Last month, the tragic discovery of Charity Beallis and her six-year-old twins, found dead, left her surviving son haunted by their last text conversation.

In those messages, Charity spoke of dreams to relocate and start anew following her divorce from her abusive husband, a doctor. She also expressed a haunting fear that things might take a dark turn if he didn’t accept her decision.

At 40 years old, Charity, along with her youngest children, Maverick and Eliana, were found fatally shot inside their expansive $750,000 home in Bonanza, Arkansas, on December 3. This heartbreaking event occurred less than a day after she legally ended her marriage to 56-year-old Dr. Randall Beallis.

Randall Beallis had a history of violence, having been convicted the previous year for battery after admitting to strangling Charity in front of their children. Notably, his previous wife also died from a gunshot wound in 2012, a case ruled as suicide.

The authorities have yet to disclose the manner of Charity and her children’s deaths or confirm Beallis as a suspect. However, the series of search warrants executed in the wake of the incident indicates an intricate and ongoing investigation.

Charity’s only surviving son, John Powell, told the Daily Mail he believes his mother and siblings were murdered and that suspicion should be directed at his stepfather.

He said the final text message his mother sent him has fueled that belief – offering a stark reflection of the fear she was living with in the months before her sudden death.

‘She texted me in the summertime and was telling me she loved me and that she was going to make it through this and do the right thing,’ said Powell, 24.

In a new photo shared by her family, Charity Beallis is seen were her six-year-old twin children, Maverick and Eliana. All three were found shot to death on December 3

Their deaths came just 24 hours after Charity’s divorce from her husband, Dr. Randall Beallis, 56, was finalized in court

‘Then she told me she was going to need all the help she could get from everyone, because she knew it wasn’t going to end good if [Beallis] didn’t get what he wanted.’

Powell claims that in the months before her death, Charity confided numerous times that she was ‘terrified’ of her husband.

‘She was always worrying about something happening,’ he said. ‘She was fighting so hard to protect her kids.’

Court records show Charity had been seeking full custody of the twins and had obtained a protective order against Beallis, citing his history of abuse. 

The details of the custody ruling were not made public, but Beallis’s attorney told the Mail that she failed in that effort and that a judge awarded joint custody at the final hearing on December 2.

Police found Charity and the two children dead the following day. Each had suffered fatal gunshot wounds, though authorities have not disclosed further details and the circumstances of their deaths remain under investigation.

In her final texted exchange with Powell, Charity also voiced hope for a future away from Beallis, beyond the years of abuse her family claims she was forced to endure.

‘She was going to move somewhere else, get a good job and let the kids have a good life,’ Powell added. ‘Then she wanted to hopefully one day become a good grandmother and just enjoy the things that any normal family would want.’

Powell shared with the Daily Mail a series of never-before-seen photographs of Charity and the twins.

One undated image shows Maverick and Eliana smiling gleefully in front of a Christmas tree, visibly excited for a holiday season they would not live to see this year.

The Sebastian County Sheriff’s Office is leading the investigation into Charity and her children’s deaths, with assistance from numerous other law enforcement agencies, including the Arkansas State Police, the U.S. Secret Service and Homeland Security.

Officials have declined to say whether Beallis is considered a suspect and no arrests have been made. Beallis has denied any wrongdoing and is said to be cooperating with police.

The last statement issued by SCSO came on December 9, when officials said six search warrants had been served and a dozen more were in progress – a level of investigative activity that underscores the complexity of the case.

One undated image shows the children smiling gleefully in front of a Christmas tree, visibly excited for a holiday season they would not live to see this year

Charity’s family say she was a loving mother who was desperate to protect her children

Court records show Charity obtained a restraining order against Beallis in February 2025 after he attacked her at home. She filed for divorce the following month and Beallis later pleaded guilty to domestic battery, receiving a suspended sentence. 

Powell and Charity’s father, Randy Powell, have both said they do not believe Charity would have been capable of harming her children.

‘I can’t picture my mom shooting with a gun and killing my little brother and sister at six years old,’ said the younger Powell. ‘She was terrified, and she was hoping that she could get out of there safe and go on with her life to become the person she always wanted to be.’

