Defendant in Ashley Benefield's ‘Black Swan’ murder trial speaks
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- Was it murder or self-defense? Former ballerina Ashley Benefield stands accused of fatally shooting her estranged husband Doug in 2020.
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I don't understand how anyone can say that a man who admittedly punched a dog unconscious was not violent or abusive. Blows my mind! Animal abuse can also often be a sign of psychopathy.
He’s lost his wife not long before this gold digger came into his life. He was struggling mentally. This woman uses her daughter for her own benefit. Also a sign of psychopathy, not to mention she thinks the earth is flat.
Right, anyone who harms an animal is a terrible person, and I believe her. I believe he was abusive
@@GracefulGamakenhe was not struggling mentally ridiculous he was in lust
@@GracefulGamakenYeah, she's guilty because she believes the earth is flat
AGREED he was obsessed with her
13 days of knowing a person then getting married 😐 what could possibly go wrong 🫤🙄 clear case of lust not love
or diggin for gold
I have to give Doug grace on that very foolish decision because many older widowers in his shoes do the same thing he did. He was still grieving his wife and should not have made such a rash, foolish choice.
Moral of the story: Give a 30 year age gap a wide berth.
Not to mention they met at a trump rally ...😅nothing good can come from that
@@carriebrooks4174 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Having six year old girl protesting when her dad is deceased is crazy
That was an incredibly stupid stunt, manipulative even. He was her father, for God's sake.
beyond sick
That's not her daughter from what I was told
@@shaelovesJesus how does that make sense? they showed photos, it's her daughter. that was her mom/grandma
@@theowlgirl-c5n I saw that after I posted the comment.
She shouldn't have done this interview. If I was her lawyer I would have highly advised against it.
She doesn't listen to anyone that's why she is in this predicament
no this was good for her, he confirmed in text that he punched the dog? say less. id find her not guilty
@@limehouseblues same. Who punches a dog?? A dog??
@limehouse
So because he punched the dog, she is not guilty?
She invited him to the house.
If she felt threatened she vold have left the house, called 911, go to the neighbour to ask for help, go to the park 5 min away in public.
She went to her bedroom where she had 2 guns.
Shot at him while he was unarmed and didn't even touch her.
And this was self-defence because he punched a dog?
@@JunoBeachGirl_
In my opinion she sounded like a sniveling, entitled, selfish, terrible actress and a very bad liar. I'm not saying she's guilty, I'm just saying this interview did her no favors and in my circle of friends no one believes she's innocent of murder. Especially now.
Her voice is HORRIBLE.
I don’t think Doug deserved to die, but I think he had some serious issues himself.
He should’ve been there for his DAUGHTER. The emotional damage of dating a woman in her 20s while you have a teenage daughter would be monumental.
Two bad people found each other.
I agree, that voice is insufferable.
Also agree that her voice is the audio equivalent of a cheese rind being grated. Also agree that Doug was a lousy father when he married his young girlfriend behind his daughter’s back- and so soon after that daughter had discovered her mother, deceased. Above all, I agree that Ashley had planned to murder Doug and is lying about self defence.
His issues were her! He was an amazing father,husband, and family member until she came into his life! She made him crazy because he couldn't understand why she was doing so many awful things to him! And her playing victim! Her narcissistic behaviors would seriously drive anyone crazy! He was dead long before she pulled the trigger! He was dead the second she flipped the switch!
Think about what you just wrote. The man was not right in his head. He did not even grieve his first wife. He did horrible things to his first wife, and she died very mysteriously. Then add on what he did to the pets. No one should be scared of someone like that?
@@holliepotter7071 his ex wives would disagree with you
Her mother was not remotely credible on the stand. For them both to claim they never discussed Doug’s shooting is simply ridiculous.
According to Doug’s texts (on this show) he admitted to shooting the ceiling And punching the dog, blaming Ballerina for making him “mad”… that’s the first sign he is abusive.
Her attorney told her not to discuss the case with anyone
Have you ever been so traumatized, that to even think of it, sends you into a panic attack? There are things victims have been though, that they have never told anyone. I personally know.
@@shecat1964 that's why most people think george floyd may have deserved it, he has a very long history of DV against women
Not to mention..she moved in with her therapist
“Emerson has already been through a lot.” But you have her protesting for you with a sign & bullhorn?? A small child?? That’s totally wrong & sick. She’s not trying to protect her child, quite the opposite. I’m thoroughly disgusted by this liar.
Just listen to the judge's ruling from the 2018 custody hearing, where all the allegations of DV, poisoning, etc. are gone over... she basically calls Ashley the world's biggest liar.
She looks way older than 32
The devil comes in many forms
No
Stress will do that.
More like 62
Totally relevant to the case… 🙄
She doesn't come across as innocent.
He fired a gun in the house and insinuated she wasn't sympathetic or something (I shot the gun, how many times did I tell you I was having a nervous breakdown). He punched their dog and blamed her. (I punched the dog because you got me so mad). These messages admit to violence and demonstrate manipulative control.
I think she planned it after the judge ruled against her filings and she didn’t get the outcome she wanted
Abusers often come across better than victims of DV.
@@TalLeGal literally nobody is innocent to people with that outlook.
@@sooz5703 doesn't mean she was under any threat when she fired the gun.
She could have left him then and gone to a safe house.
She stuck around and shot him multiple times instead.
