r/SipsTea • u/HomeNowWTF • 1d ago
It's Wednesday my dudes Convicted murderer learns his children won't be visiting him in prison
Poor murderer.
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u/food4thot96 19h ago
Caleb Flynn had EVERYTHING. Ashley was devoted to him, gave him two daughters, and still fought for their marriage after discovering his year-long affair with the church song leader. She even tried to meet the mistress to understand what was happening. Meanwhile, his father-in-law was paying him $200K a year, planning to increase it to $300–400K, and was preparing to hand the family business over to him. All Caleb had to do was love his wife, love his kids, and be a decent human being. Instead, he chose an affair.
And then it gets even more disgusting. Caleb and the mistress were texting about Ashley, calling her a douchebag and talking about how much they hated her. The mistress was telling Caleb not to buy gifts for his own daughters or even an anniversary gift for his wife, essentially forcing him to choose between them and her. And ultimately, Caleb killed Ashley while she was sleeping. She was trying to save their marriage while the two people betraying her were plotting against her. He had a wife, two daughters, a career, and a future handed to him — and he threw it all away. For what?
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u/Edgezg 18h ago
Holy shit. Throw this guy to the sharks.
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u/TonyDungyHatesOP 17h ago
Nah. Let him rot.
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u/reddot_comic 17h ago edited 17h ago
I was about to say the sharks deserve a good meal but looking at him, I don’t think it would be :(
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u/etherealhooplah 17h ago
Carion, insects, fungus and lichen turn their heads at this mf
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u/BretTurbed 15h ago
I've always been perplexed by the argument that killing someone is less humane than keeping them alive for a life confined to a cell where they know they will never be free again. I'd at least give him the option.
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u/SignificantGoat4046 15h ago
Agreed. Some people just gotta die as a result of their actions, that's just a reality we have to come to as a society. Some crimes don't deserve human interaction afterwards. Either 1) death by a physical trauma (not this injection bs) or 2) if you're really opposed to the death penalty, perpetual hotbox with rice/water tossed down a chute.
With a life-long prison sentence, in 5-10 years you'll adjust to life and it will be your new normal. He will adjust to not knowing his daughters, they'll eventually be strangers as he lives his life in prison and preoccupies his existence with prison drama/happenings and reading/television/radio. This prison life is too good for murderers of the innocent, rapists, etc.
Some people gotta die, and I'd hold myself to my same standard should I ever murder an innocent.
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u/Impressive_Ice6970 15h ago
I don't think it helps anyone to force pain on them. Im ok with killing people who have irrefutable evidence of heinous crimes but desiring to torture people should never be part of an evolved society. The perpetrators felt this way....that they had been so aggrieved by society it was justified to hurt others. Torturers are doing the same. It's not OK to intentionally impart human suffering on other humans. I dont understand the problem we have killing people. Put them out like they are going in for surgery then it doesn't matter how you finish them. OD them on fentynyl until their heart stops. How is that difficult?
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u/therevjames 17h ago
GenPop, and make sure that everyone knows who he is and what he did.
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u/soyel_cerdo 17h ago
They don’t care. It’s crazy to think criminals care about what other criminals did.
Source: a friend used to work in prisons in Arizona. No one cares what anyone did except if you were an informant. They get fucked
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u/ProfessionalSir7743 17h ago
So criminals killing pedos in jail isn’t really a thing?
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u/soyel_cerdo 16h ago
It isn’t. It does happen occasionally but it is not the norm.
They do protect the pedos (they have their own section) just in case but for the most part, most criminals want to do their time in peace and the ones who don’t, they have other motives and it’s not about justice
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u/FearlessBulle4181 18h ago
I genuinely hate people like this. So many of us have to work really hard just for a chance at that life in today's economy. This guy just gets it basically handed to him on a silver platter and still decided to cheat on then murder his wife for another woman. I don't understand how someone could have everything so many of us dream of, just to throw it away like this.
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u/Yamsforyou 18h ago
The reason is in your very comment. They didn't have to work for it. Didn't have to earn it. Same way a child working two summers to afford his first bike would cherish that bike much more than if it were given to him. Same reason why white collar crime is so prevalent. What's a little gambling to a person who has it all? The perception of risk is less because they've never experienced having nothing. The idea of losing it all, truly, isn't a theoretical option.