Three days after they were found dead, a dumpster diver sifting through trash 15 miles away in Fort Smith found a garbage bag filled with Charity’s belongings and other intimate family keepsakes, including photos and a gold necklace engraved with the kids’ names.

It remains unclear how the items came to be discarded, but Powell said the discovery has only deepened his suspicions. 

Investigators with SCSO also called the discovery a ‘red flag’ but declined to elaborate further.

In a statement, Beallis’s attorney, Michael Pierce, told the Daily Mail his client is fully supportive of the sheriff’s office investigation and hopeful the ‘truth about what happened’ to Charity and the children will soon come to light.

Pierce denied any wrongdoing on his client’s behalf and said the shootings occurred two days before Charity was required to turn the children over to Beallis for court-ordered visitation.

Charity and the twins all suffered fatal gunshot wounds, though authorities have not disclosed further details and the circumstances remain under investigation

The horrifying discovery was made at the Beallis’ $750,000 home in Bonanza, Arkansas

Explaining the outcome of the custody hearing, Pierce said Beallis was awarded joint custody, with a favorable schedule that would have placed the children with him for two weeks at a time and with Charity for only one week.

‘She was ordered to provide them to Mr. Randall Beallis on Friday, December 5, 2025,’ said Pierce. ‘He is now heartbroken that the return of his children was taken away from him.’

As the investigation continues, Beallis’s past conduct and criminal history have also come under renewed scrutiny.

Beallis, a family practitioner licensed in Arkansas for nearly two decades, has faced multiple complaints involving his family, which were reviewed by the Arkansas State Medical Board, records first obtained by 5News show.

In January 2018, the board reprimanded Beallis for prescribing opioid medication to Charity following a surgery – conduct he later acknowledged was inappropriate. He faced no disciplinary action.

The board reviewed Beallis again in February 2021 following a dispute involving Charity’s son, John Powell, in which Beallis and Charity were accused of slashing the teenager’s truck tires with knives during an argument. Beallis later pleaded no contest to misdemeanor criminal mischief and received a suspended sentence. The medical board again took no action.

Beallis appeared before the board again in 2025 after Charity filed domestic abuse charges, claiming he attacked her in front of their children. In written responses, Beallis denied the allegations, saying the incident stemmed from a dispute over her phone and insisting he never choked or strangled her.

He later pleaded guilty to third-degree battery and was issued a suspended sentence. 

Charity’s son, John Powell (left, pictured with Charity’s dad, Randy) told the Daily Mail he believes the deaths were the result of foul play and that suspicion should be focused on Dr. Beallis

No disciplinary action had been taken against Beallis by the time Charity and the children were found dead. State records show his medical license remains active and is due to expire in February 2027.

Beallis’s attorney claimed that Charity made several false accusations against Beallis in the past, pointing to passages in a self-published memoir she released in 2019 as evidence.

In the book, Charity described a decade-old incident in which she acknowledged pulling a gun on her husband, later writing that she regretted portraying him as an abuser. 

‘The lie was that I had assaulted my husband with a firearm in self-defense,’ Charity wrote. ‘The truth is I did it because that’s what I had seen growing up as the best way to control people: fear.’

Her family has said the memoir recounts a period of trauma and does not diminish the abuse they say Charity later endured.

Family members of one of Beallis’s former wives have also raised questions about his past.

Beallis’s second wife, Shawna Beallis, was found dead from an apparent gunshot wound in 2012. Her death was ruled a suicide, a conclusion her family has long disputed.

Records show the case was briefly reopened in 2021 after additional information was raised with police, before being closed again due to limited evidence.

A relative of Shawna’s, who asked not to be named for their own safety, told the Daily Mail they see troubling parallels between her death and that of Charity and her children – a concern shared by Powell.

Charity was laid to rest by her family on December 29th.

Powell had hoped to lay his mom and siblings to rest together, but a judge ruled that the twins’ remains be released to Beallis, leaving his mother to be buried alone.

Powell called the decision the final, punishing blow to a family already winded by insurmountable grief.

‘It’s sickening,’ he said. ‘The worst part is, I don’t even know if the kids have been buried or cremated, or where they may be.

‘I don’t know anything at the moment, because [Randall] has told me nothing.’

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