Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / MOM'S CHILLING POST BEFORE SHE & TWINS, 6, SHOT DEAD IN MANSION, BITTER DIVORCE
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, a beautiful young mom of
- 0:08Speaker 1: twins chilling post just before she and her two little twins,
- 0:13Speaker 1: aged six years old, are shot dead in the family mansion,
- 0:18Speaker 1: this amidst a bitter, acrimonious, poisonous divorce.
- 0:23Speaker 2: I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories.
- 0:25Speaker 3: I want to thank you for being with us.
- 0:27Speaker 4: Charity bialis, a dedicated mother of three, is determined to
- 0:30Speaker 4: rebuild her life after divorce and protect her children. What
- 0:34Speaker 4: she doesn't know is that the nightmare she's been trying
- 0:36Speaker 4: to escape is only just beginning.
- 0:40Speaker 5: Before I go into the facts of how Charity, a
- 0:43Speaker 5: licensed practical nurse with her own practice.
- 0:46Speaker 2: Was found dead, shot twice.
- 0:49Speaker 5: And from what I can tell, and I've been on
- 0:51Speaker 5: plenty of homicide cases, this is not a suicide murder.
- 0:56Speaker 2: She is shot twice.
- 0:57Speaker 5: We've been told, in the chest and the head. That
- 1:00Speaker 5: was not a suicide.
- 1:02Speaker 2: But get this.
- 1:03Speaker 5: Her two little twin children six years old, also dead
- 1:10Speaker 5: from gunshot wounds. That is the golden ticket. Right there.
- 1:17Speaker 5: A boy and a girl, twins, three of them gunned
- 1:23Speaker 5: down in their own home. There's another child. There's another child.
- 1:32Speaker 5: His name is John Powell. He is Charity's oldest son,
- 1:38Speaker 5: and joining us tonight two very special guests, her son
- 1:43Speaker 5: John Powell, who is fighting for her in court as
- 1:47Speaker 5: we go to air tonight, and whom many people consider
- 1:50Speaker 5: to be Charity's soulmate, her father joining us, Randy Powell. Gentlemen,
- 1:59Speaker 5: thank you for being with us tonight, and thank.
- 2:02Speaker 6: You thanks for having us. It really means a lot.
- 2:06Speaker 5: To both of you, our deep, deep sympathies, and I
- 2:12Speaker 5: know we can't make you feel any better, but at
- 2:17Speaker 5: some point, please know there are thousands and thousands of
- 2:21Speaker 5: people out there that are praying for you and your
- 2:25Speaker 5: pain that you're going through. Matte John, when did you
- 2:30Speaker 5: learn and how did you learn your mother, Charity had
- 2:34Speaker 5: been killed?
- 2:39Speaker 7: I went to work, just a normal day, and before
- 2:44Speaker 7: I got out of work, I was getting text through
- 2:48Speaker 7: Facebook and text message that something bad had happened, and
- 2:52Speaker 7: nobody would tell me.
- 2:53Speaker 6: Really what it was, but something bad had happened.
- 2:56Speaker 8: And when I got home i left work, my grandfather
- 3:03Speaker 8: told me that people was already telling him through Facebook
- 3:05Speaker 8: and things that my mother and baby brother and sister
- 3:10Speaker 8: had been killed.
- 3:12Speaker 5: So you find out through basically digital media and then
- 3:17Speaker 5: start getting out of these calls. When did law enforcement
- 3:21Speaker 5: come and tell you?
- 3:23Speaker 6: They didn't? They never did.
- 3:25Speaker 9: We had to contact them and wait for a call
- 3:28Speaker 9: back from them. I had to reach out to a
- 3:31Speaker 9: man I went to school with that the sheriff in
- 3:33Speaker 9: a different county, and he got in touch with the corner,
- 3:37Speaker 9: and the corner told him.
- 3:38Speaker 10: It was okay to confirmed to me that they were
- 3:40Speaker 10: all dead. And then my daughter was shot twice and
- 3:43Speaker 10: the babies were shot through the chest, and.
- 3:46Speaker 5: That's how we found out, okay, I just got to
- 3:49Speaker 5: cut the chase. The husband, the doctor, how was he
- 3:56Speaker 5: regarded in the community. I don't understand why law enforcement
- 4:01Speaker 5: wouldn't come and tell you what happened.
- 4:04Speaker 10: Well, he had millions of dollars that he had soon
- 4:08Speaker 10: as she followed a divorce and handed it out to
- 4:10Speaker 10: anybody that would receptive of it. And I can't answer
- 4:15Speaker 10: that question to one. They wouldn't come and tell me.
- 4:17Speaker 10: They told me that they didn't have time, and that
- 4:20Speaker 10: they didn't know how to get in touch with me
- 4:22Speaker 10: was their excuse.
- 4:24Speaker 6: They're sorry, they didn't know how to get in touch
- 4:25Speaker 6: with me.
- 4:26Speaker 5: Mister Powell Randy Powell, Charity's father. When Charity married doctor
- 4:34Speaker 5: Bilis Bellois. Did she know he had another wife that
- 4:40Speaker 5: died of a gunshot wound?
- 4:42Speaker 3: Did she know that going into this, Yes.
- 4:46Speaker 6: Yes, ma'am, she did.
- 4:47Speaker 11: Bi Alis, a highly regarded doctor specializing in family and
- 4:51Speaker 11: hospital medicine, was previously married to Shawna Jeanette Graham. Billis
- 4:55Speaker 11: a practical nurse who died in twenty twelve by a
- 4:58Speaker 11: gunshot wound to the head at the age of thirty four.
- 5:00Speaker 11: Her death was ruled self inflicted, but Shawna's family said
- 5:04Speaker 11: the death scene never made sense.
- 5:06Speaker 5: Okay, I've got so many directions I need to run
- 5:09Speaker 5: down with that, But let me state right now that
- 5:11Speaker 5: doctor Biellis is not named a suspect.