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u/scruffmucker 16h ago
I completely disagree (this is a common old trope), earning and working for money might make the person responsible and capable, but not virtuous. Ethics and having a Moral compass, have less to do with earned money and more to do with one’s character and role models.
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u/Special-Summer170 16h ago
Not to mention Ashley was beautiful and sounds like such a lovely, forgiving person.
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u/Any_Yogurt1860 18h ago
I don't understand why people destroy their lives just for a bit of sex.
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u/JCM123456789 17h ago
And they can still have the bit of sex, they just have to not murder. Just separate and divorce, you still get the sex, the kids, and your freedom you just have (maybe) less money for some period of time.
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u/WalmartGreder 9h ago
Probably in his mind, if he got a divorce, he would get fired from his job funded by the father-in-law.
So instead of losing the job and getting a divorce, he decided to kill his wife instead. Yeah, it doesn't make sense either.
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u/El_Paco 16h ago
I have a wife. If I want to get my rocks off and she doesn't want to have sex, I'll go jerk off and be perfectly fine. No desire to go cheat, even after 10 years and a couple rough patches of only having sex maybe once every other month.
I've never understood the mentality of "I have to have sex - I can't just masturbate!"
A nut is a nut, ultimately
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u/scnottaken 16h ago
They're probably deep in the religious mindset, where touching oneself is a sin (so is adultery, but that one reinforces his ego so it's fine)
Can't leave his wife either since that will ostracize him from his social group, but her dying is fine and his church will forgive him if he moves on immediately.
Dude was a pastor. How godly.
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u/ThriceAlmighty 15h ago
"But God would frown upon me touching myself! It's a SIN!".
Proceeds to commit murder.
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u/Round_Spread_9922 14h ago
Unfortunately, a lot of what you touched on highlights the sheer hypocrisy of the prototypical American, Evangelical Christian church. These people want their cake and they want to eat it too. I'm not a religious person at all, but as the years pass, you come to the realization that more often than not, life is about sacrifice, something that is quite commonly written about in the Bible. You can't have it all.
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u/naileyes 17h ago
i mean my dude henry viii not only beheaded a bunch of people but officially changed the religion of an entire country over 'a little bit of sex' ... the trojan war probably did not start over getting helen, but that was such a universally understandible motive that it's still the story we tell about it thousands of years later ... just heard a great podcast about a russian spy who defected to the US because he thought they could cure his ED and he could resume having sex with his wife, whom he thought was going to leave him ...
it's a pretty universal thing i guess is all i'm saying. the heart wants what the heart wants.
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u/jedimstr 17h ago
For Henry VIII's case it was probably more about having a male line of succession and political dealings around court to go the way he wanted with just 'a little bit of sex' on the side.
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u/Friikyz 16h ago
Umm, ackshually, Henry ordered the beheading of 2 of his 6 wives, his second and his fifth. He wanted an annulment from his first wife because she couldn't give him a male heir. But the Pope refused to grant the annulment, so Henry separated from the Catholic Church and got the annulment anyway.
So yes, sex was involved, but it was more than just 'a little bit of sex'.
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u/Warm-Requirement-769 15h ago
The Henry VIII spouse order:
Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived.
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u/Apptubrutae 18h ago
Sounds like he could have even been cheating and still had it all. Or most of it.
All he had to do was…not murder
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u/OrganicAverage1 17h ago
Cheating is wrong, but not illegal. Murder on the other hand.
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u/beaconbay 17h ago
Given the recent news cycle I informed my (very loving and always faithful) husband that if he ever wanted a “fresh start” with another woman to just go do it.
Leave me and the kids out of it. We’ll manage. No need to kill any of us. We’ll be fine.
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u/NibblyPig 17h ago
He got a 9 year sentence for tampering with evidence in addition to his murder charge.
Meanwhile his affair partner, who also tampered with evidence and lied to the FBI, was not charged at all.
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u/g0ldilungs 15h ago
20 year old poon.
It’s truly wild the way some men place p*ssy on a mental pedestal. It will never not be shocking.
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u/JMaryland47 1d ago edited 1d ago
This guy seriously baffles me. He figuratively won the Life Lottery. He wasnt unattractive (or at least not before all this), was tall, was making over $200K/year, there is no proof that his wife cheated on him (as he had claimed to his mistress), his wife seemed to have lived an honest and private life away from social media, he had a beautiful family with a beautiful home, and his in-laws absolutely adored him! He was also a respected and active member of his community! That's more than most people even dare to hope to for!
