'Abusive' Doctor Dad Refuses to Bury Twins with Dead Mom: Family

There has been another tragic twist in. the case of an Arkansas mother found. dead alongside her 6-year-old twins. The. body of Charity Beal Alice was buried. after her death, but the bodies of her. little boy and girl, they were released. to the father who many in the community. believe was involved in their deaths or. was somehow responsible. What do we know. though about this case? What do we know. about Dr. Randall Beal Alice? And what. is the latest information coming out of. this small town of Bonanza? We are. getting into it all with family law.

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was going through a bitter divorce from. her husband, Dr. Randall Beal Alice, a. family practitioner. He had already been. convicted of domestic violence just. right before Charity and her youngest. children, 6-year-old twins, they were. found dead in the home. And right after. Charity and the kids' deaths, Beal Alice. and his attorney filed a motion to. dismiss the divorce case. This is. according to local outlet 5 News. But. now there's something else that is very. controversial that has happened. While.

Charity's body was buried after her. funeral on December 29th, her children's. bodies were released to the father who. apparently chose not to let them rest. next to their mother. Now, to give you a. sense of the drama that is surrounding. this case, okay? I want to go back to. the beginning. And I do want to say, I. have to be clear here, Randall Beal. Alice has not been arrested. He has not. been accused of wrongdoing by police in. connection with Charity's death. In. fact, at one point investigators were.

trying to determine if someone had done. this to the family or if perhaps Charity. herself had harmed the children and. herself. To be clear, the Sebastian. County Sheriff's Office, they are still. investigating these deaths. Randall has. not been publicly named a suspect or a. person of interest. No arrests have been. made in connection with these deaths. Despite all that, there are those who. have been following this, who may be. close to Charity, who believe that Beal Alice was somehow.

responsible for what happened. December. 3rd, police responded to the Beal Alice. home in the tiny town of Bonanza, Arkansas. It's near the Oklahoma border. Family members had begged for a welfare. check after Charity stopped responding. to calls and messages. First responders, they go inside and they find the three. bodies inside the family's large. four-bedroom home, reportedly worth more. than $750,000. Now, investigators, to be clear, they've. been very tight-lipped about what. exactly was found inside that home and.

the injuries that Charity and the twins. sustained. But according to the Daily. Mail, autopsy results are still pending. But we do know that multiple law. enforcement agencies are involved in. this investigation. We're talking about. the Arkansas State Police, the Secret. Service, Homeland Security. This is per. the Daily Mail's reporting. And. according to court and jail records, Dr. Randall Beal Alice, the person who's now. at the center of all this, according to. court and jail records, Dr. Randall Beal. Alice was arrested back in February and.

booked into the Sebastian County Jail on. four charges. This is according to a. criminal information that was filed in. March. Domestic battery, two counts of. endangering the welfare of a minor in. the third degree, and aggravated assault. on a family or household member, specifically choking. Now, the reporting. indicates that the charges were later. amended and Beal Alice agreed to plead. guilty to just one count of third-degree. domestic battery in October. He was. given a one-year suspended sentence. He. was ordered to pay around $1,600 in.

court fees. And at this point, Beal Alice was no. longer living at the family home. Court. paperwork from October reads, "The. defendant is ordered to have no contact. with Charity Beal Alice and any member. of Charity Beal Alice's family, either. directly or indirectly, unless. authorized by a valid court order in a. domestic relations case, and only for. purposes of child visitation or custody. exchange as authorized by domestic. relations court orders." Now, Beal Alice. was also ordered to complete a domestic.

violence intervention program as part of. this. But soon after Beal Alice. allegedly attacked Charity in front of. the children, she requested a protective. order and filed for divorce. The divorce. filing states that the plaintiff is. entitled to a divorce from the defendant. pursuant to Arkansas code, general. indignities which have occurred. throughout this marriage and have. rendered the plaintiff's condition. intolerable. And Charity had requested sole custody. of the kids, of the twins. And as the.

case was ongoing, Charity actually. commented on an unrelated 5 News. Facebook post in August writing, "I'm. living this battle right now. I am the. victim, yet I've been treated like the. problem while the criminal, a local. doctor, is being shielded by the very. system that's supposed to protect us. I've tried to reach prosecuting attorney. Daniel Shoe, but he won't even accept a. letter from me. My voice as the victim. has been shut out. This is not just. about me, this is about a system that. protects offenders and rejects victims.

