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[Music] I started working on a story about a scandal in the ballet world my name is Alice Rob and I'm a
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contributing writer for Vanity Fair it was a business story about a ballet company that turned into a murder
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investigation so in 2016 Ashley married a much older man together they made a plan to start a
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new Ballet Company Ashley's Dream was to create a ballet company that would be a home for
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dancers who were unconventional she didn't want a cookie cutter company she wanted girls that were tall girls that
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were short you know I am taller so I thought that this would be a great fit for me I don't know that Doug could
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spell ballet before he met Ashley but you know when you love somebody what do you want to do you want to make her
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happy Ashley was 24 and Doug was 54 they knew each other for approximately 13 days before they got married Ashley was
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sending photographs of herself to Doug constantly she was you know a bikini model at some point and she knew how to
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work it she knew how to use it his major concern is how's he going to introduce Ashley to Eva I felt like
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Ashley was taking my dad away from me as she wants to win total affection she wants to be number one she would go
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through periods where she was just raging at Doug she flip-flops between he's a great guy who everybody knew him
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as or he's evil good or evil good or evil good or evil she goes to live with her mother and effectively cuts off all
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communication with Doug he's begging her to talk about things give him another chance meanwhile she accused him of
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trying to poison her She's accused him publicly of murder attempted murder was Doug Benefield dangerous they both had a
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lot of guns and there was an incident where during an argument he shot a gun into the
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ceiling after the the case with the poisoning allegations I saw a picture of the two of them you know arm in-arm
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attending a Galla together and looking like a happy couple he was so hopeful and optimistic that everything would be
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all right every time she made allegations she always came back to him and gave him hope of
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reconciling at some point Ashley said that she wanted to move to Maryland together and start over as a family they
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were packing up her house in Florida I heard some somebody screaming outside and she shot him she walks next door gun
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in hand and tells the n neighbor I shot Doug in self-defense it's right next door to me she just came over her
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strange husband attacked her and she say she shot him was she genuinely afraid or
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just trying to get her away since Black Swan came out I think that's a lot of people's only window into ballet which
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sucks but this certainly does Parlay into that narrative to Doug Ashley this innocent pure white swan but underneath
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those white feathers she's the Black Swan [Music] [Music] [Music] do you remember your last conversation
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with your dad he tried to call me but I didn't pick up cuz I was at work I said I'll call you later never called him cuz
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I assumed everything would be all right I'd get a Bible verse next morning and I'd call him and everything would be
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okay Eva Benefield got a Bible verse by text every morning from her father duck it was their daily ritual but on
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September 28th 2020 that Bible verse never came a sign that everything was not okay I was freaking out and I I
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spammed him with text messages I called him at of desperation she began Googling
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the names Doug and Ashley Benfield and accident with Florida man later that day Eva called an uncle
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who had texted her and I said what's wrong with my dad and he said there's been an accident and I said she killed
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him didn't she and he said yeah she shot him twice hang on those were the first first
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words out of your mouth where was that coming from I just had a gut feeling I drove a couple blocks down the
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road to my friend's house and they saw that I was crying and they said what's wrong and I said Ashley killed my
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dad it was a tragic end to a relationship that began at a dinner in Florida back in August of 2016 Doug met
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Ashley and felt like he'd been struck by a thunderbolt he just immediately thought Ashley was
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the most beautiful the most amazing person in the world writer Alice Rob wrote a piece
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about the benef fields for Vanity Fair Doug was from Charleston South Carolina a consultant who worked with
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technology companies and defense contractors the two had bonded over conservative values and guns the night
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that she met Doug for the first time she had guns on her person in her purse in her bra Stephanie Murphy Doug's family
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attorney says that when Ashley first met Doug she was working in the Sarasota campaign office of Donald Trump her job
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was to help Galvanize the Evangelical vote and work the rallies you can see video of her on the internet throwing
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things into the crowd getting people really excited aside from her work in politics
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Ashley had also been a fledgling swimsuit model and a dancer with the Marilyn Youth Ballet where she was
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sometimes a featured performer as in this piece from The Nutcracker I've seen videos of her
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dancing she was definitely a good well-trained dancer days after they met Doug left the
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country on a short business trip and by the time his plane was Landing back in the United States the heart emojis were