- 5:16Speaker 3: In this case. He is not named a person of interest.
- 5:19Speaker 5: His lawyer has sent us a really long statement that
- 5:23Speaker 5: says he had nothing to do.
- 5:27Speaker 3: With Charity's death.
- 5:28Speaker 5: I'm sure they feel the same way about the first
- 5:31Speaker 5: wife's gunshot wound. They also state that Charity, miss Billis
- 5:37Speaker 5: now did, with her two children, made false accusations against
- 5:42Speaker 5: him in the past and it was all a lie.
- 5:46Speaker 5: But wait, notice a moment right there, I thought her husband,
- 5:50Speaker 5: the doctor, pled guilty to domestic assault strangling her choking her.
- 5:58Speaker 6: Yes, he pled guilty and the kids were there and
- 6:01Speaker 6: that's all on file.
- 6:02Speaker 5: Well, this says that that I'm holding up a letter
- 6:06Speaker 5: from them, a very lengthy letter.
- 6:08Speaker 3: I might add, by Michael D.
- 6:09Speaker 5: Pierce, who's the lawyer who says that Charity made false
- 6:15Speaker 5: accusations against him.
- 6:16Speaker 3: But you're telling me he played guilty. Isn't that right?
- 6:20Speaker 6: Correct? You correct?
- 6:23Speaker 5: And again the lawyer for doctor Biella says he had
- 6:27Speaker 5: nothing to do with Charity's death. A couple of questions
- 6:31Speaker 5: lightning around to Doug Warner.
- 6:34Speaker 2: First of all, the first wife.
- 6:35Speaker 5: Shawna, was found dead by law enforcement after they responded
- 6:39Speaker 5: to a welfare check request.
- 6:42Speaker 2: Is that right that the exact circumstances, I'm not sure.
- 6:46Speaker 12: I just know after the family could not reach her,
- 6:48Speaker 12: that she was being discovered with at least one gunshot.
- 6:51Speaker 3: Win Okay, one gunshot win.
- 6:55Speaker 2: I wonder what caliber that was.
- 6:59Speaker 5: Do you know where on her body she was shot,
- 7:02Speaker 5: Doug Warner?
- 7:03Speaker 12: From that autopsy, it does say in the skull, in
- 7:06Speaker 12: the head in the twelve o'clock position, so that.
- 7:10Speaker 3: It got it in the head, just like Charity.
- 7:12Speaker 2: Okay, lightning round, lightning round, Okay, shot in the head.
- 7:17Speaker 2: Where was her body found?
- 7:19Speaker 3: Doug Warner.
- 7:22Speaker 12: In I believe it said in the bedroom. I'm not
- 7:24Speaker 12: sure where in the bedroom. Again, I literally just got
- 7:27Speaker 12: my hands on that autopsy report in the home.
- 7:29Speaker 3: In the family home.
- 7:31Speaker 5: In the home at that time, Shawna had one child,
- 7:37Speaker 5: a little girl.
- 7:37Speaker 3: Is that correct?
- 7:39Speaker 12: Yes, but I'm aware of yes, that the family has
- 7:41Speaker 12: told me at about two or three years old.
- 7:44Speaker 11: Responding officers entered the home and found Shawna shot to
- 7:47Speaker 11: death in their bedroom, according to the report. In the
- 7:49Speaker 11: incident report, police also noted furniture and other items scattered
- 7:53Speaker 11: around the home. According to the police report, Randall left
- 7:56Speaker 11: work to return home due to Shawna threatening to kill herself.
- 7:59Speaker 11: After four Randall returned to work, only to find his
- 8:02Speaker 11: wife dead. A few hours later. Medical examiner determined it
- 8:06Speaker 11: was suicide, and the case was re examined in twenty
- 8:08Speaker 11: twenty one, when it appears that Randy Powell told police
- 8:12Speaker 11: that Charity knew who did it.
- 8:14Speaker 5: That photo of the mansion we got from our friends
- 8:17Speaker 5: over at five News straight out to Joseph Scott Morgan
- 8:20Speaker 5: joining US Professor Forensics, Jacksonville State University. He is the
- 8:24Speaker 5: author of Blood Beneath My Feet on Amazon. He is
- 8:28Speaker 5: the star of a hit series Body Bags of Joe
- 8:31Speaker 5: Scott Morgan.
- 8:32Speaker 3: But for my purposes, he.
- 8:34Speaker 2: Has investigated over ten thousand death scenes.
- 8:37Speaker 5: That's accident, suicide, natural causes like heart attack, stroke unexplained,
- 8:44Speaker 5: and of course homicide. Joe Scott, you know my head's
- 8:49Speaker 5: about to blow off right now, do you? In my world,
- 8:52Speaker 5: I look for similarities. And let me say again, the
- 8:56Speaker 5: doctor who was married to Shauna and.
- 8:59Speaker 2: Charity as I had nothing to do with this.
- 9:02Speaker 5: He's not a person of interest, he's not a suspect.
- 9:04Speaker 5: He hasn't been named, he hasn't been arrested. Both women
- 9:08Speaker 5: look alike. Number one, Both women are shot with a handgun.
- 9:14Speaker 5: We believe if it had been a long gun, like
- 9:17Speaker 5: a shotgun, we'd know that by now. Both of them
- 9:20Speaker 5: shot in the head. Both of them had minor children.
- 9:25Speaker 5: In the current case, the children are six. In Shauna's case,
- 9:28Speaker 5: the child is three. Both were in the middle of
- 9:32Speaker 5: domestic turmoil. Let me say the marriage was blowing up.
- 9:39Speaker 5: Both women were found at home, were shot in the home,
- 9:43Speaker 5: and their bodies found in the home.
- 9:47Speaker 13: Seemingly. Yes, I got to tell you, speaking to your
- 9:49Speaker 13: previous guest, Doug. I'd love to see that autopsy report.