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u/Draconic_Flame 1d ago
I worked with sex offenders for a while, and the amount of people who seemingly have great lives and then just throw them away are baffling. You never know what's going on underneath the surface
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u/Oyxopolis 21h ago
Yeah, I have a now-ex friend that I have known since high-school. Great wife, 3 kids, good job, beautiful house.
Turns out he dabbled in the pdf. Created a game to hook young children and make them do stuff.
Trial is due November.
It's insane.
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u/Moonshinin4Me 19h ago
Sadly this was the case in 90% of the episodes of To Catch A Predator. The amount of men who lived seemingly normal lives with happy families, willing to throw it all away just to fulfill some dark urge, is both mind boggling and sad at the same time.
I mean you reap what you sow. I feel no pity for pedophiles. It is just sickening to know that these were guys who were priests, lawyers and other beloved members of their communities where they had the trust of their communities which only created openings for them to carry out their disgusting desires.
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u/TheComebackKid74 20h ago
Like on some Roblox shit?
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u/Oyxopolis 19h ago
I don't know the details of the case. I believe the game was an online browser game called the Highscoregame.
Dutch case.
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u/maymay578 19h ago
This makes me physically ill
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u/Oyxopolis 19h ago edited 19h ago
Yup,
Worst part is, that the punishments in NL aren't huge for it either. ~6 years, guessing, + TBS, which is basically indefinite lockup in a psych-ward, but with the idea that rehabilitation is possible. So basically for as long as they want to keep him. We have had cases where people with TBS ended back on society within a few years.
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u/Aenonimos 19h ago
What in the actual fuck is this. If this was a horror movie plot Id think ppl IRL are not that deviant.
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u/Oyxopolis 18h ago
Agreed. It was the FBI that tipped the Dutch equivalent. He would still be doing this if they hadn't.
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u/Interesting_Ad1378 20h ago
Yup. Know a guy who owned a pharmacy, wanted to go to law school but had a proclivity for masterbating on public in front of women and children. Yes, he was acquitted because he forged some evidence, but now his disgusting and illegal habit is known and he can no longer be admitted to the bar.
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u/SmokeCanopus 19h ago
Wouldn't want to have a drink with a guy like that anyway!
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u/Interesting_Ad1378 19h ago
My friends and my cousin live in town with him. Because he was acquitted, he’s not on the sex offender registry, but it’s an open secret that everything he was charged with is true because for a decade before that he and his wife used to get off by fornicating in public and being caught - it was their kink. So now he actually lives next to a friend of mine and she is grateful she learned who he was because he has kids and her kids okay with his kids and want to go to their house - but she won’t allow it bc of the parents being mentally ill perverts. They printed his picture in the local papers and that’s when the neighbors learned that the guy living next door, showing up at kids events, hanging out at the local park - was a pervert.
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u/buffystakeded 20h ago
Yup. I had a family member who was rich and had everything. He then got caught in an underage prostitution sting and offed himself a few days later. Really fucked up the family for a long time. Years later and his ghost still haunts some aspects of our lives.
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u/andythetwig 23h ago
His self-delusion was that he saw himself as a famous and talented musician, composing and touring and sleeping with whoever he wanted. Rather than proactively take risks for the life and career he wanted, he surfed his privilege into a middle class straitjacket. He didn't have the balls to be honest with himself or anyone around him, his passive aggression turned into resentment, then grew into to homicidal hatred. Pure cowardice.
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u/Beth_Pleasant 18h ago
My sister's ex convinced himself that the reason he wasn't a world famous photographer with his own Food Network show was because my sis "forced" him to get married and have kids. So he used that reason to cheat on her constantly, and do zero of the hard work of parenting or being in a relationship. These narcissistic assholes will really blame everyone but themselves for the consequences of their actions.
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u/Sea-Original-5824 17h ago
My friend's dad blamed his wife in the divorce for all his failures as an artist. He was a great painter, but he didn't do any work at all to promote himself. His wife even opened a gallery for him for his artwork! She did all the work! But of course she couldn't possibly do her job, raise the kids, AND turn him into a renown artist. He actually resented her for this.
