The Evil Monster: A Las Vegas jury found Thomas Randolph, 62, guilty on two counts of first degree murder in 2008 — one for the murder of his sixth wife, the other for the murder of the hit man he hired to kill her. Cold-blooded would be an understatement. The jury in Judge Stefany Miley’s courtroom sentenced him to death.
The 2017 trial exposed Randolph’s homicidal actions and overwhelmed the daughter of the woman murdered. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that Randolph showed no emotion when the sentence was read. Colleen Beyer, the daughter of the woman Randolph ordered to be killed, cried and embraced friends.
“He’s a monster,” Beyer told the Review-Journal. “He’s one evil, evil monster.”
“Randolph was married six times, and four of his wives are dead,” said an investigator in this YouTube video, which gives an overview of the case: CRIME WATCH: Thomas Randolph case — Man marries 6 women, only 2 survive
Oxygen’s Crime News reported the following: “Thomas Randolph was married six times. Four of his wives died under mysterious circumstances, leaving behind significant life-insurance policies for which he was the beneficiary. Between Randolph’s many weddings and his spouses’ high mortality rate, the Nevada resident was accused of being a ‘Black Widower.’ ”
The 2017 death sentence for killing his sixth wife, Sharon Causse, and a man named Michael Miller in 2008. The story Randolph was telling was that Miller had broken into their home and shot his wife in the head. Randolph said he subsequently killed Miller in self-defense. The prosecution, however, put forth a case that told a different story. They argued that Randolph had hired Miller to kill Causse, and then Randolph shot him — five times, twice in the head.
The second wife of Randolph’s — maiden name, Becky Gault — also died from a gunshot wound in 1986 according to a The Las Vegas Sun report in 2009. Her death was ruled a suicide; Randolph collected $250,000 in life insurance. But two years later, in 1988, a former co-worker of Randolph’s claimed that he and Randolph had plotted his second wife’s murder.
Randolph tried to have that man, Eric Tarantino, killed while he awaited trial in his wife, Becky’s death. Randolph offered a police officer posing as a hit man $2,000 to kill Tarantino. Randolph was charged with conspiracy to commit murder, which later was reduced to felony witness tampering. He pled guilty to that charge, but was acquitted in his wife’s murder in 1989, according to The Las Vegas Sun.
Since his most recent trial, conviction, and sentencing to death the murders of wife Sharon and “handyman” Miller, Randolph has been held at Nevada’s High Desert State Prison awaiting his trial on appeal. All trials resulting in a death sentence are automatically reviewed by the Nevada State Supreme Court. The high court reversed the jury’s conviction and sentencing and remanded the case back to District Court for retrial, ruling that the jury shouldn’t have been presented evidence from Becky’s 1986 murder as Thomas ultimately had been acquitted.
Randolph’s new trial was set to begin May 9, 2022, according to the Clark County District Attorney’s Office. That, however, has been pushed to later this year — October 24, 2022. The case is currently with District Court, Department X, which is handled by Judge Tierra Jones. She is Nevada’s first African American female district court judge.