Former “American Idol” contestant Caleb Flynn allegedly told his mistress he was “literally trying to think of ways to kill” his wife without going to jail before prosecutors say he shot her and staged the scene to look like a break-in.

The chilling message was among more than 100,000 texts prosecutors say Flynn exchanged with his mistress in the year before his wife, Ashley Flynn, was killed Feb. 16, WHIO in Dayton reported.

“I was up until 4 a.m. last night crying, literally trying to think of ways to kill her and not go to jail,” Flynn allegedly wrote in one of the messages.

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