Ashley and Doug Benefield wed after knowing each other for 13 days - despite their 30-year age gap - but their love story would ultimately end in tragedy ...

Former ballerina Ashley Benefield was accused of murdering her estranged husband Doug in Lakewood Ranch days before the ...

Ashley Benefield, the Lakewood Ranch woman sentenced to 20 years in prison for killing her husband, has filed an appeal in ...

Despite the trouble in paradise, the couple stayed together and Doug even had a vasectomy reversed so they could have a child ...

Ex-ballerina Ashley Benefield was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison for the 2020 shooting death of her husband following more than a month delay over juror misconduct claims in her high ...

If you accept – as Judge Matt Whyte did – that Doug Benefield was an abuser, then at worst Ashley Benefield’s judgment was faulty and the shooting was not necessary. That was the jury’s ...

Former ballerina Ashley Benefield earned the "Black Swan" moniker after fatally shooting her estranged husband in 2020. Ashley admitted to shooting Doug Benefield, then 58, alleging that he abused ...

CBS affiliate WTSP reports that Ashley Benefield was sentenced to 20 years, with credit for time served, followed by 10 years probation. The case, which became known as the "Black Swan murder ...

Ashley Benefield was convicted of manslaughter in the shooting death of her estranged husband, Doug Benefield, in September 2020. On Tuesday, Doug’s family, including his adult daughter ...

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 ...

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 lesser ...