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flying Fast and Furious they were saying I love you to each other within I think a week or so Doug
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was deeply religious and his friends believe he wanted to marry Ashley before he was intimate with her what did he say
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to you William Aras trip cormany was one of Doug's closest friends and happened to be an ordained Episcopal pastor at
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the time just 13 days had passed since the couple had met trip wasn't thrilled but agre to perform the ceremony I was
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being loyal to my friend Doug invited almost no one to the wedding not even his teenage daughter he loves this girl
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his 15-year-old daughter he goes and gets married and doesn't even tell her yep Tommy Benfield is Doug's cousin it's
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bewildering I would have talked him out of it Eva certainly would have talked him out of it Eva was stunned still
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dealing with an unspeakable trauma 9 months earlier Eva's mother and Doug's wife 56-year-old Renee Benefield had
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died Eva had discovered her mother's body I couldn't get in through the front door and she wasn't answering the
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doorbell or the knock so I crawled through these bushes and then was your parents bedroom yeah so I could see
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directly in there the blinds were open the lights weren't on or anything and then I could kind of see her silhouette
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so I went to the door and to my neighbor the neighbor kicked in the door there Renee was dead from an undiagnosed
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heart ailment in the aftermath Doug was right there for his daughter after my mom died he really took kind of a
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motherly role along with a fatherly role he made sure you know I could go to him
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with boy problems with School drama with anything and he would take care of it but 9 months later Eva discovered Doug
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had a new woman in his life I was upstairs and he said Eva we need to come down talk to me and Ashley and I said
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the only thing that you would need to tell me about y'all's relationship is if y'all if you proposed and as soon as
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those words came out of my mouth he said we're married that's a lot it is a lot Doug encouraged Ashley to try and mother
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a reluctant Eva who was only 9 years younger he basically told her that I needed
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somebody I needed a motherly role in my life and I didn't think that I needed that the situation became even more
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complicated when Doug and Ashley allowed Eva's friend Sydney to move into the house two teenage girls and a new young
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wife were a combustible combination and during one heated argument with Ashley Doug
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cracked and a terrible moment he discharged the gun into the ceiling of his house his best friend trip says that
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Doug was filled with regret in his words he said I did the dumbest thing I've ever done in my life but that did not
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end the relationship just the opposite 2 days after the gun incident Doug and Ashley
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threw themselves a formal wedding reception complete with guests this time the newlyweds also forged ahead with
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Ashley's grand plan to create an inclusive Ballet Company the idea of it was really great but implementing it was
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something else entirely [Music] [Music] once Ashley started causing trouble and stress that's when he started to realize
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how I was feelings even though there was a growing tension at home between Ashley and Eva
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he promised me that things things were going to be okay eventually Doug went ahead with helping
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Ashley follow her dream establishing a ballet company in Charleston with a unique Mission being
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more inclusive having dancers of every shade color body type things those are all things that I'm a big believer
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in Ashley and Doug hired ballet Master Michael wise to train the dancers they talked to big game about big money he
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says $10 million they promised they'd secured from back and boldly named their new company the American national ballet
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or A&B when you first met Doug what kind of guy did he strike you as kind a very serious businessman and had
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a very methodical approach to a lot of what he did did he know anything about ballet no and he was very open about
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that I was supposed to be working with Ashley to get her to understand how a company should be run what was your
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first impression of Ashley Young and ambitious we were all hoping that she would rise to the
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[Music] occasion in the summer of 2017 Ashley and Doug were there as a and b held
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[Music] auditions I definitely thought that it was something that I wanted to be a part
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of dancer R Mana Hemley hoped A and B would be her chance to prove herself being a black female dancer is so
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challenging to audition for other companies where you don't fit the mold exactly so I thought that this would be
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a great fit for [Music] me you know if you're in the ballet Community you know there's a lot of crap
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that needs to change Athena Nicol acopos interviewed with Ashley and loved what she heard about her vision it sounded
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like she was genuinely excited to get this new company going and that they were going to try and do things a little
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a little bit differently the majority of her dancers were individuals that were very much
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like her had the drive had the want but hadn't necessarily been given an opportunity dancer after dancer proudly
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posted to social media they joined the a andb family but that wasn't the only family
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Ashley had in mind on top of starting a ballet company Ashley also wanted to get pregnant and
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in the midst of putting together the ballet company that's exactly what happened how did that sit with you it
