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Good morning and thanks for joining me for Rise and Crime, your morning caffeine hit

All About Crime.

I'm Mama Jules and Merry Christmas.

I hope today is filled with peace and love and all things good, family and friends and hopefully

a little bit of perspective. Now, I didn't want to leave you guys hanging on a Christmas episode,

so today we're going to cover some shorter punchy stories to get you through your Christmas

baking or maybe it's cleaning or maybe even just a moment alone in the bathroom because your

house is full of people. All right, let's start with an update to a triple murder that occurred

the first week of December. The tragedy of the deaths of 40-year-old Charity Bellis and her six-year-old

twins, Ileana and Maverick. Okay, let's rewind and remind you how charity and her twins died.

On December 3rd, deputies from Sebastian County in Arkansas responded to a welfare check at a

quiet upscale home in Bonanza. When they arrived, a member of some sort of maintenance crew,

so maybe it was a cleaning crew or the yard work crew.

Somebody was there.

It's never really made clear in the reporting, but a worker opened the door and deputies

walked in to a nightmare scene.

Charity and the twins were found shot dead in their home.

No weapon, no forced entry.

And therefore, not a murder suicide. But the timing is

off, because just the day before, Charity had wrapped up a final divorce hearing between her and Dr.

Randall Bellis. He's the twin's father. The two had been estranged for nearly a year after Charity

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