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when doug benefield's wife suddenly died in late 2015 he knew he had to do everything he could to comfort his 15
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year old daughter eva after my mom died he really took kind of a motherly role along with a
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fatherly role he made sure you know i could go to him with boy problems with school drama with
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anything and he would take care of it but instead evo was caught off guard nine months later when her dad told her
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he had just married a 24 year old swimsuit model who was 30 years younger evo was completely unaware of her
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father's wedding which came only 13 days after he met ashley at a dinner party in
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florida i was upstairs and he said eva we need to come down talk to me and ashley and i said the only thing
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that you would need to tell me about y'all's relationship is if y'all if you proposed
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and as soon as those words came out of my mouth he said we're married that's a lot it is a lot
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doug wanted ashley to be a motherly figure for his daughter but eva says she was skeptical of her new stepmother who
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was only 9 years older than her when doug and ashley also agreed to let eva's friend sydney move into their home in
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charleston eva says it changed the dynamics inside the home eva explained that life became even more
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chaotic when ashley became pregnant with doug's child how did that sit with you it didn't
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sit well at all so this kind of felt like another stab in the back there was a lot of stress because now they
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basically have two teenage daughters and a little girl on the way by august of 2017 ashley had
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moved back to florida to live with her mother citing a difficult pregnancy in september
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ashley returned to the benefield home to retrieve her belongings and to leave a note explaining that she wanted to end
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her marriage with doug [Music] i could see the look in his face when he read it i could just tell his heart was broken
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ashley accused doug of poisoning her and her unborn child and even questioned the
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death of doug's first wife ashley and her mother alicia pulled eva aside and told her that doug played a
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role in his first wife's death [Music] and what did they say that time your dad poisoned your mom
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how'd you react to that i said no he 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 doug was never charged with any crime
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related to the death of his first wife renee after ashley's claims she insisted on
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testing her hair but a judge ruled that there was no evidence that doug poisoned
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her in september 2020 the couple agreed to move to maryland together to raise their
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daughter every morning eva received a text message from her dad with a bible verse
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but on september 28 2020 when she received a text from her uncle instead she called him to see if everything was
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okay and i said what's wrong with my dad and he said there's been an accident and
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i said she killed him didn't she and he said yeah she shot him twice hang on those were the first words out
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of your mouth where was that coming from i just had a gut feeling eva was crushed
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by the news and struggled to reconcile with her loss i just want to know why would she take
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away my father my best friend knowing that i don't have another parent you