The Widower Ep. 3: The Trial

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Speaker 4 A couple had gone out to dinner. They got home.
An intruder shot and killed the wife.

Speaker 4 The husband, Thomas Randolph, shot the suspect.

Speaker 6 Kind of rushed up on me a little bit, and that's when I just pushed it and boom, boom.

Speaker 4 It was clear there was a lot more to the story.

Speaker 9 We found out Tom Randolph had been married six times, and four of his wives were dead.

Speaker 10 He said, point blank, I want you to kill my wife.

Speaker 11 These women come up dead. He comes up with money.

Speaker 12 Do you have guns?

Speaker 13 Of course they've got guns.

Speaker 5 Okay, did I have one in your face?

Speaker 12 No, but you had one in mind.

Speaker 14 What is it about you and women, Tom?

Speaker 15 I love women. I love all women.

Speaker 16 We have to stop him. There can't be any more Sharons.
There can't be any more Becky's.

Speaker 14 It's a completely circumstantial murder case.

Speaker 18 This is the second time you're facing the death penalty.

Speaker 14 Yeah, ain't a big deal.

Speaker 19 They want to kill you, babe. They don't like you.
They want to kill you.

Speaker 9 I've been waiting a long time for this moment.

Speaker 20 It was the hardest thing I've ever done.

Speaker 16 Thomas Randolph's gig is up.

Speaker 12 I will be acquitted.

Speaker 21 I've told you this from day one, have I not?

Speaker 23 Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Speaker 24 Put your hands on your head right now.

Speaker 14 Put your hands on your head.

Speaker 25 What did you do over the

Speaker 14 time?

Speaker 27 Hello. Can I talk to you real quick?

Speaker 14 Put your hands on your head right now. Put your hands on your head.

Speaker 14 My God. What you're talking to me.
Oh, I'm grabbing.

Speaker 5 Police arrested a man in Clearfield, a man who was accused of hiring a hitman to kill his wife, and then of killing the hitman himself.

Speaker 16 This isn't the first time the man has faced murder charges. 20 years ago, he was acquitted of killing another wife.

Speaker 6 I think that was a little rough there when I told you I couldn't let go of the door.

Speaker 5 I was holding myself up.

Speaker 24 Thomas, you understand that I was there to arrest you on homicide warrants, correct?

Speaker 14 Tom Randolph was arrested for the murders of Sharon Randolph and Mike Miller.

Speaker 4 Tom Randolph knew Michael Miller. He had met him out at a 7-Eleven store and he had him do some handiwork around his house.
So he was very familiar with him.

Speaker 9 So we had a theory, and that's this.

Speaker 9 Mike Miller had been convinced by Thomas Randolph to kill his wife, Sharon Randolph, and then Tom Randolph double-crossed Mike Miller, shooting him over and over and over again.

Speaker 14 Boom, boom, boom.

Speaker 32 That was awesome.

Speaker 27 Fantastic.

Speaker 14 Thanks for coming

Speaker 14 on zero right now.

Speaker 25 You guys drive safe, all right?

Speaker 33 Get that.

Speaker 14 There's his bookie. That's it, man.

Speaker 34 It was pretty satisfying him being taken into custody, willingly or not, but it was pretty satisfying to finally see that happen, knowing the type of person he is and predator that he really is.

Speaker 9 He'd been married six times, and four of his wives are dead.

Speaker 9 It was a long road to get there. To look at each one of those wives, each one of those marriages, you know, all of the traveling that we had to do.

Speaker 34 We went to Washington, we went to Indiana, we went to Kentucky, New Hampshire, North and South Carolina, Utah a couple of times.

Speaker 9 So we traveled everywhere. And here we were.
It finally came to a head, and he was in custody. It was awesome.

Speaker 9 Within minutes after Tom was arrested, I was on the phone with Sharon's daughter, Colleen.

Speaker 20 Took them eight months to arrest him.

Speaker 20 But yeah, when he was finally arrested, I actually had a party.

Speaker 20 Neighbors and everything.

Speaker 20 So that was good.

Speaker 14 Mom, make him look this way.

Speaker 20 My mom was the first person that called me every morning.

Speaker 38 I don't have that anymore.

Speaker 16 Every once in a while you'll get this case that's just interesting that you want to be a part of it. And I thought, oh man, that's such an interesting case and this guy and all these wives.

Speaker 16 We're not taking something to trial unless we know that he did it. But oftentimes, trials will make or break on one issue.

Speaker 16 You either believe he was a mastermind of it all and set up this master plan, or you believe he's completely innocent and is a victim.

