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Speaker 1: Sword and Scale contains adult themes and violence, and is

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not intended for all audiences.

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Speaker 2: Listener discretion is advised.

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Speaker 3: So we got up in here and he kind of

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rushed up on me a little bit, and that's when

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I just pushed it. Boom boom boom, and he started

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going out toward the shed. I don't know how many

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times I shot him.

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Speaker 1: Hello and welcome. This is season twelve, episode two and

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eighty one of Sword and Scale, a show that reveals

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that the worst monsters are real. We've all had that

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one friend, right, the one that dives headfirst into messy,

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toxic relationships or forms of friendship with people that are

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clearly a bad influence, Brushing aside every morning sign, brushing

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aside every thing we try to say to help them

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get off this track. It's like they're stuck there in

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a perpetual loop of disappointment. From our vantage point, it's

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clear that cutting ties with this person is the only

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solution for our complaining friend, but it never seems to happen.

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For some reason, Hearing story after story becomes frustrating. It's

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like watching them drive their car straight into a brick

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wall and you can't do anything about it. It's like

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they can't see it and only they have the power

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to hit the brakes. Centennial Hills emerged in the early

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two thousands as a suburban paradise and the sprawling landscape

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of Las Vegas. Driving twenty five minutes outside the city

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brings you to a place where the vibrant energy of

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the Strip fades into quieter outskirts. Modern family homes line

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the streets, and on top of being one of the

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newer suburbs, Centennial Hills is one of the safest places

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to live if you want to be only a short

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drive from the Strip, which everybody knows is littered with crime.

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In fact, I don't even know why anyone would go

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to Vegas these days. But let's get back to the story.

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On May eighth, two thousand and eight, crimes in the

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city were already beginning to intensify in preparation for the weekend.

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It was only Thursday, but the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police

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Department expected an influx of calls as usual. By the evening,

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cops had been going in and out for hours, mostly

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focusing on crimes happening closer to the city center, certainly

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not places like Centennial Hills. As the clock approached eight

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forty four pm, dispatch received a call from the Peaceful

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Suburban Oasis. It was there three thousand, one hundred and

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thirty first call of the day.

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Speaker 4: We received information there had been a shooting at the

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house on Santa Fe Driveay think or whereber yes, and

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that the homeowner had shot that his wife had been

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shot by suspect, and that the homeowner had shot the suspect.

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Speaker 5: My wife and you know, I know, you know what.

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Speaker 1: This caller was an older gentleman. And in case you

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didn't hear him, apparently this guy Mike was trying to

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rip him off in some way. The caller knew the intruder,

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but not well enough to give his last name.

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Speaker 6: I don't know.

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Speaker 7: Running over, running over.

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Speaker 1: When the college tried to turn his wife over, he

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saw her bloodied, distorted face, nine one one. Dispatchers walked

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him through the CPR process well. Police officers made their

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way to Rancho Santa Fe.

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Speaker 8: As I remember somebody.

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Speaker 4: I didn't speak to the person reporting there. Somebody had

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gotten some basic information about what happened, and then I

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put together either a three or four man team to

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go in and check on the house. And check on

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the person that had been shot inside.

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Speaker 1: The first few officers on the scene walked in through

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the front door, walked through the home and came upon

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fifty seven year old Sharon Randolph.

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Speaker 9: When I got inside, there didn't appear to be any

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ransacking in the living room area. We walked back into

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the hallway which runs north and south between the garage

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and then the master bedroom, which was on the south

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side of the house, and I noticed lying in the

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hallway in a supine or face up position, was a

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white female victim who was bleeding. Her head was closest

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to the entryway to the master bedroom, and she was

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lying on the tiled floor between what would later be

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identified as a music room and then the bathroom. And

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then as I walked out toward the garage on the

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north side of that hallway, there was an African American

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male who was lying on his right side against a

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refrigerator in that garage area.

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Speaker 1: One officer looked at the other and confirmed that Sharon

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was beyond help. Any attempt at resuscitation had been unsuccessful.

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The dead man in the garage was Michael Miller, someone

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Sharon and her husband had met a few months prior,

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they had befriended him and hired him to do handyman

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work around their home. Sound familiar, Seems like we repeat

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the same story over and over again. It's called human behavior,

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and it happens all around you. By midnight, the house

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was secured and Sharon's husband, fifty three year old Thomas Randolph,

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was taken to the police station to give an official

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witness statement.

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Speaker 6: So who knew you were going out?

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Speaker 5: All right?

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Speaker 6: For one of his sad almost transcribes and head a

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further report. All right, we'll cover basically what we just

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talked about. How long you know Mike? How you met him?

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Speaker 1: In case you couldn't understand, the detective asked Thomas who

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knew he and his wife would be away that evening,

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and Thomas listed quite a few people. One of them

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was Mike Miller. Mike was a guy in his late

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thirties trying to get his life together. In December of

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the previous year, he'd moved from Rockville, Maryland, to Las

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Vegas to stay with his aunt uncle cousin. He had

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no job, no car, and no money. He did a

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few odd jobs here and there, like helping his cousin

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detail cars, or janitorial work for his aunt and uncle's business.

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But a few weeks after moving to Vegas, Mike met

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Thomas Randolph. Tom not only gave him handyman work around

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his own house, he saw Mike as a friend, took

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him under his wing, and vowed to help him find

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more work. Mike even ended up doing some projects at

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Sharon's daughter's house. Just before his death, Mike got a girlfriend,

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but he still had no steady job, no car, and

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of course no money. Here's Mike's aunt.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, he told me that he had met a young

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lady and they were going to move away together and

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he was getting some money.

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Speaker 2: He was coming into some money.

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Speaker 1: Thomas's witness interview went into the wee hours of the morning.

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Police wanted to learn everything they possibly could about Mike Miller.

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The next day, police conducted a walk through of the

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crime scene with Thomas.

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Speaker 3: My name was Tom Randolph. My date of birth is

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two two point fifty five social security number, and that's

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my understanding. We're doing a walk through of the house,

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kind of a reenactment of what happened last Thursday.

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Speaker 9: And it's your desire to come out here and do

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this for us, right, So, that we can get an

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understanding of what.

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Speaker 6: Was going on.

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Speaker 3: It's my desire, not my desire, but I am cooperating

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with you.

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Speaker 9: Okay, and you came out here on your own free will.

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Speaker 3: Correct.

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Speaker 1: Thomas then gets into his car and reenacts the night

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from the moment he and Sharon pulled into the driveway.

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Speaker 3: About there, we start opening the door up. I will

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stop because there's not enough room for both cars to

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get in there. We can't get both cars in and

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get both people out, so I stopped the car. Sharon

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gets out. She had the staken lobster from shark old

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grill or something.

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Speaker 1: Thomas and Sharon had spent the night out on the

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town for an early Mother's Day celebration. One of Sharon's

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favorite date night activities was going to the movie theater,

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so the couple went to dinner in a movie before

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returning home around half past eight.

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Speaker 3: So she gets out, closes the door. She goes on in,

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starts walking in. I give her a little bit of

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head start to get to the door. I start pulling

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in as I start getting out.

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Speaker 7: This is about how.

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Speaker 3: Close it was that night, so that's probably doing now

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this is it just coming in the house now this

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door was closed. I helped it up. I get right here,

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and Sharon's laying in the floor, face down. Her head's

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just barely I mean barely in the bedroom of that

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and I stopped.

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Speaker 6: Right about here.

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Speaker 3: I had the door, said Sharon. Sharon, and I seen

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the bag from Charcoal's steak or whatever, and it's really

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a bright red and this halllight, this halllight wasn't on

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at the time, so just about like this, and I

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turned to light on myself as we got in and

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about right here when I was like this, I was

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trying to kind of get a view. I thought I

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just seemed like a shadow or something over this way,

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and I remembered that there's the nine Milimurray right up here,

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because earlier I'd taken all my guns, put him in

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a suitcase, was going to take him to Utah and

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switch the guns around. I reached right up here, got

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the gun, and as I got the gun, there's also

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an extra clip. There's a few up there. But I

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got the gun and the clip, and I'd already started

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to run, and then I just reached up just like that,

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grabbed it, stuck up in my pocket, came around just

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like that, and about that time, he's right up on me,

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just right up. I mean we actually touched right about here.

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Speaker 1: Thomas is describing to police how Michael accosted him in

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the same hallway where Sharon's body was lying.

