Black Widower Thomas Randolph, Convicted in Sixth Wife’s Murder, May Hold More Dark Secrets Experts
About the 2008 hit man he hired to complete the job and the killings of his sixth wife, Thomas Randolph, also known as the “Black Widower,” was convicted last year after a retrial.
However, even though he is currently incarcerated for the two murders he committed in Las Vegas, Nevada, “The Black Widower: The Six Wives of Thomas Randolph,” a new documentary series on Investigation Discovery, will focus on the deaths of three of his previous wives. The show premieres on Monday at 9/8 c.
Pitcher, Stephanie, is a criminal defense lawyer at Parker & McConkie and Pitcher Law PLLC. She told Fox News Digital that she believes Randolph is “certainly possible” to be connected to further crimes along the road.
“I think we have seen this with other high-profile cases where, years later, due to some discovery in the case or even advancements in technology, those types of things can sometimes connect to cases in a way that can be revealing,” Pitcher stated. “And I don’t see why this case would be excluded from that possibility.”
Similarly, “anything is possible and there is no statute of limitations on murder charges,” said Don Worley, an attorney at McDonald Worley, PC, to Fox News Digital. However, he pointed out that Randolph was cleared of all charges related to the death of his second wife.
“Because he was acquitted on that one, he can’t be retried on that case again unless a federal prosecutor files the charges in federal court instead of a local prosecutor refiling the charges in state court,” Worley said. “Any other murder charge may be used to try him, but I doubt the local government will invest the funds necessary to do so. For this one conviction, the state already had to spend for two trials in addition to the work for the appeal.”
Only two of Randolph’s six wives are still alive; the other four passed away due to a variety of causes, including cancer, apparent suicide, heart surgery complications, and murder. It is from these deaths that Randolph received his nickname.
Randolph himself had an interview with ID while incarcerated in the ID documentary series.
According to a synopsis for a sample of the new episode, it “presents this wild and weird story that explores whether Randolph is a calculated killer driven by greed, or, as he claims, just unlucky in love.”
As the Las Vegas Review-Journal noted at the time, Randolph’s children testified against him during his 2023 retrial for the death of his previous wife, Sharon.
After Randolph appealed his 2017 conviction for the murders of Sharon and the hitman, the Nevada Superior Court gave him a fresh trial.
“[T]he Supreme Court addressed a question on the application of a specific rule of evidence relating to prior bad acts,” Pitcher stated. The “bad act” in this instance was his arrest related to Becky Gault’s 1986 death, his second wife. “And what was considered there was whether the evidence that had been admitted at trial, regarding the prior deaths of his prior wife, was admissible in this trial, and the district court had ruled that it was, but then… the Supreme Court stated otherwise.”
Pitcher said the entire trial was remanded to the district court because the “prior bad acts” evidence was a factor in Randolph’s initial conviction.
“It is a fascinating case on the application of that specific rule of evidence about when prior bad acts can come in and when they can’t,” she said. She added that “a court has to weigh whether those prior bad acts can go to show something like motive, intent, modus operandi.”
Considering that Randolph, now 69 years old, will likely pass away in prison after serving 60 years in prison following his retrial, Worley pointed out that it is unlikely that the government will use more “resources on this defendant when they have other defendants to put behind bars.”
“Plus Randolph will certainly appeal this decision also and that will be more time and resources for the state on this one conviction,” Worley stated. “I have made mistakes in the past, though. A local prosecutor may decide to proceed with one or more dramatic murder cases in a case this high-profile out of self-serving desire. particularly now that one of them contains a W.”