- 9:54Speaker 13: I'd love to dig into that. I got to tell you,
- 9:57Speaker 13: we look for similarities and things, don't we, Nancy. I
- 10:01Speaker 13: want to know the status of that weapon from the
- 10:02Speaker 13: initial event from this suicide. I want to know who
- 10:05Speaker 13: owned it, and I also want to know the nature
- 10:08Speaker 13: of the scene itself when compared to the current tragedy
- 10:13Speaker 13: that we're speaking of. I want to know what kind
- 10:16Speaker 13: of similarities existed there. Also, I would like to know if,
- 10:23Speaker 13: in fact, there were any signs of a struggle at
- 10:26Speaker 13: the scene at either one of them, because you know,
- 10:29Speaker 13: again we're going down this road of thinking about similarities.
- 10:33Speaker 13: Was there any kind of evidence that someone had raised
- 10:36Speaker 13: a hand at some point, Tom restrained somebody. Was there
- 10:40Speaker 13: any chance that, you know, because you have to eliminate
- 10:43Speaker 13: this idea that if they're saying that this is someone
- 10:46Speaker 13: else that's done it, we want to know if we
- 10:49Speaker 13: can eliminate that and strike that off the list. However,
- 10:52Speaker 13: I will say this nance most of the time, as
- 10:55Speaker 13: you well know, most people that wind up dead in
- 11:00Speaker 13: a circumstance like this, you always have to look at
- 11:03Speaker 13: those in the immediate, intimate circle, and as an investigator,
- 11:06Speaker 13: that's what I'm anxious to dig into.
- 11:09Speaker 14: You know.
- 11:09Speaker 5: Another similarity is that both women were autopsied by the
- 11:14Speaker 5: same person.
- 11:16Speaker 3: Yep, that's rare, isn't it.
- 11:18Speaker 13: Yeah, it is if we're talking about the Fort Smith area,
- 11:21Speaker 13: it's not. And if this individual that did this autopsy
- 11:24Speaker 13: is a board certified forensic pathologist first off, so people
- 11:27Speaker 13: understand the nature of the business, they're rare as hens teeth.
- 11:30Speaker 13: There's probably more neurosurgeons in this world than there are
- 11:35Speaker 13: forensic pathologists nationwide. So the fact that we have one
- 11:39Speaker 13: in that area, who exactly would it be that that
- 11:44Speaker 13: would have done this post? What's their relationship in any
- 11:47Speaker 13: way to the political sphere up there? I'd like to know,
- 11:51Speaker 13: are there any other issues with them? And what specifically?
- 11:57Speaker 13: You know, this is the medical community we're talking about,
- 11:59Speaker 13: right nings that that peels back another totally different layer
- 12:04Speaker 13: here when you begin to think about.
- 12:05Speaker 5: That this so she's got one doctor medical examiner and
- 12:10Speaker 5: the husband is also a doctor.
- 12:13Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, and that's certainly something that we would we
- 12:16Speaker 13: would want to, you know, lean into and try to
- 12:19Speaker 13: understand that. If we think about are there any kind
- 12:23Speaker 13: of is there any kind of connective tissue between that
- 12:27Speaker 13: individual and this individual. And look, this is just probative
- 12:30Speaker 13: information that you mean, Mike.
- 12:31Speaker 5: Did they go to the same medical school, Did they
- 12:33Speaker 5: go to the same undergrad Did they go to the
- 12:35Speaker 5: same country club?
- 12:35Speaker 3: Did they run in the same circles that whole thing.
- 12:38Speaker 13: Yeah, country club, primarily church, anything in that area. You know,
- 12:42Speaker 13: the chances you're going to have these two that went
- 12:44Speaker 13: to the same med school are kind of rare. But
- 12:47Speaker 13: when you insert yourself into a community, particularly one the
- 12:50Speaker 13: size of the Smart Fort Smith area, you're going to
- 12:54Speaker 13: have this connective tissue. Were they aware of one another
- 12:58Speaker 13: on any level? So that's something I would certainly want
- 13:00Speaker 13: to explore as an investigator.
- 13:02Speaker 5: Let me go back to our special guests, and we've
- 13:04Speaker 5: got an all star panel tonight, but I want to
- 13:09Speaker 5: hear Charity's son John and her father Randy, who I've
- 13:14Speaker 5: described as her soulmate. As a matter of fact, he
- 13:18Speaker 5: tells me that with John, who's sitting right there beside him,
- 13:23Speaker 5: Charity insisted that he Randy, her father, be guardian legal
- 13:31Speaker 5: guardian over John because of the tempestuous relationship that she
- 13:37Speaker 5: had with doctor Biellis. In case anything happened to her.
- 13:42Speaker 5: She wanted her father, the man she trusted the most
- 13:46Speaker 5: in this world, to be guardian over her son. Got
- 13:52Speaker 5: a question for you, John or Randy. Let me throw
- 13:54Speaker 5: it to John first. Where in her mansion? And it
- 13:58Speaker 5: was a mansion, Let's see a picture of where these
- 14:00Speaker 5: this family lived. Where in her mansion was her body found?
- 14:05Speaker 5: Good gravy, that's big.
- 14:09Speaker 3: Where was she found within the mansion? John?
- 14:12Speaker 7: So the authorities haven't told us exactly where the bodies
- 14:17Speaker 7: was found, but we do know they were upstairs. And
- 14:19Speaker 7: I do know that every bedroom in that house was upstairs.
- 14:23Speaker 6: So that's all that I know now.
- 14:26Speaker 10: Upstairs is the only answer we are from Sebastian Kereth.
- 14:29Speaker 5: That photo of the mansion we got from our friends
- 14:32Speaker 5: over at five News, and that's where all the bedrooms.
- 14:35Speaker 6: Are, correct, right, yes, ma'am?
- 14:37Speaker 5: And do you know do you know, Doug Warner, what
- 14:41Speaker 5: room in which they were found? And were the children,
- 14:44Speaker 5: the two little six year old twins beside her or
- 14:47Speaker 5: with her? How were the bodies found?
- 14:50Speaker 13: Doug?
