A Nevada man has been found guilty for a second time of orchestrating his sixth wife's murder and then killing the hitman he hired for the job.
After five hours of deliberations, jurors last week convicted Thomas Randolph of conspiracy to commit murder and two counts of murder with use of a deadly weapon for 2008 the deaths of Sharon Causse and Michael Miller, Court TV reported.
According to court documents, Randolph dialed 911 on May 8, 2008 and told operators that a masked intruder shot his wife, and that he shot and killed the intruder. Randolph told police that after he shot the man, he recognized him as his friend and handyman, Michael Miller.
Prosecutors later detailed Randolph's extensive and secretive relationship with Miller, citing hundreds of phone calls between the pair. They alleged that Randolph arranged for Miller to kill his wife so that he could collect more than $300,000 in insurance money, Fox News reported. He then apparently killed Miller to cover up the scheme.
Randolph initially went to trial in 2017 and was sentenced to death, but his conviction was overturned in 2020 after the Nevada Supreme Court determined that evidence surrounding the 1986 death of his second wife in Utah should not have been admitted during trial because he was acquitted in the case, KSNV reported.
Randolph would become the subject of Dateline's 2021 miniseries "The Widower," as Causse was not the only wife he was accused of killing. According to Oxygen, Randolph had been married six times, and "four of his wives died under mysterious circumstances."
Randolph is set to be sentenced on October 12.
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