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Speaker 3: And he's short, he's short, and when he I don't

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know if he gave me an elbow. But as we

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came around like that, I was kind of coming out.

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I was actually going to try to be slow, you know,

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and look out, but it just happened too quickly. Came

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up and he kind of banged into me about right here,

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and he went over to about right here, and somewhere

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along here. I bit my mouth or something, trying to

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say something like what the fuck or something, and he

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looked kind of like and I don't know if he

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was looking here to see if there was somebody else

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or what.

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Speaker 8: And there was a.

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Speaker 3: He had on a sweatshirt, and I don't remember if

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I seen the handle in the sweatshirt, if I seen

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the handle down his pants, but he was doing something,

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going for something down in here. And as we got

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up in here, and he kind of rushed up on

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me a little bit, and that's when I just pushed

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him boom boom boom, and he started going out toward

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the shed. I don't know how many times I shot him,

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but I just just kept right on going boom boom boom,

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and he just laying there, just laying there, and I

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look back because I'm trying to make sure everything's cool,

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kind of stepping back like that. And about that time

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I heard the really really loud noise. And what had

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happened is I guess he had hit the refrigerator and

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the help me hear the fire extinguisher. The fire extinguisher

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fell down. I didn't know what it was, but it

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made a loud clunk, and I was kind of, like

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I said, I was kind of looking back because I

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don't hear well and I can't tell depth perception anything.

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And when I heard the noise, I was kind of,

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like I said, backing up and kind of trying to

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make sure there's nothing else going on. And when I

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heard that noise, it really did scare me and I

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except the door, except the door didn't come down. They

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had stayed just like it was open. I had. And

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I mean I actually got close and I don't know

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if I shot him once. I shot him twice and

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then started coming back down this way. He wasn't moving.

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Speaker 6: Way and being real.

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Speaker 3: Just you know, Sharon, Sharon, Sharon, She's not but she

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was laying here, and by then I could tell she

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was hurt, really really bad. I mean the blood was

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just then you could see thick blood. And it came

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back over and I went to call nine one one,

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and I came back over and I didn't have my

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phone and it keeps falling off of me. I come

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back through here and just kind of, you know, just

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didn't know what to do and just kind of looking around,

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and I dialed nine one one and the phone didn't work.

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I remember saying, fuck, what a time for a vannage

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to go out. I stuck the phone in my pocket,

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and I thought about Sharon's cell phone, and I looked

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around because sometimes she sits it on the purse, I

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mean on the table. So I don't know how long

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she'd been because I was for a minute letting the

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door come down and listen to the song, looked on

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the table, came back out come here. I tried actually

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about right here, I'll take it back about right here.

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I tried nine one one again, and it was busy.

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When I called nine one one, it was busy, so

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I said, good, it's not Vonage. And I got back

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over here where I could kind of see everything, and

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I called nine one one again, and that's when whoever

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said nine one one and said, slow down, you're breathing

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too hard. Slow down whatever, and what's the emergency? And

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I don't remember for sure what I told him, something

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about my wife been shot. This guy's tried to rip

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me off. I shot him. I think she said, did

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you shoot your wife or something. I don't remember what

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all was said, you guys will have to get the

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tape of that. I don't remember, but just said that

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she had been shot really bad. We needed paramedics out here.

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Speaker 1: Detectives took the information they had gathered at the crime

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I'm seen from the victims' bodies and Thomas's interview, and

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walked through and they got to work putting together the

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pieces of this puzzle. May eighth, two thousand and eight,

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was the evening of Thomas Randolph's final date with his wife, Sharon.

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They had only been married for two years. In their

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relationship was a whirlwind. Sharon was born in New York

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and moved to Las Vegas her late twenties. By the

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time Thomas met her, she had a lot of baggage.

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She'd been married twice before. Her first marriage ended in divorce,

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and her second husband passed away from cancer after more

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than twenty years together. Soon after her second husband's death,

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Sharon's family became increasingly concerned about her behavior and spending habits.

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This is Sharon's son in law.

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Speaker 11: She liked to gamble, she liked to buy things. She's

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shopped quite often. It's spent a lot of time gambling

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as well. She's spent on many things, but gambling was

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part of it.

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Speaker 1: What better place for an avid gambler to live than

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just twenty five minutes from the Las Vegas Strip. On

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top of all of this, Sharon began dating again very

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quickly after her husband's death, which bothered her daughter and

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further damaged they're already fragile relationship. Within mere months of

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her husband's death, Sharon had met someone online, someone she

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wanted to get serious with. His name was Thomas Randolph.

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He was a few years younger than Sharon, but that

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didn't matter. Thomas, as she called him.

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Speaker 12: Was cool.

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Speaker 1: Objectively, he looks a lot like someone's grandmother. But he

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looked like a rock star to Sharon for some reason.

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Bitch is blind, I don't know. Though he was into

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his mid fifties, Thomas still had a full head of

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hair and he made use of it, that's for sure.

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Throughout the decades, Thomas had experimented with various hairstyles, ranging

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from a mullet to pigtails. He liked classic rock, so

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I guess that's the inspiration. But man, that was a

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long time ago, you know. As soon as Sharon connected

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with Thomas online, their relationship moved quickly. At the time,

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Sharon worked on and off as a hairdresser and forged

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a few very close friendships throughout her career. Here's her friend,

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do you draw.

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Speaker 13: There is a senior living community named Los Spentanas. It

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was as soon as it was built, and I would

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say that would be around the year two thousand and

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It's on West Charleston and Town Center. Sharon was hired

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at Los Bentanas to work in the beauty shop as

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the hairdresser. I was hired at Los Fentana's to work

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as the manicurist, and that is how I met Sharon.

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Speaker 1: These few women were the people she shared everything with.

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She may have had an unstable relationship with her daughter,

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but Sharon spoke to her salon friends multiple times a

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day every day. One woman, in particular, Alice Wolfe, knew

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all the ins and outs of Sharon's life. In fact,

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she was one of the first to meet Thomas Randolph.

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Speaker 14: She only said that she had met him, mister Randolph,

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and that they had gone to a concert. She called

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me and said, can you come to the shop, And

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I said, I never went there on Sunday, but she

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would go there now and again just to do a

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client that, you know.

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Speaker 2: And I guess she was going to give him a

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permanent okay.

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Speaker 14: And she had said that she had met this man,

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this guy, and that she wanted me to meet him.

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I said, oh, I can run by. I was in

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the shop, sitting at my station and waiting for her

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to come. And they walked in and she sat him down,

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and then she she had already told me a few

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things about him, like you know who he was and

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all that.

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Speaker 2: And then she went in the back to prepare the

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rods or whatever she was going to put used for

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his hair.

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Speaker 14: And so I got up and I stood behind him

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He's sitting in the chair and I'm standing behind him,

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and I said, looking in the mirror.

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Speaker 2: And I said, well, so Tommy, tell me.

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Speaker 14: Just to get to know him, right, I said, I

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understand you like the Cowboys football team. And he just

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kept looking down. He did not ever look at me,

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didn't look at me, didn't look in the mirror.

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Speaker 2: Nothing.

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Speaker 14: I asked him, how was the concert? I believe that's

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what I asked him. I can't remember, really, but he

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didn't actually.

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Speaker 2: Answer.

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Speaker 1: He seemed a bit anti social, but Alice didn't think

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much of it. What Sharon's friends didn't know was that

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Tommy Randolph was hiding a lot more baggage than they

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could have ever imagined. By the time he started dating Sharon,

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Thomas Randolph had married five times before, not two, not three,

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No four, five five. There were five missus Randolph's before her.

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This is Thomas's first wife, Catherine Thomas.

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Speaker 10: He had a lot of extra curricular activities, namely.

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Speaker 15: Other women.

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Speaker 16: During our marriage.

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Speaker 10: I wouldn't really call it a marriage, per saying.

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Speaker 17: There was a lot of.

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Speaker 6: In shelity.

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Speaker 1: Catherine married Thomas when she was only eighteen, and she

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gave birth to his only two children pretty quickly. She

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found out that Thomas was not a good husband, so

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she left them and remarried, moving from the state of

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Utah to Washington to get away from them. The very

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day Thomas and Catherine's divorce was finalized, Thomas set his

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vows and tied the knot with a new woman, Becky Gault.

