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 ...

2024年9月7日 · After the investigators looked into the case for several weeks, on November 4, 2020, they charged Ashley Benefield with second-degree murder of Doug and took her into custody. As she pleaded not guilty, she got out on bond after spending a couple of weeks in jail.

2024年12月3日 · After nearly four years, the trial of Ashley Benefield, the former ballerina charged with second-degree murder for shooting her estranged husband Doug, began in the summer of 2024. In the...

2024年11月16日 · During her murder trial this year, Ashley Benefield offered hours of emotional testimony about the abuse she said she suffered at the hands of her estranged husband — and about what happened in...

2024年7月31日 · Former ballerina Ashley Benefield has been found guilty of manslaughter with a firearm in the shooting death of her husband Doug Benefield. Benefield had been charged with second-degree murder...

2023年7月5日 · Two days of motion hearings are scheduled to kick off Thursday for Ashley Benefield, 31, – the former model and ballerina accused of shooting and killing her husband, Douglas (Doug) Benefield, 58, inside their Lakewood Ranch, Florida, home in September 2020.

2024年12月3日 · At her trial, she admitted to fatally shooting her Navy veteran partner at a home in Lakewood Ranch, Florida, in September, 2020. She claimed that he had attacked her and she shot him in self...

2024年7月31日 · Ashley Benefield, the 32-year-old former ballerina accused of murdering her husband, was found guilty of manslaughter. The verdict was announced in a Manatee County, Fla. courtroom on Tuesday...

2024年7月31日 · Ex-ballerina Ashley Benefield was found guilty of manslaughter Tuesday in a Florida county court, ending the "Black Swan murder trial." The six-person jury, made up of five women and one man,...

2024年7月31日 · After almost seven hours of deliberations, a six-person jury returned with a verdict of guilty of manslaughter, a lesser offense than the second-degree murder charge for Ashley Benefield, 32....