Editing Ghost Girl (section)

== Synopsis ==
Benefield was still a teenager when her mother died suddenly of a heart attack. Within a year, her father married a much younger woman he had known only a short time, and the couple went on to found a ballet company in Charleston that ultimately failed financially. Their relationship deteriorated into a bitter custody dispute over their young daughter before Benefield's father was fatally shot. The book follows Benefield through her father's death, her stepmother's murder trial, and her attempt to build an independent adult life while the case played out as a "true-crime spectacle" in tabloids and on television.