The Widower: What happened to Thomas Randolph’s 6 wives and where is he now?

Netflix is definitely the place to be for gritty true crime documentaries that lay out the facts of a case, and leave viewers thinking about the people involved for days afterwards.

The streamer's large catalogue includes the unmissable Maternal Instinct, Should I Marry A Murderer? and the Worst Neighbor Ever series.

Now, viewers can tune into the 90-minute documentary The Widower: 'Til Death Do Us Part. The one-off film delves into the search to uncover the truth Thomas Randolph, who wed six times and left a trail of failed marriages and mysterious deaths in his wake.

It wasn't until his sixth wife, Sharon Causse, died, that Thomas was investigated. Journalist Dan Slepian teamed up with detective Dean O'Kelley to embark on a 20-year journey to find out what the former paralegal - who went on to become known as the Black Widower - had really done.

We take a look at what happened to Thomas's six wives, and where he is now, after the truth about him finally came out.

What happened to Thomas Randolph's six wives?

Thomas Randolph met his sixth wife Sharon Causse on a dating site in 2006 and they married shortly afterwards. After the wedding, Sharon changed her will to leave everything she owned to her new husband, and he took three life insurance policies out on her.

On May 8, 2008 Thomas, then aged 53, made a panicked call to police to say his home had been invaded by an intruder and wife, Sharon, then 57, had been shot. He told dispatch he had in turn shot the intruder, Michael Miller.

The couple had just returned from a Mother’s Day dinner when Sharon was killed, and Thomas had lingered in his car for a few minutes while she entered their home alone. Sharon was killed instantly by a gun shot.

Thomas claimed he found her body when he later entered the house, and had killed the intruder who was still in the property.

When his story caused alarm bells to ring, Dan Slepian and Dean O’Kelley knocked on doors and carried out interviews until they came to realise Thomas Randolph had been married six times with four of those wives dying under mysterious circumstances.

Kathy Thomas

Thomas Randolph's first wife was Kathy Thomas. The pair married on August 2, 1975 when they were aged 20 and and 18 respectively.

They went on to have two children together, but Kathy later found her husband to be controlling and unpredictable, alleging that he cheated, stopped her seeing friends and used drugs.

Thomas had a life insurance policy on her, and the documentary states he once asked a friend of his named Steve to kill someone for him in return for money.

Although Steve wasn't given a name at the time, he believes Thomas was asking him to kill Kathy.

Kathy ultimately divorced Thomas and left the marriage alive, and in a huge twist went on to marry Steve, the man who had once been asked to carry out murder for money. Both later testified against Thomas in court.

Becky Gault

Becky was one of the women Thomas had been seeing during his marriage to Kathy, and as soon as the divorce from his first marriage was finalised, he married Becky.

It's alleged that he soon began his controlling behaviour with her, and like him, she started using drugs.

While fearful of what would happen if she left her husband, by 1986 Becky had left Thomas.

In November 1986 she visited his house to pick up some of her belongings, and the following day was found dead on a bed at his home. She left a suicide note and a gun was found in her hand.

Despite the placement of the gun and blood spatter analysis not fitting with Becky having pulled the trigger herself, there was no further investigation.

Another friend of Thomas later came forward to tell police that just like with his his first wife, Thomas had asked him to kill Becky. In return, he offered half of the life insurance policy he had on her.

Thomas was arrested after his friend's confession and charged him with murder. When Becky's death was later ruled a suicide, Thomas was acquitted of her murder and got her life insurance policy payout.

Leona Stapleton

Thomas married his third wife Leona, in March 1994. Their very brief union only lasted a year before they divorced in 1995 allegedly because Leona uncovered the affairs he was having and left.

Leona passed away from liver and gallbladder cancer in 2006, and had cut all ties with Thomas in the years since their divorce.

Gayna Allmon

Shortly after divorcing Leona, Thomas met and married Gayna in October 1995. Once again, he took out a life insurance policy on her, and it wasn't long before she also became suspicious of his behaviour.

She reports him to be controlling, and became frightened of him when she was told about the previous accusation of murder made against him.

When he 'accidentally' fired a shot while in the same room as her while cleaning his guns, she left him and their divorce was finalised in July 1997.

In a very disturbing pattern, another acquaintance of Thomas's called Glenn Morrison later came forward to suggest he'd been offered half of the life insurance payout to kill Gayna.

Francis Randolph

Francis was Thomas's fifth wife, and she'd suffered heart issues for her entire life. She had a planned surgery in April 2004, and her family were told everything had gone well.

However, her daughter Rachel Gaskins later alleged that Thomas asked her to leave her mother's hospital room, and Francis died 30 minutes later.

Thomas had life insurance policies on both Francis and Rachel, and Rachel believes him to be responsible for her mother's death, although this was never investigated.

Thomas claimed Francis died due to medical malpractice and sued the hospital. According to People, he was given a wrongful death settlement of nearly $400,000 as well as Francis' life insurance payout.

Within 24 hours he had Francis' body cremated, preventing an autopsy or any further investigation into her cause of death. Rachel also suggests he prevented her from attending her mother's funeral.

Where is Thomas Randolph now?

When it came to the death of Thomas's sixth wife Sharon, it transpired he'd hired a handyman he befriended, Michael Miller, to dress as an intruder and kill her after their Mother's Day dinner.

Michael went ahead with the plan and afterwards, Thomas shot him dead. Like other friends he'd had alleged conversations with about killing former wives, Thomas had promised Michael money from the insurance payouts.

Instead, he double crossed and killed him. Thomas was arrested and charged with murder in 2009.

At his 2017 trial, he was convicted on two counts of murder with a deadly weapon and a count of conspiracy to commit murder, and sentenced to the death penalty.

In 2020, that verdict was overturned, as evidence had been included in the trial relating to the death of Becky, of whose murder he'd been acquitted.

The court ruled that the jury should not have heard "prior-bad-act evidence" and another trial took place in 2023.

Thomas was convicted a second time and sentenced to 60 years to life in prison for the murders of Sharon and Mike in 2008.

Now 71, Thomas remains in prison, where he faces staying for the rest of his life.

The Widower: 'Til Death Do Us Part is currently streaming on Netflix.