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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 Benefield, 32, claimed that she killed her then-58-year-old estranged husband in self defense during an argument at her mother's home, where she had moved from South Carolina after leaving him.
Ashley Benefield, 33, remained stony-faced as her fate was read aloud in a Florida court Monday, five months after she was convicted of manslaughter in the 2020 fatal shooting of her 58-year-old ...
State prosecutors called Ashley Benefield a "manipulator" and claimed she killed Doug Benefield as part of her plot to gain sole custody of their now-6-year-old daughter, Emerson.
Ashley Benefield was born Ashley Byers and grew up in Maryland. She started studying dance when she was 8 years old, even dropping out of high school to work with the Maryland Youth Ballet.
To the contrary, Assistant State Attorney Suzanne O’Donnell told jurors that Ashley simply couldn’t bear the idea of sharing their 2-year-old daughter with the man she married just 13 days ...
In the mid-90s, she began working for KDFW, first hosting News 4 Texas Daybreak and later co-hosting News 4 Texas at 5:00 and News 4 Texas at 9:00 with Steve Eager.. In early 2000, Banfield was hired by national cable network MSNBC after having won an Emmy for her reporting at Dallas broadcast station KDFW-TV.
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.