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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.
Stolen Voices, Buried Secrets is an American true crime television series on the Investigation Discovery Network. The program is different from other true-crime series because the murders are portrayed from the omniscient point-of-view of the victim using "fictionalized dialogue".
But after a month of investigation, in November 2020, Ashley Benefield was charged with second-degree murder. She pleaded not guilty. After 17 days in jail, Ashley posted $100,000 bond.
A murder conviction without a body is an instance of a person being convicted of murder despite the absence of the victim's body. Circumstantial and forensic evidence are prominent in such convictions. Hundreds of such convictions have occurred in the past, some of which have been overturned.
Ashley Benefield, 33, had been charged with second-degree murder, but the panel convicted her of the lesser crime in the killing of Doug Benefield on Sept. 27, 2020.
Gunman James Witham was jailed for a minimum of 43 years.
On December 29, 1999, high school friends Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman of Welch, Oklahoma spent the evening together celebrating Freeman's sixteenth birthday. [5] Bible had received permission from her parents to spend the night at the Freeman home, with her father stating that he told her “you need to be home by noon” the following day.