- 14:50Speaker 3: What do you know?
- 14:51Speaker 12: That is the tough thing here. I've been doing this
- 14:54Speaker 12: for three plus decades and it's been over a week
- 14:57Speaker 12: now and we've got the zero fountain of information out
- 15:01Speaker 12: of the Sheriff's office. Other than to kind of a
- 15:04Speaker 12: resume of the work they've done. They've put out nearly
- 15:07Speaker 12: two dozen search warrants that they've been included and brought
- 15:11Speaker 12: in the US Secret Service.
- 15:13Speaker 2: And Homeland Security. And I asked about that.
- 15:15Speaker 12: That seems like a strange addition to this investigative unit
- 15:18Speaker 12: along with state police. They said, that's for a kind
- 15:20Speaker 12: of a more of a deep dive forensics. They have
- 15:23Speaker 12: not provided any information. In fact, they never even said
- 15:27Speaker 12: it was her children that were found shot to death.
- 15:29Speaker 12: They just said Charity of Bielis and two children. It
- 15:33Speaker 12: was not until we talked to the family that we
- 15:35Speaker 12: confirmed it it was those twin twin.
- 15:37Speaker 5: Children that photo of the mansion we got from our
- 15:40Speaker 5: friends over at five News. Let me go quickly to
- 15:44Speaker 5: a veteran trial lawyer on the other side of the
- 15:46Speaker 5: fence from me, Greg Moorse, veteran defense attorney who founded
- 15:50Speaker 5: Morse Legal. He is the author of the Untested and
- 15:55Speaker 5: you can find him at Morse legal dot com. Morse,
- 15:58Speaker 5: you know where I'm going Now. I've got two other
- 16:01Speaker 5: bricks in my wall, both cases the victims are shot
- 16:06Speaker 5: with a handgun. Both were found we believe in the bedroom.
- 16:10Speaker 15: Well, you're you're you're talking about in federal court for
- 16:14Speaker 15: or for be evidence substantially similar, which can be introduced
- 16:17Speaker 15: against it several court.
- 16:19Speaker 3: This is going to be a state stay, every.
- 16:21Speaker 5: Sack court, every similar y, also every federal statue.
- 16:27Speaker 15: Every state has the same law. They just call it
- 16:30Speaker 15: something different. Florida calls at William's rule. And these are generalities,
- 16:34Speaker 15: all right, So someone was shot with a handgun.
- 16:36Speaker 2: Two people.
- 16:36Speaker 15: Handguns are used in most crimes. There are women. Okay,
- 16:40Speaker 15: that's a pretty common thing. Fifty one percent of the
- 16:43Speaker 15: country is women.
- 16:44Speaker 5: There's nothing specifically, I'm married to doctor Randy b Allis.
- 16:50Speaker 15: No, but you're winning for substantially substantially similar under the law.
- 16:54Speaker 15: I mean, this person could just tragically be unlucky. This
- 16:58Speaker 15: could be coincidental for this person. We also have in Arkansas,
- 17:02Speaker 15: it's the eleventh highest suicide rate in America. So they're substantially similar.
- 17:08Speaker 15: While it is, You're right, this could be used and
- 17:11Speaker 15: if the doctor is charged, they would maybe try to
- 17:16Speaker 15: get this in even though there's a designation of suicide. However,
- 17:20Speaker 15: these are generalities. Right now, there's nothing that's linking it back.
- 17:24Speaker 15: But one thing that is important I would like to
- 17:26Speaker 15: know is have any shellcasings or any type of fragments
- 17:29Speaker 15: been found, and have they been entered into the National
- 17:32Speaker 15: database NIBIN and to see what type of hits come
- 17:35Speaker 15: on those, because that's a database that takes all fragments,
- 17:39Speaker 15: whether someone is arrested or not, all shellcasings that police
- 17:43Speaker 15: find in responding to an event and it's put into
- 17:46Speaker 15: this national database. So you're right, there are similarities because
- 17:52Speaker 15: this person was married as first wife suicide, second wife suicide,
- 17:55Speaker 15: they're women a handgun, but you would need more specifics
- 18:00Speaker 15: to get that in under substantial.
- 18:02Speaker 5: Hartley hold On, nobody said suicide in Charity's death. In fact,
- 18:07Speaker 5: she was shot in the head and the chest. Joe
- 18:10Speaker 5: Scott Morgan, you're the death investigator. What if I listen
- 18:13Speaker 5: to Morse, I've got to believe either her six year
- 18:16Speaker 5: old child shot her and their sibling, or I have
- 18:19Speaker 5: to believe she Charity shot herself in the chest and went, yeah,
- 18:23Speaker 5: that's not good enough. I'll now shat myself in the head.
- 18:26Speaker 3: That did not happen.
- 18:29Speaker 13: No, I think that that's completely implausible. I would going
- 18:34Speaker 13: back to the rounds that were fired, I would like
- 18:37Speaker 13: to know the nature of those and specifically the caliber
- 18:41Speaker 13: of the weapon that you utilized. I want to know
- 18:43Speaker 13: the status of this previously owned weapon. I want to
- 18:46Speaker 13: know where it is, whose hands it is in at
- 18:49Speaker 13: this moment in Tom, I want to know if there's
- 18:51Speaker 13: any been any kind of recent purchases of firearms on
- 18:55Speaker 13: the part of any of the parties involved in this case.
- 18:57Speaker 13: I want to know if our victim, this mother, I
- 19:02Speaker 13: want to know if she's purchased a handgun recently, or
- 19:04Speaker 13: maybe she was gifted a handgun. I want to know
- 19:07Speaker 13: all of that data so that it can completely be assessed.
- 19:10Speaker 13: Any rounds that perhaps were recovered from this first case
- 19:14Speaker 13: that we mentioned, I want to know what the status
- 19:18Speaker 13: of that round is. I want to know is there
- 19:21Speaker 13: a ballistic match to that earlier weapon. And here's the
- 19:24Speaker 13: big one, I want to know if that round from
- 19:27Speaker 13: that earlier suicide could potentially match the ones involved in
- 19:32Speaker 13: this questioned homicide.