She's guilty as hell, and very disingenuous phoney! As a DV victim diagnosed with Battered Wife Syndrome.....and in my opinion. Killing even an alleged abuser, isn't something you justify so lightly.
He was stalking her
He has narcissistic behavior but you can’t kill someone for that. Just leave. You don’t have to kill someone.
MeToo! and i agree 100%. He tried to kill me twice during our 3 yr divorce/custody battle and I protested the corruption in fAMily Court$ but I kept our 15 year son out of my activism as he has to make his own choices when he becomes an adult ... moral of story? PETer with the $bag to pay JuDas$ JuDges$ and why only PETer pumpKIN EATer gets to WALK ON just-ice WATER ....
@@tyreseforren6721no he wasn't he hired a detective to find his daughter fgs
I just don’t get it if she was so terrified of him why was she willing to stay in the house with him alone? She sent her mom and her daughter off to the park so she could blow him away.Eva knew her better than her dad did
@@Piat65 she didn’t send them to the park was part of their daily routine
@@diannlimo4502that makes no sense. Wouldn’t it be more important to cancel park plans to stay with your daughter to keep her safe?
Perhaps she sent them off to keep the baby away from Doug? 🤔
Something is off about that woman. Her reactions look scripted and fake
Looks????
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Dx'd with histrionics, borderline personality disorder, schizophrenia
She's phony and fake!
The case is so open and shut it's not funny. The only reason she gets support is people think they are defending a dv victim. They follow the "believe women" philosophy even when they invite their abusers around and take them out.
Once she opened her mouth, she completely lost all credibility.
Agreed. Testifying was a huge mistake on her part IMO
Lol hardly.
So how do you explain away the corroborating evidence? Doug admitting to you most of the allegation she’s made? In writing and in deposition. I’m honestly curious because I can’t understand how people are getting here.
and if you believe in body language, her inability to make eye contact is telling
"Im really doing it for other people"
Wow, she's so fake and creepy.
Amber Heard
If her daughter has been through so much it's because you tried to keep her from her father and then you killed her father..Ashley took him out because the courts wouldn't remove him.
I don’t know anything about this case all I know for sure is this lady looks like a psychopath
I just don’t get it if she was so terrified of him why was she willing to stay in the house with him alone? She sent her mom and her daughter off to the park so she could blow him away.
Yep. Planned. Invite him over to help her pack.. Should have been a 1st degree charge too.
She provoked a mentally sick man.
One reason could be that when you are a DV victim, you go along to get along. That day was not premeditated on her part. He wasn't letting her go. He said your effin' done and advanced to disarm her. What if we were watching her murder trial? How different that would look... imo :)
Have you ever been in an abusive relationship? You do everything you can to not poke the bear and since no one was willing to help her, she chose to go along to get along. Its called fawning. They are not always scary, remember they can be charming, that why you fall so hard in the first place, sweet and loving, until a blink and you say the wrong thing.
I personally know what its like. You can be joking and laughing and having what you think is a good time, until one wrong word that sets them off. Then within second you go from laugh to screaming, as your arm is being twisted to near breaking until you are cowering on the floor below. What's even worse, is the nasty demeaning things they said that rips your heart out. The confusion you feel, because you believed this person loved you. They will take all those things you have let your guard down to tell them, your deepest regrets and fears and they will twist it all up, till you feel mentally and emotionally broken.
That’s how abuse works… did you really just ask why someone who was being abused didn’t just leave…? Seriously?? It’s not 1967…
She wasn’t scared of him or she wouldn’t have sent her mom away and met with him alone. The evidence and her history shows that she is and always has been a manipulative liar. Doug was obviously a toxic & abusive man, but he didn’t deserve to be shot in cold blood and his daughter is now an orphan.
HE was consistently abused by Ashley her lies, manipulating, deceit & she would relentlessly not leave him alone , & would bring him to his breaking point, I've been there!!!
@melissabenson6749 that's only speculation and Doug text messages don't look good he came off violent and possessive
@@tyreseforren6721 What text messages are you referring too?? She tried over n over to get Doug arrested on multiple different accusations that were investigated & they found zero evidence to back any of her claims! They were set to have another hearing on custody in 3 days, where most believe the Judge who was disgusted by Ashley's lies & manipulating, was about to award Doug custody {they also both had psychological testing & it wasn't good for Ashley} however she murdered him before that happened!
You can see her smirk for a millisecond when asked about being called black swan.
Dupers delight???
I noticed that too
This was a very stupid decision on Ashley's part to do this interview. It's obvious she is a manipulative liar. Doug was not perfect by a long shot, but Ashley is definitely the monster in this case, and I am praying the jury makes the correct decision. Ashley was not abused. Ashley was the abuser.
Ageee
Stop being a hater!
@@barbaramorgan5992 Why don't you go to Jail where Ashley is incarserated and YOU do the time instead of her, since you LOVE, LOVE and are LOVING person. The truth hurts?
Yep, she isn’t convincing in this interview nor on her testimony.
She has been found guilty.
Her demeanor doesn’t feel natural to me. I don’t know. Especially when several filings of domestic violence were rejected. And when wounds don’t look like self-defense. May justice be served.
Textbook borderline personality disorder/bpd. An emotional psychopath that always ruins their family/partner while playing the eternal victim for attention.
She should have been charged with FIRST degree murder because she planned and executed the brutal murder of a man she used and abused. Does everyone know that they proved on her computer that she researched this grieving widower before "happening to meet" him? She had set her sights alright..... She's a manipulative snake through and through.....