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Speaker 10: She married Tom today that our divorce was final. She

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expressed fear and fear were things escalated with Tom, and

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I counseled her to believe anyway she could, and I'm

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going to help her if she wanted me to.

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Speaker 1: With so many failed marriages under his belt and something

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being a little off in his personality, you know, Sharon's

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friends and family were concerned.

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Speaker 2: Sharon was happy.

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Speaker 13: She was excited, she had done new relationship glow.

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Speaker 8: She was giddy.

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Speaker 2: They had dated for a while.

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Speaker 13: Thomas Randolph had come on weekends to visit ok and

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then Sharon told me that he was going to move in.

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I told her that I had bad feelings. I could

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not explain them, but I had very bad feelings, and

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that she should not get involved. I advised Sharon that

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I thought it was a very bad idea to have

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Thomas Randolph move to Las Vegas.

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Speaker 1: Sharon, of course, didn't want her friend's advice, and Thomas

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made the move from his home in Utah to Las Vegas.

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It wasn't long before things went visibly downhill.

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Speaker 2: It was after.

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Speaker 13: Tom mus Randolph had moved in. He would continually call.

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He called multiple times during the day to speak to Sharon,

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a minimum of fifteen times a day.

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Speaker 2: I would answer the phone.

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Speaker 13: I started to see Sharon become unhappy. She wasn't giddy

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any longer.

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Speaker 2: She was unhappy.

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Speaker 13: She was trying to work and he kept calling, and

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she would be frustrated, and she just wasn't happy.

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Speaker 1: The constant calling became so burdensome to Sharon while she

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was at work that she eventually had to quit her

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salon job.

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Speaker 13: Sharon worked at Las Bentanas for considerable amount of time.

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She had had eye surgery also, and she said that

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her eye was bothering her, but she was under the

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constant pressure of Thomas Randolph calling her multiple times a day.

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Speaker 1: Thomas harassed Sharon. Once he moved in, the goalpost shifted

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and he began to push the idea of marriage, even

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laying down an ultimatum.

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Speaker 13: He told her that if she did not marry him,

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he would leave her. Well, I told her that she

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should go to Mexico with mister Randolph and had a

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mock wedding, that it would not be legal within the

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United States. That is the advice I gave her.

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Speaker 1: Did Sharon take this advice, of course not. She and

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Thomas flew to can Kuhn in two thousand and six

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to have a wedding ceremony, but they also made it

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legal in the States. Pretty quickly, things got even worse.

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If it seems to you like Thomas had a little

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bit of an addiction to women, well, you'd be right.

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Speaker 11: Things got tense. She was upset a lot. She would

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come to our house upset, crying about being left.

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Speaker 9: You know.

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Speaker 8: That Tom would take off.

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Speaker 11: And supposedly go stay with his girlfriend, do whatever.

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Speaker 8: He would leave.

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Speaker 11: She would be upset, including including over Christmas.

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Speaker 8: Around the holidays. It was a very strange thing. He

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took off, she was upset. They were at odds. He

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supposedly went and hung out with his girlfriend. Her name

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was Now you're gonna ask me that, Lizzy. Yeah.

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Speaker 11: He would mention it in passing many times in conversations

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around even at Sharon's house. And I always thought it

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was very odd to talk about a girlfriend at your

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wife's house, Okay, And it came up many times. I

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used to hear her name a lot.

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Speaker 1: It seems that Thomas's romantic relationships were strung together with

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quite a bit of overlap. He made no effort to

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keep his girlfriend Lizzie a secret from Sharmon or her family.

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In fact, he was sort of flippant about his repeated

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and ongoing infidelity.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, there was a point where.

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Speaker 11: He actually he was talking about Sharon about it one

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day and he said, man, I loved her, but nobody

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tells me who I can be with.

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Speaker 6: And it was.

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Speaker 11: A lot more colorful, gross and colorful than that, Okay,

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but it was very manic the way it was said,

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with a good deal of anger.

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Speaker 1: Apparently, Lizzie was a girlfriend Thomas had lived with in Utah.

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They had an on again, off again relationship, and during

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one of their breaks, Thomas met Sharon online, began dating her,

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and eventually married her. Through all of this, he continued

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having regular phone calls and visits with Lizzie. He called

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her thirty to forty times a week, sent greeting cards.

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One after another and drove out to her house at

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least once a month, including all the important holidays. Every

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time he arrived at Lizzie's he told her he was

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in the process of leaving Sharon.

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Speaker 18: I got very.

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Speaker 6: Tired of it and told him, it's not going to

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work anymore for me. He means to make a decision.

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Speaker 7: I think around Valentine Day?

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Speaker 8: Is it in two thousand and eight?

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Speaker 19: Yes, okay, so a couple of months before Sharon passes away.

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Speaker 6: Yes.

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Speaker 19: When you gave him that ultimatum of look, you really

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just need to decide.

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Speaker 8: What was his response to you?

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Speaker 20: He said he was going to go out and phil

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with Sharon, so in convene together.

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Speaker 1: This guy's life was a certified shit show. Wouldn't it

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be interesting to get every single wife's take on what

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it was like being married to Thomas Randolph?

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Speaker 20: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I know, right, Should we should do that? Oh wait,

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we already tried. But there's only one problem. You know,

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four out of the six wives are dead. It's kind

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of hard to interview in the cemetery. I'm not sure

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our MIC's are good enough. Thomas's first wife, Catherine, even

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offered to help his second wife, Becky escape her marriage

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to Thomas. Catherine was genuinely scared for her, and then

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Becky died.

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00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:20,880
Speaker 21: Had you carried a picture of Becky with me for

481
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:22,920
several years? Yes, it was me.

482
00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:30,679
Speaker 22: Why to remind me I've put all these emotions on

483
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:33,199
a shelf for forty years, said, now I'm having to

484
00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:34,639
pull everything back down.

485
00:34:35,679 --> 00:34:40,679
Speaker 16: But I think that picture gives me strength.

486
00:34:41,519 --> 00:34:46,119
Speaker 10: To express what I need to express for.

487
00:34:46,199 --> 00:34:46,960
Speaker 5: Being for her.

488
00:34:48,679 --> 00:34:51,480
Speaker 1: It was in nineteen eighty six that Becky Galt ended

489
00:34:51,519 --> 00:34:57,599
up with a bullet in her head, presumed suicide. Supposedly,

490
00:34:57,639 --> 00:35:01,079
Becky had a cocaine addiction and she'd attempted to suicide before.

491
00:35:02,119 --> 00:35:06,280
At least that's what Thomas's defense attorneys argued when he

492
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:07,880
was prosecuted for her murder.

493
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:09,440
Speaker 8: That's right.

494
00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:13,360
Speaker 1: Thomas went through a full blown murder trial two years

495
00:35:13,639 --> 00:35:18,360
after Becky's death was ruled a suicide. That's why it's

496
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:22,719
important to look up anybody you're potentially thinking about dating

497
00:35:23,679 --> 00:35:27,320
on insert ad here. I don't know why haven't we

498
00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:30,480
gotten one of those background check companies as a sponsor yet?

499
00:35:31,119 --> 00:35:34,679
Seems like a no brainer. Although Thomas was a killer,

500
00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:37,639
he was also a bit of a pussy. He had

501
00:35:37,639 --> 00:35:43,639
a hitman, and thirteen days after Becky's death, Thomas's prospective

502
00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:47,719
hitman came forward and told police Thomas had offered him

503
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:50,719
ten thousand dollars to kill Becky and make it look

504
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:54,960
like an accident, and he felt pressured by Thomas to

505
00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:59,000
carry it out. Thomas collected two hundred and fifty thousand

506
00:35:59,039 --> 00:36:03,440
dollars in life insurance payouts. By the way, once this

507
00:36:03,519 --> 00:36:07,599
guy came forward, Thomas found himself sitting in a jail cell.

508
00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:12,639
During his time incarcerated and awaiting trial, he was caught

509
00:36:12,679 --> 00:36:15,039
trying to put a hit out on a guy who

510
00:36:15,119 --> 00:36:18,559
rated on him to the police so that he couldn't testify.

511
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:20,000
Speaker 5: Well.

512
00:36:20,039 --> 00:36:23,320
Speaker 1: The guy did end up testifying, but the jury wasn't

513
00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:26,519
allowed to hear information about the attempted hit on the

514
00:36:26,599 --> 00:36:32,159
hit man. Despite this, the prosecutors laid out a solid case.

