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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Charity Beallis Pt. 1 · Hell and Gone: Murder Line

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Speaker 2: On December third, twenty twenty five, at around nine thirty am,
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Speaker 2: deputies in Sebastian County, Arkansas, were called to a home
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Speaker 2: on South First Avenue in Bonanza to do a welfare
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Speaker 2: check on a family. The original call went into the
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Speaker 2: Sebastian County Sheriff's office, but since the address in the
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Speaker 2: eleven hundred block of First Avenue was within Bonanza city limits,
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Speaker 2: the Bonanza Police Department also showed up to assist. Bonanza
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Speaker 2: is way out in West Arkansas. It has a population
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Speaker 2: of a little over six hundred. It's just a few
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Speaker 2: minutes drive from the Oklahoma border. A local doctor, doctor
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Speaker 2: Randy Bealis, lived in the home along with his six
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Speaker 2: year old twins, a boy and a girl, and his
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Speaker 2: forty year old wife, Charity Bealis. Randall Bellis had worked
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Speaker 2: as a local doctor for decades. Charity described herself on
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Speaker 2: social media as a domestic engineer, and her main focus
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Speaker 2: seemed to be being a mom to her twins. When
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Speaker 2: law enforcement got there, they were unable to get inside.
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Speaker 2: They found two domestic workers to let them in, and
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Speaker 2: it didn't take them long to find a horrific scene.
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Speaker 2: Three bodies, Charity, her little son, and her daughter. All
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Speaker 2: three of them had been fatally shot. Who could have
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Speaker 2: come in and annihilated this family right before Christmas? It
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Speaker 2: didn't take long for police to focus on Charity and
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Speaker 2: Randall's bitter divorce, and then on allegations of past mysterious deaths,
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Speaker 2: child abuse, domestic abuse, and a horrific situation that was
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Speaker 2: unfolding behind closed doors.
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Speaker 2: Line because this is an ongoing, investigation there's a lot
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Speaker 2: that we still don't know about the exact circumstances of
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Speaker 2: this crime. Scene charity's, Father, randy has stated in several
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Speaker 2: media interviews That charity was shot, twice once in the,
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Speaker 2: head once in the. Chest Sebastian county has released some.
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Speaker 2: Information they have confirmed that the three bodies were found
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Speaker 2: with gunshot, wounds and they stated that the bodies Of
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Speaker 2: charity and her children have all been sent to The
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Speaker 2: Arkansas Crime lab In Little, rock where they will perform
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Speaker 2: an autopsy to determine the exact cause of.
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Speaker 3: Death but it didn't take.
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Speaker 2: Long for police and the media to focus in On
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Speaker 2: charity And randall's. Relationship charity And randall had been married
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Speaker 2: for ten. Years they married On november, one twenty. Fifteen
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Speaker 2: though what we've discovered is this was actually the second
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Speaker 2: time that they got. Married the first time was back
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Speaker 2: In may of twenty. Twelve charity Wasn't randall's first. Wife
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Speaker 2: she was his, third and, technically because they, remarried also his.
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Speaker 2: Fourth so what do we know About charity And randal
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Speaker 2: Be alis and their. Relationship Randal bellis was born On february,
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Speaker 2: eighteenth nineteen sixty. Nine he's been a family practiced doctor
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Speaker 2: based in The Fort smith area for many, years at
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Speaker 2: least since two thousand and, one and his licensees current
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Speaker 2: and in good standing according to The Arkansas department Of.
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Speaker 2: Health for many, Years randall was affiliated with The Mercy
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Speaker 2: Rehabilitation hospital and in general he's gotten a lot of
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Speaker 2: praise from colleagues in the, industry at least. Online people
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Speaker 2: who have worked with him describe him as a charismatic
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Speaker 2: and talented. Physician Mercy hospital wrote he had truly exceptional
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Speaker 2: expertise in rehabilitation.
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Speaker 3: Medicine they praised him.
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Speaker 2: For his, quote commitment to our patient's well being and
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Speaker 2: for guiding their path to rehabilitation end. Quote randall And
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Speaker 2: charity married for the second time On november, first twenty.
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Speaker 2: Fifteen that's the marriage that the media and most of
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Speaker 2: the public has been referring. To their two children were
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Speaker 2: born around four years. Later they appeared to be a perfect,
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Speaker 2: family but behind the scenes there was chaos and allegations
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Speaker 2: of domestic. Violence but On february, sixteenth twenty twenty, five
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Speaker 2: something serious.
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Speaker 3: Happened inside the billis.