@@Truth17John17no evidence of planning has been admitted in court. no need to make things up.
How bout just the fact she can't seem to look anyone n the eye when speaking🤔 like even when she tries to glance up she immediately turns away or looks down
@@Truth17John17agreed! She planned the murder! She baited Doug to come over so she could “take matters into her own hands “ and murder him!
I really think both things could be true : that he was an abusive horrible person and that she purposely killed him. Those two ideas could co exist
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I think he has some issues, but she was out to take advantage of him and it was about the money. The guy gave her everything.
Way to victim blame. Good job.
@JMsweet_ I agree 💯 . She did lure him there to commit the act. She wanted to get rid of him and keep the child. Why call him if he's so ab@ $I've. That's why she got what she got. His other actions played in her favor. So she'll at least get 11.5 at most 25.
She must’ve been an even lousier ballerina than she is an actress
Agree with you 😄
Yeah, she's only a legend in her and her mother's minds.
Some of you are. Fukd hope you never be on a real trial.the guy was a sick fit.period.he was a freaking abuser
Self defense.she tried to get way from him ...a real sleeping with the enemy
Justice was not done .
I don't understand why she wasn't charged with first degree murder. She OBVIOUSLY planned this deliberate execution.
She was. The jury chose manslaughter.
@@lindasue263 One or more on thtat jury got it wrong.....
@@lindasue263 No, she was charged with second-degree, not first-degree.
@@loveforeignaccents No difference. Huge departure to manslaughter. It was murder & definitely planned.
@@loveforeignaccents I know, but if you look up the definition of first degree murder, that is what this was -- a planned, deliberate execution. They didn't charge her because they knew it would be hard to get a second degree murder conviction.
That they used the child in the street protest is a shockingly immoral low-class move.
Im ready for her to go too jail.
The crocodile tears is very telling. I do not believe anything she says when she can't even cry normally.
Because you're easily manipulated by the media. And you've probably never been in an abusive relationship. Or stalked. Or threatened or gaslit or controlled or poisoned.
Wow. You're really lucky.
@JulStar13 ya.... no tears no matter how much you try to make it happen means she's telling the truth.... Just like amber heard... just because the guy might have been abusive doesn't mean she didn't murder him
@@WatchTashialso I didn't watch any media coverage of this so don't try and use that excuse on me. Also it must be nice to never have been manipulated been a sociopathic woman. You're so lucky
@@WatchTashi not lucky, just not dumb enough to put myself in that situation by marrying someone 30 years my senior thinking I am going to have a sugar daddy!
I agree, she's guilty of murder. She fake & phony
Anyone who punches a dog should go to jail. He doesn’t sound like a nice man.
She said he did, so he must have done it?
@@Mr_Zodhe admitted it in a text but justified it because she was nagging him🤪
I agree!!!! That shows what his character was!
THIS IS SO SIMPLE - FOLLOW THE MONEY - HE THOUGHT HE'D GET RICH EXPLOITING HER & IT FAILED LOSING INSTEAD OF WINNING - HIS EGO COULD NOT STAND THE LOSS - EASY CHEESY - SELF-DEFENSE
She was afraid of him so she invites him over to help her move and then has two guns in the bedroom, cocked and loaded ready to go? Sure...ok....lol
Something in me was inclined to believe in the innocence of this woman, until I saw the vile way they have used the little girl who is not even 7 years old. What a shame, both for the mother and the grandmother. Instead of protecting the emotional and mental stability of the girl, they are exploiting her uncontrollably. That's abuse.
Seeing the baby girl out there made me so mad. Whew you don’t put a child in that situation. I’m sure she has cut off any visitation with the other side of the family which is horrible.
He punched a dog into unconsciousness and fired a gun into a ceiling. He sounds really crazy!
💯 & Why it’s being allowed and not stopped is ridiculous!! exploiting that child after she murdered her father is a crime in itself… that child should be removed from that grandmothers custody immediately.
@@raincheck01 that hasn’t been proven. It’s like Ashley can say whatever she wants witch shouldn’t be allowed. He was upset and pushed the dog away from his lap, but he didn’t punched the dog.
@@crystalluke7510 exactly what I thought. The girl should not be allowed to live with the grandmother.
He never hit her till 3 days before they were going to court and she was going to drop all the crap and move with him.... She's lying. And using her kid out there to hold signs for her is despicable. She has used that poor girl from day one
she killed the father of her child, period...her life was not in danger at that moment.
She loved him until she spent all his cash on her dance studio that was a joke. She wanted cash, a kid and some child support.
Watch out for those men that abuse with moving boxes😅
How would ever be able to say that?
@jmgood2870 - he was an extremely muscular man. He also was trained in hand to hand combat and jujitsu. Ashley’s 100 pounds, if that. He had the ability and more importantly, the violent temper, to kill get with his own hands. It’s also important to note - it was testified to by I believe Doug’s cousin and daughter that 98% of the time Doug was carrying a concealed hand gun. It was extremely rare for him to not have one on his person.
@jmgood2870 - he was an extremely muscular man. He also was trained in hand to hand combat and jujitsu. Ashley’s 100 pounds, if that. He had the ability and more importantly, the violent temper, to kill her with his own hands. It’s also important to note - it was testified to by I believe Doug’s cousin and daughter that 98% of the time Doug was carrying a concealed hand gun. It was extremely rare for him to not have one on his person.