Lives are at stake, including the lives. of young children.". And that is so chilling knowing that. just months later Charity and the kids. would be dead. And it wasn't just the court that. Charity, by the way, was asking for help. before her death. It was reported that. Arkansas State Senator Terry Rice, who. confirmed to 5 News that Charity had. visited him sometime in early 2025. She reportedly told him she was fearful. of her life, the lives of her children.

He told 5 News that he put her in touch. with resources that are available. through the Arkansas State Police Crimes. Against Children Division. At one point, 5 News reports that Charity had. contacted the Arkansas Medical Board to. make complaints about Randall Beal. Alice, reportedly saying that state. police had done extensive interviews. with the children and that child abuse. charges were pending against Beal Alice. Although, to be clear, we found no. record of any child abuse charges. Now, Beal Alice spoke to the board, told the. board during a meeting that his twins,

his kids, have been instructed by. Charity to lie to the police. There are. a lot of twists and turns in this case. and I want to break it all down. I. thought, "Who would be better?" Probably. no one would be better than family law. attorney Randy Kessler to talk about. this. Um Randy, it's it it's great to see you. I mean, there is such a family law. aspect to this. There there's so many. disturbing details here. You have. divorce, you have custody matters. We. know those can be some of the most. emotional, most contentious, most.

uncertain cases that courts deal with. There's a lot of ripple effect. In your. experience, is there a heightened risk. of danger when it comes to these, you. know, supercharged cases? Um I mean, your initial impression. Well, my. impressions are. you know, circumstantial, circumstantial, circumstantial. And. these are always hard cases, right? Because. was his DNA around her? Of course. He. was her husband. Was Did he have an. excuse to be near her or to have her. things or to have the stuff that was. found in the trash bin? Could he have.

had access to that? He is her spouse or. almost ex-spouse because the divorce. wasn't finalized. I mean, trying to get. inside the minds of people going through. divorce has been my career. And I still. can't figure it out, you know, how does. somebody think? And often I tell my. clients when they're negotiating a. divorce, when they're litigating a. divorce, you know, when they say, "Why. would my husband do that?" I say, "If. you try to put your rational mind inside. of somebody else's mind, it doesn't work. You just can't figure. out what's going on in the mind of. somebody who's going through rejection,

jealously, anger, you know, loss of. their children or loss of the constant, you know, 100% time with their children. How does it result? Does it result in. anger? Does it result in therapy? Does. it result in happiness? I mean, sometimes it makes people do crazy. things and could that be something that. makes people look closer to him, especially with the timing? You know, it hits you, you're divorced, you're losing everything you thought you. had, you're losing your lifestyle. I. mean, this guy had a very really good.

standard of living, right? A good life. from the outside observer's perspective. You know, did that make him consider. this? It's going to make investigators. look at him a lot more carefully than. they would at somebody who was just a. passerby and happened to be in the. neighborhood at the right place at the. wrong time. Let me ask you this, if this. other theory of, let's say, she was And. we'll get into this. She would She would. have had to hand over the children to. him. as point of the court as part of the. court agreement. Have you ever seen. cases before where somebody engages in.

an episode of self-harm or hurts the. children um. as right, you know, on the precipice of. something like this happening? I I think I've seen it all and I I'm not. that egotistical to think I've seen it. all, but I've seen a lot. And the answer. is yes, but in two ways, Jesse. One is I. don't want to turn the children over to. him. I'm so depressed. I'm not going to. be okay without my children. I'm. dependent on them. Or, you know, I want to make sure he never. sees the children again. So, I'm going. to put, you know, a a framing on it or. I'm going to make it look bad. You know,

we heard that, you know, earlier on he. probably had a defense that the children. were told by their parents by their mom. to say certain things. So, yes, I've seen things like this, not. this exact situation, which is why I do. what I do. Every case is different, but. you know, he sounds like if he's. charged, there's a lot of defenses. There's no. actual eyewitness, no confession, you. know, the victims are gone. So, it it's. it would be a hard prosecution for what. we know now if they decide to prosecute. him. So, here's what we know about the.

