The guardians of the children of an American Idol contestant accused in the murder of his wife are looking to obtain a restraining order against him from using the family finances.
Caleb Flynn, 39, is accused of fatally shooting his wife Ashley, 37, in the head in their Tipp City, Ohio home, while their two young daughters were sleeping in the same house last month.
Ashley was found dead in the home on February 16, after Flynn told law enforcement that there had been a break-in at the residence.
Authorities later arrested Flynn and also accused him of staging the crime scene to mislead investigators.
The guardians for Flynn’s kids told Judge Anthony E. Kendell they had been ‘acting in their capacity’ as the kids’ representatives in legal docs filed in Miami County, Ohio on Tuesday, and reviewed by the Daily Mail.
Daily Mail has reached out to lawyers on both sides of the case for further comment on the story.
The guardians of the children of American Idol contestant Caleb Flynn, 39, who is accused in the murder of his wife, are looking to obtain a restraining order against him from using the family finances. Flynn is pictured in bodycam footage
Flynn – who is currently being held in solitary confinement in an Ohio facility – last month pleaded not guilty to charges of murder, assault and tampering with evidence.
The guardians requested ‘financial information and documents in the prosecution’s possession, custody, or control relating to the financial affairs and assets of’ Flynn in their recent legal filing.
The guardians opposed Flynn’s motion to have access to select case materials, as it ‘could potentially conflict with’ their requests to the court.
The guardians are asking the court to stop Flynn from transferring any of his assets, or those belonging to his the late Ashley Flynn, as they believed it could negatively impact his kids.
The items in question include vehicles, cash assets and retirement portfolios, attorneys for the guardians told the court.
In footage culled from the police bodycam, Flynn was seen crying and panicking following the deadly incident.
He was heard saying, ‘Oh my God,’ then asking a police officer of his spouse, ‘Is she gone?’
On a phone call he made to his mother, Flynn was telling his mother, ‘Ashley’s dead – mommy, she’s gone – I don’t know what to do.’
Caleb Flynn, 39, is accused of fatally shooting his wife Ashley Flynn in the head in their Tipp City, Ohio home, while their daughters were sleeping in the same home last month. He has pleaded not guilty
Flynn had been seen on American Idol’s 12th season in 2013
Caleb was later seen vomiting while saying he was ‘gonna be sick.’
He lost his footing in another section of the clip prior to speaking with a female relative.
Caleb told the woman, later identified as the grandmother of the two girls, that ‘the girls don’t know.’
Flynn had been seen on American Idol’s 12th season in 2013.