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Speaker 2: Home that, date the date of the fight Between randall And,
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Speaker 2: charity was listed as the date of separation on their divorce.
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Speaker 2: Papers on that, Day charity And randall got into an.
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Speaker 2: Argument things got, physical and he was later convicted of
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Speaker 2: domestic violence after attempting to strangle. Her according to a
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Speaker 2: criminal information sheet that was filed In march of twenty twenty,
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Speaker 2: Five randall was originally charged with aggravated assault on a family,
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Speaker 2: member third degree domestic, battery and endangering the welfare of a.
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Speaker 2: Minor the documents state That randall choked and caused physical
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Speaker 2: harm To charity on that.
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Speaker 3: Date On february, sixteenth twenty twenty.
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Speaker 2: Five In, october while the divorce proceedings were going, on
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Speaker 2: his charges were amended to include only the third degree battery.
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Speaker 2: Charge he pleaded guilty to that charge On october, ninth
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty. Five randall moved out In, february and since
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Speaker 2: Then charity had been posting on social, media writing multiple
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Speaker 2: posts about domestic abusers killing their. Wives, NOW i should
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Speaker 2: say The Sebastian County Sheriff's office has not Named randall
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Speaker 2: or anyone else as a, suspect And randall has made
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Speaker 2: statements through his attorney denying any involvement in the deaths
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Speaker 2: of his wife and. Children according to his, Attorney randall
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Speaker 2: has been cooperating with. Police after the alleged. Attack In,
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Speaker 2: February charity took out a restraining order Against. Randall she
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Speaker 2: filed for divorce the following. Month she argued she should
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Speaker 2: have sole custody of the twins due to the nature
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Speaker 2: of the restraining, order but from her social media, post
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Speaker 2: it appears as Though charity absolutely felt that she was
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Speaker 2: still in. Danger In, August charity posted a comment to
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Speaker 2: a local news story On. Facebook it read, Quote i'm
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Speaker 2: living this battle right. NOW i am the victim Yet
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Speaker 2: i've been treated like the, problem while the, criminal a local,
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Speaker 2: doctor is being shielded by the very system that's supposed
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Speaker 2: to protect. Us my voice as the victim has been shut.
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Speaker 2: Out this is not just about. Me this is about
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Speaker 2: a system that protects offenders and rejects. Victims lives are at,
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Speaker 2: stake including the lives of young.
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Speaker 3: Children end.
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Speaker 2: Quote charity And randall's divorce became final one day before
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Speaker 2: she and the children were found. Dead charity had asked
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Speaker 2: for full custody of the, children but The Sebastian county
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Speaker 2: judge Granted charity.
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Speaker 3: And randall joint custody of the.
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Speaker 2: Kids after, Court charity took her son and daughter to
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Speaker 2: A christmas event at her. Church charity's Son john and
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Speaker 2: her Father, randy have told multiple media sources That randall
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Speaker 2: was abusive for. Years they have said they suspect he
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Speaker 2: may have been involved In charity in the children's. Deaths of,
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Speaker 2: course because these Are charity's family, members we have to
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Speaker 2: always remember when we're reading about this, case we are
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Speaker 2: not reading from an unbiased. Source BUT i do think
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Speaker 2: it's important to put their points of view out. There John,
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Speaker 2: Powell charity's son from a previous. Marriage claimed that in
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Speaker 2: the months before her, Death charity was reaching out for.
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Speaker 2: Help he said she was very frustrated by the fact
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Speaker 2: that she couldn't seem to get help through the system
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Speaker 2: that was supposedly in place to protect domestic violence. Victims
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Speaker 2: even After charity filed for. Divorce john claimed That randall
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Speaker 2: had stalked her and that he had hacked into her,
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Speaker 2: devices and that he hired private investigators to Follow. Charity john,
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Speaker 2: said quote she contacted everybody that she could get in contact.
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Speaker 2: With she wrote letters to the, governor, senators and did
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Speaker 2: everything she could to try to get help end. Quote
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Speaker 2: twenty four year Old john said he had experience With
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Speaker 2: randall And. Charity he had lived With randall And charity
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Speaker 2: for three to four years as a. Teenager he Described
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Speaker 2: randall as very controlling and very abusive mentally and. Physically
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Speaker 2: john has Described charity as quote a very loving and
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Speaker 2: kind person that would.
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Speaker 3: Do anything to help anybody end.
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Speaker 2: Quote john said, that in addition To charity's young, children
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Speaker 2: the main focus of her life was her, faith which
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Speaker 2: she appeared to have rediscovered in the months since her
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Speaker 2: split With. Randall it turns out That john had had
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Speaker 2: confrontations over the.
