20/20 Season 47 Episode 34

For the past four years, Ashley Benefield, who was arrested in 2020 on a murder charge connected to her husband’s death, has lived with the media moniker “Black Swan” – a label in stark contrast to the elegance of her former ballet career. Benefield, who admits she shot and killed her husband, denies prosecutors’ claims that she committed murder and says she was forced to defend herself due to his alleged abuse. The dramatic case has left two children — her own daughter and her late estranged husband's daughter — without their parents, a grim irony in a tale that intertwines ambition, love and violence.