timeline before and after Charity died. and I think it's really important. So, according to a statement from her ex's. attorney, Michael Pierce, on December. 2nd, Judge had awarded Beallice joint. custody of the twins as well as. decision-making for the children's. school and medical needs. Now, Pierce. says that Charity was ordered to give. the twins over to Beallice on December. 5th, but we know on December 3rd, so. this is one day after the custody. hearing, the three bodies were found in. the home. December 4th, Pierce filed a. motion to dismiss on behalf of his.

client so to dismiss the divorce case. writing prior to the finalization of the. above reference matter, the plaintiff. passed away, therefore defendant. requests requests that this action be. dismissed with prejudice, meaning it. can't be refiled and 5 News reports that. the judge did in fact order an abatement. due to Charity's death. Randy, is that. is that standard? Well, there was no. such thing as standard in family law, but yes, it's common. I've certainly. seen it before, you know. And I and I think I I read that Dad was. getting more time with the children than.

he'd had under previous temporary order. So, you know, it's after he's got a. legal reason to say I'm satisfied with. the arrangement. It's better than he had. before. But yes, you know, you file a divorce to be. unmarried. And since this divorce was. not finalized, even though the judge had. ruled, it had not been reduced to. writing and signed, the parties were no. longer married because she was deceased. So, there was no longer a basis for. divorce. We've been on the winning and. losing side of that argument. Sometimes. judges keep the divorce case open so. they can adjudicate who gets to live in. the house or what happens to the stuff. on an immediate basis.

But in this case, apparently the judge. said, "I don't need to issue the divorce. because in the divorce you grant them. the status of not being married. anymore." And now he's not married. anymore because his wife is deceased. You know, until death do us part. So, it. is common that cases get dismissed. They're supposed to automatically be. dismissed with some advice. The kid care. was it? The judge had technically ruled. and heard the evidence, but it hadn't been finalized. It's not. finalized until it's signed and filed in. with the clerk. So, in other words, this is many times. this could be about property. This could.

be about money. This could be about. assets and by all accounts, if the. divorce has now been dismissed, the. divorce filing, everything could. potentially go to him? Yes. Let's start with the children. The. children won't go to him if there's no. divorce filing. >> Well, well, well, I mean the children. are dead. Right. Right. But in a normal. case, it would be the children would go. to. um him anyway or he could go back and. file something and say I want the. children. Nobody else would have a right. to them. But you in this case, yes, that's a reason a lot of people want the.

divorce dismissed because if she was. awarded property in the divorce, then. after her death, it would go to her. heirs and whoever was in her will if she. created a new will or her next of kin, which would no longer be him. if they were divorced. >> Yeah, there is an adult son who we're. going to talk about as well. By the way, just to be clear, so Pierce, who's Beallice's attorney, has adamantly. denied that. Beallice had anything to do with his. family's demise telling the Daily Mail, "We hope that the sheriff's office finds. the truth about what happened to Mrs.

Charity Beallice and their children. Mr. Beallice was not responsible for the. death of Mrs. Beallice nor his. children's deaths. Mr. Beallice has. given a voluntary interview and allowed. access to anything requested by the. Sebastian County Sheriff's Office in. their investigation. But we do have to. talk about something else. We have to. talk about this stunning twist. So, just. three days after Charity and the twins. were found, there was a dumpster diver. that was apparently looking through. trash more than a dozen miles from the.