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Speaker 3: Years With randall and with his.
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Speaker 2: Mom during the time When john was living at home
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Speaker 2: With randall And charity and working after graduating from high,
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Speaker 2: School john alleged That randal And charity slashed his truck
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Speaker 2: tires during an. Argument there's a viral video currently making
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Speaker 2: the rounds that is being circulated and showed the entire.
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Speaker 2: Incident in the, Video randal can be seen Slashing john's
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Speaker 2: tires on the truck that was registered In john's name
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Speaker 2: and That john paid for, because As john told the,
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Speaker 2: judge Apparently john didn't return cell phone messages on. Time
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Speaker 2: As randall plunges a knife into multiple, tires stabbing, Repeatedly
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Speaker 2: charity can be seen holding one of her young children
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Speaker 2: and you can hear her threatening to cut Off john's cell.
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Speaker 2: Phone john filed for legal emancipation at age, seventeen two
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Speaker 2: months away from his eighteenth, birthday and a judge granted his.
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Speaker 2: Request from that point, On john was legally recognized as an. Adult,
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Speaker 2: Still john now claims That randall was the real abuser
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Speaker 2: in that. Relationship since the case has made national, news
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Speaker 2: the triple homicide has focused public attention on another, case
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Speaker 2: the death Of randall's second, wife Shan A, graham a
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Speaker 2: thirty four year old licensed practical, nurse back in twenty.
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Speaker 2: Twelve in twenty, Twelve shawna died. Violently her cause of
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Speaker 2: death was a gunshot wound to the.
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Speaker 3: Head her death was.
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Speaker 2: Ruled a, suicide but some Of shawna's family members have
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Speaker 2: posted on social media there were irregularities In shawna's crime.
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Speaker 2: Scene they say that they Suspected randall was involved in her.
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Speaker 2: Death The Daily mail interviewed one Of shawna's relatives who
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Speaker 2: told the publication That, shawna quote.
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Speaker 3: Had too much to live.
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Speaker 2: For she was late charity end quote and they claimed
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Speaker 2: that Because randall was a prominent, doctor they believe that's
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Speaker 2: why he wasn't questioned. Further, now, obviously again we have
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Speaker 2: to consider this could be. Biased this was a friend Of.
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Speaker 2: Shawna's shawna's, Mother Teresa, graham has been posting on social
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Speaker 2: media for a long time about her suspicions regarding the
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Speaker 2: circumstances Of shawna's. Death some Of shawna's family members have
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Speaker 2: Told The Daily mail that they believe That, shawna contrary
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Speaker 2: to What randall told, them did not suffer from depression
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Speaker 2: to the degree that he. Claimed they also Said shauna
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Speaker 2: always took pride in her, appearance so they found it
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Speaker 2: very unlikely she would choose to end her own life
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Speaker 2: by shooting herself in the. Forehead shawna's family members have
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Speaker 2: stated they would like for her case to be. Reopened,
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Speaker 2: however we checked and found, that in accordance with local,
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Speaker 2: law the files on suicides are. Destroyed shawna's case file
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Speaker 2: was destroyed in twenty. Fourteen On december, fourth one day
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Speaker 2: after his ex wife and children were found, Dead randall's
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Speaker 2: attorney filed emotion to dismiss the divorce.
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Speaker 3: Case charity's, Son john has filed emotion as.
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Speaker 2: Well he's trying to take control of his mother's portion
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Speaker 2: of the. Estate jawn said he was devastated by his
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Speaker 2: mother's death and the deaths of his half siblings.
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Speaker 3: As this court battle rages.
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Speaker 2: On we're going to take a look at the timeline
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Speaker 2: Of randal And charity's, marriage but first we have to
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Speaker 2: go back and take a look At randall's romantic. History
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Speaker 2: in our, research we found That randall's first, Wife, donna
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Speaker 2: was a doctor In Fort. Smith randal And donna had
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Speaker 2: three children, together but eventually the relationship fell. Apart they
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Speaker 2: divorced in twenty. Ten sometime around that, Time randall got
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Speaker 2: involved With. Shauna we're not sure of the exact timeline
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Speaker 2: of when he And shauna got. Together according to her,
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Speaker 2: family they had been together for a couple of, years
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Speaker 2: at least at the time of her death in twenty.
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Speaker 2: Twelve shawna's mother has claimed That randal And charity's relationship
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Speaker 2: overlapped With shauna's and that they were having an.
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Speaker 3: Affair she's actually.
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Speaker 2: Posted messages on social media implying she believes that both of,
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Speaker 2: Them randal And, charity might have been in on her daughter's.