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didn't sit well at all so this kind of felt like another stab in the back there was a lot of stress cuz now they
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basically have two teenage daughters and a little girl on the way at the end of the summer in 2017
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some 40 dancers from all over the world began arriving in Charleston to work with
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Ashley from the first meeting they realized what they'd been promised at A&B wasn't what they'd be
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getting when we get there and we're like where is she and Doug announces that she's bedridden with a really difficult
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pregnancy and so she wasn't going to be there for the first however many months it was explained to me that they
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were going to be developing the state-of-the-art facility in Downtown Charleston day one when we're ready to
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start up they were like can we use your facility each day something would happen
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that just made us feel even more unsettled hi guys sorry the shoes kept dropping the company typically pays for
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the dancers point shoes I remember one day we came in and they're like yeah unfortunately we have to half your
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allotment of shoes this sounds like a professional baseball team not supplying their players with bats yeah that's
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that's exactly what it is on top of all this chaos and confusion the dancers were having
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trouble getting paid their checks were often late if they arrived at all Doug was scrambling to meet the company's
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obligations we would ask him Hey where's the money for our shoes or our paychecks
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he would go to the bank and just pull out cash and and give people cash paying you out of his own pocket in cash is not
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the kind of thing that's going to inspire confidence no no confidence had gone a long time at this point that was
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very long gone we really thought we're like well when Ashley comes back like that might be what fixes all of this but
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Ashley wasn't coming back at the end of August citing her difficult pregnancy Ashley went back to
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Florida to live with her mother while Doug tried to make the ballet work in Charleston what did you make of that I
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was just kind of like okay I mean that means I get more alone time with my dad to hang out we had a decent amount of
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sympathy for him too we're like jeez he got sucked into this whole thing and poor thing he doesn't really know what
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he's doing he's trying to be there for us as much as he can the Rumblings about trouble in the
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benefield's marriage grew louder it seemed like it was something that was going to crash and burn very
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shortly very shortly in September while Doug was at an event for the ballet Ashley and her mother drove from Florida
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to the house in Charleston and dropped a bombshell the marriage was over she came to Charleston and packed
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up her things and then left Doug this scathing note about all the reasons why she didn't want to be be with him
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anymore in the note Ashley called him possessive and controlling she wrote the incident when
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he'd fired a gun into the ceiling as well as other unsafe Behavior had left her fearful for her life and the safety
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of her unborn child I could see the look in his face when he read it I could just
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tell his heart was broken but Ashley's notee was just the beginning he had this family that he
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thought was going to be perfect happy and faithful and it fell apart in the most spectacular way it wasn't long
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before the relationship became truly toxic she thought Doug may have poisoned her
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this is a pretty long letter she says at the end do not harass or try to follow me or I will call the
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police she does not seem like someone who is open to Getting Back Together Ashley's scathing note to Doug
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left little doubt about her feelings I really think that Ashley thought that that was going to be it
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just pack up her stuff leave a note and it was going to be over but Doug wasn't ready to give up he
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sent Ashley text after text begging her to reconsider one of them read I am on my knees and face before God asking you
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to forgive me but Ashley was not in a forgiving mood she decided to call the authorities
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on Doug cops showed up at my house after she left my dad and he wasn't home I had
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to answer the door she got Child Protective Services involved from Florida I hadn't even seen
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her in months Ashley told police that Doug had anger issues and all about the day he fired his gun inside the
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house investigators interviewed Eva I was constantly having people come up to my door and questioning if my dad was a
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good dad and it just made me so angry because he was and I just kept having to repeat myself my dad is a good dad he's
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never done anything to hurt anyone he wouldn't hurt anyone Doug was investigated by CPS and ultimately
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cleared he'd been evaluated by a psychologist a full psych evaluation who said there's nothing wrong with this guy
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he's not dangerous Doug was struggling on another fraud overwhelmed by handling the ballet
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company by mid October we were notified that Ashley was stepping down did she jump or was she pushed
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pushed why because there needed to be leadership and Ashley was not being a leader wise was in the room when Doug
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got a call from Ashley was more than a little upset the phone rang he picks it up and you hear Ashley screaming you
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took my ballet company away from me with Ashley gone Doug brought in new leaders who made drastic