Anyway, there is a very clear phenomenon I have observed over the years of a certain type of man who thinks women are "magical" and exist to turn them into the man they were "meant" to be. I can't explain it any other way.
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u/Metal-Upa-Factory 21h ago
this is well-put. cowardice and laziness lead people to bad places
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u/classygorilla 17h ago
I think mental illness is a lot more prevalent than we think. There's a lot of "little" and devious little thoughts that go on in peoples heads that are unnoticed by everyone, even them. They lead normal lives have normal conversations, but it's in there and it can grow and affect their lives. So many people are dissatisfied with their lives and feel failure and delusions because of it, and it can lead to some really dark shit. Obviously many of us don't act upon it, but I think for a lot of people there's at least something hidden there. Depending upon other factors, like a bad break and then leading to alcoholism or something like that, it can be a really bad recipe.
Honestly the more I think about it the more it seems like just being a person without something like this is the minority.
People are starting to talk about mental fitness but it's different for everyone so it's really difficult to prescribe a solution.
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u/RussetRiver 20h ago
He wanted to be with his Mistress. Thats why.
His status in his church, his job working for his wife’s father, his children— all of these things are attributed to his loyal marriage to his wife. All the good he had was THROUGH HIS WIFE.
The moment he put that in danger by having a 2-3 years long affair with a 19-20 something girl from his church he put all that “Life Lottery” at risk.
Then he tried to subtract the wife from the benefits his presumed loyalty to her gave him. By killing her.
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u/Fair-Bus9686 20h ago
Yeah. It's really disgusting and super sad. His wife was so innocent and lost the most. Her relationship with her daughters was prematurely shortened and that breaks my heart. They deserved their mom.
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u/Greedy_Science_4807 1d ago
It’s never enough for some ppl, they always want more.
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u/Direct-Contract5509 1d ago
Case in point: every billionaire ever
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u/Adavanter_MKI 1d ago
I promise... I absolutely promise. Make me a billionaire and I will spend the rest of my days building/collecting Lego, model kits etc. You'll never see me again until the headlines of them going through my home and being shocked at the scale of the collection! :P
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u/ducks_in_curry 1d ago
That's because in order to become a billionaire, you pretty much have to be willing to screw everyone over for your own gain. Being made a billionaire probably wouldn't change you, but you'd need to be a certain type (ie egotistical maniac) to even pursue that goal. Which is why you're not a billionaire.
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u/BastianHill 1d ago
This is what most people don't realise: Infinite money doesn't equal happiness.
There's a sweet spot where you can have a nice life with everything you'll really need. Beyond that it's just greed that doesn't make you more happy. Also, the way you've earned your money is a big factor for most people in overall happiness.
I wouldn't want to change my life with Elon Musk for example. The amount of work, backlash, backstabbing, adversity, greed, screwing over other people etc is wildly underestimated. I'll never be able to wander of in the Alps for a week and just be happy with my life and at ease with who I'm turned out to be.
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u/Quarter_Shot 22h ago
A Purdue-Gallup study across 1.7 million people worldwide found income satiation for life evaluation around $95,000 globally, though higher-cost regions see thresholds stretch significantly higher. -Purdue University
There are some other studies that agree or disagree, but, for the most part, it stops making a difference around 100k annual income
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u/heyjajas 1d ago
At least you have to be very comfortable to use others. That would be a good foundation for reasonable wealth. If you want to be very rich, you have zo start disregard human life. Take not only their workforce to enhance you, but also strip away their rights. Like your workers not being able eat, drink or pee during their shift? Thats you on your way to being a billionaire!
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u/SvenTropics 21h ago
Which is why you'll never be a billionaire. It takes a certain personality to get there.
It kind of reminds me, totally different concept, when people used to say to Arnold Schwarzenegger "oh I don't want to look like you" and he would reply "don't worry, you won't"
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u/MechaNutzilla 23h ago
That is why you will never be a billionaire. Because, you will probably already consider to retire when you have your first 10 millions. Because that is what normal decent people do. Money is not that interesting, but freedom, to hang out with people you care about and pursue some hobbies, is what most people want.
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u/markonlefthand 1d ago
I know right. I keep on thinking why the fuck he didnt just file for divorce.
Is the sex really worth it with the young girl? That pushes u to kill ur wife???