Beallice home. Finds a black garbage bag and it is. reportedly full of family keepsakes. The. New York Post reports that there were. photographs of Charity with her. children. There was framed portraits. There was a children's painted artwork. There was a delicate gold necklace. belonging to Charity. It was engraved. with the names of her children. It's. unclear how those items came to be put. in that dumpster, who put them there, but according to paperwork, the. apartment complex where the items were.

found, that is the same as the address that. Randy Beallice provided during his. domestic violence arrest. And to be. clear, police have not named Beallice as a. person of interest or a suspect, but the. personal belongings being found near a. place or reportedly found where he. lived, Randy, very strange, very. suspicious, no? Yeah, it's very strange, very suspicious. It's not proof of guilt.

because there are alternate explanations. and that's all defense lawyer needs. You. know, when you go through divorce, you're angry, you're frustrated. I've. seen all sorts of situations. I've seen. people go in and actually physically cut. their spouse out of the pictures. and have a whole photo album even them. with the children with the spouse cut. out because they're so angry. So, if. this was done by him before the the the. death, then it could be explained as, yes, he was upset about his wife. divorcing him and he just wanted to get. away all members because every time he. looked at a picture of her and the kids,

it brought him sadness. It's not something we want people to do. It doesn't sound nice. It certainly. doesn't on its own mean that he murdered. her. On the other hand, if it was after. the case. unfolded, after she her body was found. and after she was killed, then maybe. it's getting rid of potential evidence. Uh it's just an interesting fact, but on. its own, not a big deal. Interesting, you know, curiosity. Yeah, it's a big deal. Um but on its. own, I don't think it means a lot. It. can be explained away.

uh by other factors. You you didn't want. to see her. He was mad at her. He wanted. her out of his life. Anything to do with. him he wanted to get rid of. I see that. a lot. >> So, Yeah, so and then look, there it's hard. to know what to make of this. I will say. as the uh Sebastian County deputies, they work to figure out what happened to. Charity and the children, there is this. older case that involves Randy Beallice. and his then wife that is resurfacing, okay? So, it's January 2012, Fort Smith. police officers, they respond to the.

home of Randall and Shauna Beallice. Outlet KNWA reports that when Beallice. answered the door, he told the officers, "She killed herself." So, police, they. find Shauna dead in the bedroom from a. gunshot wound. KNWA says a report that. was filed about the incident noted that. there was furniture and other items that. were scattered around the home. Beallice. told officers that he came home from. work because Shauna had threatened to. harm herself. He said he spent several. hours at home, then went back to work,

returned later, found her dead. The. medical examiner later ruled her death. self-harm. And years later, the case was. reportedly re-examined because Charity's. father had claimed that Charity knew who. had pulled the trigger in Shauna's case, but the case was apparently closed. because of a lack of evidence according. to KNWA, which reported that much of the. evidence from the original investigation. was destroyed after Shauna's death was. ruled self-inflicted. Um Randy,

again, very strange development. I mean, on one hand, authorities at the time. didn't believe there was anything more. to suggest it was a homicide, but then. you have this idea of, you know, let's re-examine it um. and there's not evidence to really. re-examine, but also, you couple it with. the death of Charity, strange coincidence? I mean, again, the. conclusion would be you have two wives. of Beallice who what died from gunshot.

wounds and they're both. at you know, self-inflicted? Yeah, it's starting to add up, right? The pieces are starting to come. together. You know, there's there are a. lot of cliches. You know, where there's. smoke, there's fire. You know, you got. this, you got the dumpster stuff that. that somebody found. You know, starting. to piece together that. maybe not enough to be the beyond a. reasonable doubt standard in a criminal. case, but for lay people like us, uh you know, we can start to connect the. dots. This guy had two wives that died. by gunshot wounds. He had allegations.

that he was abusive. He had a video of. him slashing. tires on a on a on his family member's. car that he says was mine, I could do. what I want. I'd look a little closely at it if I was. a prosecutor and I saw all these former. facts. I don't know that it means he. gets convicted because he might have. done it before. It's not a similar. transaction. It's not something that can. be introduced as, hey, he did it before, so he'll probably do it again. Um the. question probably for prosecutors is. going to be, if they charge him, which. case do they have more possibility of a. conviction? Um I don't know what else.

