Dubbed the ‘Black Swan’ case, a former ballerina falls in love with a man 30 years her senior, but when their love story spirals out of control one of them winds up dead. Andrea Canning reports.Andrea Canning and Blayne Alexander go behind the scenes of the making of this episode in ‘Talking Dateline’:Listen on Apple: https://apple.co/4g8azvJListen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3PBWoFd5lZN2pLjuSZsaz8
Chapter 1: What happened on the night of the shooting?
tonight on dateline he started coming towards me and then he lunged at me and i started pulling the trigger ashley ran to her neighbor hysterical she had shot her husband i guess he had attacked her and she shot him she's a beautiful ballerina she appears to be a great mom we wanted to find out what happened in that room
He's thrown furniture. He would push her into a wall. I really believed he was going to kill her.
Her clothing didn't appear to be stained or torn. She didn't look like she had any injuries.
So you're seeing this case shifting from self-defense to murder?
Yes, ma'am.
There were guns placed around this house. She ambushed him on that day in that room.
People are calling Ashley the Black Swan, this dark ballerina who is a cold-blooded killer.
There's just nothing about that that's true.
I was scared to death.
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Chapter 2: What evidence suggests self-defense in the case?
Two more on the way.
Did that surprise you?
Yeah, it did strike me as odd.
Three attorneys and a therapist. It was clear this was going to be an unusual investigation, especially after Deputy Warren started checking police records.
So we started looking into these things. I'm like, oh, that's kind of interesting.
Turns out there was a long and twisted history between Doug and Ashley. This reads like a Lifetime movie. You have allegations of poison tea, stalking, murder.
It goes on and on. Every time I thought, this is the craziest thing I've ever heard, then I would hear something else.
In fact, there was a tidal wave of accusations.
She was making some allegations at some point that Doug had possibly poisoned his deceased wife.
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