Talking Dateline: Deadly Dance

Hey, Dateline fans. Here’s a special preview of the fifth episode of our new podcast series, Before & After with Lester Holt.In this episode, WNBA star Brittney Griner talks about her six-month detention in a Russian prison, the isolation of captivity, and the complicated experie ...  Show more

In New York State, tensions escalate on Cornell campus over allegations of sexual assault at the Chi Phi fraternity house in 2024. In Virginia, young nurse and mother Mamta Bhatt went missing two years ago. Her husband is now on trial for her alleged murder. In Ohio, former Ameri ...  Show more

Ashley Benefield is a former ballerina who has been accused of murdering her husband at home in September 2020, which she claims was in self-defense. Her past in ballet is what has been leading people to refer to this case as the “Black Swan Murder,” as it reminds them of the mov ...  Show more

In this episode of True Crime News The Sidebar Podcast: Andrea Burkhart joins host Joshua Ritter to break down the biggest cases making headlines across the nation. They discuss a former ballerina pleading self-defense in her husband’s death, a man convicted for the hatchet murde ...  Show more

Ballerina and aspiring model Ashley Benefield is standing trial for shooting her then-husband, Doug Benefield, to death.

The couple married just 13 days after meeting. They had a child, but their relationship was rocky, with frequent arguments reported between Ashley an ...

A former ballerina shoots her husband. Did she kill to save herself or was it out of spite? Jim Axelrod reports.