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 ...

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

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

Ashley Benefield, the Lakewood Ranch woman sentenced to 20 years in prison for killing her husband, has filed an appeal in hopes of reversing the outcome of her high-profile trial. The appeal ...

Ashley Benefield is being held at the Manatee County Jail until the hearing in January before Manatee County Circuit Court Judge Matt Whyte. Her defense filed a motion asking that she be released ...

The headline in a recent edition of the Sarasota Herald- Tribune – "Former Lakewood Ranch ballerina to serve 20 years" – ironically trumpeted an identical sentence for a teenager who was convicted ...

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 ...

Ashley Benefield is being held at the Manatee County Jail until the hearing in January before Manatee County Circuit Court Judge Matt Whyte. Her defense filed a motion asking that she be released on ...

This week, Ashley Benefield’s defense team has appealed her sentence in Manatee County court. After a contentious sentencing ...