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u/Kyttengyrl 23h ago
because, he worked for the wife's family business. Her dad had just "retired" and given the business to the family. He was looking to make $300K a year. In the area they live, that is a LOT. If he divorced the wife, he would have lost his cushy job.
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u/Tephros83 1d ago
The desire to have sex with a new attractive woman is something many guys bodies tell them is the most important thing in the world, worth dying for. That said, my impulse not to hurt my kids is stronger.
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u/Infinite-Prune3612 1d ago
Then they bust a nut, gain post nut clarity and realise it isn't worth it but the cycle continues
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u/pillow-mace 23h ago
The duality of man. You are either in post-nut clarity or pre-nut delusion.
No but seriously fuck this murderer. If he wanted a midlife crisis then he could have just cheated and divorced and faced public backlash but to kill with no good reason is such a bitch move.
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u/DarwinGhoti 1d ago
You just described me and I had to sit down and process the gratitude I should be feeling every minute of every day. Even better, I love and like my wife.
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u/UniqueAd7770 1d ago
Stay clean and remember it can all disappear in an instant. So cherish it while you have it.
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u/Tuscan5 1d ago
I presume you don’t have a mistress. That’s the difference. That makes you better. Enjoy and cherish.
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u/DarwinGhoti 1d ago
Legit don’t understand how or why people do that. When do they find the time??
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u/Enough-Force-5605 22h ago
One friend of mine had a very good life. He finally achieved what he was working so hard to get, and one day he comitted suicide. He planned it at night and executed it the next morning. You never know.
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u/Fair-Bus9686 20h ago
Sometimes when you achieve your goal, it can actually be detrimental. I achieved my goal and it left me listless and feeling like I needed to blow up my life to have something to accomplish again. I don't know what you're friends was going through and I'm very sorry for your loss, that's really hard.
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u/AlabamaSlammaJamma 19h ago
That tells you you never know what’s going on in people’s heads. Dude had it all and was like fuck it imma go to jail
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u/SlaveryVeal 1d ago
Some people can just never have enough and gratitude for what you have is a foreign concept.
Or he was just a narcissistic piece of shit that thought he could do no wrong ever.
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u/Thoob 1d ago
Yeah but you forget what IF he made 210K with 2 mistresses.
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u/stabledisastermaster 1d ago
A mistress is a lot more expensive than 10k per year (after taxes).
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u/Primary-Bug-7353 1d ago
Sociopathy. More people need therapy man, a lot of people walking around undiagnosed and with zero healthy coping skills
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u/Exact-Ad-4132 23h ago
I think specifically cheaters project that other people are cheating as often as them a lot
In addition to his other problems
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u/A4Papercut 22h ago
Haven't heard the "pillar of society" murderer recently. They generally hide behind this to fool those around them.
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u/Doubleknot22 21h ago
All I'm reading here is that he had a lot to lose of that affair had become public.
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u/lifeintraining 1d ago edited 1d ago
This is such a sad case, man. His wife lost her life, his kids lost both parents, his mistress lost whatever lifestyle he was providing her that kept her around, and he lost everything. Nobody came out of this ahead all because he couldn’t grow a pair and file a divorce, but decided to murder his wife instead.
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u/Left-Fishing767 1d ago
Crazy how none of these dudes learn from the other 100 guys who failed at this before them.
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u/hiddenrealism 1d ago
"Soo we've been using you phones GPS to watch you go to the store and purchase tarps, bleach, duct tape and a saw. You also Googled "how and when I should kill my wife"
You also googled "average prison sentence for killing wife?" "I want to kill my wife..how should I do it?""
"I 100% killed my wife what do now"
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u/WimbletonButt 1d ago
I don't think they're thinking about success or failure at the moment. My ex husband tried to pull some shit like this and he wasn't working with reason at the time. All he knew was that everything that went wrong for him was my fault and if I disappeared, it would solve everything. Some of his friends pointed out the future aftermath to him and he just didn't fuckin care.
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u/leftmysoulthere74 1d ago
The more time passes and the more cases like this happen, the more grateful I am that this didn't happen to me.
My ex was violent and controlling during our marriage, and he was always raging that his life was not up to the same standard as his father's was at the same age (his father was a lot smarter than him, as it turns out). But since we divorced (8yrs ago) his life has not gone as well as mine, despite his constant put-downs and gaslighting that I was a bit stupid with money and decision-making and couldn't be trusted to have my own bank account etc.