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changes on October 23rd 2017 some of these dancers including am Mana were called into a meeting told to
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sign non-disclosure agreements and fired and Doug was of no help here no Doug was yeah nowhere to be found that
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day just like that half the company's dancers were gone two days later Ashley posted on the
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ballet's social media pages I am completely devastated by what has been done and the new leadership has
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destroyed all that we work so hard to build what happened to her it helped to know that someone was on our side there
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and that you know this was was never the intention it seemed like a beautiful idea had gone up in smoke within months
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the American national ballet was done Doug was out more than $100,000 his ballet nightmare was over
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but his friends say a new one was just beginning Ashley now had questions about Doug's first wife Eva's mother Renee and
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how she died Ashley texted Doug wait what did she die of again Doug told her that Renee had a 75%
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artery blockage Ashley I thought I have heard you say something about medications or
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something like bad drugs you know I've read the autopsy report it's clear died of a heart attack
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essentially it soon became clear why Ashley was so interested in how Renee died she told Doug's cousin Tommy she
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thought Doug had poisoned Renee even though Doug was out of town at the time what was your reaction you must have
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been like why it's out of left field I'm I'm really confused by that the local police say they closed the case in
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2016 after they got the coroner's report but Ashley talked to writer Alice Rob shared her theory about Renee and made
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another shocking allegation she said that you know as a dancer she'd always known her body well and that she really
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felt like she was even more nauseous than she would have expected as a pregnant woman and she said that she had
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been uh poisoned actually believed that Doug has been poisoning her while she was pregnant with their daughter they
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were both big tea fans and she hearkened back to the times that Doug was bringing
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her tea in bed because she didn't want to get out of bed Doug still hoping for a Reconciliation and having no idea
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about Ashley's suspicions sent her a birthday gift at the end of November 2017 he had purchased a lovely teapot
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and teacups and saucers and this specialty team that was supposed to be for pregnant women the gift fed Ashley's
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growing concerns about Doug she takes it to the police department as hazardous materials and claims that it's how he's
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poisoning her what do the police make of that they treated as hazardous materials
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that day they test it and prove it's not any poisonous materials Ashley also sent
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her hair to an independent lab for testing to determine if she'd been poisoned the report said her hair showed
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higher than normal levels of aluminum zinc and other metals but Doug's lawyer disputes those findings she had gotten
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plenty of lab work done because she was pregnant her medical records in South Carolina her Labs all came back
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normal 3 week weeks before her due date without Doug knowing Ashley checked herself into the hospital I don't think
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she was poisoned but that doesn't mean she doesn't think she was poisoned she was at Tampa General
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Hospital claiming the child had been exposed to heavy metals in utero because her husband had poisoned
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her Ashley also claimed without any proof that Doug was physically abusive and had held her prisoner back in
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Charleston she said he had been stalking her in Florida with no way to know if what
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Ashley told them was true the hospital took precautions for her safety and assigned her a new name
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Christina 3 Days Later doctors performed a C-section the baby girl was healthy but Ashley continued to worry
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her baby had been poisoned both Ashley and her daughter were here every single day receiving treatments
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do you think Ashley believed she was poisoned chat now with the 48 Hours team on Facebook
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[Music] andex the news that Ashley had given birth to a healthy baby girl in March
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2018 took more than a month to reach Doug says is his lawyer Stephanie Murphy the baby was born about 3 weeks early
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Doug had no idea baby Emerson did not have Doug's last name and Doug was not listed as the father on the original
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birth certificate no one was Ashley wanted to raise her daughter with her mother alone she didn't want to
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co-parent and she kept pursuing her accusation that Doug had killed Renee Eva says that at one point Ashley and
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her mother Al IA even pulled Eva aside and they suggest to you that your father had a part in your mother's death right
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what exactly did they say to you they said we're concerned about your safety your dad's a bad guy he does bad things
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I just told them to get away from me but mother and daughter did not go away months later Eva says they renewed
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their accusations and what did they say that time your dad poisoned and your mom
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how'd you react to that I said no we didn't I was there I found my mom and that caused a lot of emotional
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trauma my dad wouldn't do that he loved my mom I want to be clear about something was Doug ever charged with any
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crime no sir and none of the allegations were true Ashley did not respond to our
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request for an interview but she appeared convinced that she and her 3-month-old baby had been poisoned in