- 19:33Speaker 5: At this moment in Tom, again, I want to stress
- 19:37Speaker 5: we are not trying to put the husband in jail.
- 19:41Speaker 5: I want the killer in jail. Doctor Bialis has not
- 19:47Speaker 5: been named a suspect. He's not been named a person
- 19:50Speaker 5: of interest. He has not been arrested.
- 19:53Speaker 3: In fact, he.
- 19:53Speaker 5: Asserts his innocence as we go to air tonight. He
- 19:57Speaker 5: has presumed innocent under the law.
- 20:02Speaker 7: Remember as a good Christian woman that loved her children
- 20:06Speaker 7: and loved her family and friends more than anything. But
- 20:09Speaker 7: she always put God first. And I'm grateful for that
- 20:14Speaker 7: because I know where she is now.
- 20:16Speaker 11: And December third, Sebastian County Sheriff's welfare check on Charity
- 20:20Speaker 11: be Alice at home, but as a police joined and
- 20:23Speaker 11: failing to get a response from inside the mansion, two
- 20:25Speaker 11: workers escort officers into the home. Officers locate the body
- 20:29Speaker 11: of Charity be Alice and two children. All three have
- 20:32Speaker 11: gunshot wounds.
- 20:39Speaker 2: Crime stores with Nancy Grace.
- 20:45Speaker 4: Charity's courage and unwavery love for her children are tested
- 20:49Speaker 4: when her a Streams husband grows increasingly dangerous. Randall b
- 20:52Speaker 4: Allis allegedly choked Charity in front of their young children.
- 20:55Speaker 2: Pleading guilty to third degree domestic battery.
- 21:00Speaker 5: As an all Star panel, but I want to go
- 21:01Speaker 5: back to Charity's first son. He's joining us tonight is
- 21:06Speaker 5: John Powell and joining us is who many people consider
- 21:12Speaker 5: to be Charity's soulmate, her father. They were very close,
- 21:18Speaker 5: practically connected, joined at the hip.
- 21:22Speaker 3: So loving each other.
- 21:26Speaker 5: To John, I've seen photos of you with her twins,
- 21:33Speaker 5: the boy and the girl. There you are holding them.
- 21:38Speaker 5: One thing that really was poignant to me. First of all,
- 21:41Speaker 5: in a lot of the photos I've spotted the same
- 21:44Speaker 5: little outfits, the exact same outfits I got for my daughter.
- 21:48Speaker 5: The one where she's playing in water that looks like
- 21:52Speaker 5: one of Lucy's nightgowns, one of her favorite nightgowns. You
- 21:55Speaker 5: were all the time, that one, that's the exact thing
- 21:58Speaker 5: my daughter wore until she couldn't wear it anymore. In
- 22:03Speaker 5: another photo, she's got on a little reddish colored velvet dress.
- 22:07Speaker 5: And then there's a Hello Kitty T shirt eat the
- 22:10Speaker 5: same yep, that's from Target.
- 22:12Speaker 3: There's a Hello Kitty. And in that photo.
- 22:15Speaker 5: Right there, I see and in a couple of others,
- 22:19Speaker 5: I see where your mom would wear put on her
- 22:23Speaker 5: lipstick before the photo. And then I see where your
- 22:27Speaker 5: little sister said, Mom, I want lipstick, and so she
- 22:33Speaker 5: put lipstick on her baby girl. I'm just she loved
- 22:38Speaker 5: them so much. I want you to tell me about
- 22:41Speaker 5: charity as a mother, John.
- 22:46Speaker 7: She she was a very loving mother, without a doubt.
- 22:50Speaker 7: She loved her her kids more than anything, expect she
- 22:56Speaker 7: loved family.
- 22:57Speaker 6: She always put God first.
- 23:00Speaker 7: She actually had a passion if she was to be
- 23:02Speaker 7: able to make it through this divorce case, to pursue
- 23:06Speaker 7: spreading awareness for domestic violence.
- 23:08Speaker 6: And not only for small towns in the.
- 23:11Speaker 7: State of Arkansas, but try to make it known through
- 23:14Speaker 7: the entire nation. But she really had a passion for that,
- 23:18Speaker 7: and she loved her children more than anything.
- 23:22Speaker 5: And you know what's interesting, John Powell, Well, so many things.
- 23:28Speaker 5: But women will put up with a lot to hold
- 23:33Speaker 5: the family together. They'll put up with lying, cheating, drinking, horring, gambling, drugs,
- 23:45Speaker 5: the whole she bang, because you try to hide it
- 23:49Speaker 5: from your children so they have this as best as
- 23:52Speaker 5: you can give them a picture perfect childhood. Okay, about
- 24:00Speaker 5: your mom, because she is gunned down dead in the
- 24:05Speaker 5: middle of a contentious divorce proceeding. Why did your mom
- 24:11Speaker 5: state she wanted a divorce from doctor b Ellis.
- 24:17Speaker 7: He was very abusive and it's on file he pled
- 24:21Speaker 7: guilty to choking her and in front of the children.
- 24:25Speaker 7: She was very scared, and she would just beat down
- 24:28Speaker 7: mentally and she would you know, physically, that's on file
- 24:32Speaker 7: as well. But she was just trying to make it
- 24:35Speaker 7: better for her children.
- 24:36Speaker 14: The murder of Charities and her twins comes one day
- 24:39Speaker 14: after a final divorce hearing with ex husband doctor Randall Beellis.
- 24:43Speaker 14: Randy and Charity be Ellis Mary in twenty fifteen and
- 24:46Speaker 14: have the twins, a son and daughter. In twenty nineteen,
- 24:49Speaker 14: Charity files for divorce and full custody of the couple's twins,
- 24:53Speaker 14: son and daughter, as well as an order of protection.