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Speaker 2: Death so that begs the question what was the story
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Speaker 2: At shawna's crime scene and what happened in her And randall's.
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Speaker 2: Marriage shawna died On january, fifth twenty. Twelve she was
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Speaker 2: thirty four years. Old her cause of death was a gunshot,
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Speaker 2: wound and her death was ruled a. Suicide shauna And
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Speaker 2: randall did not have any, children but her family insists.
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Speaker 3: They do not believe that she would have taken her own.
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Speaker 2: Life shauna had a, Daughter Bella Grace, graham from a previous.
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Speaker 3: Relationship she was young at the time of her mother's.
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Speaker 2: Death her family say that little girl was the center
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Speaker 2: of her. Universe they don't believe she would have voluntarily
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Speaker 2: left her daughter. Alone during the, Marriage randal Claimed shauna
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Speaker 2: had issues with. Depression in, fact he claimed that she
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Speaker 2: was so depressed she would threaten to shoot herself on
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Speaker 2: a regular. Basis he said he was so alarmed by
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Speaker 2: this that he bought rubber bullets.
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Speaker 3: To put into the gun they had at.
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Speaker 2: Home according to the police report that we obtained On january,
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Speaker 2: fifth the Day shawna, Died Freddie, rosario a friend Of,
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Speaker 2: randall's got a call From. Randall Apparently randall was super.
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Speaker 3: Upset he said.
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Speaker 2: That he thought his, Wife, shauna had committed. Suicide So
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Speaker 2: freddy said That randall went inside the home while he
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Speaker 2: was still on the, line and Then freddy heard. Screaming after,
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Speaker 2: that they got, disconnected So freddy called an officer who
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Speaker 2: was a friend of.
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Speaker 3: His this officer contacted dispatch to try and get an.
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Speaker 2: Address the officer Called freddie back and finally they figured
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Speaker 2: out the address one two seven Four Dunstan. Drive the
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Speaker 2: two officers went together Too Dunstan. Drive they found the
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Speaker 2: garage door open and knocked on the front. Door randal
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Speaker 2: answered the, door and according to the officer's, accounts he
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Speaker 2: was sobbing and said she killed. Herself he directed the
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Speaker 2: police to the master. Bedroom they told him to sit
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Speaker 2: down while they went to check On. Shauna one of
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Speaker 2: the officers went into the. Bedroom they Saw seanna lying
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Speaker 2: there on the bed with her head lying on a
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Speaker 2: pillow near the. Headboards she had a single gunshot wound
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Speaker 2: to the middle of her. Forehead he noticed a small
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Speaker 2: revolver laying on the right side of her. Body shauna
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Speaker 2: had been shot once in the. Forehead there was blood
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Speaker 2: spattered all around the, bedroom on the, door, ceiling above the,
18:06
Speaker 2: bed and on two. Walls she was covered from the
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Speaker 2: waist down with a sheet and a small red. Blanket
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Speaker 2: blood was coming from both. Nostrils both of her arms
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Speaker 2: were bent at the elbows and extended, outward and her
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Speaker 2: hands were clenched into a fist lying across her. Chest
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Speaker 2: her white iPhone was sitting on the, bed still getting
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Speaker 2: calls and Text she had two photographs on her left.
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Speaker 2: Side both were framed pictures of her And. RANDALL A
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Speaker 2: taurus thirty eight caliber revolver was lying on her right.
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Speaker 2: Shoulder her right thumb was lying across the hand gripped
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Speaker 2: portion of. Revolver the top of the barrel and hammer
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Speaker 2: were against her, cheek and the hammer was. Down the
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Speaker 2: officer called for more. Backup he went back to check
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Speaker 2: On randall in the living. Room he asked him about
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Speaker 2: the last time he spoke With. Shauna randal said he
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Speaker 2: thought it was sometime around ten. Am that's When randal
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Speaker 2: told Police shauna had been depressed for quite some time
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Speaker 2: and that she threatened to kill herself at least once a.
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Speaker 2: Month so in response to, That randal told the officer
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Speaker 2: he had replaced the bullets in the gun with plastic.
