Black Swan Murder: A Selfish Motive?

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 8 August 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Ashley and Doug Benefield marry after knowing each other for 13 days. Doug's previous wife has only been dead 9-months and he has a 15-year-old daughter to raise. Ashley convinces Doug to finance her dream Ballet company and to get his vasectomy reversed. On this episode of Body Bags you will discover why a prosecutor said Ashley Benefield decided she wanted to be a single mom when she was pregnant, and Joseph Scott Morgan will explain how someone can be shot in the chest even when they are not facing the shooter!

Transcript Highlights
00:00:16.23 Introduction Discovery of the Black Swan
00:04:10.75 Discussion of Ashley Benefield the ballerina
00:08:42.29 Talk Doug and Ashley marry 13 days after they meet
00:14:29.79 Discussion of family dynamic
00:19:09.37 Discussion about why they married so fast
00:25:00.33 Discussion about Ballet company, Ashley pregnant
00:29:08.13 Talk Black Swan claims domestic abuse
00:34:24.42 Discussion of Ashley lying to Doug in therapy
00:40:22.90 Talk about Doug being shot in the chest and leg
00:44:33.51 Jury did not believe self-defense, Black Swan convicted

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0:00.0	Body Facts with Joseph Scott Moore.
0:06.0	Imagine if you will, you're an explorer, a Dutch explorer. And it's the late 1600s. You've made it all the way around the world, literally. And now you've found this
0:28.1	mysterious continent which the Netherlands or Holland has actually laid claim to or at least a portion of it.
0:36.7	The Western aspect of it called New Holland.
0:41.0	You're going down the coast and you decide to get off of your boat and as you step
0:47.1	on to the shore you see something that you've been told probably from most of your
0:51.6	life didn't exist because you come from Europe and in
0:55.6	Europe you have these big beautiful birds that are white that have these
1:00.7	incredible plumage.
1:03.0	But you look and there you see a bird that's
1:07.0	maybe the same species but much larger.
1:11.0	And the color is not white. It's black. It's at that moment in time that
1:19.1	this Dutch explorer discovered that Black Swans actually do in fact exist.
1:29.4	Today we're going to talk about a case involving someone that has been deemed by the media as
1:40.1	the Black Swan, a ballerino, an individual that is now a convicted murderer. I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is bodybacks.
1:59.0	Dave you've ever seen a swan before in person you know we see geese a lot you know and
2:10.0	I see all variety of ducks, that sort of thing.
2:13.0	But it's like when you see a swan,
2:15.0	there's a real elegance to it.
2:18.0	It looks different than every other animal,
2:20.0	and I'm sure that there are people out there
2:21.0	that are listening to me right now saying,
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