Netflix’s ‘The Widower’ True Story Defined: Who Is Thomas Randolph & Where Is He Now?

Netflix has a brand new true crime documentary getting a whole lot of consideration.

The Widower: ‘Til Death Do Us Part arrived on the streaming service on Wednesday (September 30) and revisits the decades-long story of Thomas Randolph, a Nevada man who was married six instances and was finally convicted of murdering his sixth spouse, Sharon Causse, and Michael Miller.

The documentary follows journalist Dan Slepian and Las Vegas detective Dean O’Kelley as they study Randolph‘s marriages, the deaths of a number of of his wives, and the investigation that resulted in his homicide convictions.

What occurred to Sharon Causse?

Sharon and Michael have been killed on the Las Vegas house she shared with Randolph on May 8, 2008.

Randolph informed investigators that he returned house with Sharon and later found that she had been shot. He maintained that Michael was an intruder and that he shot him after encountering him inside the home.

Prosecutors offered a really completely different account at trial. They alleged that Randolph had recruited Michael, who had labored as his handyman, to kill Sharon as a part of a staged house invasion in order that Randolph might collect more than $300,000 in life insurance money. Prosecutors stated Randolph then killed Michael to remove him as a witness. Randolph has maintained his innocence.

The case additionally drew extra consideration due to Randolph‘s marital historical past. Four of the six girls he married had died by the point of his arrest, although these deaths didn’t all end in felony fees or convictions.

His second spouse Becky Gault died in Utah in 1986 in a loss of life that was initially dominated a suicide. Randolph was later charged along with her homicide, however a Utah jury acquitted him in 1989.

Why was Thomas Randolph tried twice?

Randolph was arrested in 2009 after which held in custody for eight years earlier than going to trial in 2017. He was persistently hiring legal professionals after which firing them earlier than the trial would start, leading to a number of delays.

Eventually, he did go to trial and a Nevada jury discovered him responsible on two counts of first-degree homicide. But in December 2020, the Nevada Supreme Court overturned his conviction.

He bought a brand new trial in 2023 that was targeted solely on the murders of Causse and Miller. The jury discovered him responsible but once more on two counts of homicide and in April 2024, he was sentenced to 60 years to life.

Where is Thomas Randolph now?

He is now serving out his sentence at the Lovelock Correctional Center in Pershing County, Nevada. Randolph has repeatedly tried to attraction his newest sentence however as of September 2026, it was dismissed, the Nevada Supreme Court has dismissed his attraction plea and upheld his conviction. He is now 71 years outdated.

The Widower is now streaming on Netflix.

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