Anna Benson Murder Charge Revealed in Wake of Arrest, Did 'Baseball Wives' Star Get Away With Murder?
It was revealed that Anna Benson had been previously charged with murder in the death of an 18-year-old man in her Knoxville apartment back in 1996. The news comes in the wake of her most recent arrest for allegedly attacking her husband Kris Benson.
During that investigation authorities issued arrest warrants for Benson in the murder of Michael Evans, a college student who was getting ready to enlist in the Navy, along with Paul Dejongh, her boyfriend at the time.
However, the murder charges against the then-19-year-old Benson were dropped. The later accessory charges against Benson were also dismissed because of a lack of "sufficient proof," Knoxville County Deputy District Attorney Bill Crabtree told the Knoxville News-Sentinel.
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The former "Baseball Wives" was arrested after allegedly threatening her husband, former Mets pitcher Kris Benson, with a gun and metal baton.
Anna Benson allegedly entered Kris Benson's apartment and began threatening her ex-husband with a gun and asking him for money. The woman, wearing a bulletproof vest, was angry after receiving a court order that would require her to move out of the marital home that she once shared with Benson.
Anna Benson was also armed with an "expandable metal baton" while attempting to force Kris Benson into giving her money, law enforcement officials told TMZ. At some point in the altercation, Anna Benson also pulled out a gun, the report alleged.
Kris Benson responded to his estranged ex-wife by telling her that he would give her money and then exiting the house to call police.
Anna Benson was arrested and charged with "2 counts of felony aggravated assault with a weapon, 1 count of criminal trespass, and 1 count of possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime."