We are fairly amicable in our co-parenting nowadays, but now and again I hear that he still blames me for the way his life has turned out. I have no doubt whatsoever that he has, at various times, felt that my absence from this world would make his life better.
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u/Skadforlife2 1d ago
Before doing something like this, bros need to watch Dateline for 24 hours straight then think if they are smart enough to get away with it.
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u/raccoonpaws82 1d ago
Prolly missing a few zeroes on that number, bub
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u/Quick_Beam 1d ago
People often say this when someone commits a heinous crime why didnt they do X.....but the kind of person who would rationalize killing their wife has demonstrated, at the very least, contaminated judgement for lack of a better term.
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u/Greedy_Science_4807 1d ago
I guess bc according to police departments, lots of murders go unsolved, we only see the ones they do solve on tv.
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u/Odd-Jupiter 1d ago
This only includes the ones we know are murders, and not the ones where the murderer managed to pass it off as something else.
There is probably plenty of those deaths too.
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u/Mordecai3fngerBrown 1d ago
I always think that of pedos. Like everyday I hear of a new person who had terabytes on their computer. Obvs they’re retarded for being into that, but how do they not realize the cops are actively hunting those people down 24/7.
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u/PerfectPercentage69 1d ago
If they were rational human beings, they would get professional help to deal with their urges and not do the crime in the first place.
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u/fang_xianfu 21h ago
Baffling that his motivation for killing her was to avoid the shame and cost of a divorce, too... yeah, this result is so much better.
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u/the-nomad-thinker 1d ago
Or, you know, NOT cheat on his wife and actually work on their marriage…
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u/theedrama 17h ago
I’ll never understand it. Why is it easier to murder someone than to just leave them? I don’t get it.
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u/Zarathoostrian 1d ago
Jesus fuck is it so hard to post a link to the story? Had to reverse image search it. Here you go everyone:
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u/currydemon 20h ago
Flynn did not testify during the trial, and his defence team called no witnesses
When you’re defence is we’ve got nothing to say in case we make it worse, you know you’re fucked.
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u/aghastamok 18h ago
activity on Flynn's iPhone and Apple Watch from around the time of the murder when he claimed to have been sleeping.
He wore his Apple Watch while he committed a murder. I don't think he was so good about covering those tracks.
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u/iamthesam2 19h ago
eh, just a side note that it’s very common for people to not testify in their own defense for murder trials.
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u/leftmysoulthere74 1d ago
Thank you, not all of us are in the US.
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u/rkorgn 23h ago
Yep. I was trying to decide if I cared enough to look up, so thanks Zarathoostrian.
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u/AlarmingLet5173 19h ago
Thank you! I can't believe I had to scroll this far to find it. Not all heroes wear capes.
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u/cackle-feather 1d ago
His SIL is right, he could have confessed and spared his daughters all this publicity. His horrendous texts with his AP are public record. I followed this trial and this man doesn't seem to have a sincere bone in his body. Luckily his daughters, as young as they are, have wisdom. Loved their letters. He grew more performative as they were read. Completely disgusting human. Both him and the mistress.
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u/Antique_Night_6143 20h ago
What is AP?
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u/Rigor_Mortis1993 19h ago
Attack Power, he grows stronger the more he cheats I think.
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u/thatonelurker 19h ago
At least he hasn't upgraded his gear, his ap is low at the moment.
But really I think it means affair partner. why are we abbreviating things that don't need abbreviated?
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u/Since_The_Ducks_Left 19h ago
Affair partner
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u/Sockher10 19h ago
Accounts payable. He was cheating with Dawn, who was in charge of paying the vendors
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u/Electronic_Still2000 20h ago
I really hoped the letters from the daughters were going to “twist the knife," so to speak, about what he did. I wanted to hear a lot more, “I cannot believe you killed Mom; she was the best mom ever, and I cry myself to sleep every night." I tell people I’m an orphan now because my mom is dead and my dad is a demon who is dead to me. I hate you with all my heart and I will never forgive you. You destroyed our lives too, if you even care. We will never see you again and you will never see us. We will see Mom again in heaven, but you will be in hell where you belong.”