The acting evident in this interview... channeling the voice of a six-year-old; slow blinking... deletes whatever credibility she might've otherwise achieved.
it might help if she wasnt trying to portray herself as this downtrodden, eyes downcast, grey hairs, dark circles under the eyes shell of a person if the photos of her and her daughter, between his death and her trial, didnt show her looking suntanned and bright. That shouldnt be what you judge people on. But if she is going to make that CLEAR of a performance, people are going to react to it as such. Theres no doubt the dude was way problematic, probably abusive at times. She could have gotten out of it and been in a quite comfortable position. But she didnt have enough on him to be able to control divorce and custody proceedings so she tried the performance of a life time. Shes just not as good at acting as she may have been at ballet. This is what an emotionally unevolved human THINKS is mimicking how a battered victim of a self defense charge would look and behave. They dont really get it and so the performance is always OFF. Ive never seen a young woman trying to show off some grey hairs and a lack of concealer more obviously.
I cannot say what she did, but I sense evil.
She had a vehicle, money, means and another boyfriend before she shot him. She was not isolated. No proof of that. Except here-say.
This man got married to another woman only 9 months after his wife died of a sudden heart attack. Hid his new marriage from his daughter, family and friends. He let the daughter know after the fact. The girl was still grieving and this man was already making moves to leave the state with his new wife…oh and his 15 year old daughter still lived with him by the way. He shot the ceiling, punched the wall on another occasion. He punched his dog until it passed out. What more do we need to hear? He was not only a danger to himself but also to all those around him.
I completely agree! I don't see why all the people in the comments think she is guilty.
But he was cute and said bruh alot. Perfect guy 👍
@@MsSista77she literally murdered him and previous judge found she manipulated and lied to try to get child custody.
What he did to the dog especially.
Anyone should be terrified of him.
I think they need to exhume his first wife's body and find out if she really did have a heart attack. Someone with a chronic or fragile heart condition? They're seen by a cardiologist on a VERY regular basis. They're TESTED on a very regular basis. They're given CTA's and/or angiograms on a VERY regular basis.
It would be a huge shock for that to happen to someone if she did, in fact, have such a serious heart condition because her cardiologist and other specialists would move heaven and earth to prevent that from happening.
Folks are so snowed by the media and the daughter's TikToks. She is a grown woman acting like a teenager. Abusers always keep one person on their side but I'd bet Doug also abused her, too.
10 seconds of vocal fry and I'm ready to convict
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This! :)
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It's so sad she has her daughter holding signs outside the court 😢
She’s a killer and should go to jail
Prison, not Jail
She’s totally playing the sympathy card and acting like the victim using fake tears and sniffles in court on the first day. The second day I hardly saw any sniffles or fake tears. She forgot to act that second day. She is manipulative and got Doug to do pretty much anything she wanted him to do for her, like marrying her so quickly, starting the ballet school and then bailing on him once she got pregnant. She was more committed to her mother than she was her husband! She had a plan to move to Maryland with Emerson and her mother and used Doug to pack them and load the truck for them. She didn't want him to move with her, or to share Emerson with. She's devious!!
The kid should be taken away from the custody of the mother/grandmother because they’re obviously using that child for their own benefit! It’s not healthy for the child and if she would grow up in that kind of environment, we just need to wait for another 20 years and there would be another murder trial.
Couldn’t get away? He filed for divorce from her and she was living in Florida with her mother! She invited him to help her move. She had the gun, and he had never hit her prior to the incident. There’s no swelling on her face, she had zero injuries.
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Couldn’t she have shut herself in the bedroom instead of letting him follow her in the bedroom? And I still don’t understand how the bullets entered his leg from the back and not the front if he was in a crouching combat pose preparing to attack her. 😂
@@edrathephoenix agreed. I’m also wondering if she would have been able to grab a phone rather than the gun to call for help if she felt her life was in danger. It just doesn’t make any sense. When she was describing his arms kind of flailing around while he was crouched like a “ninja” I was like, dang, this woman is one of the worst liars I’ve ever seen. 🤦🏻♀️
@@edrathephoenixreal life isn't a scripted movie.
@@missmerbellamaybe try watching the trial, not sensationalized entertainment clips disguised as news?
She hooked up with this guy to get her ballet company idea off the ground. She needed his money. She's a "ballerina" who was going to teach and dance in her school.
The pregnancy was NOT a part of that plan. As soon as she got pregnant, she split and went to go live with mommy. Why? Who does that? She said, because she had morning sickness. You have leave your husband and the state because you have morning sickness??
This girl is mentally ill and I don't believe Doug abused her at all. Doug had issues, clearly, but he's being put on trial and can't defend himself. I think he was a fool to marry her. The age difference, length of time he knew her (13 days) and the amount of time since his wife's death (9 mos). It's all just so ridiculous.
She needs to go to jail and be held accountable for once in her life.
‘Gone Girl’ vibes.
Lol
Mean girl vibes.
She's not a good liar she shouldn't have testified
She's guilty as sin
Makes no sense. She knew he was coming to help her move but she ended up killing him?
Poor Emerson. AND Poor EVA
Oh please you weren't abused you were spoilt rotten. You were with another man while still married & pretending to still love him.
Amber Heard vibes
Can someone, anyone explain how she was TRAPPED? She was away from him. She lived with her mom and had a boyfriend ffs
The only thing that matters is whether or not she was in IMMINENT threat of death or great bodily harm.
