On the morning of December 3, 2025, deputies conducting a welfare check entered a home on the 1100 block of South First Avenue in Bonanza, Arkansas, and found 40-year-old Charity Beallis Powell and her six-year-old twins dead of gunshot wounds. The discovery came one day after Charity attended a final hearing in her divorce, where she had been seeking sole custody and had expressed concerns for the children’s safety.

Court records show a history of domestic trouble: Dr. Randall Beallis, the estranged husband, was arrested in February 2025 after Charity reported he choked her in front of the children and later pleaded guilty to third-degree domestic battery in October 2025, receiving a suspended sentence. Investigators executed multiple search warrants and federal agencies including Homeland Security and the Secret Service became involved; a bag with the family’s belongings was recovered from a dumpster near Chaffee Crossing on December 6.

No official suspect or arrests have been announced, and the investigation remained active as of late December 2025. A postmortem dispute followed: Charity’s adult son John Powell was granted custody of her body for burial while the twins’ remains were released to their father. If anyone has information about Charity, her children, or movements around Bonanza and Chaffee Crossing in early December, please share what you know.