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her search for help Ashley signed them up for 26 consecutive days of treatment in this hyperbaric chamber it can detox
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the body of heavy metals and other toxins safety director Robert cedaro says Ashley and her daughter spent 40
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hours in this 12 person chamber that looks more nautical than medical we call them Dives because it's we're almost
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simulating diving like when the divers go out Ashley's daughter was the youngest patient ever treated here
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adults wear a plastic hood while inside the chamber but with a baby things got a
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bit tricky Ashley's daughter was really small you know at that time so we ended up taking this um ring and we put it
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around her waist it was like she was like a little ballerina and so her half of her body was actually inside of the
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hood in the summer of 2018 the poisoning allegations came to ahead when the Benfield squared off in a Bradenton
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Florida courtroom Doug wanted to see his daughter and Ashley was requesting an injunction to keep him far away an audio
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recording was made of the proceeding here Stephanie questions Ashley about the state of her pregnancy you also told
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Lakewood Ranch OBGYN that um the pregnancy had been uncomplicated correct is there a page you would like me to
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reference I'm just asking him is that what you told him I would wouldn't say it was uncomplicated my entire life has
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been complicated for about 2 years okay the OB wrote right in her report pregnancy has been uncomplicated was
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that inaccurate I'm not responsible for what the doctor or the nurse writes okay
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you have accused your husband of poisoning you yes it is heartbreaking that somebody you would trust would do
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something to you but the judge was not persuaded by two days of testimony and the lab test
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results Ashley had submitted there is not a single cintilla of credible evidence that Miss Benfield has ever
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been poisoned or suffered from any illness of any poison that ruling cleared the way for
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Doug to finally see his daughter days later he and Ashley met outside the Sheriff's Office to exchange the baby to
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Stephanie's Surprise Ashley was was suddenly very accommodating she then immediately went right up to Doug handed
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the baby over nice as she could be very cordial she even suggested that the three of them Doug Ashley and the baby
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spend time together and Doug said okay sure because Doug wanted to make the transition as easy for his daughter as
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possible because to her he was a stranger and I talked to Doug I said okay it's fine of course please be be
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careful for the better part of the next year Doug Ashley and their daughters seemed happy at least according to Doug
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Doug even moved to a nearby apartment in Florida Doug thought they were back together that they were doing what they
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were supposed to do in the beginning which was to slowly get to know each other um be a family I thought
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everything was going to be okay but in August 2019 when he met Ashley to pick up his daughter Doug was stunned to see
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what he thought was an engagement ring on Ashley's finger Doug hired a private investigator to find out what was going
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on the private eye told Doug that Ashley was seeing another man and in November 2019 Doug filed for divorce soon after
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Ashley began lodging complaints against Doug Ashley accused Doug of sexually abusing his daughter she accused him of
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a whole Litany of things byebye byebye Doug vehemently denied harming his daughter and authorities agreed there
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was no evidence Doug then wrote an email in March of 2020 to the Sheriff's Office
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accusing Ashley of having a split personality but a few months later Doug did something that seemed
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Unthinkable in a head spinning move he announced that he and Ashley were going to try again to be a family and we're
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relocating to Maryland Tommy I know we keep circling back to the same question and I'm sorry it's just any viewer of
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this hour is going to also be asking what did Doug need to see before he would say time out we're done he is
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still believing he can rescue and save and have a marriage a loving marriage after somebody says you're
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sexually abusing your daughter don't you cut and run don't you say I tried right I'm out
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right yes most people do but not do she's still presenting to him and to others that they're going to put all
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this back together again friends held their breath but hoped for Doug's sake that a miracle
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reunion was about to happen trip says he knew better than to even try to talk Doug out of reconciling with with Ashley
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there is nothing I can say that could possibly turn him around on this he's going to do this if it kills
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[Music] him go inside the couple's short but troubled relationship at 48 hours.com he said that their
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relationship was going really well and he was just excited for a fresh start on September 27th 2020 Doug Benfield Was
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preparing to begin his new life he was moving with Ashley their young daughter and Ashley's mother Alisha from Florida
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to Maryland so it's Sunday night and Doug is over at Ashley and Alicia's House and Doug is filling up the U-Haul
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Alicia decided to take the baby for a walk down to the neighborhood park Ashley stayed behind with Doug soon
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after a neighbor heard screams and called 911 I heard some somebody screaming outside then Ashley walked to a