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Speaker 2: Bullets randal said he And shauna had been arguing the
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Speaker 2: day Before january, fourth so he said he stayed in
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Speaker 2: a motel that night and didn't come back Until thursday,
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Speaker 2: Morning january. Fifth he said that when he went inside
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Speaker 2: the house and turned on the light While shauna was,
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Speaker 2: sleeping then he said they started, arguing and that's when
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Speaker 2: he claimed he saw the pistol lying on the. Bed
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Speaker 2: randal said they argued for thirty to forty five minutes
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Speaker 2: before he had to for. Work randal said he went to,
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Speaker 2: work and then from, work he Called shauna again to
19:49
Speaker 2: check in on. Her he said when he called, her
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Speaker 2: she threatened to kill herself. Again randal said he heard
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Speaker 2: her pull the trigger on the gun several. Times he
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Speaker 2: said after he heard the hollow, Click shauna got upset
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Speaker 2: and said she was going To walmart to buy real.
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Speaker 2: Bullets randal claimed that he rushed home to check On,
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Speaker 2: shauna but he said she was already in the bedroom
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Speaker 2: and would not let him get close to. Her he
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Speaker 2: said when he tried to cover distance between himself and the,
20:17
Speaker 2: bed she would tell him not to come any. Closer
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Speaker 2: randal told the officers they stayed there arguing for around four.
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Speaker 2: Hours it was a. Standoff he said that he was
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Speaker 2: trying to quote talk her down end. Quote randall said
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Speaker 2: eventually he got a bad. Headache he Thought shawna had calmed,
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Speaker 2: down so he went back to. Work he said that
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Speaker 2: when he came back hours, later he was on the
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Speaker 2: phone with Freddy zzari when he entered the house and Found.
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Speaker 2: Shawna then he asked the police if he could have
20:49
Speaker 2: his cell phone so that he could quote call his
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Speaker 2: lawyer to stop divorce papers from being sent in the.
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Speaker 3: Mail end.
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Speaker 2: Quote officers said. No they Told randall he needed to
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Speaker 2: stay off his. Phone one of the officers noticed there
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Speaker 2: were items that looked out of place in the entrance
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Speaker 2: area and living, room including the officer wrote in his,
21:08
Speaker 2: report an indoor plant knocked over near the, desk and
21:12
Speaker 2: a coffee table that appeared to be out of. Place
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Speaker 2: another officer noted the house was, cluttered dirty dishes were
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Speaker 2: in the kitchen, sink several liquor bottles were sitting next
21:22
Speaker 2: to the range on the kitchen, cabinet and there was
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Speaker 2: an empty wine bottle and.
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Speaker 3: Glass sitting on the kitchen.
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Speaker 2: Table another officer noticed there was a cardboard box in
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Speaker 2: the living room with small pictures put into the, box
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Speaker 2: as if someone was planning to. Move Officer Randy triplett
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Speaker 2: also noted that. Quote there were small pieces of material
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Speaker 2: on the floor in the living room and. Entryway the
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Speaker 2: pieces were approximately two inches long and an eighth inch.
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Speaker 2: Wide there was also a vacuum cleaner in the middle
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Speaker 2: of a living room end. Quote near the, body they
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Speaker 2: found a fifty count box of. Ammunition the box contained
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Speaker 2: forty five live rounds of thirty eight special bullets and
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Speaker 2: five red plastic dummy.
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Speaker 3: Rounds the second officer said he also spoke To.
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Speaker 2: Randall he Said randal told him That shauna had been
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Speaker 2: threatening to shoot herself all. Morning randal admitted he And
22:17
Speaker 2: shauna were having problems in their. Marriage he said he
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Speaker 2: quote caught her in several lives and had told her
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Speaker 2: she'd better come clean end. Quote he said he told
22:27
Speaker 2: her to tell him the whole.
22:28
Speaker 3: Truth or he would file for.
22:30
Speaker 2: Divorce randal told police that On november, ninth twenty, Eleven
22:34
Speaker 2: shawna had filed a police report with A Choctaw tribal
22:37
Speaker 2: police at a nearby casino for. Assault she alleged that
22:42
Speaker 2: a man called her and wanted to meet at the,
22:44
Speaker 2: casino and then when they, did the man allegedly assaulted
22:47
Speaker 2: her by running his hand up her. Dress randall claimed
22:51
Speaker 2: he didn't Believe. Shauna he thought she was making the story.
22:54
Speaker 2: Up this prompted him to get a copy of the police.
22:56
Speaker 2: Report he claimed he was, right the alleged assault did not.
23:00
Speaker 2: Happen police at the scene noticed there was a copy
23:03
Speaker 2: of that incident report at their, Residence so, Basically randall
23:08
Speaker 2: claimed the reason for their potential divorce was down To.
23:11
Speaker 2: Shauna he said they argued about her lying and that
23:14
Speaker 2: he suspected she was covering up, something but he did
23:17
Speaker 2: not know. What in, fact he said that when he
23:20
Speaker 2: came home On thursday, morning he believed she was in
23:23
Speaker 2: bed with another, man but he said he found her.
