Thomas Randolph, also known as the “Black Widow,” was retried and convicted last year of the 2008 murders of his sixth wife and a hit man.
But even as he is currently serving time in prison for two murders in Las Vegas, Nevada, questions surrounding the deaths of his three former wives are being highlighted in Investigation Discovery’s new documentary series, “Black Widow: The Six Wives of Thomas Randolph,” which premieres Monday at 9pm/8pm CST.
Criminal lawyer Stephanie Pitcher of the law firms Parker & McConkie and Pitcher told Fox News Digital that she believes it’s “certainly possible” that Randolph could commit additional crimes in the future.
“I think we’ve seen in other high profile cases where years later some discovery or technological advancement in the case can tie those things together and uncover some really interesting facts,” Pitcher said. “I don’t see any reason why this case should be ruled out as a possibility.”
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Attorney Don Worley of the law firm McDonald Worley similarly told Fox News Digital that “anything could happen and there is no statute of limitations on murder,” but noted that Randolph was acquitted of murder charges in connection with the death of his second wife.
“Because he was acquitted of that case, he cannot be tried again on that case unless a federal prosecutor files charges in federal court, rather than a local prosecutor re-files charges in state court,” Worley noted. “He could be tried on other murder charges, but I doubt the local government would spend the money to do that. The state has already had to pay for two trials and appeals on this one conviction.”
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Thomas Randolph and his sixth wife, Sharon. (ID)
Two of Randolph’s six wives are still living, but the others died in a variety of circumstances, including murder, suicide, complications from heart surgery, and cancer. This is where Randolph got his nickname.
For the ID documentary series, Randolph himself will be interviewed by ID from prison.
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Thomas Randolph and his fourth wife, Frances Thomas. (ID)
The new show “tells a wild and strange story that explores whether Randolph is a calculating killer driven by greed, or whether he’s just unlucky in love as he claims,” according to the show’s trailer description.
“I’m crazy about love. I’m a true romantic. But that doesn’t make me a killer.”
Randolph’s children testified against him in his 2023 retrial for the murder of his last wife, Sharon, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported. It was reported at the time.
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Thomas Randolph and his sixth wife, Sharon. (ID)
Randolph was convicted of killing Sharon and the hit man in 2017, but the Nevada Superior Court granted him a new trial on appeal.
“[T]”The Supreme Court addressed the issue of the application of a particular evidentiary rule regarding past bad conduct,” Pitcher explained. The “bad conduct” in this case was his arrest following the death of his second wife, Becky Gault, in 1986. “What was being considered there was whether evidence that was admitted at trial regarding the past death of his previous wife was admissible at this trial, and the district court found that it was, but then the Supreme Court decided otherwise.”
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Four of Thomas Randolph’s six wives are dead. He describes himself as a hopeless romantic. (ID)
Pitcher said the entire trial was sent back to district court because evidence of “prior misconduct” affected Randolph’s original conviction.
“This is a really interesting case about the application of certain rules of evidence about when past misdeeds are and are not admissible as evidence,” she said, adding that “the court will have to consider whether the past misdeeds indicate things like motive, intent and modus operandi.”
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Thomas Randolph and his sixth wife, Sharon.
Worley noted that because Randolph is 69, faces a 60-year sentence at retrial and will likely die in prison, the government “is unlikely to devote additional resources to this defendant when there are others who should be incarcerated.”
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“Furthermore, I expect Randolph will appeal the verdict, which will cost the state even more time and resources on this conviction,” Worley said. “But I’ve been wrong before. In a high-profile case like this, local prosecutors may choose to pursue one or more sensational murder trials out of selfish ambition, especially now that they’ve already won one of them.”
