Charity Beallis, Bonanza, Arkansas woman & her two daughters found dead one day after divorce hearing from her soon to be ex husband, Dr Randall Beallis. A history of domestic violence. Police continue to investigate. No arrests.
An Arkansas woman and her two children were found shot dead on Wednesday, just one day after the woman and her soon to be ex husband having a final divorce hearing.
Charity Beallis, 40, and her two 6-year-old daughters were found shot to death at their home in Bonzana just on 9.30 a.m on December 3, following a call for welfare check. The deaths come after the mother and her ex, Dr Randall Beallis, 56, meeting at a courthouse to finalize their impending divorce.
The Sebastian County Sheriff’s Office in a press release stated officers arriving at the residence only for no one to answer when they knocked on the door. Two people who worked at the home let them inside where they found the bodies of the mother and the six year old twin girls.
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‘It was apparent that the three had gunshot wounds,’ cops said.
Autopsies will be conducted to determine the official causes of deaths for the three victims.
On Wednesday — the same day Charity Beallis and the twin six year olds were found dead — her husband’s lawyer filed a motion to dismiss the case.
Read a release from the husband’s lawyer, Michael D Pierce of Gean Law firm shared with 5 News: ‘Mr. Beallis has been cooperative with law enforcement and fully supports the Sebastian County Sheriff’s Office investigation. We hope that the sheriffs office finds the truth about what happened to Mrs Charity Beallis and their children.’
While authorities had yet to announce a suspect or make make an arrest, a previous domestic violence case involving the ex husband existed.
In February, Beallis’ husband, Randall Beallis was arrested in February for choking his wife in front of their children. He pleaded guilty to third-degree battery in October and received a one-year suspended sentence and was ordered to pay over $1,500 in fines, KFSM reported.
Charity Beallis filed for divorce in March along with an order of protection and used the incident as a reason for her to have sole custody of the couple’s two children. During Tuesday’s divorce hearing, the husband was granted equal custody of the couple’s kids, 5News reported.
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Posted the mother on Facebook in August: ‘I’m living this battle right now. I am the victim, yet I’ve been treated like the problem while the criminal — a local doctor — is being shielded by the very system that’s supposed to protect us.
I’ve tried to reach Prosecuting Attorney Daniel Shue, but he won’t even accept a letter from me. My voice, as the victim, has been shut out.
This is not just about me — this is about a system that protects offenders and rejects victims. Lives are at stake, including the lives of young children.’
Charity Beallis’ father said he believes her husband is responsible for her death.
‘There’s nobody else in the world that had any reason to harm her or those babies but him,’ said Randy Powell. ‘And that was only for the financial gain and the hatred he had.’
Arkansas State Senator Terry Rice told 5News that Charity came to him for help earlier this year, telling him she feared for her life and her children. Randy claims that Charity believed her ex-husband was going to kill her. He told KNWA that there was no one else that had any reason to harm Charity or her children.
Asked about the husband filing to dismiss the divorce case, Randy Powell suggested the soon to be ex husband did so ‘to get everything Charity would have gotten in the divorce.’
Anyone with information is asked to call the Sheriff’s Office at (479) 783-1051.