She stated she held him at gunpoint, then fired 4 shots from a distance of more than three feet and all of the bullets entered from the side and back, which means he was NOT coming toward her and was likely in the process of turning to get away when she started shooting.
No matter what happened before, that’s not self defense, it’s murder.
Thank you! The number of people that think you have the right to murder someone because of what they did in the past is disturbing. She doesn’t even qualify for battered wife syndrome because they weren’t living together and he had never been physically violent with her in the past. 🤦🏻♀️
I believe he was emotionally verbal abusive and that day she was afraid for her life bcus he’d already punched the dog snd wouldn’t let her leave. She knew how visitions he could get. Scary.
@@missmerbelladoor blocking or holding her against her will is considered physical abuse, and poisoning her is physical abuse. If he was preventing her from leaving, she was still in danger.
@@jturtle5318 there was no evidence he was poisoning her. In fact, a judge said Ashley didn’t have “one scintilla” of credibility. It’s only Ashley’s testimony that he was blocking doorways/holding her against her will. She didn’t have any injuries, nor had she told anyone he had been physically abusive in the past so the only thing she has left to further her claims of abuse is he blocked doorways/body checked her.
@@missmerbellait’s getting ridiculous what people are being allowed to get away with without having to provide any proof at all. When someone else’s life and freedom is on the line simply accepting someone’s accusation at face value without vetting it first is a violation of basic human and civil rights IMO. I’m just speaking generally and not about this case in particular because I’m not fully informed of all the details of the case yet
Oh we know you. We know you from your texts, your counseling sessions, your weaponising family services. We’re not buying the act. I think the jury will see right through you too.
Doug came across as the bad person in those text messages 🙄
She is guilty. She just didn't want that man in the child's life
I can't believe how fake this woman is
How is she trapped when she even moved to Florida and was with her mother. How is she trapped? I wanna know she said oh all these domestic violence people understand what I was going through. No they don’t. They don’t have a way out like she did, they didn’t have the finances of a husband that paid for her Everything including her moved to Florida and he was given everything up to move there because that’s what she wanted then she decided to rid of him knowing he probably loves substantial amount of money to her and that child so that poor daughter of his no mother, and now this ballerinatook her father from her too
@@oneeyeopen5044 exactly! She's manipulative
She is so shallow and insincere.
And also Doug had filed for divorce and she was seeing someone new. She wasn’t “trapped” and doesn’t qualify for battered wife syndrome. She’s a liar and a murderer.
@@missmerbella exactly! She's lying and knows exactly what she's doing.
Great acting. Hair down so that the jurors will not have a clear view of fake tears. Amazing that a man who was previously married for more than 10 years, has never had any psychotic situations with his late wife or any of his friends. She is a cold blooded murderer.
We don't know that theirs evidence that their possibly was
An age gap of 30 years. Unbelievable.🤡
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Money
Particle: SO WHAT
A young healthy woman marrying a man 30 years her senior obviously has no plans to spend the rest of her life with him.
She destroyed that man. Literally
He admitted to punching a defenseless dog, shooting a gun & having a nervous breakdown.
He welcomed it into his life forsaking his daughter because she was young and hot.
I’ve literally listened to this whole trial and the only thing I’ve gotten is she thinks she’s smarter than everyone else and she was loosing control over the situation and killed Doug because he was winning a custody battle that she didn’t want him to win she was a control freak and it was coming to a end!
Yes. She stated while she was on the stand that she feared for her life, because he told her that she was dumb.Arguing and having a disagreement is not an excuse to kill your partner or a threat for your life.
Seriously?!? That’s what you’ve gotten after listening to her testimony?? You need to research domestic abuse.
Nope.. I don't think that AT ALL!!
@@CupcakeLady15 We both know what domestic abuse is uhhh...miss cupcake lady. I am a victim of it myself. All I can say is that there is no excuse to kill your partner, because you are having a disagreement. That is not domestic abuse. There are so many fake people out there who are after money and fame. If she was smart she wouldn't have rushed into marriage too soon.
@@allygirls1. She is cunning.
I don't understand why, if she was so afraid of Doug, she asked him to come and help her move??? Leaving an abusive relationship is the MOST DANGEROUS time!! AND she sent her mother and daughter off to the park, leaving her ALONE with him??!!!! She had a boyfriend/fiancee at the time, why not have him help her move?? It doesn't make sense
Because she’s lying and she planned to kill him. All of her things were packed except three loaded guns? Give me a break.
I was in an abusive relationship eons ago. At the time it felt safer to know where he was. I have heard psychologists say most women feel the same.
It was scarier not knowing what he was doing.
@@triggabun yeah but she didn’t even live with the guy in this case. She was living with her mother. Why would she invite him over and then send her mother away if she was afraid of him?
@@missmerbella You worry that the will hurt them. They often make those threats as well. You will never understand until you experience it.
I know some women indeed do murder but even I never encountered someone who punched a dog unconscious. I will just say to you thank your lucky stars that you can ask all these questions.
The fact that he admitted to hurting the dog says all I need to know about him. I was never in such an extreme situation and I had to flee the country to get away. There was no other way.
It was him or her but I can't convince you. I just hope she will be able to pick up the pieces as best as she can no matter the outcome. She is already scarred and has a long way to go
@@triggabun it’s wrong to assume I have no experience with DV. I do. Her behavior still does not make sense to me. Even if she was a victim of DV that doesn’t give her the right to murder Doug. She didn’t qualify for stand your ground and she doesn’t qualify for BWS because she wasn’t living with him and he had zero history of hitting her. You can’t murder someone for hitting a dog. 🤦🏻♀️
This cold blooded killer is a monster 👿
Omg I cannot believe she has her little girl out there! 😢
Hey Alicia… You shouldn’t have your granddaughter out protesting about stuff she doesn’t understand her mother is a murderer
She 100% did it. I have zero doubt
She said she did it lol.
