Case update: On Dec. 3, 2024, Ashley Benefield was sentenced to 20 years in prison, to be followed by 10 years of probation. After nearly four years, the trial of Ashley Benefield, the former ...

Ashley Benefield, a former ballerina, was found guilty of manslaughter in July 2024 for shooting her estranged husband Doug Benefield twice with her .45 caliber gun inside her Florida home in ...

Tumultuous relationship. Ashley and Doug Benefield met in 2016 and were married 13 days later following a whirlwind romance. She was 24 and he was 54, according to media reports at the time.

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 ...

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.

Her attorney said the decision will be appealed. Ashley Benefield had been scheduled for sentencing in October, but Whyte rescheduled it after arguments from both her attorney and the prosecution ...

"I thought he was going to kill me," Ashley Benefield testified before a jury, her shoulders hunched over and shaking. She recollected the moment on Sept. 27, 2020, when she ran to her bedroom in ...

Ashley Benefield’s “Black Swan Murder Trial” has left the 32-year-old former ballerina facing a sentence of up to 30 years in state prison after being convicted of manslaughter in her ...

Ashley Benefield said that the two had previously discussed placing her items into the truck last so it'd be easier to offload them in Maryland since they would be living separately.

Dr. Russell Vega, Chief Medical Examiner for the 12 District, looks through autopsy photographs on the third day of Ashley Benefield’s trial for the second-degree murder of her husband, Doug ...

The sentencing came about four months after a six-person jury found Ashley Benefield, 32, guilty of manslaughter. Benefield was initially charged with second-degree murder but jurors chose the ...

Ashley Benefield remembered several violent incidents around June of 2017. She said there was a moment where her husband looked as if he might punch her, and their dog jumped between them.