The lives of multiple women and their families were irrevocably changed when they ran into Thomas Randolph.
The new Netflix documentary from Library Films and NBC News Studios, “The Widower: ‘Til Death Do Us Part,” details the story of a Las Vegas man who has been married six times, and four of his wives have died. The film is directed by Chris Smith, who executive produced the pandemic-era sensation “Tiger King” for Netflix, and begins streaming on Sept. 30.
In 2023, Randolph, now 71, was convicted by a Las Vegas jury for a second time on charges of murdering his sixth wife, Sharon, and a handyman, Mike Miller, whom prosecutors said he double-crossed after hiring Miller to kill his wife.
He had his initial conviction in 2017 overturned by the Nevada Supreme Court in 2020 and then was convicted again after a second trial in 2023.
The new documentary from Library Films and NBC News Studios explores a 20-year odyssey involving Randolph, as well as one family’s efforts to bring him to justice. “Dateline” producer and veteran investigative journalist Dan Slepian, who appears in the documentary, was embedded with detectives and frequently interviewed Randolph over the years.
In the documentary, Randolph repeatedly denies any wrongdoing in the deaths of any of his past wives or any involvement in murder-for-hire plots to collect life insurance money.
The film begins with Randolph’s 911 call informing police that his wife, Sharon, had been shot at their Las Vegas home in 2008. That moment triggers an investigation into Sharon’s death that mushrooms into a deep dive by detectives into Randolph’s chilling past, with Slepian there to film it all.
Here’s what to know about Randolph’s six wives, what happened to each of them, and what connected their experiences with Randolph.
“Eventually, each family came to the conclusion that he was dangerous, horrible, manipulative and ruined their lives,” Slepian tells TODAY.com.
For more on Thomas Randolph and his six marriages, tune into Allegedly, a weekly video podcast on Netflix hosted by NBC News’ Ellison Barber. This week’s episode features a one-on-one conversation with Slepian about his experience following the Randolph case for nearly two decades.
Kathryn Thomas
Married August 1975
Randolph’s first wife, Kathryn, is one of his two former spouses who are still alive.
Now living in Carnation, Washington, she shares in the documentary that many of the chilling behaviors that surfaced in Randolph’s future relationships were evident early.
She said she met Randolph through mutual friends when she was a senior in high school and married him when she was 18 and he was 20. The former couple have two children together.
“He was a very charming and witty person and very intelligent, and I fell for that at first,” she says in the film. “He got really scary, not physically but psychologically. He liked to control you, (and) didn’t want you to have any friends.”
Thomas said she left him when he started seeing other women and doing drugs, recalling that his face “went red” when she told him she had enough.
She also shared two recurrent themes throughout Randolph’s marriages. He had taken out a life insurance policy on her, and he owned several guns.
“He really scared me at that point,” she says.
“You know, there’s always been a lot of insurance on every wife I’ve ever had, and I’ve had a bunch of them,” Randolph says in an audio clip in the documentary.
After she divorced Randolph, she married one of his former friends, a man named Steve Thomas. He says in the film that he was approached by Randolph to see if he would kill someone for money.
“Looking back, I firmly believe she was the target,” Steve Thomas says about his wife.
“This is the first time we know that Tom Randolph tried to groom someone to commit murder,” Dean O’Kelley, the lead detective in the Las Vegas case involving Randolph’s sixth wife, says in the documentary.
Beckie Gault
Married April 1983
Randolph began a relationship with Beckie Gault while he was still with Kathy Thomas. He ended up marrying Gault a day after he divorced his first wife, Slepian says in the documentary.
Rosealie Allred, an aunt of Beckie Gault, says in the film that her niece was getting ready to leave Randolph and move in with Allred when she was found dead in their Utah home in 1986. Investigators ruled it a suicide after finding a gun in her hand and a suicide note, Slepian says in the documentary.
On the night of her death, Randolph was pulled over by police for driving erratically, and a bottle of vodka was found in the vehicle, Slepian says in the documentary. He spent the night in jail and said when he returned home, he found his wife dead in their bed and called 911.
“I’d been in jail for about four hours before my wife killed herself,” Randolph says in audio of a conversation with Slepian in the documentary. “So, I didn’t do this s—.”
O’Kelley, who investigated Randolph’s past after his sixth wife’s death, says in the documentary that Randolph cashed in on insurance policies from Gault’s death worth close to $500,000.
Two years after she died, Randolph was arrested on a charge of first-degree murder after a former handyman, Eric Tarantino, told authorities Randolph tried to hire him to kill Beckie, and he refused, O’Kelley says in the documentary, citing the prosecutors in the case.
Randolph was acquitted by a jury in Utah on the murder charge, which is shown in the film.
