A slain mom alerted a politician that she feared for her life not long before the bodies of her and her two young children were found in her Arkansas home.
Charity Beallis’s anxiety over what her estranged husband, Dr Randall Beallis, might do to her and the kids amid their bitter divorce battle was so acute that she went to speak to her state senator.
Charity explained to State Senator Terry Rice (R, AK) that she was fearful for her life and the lives of her twins, at some time earlier this year, the senator told News 5.
Rice put Charity in touch with different resources available through the Arkansas State Police Crimes Against Children Division, he said.
Police were called to the family’s $760,000 house in Bonanza, Arkansas, near the Oklahoma border, on Dec. 3 for a welfare check.
There, they found the bodies of Charity, 40, and her twin son and daughter, 6, dead from gunshot wounds.
She had been separated from her ex-husband since March this year, when the prominent doctor choked his wife at their home and was arrested for domestic violence.
He pleaded guilty to the charge and was handed a one-year suspended sentence, and ordered to pay more than $1,500 in court fees.
Charity was seeking full custody of the children under the divorce settlement, court documents show.
Just a day before their bodies were found, Charity had gone to a divorce hearing at the Sebastian County Courthouse, where Randall had been awarded joint custody of the kids.
