Thomas Randolph said he shot the intruder who’d killed his wife, Sharon Causse. Investigators concluded he’d hired that man to kill her, then killed him to conceal the plan. Netflix’s 2026 documentary The Widower: ’Til Death Do Us Part follows the case and the earlier deaths that complicated his prosecution.
On May 8, 2008, Randolph called 911 from their Las Vegas home. Sharon and Michael Miller were dead.
Randolph told authorities Miller had shot Sharon and he’d shot Miller. Investigators believed Randolph had arranged Sharon’s killing and staged the scene after killing Miller.
Sharon was his sixth wife. He’d married 6 times, and 4 of his wives had died.
Her daughter, Colleen Beyer, says in the documentary that the couple met on Match.com and married quickly. Randolph moved in almost immediately, and Beyer says they fought constantly.
The film examines the deaths of his second, third and fifth wives: a shooting staged to resemble suicide, cancer and complications following heart surgery. Only Sharon’s death was ruled a murder. Randolph maintains he’s innocent and attributes the deaths to bad luck.
Directed by Chris Smith, the documentary features Dateline producer Dan Slepian as its onscreen guide. It follows a prosecution that continued through a conviction, a reversal and a retrial, with the earlier case becoming a central dispute over what jurors could hear.
In 2020, the Nevada Supreme Court overturned Randolph’s initial conviction because the jury had heard evidence about an earlier death-penalty case. Prosecutors couldn’t introduce that history at his retrial. In 2023, another jury convicted him of 2 counts of first-degree murder and conspiracy for the killings of Sharon and Miller.
Randolph received a sentence of 60 years to life in 2024. He sought a third trial, but the Nevada Supreme Court rejected his appeal in September 2026. At 71, he’s incarcerated at Lovelock Correctional Center.