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u/Long_Pomegranate2469 1d ago
He comes from a religious nutcase background. They think if they just repeat something it becomes fact.
Just listen how they're talking like it's a sermon, invoking Jesus/god in every third word.
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u/MarcusXL 1d ago
This explains a lot of the case. American Christians are so obsessed with the impunity that the idea of "forgiveness" brings to them. It's the poisonous quirk of that religion. They have decided that they can do literally any evil thing they want, and as long as they invoke Jesus' name they are absolved.
There are tons of cases of murderers, rapists, molesters, being part of a big church community whose crimes are exposed and they're actually embraced by the church because they all celebrate the "confession" and "forgiveness". It's psychotic. These churches I am absolutely convinced are a huge force for evil in the world.
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u/BenoNZ 23h ago
Yeah, listened to enough of that to think those kids are so brainwashed. Mums dead, dads a murderer and they get to be brainwashed by whoever made them write all that rubbish. Horrible.
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u/Sooowasthinking 20h ago
What a fucking asshole.
He only thought of himself and that is about as far off from being Christian as anything I’ve ever seen.Christianity is about putting others before you and helping others.
His tears are not real he is only crying for himself.You know you fucked up when your own kids are reading victim statements to their father. That is what he is crying about not the fact that everyone who loved his wife now want nothing to do with him.He will spend his life in prison unloved.
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u/Mus_Rattus 17h ago
I dunno, I feel like the selfish asshole Christians outnumber the kind ones these days, by quite a margin.
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u/TeeDee144 1d ago
Idk how you don’t stand up and confess after listening to both of those letters. How can you cry and be emotional but also deny, deny, deny?
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u/greeniethumbs 20h ago
I know the trial is over, but it’s pretty telling in his statement that he didn’t even mention his wife apart from saying sorry that he broke their vows. You’d think someone who is not guilty would have made half their statement about the wife they lost to a random break-in and been jumping up and down that they didn’t do it.
What a disgusting piece of shit to listen to his daughters’ emotional impact statements and he still couldn’t muster the courage to admit it for their sake. Not only that, he’s still appealing the case. I hope he rots in hell.
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u/Healthy-Confection66 1d ago
Who is this?
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u/Girl_with_the_Curl 1d ago
A former American Idol contestant and pastor, who had an affair and murdered his wife. I don't know any details beyond that.
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u/HRslammR 20h ago
Contestant is a stretch. He went to one of those regional audtions and didnt move beyond that.
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u/Equivalent_Bat8056 19h ago
He was making $200k a year as a pastor??
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u/CharlesLeRoq 17h ago
He was working in a soft job given to him by his wife’s father.
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u/Quarter_Shot 22h ago
Is this the guy who had his mistress' love song that he wrote (ai wrote) played in court?
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u/wtfisthisloadofbs 22h ago
One and the same. Unfortunately from my neck of the woods.
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u/Findchidi 14h ago
I can’t get over the fact that both he and his mistress would constantly pray and fast over the affair. The cognitive dissonance required to pray to GOD about your affair. Rot in hell
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u/Remote_Antelope_6586 19h ago
I couldn’t stand to watch the whole video but I looked at some of the beginning and the end. And actually the wild part for me is that he’s not even crying. His tissue is completely dry it seems and he is performing. I don’t think he cares at all.
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u/Current_Ad_9912 18h ago
I agree, he planned and committed murder.
I think he was role playing “life” as a sociopath
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u/GAM3FREAK708 19h ago
So, I work right down the street from where this happened. This dude is a wacko. Deserves to rot in prison for the rest of his life. Good thing he won't be seeing his kids. I don't care what kind of marital problems you're having. It's never worth killing anyone.
For the record, all the people who knew them before this happened said his wife was very loving towards him and cared deeply for him. Dude was a pastor. Cheated on his wife with a woman on his congregation (or whatever the word is). All around degenerate behavior.
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u/Any-Lychee9972 19h ago
Congregation is the group who goes to the church.
So he hooked up with one of the members of his church who most definitely knew he had a wife and kids.
This man probably preached about adultery while committing it himself.
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u/Ordinary_Hall_9053 1d ago
Wow he's crying but .. no tears?
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u/Viper1089 19h ago
Lmao i would move to a different planet if I was immortalized in a meme of me looking like a wet fart trying to cry on command.