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different neighbor's house carrying her 45 caliber handgun she walks next door gun and hand tells the neighbor I shot
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Doug in self-defense the neighbor calls 911 it's right next door to me she just came over
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her strange husband attacked her and she says she shot him Ashley can be heard sobbing in the background when the
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ambulance arrived Doug was still breathing police and EMTs assisted Doug who had been shot twice in his right leg
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and arm police noted that the bullet from his arm traveled into his chest cavity Doug lived for an hour but died
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at nearby Doctor's Hospital Ashley was not arrested that night as as detectives began investigating her claim of
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self-defense but they'd have to do it without her she didn't speak to detectives at all but Ashley's mother
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Alicia told the detective that she and her daughter were victims of domestic abuse and had been living in fear of
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Doug for three and A2 years she claimed that they tried to get help but nobody would help them and Ashley's lawyer
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Faith Brown told a detective that Ashley was creating an Escape Plan to get away from Doug once and for all
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brown told the detective Ashley was in danger has a psychologist two attorneys and a burner phone Ashley also had a
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safe location and a rental car set up Ashley was expected to implement the plan the very next day because as
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Ashley's lawyer told the detective she was very concerned Doug was getting wind of the
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plan but as detectives investigated Ashley's claim of self-defense became problematic a detective noted that Doug
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had no guns or weapons on his person or near him she shot an unarmed man in the days and weeks after the shooting Ashley
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did not reveal what happened in that moment in November of 2020 Ashley Benefield was charged with second degree
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murder the the arrest warrant noted it appears that Ashley had exhausted all legal means of keeping the child away
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from Douglas before the shooting she's pled not guilty I don't know what Ashley believed
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writer Alice Rob says it's difficult to know if Ashley was a victim or a master manipulator was she genuinely afraid and
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just trying to protect her baby and save herself or was she trying to get Doug out of her life just out of spite just
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cuz she hated him I feel like she part of her wanted to believe that my dad was a good guy
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but then there was also a part of her that was scared of him and I think that that part took over why was she scared
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of him I think all the allegations she made just she started to believe them a little too much Ashley's mother
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mother Alisha buers was granted custody of her grandchild while awaiting trial Ashley was free on Bond and saw her
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daughter frequently do you ever think about her Ashley all the time what do you think I just want to know why would
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she take away my father my best friend knowing that I don't have another parent I knew something was wrong one day when
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he didn't send me a good morning text um and then a couple hours later I got a call that she that she she had shot and
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killed him over the past year Eva has been exploring her feelings on Tik Tock using her unique sense of humor to
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soothe her pain she posed frequently under the name Eva the freaking Diva where she jokes that her brand is the
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girl with the dead parents this isn't the Chum Bucket I use dark humor I I just I don't
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know I guess it's the way my brain's wired but I'd rather not sit in silk I'd rather just make light of a
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situation these days Eva cherishes her time with Sully the dog who once belonged to her
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father and she and Tommy still go to the beach at Sullivan's Island where her father's ashes were
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scattered when we stand out here now all these months later any peace I don't think I'm going to get
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peace until after the trial is over did you ever dream about your dad a few times what happens in the
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dream we're in this big house and he enters the room through the a door and he says I've been in hiding and I need
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you to help me and then I run with him and there's a tunnel and then I wake [Music]
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up coming up next guess what I know everybody's been waiting for the day next week is her first in-person hearing
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which means I'm going to see her in person for the first time since she killed my dad a daughter comes face to
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face with her father's accused killer learning disturbing new details it's been difficult for me
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hearing about it over again and over again and over again it's just it's a lot they made this all about Doug they
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cast Doug in the worst possible light for the first time Ashley Benfield takes the stand claiming Doug tried to poison
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her with a gift when I opened it there was an overwhelming strong chemical smell and I got like an instant headache
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she says Doug was abusive he come at me like he was going to hit me he threw a chair at me then in tears Ashley's story
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of what she says happened that night that you're done I was scared to death she's the kind of person who
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eventually believes her own lies but just because someone believes what they're saying
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doesn't make it true I start pulling the trigger and it just kept coming that's next on 48
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Hours don't miss True Crime any anytime you want anywhere you go with the 48 Hours podcast real crimes real lives
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like a John Grisham novel come to life real Justice there's some questions that have to be asked and need to be answered
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