515
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:36,039
At one point, they played a song for the jury.

516
00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:41,159
It was Rod Stewart's foolish behavior. A witness took the

517
00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:45,039
stand and testified that Thomas had been playing air guitar

518
00:36:45,079 --> 00:36:47,639
and singing along to the song while he plotted his

519
00:36:47,679 --> 00:36:53,000
wife's demise. In case you're unfamiliar with the lyrics, here's

520
00:36:53,039 --> 00:36:57,320
an excerpt. I am a man of panache and wealth,

521
00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:01,280
sound in mind, body, soul and health. Why I want

522
00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:04,039
to kill my wife? I have this urge to take

523
00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:07,199
her life. Been planning for years to get rid of her.

524
00:37:07,639 --> 00:37:11,599
No divorce. I really do mean to kill her. She's

525
00:37:11,639 --> 00:37:15,639
so full of useless information and trivia. Should I string

526
00:37:15,719 --> 00:37:19,599
her up or strangle her in bed, suffocate that little

527
00:37:19,719 --> 00:37:23,440
venomous head, or perhaps I'll just whip her to death.

528
00:37:24,199 --> 00:37:27,440
Do it for mankind? Take her life? Or should I

529
00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:31,840
act quite cold and deliberate, or maybe blow out her

530
00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:35,639
brains with a bullet. Theyn't think suicide. They won't know

531
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:39,239
who'd done it. I'm going to kill my wife. I'm

532
00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:44,039
really going to take her life. Yeah, that's Rod Stewart's tune.

533
00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:45,119
Speaker 6: I hear.

534
00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:49,039
Speaker 1: He's a really nice guy. Even with all the evidence

535
00:37:49,079 --> 00:37:54,000
stacked against him, Thomas was ultimately acquitted. The jury had

536
00:37:54,039 --> 00:37:57,440
to choose between the death penalty and a not guilty

537
00:37:57,719 --> 00:38:02,159
verdict based on the evidence resented to them. They decided

538
00:38:02,199 --> 00:38:08,159
they could not convict him beyond a reasonable doubt, so

539
00:38:08,239 --> 00:38:13,559
Thomas then went on to marry wife number three, Gaina Allman.

540
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:18,039
She recalled when Thomas was cleaning his gun one night

541
00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:24,400
it accidentally went off. She thinks he was actually trying

542
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:25,039
to kill her.

543
00:38:25,599 --> 00:38:27,880
Speaker 18: You were at one time married to somebody by the

544
00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:29,840
name of Thomas Randolph, Is that correct?

545
00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:30,760
Speaker 8: Correct?

546
00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:34,760
Speaker 18: After you're married, just tell us about tell us about

547
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:37,519
the marriage and any any unusual events that occurred.

548
00:38:37,599 --> 00:38:40,079
Speaker 20: I came home from work one day and I smelled

549
00:38:40,119 --> 00:38:43,280
an unbelievable smell in the bathroom. Couldn't figure out what

550
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:45,480
it was, and I found out that it was gun's

551
00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:49,320
thinging solvent. Was he in the bathroom with acting strange

552
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:51,000
and was falling all over the place and fell into

553
00:38:51,039 --> 00:38:53,880
the bathtob and the smell was just unbelievable. And then

554
00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:57,119
shortly thereafter is when he was pinny again and it

555
00:38:57,199 --> 00:38:58,840
had gone off, all right, So.

556
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:02,119
Speaker 8: Can you tell me about that? How'd that happen?

557
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:04,960
Speaker 20: He was sitting at the dining room table and was

558
00:39:05,199 --> 00:39:07,519
missing cleaning the gun, and I wasn't very far away

559
00:39:07,559 --> 00:39:09,920
from him at all, and it went off and it

560
00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:13,079
was just, you know, was away for me, and it

561
00:39:13,159 --> 00:39:15,679
was a hole in the floor. And he said that

562
00:39:15,679 --> 00:39:17,599
he didn't realize it was loaded and.

563
00:39:17,519 --> 00:39:18,119
Speaker 18: It went off.

564
00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:19,320
Speaker 20: What'd you do?

565
00:39:20,639 --> 00:39:20,800
Speaker 21: Well?

566
00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:23,079
Speaker 20: I mean, of course I started yawing, and I was scared.

567
00:39:23,119 --> 00:39:24,639
And then I got on the phone and I was

568
00:39:24,679 --> 00:39:30,079
talking and then I think, I don't remember I've actually left.

569
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:33,079
I just don't really recall. I know, as I was

570
00:39:33,159 --> 00:39:35,559
extremely scared, and it wasn't too long after that that

571
00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:37,639
he went to work and I packed up my stuff and.

572
00:39:37,599 --> 00:39:39,840
Speaker 18: I was gone, Do you have any other contact with

573
00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:42,880
Tom Randolph after you packed up everything?

574
00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:43,079
Speaker 17: All?

575
00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:45,679
Speaker 20: I mean, he caught me on thirty one one day

576
00:39:46,079 --> 00:39:47,679
and tried to get me to pull over and kept

577
00:39:47,679 --> 00:39:51,639
following me and I wasn't going to pull over, and

578
00:39:52,199 --> 00:39:54,840
I know the road's a lot better than him, and

579
00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:56,599
I ended up losing.

580
00:39:56,599 --> 00:40:00,559
Speaker 18: All right, any other incidents and de I knew was

581
00:40:00,599 --> 00:40:01,480
you calling you?

582
00:40:01,519 --> 00:40:01,719
Speaker 15: No?

583
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:05,199
Speaker 20: Because I mean I went into hiding basically, and I

584
00:40:05,239 --> 00:40:06,480
went and stayed at friend's house.

585
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:09,639
Speaker 18: So after you packed up everything, you just you were

586
00:40:09,679 --> 00:40:10,239
hiding from.

587
00:40:10,199 --> 00:40:11,760
Speaker 20: Him, I mean, because I mean I was scared. I

588
00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:15,000
was literally scared with what I was told with the

589
00:40:15,079 --> 00:40:17,440
Edinburgh Police Department, what they told me and everything that

590
00:40:17,559 --> 00:40:20,440
had gone together, and I was just scared and I

591
00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:22,719
wanted to make sure everything was done and the divorce

592
00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:23,519
was finalizing.

593
00:40:24,519 --> 00:40:27,800
Speaker 1: There's some confusion about the order of Thomas's fourth and

594
00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:33,679
fifth wives. One of them was a woman named Francis Randolph.

595
00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:38,519
She passed away suddenly after a successful heart operation. It

596
00:40:38,559 --> 00:40:41,159
was much later that a witness came forward claiming that

597
00:40:41,199 --> 00:40:45,280
Thomas had recruited him to kill Francis and injure Thomas

598
00:40:45,719 --> 00:40:49,840
to make it appear like a robbery. The guy said

599
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:53,440
he declined because he had a feeling Thomas was going

600
00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:57,760
to kill him after he carried out the hit. Well,

601
00:40:58,039 --> 00:41:01,199
when that plan didn't work, Tomas made sure he was

602
00:41:01,239 --> 00:41:05,800
the last one to see Francis after her heart surgery.

603
00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:08,679
He told Francis's daughter that he wanted to be alone

604
00:41:08,679 --> 00:41:11,079
with his wife, and when he came out of the

605
00:41:11,119 --> 00:41:16,760
hospital room, he announced that her mother was dead. The

606
00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:21,320
other wife was named Leona Stapleton. We don't know much

607
00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:24,320
about her other than Thomas telling people she had passed

608
00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:28,679
away from cancer. What are the odds that that wasn't

609
00:41:28,719 --> 00:41:32,920
the case? This brings us to Thomas's sixth then hopefully

610
00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:37,119
his last wife. But who knows kise you ladies like

611
00:41:37,159 --> 00:41:38,880
to date dangerous, you know?

612
00:41:39,719 --> 00:41:44,679
Speaker 13: I would say it was probably well, it was after

613
00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:49,760
she had married Thomas Randolph. I noticed her body language.

614
00:41:51,239 --> 00:41:56,000
She was moving very slowly and sore.

615
00:41:56,159 --> 00:41:57,000
Speaker 2: She was sore.

616
00:41:57,119 --> 00:41:59,880
Speaker 19: Okay, did you see any bruises on her body?

