In 2024, Ashley Benefield was sentenced to 20 years in prison for fatally shooting her husband, Doug Emily Blackwood is a writer and editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her ...

BRADENTON, Fla. — A jury on Tuesday night found a Manatee County woman guilty of manslaughter in a case that's gained national attention as the "Black Swan murder" trial. The jury deliberated for six ...

A former ballerina who was convicted of manslaughter in what she claimed was the self-defense killing of her estranged husband was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison. Ashley Benefield, 33, had ...

BRADENTON, Fla. — A Manatee County judge sentenced a woman to 20 years in prison after she was found guilty of killing her husband. Ashley Benefield was sentenced to two decades, with credit for time ...

A former ballerina at the center of the highly publicized "Black Swan murder" case has been convicted of manslaughter. Ashley Benefield, 33, was found guilty by a jury in Manatee County, Florida on ...

A former ballerina charged in the fatal shooting of her husband was convicted of manslaughter late Tuesday in Florida, hours after a jury began considering her claim that the shooting four years ago ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The prosecution rested its case Thursday in the murder trial of Ashley Benefield after three days of testimony from more than a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Tiffany Tompkins/ttompkins@bradenton.com) After almost seven hours of deliberation, a Manatee County jury found Ashley Benefield ...

The stormy relationship between Doug and Ashley Benefield, the star-crossed couple at the heart of the notorious "Black Swan" murder case, began and ended with a .45 caliber gun, according to what was ...