Young wife married age-gap husband 13 days after meeting then shot him dead in cold blood After meeting at a political dinner in Florida in August 2016, Ashley Byers and Douglas Benefield married just 13 days later, with Ashley taking her husband’s surname.
Benefield and Doug married in a very small ceremony, followed by a party for friends and family, but their marriage was rocky from the start.
Doug’s first wife Renee had died nine months earlier from an undiagnosed heart condition which left him raising their 15-year-old daughter, Eva, alone.
That same year, Benefield got pregnant and told Doug the nausea was so bad she was going to stay with her mum to be looked after.
But a month later, in September 2017, Benefield returned with her mum when Doug was out and packed up her things.