23:26
Speaker 2: Alone he said he And shauna both had trust. Issues
23:31
Speaker 2: according To, Randall shauna accused him of meeting someone when
23:34
Speaker 2: he would get called out to the. Hospital shauna believed
23:38
Speaker 2: That randal was cheating on. Her randall told police he
23:43
Speaker 2: started taking pictures with a camera that was timestamped to
23:46
Speaker 2: prove he was at, work but he said That shawna
23:50
Speaker 2: did not want to see them when he would try
23:51
Speaker 2: to show. Her randal told police that he felt trapped
23:56
Speaker 2: and he did not know what to. Do all he
23:59
Speaker 2: claimed to want was For shawna to be truthful about her.
24:02
Speaker 3: Past he claimed that she.
24:04
Speaker 2: Refused randal told another officer a very similar story with
24:08
Speaker 2: a few additional. Details he said that on that, morning
24:12
Speaker 2: by the time he got, home he realized That shauna
24:15
Speaker 2: had followed through on her. Threat she had gone out
24:18
Speaker 2: and purchased real. Ammunition randal said she was lying in the,
24:22
Speaker 2: bed and this, time he, said she actually had the
24:25
Speaker 2: gun pressed against her forehead when he was trying to
24:27
Speaker 2: talk her down for. Hours, otherwise the story was pretty.
24:30
Speaker 3: Similar he. Said he eventually returned to.
24:33
Speaker 2: Work after he got to, Work randal said he got
24:36
Speaker 2: two phone calls From, shauna but he said he didn't
24:39
Speaker 2: answer them because he was mad at. Her he said
24:42
Speaker 2: he decided to go home to check On, shauna but
24:44
Speaker 2: was scared to go. Inside that's why he said he
24:47
Speaker 2: Had freddy on the. Phone then he Had freddy call
24:50
Speaker 2: the police for him and waited for them to. Arrive
24:53
Speaker 2: the second officer noted that when the police were Asking
24:57
Speaker 2: randall for specific, Times randal became somewhat angry and said
25:02
Speaker 2: the times were all on his. Phone once the second
25:05
Speaker 2: officer Told randall he would have to repeat his story
25:08
Speaker 2: to some more. Detectives the officer Said randal told him
25:12
Speaker 2: that he wanted to talk to a. Lawyer he said
25:15
Speaker 2: that what happened quote was cut and dried end, quote
25:18
Speaker 2: and he said he did not want the police putting
25:21
Speaker 2: anything on. Him detectives Took randall's black. iPhone they returned
25:27
Speaker 2: it to him a few days. Later they gave Him
25:30
Speaker 2: shawna's white, iPhone the one that was next to her
25:33
Speaker 2: in the.
25:33
Speaker 3: Bedroom.
25:34
Speaker 2: Back on the following, Day january, sixth another officer looked
25:39
Speaker 2: inside the walking closet in the master. Bedroom they found
25:42
Speaker 2: a black and gray under armour jacket with an unknown
25:45
Speaker 2: reddish stain on the left. Sleeve the jacket was turned
25:48
Speaker 2: into the crime lab so that it could be tested for,
25:50
Speaker 2: blood but there is nothing in the report about what
25:54
Speaker 2: happened to those, tests if it was ever, tested or
25:57
Speaker 2: what the results, were if.
25:58
Speaker 3: Any in this police.
26:00
Speaker 2: Report in my, opinion it seems like some of the
26:04
Speaker 2: officers were clearly skeptical of elements Of randall's. Story, however
26:09
Speaker 2: there was also evidence in the apartment that police found
26:13
Speaker 2: evidence that did appear to point To shawna taking her own.
26:16
Speaker 2: Life police saw a written, letter purportedly a suicide note
26:31
Speaker 2: on the. Table it read, QUOTE, I Shanna bellis wished
26:35
Speaker 2: that my daughter be left to my, Parents lucky And Teresa,
26:38
Speaker 2: graham if something should happen to. ME i also wish
26:42
Speaker 2: that all my personal, effects such as my, house be
26:45
Speaker 2: left to. THEM i leave nothing to my, Spouse Randy.
26:48
Speaker 2: Ballis these are my final. Wishes it was Signed Shauna
26:52
Speaker 2: biallis On january, fourth twenty, twelve police Noticed shauna had
26:58
Speaker 2: been fatally shot with a thirty eight caliber, Handgun yet
27:02
Speaker 2: there was no thirty eight caliber ammo located inside the,
27:06
Speaker 2: residence but when police Searched shawna's, car they found a
27:10
Speaker 2: box Of Remington brand thirty eight caliber ammo in her.
