‘The Widower’: Who Were Thomas Randolph’s Six Wives and How Did Four of Them Die?

The Netflix documentary The Widower: ’Til Death Do Us Part revisits Thomas Randolph’s six marriages and the investigation into the death of his final wife, Sharon Causse.In total, four of Randolph's wives are now dead, although their deaths happened in very different circumstances: one was killed in a murder plot for which Randolph was convicted (despite protesting his innocence), while another died after a death officially ruled a suicide.The six women Randolph married were Kathy Thomas, Becky Gault, Leona Stapleton, Gayna Allmon, Francis Randolph, and Sharon Causse. Their stories span five decades, and while two marriages ended in divorce, four ended with their wives’ deaths. Here’s what happened to each woman.Jump to:Kathryn ThomasBecky GaultLeona StapletonGayna AllmonFrancis RandolphSharon CausseKathryn ThomasNetflixKathy Thomas married Randolph in 1975, when she was 18 and he was 20. The couple had two children and divorced in 1983.At Randolph’s 2017 trial over Sharon Causse's murder, Kathy described him as controlling and psychologically abusive. She also said she had been afraid to leave because he had taken out a life-insurance policy on her and owned guns. Kathy is alive; she later remarried.Becky GaultNetflixRandolph began seeing Becky Gault while he was still married to Kathy. After his divorce from Kathy was finalized, he married Becky.In November 1986, Becky was found dead at Randolph's home from a gunshot wound. A suicide note and a gun were found with her, and a coroner ruled her death a suicide—but the circumstances later came under scrutiny: Randolph's former friend Eric Tarantino told police that Randolph had asked him to kill Becky for a share of her life-insurance payout.Randolph was charged with Becky’s murder but acquitted after her death was ruled a suicide. He was later sentenced to 18 months in prison for witness tampering after asking an undercover officer posing as his cellmate to kill Tarantino. The Nevada Supreme Court later overturned Randolph’s conviction in Sharon’s case, ruling that evidence connected to Becky’s death should not have been admitted at the first trial.Leona StapletonRandolph married Leona Stapleton in 1994. Their marriage lasted less than a year; they divorced in 1995. Leona died of cancer in 2006, more than a decade after the couple had separated.Gayna AllmonRandolph met Gayna Allmon through a singles advert he placed and married her in 1995. Gayna also described him as controlling and later said she became frightened after learning about the allegations surrounding Becky’s death, even recalling how Randolph accidentally fired a gun while cleaning it at their dining table.Their divorce was finalized in 1997, and Gayna is still alive. In The Widower, a man named Glenn Morrison alleges that Randolph offered him money to kill Gayna; Morrison said he refused.Francis RandolphNetflixRandolph married Francis in 1997. She had a lifelong heart defect and underwent surgery in April 2004. Her family said the operation had gone well, but Francis died later that day.Her death was not investigated as a possible crime. Francis’s daughter, Rachel Gaskins, said she suspected Randolph was responsible; he denied this and argued that Francis's death resulted from medical malpractice. He sued the hospital and received a wrongful-death settlement.Sharon CausseNetflixSharon Causse married Randolph in 2007. On May 8, 2008, she was shot dead at the couple’s home in Las Vegas. Randolph told police that a home intruder, Michael Miller, had killed Sharon and that he had then shot Miller in self-defense.Prosecutors argued that Randolph had arranged for Miller to kill Sharon and then killed Miller to cover up the plot. A jury convicted Randolph of conspiracy to commit murder and the murders of Sharon and Miller at a retrial in 2023. He was sentenced to 60 years to life in prison in 2024.