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Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

Charity Beallis Warned She’d Be Killed — One Day After Court, She Was. Coffindaffer Explains the Failure

Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

True Crime Today

News, True Crime, News Commentary

3.3910 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

For nine months, Charity Beallis begged for help. She wrote letters. Posted warnings. Told friends, family, legislators — anyone who would listen — that she feared her estranged husband would kill her. On December 2nd, a judge awarded that man joint custody. On December 3rd, Charity and her two children were found shot to death.

Now the Secret Service and Homeland Security have joined a sprawling investigation, and the death of the suspect’s first wife in 2012 — also by gunshot, ruled a suicide, with evidence destroyed — has been reopened.

Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins us to break down the catastrophic red flags and the investigative roadmap unfolding behind the scenes.

We dig into:
– Why strangulation is the #1 predictor of intimate partner homicide
– Why Charity’s public warnings went ignored
– How federal agencies get involved when evidence suggests a pattern
– Why a previous spouse’s suspicious death changes everything
– The troubling court decision awarding custody the day before the killings
– What investigators are doing with 12+ search warrants and no arrest yet
– What happens to a medical professional’s license when they are under homicide investigation
– And the heartbreaking question: could anything have saved her?

This is one of the most disturbing domestic-violence system failures in recent memory — and Coffindaffer unpacks every layer.

#CharityBeallis #JenniferCoffindaffer #DomesticViolenceAwareness #HiddenKillers #TonyBrueski #TrueCrimePodcast #LethalityAssessment #StrangulationRisk #JusticeForCharity #DVReform


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0:00.0

This story is intense.

0:02.0

Let's catch our breath.

0:04.0

I'm Gaia, a tour leader we explore.

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And this is my favorite beach on the Amalfi coast.

0:09.0

No traffic, no crowds, no shoes!

0:13.0

I take my small groups here to cool off after we do the Walk of the Gods.

0:17.0

Tonight, music and my father's Limoncello.

0:20.0

Not everyone knows the hidden gems of the Amalfi,

0:23.3

but you will. If you explore, search explore.com. The UK. And don't just travel, explore.

0:30.2

This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole and Todd Michaels.

0:38.6

A mother in Arkansas spent nine months telling anyone who would listen that she was going to die.

0:44.5

Charity Bialis went to a state senator.

0:47.0

She posted on social media.

0:48.6

She shared statistics about strangulation and murder.

0:51.4

She wrote publicly that the prosecutor wouldn't take her letters and that the

0:56.3

system was protecting her abuser, a local doctor who had choked her in front of their six-year-old

1:01.3

twins. On December 2nd, a judge awarded that man joint custody on December 3rd, charity and both

1:07.1

children were found shot to death. No arrests have been made as of yet.

1:11.5

The Secret Service and Homeland Security have joined the investigation of the doctor's first wife.

1:16.0

She also died from a gunshot wound back in 2012.

1:19.4

Wow.

1:19.7

World of suicide.

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