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A Florida manslaughter conviction that drew national attention closed with a 20-year prison sentence for former ballerina Ashley Benefield in 2024.
Now her stepdaughter, Eva Benefield, has written a first-person account of the years leading to the shooting, in a memoir titled "Ghost Girl: Surviving the Black Swan Murder," recounting how she grew to distrust her stepmother and why, when she learned her father had been shot, she says she knew immediately who had fired.
A marriage that moved fast Doug Benefield, 54 at the time of the wedding, married Ashley Byers just 13 days after meeting her, within a year of the death of his first wife Renee Benefield.
Eva was still in high school when her mother died of a heart condition.
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