27:14
Speaker 3: Purse then they went To.
27:16
Speaker 2: Walmart they pulled the surveillance video footage to Check randall's
27:19
Speaker 2: claim That shawna had bought.
27:21
Speaker 3: The, ammunition and they did see her on.
27:24
Speaker 2: Camera they also talked to the salesperson who helped her that.
27:28
Speaker 2: Day One walmart, Employee Russell, ferris stated That shawna had
27:33
Speaker 2: come into the store, twice once On wednesday once On.
27:36
Speaker 2: Thursday that employee was able to provide detectives with a
27:39
Speaker 2: still photo Of. Shauna police stated that they could See
27:44
Speaker 2: shawna on camera parking her Red Cadillac, suv Entering, walmart
27:49
Speaker 2: and approaching the sporting goods counter at six thirty five.
27:52
Speaker 2: Am police also spoke to The walmart, Associate Donald, maxwell
27:57
Speaker 2: who actually Helped shauna with her. Purchase he Said shawna
28:01
Speaker 2: told him she wanted the ammunition for home. Protection he
28:04
Speaker 2: said she asked questions like which ammunition would be best
28:07
Speaker 2: if it would kill a person if they.
28:09
Speaker 3: Were shot by. It shawna didn't seem to have.
28:11
Speaker 2: Much knowledge regarding the gun or the, ammunition and That
28:14
Speaker 2: shauna was asking him what people normally buy for home.
28:18
Speaker 2: Defense he showed her a nine millimeter bullet hollow.
28:21
Speaker 3: Point when he.
28:23
Speaker 2: Asked her if she was purchasing the shells for someone
28:25
Speaker 2: else or, herself he, Said shauna replied for. Herself donald
28:31
Speaker 2: said he told her the hollow point would, mushroom flatten
28:34
Speaker 2: out and do more. Damage donald said that while they
28:38
Speaker 2: were completing the, Transaction shawuna was not in a bad.
28:41
Speaker 2: Mood donald said that when making a decision on the shell,
28:45
Speaker 2: Type shawna asked him which one would do the most.
28:48
Speaker 3: Damage he told her the hollow point.
28:51
Speaker 2: Would shauna asked if the shells she bought would kill
28:54
Speaker 2: someone if they came through the, door and he told
28:56
Speaker 2: her that, yes it would kill someone if it.
28:59
Speaker 3: Hit them on the.
29:01
Speaker 2: Surface it seems Like shauna was more concerned about someone
29:05
Speaker 2: coming in to attack her than she was about. Suicide then,
29:09
Speaker 2: again she could have been lying or trying to Misdirect
29:13
Speaker 2: things took an even stranger turn for the bazaar when
29:16
Speaker 2: detectives Contacted Brian, White shawna's ex husband and the father
29:20
Speaker 2: of her, Daughter. Bella brian told police he And shawna
29:24
Speaker 2: did not really get along and that was not uncommon
29:27
Speaker 2: for them to not speak for several. Months in, fact
29:30
Speaker 2: at the, time he had not seen his daughter in
29:32
Speaker 2: around two. Years but he told police that about a
29:36
Speaker 2: month Before shawna's fatal, shooting he was contacted out of
29:40
Speaker 2: the blue by a person a. Man this person identified
29:44
Speaker 2: himself by the name Of Grace jones and claimed to
29:46
Speaker 2: be a marriage counselor who worked For Randy. Biallis brian
29:50
Speaker 2: told police That grace was asking him a lot of
29:53
Speaker 2: strange and intrusive, questions including if he was Protecting shauna
29:57
Speaker 2: for any, reason what his relationship With shawna, was was
30:00
Speaker 2: it brief or long? Term brian Said grace told him
30:05
Speaker 2: That shawna had stated That brian worked for the government
30:08
Speaker 2: as a hit man and if anything happened to her
30:12
Speaker 2: that he would Hunt randal down and kill him and
30:14
Speaker 2: no one would know who did. It brian said he
30:17
Speaker 2: became uneasy with this line of questioning and stopped answering the,
30:21
Speaker 2: questions and just over a month after, This shawna was found.
30:25
Speaker 2: Dead randall was never arrested or charged in connection with her.
30:30
Speaker 2: Death shawna's death was ruled a. Suicide her body was
30:34
Speaker 2: sent to The State Medical examiner's, office but the autopsy
30:37
Speaker 2: report was limited to her, head and no toxicology reports
30:41
Speaker 2: or more extensive autopsies were ever done in accordance with state.
