A jury convicted Ashley McArthur in 2019 of the murder of her friend Taylor Wright. McArthur was sentenced to life in prison with a mandatory 25 years served. | Law&Crime

On September 8, 2017, 33‑year-old former officer and private investigator Taylor Wright met up with her friend Ashley McArthur. Taylor had handed Ashley a $34,000 check for safekeeping during a divorce — money that would later become the deadly motive. Ashley later told police the two went riding and Taylor left to grab a beer. But cell‑phone tower data didn’t match her story: it placed Ashley miles away, at a rural family‑owned farm in Cantonment, Florida. The very next day, surveillance footag