It's not about who did it lol it's whether or not she did it in self defense. Did you even watch? Lol
THIS IS SO SIMPLE - FOLLOW THE MONEY - HE THOUGHT HE'D GET RICH EXPLOITING HER & IT FAILED LOSING INSTEAD OF WINNING - HIS EGO COULD NOT STAND THE LOSS - EASY CHEESY - SELF-DEFENSE
Yes. That’s not what the trial is about.
He hit the dog. She tried to escape but he wouldn’t let her.
Sooo... The man admitted to shooting the ceiling in a rage, punching the dog because she made him mad ... And people are saying that he didn't abuse her? He obviously was abusive and completely whacked out on an anger problem. I think it's safe to say that it is at least very plausible that she had to defend herself from him at some point and maybe that meant he ended up dead so.... I just wouldn't be able to lock her up forever if I was on that jury.
ok and you are saying that ashley isnt an abuser, when right now she is abusing her child as a pawn, pushing the child in the street to protest to set her free . Most non abusive mothers would think of the childs mental health and well being, but as always it is always about ashley and what she wants. The same way she got pissed of at Eva for putting a rose from her mothers grave into the box and ashley raging at doug for hours on end how Eva didnt respect her even though Eva just lost her mother a year earlier.
The same way that ashley put her child through the system with false child abuse claims and false sexual abuse claims.
Ashley manipulated doug keeping him on a leash while living at her mothers house and stringing him along while dating another man behind his back.
The same way ashley got upset in the court when the prosecutor caught her in her lies, immediatly ashley starts fake crying , which is i am sure is how ashley behaved 24/7 around doug when ashley never got her way, like a toddler.
To me it seems like ashley had the anger issues because when she dosent get her way she is able to yell at doug in the car for hours while there is a gun in the car. It shows that she is the one who has full control of the relationship especially when she used doug to have a child, so she could use her child as a punishment tool when she didnt get what she wants and what ashley wanted is dougs money.
He left her alone for three years after she said she wanted to go home to mommy! After she got pregnant after she left him after she left him with $100,000 debt and investors, wanting their money back and dancers who flew over to work at the ballet studio that she never followed through one after she didn’t let him see his daughter after she didn’t let him see his daughter be born or tell himshe was born! After all that he left her alone for three whole years didn’t bother her didn’t call her didn’t come over didn’t do anything to bother her didn’t threaten her wasn’t violent just that night just that particular day I don’t think so
3 days and prosecution rests seems way to quick for a Murder Trial
I am extremely concerned about this. Where was the due diligence? So help me, if this evil monster gets off, it is the fault of the prosecution! I was in shock when the said no further witnesses. Where were any character references for Doug?
She's such a full blown narcissist!!!!
Her word against a dead man’s. The kids always pay the price for the poor choices their parents make..Makes me sick. And society wonders why it’s the way it is
She is a monster she killed a person.
If this was a man he would be under the jail…..
True but to be fair the physical dynamic between an average man and an average woman is skewed in the man’s direction with regards to physical strength.
It would be a lot harder for a man to convince a jury that his wife wouldn’t let him leave the bedroom and that he was forced to shoot her multiple times until she was dead than it would be for a woman to convince a jury of the same regarding her husband.
She is getting the benefit of the doubt but there is too much pointing to there being something nefarious about her motives and I think the jury is going to see through her attempt to deceive them IMO
how is she giving an interview while a trial is pending?
Is she attempting to have a MISTRIAL??? 🤔
Listen to the interview.. that was before the trial start 🤦
@@snobbybeauty2210 that's not much better
She was never .abused. She lied. She wanted to be a single parent. That’s it.
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He beat the dog... he had patterns of an abuser for sure.
This story is on 48 hours. It's very interesting. The way he died was terrible.
Are you the gifted, all-knowing judge who was there and witnessed everything?
You think him beating a dog unconscious and shooting guns inside the home isn’t abusive?
ABC didn’t want to mention that Ashley moved in with this same psychologist, super professional btw.
This is the same mother using her 6 year old daughter as a pawn outside the courthouse.
which Dr ? The one with the glassess and grey curley hair quintel ?
@@JK-jj9kono, a woman psych who I believe testified the 1st day, maybe 2nd. I thought it was unprofessional as well. Strange behavior.
I saw this too in a court appearance the therapist, Dr. Russell, appeared in having to do with whether or not they still had a therapeutic relationship. She stated that AB lived with her for 9 mos. starting in the middle of Oct. 2020. She said something about AB not having a place to live. What???? Where was the mother and the daughter??? That wasn't even mentioned.
thats what i noticed most --- imo that is seriously whack/ shouldnt drag a child into this omG
Bob is now Barbara the therapist and Ashley's daughter is his/hers. Ashley had a s*xual relationship with Bob now Barbara.
"Dashing older man". LOL. Creepy is more like it.
right!? I heard that too and was like wtf kinda spin is that?
He wore eyeliner! At his age!!!! His first wife addressed the issue. Might be acceptable for a drag queen or a rock star, but come on!!! He also obviously had work done.