- 24:56Speaker 14: In the final divorce hearing, doctor Randy Beellis is awarded
- 24:59Speaker 14: joint custody of the children.
- 25:02Speaker 5: What is really interesting to me is that, of course
- 25:05Speaker 5: you heard the timing right there. This is one day,
- 25:10Speaker 5: one day after a final divorce hearing between the two
- 25:15Speaker 5: of them, and some judge gives doctor be Allis joint custody.
- 25:22Speaker 5: That's even custody fifty to fifty to doctor Ballis, even
- 25:28Speaker 5: though he has a domestic abuse conviction.
- 25:33Speaker 11: Listen Dan years of marriage ends with Randy Bellis charged
- 25:37Speaker 11: accused physical harm to his wife and mother of his
- 25:39Speaker 11: children by choking her bi Alis Carter to jail while
- 25:43Speaker 11: Charity plans a divorce to Randy Powell.
- 25:47Speaker 5: This is Charity's father who she trusted so much she
- 25:52Speaker 5: wanted him to be legal guardian over her oldest son, John,
- 25:57Speaker 5: sitting right there in case anything ever happened to her.
- 26:02Speaker 5: I'm confused about how a man, even though he is
- 26:06Speaker 5: a well known and well liked medical doctor, how did
- 26:12Speaker 5: he get joint custody when he pled guilty to domestic
- 26:16Speaker 5: assault domestic battery.
- 26:19Speaker 10: Millions of dollars can do wonders, so I have no
- 26:24Speaker 10: idea how any judge could give him any kind of custody.
- 26:29Speaker 11: After filing for divorce and custody, Charity finds herself treated unfairly.
- 26:34Speaker 11: A strange husband, Randy Billi's domestic violence charges have yet
- 26:37Speaker 11: to be adjudicated, and Charity posting I'm the victim, yet
- 26:40Speaker 11: I've been treated like the problem while the criminal, a
- 26:42Speaker 11: local doctor, is being shielded by the very system that's
- 26:45Speaker 11: supposed to protect us. And so she tried reaching out
- 26:48Speaker 11: to prosecuting attorney, but he won't even accept a letter
- 26:51Speaker 11: from me.
- 26:52Speaker 4: Desperate to protect her family, Charity takes the brave step
- 26:54Speaker 4: in filing for both a divorce and a protective order
- 26:57Speaker 4: against Randall.
- 26:58Speaker 2: After the final divorce. Hearing the unthinkable happens, Charity and
- 27:02Speaker 2: her children are brutally killed.
- 27:06Speaker 5: Shortly before her death, Charity Baalis, mother, beloved member of
- 27:12Speaker 5: her entire family, is found shot dead.
- 27:16Speaker 3: One shot to the head.
- 27:17Speaker 5: One shot to the chest, we have been told, although
- 27:21Speaker 5: the autopsy has been kept secret, along with her her
- 27:27Speaker 5: two children, twins boy and girl, Eleana and Maverick, just
- 27:34Speaker 5: six years old, we are told, shot in the chest.
- 27:39Speaker 5: Just before that, a cryptic post made ostensibly by Charity,
- 27:44Speaker 5: and it states, quote, if a woman's partner has ever
- 27:48Speaker 5: strangled her even once, her risk of being murdered by
- 27:53Speaker 5: that same partner with a gun shoots up seven hundred
- 27:58Speaker 5: and fifty percent compared to a woman who has never
- 28:02Speaker 5: been strangled, shared by a Daily Press article. Straight out
- 28:10Speaker 5: to doctor Janey Lacey, joining US, licensed psychotherapist, CEO of
- 28:16Speaker 5: Life Counseling Solutions, author of How to Heal from a
- 28:20Speaker 5: Toxic Relationship, and host of the Resilient Professional podcast, Doctor
- 28:28Speaker 5: Janey Lacy, thank you for being with us. What can
- 28:31Speaker 5: you tell me regarding the stats on women that have
- 28:35Speaker 5: been strangled by their partner and lived at least through
- 28:39Speaker 5: that incident.
- 28:42Speaker 16: You know, Nancy, strangulation is the single most important warning
- 28:47Speaker 16: sign we have. When a partner puts their hands around
- 28:50Speaker 16: someone's neck, they're rehearsing murder. The research is clear, a
- 28:55Speaker 16: woman who's been strangled by her partner, and Charity shared
- 28:59Speaker 16: that in her post, is seven and a half times
- 29:01Speaker 16: more likely to be killed by him.
- 29:03Speaker 17: And that's not a red flag. That's a death sentence
- 29:06Speaker 17: waiting to happen. And here's what people don't understand, Nancy,
- 29:09Speaker 17: is you can strangle someone and leave no marks, and
- 29:11Speaker 17: when victims reported, there's no music, there's no bruising, so
- 29:15Speaker 17: they're often not even believed. And it's not about anger
- 29:18Speaker 17: in that moment, it's about showing her I own your
- 29:21Speaker 17: next breath, Nancy.
- 29:22Speaker 3: Doctor Janey.
- 29:24Speaker 5: She stated in her very mysterious post prior to her
- 29:28Speaker 5: murder that women that had been strangled and survived that strangulation,
- 29:33Speaker 5: that there're seven hundred and fifty percent more likely to
- 29:38Speaker 5: be killed.
- 29:38Speaker 3: She says, my.
- 29:39Speaker 5: Gunshot than women who have never endured a strangulation, seven
- 29:45Speaker 5: hundred and fifty percent more likely.
- 29:47Speaker 2: That's a lot.
- 29:49Speaker 18: That is a lot, Nancy, and that's exactly correct. Is
- 29:53Speaker 18: when a woman who gets strangled, it becomes seven hundred
- 29:56Speaker 18: and fifty percent. Let's kind of think about that more
- 29:59Speaker 18: likely to be killed by him, and to me, that
- 30:02Speaker 18: is not a red flag.
- 30:03Speaker 2: That is a death sentence waiting to happen.
