Terrifying New Details: Charity Beallis’ Son Speaks Out After the Murder of His Family

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

True Crime

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

New and deeply disturbing details are emerging in the murders of Charity Beallis and her six-year-old twins, Eliana and Maverick, found shot to death inside their Arkansas home just one day after Charity’s divorce was finalized. In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield speaks exclusively with Charity’s surviving son, John Powell, discusses what he says his mother endured, and his own frightening encounters with his former stepfather, and why he says he still lives in fear today. John shares firsthand accounts, video evidence, and the devastating fight now unfolding over his mother’s and siblings’ remains.

Drop Dead Serious merch is officially HERE! Tap the link and check out the new store... 20% OFF discount automatically applied at checkout through 12/19. Go grab your favorites!
https://shop.dropdeadserious.com/

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey everybody. I'm Ashley Banfield and this is Drop Dead Series and we are still in the holidays,
0:11.0	which means you are still trying to figure out what to get somebody. And guess what?
0:15.7	Yes, I already opened the merch store, but guess what I'm doing? I'm extending the 20% off all next week. I was going
0:22.4	to stop it tomorrow. Today is the 11th, but I'm extending it. So if you still have to get your
0:28.5	holiday presents, go get like a hoodie or a sweatshirt or a t-shirt or a mug or a notepad
0:33.8	or some accessories for your phone, etc. Shop shop dot dropdeadseries.com.
0:39.6	Shop dot drop deadseries.com.
0:42.6	Why not?
0:43.6	Heck, you could be dropped dead serious too.
0:46.5	I've already put in my order because I have to buy it too, which is crazy, right?
0:50.8	But I'm waiting for the black hoodie with this graphic design behind it. So as soon as I have it, I'm going to wear it on the first episode once I get it. It's on the way, I'm told. I have a lot to cover on this episode. A wrenching case. Honestly, a wrenching case out of Arkansas that really just became so much more tragic and really so much more bewildering.
1:14.9	Look, we have talked about Charity Bialis before and her two beautiful children,
1:20.6	Eliana and Maverick. I've just learned their names, Eliana and Maverick.
1:26.1	But tonight we are seeing Charity and her twins in a
1:28.7	whole new light and the unspeakable crime that was committed against all three of them
1:35.0	is starting to come into an even more disturbing focus. This murder, a 40-year-old charity
1:43.5	and six-year-old Eliana and Maverick, has stunned this community,
1:49.0	especially because it was so unbearably violent and so cruel, and because police have not yet said who did it.
1:57.8	Mom and both kids were found shot to death inside the mansion that they once shared
2:03.8	with the children's father, Charity's husband, the husband that she had literally just
2:10.9	divorced the day before. Dr. Randallis. Dr. Bialis is a prominent physician in this community, a family doctor
2:21.5	who's had his fair share of trouble with the law. And Charity's family says that Charity was
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.