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A former ballerina was sentenced to 20 years in prison Tuesday in the 2020 shooting death of her estranged husband in Florida. CBS affiliate WTSP reports that Ashley Benefield was sentenced to 20 ...
The former ballerina convicted of killing her well-heeled husband — in a sensational case that came to be known as the “Black Swan murder” — has been sentenced to 20 years in prison ...
Ashley Benefield (née Byers), [4] a former ballerina was accused of the shooting mariticide [5] of her estranged husband 58-year-old Douglas "Doug" Benefield. [6] The murder trial is known by this name due to the defendant's former profession and in reference of 2010 film Black Swan. [1] The murder and subsequent trial received national media ...
Ashley was charged with manslaughter and second-degree murder for shooting and killing Doug. On July 30, 2024, a jury convicted Ashley of manslaughter and found her not guilty of second degree murder.
Stone was born as Michael John Goodban in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent on 7 June 1960, one of five children. [6] [7] Although the name of his father was registered, and therefore given on his birth certificate, as "Ivor Goodban", there was uncertainty over the true identity of his father and Stone regarded a different partner of his mother, Peter Stone, as having been his father.
At the time of her death, she was going through a long bitter divorce and custody battle over her three sons with her husband, Bradly Morris Cunningham. [2] A trial that followed her 1986 murder inspired true crime writer, Ann Rule, to write her 1995 best seller, Dead By Sunset.
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During her murder trial, former ballerina Ashley Benefield testified about what happened in the moments before she fatally shot estranged husband Doug Benefield in an act she described as self ...