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Tom randolph dateline4/2/2023 He reacted gleefully, telling podcast Killer Genes: 'I'm just as happy as can be because as I've told everybody - I didn't do this.Ī man testified at trial that he'd been asked by Randolph to kill her. He will not be freed from prison in the meantime. They overturned the decision and ruled that Randolph should get a new trial. Prosecutors said he was motivated to kill Causse to collect more than $360,000 in life insurance money from a policy she had taken out.īut on December 9, the Nevada Supreme Court ruled that the jury should never have been able to hear about that case. He was cleared of that killing but evidence from that case was allowed to be presented at his second trial, including the fact that he inherited $500,000 in life insurance money from the first woman's death. Part of the reason was that years earlier, in 1986, his second wife had also turned up dead from a gunshot wound to the head. He has always denied the murders and says he came home to find his wife dead, having been shot by the Miller, and that he shot Miller in self-defense. In 2017, he was sentenced to death for the murder of his sixth wife Sharon Causse and Michael James Miller, a man he was accused of paying to kill her to win a life insurance policy payout. Thomas Randolph, now 65, has been remanded in custody until the new trial but he is no longer on death row. Published: 16:05 GMT, 1 January 2021 | Updated: 00:34 GMT, 19 February 2021Ī Nevada man known as the Black Widower because four of his six wives have all died had his murder conviction for allegedly killing the sixth reversed and will now stand trial again. Randolph has four other ex-wives two died from illness and two are alive but told his trial he threatened to kill them when they were together.Sharon's family - who called him a 'monster' and celebrated his death sentence in 2017 - are in shock.They've overturned the conviction and he will now stand a new trial but is still in jail until then. The Nevada Supreme Court ruled earlier this month it was improper for the jury in the second case to hear arguments from the first.In that case, he won $500,000 in life insurance payouts in the second, he stood to gain $360,000.The jury in that case heard how years earlier, he had been cleared of murdering his second wife.He was sentenced to death for the killings but has been fighting it ever since.He was convicted of murdering his sixth wife Sharon and a man who he allegedly paid to kill her, in 2017.Thomas Randolph, 65, had his double murder conviction overturned last week.Meet the Nevada 'Black Widower': Four of his six wives died mysteriously and the surviving two say he threatened to kill them - but at 65 he's just had his only murder conviction overturned and may now go free
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