Public Service Announcement for deciding not to get married after 13 days. One person could end up being an animal abuser, while the other is a vapid bad acting and manipulative narcissist with an itchy trigger finger.
Making him sound like “just” an animal abuser is wild. Clearly more than that, he’s a psychopath
@@breeny09 And clearly he’s dead because she killed him.
I’m on the fence in this case… looks like alot of people are saying she’s guilty but from some of the evidence I’m not so sure. He hit his own dog??
This is a baffling case I need to dive further into clearly. It’s soooo divided!! I’d say it’s 50/50. He admitted to punching the dog unconscious, then blamed her!! The only thing I know for certain is they were both toxic. Anyone who harms children, the vulnerable, innocent animals are a special kind of evil imo!!
You need to WATCH … not just listen to … her testimony.
@@CupcakeLady15 I did. I’m not a psychologist or behavioral analyst. I know most on this thread are saying she’s guilty and faking her testimony when she took the stand. Who am I to make such a claim? She could be severely traumatized. I don’t know
@@rebeccaculver1008 I’m a DV survivor, having done lots of research; lots of therapy. My ex was an admitted misogynist. I believe her. Her testimony was very triggering for me.
@@CupcakeLady15 yeah, I hear you. People seem to be jumping straight to she’s faking her testimony. Odd reactions to me. And comparing this to amber heard is apples and oranges. Not even remotely the same.
I don’t believe her. I get Amber Heard vibes.
THIS IS SO SIMPLE - FOLLOW THE MONEY - HE THOUGHT HE'D GET RICH EXPLOITING HER & IT FAILED LOSING INSTEAD OF WINNING - HIS EGO COULD NOT STAND THE LOSS - EASY CHEESY - SELF-DEFENSE (you seem to be ignorant ALL AROUND - Depp admits he's a Monster - ignorance IGNORES TRUTH )
I get Johnny Depp vibes
She forgot she need tears when she cry. Also the emotional change under few seconds is insane
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She didn’t shed a tear the last three days
She was sobbing and shaking. Court watchers confirmed.
She was making herself shake and hyperventilate but she was just acting. There were no tears
@@LAFITZ10calm down. eat a cookie.
I was the victim of DV. My ex husband had an incredible talent to present himself as an angel of light, all gentle, naive, and well-meaning. NOTHING could be further from the truth. When I ran away, and pressed charges for DV, almost nobody believed me. He saw to it that I lose my job, the house, he even bribed the judge at the criminal court to give him a suspended sentence instead of sending him to jail (although he did confess to violence during the proceedings - go figure...) AND he bribed the family court judge to give him all our children a few weeks after he'd been convicted of DV and gross neglect of 4 young kids. I had no money and he had, that's it. I even went to the media and told my story only to finally get two kids back. He got other two and completely blocked me from seeing them as he left them with his mother to raise them. People who have never been a victim of a manipulative abuser just don't understand. I don't know whether Ashley did this on purpose or was trying to defend herself at that moment. What I do know though is it that commenting in a way that the denies or dismisses DV is extremely ignorant and offensive. A man who hides his marriage from his own child who needs him most after her mom died is a crafty narcissist. Capable of anything.
I will never judge this woman for shooting him. I’m glad she was brave enough to do it after what he put her through. His daughter is either just as narcissistic as him, a victim, or simply too naive to see her father for what he really is. Ashley is not a perfect victim, MOST DV VICTIMS ARE NOT PERFECT! I don’t like the way she handled a lot in this case, and her fake seeming tears in court really didn’t come off authentic. But I didn’t need to be swayed because whether she’s perfectly innocent or not, I see her as the victim of DV, and her and her child better off without him.
People who aren't abusive don't shoot guns in the house when they're having a breakdown or punch dogs.
He was stalking her to
I have 1 child a boy whos now 20... the relationship with his mom didnt work out and the hoops i had to jump through just to see my son when he was younger made me not want to have anymore children and dont get me started on marriage... i thank god i never got married and never will... to me marrige is just inviting the goverment into your life if things dont work out
Wtf does your btch fest have to do with the video? 😂
parental alienation
She shouldn't have done this interview her acting skills are horrible
Punching a dog!!! What did the dog do to you? You lost money in a bad investment! the dog has nothing to do with it!!
He didn't punch the dog
What was that text message?
something about him was also off you can see it in his eyes that he was troubled & deeply traumatized, a broken man on the inside without a doubt. It's likely he had anger issues. But that doesn't mean to take away anything from our infamous academy award winning actress. I cant overstate how impressed i am with all the diabolical, devious ways of this woman. I wonder how many small incidents she provoked to begin with, then exaggerated them to unimaginable heights, playing the victim role. think it is no coincidence she wanted every incident on the record, probably because she planned to murder him in 'self-defense' for months, maybe even years in advance?. Eventually she wanted everything that belonged to him.
Another Amber Heard!
Another Johnny Depp
@@James_Doyle83 but Johnny won his case!!!! 😉
The thing that made me think she did this purposely is when she testified to breaking down hysterically when the daughter put her mother’s things in the art she was given. They never should have married right after the mother passed away. That 15 year old needed her mother not some insecure unstable young 20 something year old stepmother. She should’ve known not to get involved with someone who just lost their wife and has children who are trying to cope with losing their mother!
This is going to be a guilty verdict and I feel so bad for the little girl in this situation she’s going to lose the most I really wish I could do something to help this baby just thinking my mother killed my father he’s dead and my mom is doing multiple years in prison it brings me to tears for this baby!