617
00:42:00,119 --> 00:42:00,320
Speaker 17: Yes?

618
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:04,079
Speaker 2: I did. She said it was a boating accident.

619
00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:05,119
Speaker 13: Okay.

620
00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:08,920
Speaker 2: Who was on the boat, Her and Tommy Randolph.

621
00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:15,639
Speaker 13: She said that Tommy was driving the boat very fast

622
00:42:16,519 --> 00:42:22,880
across Lake Mead and he made a sudden, sharp U

623
00:42:23,079 --> 00:42:28,639
turn and she was standing in the boat and she fell.

624
00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:36,639
I was alarmed, I said, Sharon, I think he's trying

625
00:42:36,679 --> 00:42:40,000
to kill you. I said, whatever you do, do not

626
00:42:40,199 --> 00:42:45,239
accept any beverages or food from him.

627
00:42:45,639 --> 00:42:45,960
Speaker 12: Okay.

628
00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:55,639
Speaker 13: She looked at me, and she seemed a little surprised.

629
00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:58,199
She said, do you really think he's trying to kill me?

630
00:42:58,639 --> 00:43:00,280
I said yes.

631
00:43:31,239 --> 00:43:34,039
Speaker 1: When fifty three year old Thomas Randolph and his wife

632
00:43:34,159 --> 00:43:37,440
fifty seven year old Sharon arrived back at their Las

633
00:43:37,519 --> 00:43:40,519
Vegas home after a date night on May eight, two

634
00:43:40,559 --> 00:43:44,239
thousand and eight, the couple's friends and handyman Mike Miller,

635
00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:47,639
was already in the house waiting for them. When Thomas

636
00:43:47,719 --> 00:43:51,000
entered the house several minutes after his wife had gone inside,

637
00:43:51,719 --> 00:43:54,719
he found her lying face down in a pool of blood.

638
00:43:55,360 --> 00:44:00,480
Mike had shot Sharon in the head, so Thomas shot Mike.

639
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:06,760
Makes sense, That's what I thought. After police did a

640
00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:10,800
detailed walkthrough of the crime scene with Thomas Randolph, they

641
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:14,320
took time to pour over the information and realize that

642
00:44:14,480 --> 00:44:18,280
many of the details Thomas gave them didn't quite add up.

643
00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:22,079
During the walkthrough, Thomas stated that he had to turn

644
00:44:22,119 --> 00:44:25,800
the light on in the house when he came inside.

645
00:44:26,239 --> 00:44:28,719
Does that mean that Sharon entered the house in the dark?

646
00:44:29,719 --> 00:44:33,679
See how that doesn't make sense already. Thomas also told

647
00:44:33,719 --> 00:44:37,320
police that he shot and killed Mike Miller in the

648
00:44:37,360 --> 00:44:40,559
same hallway Sharon was in, but there was no blood

649
00:44:40,559 --> 00:44:45,800
evidence supporting that story, and Mike was found in the garage.

650
00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:49,159
To top it all off, Thomas did not attempt to

651
00:44:49,159 --> 00:44:51,519
resuscitate his wife during the nine to one to one call.

652
00:44:52,559 --> 00:44:54,639
We didn't play the whole call for you earlier, but

653
00:44:55,119 --> 00:44:59,880
the last half features dispatchers essentially begging Thomas to get

654
00:45:00,079 --> 00:45:09,280
back to the phone and resume CPR.

655
00:45:09,360 --> 00:45:36,719
Speaker 6: Did you get her on her back up the door?

656
00:46:07,199 --> 00:46:09,880
Speaker 1: It's almost as though he hoped his wife would die

657
00:46:11,039 --> 00:46:13,719
like many of the other wives. Sharon's death killed two

658
00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:17,639
birds with one stone for Thomas. On the one hand,

659
00:46:17,679 --> 00:46:21,639
he had a hefty life insurance payout. On the other

660
00:46:22,320 --> 00:46:26,559
he was freed up for his girlfriend Lizzie. This wasn't

661
00:46:26,599 --> 00:46:30,519
Thomas's first rodeo, though, He learned after his wife Becky's

662
00:46:30,559 --> 00:46:33,360
suspicious death that he had to make it a lot

663
00:46:33,440 --> 00:46:37,639
less suspicious if he wanted to avoid the courtroom. In

664
00:46:37,679 --> 00:46:40,719
the months leading up to Sharon's murder, Thomas and Michael

665
00:46:40,719 --> 00:46:44,800
Miller exchanged more than three hundred phone calls. Thomas was

666
00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:48,480
trying to forge a relationship with Michael, who was down

667
00:46:48,599 --> 00:46:52,400
on his luck. The two would have private conversations lasting

668
00:46:52,519 --> 00:46:56,079
hours on end, ultimately giving Michael the impression that he

669
00:46:56,199 --> 00:47:00,000
was coming into some money. Remember him telling his own

670
00:47:00,199 --> 00:47:03,760
that he had met a girl, was going to happen

671
00:47:03,800 --> 00:47:07,400
into some money and plan to move away. Thomas had

672
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:12,239
found himself another hitman, but this time he wouldn't let

673
00:47:12,320 --> 00:47:16,119
him live long enough to snitch on him. In Thomas's mind,

674
00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:21,480
this would be the perfect crime. A week before Sharon's murder,

675
00:47:22,039 --> 00:47:23,519
she called her friend Deirdre.

676
00:47:24,199 --> 00:47:24,880
Speaker 10: She was.

677
00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:35,159
Speaker 13: Shaken, she sounded scared, and she sounded afraid. She told

678
00:47:35,159 --> 00:47:38,639
me she needed to get a divorce. I happened to

679
00:47:38,719 --> 00:47:42,639
be the vice president on the board of the mediators

680
00:47:42,639 --> 00:47:49,400
of Southern Nevada. Okay, I said, okay, Sharon, I said,

681
00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:55,440
I'll help you get a divorce. I had told Sharon.

682
00:47:55,639 --> 00:47:58,840
I says, well, it wouldn't be difficult to get divorced

683
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:00,880
because you never married Tommy.

684
00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:02,920
Speaker 8: And then she says well, and she.

685
00:48:03,039 --> 00:48:08,440
Speaker 13: Said, yes, I did. Dedra talked me into getting married.

686
00:48:09,760 --> 00:48:12,840
She had told me she had no money, that her

687
00:48:12,880 --> 00:48:17,119
money was gone, that they had gone through all of

688
00:48:17,119 --> 00:48:22,360
her money. And I said, okay, I said, that won't

689
00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:28,760
be a problem. I said, I do know attorneys, I

690
00:48:28,840 --> 00:48:32,480
know pair ofalegals. Or I will be glad to go

691
00:48:32,599 --> 00:48:35,440
down to the self help center with you at Legal

692
00:48:35,480 --> 00:48:40,599
Aid and we will draw up divorce papers. I said,

693
00:48:40,639 --> 00:48:45,559
what else are you involved with as far as Tommy

694
00:48:45,679 --> 00:48:50,280
is concerned, and she said he does have a life

695
00:48:50,320 --> 00:48:56,719
insurance policy on me. I told Sharon, I said, Sharon,

696
00:48:58,559 --> 00:49:02,599
this is a red flag to me. I said, now

697
00:49:02,639 --> 00:49:07,360
I'm worried for you. I asked her to come and

698
00:49:07,559 --> 00:49:11,039
stay with me. I told her that I was worried

699
00:49:11,119 --> 00:49:15,079
for her and that I wanted her to come and

700
00:49:15,239 --> 00:49:20,079
stay with me because I wanted her to be safe.

701
00:49:20,440 --> 00:49:25,960
She said, I know Dedra, and she sounded worried, but

702
00:49:26,119 --> 00:49:32,000
she said, I want to be in my home. I said,

703
00:49:32,519 --> 00:49:35,119
I can't force you to come and stay with me.

704
00:49:35,960 --> 00:49:39,400
I said, however, I would like you too, I said,

705
00:49:39,400 --> 00:49:46,440
but please, whatever you do, do not accept any beverages, food,

706
00:49:46,920 --> 00:49:50,199
or turn your back on Tommy. I don't trust him.

707
00:49:50,519 --> 00:49:51,559
I'm worried for you.

708
00:49:52,960 --> 00:49:55,480
Speaker 1: Sharon had no idea that it wouldn't even be Tommy.

