Crime

"American Idol" alum Caleb Flynn is seen getting emotional while asking an officer where his wife's dead body went ... after she was murdered inside their Tipp City, Ohio home.

Check out the body cam video released by police -- Flynn, who has since been charged with his wife Ashley's murder -- wonders if she's been taken to a funeral home. Clearly, this video was recorded not long after her corpse was found deceased in bed ... because the officer says she is still located exactly where she took her last breath.

Police unloaded tons of body cam footage from their initial investigation, including video of Caleb being cuffed and processed at the station ... it's all in the clip. He was arrested Thursday by the Tipp City PD and booked into the county jail for murder, felonious assault, and tampering with evidence.

Tyler Perry wants the latest sexual assault and battery lawsuit against him dismissed ... because he says the whole thing is just a $77 million money grab.

In court papers, obtained by TMZ, Perry calls claims that he made unwanted advances toward model and actor Mario Rodriguez outlandish falsehoods "that have no basis in fact or law and no merit."

According to the docs, Mario repeatedly turned Perry into his personal piggy bank after Perry gave him "a very minor role in a single" film.

American Idol alum Caleb Flynn broke down in tears as police swarmed his Ohio home after his wife was shot to death, frantically asking one officer, "Is she gone?" ... according to new body cam footage.

Monday, Tipp City PD released body cam and dashcam video showing officers responding to Flynn's house after he called 911 to report his wife was shot by a burglar on February 16. Police blurred the body cam video inside the house, but not outside.

At one point in the clip ... Flynn is sobbing and repeatedly asking a police officer if his wife is "gone." He then says over and over, "Oh my God."

A woman was arrested overnight after allegedly attempting to break into Jake Webber's Los Angeles home.

Law enforcement sources tell TMZ ... officers were called to the YouTuber's residence around midnight after a female showed up on his doorstep and tried to open the door. We're told she was taken away in cuffs for trespassing.

Sources say Jake is the one who called police to his home ... though it's unclear if he met with officers when they arrived.

The Arizona man who was briefly detained in the Nancy Guthrie investigation is firing back at all the cops involved ... insisting the whole thing felt like a "fishing expedition" to pressure him into confessing to something he says he didn’t do.

In a sit-down interview on "True Crime Arizona" Monday, Luke Daley recalled cops pulling him over, cuffing him without explanation and detaining him for hours ... admitting the mounting pressure on law enforcement to solve the case had him panicking about being "framed."

Luke insisted time and time again that despite living nearby to Nancy, he had never met her and had absolutely nothing to do with her disappearance ... and wants her home safe just like everyone else.

A teacher at Viewpoint School -- an elite Calabasas private school with tuition nearing $60,000 a year -- has been arrested over allegations of inappropriate behavior involving students … and now parents are questioning whether warning signs were missed.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department took 39-year-old Travis Takeshi Shojinaga -- who worked as a teacher at Viewpoint, a school for kindergarten through 12th grade -- into custody. He's since been charged with one felony count of possession of child sexual abuse material, and four misdemeanor accounts of annoying or molesting a child under the age of 18.

According to a source, many parents have kept their kids home ... giving hugs to each other as they returned to campus and saying how "disgusting" the situation is. Families are now demanding answers as the investigation unfolds.

12:52 PM PT -- Savannah Guthrie posted a still shot of the memorial scene on her Instagram Story just now … showing bright flowers against the greenery and blue sky in the background, writing how she and her family are feeling the love and prayers from well-wishers everywhere, adding … "please don't stop praying and hoping with us. bring her home."

Savannah Guthrie and family members were filmed outside their mother Nancy's Tucson, Arizona home this morning ... taking in a growing memorial for their mom one month into her search.

Watch the clip ... Savannah, her sister Annie, and brother-in-law Tommaso embraced as they laid flowers for Nancy. The memorial consisted of many bouquets and also signs with loving messages, along with what appears to be Nancy's "Missing" poster.

Cher's son Elijah Blue Allman seems to be racking up charges lately ... after being arrested for assault on Friday, he was taken into custody again on Sunday for felony burglary, TMZ has learned.

According to docs obtained by TMZ, Allman allegedly broke into a home in Windham, New Hampshire, Sunday ... leading to a female resident hiding in a closet.

The report says police arrived to find Allman sitting on the living room couch, smoking a cigarette ... and he was arrested without incident ... though nothing appeared to be missing from the home.