Speaker 18 This is the second time you're facing the death penalty.

Speaker 14 Yeah, it ain't a big deal.

Speaker 40 It ain't a big deal. I mean, it is really not a big deal.

Speaker 40 I'm glad they made this a death penalty case. If they wouldn't have,

Speaker 40 I would have been greatly disappointed. I mean, this is definitely a death penalty type case.

Speaker 41 I would have felt cheated if it wasn't a death penalty case.

Speaker 40 I'm thinking about going to court and getting this all straightened out and get vindicated and then suing all the cs and just kicking their ass.

Speaker 42 But that's why I want you here on all of it.

Speaker 40 That was my idea, and

Speaker 41 I wasn't of swaying in that whatsoever.

Speaker 42 The lawyers aren't in agreement with that, but

Speaker 40 you know, I'm just me, and

Speaker 40 I've done a lot of things I shouldn't have done. I mean, I have.
I wasn't, I'm not no saint, but if you know, you're gonna get to know me, then you get to know me all the way.

Speaker 45 I had just finished being part of the team that represented OJ Simpson,

Speaker 4 and

Speaker 46 Randolph wanted OJ's lawyer.

Speaker 47 I told him he had to keep his mouth shut.

Speaker 45 I've won most of my jury trials, of a good 75 to 80 percent of them acquittals.

Speaker 47 I've always rooted for the underdog.

Speaker 49 And criminal defense is the ultimate little guy.

Speaker 45 I had just finished being part of the team that represented O.J. Simpson in the Palace Station robbery case.

Speaker 46 And Randolph, being who he is, wanted O.J.'s lawyer.

Speaker 14 You have Randolph's file?

Speaker 50 He got arrested in January 7th.

Speaker 47 Here, you're in March, and the case is just getting started.

Speaker 49 The mother of all battles in this case is going to be the back-and-forth tug that's going to take place between the defense and the state with respect to Mr.

Speaker 51 Randolph's past.

Speaker 51 That is the monumental fight in this case.

Speaker 17 I've handled more than a dozen death penalty cases.

Speaker 52 Hi, how are you today? Hey, how's it going?

Speaker 14 Oh, hey, see ya.

Speaker 17 There's no cookie cutter instruction on how to do a death penalty case. They were the only report I made.

Speaker 27 What's up, buddy?

Speaker 45 What did you want to talk to me about before filing? Because I'm on the edge of filing this motion to set bail.

Speaker 45 What did you want to talk to me about?

Speaker 14 Okay, for bail, I need to be out to help you.

Speaker 54 My files are in mom's house, in my attic, in mom's attic, in the garage, in a storage shed.

Speaker 50 Thomas Randolph loves to talk.

Speaker 47 And I told him he had to keep his mouth shut.

Speaker 12 Statements against the truth.

Speaker 47 Because the state did not have a statement from him confessing anything or admitting anything.

Speaker 49 This DA's office is notorious. for putting snitches in people's cells, especially in this case, because their biggest problem in this case is that this case is completely circumstantial.

Speaker 49 They need you to say something to somebody. See, they don't have that.

Speaker 45 They need you to say,

Speaker 49 I hired Mike Miller.

Speaker 57 They need you to say that to one of their jailbird

Speaker 17 snitches.

Speaker 49 The facts in this case is such a house of cards.

Speaker 14 Okay.

Speaker 17 It's such a house of cards as to that one specific issue that we have to deal with, which is whether, you know, whether you were shooting a burglar or an accomplice.

Speaker 16 Police tell us that Sharon was shot and killed by the burglar. Her body was found lying in a hole.

Speaker 47 The version of events

Speaker 47 that Thomas Randolph presented, which was he had gone out to dinner with his wife.

Speaker 17 They had gotten home.

Speaker 47 He was in the garage closing things up.

Speaker 50 His wife had walked walked in.

Speaker 12 Boom, a gunshot.

Speaker 50 And the burglar shoots the wife.

Speaker 31 Reached right up here.

Speaker 6 Got the gun. I don't know how many times they shot him.

Speaker 12 And Randolph luckily kills the burglar.

Speaker 32 Boom! Boom! Boom!

Speaker 47 But on the other side, you had the state saying he hired Mike Miller to kill his wife, and then he double-crossed Mike Miller and killed him so there wouldn't be any witnesses to what he had pulled off or tried to pull off.

Speaker 47 When I visit with Randolph, you know, here for my weekly visit. He doesn't see himself as the defendant in the case, he sees himself as the assistant lawyer in the case.
Thanks.