they have, whatever they have, but. again, no eyewitnesses, no confession. Not sure they're going to be able to. prosecute with what we know they have. Well, one of the people who has come. forward to call out Beallice for his. alleged bad behavior is Charity's. 24-year-old son, John Powell. I. mentioned him before. So, he claims he. witnessed violence involving the couple. firsthand back in 2020 when he was 17. This was referenced in a petition for. emancipation because John had claimed. that he had a video of both of his.

mother and Beallice using a knife or an. ice pick to slash and ruin his truck. tires, all reportedly while holding the. infant twins. That video was apparently. later shared on Facebook. Now, Randy, what do you make of that? I mean, that they were both allegedly involved? Yeah, but you know, there's only one. person left to be accusing. You know, it. feeds the narrative, right? The story is. unfolding that he had a first life who. died a grand shots, a second life who. died a grand shots, that he's been. violent, that he's been violent. That's.

just probably where nobody can see but. he couldn't control himself and thought, apparently, it was okay. He knew he was. being recorded when he slashed those. tires. And when he was questioned about. it, he said, "It's my truck. I can do. what I I paid for it. I can do what I. want with it." This indignance, this. ability to say, "I'm not only am I doing. this, but I don't think there's anything wrong. with me doing this.". I mean, anybody that saw that video, they're. There's something wrong with them. You know, John did an interview with the. Daily Mail and he revealed, and this is.

the big part that we're talking about. now, that while he received his mother's. body, right, for it to be buried, this. is when it was released by. investigators, it was the bodies of his. half-siblings. They were released to their father. He. told the outlet, "It's sickening. I was. hoping to have them all in the same. place as they deserved and how they. would have wanted it. It's just been a. lot. I don't even know if the kids have. been buried or cremated or where they. may be. I don't know anything at the. moment because Randall has told me.

nothing. It's heartbreaking." Yeah, that. that's such a strange part there, Randy. I mean, does that make sense to you, given the history, given all the. allegations, that the children's bodies. would be released to the father? Or at. the end of the day, you say, "Listen, you know, yes, he has this conviction. for. this domestic incident, but it was. regarding the mother. He hasn't been. implicated in the deaths of the mother. or the children. He has every right to. have the the children's bodies.".

Well, I would not want to be the person. in charge of making that decision, but. legally, you're innocent until proven. guilty. He is the father of these. children. He had just been awarded. significant parenting time and he's the. only parent left that should have the. right to do what he thinks is. appropriate with his children. What's. interesting though is he was also. technically still the husband. Right? But it was clear that her intentions. were to divorce him. She wanted to. divorce. There was. divorce. So, somebody had to make a. decision. You know, it's I could see a legal. justification for him.

being given his wife's body as well. because technically you're innocent. until proven guilty. It sounds like the right legal decision. I don't know if it was the right moral. decision, the right ethical decision, but legally, he's the dad. He's the one in charge. He. decides what happens to the children and. to their bodies. And the next of kin for. the mother, post-divorce or post-separation, was the son. So, it sounds like the. right decision by whoever made the. decision. I just would not have wanted to be in. that position because you're going to. get second-guessed forever.

Now, there's something else I have to. ask you about, Randy. So, according to. Arkansas court records, court paperwork. was filed to make John Powell the. administrator of Charity's estate and. the judge ordered that on December 30th. Why is that important? I mean, what will. he have access to? Could that have any effect on. potentially the investigation into. Charity's death and the children's. deaths? I mean, will he get access to. certain kind of information? Talk to me. about why that's so important that he. becomes the administrator. Well, he's in the loop. He doesn't have. to ask authorities for information about.

his mother's estate or his mother's, you know, everything's got to go through. him. The administrator is not the one. who decides who gets things. He's the. one who figures out what was the. intention of the will and how do you. administrate the will and make sure it. goes forward, but you have to have all. the details and you're in charge of. administering, of managing. how her stuff gets distributed, who it. gets distributed according to the law, either by her will or what the law says, which is to her next of kin. It's a. little bit interesting because, presumably, he's the next of kin. On the.