- 30:05Speaker 17: And we know strangulation is the single most important warning
- 30:08Speaker 17: sign that we have, and that is important.
- 30:11Speaker 2: For us to understand.
- 30:12Speaker 17: When you strangle someone, you don't leave any room, you
- 30:14Speaker 17: don't leave any marks. You're telling that person I can
- 30:17Speaker 17: take your breath away at any moment, and we know
- 30:20Speaker 17: that that person is not We're dealing with someone capable
- 30:23Speaker 17: of killing Nancy.
- 30:31Speaker 2: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
- 30:36Speaker 5: Let me go back to Charity's son, John, her oldest son,
- 30:41Speaker 5: and her father Randy joining us tonight. I'd like to
- 30:44Speaker 5: ask you, gentlemen, about a document from the Arkansas State
- 30:48Speaker 5: Police Crimes against Children Unit. Now, this document is sent
- 30:53Speaker 5: to Eleianna and Maverick Bialis in care of Charity, your
- 30:58Speaker 5: mother daughter. It's from a caseworker, Alaura Perry in Van
- 31:03Speaker 5: Buren and important. The date is this past summer July fifteen,
- 31:10Speaker 5: twenty twenty five. Name of the alleged victims, Eleiana and
- 31:15Speaker 5: Maverick b Allis.
- 31:16Speaker 2: Those are the twins now dead, shot dead.
- 31:20Speaker 5: The name of the alleged offender is Randy B. Allis
- 31:24Speaker 5: aka doctor Ballis. It says the Arkansas State Police received
- 31:30Speaker 5: allegations of child maltreatment involving the above. It was reported
- 31:36Speaker 5: on March thirty one, twenty five. Based on a preponderance
- 31:43Speaker 5: of evidence, the agency deems the allegation to be true
- 31:48Speaker 5: and doctor Beallis's name should be placed in the Child
- 31:52Speaker 5: Maltreatment Central Registry. Let's put the document up on the screen.
- 31:59Speaker 5: It's stay that the type of maltreatment was abuse parenne
- 32:04Speaker 5: abuse with or without physical injury for both children, and
- 32:08Speaker 5: abuse threat of harm to the boy. Maverick, did Charity
- 32:15Speaker 5: ever confide in either of you, Randy or John, why
- 32:23Speaker 5: this complaint was filed and why the allegations were deemed
- 32:27Speaker 5: by a proprieenance of evidence to be true by the
- 32:30Speaker 5: Arkansas Arkansas State Police Crimes against Children Unit.
- 32:35Speaker 2: What happened that.
- 32:36Speaker 10: They conveyed to her some of what had happened, and
- 32:41Speaker 10: she reached out to for help, and they had done
- 32:44Speaker 10: a forensic interview with the children, and that was the
- 32:48Speaker 10: outcomes about all I know to say, I'm pretty well
- 32:51Speaker 10: mentally and physically exhausted.
- 32:53Speaker 7: Once they figured out that Blis wasn't going to be
- 32:57Speaker 7: around them, then they were feeling better about telling my
- 33:00Speaker 7: mother what had happened to.
- 33:02Speaker 5: Chris McDonald joining me, director of the Cold Case Foundation,
- 33:05Speaker 5: former homicide detective, over three hundred homicides under his belt
- 33:10Speaker 5: that he personally investigated. He is the star of the
- 33:14Speaker 5: interview room on YouTube where I found him. We now
- 33:17Speaker 5: have claims by the mom who posts a cryptic post
- 33:23Speaker 5: about strangulation by an intimate partner? Is it semantics smothering
- 33:30Speaker 5: by asphyxiation such as with a pillow, smothering by hand
- 33:35Speaker 5: or ligature? In both ms, the victim is being deprived
- 33:40Speaker 5: of air.
- 33:41Speaker 3: What do you think about that, Chris?
- 33:43Speaker 19: You know, Nancy, the fact that two children were murdered,
- 33:47Speaker 19: remember they were murdered here, and the fact that the
- 33:52Speaker 19: manner of death potentially initially could have been strangulation or suffocation.
- 34:00Speaker 19: The kids, from an investigative aspect, are really the lynchpin
- 34:05Speaker 19: to solving this particular crime because you have two adults
- 34:09Speaker 19: who are obviously having a domestic but then you have
- 34:12Speaker 19: two innocent lives potentially in their rooms upstairs in that house.
- 34:18Speaker 19: And so now you now shift that type of weapon
- 34:22Speaker 19: to a handgun, which is also very personal to somebody
- 34:28Speaker 19: in connection to those children. And so I think that's
- 34:32Speaker 19: where the forensics expertise of the Secret Service is going
- 34:35Speaker 19: to come in here, because they're going to go back
- 34:37Speaker 19: and they're going to try to pull ballistics, they're going
- 34:39Speaker 19: to try digital evidence, etc. And they're going to try
- 34:42Speaker 19: to make sense of that. So it's really not a
- 34:44Speaker 19: who've done it? It's more of why was it done.
- 34:50Speaker 5: In my name?
- 34:51Speaker 13: I paid for it.
- 35:00Speaker 16: I'm shutting it off.
- 35:04Speaker 5: John Powell, we just showed a video of doctor b
- 35:07Speaker 5: Alice slashing your tires of your truck.
- 35:10Speaker 3: What happened?
- 35:10Speaker 7: So I actually was trying to do good for myself
- 35:14Speaker 7: and uh become a lineman.
- 35:17Speaker 6: I was applying to go to Liman.
- 35:19Speaker 7: School, uh, and I had just gotten back from there
- 35:23Speaker 7: across the state, and when I entered the house, Bielis
- 35:27Speaker 7: started mouthing me and using profanity and being real negative
- 35:32Speaker 7: towards me. And I didn't know really why or what
- 35:37Speaker 7: was the cause for it, but it ended up being
- 35:40Speaker 7: something about my phone and not texting back quick enough
- 35:42Speaker 7: or just something that didn't make any sense to me.
- 35:45Speaker 6: And he told my mom to grab a knife and go.
