Stormy relationship between Doug and Ashley BenifildStar-Cross pairs in the heart of the notorious “Black Swan” murder case, started and ended with a .45 caliber guns, which had come out publicly over the years.
During the testimony of Ashley Benefield’s murder in July 2024, she said that in the evening when she met Dug Benifild in a Upskale political dinner, she was carrying a .45 caliber gun in her bra.
Assistant State Attorney Suzanne O’ -Donel, who sued the Homoids case for Manett County, Florida, placed Ashley during the question test: “You really bragged … you have to beat … about the guns, right?”
“Yes,” Ashley Benefield replied.
“During the time when you met Doug in a political event, was one of the guns in your bra?” O’Donel asked.
“Yes. This is where I hide it, take it,” Ashley Benedield testified.
The story of Ashley and Doug Benefield is depicted in a two -hour broadcast, “The Case of the Black Swan, Part 1 and Part 2,” Now Streaming on Paramount+. Reported by “48 hours” contributor Jim Excelode, special broadcasts met the audience by night in September 2020, when Ashley killed Daug, allegedly in self -defense, the audience will be seen a rear scenery to see the couple’s censors’ ties.
In the trial of her murder in July 2024, Ashley Benefield testified for the first time what she says she shot and killed Doug Benefield. In an emotionally accused testimony, she claimed that shooting was in self -defense when Doug hit her and killed her in a bedroom. He said that it is When she came to her. 45 Caliber Guns that was at the top of a storage bin.
“I just put the gun like in front of me and I said, stop, and he turned and he turned like a fight. He started moving his weapon and his hands like moving around here … He started coming towards me and he peeped on me, and I just pulled the trigger,” Ashle Benefield witnessed her testing.
Ashley Benefield’s lawyer Neil Taylor then said, “Tell the women and gentlemen of the jury why you shot Daug.”
“I was scared of death,” he said. “I thought he was going to kill me.”
State prosecutors called Ashley Benifild a “manipulator” and claimed that he now killed Doug Benefield as part of his plot to get his now-6-year-old daughter, Emeron’s sole custody.
When investigators and crime site technicians searched the house after shooting, they found two other filled guns. One of Ashley Benefield’s guns was found hanging in the bedroom closet in his backpack, where the shooting took place. A third gun belonging to Ashley’s mother was found in a kitchen pantry, which according to the testimony of a crime visual technician for the Mainate County Sheriff Office.
At that time, Doug was helping Benefield Ashley and his mother Pack for a step for Maryland.
“Why do someone need three load guns, unsafe, a house in a house at the age of a 2-and-a-half year old?” Stephanie asked Murphy, lawyer of Dug Benefield’s family. “Apart from clear, there is no answer to me, which is that he planned to kill Daug that night.”
But Ashley’s lawyer Neil Taylor took a separate, as he told Axl Road when Axelroad asked Taylor, “Did he have three filled guns in the house, he shot and killed Daug at night?”
According to Taylor, this was all part and the parcel of fear Ashley Benefield felt as a woman misbehaving around Dug Benifild. “What can you think that such a situation will be promoted?” Taylor replied. “Do you think fear, anticipation?”
Ashley Benefield admitted at the stand that Dug Benefield had never hit her, before she used to do so on the night of shooting. But in the earlier court hearing, when Doug Benifild was still alive, he accepted an episode at the beginning of his wedding when he carried a gun in his kitchen roof to prevent Ashley Benifild from arguing with him. He also accepted his family dog with a suli. Ashley Benefield claimed that Doug Benefield punched the dog and knocked on it, but Doug said that he had only pushed the dog when he was a debate with Ashley, climbing on his lap.
Ashley Benifild, a former Balarina, Closed manuscript In July 2024, in September 2020, inside her Florida’s house to shoot. 45 to shoot her husband Doug Benifild with a.45 caliber guns.
On December 3, 2024, Ashley Benefield was sentenced to 20 years in jail, after which there was a 10 -year probation.
Ashley Benefield’s lawyers claimed that the prosecution and jurner were misconduct during the trial and sought a new test. The prosecution denied that there was some misconduct. The judge denied the defense proposal.
