Netflix’s new true crime documentary is getting a lot of attention.
The Widow: ‘Til Death Let’s Do Part hit the streaming service on Wednesday (September 30) and revisit the decades-old story of Thomas Randolpha Nevada man who was married six times and was finally convicted of murdering his sixth wife, Sharon Causseand Michael Miller.
The documentary follows a journalist And Slepian and a Las Vegas detective Dean O’Kelley as they study Randolphmarriages, the death of several of his wives, and the investigation that led to his murder convictions.
What happened to Sharon Causse?
Sharon and Michael was killed at the Las Vegas home she shared Randolph on May 8, 2008.
Randolph he told investigators he returned home with it Sharon and later she found out that he had been shot. He kept that Michael he was a spy and that he shot him after encountering him inside the house.
Prosecutors gave a very different account at the trial. They claimed that Randolph employed Michaelwho had worked as his handyman, killed Sharon as part of a home invasion on the platform so that Randolph they could collect over $300,000 in life insurance proceeds. Prosecutors said Randolph then killed Michael destroy him as a witness. Randolph to his innocence.
The case also attracted additional attention because Randolph‘marriage history. Four of the six women he married had died when he was arrested, although not all of these deaths led to charges or convictions.
His second wife Becky Gault He died in Utah in 1986 in a death that was initially ruled a suicide. Randolph he was later charged with her murder, but was acquitted by a Utah jury in 1989.
Why was Thomas Randolph tried twice?
Randolph was arrested in 2009 and then held in custody for eight years before going to trial in 2017. He regularly hired lawyers and then fired them before the trial started, which led to many delays.
Eventually, he went to trial and a Nevada jury found him guilty on two counts of first-degree murder. But in December 2020, the Nevada Supreme Court overturned his conviction.
He was granted a new trial in 2023 which focused only on murder Reason and Miller. The jury again found him guilty of two counts of murder and in April 2024, he was sentenced to 60 years to life.
Where is Thomas Randolph now?
He is now serving his sentence at the Lovelock Correctional Center in Pershing County, Nevada. Randolph tried to appeal his last sentence again but as of September 2026, he was dismissed, the Nevada Supreme Court has rejected his appeal and upheld his conviction. He is now 71 years old.
The Widow now streaming on Netflix.
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