Ashley Benefield, a former ballerina, has been charged with the second-degree murder of her estranged husband. Why is it ...

Former ballerina Ashley Benefield, 32, was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison for manslaughter. Hotspots ranked Start the day smarter ☀️ Funniest cap messages Get the USA TODAY app ...

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.

Then, Ashley Benefield filed a domestic violence injunction against Doug Benefield in Manatee County court, Murphy said. That’s how she and her client learned that the child had already been born.

Ashley Benefield on the fifth day of her trial for the second-degree murder of her husband, Doug Benefield, in 2020 at the Manatee County Judicial Center, July 29, 2024.

The investigation into Ashley Benefield and her husband's killing revealed two contrasting motivations and raised questions about domestic abuse and self-defense.. Ashley Benefield, a 33-year-old ...

Ashley and Douglas Benefield in happier times. Facebook “Ashley Benefield plotted and murdered her 58 year old husband Doug Benefield and instead claimed it was self-defense,” wrote @hardrocknick on ...

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 says she was acting in self-defense when she shot her estranged husband Doug on Sept. 27, 2020, in Florida. Prosecutors say it was a sinister plan.

Ashley Benefield showed no apparent emotion as a Manatee County Circuit Court judge sentenced her to 20 years in prison for the shooting death of her estranged husband Doug Benefield in her Lakewood ...