Defendant in Ashley Benefield's ‘Black Swan’ murder trial speaks

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.

She's not innocent

He punched the dog and shot his gun inside the house. He was violent and abusive. Let that woman go back to her child!

She acted like she was crying but I didn't see any tears.

It's super easy to say "you should 've ,could've, I would've" the people testifying on the abusive dude's behalf did not live with them during this. Narcissistic guys are great at masking then ripping it off at home to the people they want to control.

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.

Anyone who punches a dog should go to jail. He doesn’t sound like a nice man.

Women !!! Walk away ,, If you are in an abusive relationship why the FUDGE you keep playing with the abuser !!!

An age gap of 30 years. Unbelievable.🤡 ☝️☝️

If this was a man he would be under the jail…..

"Dashing older man". LOL. Creepy is more like it.

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

The reason why people kill are always the same: revenge for what was once done to them in their childhood. This young woman used a child for this purpose, her own child. Now her child must suffer the same fate as she did without an emotionally available father. That compulsion to seek a new victim, Alice Miller wrote in her book Banished Knowledge, is ‘because she cannot feel her pain so she remains under the compulsion to seek out a new victim for her own suppressed, latent, and unaltered rage.’ And, Miller continued, ‘even the longest prison sentence does nothing to change this inner dynamic because the compulsion originates in childhood and can easily last sixty years or more if the murderer does not encounter someone who breathes life into her/his frozen emotions and thus helps at least partially to resolve the long-lasting compulsion. ’ This kind of interviews, news, media coverage of criminal cases keeps people ignorant and blind.

She could have just gone to a women’s shelter! Why was there a gun hanging around?

She has her 6 year old daughter out in front of the court. She cares about herself.

Is funny how she want to raise her daughter alone and decides to kill not thinking she can go to jail and not see her daughter grow. She is a person that does not speak looking to you and that says a lot about a person for exaple dont want people to read her face expressions

3 days and prosecution rests seems way to quick for a Murder Trial

The state did not prove anything!!!! He punched a dog and shot a gun in the house on two different occasions!!

13 days of knowing a person then getting married 😐 what could possibly go wrong 🫤🙄 clear case of lust not love

Doug was a typical psychopath: you made me do it! he punched the dog but 'it's her fault'!!