- 35:48Speaker 7: Out there and start trying to stab my tires. Uh,
- 35:51Speaker 7: and she couldn't do it. And then that's when you
- 35:53Speaker 7: see him come behind with the knife as well and
- 35:56Speaker 7: start stabbing every single one of them, and taught me
- 35:58Speaker 7: with the knife with my baby brother in his arm.
- 36:00Speaker 7: So I pulled up my phone. That's all I knew
- 36:02Speaker 7: to do video because I didn't.
- 36:05Speaker 6: Know what else to do.
- 36:05Speaker 7: I knew he was a powerful man that has gotten
- 36:08Speaker 7: away with things in the past that and you know,
- 36:12Speaker 7: he's done things to me that we're.
- 36:15Speaker 6: Not right, and I couldn't get on video.
- 36:17Speaker 7: So I'm thankful I could get this one on video
- 36:20Speaker 7: to show the world that something needs to be done.
- 36:23Speaker 3: What was your mom doing during all this? What was
- 36:25Speaker 3: she saying?
- 36:26Speaker 7: Trying to get the phone because he knew that if
- 36:30Speaker 7: it was on video that something could happen to him.
- 36:33Speaker 6: But I don't think he was real worried about it.
- 36:36Speaker 6: But he didn't know that the phones needed to be
- 36:40Speaker 6: tooken away.
- 36:42Speaker 5: Tell me about your little brother and sister, Maverick and Iliana.
- 36:47Speaker 6: They were very precious and they were innocent.
- 36:50Speaker 7: You know, my baby brother learned how to play chess
- 36:53Speaker 7: in forty five minutes at six years old.
- 36:55Speaker 6: Very very smart. So was Eleana.
- 36:58Speaker 7: She could paint and draw a pick is like somebody
- 37:01Speaker 7: thirty years old at you know, when she was six
- 37:03Speaker 7: years old. They were very very smart and talented and gifted.
- 37:09Speaker 6: Just one of a kind.
- 37:11Speaker 5: As we go to air tonight, I want to stress
- 37:16Speaker 5: that doctor Bealls has not been charged. He has not
- 37:19Speaker 5: been named a suspect, He has not been named a
- 37:22Speaker 5: person of interest.
- 37:23Speaker 3: In fact, he insists he is innocent.
- 37:28Speaker 5: I got a question for you, Randy Powell, who would
- 37:33Speaker 5: get that house? It's valued in around seven hundred and
- 37:35Speaker 5: sixty eight thousand dollars. Would that since the children have
- 37:40Speaker 5: been killed, who would that go to? In the event
- 37:44Speaker 5: of Charity's death.
- 37:47Speaker 10: It would go to John Powell. But Michael Pierce, the
- 37:50Speaker 10: attorney for be Alice, the next day made a motion
- 37:55Speaker 10: to dismiss the divorce so that it would all go
- 37:58Speaker 10: back to be Alice.
- 38:00Speaker 6: We have a legal team fighting that as we speak.
- 38:03Speaker 5: That photo of the mansion we got from our friends
- 38:06Speaker 5: over at five News.
- 38:07Speaker 3: Okay, explain that to me John, you're fighting.
- 38:12Speaker 2: Was it the day after her body was found, Doctor
- 38:15Speaker 2: b Allison?
- 38:15Speaker 5: Yes, correct, yes, what did you do regard to the
- 38:18Speaker 5: divorce proceeding?
- 38:21Speaker 6: Missed the divorce? So everything I'll go back to Beelis.
- 38:24Speaker 7: And that's what my man, my legal team have been
- 38:26Speaker 7: fighting to do is get control of my mom's body
- 38:29Speaker 7: and try to get Elanna and Maverick if we can,
- 38:33Speaker 7: and in proceed with the divorce case.
- 38:36Speaker 6: So all that will be through because it needs to be.
- 38:39Speaker 10: In the divorce decree, she was awarded half the property,
- 38:43Speaker 10: her car and some money. They were to sell the
- 38:46Speaker 10: house at auction and split the profits and her get
- 38:50Speaker 10: her car and some money. And he's trying to get dismissed.
- 38:54Speaker 10: I assume, so that doesn't happen.
- 38:56Speaker 5: So the divorce were still pending, then everything would go
- 39:00Speaker 5: to him, right, it's right, okay. Another thing you mentioned,
- 39:05Speaker 5: you're trying.
- 39:05Speaker 3: To get her body. Where is her body.
- 39:09Speaker 10: Punla Little Rock?
- 39:11Speaker 6: Yes? Currently he's still in the crime lab at Little Rock.
- 39:16Speaker 3: Why hasn't there been a few I have.
- 39:19Speaker 6: We couldn't do. They won't tell us.
- 39:21Speaker 10: They won't even tell us when or for hour i'mout
- 39:24Speaker 10: releasing the body.
- 39:25Speaker 6: You've heard nothing went out just as much as everyone else.
- 39:29Speaker 6: I mean, it's just nothing.
- 39:30Speaker 5: Yet we wait as justice unfolds, If you know or
- 39:34Speaker 5: think you know anything about the brutal murder of Charity
- 39:39Speaker 5: bi Alice or her young twins, Eleana and Maverick, please
- 39:45Speaker 5: call Sebastian County Sheriffs four seven nine seven eight three
- 39:51Speaker 5: one zero five one. As you know, Homeland Security and
- 39:56Speaker 5: Secret Service has been called in on this investigation. Four
- 40:01Speaker 5: seven nine seven eight three one zero five one. We
- 40:05Speaker 5: remember an American hero, Deputy Sheriff John Michael Melvin, Grant
- 40:10Speaker 5: County Sheriff's Washington, killed in the line of duty after
- 40:13Speaker 5: serving thirty five years, leaving behind a broken hearted son.
- 40:19Speaker 5: American hero Deputy Sheriff John Michael Melvin, Nancy Gray signing
- 40:25Speaker 5: off goodbye friend,