5 things to know about the Caleb Flynn murder trial
4. Flynn’s father-in-law said Flynn's story didn't make sense
On Tuesday, Flynn’s father-in-law, Todd Smith, took the stand to describe how he learned of his daughter’s death and why he doubted Flynn’s account that it was a break-in gone wrong.
Smith was snowmobiling in Quebec when his daughter died but drove to her house as soon as he found out.
“All I could think about is nothing in that story made sense to me. Nothing made sense to me,” he said. “Why would somebody break in, go in … get into the truck, go walk in there, shoot my daughter and then run out?”
Smith also sensed something was off because of the lack of reaction from the family dogs.
“When we pull up to the house, they are barking, going crazy,” he explained. “I thought ‘how in the world did that happen and those dogs not go bananas?’”
Concluding that “it just didn’t make sense,” Smith said he Googled, “Can a Christian man snap and shoot his wife and kill his wife?” When he shared his suspicions with his wife, telling her “this really doesn’t look good on Caleb,” she pushed back hard, “Don’t even go there.”
Smith testified that he tried to set his suspicions aside out of concern for his wife, “I was sorry I even said it to her.”
Smith, who was also Flynn’s employer, said his son-in-law would “ask for prayer requests that he could be the best husband and the best dad that he could be.”
Ryan Foley is a reporter for The Christian Post. He can be reached at: ryan.foley@christianpost.com