709
00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:59,400
She'd need to watch out for their new friend, Michael Miller,

710
00:49:59,559 --> 00:50:04,679
was now doing Tommy's bidding, and Sharon was none the wiser.

711
00:50:05,880 --> 00:50:08,920
The night of the murders, Thomas pulled into the driveway

712
00:50:08,920 --> 00:50:11,519
and allowed Sharon to go ahead of him, with enough

713
00:50:11,559 --> 00:50:16,119
time to encounter Michael Miller. Though Thomas claimed he couldn't

714
00:50:16,159 --> 00:50:19,440
hear the shot due to hearing loss, he likely waited

715
00:50:19,480 --> 00:50:23,679
for the sound before going inside to kill Michael. After

716
00:50:23,719 --> 00:50:27,920
giving statements to police, Thomas sat back, waited for his

717
00:50:27,960 --> 00:50:31,880
life insurance payout, and hoped Sharon's daughter wouldn't give him

718
00:50:31,920 --> 00:50:32,760
too much trouble.

719
00:50:33,360 --> 00:50:37,280
Speaker 15: Friday morning, a friend of mine named Tony called me

720
00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:41,000
and said she was watching the news and there was

721
00:50:41,039 --> 00:50:44,440
just shooting on Rancho Santa Fe and she knew that

722
00:50:44,599 --> 00:50:46,079
was my mother's street.

723
00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:49,000
Speaker 2: I tried to call my mom again.

724
00:50:49,679 --> 00:50:51,280
Speaker 15: I'd been trying to call her all morning.

725
00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:52,960
Speaker 6: Did you reach her?

726
00:50:53,920 --> 00:50:54,000
Speaker 3: No?

727
00:50:55,079 --> 00:50:55,800
Speaker 6: Did he talk to.

728
00:50:58,079 --> 00:51:01,480
Speaker 15: I avenged? I think I called Randolph next said what

729
00:51:01,559 --> 00:51:05,400
did you do to my mother? What did he say?

730
00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:08,840
He said, Michael shot and killed your mother, and then

731
00:51:08,840 --> 00:51:09,559
he just hung.

732
00:51:09,440 --> 00:51:09,840
Speaker 6: Up on me.

733
00:51:10,960 --> 00:51:14,559
Speaker 1: A few days after this conversation, Sharon's closest friend, Alice,

734
00:51:14,679 --> 00:51:17,199
the one who offered to take her in while she

735
00:51:17,239 --> 00:51:21,280
got a divorce, stopped by Sharon's daughter's house and dropped

736
00:51:21,280 --> 00:51:25,280
off an envelope. This envelope contained a secret that threw

737
00:51:25,320 --> 00:51:31,480
a wrench into Thomas's plans. Inside that envelope was Sharon's

738
00:51:32,079 --> 00:51:38,599
most recent updated will. In the meantime, Thomas was completely

739
00:51:38,719 --> 00:51:42,880
unaware of this second will and made phone calls to

740
00:51:42,920 --> 00:51:45,320
Sharon's family to save face.

741
00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:50,559
Speaker 11: I would say this was within a month to forty

742
00:51:50,639 --> 00:51:54,519
days of her demids. He seemed to upset at her

743
00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:58,199
for her spending even after she was gone.

744
00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:00,920
Speaker 8: She spent a ton of money.

745
00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:04,360
Speaker 11: And now now I got to get money, and I've

746
00:52:04,360 --> 00:52:09,639
got to find, you know, ways to make money.

747
00:52:09,760 --> 00:52:13,679
Speaker 8: He seemed preoccupied with money. After sharing is kill?

748
00:52:13,840 --> 00:52:19,840
Speaker 19: Do you start to receive phone calls from the defendant. Yes,

749
00:52:20,159 --> 00:52:25,119
what does he start talking to you about? He was

750
00:52:25,639 --> 00:52:27,920
mentioning that he was going to.

751
00:52:29,719 --> 00:52:31,880
Speaker 11: Come into some money from the estate, he was going

752
00:52:31,920 --> 00:52:36,159
to spend money on us, he was going to invest

753
00:52:36,280 --> 00:52:39,599
in a studio with me. He kept kind of pushing

754
00:52:39,599 --> 00:52:42,719
that at me, which is something I had never asked about.

755
00:52:43,119 --> 00:52:46,920
Speaker 19: How did you find that whole conversation extremely odd?

756
00:52:48,519 --> 00:52:54,840
Speaker 8: At the time? Had the will been settled yet? I

757
00:52:54,880 --> 00:52:56,960
don't know what you mean by settled? Well, there was

758
00:52:57,000 --> 00:53:00,440
more than one, right, These two.

759
00:53:00,280 --> 00:53:02,039
Speaker 19: Wills were kind of floating out and it exists.

760
00:53:02,159 --> 00:53:02,639
Speaker 6: Is that right?

761
00:53:04,480 --> 00:53:10,360
Speaker 19: Do conversations like that happen before the defendant becomes aware

762
00:53:10,360 --> 00:53:11,239
there's a second will?

763
00:53:12,320 --> 00:53:13,119
Speaker 8: No, I'm going to once.

764
00:53:13,280 --> 00:53:15,119
Speaker 11: Once he found there was a second will, that never

765
00:53:15,159 --> 00:53:18,920
happened again, those conversations, Yes, those conversations never happened again.

766
00:53:19,960 --> 00:53:23,679
Speaker 1: At first, Thomas hoped to charm Sharon's family with promises

767
00:53:23,719 --> 00:53:27,239
of money from her estate. He thought he had control

768
00:53:27,280 --> 00:53:31,400
of everything, but that wasn't the case. Sharon's second will

769
00:53:31,440 --> 00:53:34,079
was written up with the help of her friend Alice.

770
00:53:34,239 --> 00:53:38,800
Alice said in a confessional, she writes it out, I'm

771
00:53:38,840 --> 00:53:41,559
watching her do it and we go to the notary

772
00:53:41,599 --> 00:53:44,360
and have it notarized, and she gives it to me,

773
00:53:44,480 --> 00:53:48,599
and she says, if anything happens to me, Alice, please

774
00:53:48,639 --> 00:53:51,880
give this to my daughter Colleen. She had left the

775
00:53:51,880 --> 00:53:57,599
house to Colleen. Once he became aware of this other will,

776
00:53:58,599 --> 00:54:03,519
Thomas began leaving news nasty voicemails for Colleen and her husband,

777
00:54:03,559 --> 00:54:06,320
saying things like no wonder your mother didn't like you.

778
00:54:07,480 --> 00:54:10,960
Thomas's true colors emerged when his control over the situation

779
00:54:11,159 --> 00:54:16,519
started to disintegrate. Soon police were taking a much closer

780
00:54:16,559 --> 00:54:20,840
look at Thomas. In addition to all the inconsistencies in

781
00:54:20,880 --> 00:54:24,400
his story and the conflicting evidence at the crime scene,

782
00:54:24,880 --> 00:54:28,679
they looked into Thomas's past and discovered that he'd been

783
00:54:28,719 --> 00:54:32,559
married a total of six times. Then they saw that

784
00:54:32,599 --> 00:54:37,159
only two of those wives were still alive. That is

785
00:54:37,239 --> 00:54:41,800
some stellar police work right there. Imagine if they had

786
00:54:41,840 --> 00:54:45,880
done that previously. In January of two thousand and nine,

787
00:54:45,960 --> 00:54:50,360
police tracked Thomas down at his parents' house in Clearfield, Utah.

788
00:54:51,199 --> 00:54:54,920
Clearfield police as well as members of the Las Vegas

789
00:54:54,920 --> 00:54:59,599
Metropolitan Police Department, knocked on the front door, and Thomas answered.

790
00:55:00,599 --> 00:55:03,440
When they showed him the warrant and tried to make

791
00:55:03,480 --> 00:55:08,440
an arrest. Thomas resisted and had to be tasered. Are

792
00:55:08,480 --> 00:55:13,840
you surprised? I'm not. When they finally got him into custody,

793
00:55:14,440 --> 00:55:17,639
he was officially charged with conspiracy to commit murder and

794
00:55:17,760 --> 00:55:21,360
two counts of murder in the first degree for the

795
00:55:21,360 --> 00:55:25,840
deaths of Sharon Randolph and Michael Miller. He pleaded not

796
00:55:25,880 --> 00:55:29,199
guilty and took it to trial. The jury on the

797
00:55:29,239 --> 00:55:33,000
case spent very little time deliberating before reaching a verdict

798
00:55:33,760 --> 00:55:35,880
in June of twenty seventeen.