That little girl voice
How much you wanna bet she knows his phone passcode and just sent those messages to herself to deflect blame. She is such a liar.
I wouldnt doubt it. This lady is straight up psycho
She acted like she was crying but I didn't see any tears.
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@@tacocruiser4238 Witnesses said there were tears.
@@edu456 name the witnesses or GTFO.
@@tacocruiser4238he/she a troll she had Zero witnesses hence why she sent her mom and daughter to the park.
@@tacocruiser4238 A lady in the gallery did confirm tears and trembling. Watch today’s PM stream from Attorney Melanie Little.
Abusive, coniviving mother
He admits to shooting the gun and punching a dog but you all act like her fearing her life in the moment wasn't real. And this man is two faces, when he has a daughter saying he was great but the first wives texts show how he was abusive even on his honeymoon because he apparently couldn't get it up so he kicked his wife (the one who died) and he was financially abusing her too. It seems like he was normal, who marries a 24 year old at 54 and doesn't tell their child and does it within two weeks of meeting???
Maybe the ballerina isn't mentally well either but I have a lot of doubt about this being murder.
Any human that hurts an innocent animal is pure evil. This man was evil at his core. Even his previous wife had to endure his torture. I pray she is found innocent and can start to heal.
She's not a victim hopefully you will come out of that delusion to see that!!!
She’s not a perfect victim, but she doesn’t deserve to be found guilty. I also pray shes found innocent.
@@laurengoulding5458 I’ve watched the trial. I’ve seen all the evidence and listened to all the testimony. And I’m going by the facts. He punched and knocked out a dog. Threw cats down stairs. Shot a hole in the ceiling. Physically attack Ashley AND his ex wife. Bottom line… he was highly abusive and Ashley was the victim of his abuse. And in my opinion, she deserves to start to heal.
@@breeny09 well nobody perfect including victims
And again: crying with no tears. Just like on the witness stand!!!
He punched the dog and shot his gun inside the house. He was violent and abusive. Let that woman go back to her child!
I bet Eva would like to have her father. She was manipulative. She was going against Eva even reading her diary. She shouldn’t have married him. She knew she wasn’t all in
I'm an animal lover, but you can't murder someone for punching a dog.
@@missmerbella I didn’t say or imply that. We see his character. He wasn’t a nice guy. In self defense you absolutely can. He punched her in the head. Punched a hole through the wall. Shot the ceiling and stalked her. Wouldn’t you be concerned for your safety? Especially is everyone doubted you? That means, you’re on your own. Who knows how you would react in that situation.
@@vivianaBalbuena-Kuras-lt2pm according to Ashley herself, he didn’t punch her, he slapped her right before she shot him 4 times. Only evidence we have of that occurring is Ashley since he’s dead now. According to Ashley, he had never been physical with her prior to that. If you don’t find it odd that the only time he’s ever been physical with her was right before she shot him-even though this woman had taken his child from him and publicly accused him of sexually assaulting his infant child-I don’t know what to tell you. If someone took my child from me and told the authorities I was sexually assaulting my child I’d have a very hard time not punching them in the face myself. There’s zero evidence this woman shot him in self defense or that he was a serious threat to her life in that moment. Even if he did slap her, you can’t shoot someone for slapping you.
Yeah right. Isn’t is said that the dog was biting and scratching him and he flung it off his face ? So maybe as we know, things get twisted around to what they actually are. After watching the Karen read trial the media and CZcams seem to twist everything in favour of Karen. Both killers.
I just got an Amber Heard flashback!?
I got a jodi arias flashback
I just got Johnny Depp flashback
My son's father was abusive - to the point where he slammed me against the wall by grabbing my throat and lifting me up - and we weren't together when I gave birth, but I still didn't try to hide the birth of his child from him.
I don't buy what she's selling. There's no evidence for her claims, her story has changed, and the family court judge didn't buy it either.
THIS IS SO SIMPLE - FOLLOW THE MONEY- IT'S ABOUT MONEY HERE - HE THOUGHT HE'D GET RICH EXPLOITING HER & IT FAILED LOSING INSTEAD OF WINNING - HIS EGO COULD NOT STAND THE LOSS - EASY CHEESY - SELF-DEFENSE
I went back and looked at a lot of the underlying info in this, not only what is being shown in the trial. She comes across to me during the trial as this meek, scared little girl, but she does not appear that way during other court appearances. She would have appeared more credible to me if she had dropped that act and behaved a little more like a strong woman. This occurred 4 yrs ago which was ample time to work through some of these issues around the incident with some intense therapy which would have made her appear more stable. Her testimony on the stand looks like an act to me. IMO she has long standing mental health issues which she appears to remedy with projection, enmeshment, manipulation, deceit and the victim/predator role. She has admitted to having abandonment issues. I have never heard any mention of her father. And she's now using the daughter as a poster child outside the courthouse to fix her problems that occurred between her and the child's father. That's child abuse.
AB and Doug fit together like a lock and key that fed each other's illnesses. They met at some sort of club where a political function was going on where well known political figures appeared. IMO she was involved in this type of function which was attended by most-likely wealthy patrons because she was "looking" for the next available prospect.
She didn't need her mother to stay at the house with her the night of the incident because she was so afraid of Doug. After all she had 3 weapons and knew how to use them and take care of herself. Self-defense??? I don't see it. Look at the history. It's there.