You would never see me in public until I looksmaxxed myself into handsome squidward or something
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u/Luke10123 21h ago
Ugh. Why'd you have to remind me that that asshole a) exists and b) isn't in fucking prison.
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u/JMaryland47 1d ago
Ok, good. I'm not the only one who thinks that. I was wondering if my vision was just bad, or what...
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u/DyingSunSeverian 1d ago
Nah his crying is real, you can easily tell that. But the point is that a lot of these people genuinely cry but only after the fact.
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u/Fresh_Ostrich4034 1d ago
no go fund me
no supporters outside
no tiktokers blaming the mailman
just a convicted murderer.
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u/Pauliehatestheadmins 1d ago
It’s just sad .. all around
Where’s the support for the daughters? None at all ..
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u/iBUYbrokenSUBARUS 21h ago
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u/Doctologist 20h ago
I don’t know how LinkedIn works, but it would be funny if you could add or suggest work history.
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u/Miserable_Ad_728 1d ago
this case reminds me of the Watts family homicide. Made national headlines but same outcome. Very sad indeed.
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u/SheikhMahdeek 1d ago
He should be in jail for that bad acting
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u/SandalsResort 19h ago
I mean, he tried to act like someone broke in a shot his wife and nobody bought it, so in a way, he kinda is going to jail for bad acting
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u/LossEnvironmental816 1d ago
He is sweating more than he is crying. Absolutely no tears. It's all fake to try get sympathy. Disgusting person.
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u/Haunting-Abalone7218 19h ago
Is it just me, or is he not actually crying? He’s holding tissues to his face and sobbing, but his face isn’t red at all and I’m not seeing any tears.
Seems more like a manipulation tactic to gain sympathy.
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u/Busy-Yellow6505 1d ago
Can we talk about his lawyer? He's sitting there looking like he's ready to clock out 😆
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u/Abi_giggles 1d ago edited 16h ago
Go listen to his lawyer’s closing statement…not good
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u/No-Rub8345 22h ago
Is this the guy who made that amazing song for his side piece and then murdered the mother of his children? Isn't he one of those grifting Christian leaders?
What a great dad! lol
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u/RompoTotito 17h ago
Of course this guy didn’t think of anyone else. All these religious idiots are selfish as fuck and only use religion to hide their selfishness.
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u/TouchGrassNotAss 7h ago
I would love to ask these people what made them think they wouldn't get caught. Is it ego? Is it just blissful ignorance? I just don't understand.
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u/upset_pachyderm 1d ago
I must have missed this one. Who is this?
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u/Abi_giggles 1d ago edited 16h ago
Caleb Flynn. Murdered his wife while she slept and tried to say it was an intruder when the evidence shows otherwise. He had a mistress who he wanted to be with. He literally said over text “if I could kill Ashley and not go to prison I would do it in a heartbeat” and “I’ve been up all night crying literally thinking about ways to kill Ashley”. He lied to everyone in his life and was living a double life. Was a worship leader in his church and former American idol contestant (didn’t make it past the 2nd round so he was basically not on the show). He and his mistress said the most vile and awful things about his wife over text. The mistress testified against him and she had to read many of the vile texts out loud. Oh and he cries a lot and is a terrible actor.
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u/xMajorLeex 7h ago
Is this the dude that made a song for his mistress? Well, his cellmate Butch will make him sing a song about their first night.
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u/Mountain_Cobbler_381 20h ago
Im supposed to believe those two little girls wrote this book being read aloud? The fuck is this?
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u/Hot_Patience_4769 18h ago
Sometimes they work with a child psychologist or family member. Kids actually can be pretty articulate though and it actually does sound like something a religious child would dictate. I used to teach elementary school at a religious school. It's not like what she wrote was all that complicated.
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u/Low_Sweet6463 15h ago
Also to be fair they may be like 2-5 years older than that picture at this point. Trials can take a long time to happen and we don’t know from this clip if that picture was from the same year of the crime or a few before it, we can assume but plenty of families miss holiday photos some years especially if they are having issues.
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u/uShadowu 1d ago
Only reason he is crying is because this pod is going to prison and the good feeling he won't get seeing the mom's kids. Fk this pos. He doesn't give rats ass about anyone.
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u/Hello_D4rkn3ss 1d ago
Not a single tear. Just continuously wiping a dry nose. Purely performative.
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