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The Real Story Behind Netflix’s ‘The Widower’: Six Wives, Four Deaths and Two Murder Trials

Marcus Chen
Marcus Chen
Managing Editor · Wednesday, October 7, 2026 at 5:04 PM · 1 min read
The Real Story Behind Netflix’s ‘The Widower’: Six Wives, Four Deaths and Two Murder Trials — Los Angeles Magazine, Palo Alto Arts news
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Netflix’s newest true-crime drama sounds almost too strange and manipulative to be real. Thomas Randolph was married six times…four of those women are now dead. One died from cancer, another after heart surgery, one died from a gunshot wound that was ruled a suicide; his sixth wife, Sharon Causse, was murdered inside the couple’s Las Vegas home. It was Causse’s 2008 killing that would eventually put the narcissistic Randolph behind bars. https://twitter.com/netflix/status/2105419630500061346?s=20 The road to his conviction took more than 15 years: two murder trials, a death sentence that was thrown out, plus a second conviction that Nevada’s highest court upheld just weeks before Netflix released The Widower: ’Til Death Do Us Part. But let’s go back in time. The Widower: ‘Til Death Do Us Part. Thomas Randolph in The Widower: ‘Til Death Do Us Part.Credit: Courtesy of Netflix © 2026 On May 8, 2008, Randolph called 911 with an extraordinary tale of tragedy. Randolph said h

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