Speaker 47 He really came off as a very overly cocky guy.

Speaker 47 Like he thought he was, even though he was sitting in jail in a jail outfit, that he was running the show.

Speaker 13 We need to bring some of this discovery out so I can see it.

Speaker 58 You want it?

Speaker 14 Yeah.

Speaker 32 You want to hold on to it?

Speaker 58 Only want to read some of it, see what they got. Have you found out if they had phone taps yet?

Speaker 32 They didn't. They did not.
No.

Speaker 55 And that's a fact. Yeah.

Speaker 31 They got any other audio or video besides the ones we mentioned?

Speaker 15 No.

Speaker 58 So they ain't got all they got's just somebody saying this, somebody saying that. Right.

Speaker 59 After the investigation of the other wives of Thomas Randolph came to light, we sought certain facts about Randolph's second wife's death in Utah.

Speaker 59 And that's the case involving the death of Becky Randolph in the 1980s.

Speaker 30 When Becky Ray Randolph died two years ago from a gunshot wound to the head, Clearfield police called it apparent suicide. But today, police arrested Randolph's husband on charges of murder.

Speaker 16 Officers tell me. You start looking at the relationships between Becky and Thomas, and Sharon and Thomas, and these life insurance policies.

Speaker 56 Randolph is suspected of concocting an elaborate scheme to kill his wife and collect on her life insurance policy.

Speaker 16 And it's almost like identical. The only thing that separates them is different people and years.

Speaker 16 When you see how many lives have been profoundly impacted by one single man,

Speaker 16 you know that A, he needs to pay the price for that, but B, and almost even more importantly, he has to be stopped.

Speaker 16 But I remember when we were preparing for trial, David kept saying

Speaker 16 he'll find a way out of it.

Speaker 50 We had a trial date set.

Speaker 47 And then before the trial date, I withdrew about four months after I came into the case. Although my withdrawal was based on the fact that Randolph had no money to retain me,

Speaker 47 Thomas Randolph never really asked,

Speaker 47 oh Gabe, can you please stay on? Because I think my withdrawal was the beginning of his possible plan to delay his trial as long as he could.

Speaker 14 So what's the sentence for you?

Speaker 47 People who are represented, they understand I need a lawyer. The lawyer's got to help me sort of navigate this jungle that I find myself in so I don't get eaten by the lions.

Speaker 45 Randolph wants to burn the jungle down.

Speaker 62 I thought they're supposed to have their pace together before they arrest me.

Speaker 26 Well, that's what we're going to argue right now.

Speaker 63 You make a snake move on me, then watch up.

Speaker 63 Randolph's been in limbo now for over a year.

Speaker 64 He's been in jail, and so it's starting to take a toll on him.

Speaker 63 And we need to move and know exactly how to prepare for this case. Right now, we don't.
In the spring of 2009, Thomas Randolph asked me if I would represent him.

Speaker 46 See if we can get a little justice over there today.

Speaker 65 I see Mr.

Speaker 26 Randolph frequently.

Speaker 48 I mean he's he's concerned.

Speaker 63 Anytime you're in jail for an extended period of time starts to wear on you.

Speaker 63 We intend to to meet force with force. We're not going to be overwhelmed.

Speaker 26 We'll be ready.

Speaker 63 You can make sure of that. No matter what happens, we'll be ready.

Speaker 63 The Utah case was a huge issue in Tom's case here.

Speaker 63 Thomas had been charged with the murder of his second wife, Becky, to get insurance money. And Thomas was acquitted.

Speaker 53 Five and a half months.

Speaker 63 Randolph's case was actually sealed, meaning you're not supposed to be able to get into it. The DA down here wanted to bring in the Utah case,

Speaker 63 trying to allege that it showed, you know, the same motive, same purpose, same intent. Always the goal was to keep the Utah case out.

Speaker 12 They're trying to blame us on the fact that we won't allow them to unseal that up there, which,

Speaker 26 you know, don't want to have them do that.

Speaker 62 I thought they're supposed to have their case together before they arrest me.

Speaker 26 Well, that's what we're going to argue right now.

Speaker 62 Seems like they're still

Speaker 67 figuring it out.

Speaker 8 I don't know very good. I know.
Well, I'm going to argue a lot of good stuff.

Speaker 63 We're prepared to go.

Speaker 59 We have to ask for and obtain permission at a hearing

Speaker 59 to tell the court what it is that we want to get in, who's going to be testifying to it.

Speaker 62 Hi, good morning, Counsel.