He pleaded guilty to felony tampering with a witness for trying to hire a man to kill Tarantino while Randolph was in prison, and the inmate turned out to be an undercover cop, Slepian says in the documentary. He served about 18 months in prison.
Leona Stapleton
Married March 1994
Randolph met his third wife, Leona, in Utah, and then the two moved together to Indiana, Slepian says in the documentary.
They got divorced, and then years later, she died from cancer.
Gayna Allmon
Married October 1995
Barely a year after his previous marriage ended, Randolph married Gayna Almon, who is one of two of Randolph’s ex-wives who is still alive. She says in the documentary that she met him through a personals ad in the newspaper.
“He brought flowers and the next thing I know I’m stupid enough to marry him,” she says.
After Randolph was involved in a shooting at a local bar, police in Edinburgh, Indiana, informed her about the death of Randolph’s second wife, Beckie, Slepian says in the documentary. The police asked if he had taken an insurance policy out on her, and she said he had.
“I had no knowledge of any of that,” she says in the documentary about his past. “I was totally shocked.”
One night, a bullet went through the floor right near where she was sitting while Randolph said he was cleaning his firearms, O’Kelley says in the documentary. She says she waited until he went to work and then left him for good.
A former associate of Randolph’s named Glenn Morrison appears in the film and says Randolph offered him to make “some quick money” by shooting Allmon and making it look like a robbery. Morrison said he declined.
Randolph denies repeatedly in the documentary that he ever asked anyone to commit a murder-for-hire.
No investigation was ever done, and Randolph was never charged with any crimes in connection to his fourth wife.
Frances Randolph
Married August 1997
Randolph met his fifth wife while he was still with his fourth wife, and then convinced Frances to leave her husband to marry him, Slepian says in the documentary.
Carolyn Austin, the sister of Frances Randolph, says in the film that Frances had a heart condition that needed to be addressed before she was older, and Randolph encouraged her to get the procedure done.
She went to a doctor who was selected by Randolph, according to Austin. While recovering from surgery, Frances took a turn for the worse and died, O’Kelley says in the documentary.
Her death was never declared a murder, and Randolph insists to this day it was due to medical malpractice, Slepian says in the film.
Randolph collected money from life insurance policies on Frances and also received a settlement from a wrongful death lawsuit against the hospital, according to Slepian.
In a chilling aftermath, Austin found a VHS video that Randolph had his late wife make, which she shows in the documentary. The tape serves as a video will in which Frances declares her wishes to have Randolph inherit everything from her.
“I’m making this tape so people will know what I want when I pass away,” Frances says in the video.
“One of the moments that stand out the most to me is the video will that we saw on that VHS tape,” Slepian tells TODAY.com. “You can hear him coaching her.”
Sharon Causse
Married March 2007
Randolph moved from Utah to Las Vegas when he married Sharon Causse 10 years after his previous marriage.
Three months into their marriage, Causse made a will leaving almost everything to Randolph, and he took out three life insurance policies for about $350,000, Slepian says in the documentary.
The two were married for barely more than a year when Randolph called 911 in May 2008 to report that his wife had been shot by an intruder. Randolph said he shot and killed the man in self defense, according to audio of the 911 call in the documentary.
The alleged intruder was a man Randolph knew named Mike Miller, who had worked for him as a handyman, which he tells the 911 operator.
Prosecutors declined to charge Randolph with any crime at the time.
Causse’s daughter, Colleen Beyer, describes in the film that she was fearful of Randolph after she informed him that he would not be inheriting Sharon’s possessions after Beyer was named the administrator of her mother’s will. When she had the locks changed on her home, Randolph showed up to confront her but was stopped at the door by O’Kelley, according to footage in the documentary.
Eight months after his sixth wife’s death, Randolph was charged with two counts of murder with a deadly weapon and a count of conspiracy to commit murder in the deaths of his wife and Miller. However, it took 8½ years for him to stand trial, as he is shown in the film repeatedly hiring new lawyers to delay the case.
A jury initially convicted him in 2017 on two counts of murder with a deadly weapon and a count of conspiracy to commit murder, and he was sentenced to the death penalty.
However, the Nevada Supreme Court overturned the guilty verdict in 2020. The court ruled that the jury should not have been allowed to hear “prior-bad-act evidence” about Randolph’s previous trial in 1988 on the murder charge involving the death of his wife Beckie, according to NBC affiliate KSNV.
After winning his appeal, Randolph faced another trial in Clark County, Nevada, in 2023 and was convicted a second time by a jury on charges of murder and conspiracy to commit murder. His most recent appeal was denied by the Nevada Supreme Court in September 2026.
Beyer testified at both Las Vegas trials in the hopes of seeing justice for her mother. The ordeal lasted so long that her daughter, who she was pregnant with when Slepian began filming with her, was 15 years old by the time Randolph was convicted by a jury for the second time.