other hand, with no divorce pending, next of kin. is her husband. And so, you know, does. her husband get it all? Does the law in. that state say the husband gets half and. he gets half? He's in a weird, awkward. position of having to decide, you know, "How do I enforce the law?" He doesn't. get to choose what happens to her. estate. But yes, to answer your question. more specifically, he's more insider now. than he would have been. He's got some. legal authority, legal legal. qualification to say, "I want to know. what's going on." Because if she was.

murdered, that's a defense to compliance. with state law. You don't have to give. money to a murderer. Right? This is the. slayer statute we all hear about. You. can't kill somebody and then benefit. from their insurance or their estate. So, he's got the right to know more. about how she died than if he was not. the administrator. Mhm, it's a good. point. So, Charity's father, by the way, also named Randy. There's so many Randys. here. Um, but also named Randy. Uh, by. the way, that's not the reason we got. you on here. That's not the reason we. got you on here, Randy, just because. we're like, we need somebody. No. But.

the truth is So, his name's Randy. He. has also spoken out about his daughter. his daughter's death and his anger. reached the court as well because on. December 11th, the court clerk filed a. letter to the attorneys that are. involved in the divorce case and it. reads the following, "The court wants to. advise counsel that on December 3rd, 2025, my trial court assistant received. a phone call from the plaintiff's. father, Randy Powell, who is irate and. made accusations directed at the court. Specifically, Mr. Powell stated that the. judge might as well have pulled the.

trigger herself and that the judge. essentially killed his daughter and. grandchildren. Mr. Powell also stated. the court has blood on her hands and. asked if the court was still going to. keep him from his grandchildren. Following said phone call, the court. filed an incident report with the Fort. Smith Police Department." Now, one. interpretation there, Randy, could be, right? If Charity did this to herself. and her kids, blame the court, right, for granting him custody and that she. would have had to turn the kids over. I. mean, that could be one interpretation,

right? Yeah, and blaming the court is. never the right thing. I mean, this. you know, who would want to be a judge. in a situation like this? In fact, I. don't even think who would want to be a. judge ever. Because judges don't get to, you know, we always talk about in family. law and in civil cases, if we can settle. a case, we can use a scalpel and. fine-tune, you know, how we're going to. divide things. Whereas judges just have. a sledgehammer or mallet. They got to. figure it out on a moment's notice. They've got 15 other cases waiting. This judge is doing the best he can. He. doesn't know, you know, what happened.

All he knows is the law says, "If. someone's not alive anymore, there's no. basis for a divorce to proceed and I'm. going to dismiss the divorce or I'm. going to, you know, it's not the judge's fault. And I think. the judge is right to say, "Listen, I I'm not going to. prosecute you. I I don't want you to go. to jail for these things you said about. me, but you know, give him a little bit. of grace because he's a grieving. relative. But. it's not appropriate. Give him some. grace. He's suffering, but I don't think. it's going to go anywhere to say that. the judge has blood on their hands. They.

didn't do anything. So, try to invest. follow the law." Could there be. repercussions. for comments like that to the court? A filing like this to get it on the. record for any future proceedings? I. mean, how does alleged comments like. that. How does it affect anything? Only if it rises to incitement. I think. the judge is right to make an issue of. it and to sort of file a report. So, if. people around. this guy don't say, "Hey, calm down. We. know you're grieving, but you need to. stop that." It sort of heightens the. awareness, puts a spotlight on it to.

make sure that it doesn't escalate. And. if it does escalate, then there will be. consequences and there will be a. temporary protective order entered. keeping this guy away from the judge and. from the courthouse and from the staff. Let's hope it ends there. Let's hope it. was an outburst of frustration and that. common sense prevails. But if it. doesn't, then this is the right first. step by the court to just bring. awareness to him and say, "Hope it stops. Hope it goes away. But. if not, judge has to protect themselves." Randy. Kessler, thank you so much. Appreciate. it. Always.

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