According to a police report, Randy Powell said his daughter admitted she "is the one who shot Shawna" — Shawna Beallis, the previous wife of Dr. Randall Beallis. Charity allegedly told her father she was relieved detectives never fingerprinted a wine glass she'd been drinking from at the scene.
That wine glass was documented. It was never tested. Shawna's death was ruled a suicide in 2012. The evidence was destroyed. And the woman who allegedly confessed went on to marry the widower.
Now she's dead too — found December 3rd, 2025, alongside her children, one day after a court awarded her convicted abuser joint custody.
In this episode, we break down the 2012 death scene, the alleged confession captured on body-cam in 2021, and why Fort Smith police reviewed the case and changed nothing. We examine Randall Beallis' own statements to investigators — including his request, hours after his wife's death, to call his lawyer about stopping divorce papers. We look at Charity's nine months of documented warnings, her pleas to prosecutors and lawmakers, and the custody ruling that came one day before she and her children were found dead.
Two women connected to this man are now dead by gunshot. Thirteen years apart. A father's story keeps changing. The evidence is gone. And the only person who could have answered the questions that matter is silent forever.
The investigation is ongoing. No suspect has been named. The questions don't stop.
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