Mom & Twin Tots Executed 24hrs After Divorce from Abusive Doc Finalized| Crime Alert 6PM 12.08.2025

"He's going to kill me & the kids," An AK mom's terrifying prophecy becomes a reality hours after her divorce is finalized. Although no one has been charged, the victim's family insists there's only ONE suspect. 

A son turns his family's deli into a slaughterhouse after killing his mom & dad & confessing to the horrific crime. Plus, Idaho butcher Bryan Kohberger's Christmas is crumbling. Jennifer Gould reports. 

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Episode Transcript

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Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news. Now, I'm Jennifer Gould.
My ex husband is going to murder me and our twins.
That was Charity Ballis's terrifying prediction to judges, deputies, and
even an Arkansas State Senator, but nobody stopped it. Her
worst nightmare became a brutal reality, her family says, less

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than twenty four hours after she walked out of a
Sebastian County courtroom with her divorce finalized from doctor Randall Billis,
a local physician with a history of domestic violence. Charity's
devastated dad, Randy Powell, spoke to KNWANBC News, there's nobody
else in the world at any reason to harm her

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of those babies with him. Deputies performing a welfare check
entered the modest home on First Avenue in Bonanza, Arkansas,
and found Charity and her two six year old twins,
a boy and a girl, shot to death. All three victims,
including the children still in their pajamas, had been executed

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with fatal gunshot wounds. According to the Sebastian County Sheriff's Office,
the final grim scene was the culmination of nine months
of desperate struggle court documents filed by Charity paint a
picture of relentless terror. In February of twenty twenty five,
the doctor was arrested for choking Charity in front of

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the children, leaving visible bruises on her neck. She filed
for divorce the following month, bleeding for soul custody and
citing the abuse as a direct threat to the twins' lives.
In a tragic twist of fate, the judge finalized the
divorce on December twod but simultaneously awarded joint custody and

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expanded the doctor's visitation rights. The next day, Charity and
the twins were gone dead. Charity's twenty four year old son,
John Powell, gave voice to the family, seering grief. He
spoke to the media, my mother fought for nine months,
the last nine months to save her life and the
babies now all three of us did. In a chilling PostScript,

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doctor Bellis's attorney filed emotion on December fourth, the very
day after the bodies were found, to dismiss the divorce entirely.
This legal maneuver, if granted, would revert sole control of
all assets, including the family home and custody of the
murdered children back to the doctor. Basically, he gets everything

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Charity would have gotten in the divorce, despite his attorney
stating he's cooperating. Doctor Bellis has not spoken publicly and
his current whereabouts are unknown, but family members say there
is only one suspect. So far, though no arrests have
been announced and the Sebastian County Sheriff's Office has released

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no new details, Doctor Bialis has not been named as
a suspect and has not been charged in the case yet.
Autopsies are still pending at the Arkansas State Crime Lab.
The investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information is urged to
contact the Sheriff's office at four seven nine seven eighty

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three ten fifty one. More crime and justice news After this,
a Long Island Italian deli, known for its homemade subs
and decades of warm hospitality, was transformed into a slaughterhouse
when the owners estranged son allegedly knife them both to

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death in a gruesome backroom attack. Veto Dembrosio, thirty stands
charged with two counts of first degree murder in the
brutal execution of his mom. Angela Peliciano sixty two and
his father and Tonio Ambrosio, seventy, the beloved pillars of
a and a Italian deli and pizza for over three decades.

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The fatal confrontation erupted around nine am when Ambrosio drove
to the Hicksville Road store and Bethpage, New York. Investigators
say the argument escalated in the rear storage area, where Ambrosio,
who was wearing an ankle monitor from an unrelated prior case,
delivered fatal throat wounds to his mom. He then immediately

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turned the knife on his seventy year old father, inflicting
similar wounds, Andtonio was rushed to a local hospital but
could not be saved. Responding Nassau County police arrived at
nine to eleven am following a nine one one call
and found Ambrosio in the parking lot, his hands and
clothing splattered in blood. Before they could move in, ninety

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seven year old deli regular Joe Borros recounted the suspect's
immediate confession to a bystander. He spoke to SA two
New York. I just seen the son walking out and
he says that I stay at my parents, and that
was it. The tragedy was foreshadowed by Ambrosio's increasingly erratic behavior.

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On the way to the Delhi he allegedly stopped at
a nearby coffee shop and slapped a female employee on
the buttocks. Court record show the thirty year old was
estranged from his family and a protection order was issued
in November after a domestic dispute with his sister. Ambrosio,
currently hospitalized for a mental health evaluation, was hit with

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the murder charges in a bedside arraignment and remanded without bail.
And finally, talk about a miserable Christmas. Brian Cooberger, the
monstrous killer who butchered four college students, is spending his
holiday very far from a festive spread, locked up tight

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in restrictive housing at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution. The
infamous villain will not be bringing in the cheer. Guards
have to keep him in shackles, effectively canceling any special
Christmas activities. You know what they say about payback. His
only consolation prize, he amazingly made the nice list for

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the charity program Cookies for Corrections, scoring some Oreos, chips,
Ahoy and Nutter butters. But even on the block the
killer is reportedly networking. Sources reveal Coburger has been desperately
reaching out to other high profile serial killers across the country,
trying to find a buddy in his new life. No

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word yet if any of these notorious convicts have written back,
meaning no secret Santa exchange is on the menu. This
Siko earned his place behind bars after taking four young lives,
and now his pitiful holiday season has been justly crumbled,
leaving him to choke on the coal he deserves for

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his crimes. For the latest crime and justice news, follow
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with this Crime Alert. I'm Jennifer Gould.