A $10 million lawsuit against Kodak Black over a shooting at an after-party during Super Bowl LVI weekend has been dropped, and it can't be refiled ... TMZ has learned.

Remember ... a shooting took place outside The Nice Guy restaurant in Los Angeles on February 12, 2022 at an event hosted by Justin Bieber. Kodak reportedly took a bullet to the leg during the kerfuffle, and 2 bystanders -- Mark Schaefer and Adam Rahman -- were also allegedly shot.

Schaefer and Rahman ended up suing Kodak for their injuries, claiming he escalated the situation, which they say eventually led to someone else firing a weapon.

While Jeffrey Epstein's island and jet have been a point of fascination for years, his New Mexico mansion has gotten less scrutiny, until now ... state officials have renewed interest in the ranch, which is rumored to have dead bodies buried on site.

According to The New York Times, Epstein purchased the sprawling 30,000-square-foot estate -- known as the Zorro Ranch -- in 1993 from the family of former NM Governor Bruce King. Epstein was reportedly drawn to "The Land of Enchantment," as the state is called, due to its obscurity and the lenient sex offender registry laws.

In 2019, the year Epstein died, an anonymous tip from someone who claimed to have worked at the ranch alleged that Epstein ordered the dead bodies of 2 abused girls to be buried in the hills outside the ranch, NYT reports.

1:11 PM PT -- The NYPD tells TMZ ... cops responded to the 911 call just after 5 PM on Thursday -- and found King unconscious. He was unresponsive, and EMS pronounced him dead at the scene.

The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner is looking into his cause of death.

Eugene Thomas King Jr. -- the convicted bank robber who held a gun to Paula Deen's temple in 1987 -- has been found dead in New York City ... TMZ has learned.

Family sources tell TMZ ... King was found dead Thursday inside his Brooklyn apartment. It's currently unclear what caused his death.

We've reached out to the NYPD, FDNY and the NYC Office of Chief Medical Examiner for more.

The man who held Paula Deen at gunpoint died from cardiovascular disease, a natural cause ... TMZ has learned.

Eugene Thomas King Jr. died from hypertensive and arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease, the New York City Medical Examiner's Officer tells us.

According to the Mayo Clinic, hypertensive and arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease is caused when high-blood pressure damages the arteries and causes plaque to build up. This is considered a natural cause of death by the M.E.

Jeffrey Epstein seemingly used doctors to exercise control over women ... even withholding the money for a woman's acne treatment in one instance.

The New York Times released an exposé which focused on communications between Epstein and doctors -- released by the Department of Justice last month -- which appear to show the convicted pedophile controlling the medical care women in his life were receiving.

Epstein did this in several ways, NYT explains ... from communicating with doctors who gave him final say in decisions he had no right to make to refusing to give over money for treatments.

Terrion Arnold's team is responding to reports the Detroit Lions cornerback is tied to a robbery and kidnapping incident that occurred in Florida earlier this month ... telling TMZ Sports he had no "involvement whatsoever."

Arnold's lawyer -- Timothy Jansen -- provided a statement on Friday ... making it clear that NFLer's hands are clean despite being named in Judge Logan Murphy's order to hold one of the alleged conspirators on pre-trial detention.

"He did not participate in, nor was he present for, any conduct related to the alleged offenses. There is no evidence in police reports, text messages, or witness statements that implicates Mr. Arnold in any way."

Ryan Garcia had an unwelcome guest Thursday night -- TMZ Sports is told an alleged burglar hopped a fence and tried to enter his home ... before scurrying away as cops responded to the scene.

Law enforcement sources tell us the incident went down around 9:35 PM, with officers receiving a call for an attempted burglary at the boxing superstar's residence in L.A.

By the time cops got to the home, the suspect was gone ... and a search of the area came up short. It's unclear if Garcia was inside when the attempted burglary went down.

Video has gone viral of a man in Sacramento who was terrorizing unsuspecting motorists by hanging off moving cars in busy traffic ... with his bare butt on display.

The unidentified man was filmed dangling from at least 3 separate vehicles this week, with one moving as fast as 40 MPH -- the driver no doubt freaked out by him attaching himself to their car.

In one instance, the man begins losing his pants ... and it appears his bare cheeks are about to scrape along the road.