧室里。
Flynn said he then found his 37-year-old wife dead in the bedroom, after noticing the garage side door was open.
弗林说，在注意到车库侧门打开后，他发现他37岁的妻子死在卧室里。
Watkins said Flynn later told investigators he had not been to the garage, contradicting his earlier statement.
沃特金斯说，弗林后来告诉调查人员他没有去过车库，与他之前的声明相矛盾。
Flynn's defence lawyer Patrick Mulligan, meanwhile, told the court there was no concrete evidence, saying: "Connecting a couple of meaningless dots doesn't solve the case."
与此同时，弗林的辩护律师帕特里克*穆里根（Patrick Mulligan）告诉法庭，没有具体的证据，他说："连接几个毫无意义的点并不能解决案件。"
Mulligan said the issue was not whether Flynn was a good husband and that evidence of infidelity was not evidence of murder.
穆里根说，问题不在于弗林是否是一个好丈夫，不忠的证据不是谋杀的证据。
"They can't find the gun, therefore they blame it on him?" Mulligan questioned, referring to the charge of tampering with evidence that Flynn also faces.
"他们找不到枪，就怪他？" 穆里根提出质疑，指的是弗林也面临的篡改证据的指控。
Flynn's gun, which had been kept in the console of his truck, has remained missing since investigators arrived at the scene and found the truck's centre console open.
弗林的枪一直放在卡车的控制台里，自从调查人员到达现场发现卡车的中控台打开后，它就一直不见了。
Earlier in the trial, Botner took the stand as a witness for two days, offering testimony about her nearly 18-month relationship with Flynn.
在审判的早些时候，博特纳作为证人出庭作证两天，提供关于她与弗林近18个月的关系的证词。
In addition to reading some of their text exchanges, she also explained the lyrics line by line from an AI-generated song.
除了阅读他们的一些文本交流之外，她还从AI生成的歌曲中逐行解释歌词。
Video of the jury's reaction to the song, including what looked like laughter, went viral.
陪审团对这首歌的反应的视频，包括看起来像笑声的视频，病毒式传播。
Prosecutors also called Joseph Wilhelm, a special agent from Ohio's Bureau of Criminal Investigations, as a witness.
检察官还称俄亥俄州刑事调查局的特别探员约瑟夫*威廉（Joseph Wilhelm）为证人。
He said multiple apps had been uninstalled from Flynn's phone before his wife's death, including Instagram and an AI-music generating app.
他说，在妻子去世前，弗林的手机上卸载了多个应用程序，包括instagram和一个人工智能音乐生成应用程序。
The music generating app, Wilhelm said, "related to his relationship with Alleigha Botner".
音乐生成应用程序，Wilhelm说，"与他与Alleigha Botner的关系有关"。
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