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True Crime: Six Wives. Four Dead. Two Murder Trials. How Did Thomas Randolph Keep Getting Away With It?
Thomas Randolph had six wives. Four of them are dead. He was once acquitted of murdering one wife, later convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of another, had that conviction overturned - and somehow found himself back in a courtroom years later fighting essentially the same murder case.
If that sounds less like real life and more like an over-written crime thriller, Netflix’s The Widower: ’Til Death Do Us Part is here to remind us that sometimes the truth is considerably stranger.
Randolph’s story stretches across decades of marriages, deaths, life-insurance policies, accusations and courtrooms. He married six women. Four subsequently died.
His second wife, Becky Gault, died from a gunshot wound in a death initially ruled a suicide. Randolph was later prosecuted for her murder - and acquitted in 1989.
Then came Sharon Causse.
In 2008, Randolph called police after Causse was shot dead inside their Las Vegas home. Randolph claimed an intruder, Michael Miller, had killed his wife and that he had then shot Miller in self-defence.
Investigators eventually came to a very different conclusion. Prosecutors alleged that Randolph had recruited Miller to murder Causse as part of a scheme connected to her life-insurance policy - before killing Miller himself.
Randolph was convicted in 2017 and sentenced to death.
But even that wasn't the end.
In 2020, Nevada's Supreme Court overturned the conviction after finding that evidence concerning the death of Becky Gault had been improperly admitted at his trial. Randolph was granted a new trial.
In 2023, a jury convicted him again. In 2024, he was sentenced to 60 years to life.
And perhaps that is what makes The Widower so unsettling. It isn't simply asking, did this man kill his wife? A jury has already answered that question.
It raises something arguably more disturbing: how can one person accumulate this many red flags, suspicious circumstances and encounters with the justice system- and remain free for so long?
The documentary follows journalist Dan Slepian and Las Vegas homicide detective Dean O'Kelley as they pull apart Randolph's history, examining the women he married, the women who died and the extraordinary legal journey that followed.
Randolph himself makes the story even stranger. He gave remarkable access to journalists, appeared extraordinarily comfortable in front of the cameras and continued to insist on his innocence.
Four dead wives. An acquittal. A death sentence. An overturned conviction. Another trial. Another conviction.
Thomas Randolph didn't kill four of his six wives - at least, that has never been established in court. But the fact that four women he married ended up dead is precisely what makes his story so difficult to look away from.
The Widower: ’Til Death Do Us Part is now on Netflix.
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