In May 2008, 57-year-old Sharon Causse was fatally shot in what appeared to be a home invasion after returning from a date night with her husband Thomas Randolph.
Randolph told police in Las Vegas that he found her dead and then shot a masked intruder, claiming he acted in self-defense after the intruder killed Sharon, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.
Investigators later learned that the intruder was a handyman named Michael Miller — who Randolph hired to kill Sharon, his sixth wife, in order to collect more than $300,000 in insurance money, prosecutors said, per the outlet.
But Sharon’s murder wasn’t the only death surrounding Randolph.
As authorities dug further, they found out that Randolph was married six times, with only two of his former wives still alive. Several died under mysterious circumstances, leading to his sinister nickname: “The Black Widower.”
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Randolph is now the subject of a three-part docuseries, The Black Widower: The Six Wives of Thomas Randolph, which premieres on Monday, July 15 from 9 p.m. to 12 a.m. EST on Investigation Discovery. The series features police archival footage and interviews with prosecutors, as well as those who know Randolph and his wives, following him as he stands accused — and is eventually convicted of — the double murders.
(An exclusive clip is shown below.)
In 1986, Randolph went on trial for allegedly killing his second wife, Becky Gault, in Utah, the Las Vegas Sun reported. Gault’s death was eventually deemed a suicide by the coroner and Randolph was acquitted. Her death provided roughly $500,000 in insurance money for Randolph, the Review-Journal reported.
Randolph was found guilty of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder in 2017 in connection with the deaths of Causse and Miller and was sentenced to death, according to 8 News Now. However, the Nevada Supreme Court reversed his conviction after ruling that the jury should not have heard about Gault’s death, deeming that the similarities that prosecutors pointed out were prejudicial.
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Following a second jury trial in 2023, Randolph was found guilty of two counts of murder and one count of conspiracy to commit murder, according to the Review-Journal. He was later sentenced to 60 years in prison.
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“I’m addicted to love, I’m a true romantic,” Randolph says of his six marriages in a preview for the upcoming docuseries. “That doesn’t make me a killer.”
The Black Widower: The Six Wives of Thomas Randolph premieres on Monday, July 15 from 9 p.m. to 12 a.m. EST on ID.
