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Serialously with Annie Elise

25: Former Model & Ballerina Turned Murderer?! | Ashley & Doug Benefield

Serialously with Annie Elise

Annie Elise & Audioboom Studios

Society & Culture, Daily News, Documentary, News, True Crime

4.710.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2023

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to this week’s episode of SERIALously! In this episode, we are talking about a story that dances on the edge of reality, where love entangles with fear, insane allegations, secret suspicions, and a SHOCKING turn of events. Ashley and Doug Benefield, once head over heels in love, combined Ashley’s passion and Doug’s business-savvy mind to create the perfect dance company. But instead, they found their lives spiraling into a whirlpool of mystery, allegations, heartbreak, and MURDER. But was this murder? Or was this a case of self-defense?

Your True Crime BFF,
Annie Elise 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey True Crime Besties, welcome back to an all new episode of Serialistly. Oh, Hey everybody welcome back to an all new episode of

0:29.3

serialously it's me Annie Elise your true crime BFF.

0:34.1

I think last episode we said we were just gonna drop Annie Elise

0:37.8

so that it was just gonna be Annie.

0:39.3

You can just call me Annie.

0:41.5

So it's me, Annie. I am back with a brand new crazy ass case for you. It is a wild one and it's actually one that I have seen quite a few people talking about but all of the videos I've watched and all of the articles I've read about and things like that

0:59.7

Not to say that the coverage hasn't been fantastic, it certainly has been, but there felt like there were just so many details missing.

1:09.0

And I was like, how is all of this fit into a 45 minute episode or things like that.

1:13.3

I'm like, there's no way it can.

1:14.7

So the case that we're going to be talking about today

1:16.8

is a case that has been labeled the Black Swan Murder,

1:20.5

which I'm just gonna kind of preface it and say sorry I'm getting

1:23.8

comfy here with you guys if you can see the video version I'm just like getting

1:26.4

comfy here on my chair with you. I wouldn't say that it is the Black Swan Murder. I've seen that movie. It doesn't really have any relation,

1:36.0

I guess because there's a ballerina involved. People are saying that, but I don't know. You know how the media likes to dramatize cases and name murders so that's what it is

1:47.9

Anyways the name stuck because one of the people involved was a ballerina like I mentioned and she has been

1:54.0

described as beautiful kind and a loving woman but some people believe that she

1:59.2

has a dark side saying that she is nothing more than an opportunistic, manipulative, and calculating lunatic.

2:07.0

Now I'm going to warn you, we are going to be here for a while today, and this case is crazy as fuck.

2:14.0

When I started researching it, I truly had no idea where it would go.

2:18.0

And as soon as I started reading through all of the court documents,

2:21.0

I instantly knew that you guys had to hear this story because it is one where

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