30:46
Speaker 2: Regulations reports indicate that all records connected to the suicide were.
30:51
Speaker 2: Destroyed life moved, on and For Randal, bellis it seemed
30:55
Speaker 2: to move pretty. Quickly just over four months After shawna's
31:00
Speaker 2: violent and tragic, death In may of twenty, Twelve.
31:03
Speaker 3: Randall Married Charity.
31:04
Speaker 2: Belie then in twenty twenty, one police records indicate That
31:09
Speaker 2: Officer Gregory napier was asked to Review shawna's case again
31:14
Speaker 2: after getting information from The Bananza Police. Department according to an,
31:18
Speaker 2: Officer Stephanie, hill one of the family members had said
31:22
Speaker 2: That shauna had been killed by her husband and her
31:24
Speaker 2: husband's current, wife Meaning randal And. Charity Stephanie hill had
31:29
Speaker 2: bodycam footage of an incident With randall And Charity bealis
31:32
Speaker 2: at their. Home during that, incident she talked To, Randy charity's.
31:36
Speaker 2: Father randy told the, Officer charity had told him she
31:41
Speaker 2: was the one who Shot, shawna and the chair had
31:44
Speaker 2: made a comment about being. Glad the officers on that
31:46
Speaker 2: scene did not dust for prints on the, wineglass presumably
31:50
Speaker 2: meaning the one that was spotted on the, table since
31:53
Speaker 2: she said that was the one she had been drinking
31:55
Speaker 2: out of when she was in The billis. Home police
31:59
Speaker 2: reviewed the, information but they determined since they had Seen
32:02
Speaker 2: shauna buying the ammunition On walmart, herself apparently there was
32:06
Speaker 2: nothing further to. Investigate many people still have a lot
32:11
Speaker 2: of questions about that crime, scene AND i don't know
32:14
Speaker 2: if we'll ever get closure around the case Of Shawna.
32:16
Speaker 2: Graham next, week in part, two we're going to dive
32:20
Speaker 2: Into John powell's restraining order against his mother and, Stepfather
32:24
Speaker 2: charity And, randall the video of them slashing the tires
32:26
Speaker 2: that have gone, viral and go deeper into this case
32:30
Speaker 2: that is making headlines, nationally while remembering that at the
32:33
Speaker 2: heart of this viral true crime story or a mother
32:37
Speaker 2: and two children who were brutally. Murdered charity and her
32:41
Speaker 2: children's deaths are still part of a very active ongoing.
32:45
Speaker 2: Investigation no suspects have been named by. Police no one
32:49
Speaker 2: has been arrested or. Charged once, Again randall's, Attorney Michael,
32:54
Speaker 2: pierce has stated numerous times That randall completely denies any involvement.
32:59
Speaker 3: In the deaths of his wife and.
33:00
Speaker 2: Children he Told The Daily, mail, quote we hope that
33:04
Speaker 2: The sheriff's office finds the truth about what happened To
33:07
Speaker 2: Miss Charity bealis and their. Children Mister beallis was not
33:10
Speaker 2: responsible for the death of Missus bellis nor his children's
33:14
Speaker 2: deaths end. Quote he added That randall had been interviewed
33:18
Speaker 2: by police and has fully cooperated with the police. Investigation
33:22
Speaker 2: according to the latest INFORMATION i. Have The Sebastian County
33:26
Speaker 2: Sheriff's Office Criminal Investigation division is in charge of the.
33:29
Speaker 2: Investigation in a press, release The Sebastian County Sheriff's office
33:34
Speaker 2: announced they have served quote a half dozen search warrants
33:37
Speaker 2: and are seeking a dozen, more and have been flooded with,
33:40
Speaker 2: tips but have named no suspects end. Quote they also
33:44
Speaker 2: announced they were getting help from THE, feds that The
33:47
Speaker 2: Secret service And Federal Homeland security investigators have joined The
33:50
Speaker 2: Sebastian County Sheriff's. Office a news release issued by The
33:59
Speaker 2: Sebastian County Sheriff's captain red. Quote investigators are working hard
34:04
Speaker 2: to get, answers coming in early and staying. Late but
34:07
Speaker 2: as in any major, investigation a thorough and proper investigation
34:11
Speaker 2: cannot be hurried or held to an exact. Timeline the
34:15
Speaker 2: efforts of this office are to find the.
34:17
Speaker 3: Truth we thank the public for all of the tips
34:20
Speaker 3: which have been. Received end.
34:22
Speaker 2: Quote this investigation is still. Ongoing police have asked anyone
34:27
Speaker 2: with any information related to the deaths Of charity and
34:30
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