{"id":2016804,"date":"2023-08-30T13:34:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T17:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/man-nicknamed-black-widower-convicted-of-killing-wife-and-hitman-he-hired-to-murder-her\/"},"modified":"2023-08-30T13:36:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T17:36:25","slug":"man-nicknamed-black-widower-convicted-of-killing-wife-and-hitman-he-hired-to-murder-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/man-nicknamed-black-widower-convicted-of-killing-wife-and-hitman-he-hired-to-murder-her\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Black Widower\u2019 Convicted of Killing Wife and Hitman"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fman-nicknamed-black-widower-convicted-of-killing-wife-and-hitman-he-hired-to-murder-her%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2016804&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>A \u200dTwisted \u2063Nightmare: Man Convicted of Killing Sixth Wife and\u2062 Hitman<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A man with a trail of dead and abused\u2062 wives has been convicted of killing his sixth wife and the hitman he hired to\u2063 murder her.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Thomas Randolph, 68, was found guilty on August 24 for the 2008 \u2062killings\u200d of Sharon Causse Randolph and Michael Miller, whom Randolph hired to murder Causse, the Las Vegas Review-Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reviewjournal.com\/crime\/courts\/a-twisted-nightmare-man-found-guilty-of-killing-wife-hit-man-in-second-trial-2893603\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>. This was the second time Randolph had been convicted of the\u200d murders, but his conviction was overturned in 2021\u200b by a court that\u2063 argued jurors in that case should\u2064 not have heard\u2064 about his\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/man-nicknamed-black-widower-convicted-of-killing-wife-and-hitman-he-hired-to-murder-her\/\" title=\"\u2018Black Widower\u2019 Convicted of Killing Wife and Hitman\">alleged prior bad\u2063 acts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>I\u2019m so relieved, it\u2019s unbelievable,\u201d<\/b> said Colleen Beyer,\u200c Causse\u2019s daughter. <b>\u201cIt\u2019s \u2064been 15\u200c years, and it\u2019s been a twisted nightmare.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-cnn-legal-analyst-laura-coates-speculates-about-an-acquittal-in-the-derek-chauvin-trial\/\" title=\"WATCH: CNN Legal Analyst Laura Coates Speculates About An Acquittal In The Derek Chauvin Trial\">jury deliberated<\/a> \u200bfor just four hours before returning a guilty verdict.<\/p>\n<p>Randolph had been\u200d convicted of the two murders in 2017 and \u200csentenced to death but appealed the conviction to the Nevada Supreme Court. In 2021, \u200cthat court \u200bruled\u2063 that including Randolph\u2019s previous murder charges for his second wife\u2019s\u200d death in Utah in 1986 \u2013 charges for which he \u2062was acquitted \u2013 was improper and demanded he receive a new trial.<\/p>\n<p>Randolph has been married six times, and four of his wives are dead,\u2064 gaining him the nickname the \u201cBlack Widower.\u201d His two surviving wives testified\u2063 at his first trial in 2017 that he abused them and that \u2062they \u200bthought \u200dhe would kill them.<\/p>\n<p>Randolph married his first wife, Kathryn Thomas, in 1975. She testified during his first trial that he was controlling, manipulative, and \u2063psychologically abusive,\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/lawandcrime.com\/crime\/6-wives-4-are-dead-black-widower-thomas-randolph-faces-retrial-for-6th-wifes-murder\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to Law &#038; Crime<\/a>.\u200b She also said that Randolph threw a bowl of oatmeal at the wall because there hadn\u2019t been sugar on it.<\/p>\n<p>On the day\u2063 their divorce was finalized in 1983, Randolph married Becky Gault. Three years later, Gault was found dead in their home with a bullet wound to the head. She had been tucked into\u200b the couple\u2019s waterbed. Her death was initially ruled a suicide and Randolph was able \u200cto collect on a $500,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pennsylvania-woman-allegedly-faked-her-own-death-to-avoid-being-charged-with-making-a-false-accusation-of-sexual-assault\/\" title=\"Pennsylvania Woman Allegedly Faked Her Own Death To Avoid Being Charged With Making A False Accusation Of Sexual Assault\">000 life insurance policy<\/a>. Randolph was later charged with her\u200d murder\u200b after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/man-who-burned-down-pawnshop-during-george-floyd-riots-killing-1-escapes-murder-charge\/\" title=\"Man Who Burned Down Pawnshop During George Floyd Riots, Killing 1, Escapes Murder Charge\">investigators learned<\/a> that he had written songs about killing Gault and hired an undercover cop to murder \u200dher.<\/p>\n<p>He pleaded guilty to witness tampering but was found not guilty of murdering Gault.<\/p>\n<p>His third wife, Gayna Allmon, also testified at his 2017 murder trial, saying\u2064 she believed he had tried to kill her. Allmon said Randolph was cleaning his gun and shot it in \u200dher direction, \u200cleaving a bullet hole in\u200c the wall. Randolph claimed it was\u2064 an accident, but Allmon believed he was \u2062trying to kill her.<\/p>\n<p><b>Randolph\u2019s fourth\u200d wife, Francis Randolph, died in 2004 after \u200dheart surgery, however, the circumstances surrounding her \u200bdeath are suspect.<\/b> Randolph allegedly blocked Francis\u2019\u200d daughter from seeing her at the hospital, and that\u200b daughter testified that Randolph \u200dhad \u2063Francis cremated within 24 hours of her death, Law &#038; Crime reported. At his first trial in 2017, a man named Glen Morrison testified that Randolph had asked him to kill Francis and make\u200c it look like a burglary.<\/p>\n<p>Leona Stapleton, Randolph\u2019s fifth \u2062wife, reportedly died \u200cof cancer.<\/p>\n<p>When Causse, his sixth wife,\u2062 died, Randolph told investigators \u200cthat she had died \u200dduring a home invasion and\u200d that he had killed the intruder. Randolph collected $400,000 in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-murder-of-mike-williams-conspiracy-betrayal-and-a-mother-who-never-gave-up\/\" title=\"The Murder Of Mike Williams: Conspiracy, Betrayal, And A Mother Who Never Gave Up\">life insurance money<\/a> after Causse was murdered. After some investigation, police determined that Randolph had hired the intruder, Miller, to murder Causse.<\/p>\n<p>None of the information from Gault or Francis\u2019 deaths was allowed in Randolph\u2019s new trial,\u200c but he was still found guilty.<\/p>\n<p>He is scheduled to be sentenced on October \u206212.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Randolph, 68, convicted for murdering his sixth wife and the hitman he hired. Found guilty on August 24 for the 2008 killings of Sharon Causse Randolph and Michael Miller. 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