799
00:55:36,639 --> 00:55:38,920
Speaker 2: Kitness four person, would you give the verdict to the marshall?

800
00:55:38,920 --> 00:55:39,199
Speaker 8: Please?

801
00:55:40,880 --> 00:55:43,840
Speaker 23: We the jury in the above entitled case find the defendant,

802
00:55:43,880 --> 00:55:45,639
Thomas William Randolph.

803
00:55:45,400 --> 00:55:47,119
Speaker 8: Guilty of first degree murder.

804
00:55:47,800 --> 00:55:50,719
Speaker 16: You get in and everyone says guilty, And we probably

805
00:55:50,760 --> 00:55:54,239
could have gotten it down in ten minutes, but we

806
00:55:54,239 --> 00:55:56,800
were so afraid of making the wrong decision. Who wanted

807
00:55:56,800 --> 00:55:58,639
to be so careful because it is some of his

808
00:55:58,760 --> 00:55:59,440
life on the line.

809
00:56:00,079 --> 00:56:02,480
Speaker 8: Was it even a close call for any of you?

810
00:56:02,079 --> 00:56:04,440
Speaker 9: Now you all felt the same, But we still have

811
00:56:04,519 --> 00:56:07,599
to go through the evidence and everything else to make

812
00:56:07,639 --> 00:56:09,000
sure we're doing the right thing.

813
00:56:09,239 --> 00:56:11,679
Speaker 8: Yeah, the defense didn't really have a lot to work with.

814
00:56:12,360 --> 00:56:12,840
They didn't.

815
00:56:12,920 --> 00:56:14,880
Speaker 4: I mean, they did the best they could with what

816
00:56:14,920 --> 00:56:17,760
they had, but they just didn't have a lot.

817
00:56:18,280 --> 00:56:20,639
Speaker 8: The state had everything on their side.

818
00:56:21,639 --> 00:56:26,400
Speaker 21: During your friendship with mister Randolph, did the defendant ask

819
00:56:26,519 --> 00:56:30,039
you questions that you thought odd or made you feel uncomfortable?

820
00:56:30,639 --> 00:56:35,480
Speaker 15: Yes, he told me that he wanted me to kill

821
00:56:35,599 --> 00:56:36,079
his wife.

822
00:56:36,280 --> 00:56:38,679
Speaker 7: Didn't Becky's play.

823
00:56:38,519 --> 00:56:39,800
Speaker 8: A role in this Gazer?

824
00:56:41,599 --> 00:56:43,280
Speaker 20: Not for me, because if they had to mention the

825
00:56:43,360 --> 00:56:45,599
Uakies at all, you still would have felt the same.

826
00:56:46,280 --> 00:56:51,280
Speaker 14: The evidence of this case alone was absolutely.

827
00:56:50,880 --> 00:56:52,000
Speaker 19: What did you think of the fact when you hear

828
00:56:52,039 --> 00:56:56,199
he was acquitted the first.

829
00:56:54,880 --> 00:56:57,679
Speaker 23: I wasn't going to judge twelve other people. I don't

830
00:56:57,719 --> 00:57:01,760
know what they heard, what they didn't here they're finding

831
00:57:01,840 --> 00:57:03,639
him not guilty. They found him not guilty.

832
00:57:03,639 --> 00:57:04,320
Speaker 17: I accept that.

833
00:57:04,519 --> 00:57:05,760
Speaker 8: They could have saved the lies.

834
00:57:06,840 --> 00:57:07,239
Speaker 7: Mm hmm.

835
00:57:08,159 --> 00:57:12,440
Speaker 8: Three live, two lives, we have been saved. Sure, had they.

836
00:57:12,320 --> 00:57:15,440
Speaker 23: Known if I'm gonna I have to guess they didn't

837
00:57:15,599 --> 00:57:17,400
know what they wanted to know.

838
00:57:18,519 --> 00:57:19,079
Speaker 8: It concerned.

839
00:57:19,159 --> 00:57:22,719
Speaker 16: You're actually in the in the room and you have

840
00:57:22,800 --> 00:57:25,239
to deliberate, Okay, are we really gonna put him to death?

841
00:57:25,679 --> 00:57:27,400
Is it really worthy of that?

842
00:57:28,119 --> 00:57:29,119
Speaker 6: It's so daunting.

843
00:57:29,280 --> 00:57:31,360
Speaker 19: Tell me about the different testimony from the different people

844
00:57:32,400 --> 00:57:38,320
his side, his mom, his daughter, his son.

845
00:57:38,519 --> 00:57:43,880
Speaker 16: The mother would be the only one from his side

846
00:57:44,280 --> 00:57:47,639
that gave me any sort of emotional connection.

847
00:57:48,239 --> 00:57:54,119
Speaker 22: This is where I should be as a mother today

848
00:57:55,559 --> 00:57:56,880
to support my son.

849
00:57:57,280 --> 00:58:00,559
Speaker 2: Just at the end of the day, it's just were

850
00:58:00,719 --> 00:58:02,679
taken for greed.

851
00:58:03,079 --> 00:58:07,000
Speaker 23: And it's sad, and I feel for calling a whole

852
00:58:07,000 --> 00:58:09,920
bunch two and all the other families.

853
00:58:10,599 --> 00:58:14,039
Speaker 16: I feel like we all absolutely need the right decision.

854
00:58:14,079 --> 00:58:17,039
Speaker 6: I think we're all very confident in it.

855
00:58:16,360 --> 00:58:19,920
Speaker 2: And it is a really big belief.

856
00:58:21,000 --> 00:58:25,840
Speaker 1: The verdict was a relief for everyone except Thomas and

857
00:58:25,880 --> 00:58:29,679
his defense team. Though the first jury decided they didn't

858
00:58:29,760 --> 00:58:33,440
think he murdered his second wife, Becky Gault, the second

859
00:58:33,480 --> 00:58:39,679
jury finally got it right. Next came sentencing for the

860
00:58:39,679 --> 00:58:43,760
man now known across the country as the Black Widower.

861
00:58:44,880 --> 00:58:47,920
This was a death penalty case like his first trial,

862
00:58:47,960 --> 00:58:50,320
and the stakes were high.

863
00:58:50,519 --> 00:58:52,599
Speaker 21: But you will learn that it isn't just about May

864
00:58:52,639 --> 00:58:53,800
eighth of two thousand and eight.

865
00:58:54,960 --> 00:58:56,760
Speaker 24: In those doors this afternoon.

866
00:58:56,920 --> 00:59:00,920
Speaker 21: Tomorrow morning will lost several people to talk to you

867
00:59:01,519 --> 00:59:06,000
about thirty five or more years of pain and anguish

868
00:59:06,360 --> 00:59:09,159
that have all been caused by the defendant.

869
00:59:10,519 --> 00:59:14,480
Speaker 24: You will learn that it isn't simply just about Sharing Randall,

870
00:59:15,079 --> 00:59:18,800
and it isn't just about Becky Brandaw. What you will

871
00:59:18,920 --> 00:59:23,119
learn is that the defendant has been married six times.

872
00:59:23,519 --> 00:59:28,239
You will also hear that for five out of six

873
00:59:28,280 --> 00:59:34,440
of those wives, he either attempted to kill, hired someone

874
00:59:34,880 --> 00:59:37,280
to kill, or killed.

875
00:59:37,679 --> 00:59:38,719
Speaker 6: Five of those women.

876
00:59:39,880 --> 00:59:47,000
Speaker 1: The jury unanimously voted on a sentence of death. Thomas

877
00:59:47,039 --> 00:59:50,760
destroyed so many kind hearted women, ruining or taking their

878
00:59:50,760 --> 00:59:57,519
lives entirely. But his era of evil is over. There

879
00:59:57,519 --> 01:00:02,719
will be no more girlfriends, Fyonce says, or wives. At

880
01:00:02,800 --> 01:00:32,480
least that's what everyone thought at the time. Fast forward

881
01:00:32,599 --> 01:00:37,440
to December of twenty twenty. In the bizarre turn of events,

882
01:00:37,480 --> 01:00:42,480
the Nevada Supreme Court reversed Thomas's conviction on the basis

883
01:00:42,519 --> 01:00:46,079
that any mentioned to this story of his first trial

884
01:00:46,159 --> 01:00:51,199
and acquittal, or any other prior bad acts were violations

885
01:00:51,760 --> 01:00:54,760
of his right to a fair trial. I love that

886
01:00:54,840 --> 01:00:57,280
when they use your own rules against you, don't you.

887
01:00:58,519 --> 01:01:04,000
Of course, the County DA's office immediately sought to retry him.

888
01:01:04,559 --> 01:01:10,519
Thomas Randolph's third trial at taxpayer's expense, I might add

889
01:01:10,840 --> 01:01:15,159
took place in the summer of twenty twenty three. This time,

890
01:01:15,280 --> 01:01:18,039
prosecutors weren't allowed to talk about either one of the

891
01:01:18,079 --> 01:01:24,039
trials or really provide any negative character witnesses weird right.

892
01:01:25,119 --> 01:01:29,280
The jury wasn't allowed to hear about his five other wives,

893
01:01:30,119 --> 01:01:33,639
or that three of them were dead. The rye evidence

894
01:01:33,639 --> 01:01:37,639
against Thomas was stacked against him, though. Prosecutors built a

895
01:01:37,679 --> 01:01:42,159
strong case that Thomas had befriended Michael Miller just months

896
01:01:42,159 --> 01:01:45,480
before Sharon's murder and had hired him to kill her

897
01:01:46,159 --> 01:01:48,400
so that he could collect the life insurance money and

898
01:01:49,119 --> 01:01:53,280
be with his ex Lizzie again. On August twenty fourth,

899
01:01:53,440 --> 01:01:58,679
twenty twenty three, a verdict was reached. Is that you,

900
01:01:58,800 --> 01:02:02,719
mister Diet, mister Dyer, has the jury reached the burden?

901
01:02:03,000 --> 01:02:03,119
Speaker 12: Yes?

902
01:02:03,599 --> 01:02:05,360
Speaker 23: If you can please pass the verting forum.

903
01:02:05,199 --> 01:02:10,800
Speaker 8: To the marsh The clerk will now read the Verdens.

904
01:02:12,039 --> 01:02:15,039
Speaker 21: District Court, Cork County, Nevada, State of Nevada, Plaintiff versus

905
01:02:15,119 --> 01:02:18,760
Thomas William Randolph, Defendant, Case number zero nine CE two

906
01:02:18,760 --> 01:02:21,719
five zero nine sixty six, Department ten verdict.

907
01:02:22,039 --> 01:02:25,280
Speaker 10: We the jury in the above entitle case find the defendant, Thomas.

908
01:02:25,000 --> 01:02:26,400
Speaker 8: William Randolph, as follows.

909
01:02:26,920 --> 01:02:30,079
Speaker 19: Count one conspiracy to commit murder, guilty of conspiracy to

910
01:02:30,119 --> 01:02:31,719
commit murder, Count.

911
01:02:31,480 --> 01:02:33,559
Speaker 8: Two murder with use of a deadly weapon.

912
01:02:33,679 --> 01:02:36,559
Speaker 16: Sharon Randall guilty of first degree murder with use of

913
01:02:36,559 --> 01:02:37,320
a deadly weapon.

914
01:02:39,320 --> 01:02:41,679
Speaker 8: Count three murder with use of a deadly weapon.

915
01:02:41,760 --> 01:02:44,360
Speaker 17: Michael Miller guilty of first or gree murder with use of.

916
01:02:44,360 --> 01:02:45,079
Speaker 2: A deadly weapon.

917
01:02:45,320 --> 01:02:47,840
Speaker 19: Dated this twenty fourth day of August twenty twenty three.

918
01:02:48,119 --> 01:02:50,639
Speaker 2: Sit David Dyer, Ladies and gentlemen of the jury.

919
01:02:50,639 --> 01:02:51,480
Speaker 8: Are these are verdicts?

920
01:02:51,480 --> 01:02:51,800
Speaker 5: Is rd?

921
01:02:51,880 --> 01:02:52,480
Speaker 2: So say you one?

922
01:02:52,599 --> 01:02:53,280
Speaker 4: So say you all?

923
01:02:54,039 --> 01:02:54,360
Speaker 6: Yes?

924
01:02:55,639 --> 01:03:01,039
Speaker 1: Thomas Randolph star it ahead with a blank expression as

925
01:03:01,039 --> 01:03:05,559
his final verdict was read. Sentencing was to take place

926
01:03:05,760 --> 01:03:09,559
just a few months later, but Thomas, now very elderly,

927
01:03:10,440 --> 01:03:13,480
was still pulling out all the stops to weasel himself

928
01:03:14,239 --> 01:03:14,920
out of prison.

929
01:03:15,760 --> 01:03:19,039
Speaker 17: A judge delayed the sentence for the convicted murderer known

930
01:03:19,119 --> 01:03:20,599
as the Black Widower.

931
01:03:20,760 --> 01:03:22,559
Speaker 2: Thomas Randolph and his lawyer.

932
01:03:22,280 --> 01:03:24,679
Speaker 17: Submitted a motion to dismiss at the end of the

933
01:03:24,800 --> 01:03:27,679
day yesterday, on the eve of his sentencing, some seven

934
01:03:27,760 --> 01:03:31,519
hundred pages of exhibits, many of them handwritten were turned in.

935
01:03:31,920 --> 01:03:35,239
The judge says the charges against Randolph are so serious

936
01:03:35,599 --> 01:03:39,960
she's giving prosecutors a month to reply. Randolph spoke in

937
01:03:40,000 --> 01:03:42,679
court for the first time since his conviction, offering to

938
01:03:42,719 --> 01:03:44,440
explain his reasoning for the motion.

939
01:03:45,719 --> 01:03:46,039
Speaker 5: It was.

940
01:03:47,599 --> 01:03:50,440
Speaker 6: Put it on the record, and you don't have to

941
01:03:50,519 --> 01:03:56,480
read it all the hands. But I'm still willing to

942
01:03:56,519 --> 01:03:56,800
do that.

943
01:03:57,159 --> 01:04:02,440
Speaker 20: Nine respond to the milshits of the distegus what you're

944
01:04:02,480 --> 01:04:04,199
gonna say ahead of time because they have to have

945
01:04:04,280 --> 01:04:05,079
an opportunity to this.

946
01:04:05,199 --> 01:04:08,000
Speaker 3: Office, or I'm saying I couldn't say it.

947
01:04:09,280 --> 01:04:14,000
Speaker 1: These are just tactics to delay sentencing. This seemingly never

948
01:04:14,119 --> 01:04:18,760
ending case finally came though, in April of twenty twenty four.

949
01:04:19,480 --> 01:04:23,719
Despite a fifteen minute monologue and a proclamation of his innocence,

950
01:04:24,440 --> 01:04:29,760
the judge sentenced Old Tommy to sixty years to life

951
01:04:29,960 --> 01:04:33,519
in prison. Some may say he got let off easy

952
01:04:33,920 --> 01:04:38,079
compared to his prior death sentence, but he'll live out

953
01:04:38,159 --> 01:04:42,639
his few remaining years trying to appeal this conviction. Also,

954
01:04:43,840 --> 01:04:46,679
he won't live in peace, he won't live in comfort,

955
01:04:47,800 --> 01:04:53,800
but he'll be alive, unlike all those poor women that

956
01:04:53,920 --> 01:04:58,280
had the misfortune to meet him. There's a lot of

957
01:04:58,280 --> 01:05:02,519
collective evidence that Thomas rand On is not a good guy.

958
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Even when Sharon first met him, everyone told her the

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same thing, This is not a good idea. What are

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you doing, girl? Get out of this shit. When Michael

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Miller met Thomas and befriended him, Michael's family members told him,

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you'd be better off staying away from Thomas. Sometimes we

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should probably stop and listen to the advice of others,

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especially our loved ones, especially when every single one of

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them is saying the same thing. So at the end

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of twenty two early twenty three, we started on a venture,

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a brand new project that would take up all of

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our time and energy. It's called Sword and Scale Television.

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There's ten episodes available of it right now. It's the

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visual component to this podcast, all new stories. You could

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see it at Swordinscale dot com.

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Speaker 12: Yeah yeah, yes, yes yes, bees be yah