Speaker 16 This is a state of Nevada versus Randolph.

Speaker 64 Counsel.

Speaker 26 Thank you, Your Honor.

Speaker 48 Mr. Randolph

Speaker 66 has no criminal history of any significance.

Speaker 63 He has always fought all charges and allegations that have been levied against him, including the ones up in Utah that seem to be the problem that may be holding things up here.

Speaker 59 He's down here in Nevada saying, hey, we want these records, but this defendant in Utah is saying, I don't want those records released. And that's what's causing the delay.

Speaker 63 What have they demonstrated to this court?

Speaker 63 What facts or evidence have they demonstrated to this court that the proof is evident, the presumption is great, that he committed this crime without the Utah type of evidence that they

Speaker 63 keep spewing. Utah, Utah, Utah.

Speaker 63 That wasn't too bad.

Speaker 63 After the arguments, you don't know whether she's going to grant the state's motion to bring in these other, quote, prior bad acts. So it makes it very difficult.

Speaker 63 until you finally get the decision to know exactly how you're going to defend this case.

Speaker 69 Well, call us when you talk with

Speaker 63 the rapport I have with the DAs that I try to have with all opposing counsel. I try to get along with them.

Speaker 26 That's all I want.

Speaker 66 I mean, this guy, I mean, at some point, we got to try the ticket.

Speaker 61 You know that. Let's try it.

Speaker 26 Yeah.

Speaker 12 I know about it. It's a Utah case.

Speaker 63 Yeah, let's try it without it.

Speaker 64 Ready to go.

Speaker 63 I'll see you, Robert.

Speaker 63 I try to get along with them unless I determine that they're trying to make snake moves on me. Okay? You make a snake move on me, then

Speaker 63 watch out. Because from then on, it's on, baby.
You know?

Speaker 23 Just a little country lawyer going up against you, big pollutes over there.

Speaker 12 Huh? There's no chance.

Speaker 48 This is going to be fun.

Speaker 26 You guys leave me alone, man. I've had a long day.

Speaker 12 Okay?

Speaker 72 I got it.

Speaker 20 Y'all right? You wanna come sit over here with me? I was about five and a half months pregnant with Katie. My mom died.

Speaker 13 Can you wear hats? She loves hats.

Speaker 20 Mom, there's a camera. I think she looks a little like my mom, especially in the eyes.
I see my mom.

Speaker 20 It's been hard. I've had a lot of

Speaker 20 anger and anxiety over this.

Speaker 20 Wish he would just pass in his sleep tonight.

Speaker 20 I mean,

Speaker 20 I know he's guilty. I don't care if the rest of the world believes it.

Speaker 20 I just want him to go. I just want it to be done.

Speaker 72 I had a couple of thoughts.

Speaker 63 He wants to show up.

Speaker 23 I'm smarter than you.

Speaker 19 Tom, they want to kill you, bud.

Speaker 19 Okay? I mean, let's put it on on the table. They don't like you.
They want to kill you.

Speaker 19 Breakfast with champions, a little coffee, a little fritter.

Speaker 19 I didn't get better than that, man.

Speaker 63 One of the main reasons I became an attorney is because I have personally sat in that seat

Speaker 63 where the state

Speaker 63 is saying

Speaker 63 you're guilty of killing someone.

Speaker 63 And let me tell you, that's not a good feeling.

Speaker 63 All right, we're going to slow it down right now. A while back,

Speaker 63 I was a musician at the time. Come on, put your hands together for live music.

Speaker 63 And got in a bar fight.

Speaker 63 And I saw this bottle of beer coming up at me.

Speaker 63 This guy was going to clock me in the head. When he came up, my

Speaker 63 wine glass broke on the beer bottle

Speaker 63 and his carotid artery got severed. So they tried me for manslaughter.

Speaker 63 And I was acquitted by reason of self-defense and accident.

Speaker 63 I didn't go to prison. I'm sorry, I get a little choked up here because

Speaker 63 it really was a changing point in my life.

Speaker 61 And I'm sorry that the man lost his life.

Speaker 63 I wish it hadn't happened.

Speaker 63 But it did, and I'm here now.

Speaker 63 It's like I believe I have a moral responsibility to do whatever I can personally

Speaker 63 for an individual that's in trouble and needs my help.

Speaker 72 Thanks, Yancy.

Speaker 63 Thomas Randolph

Speaker 63 is unlike any other

Speaker 63 client I've ever had. Just do what we got to do, man.

Speaker 63 He's a unique individual.

Speaker 57 That's the way it works, Sky.

Speaker 72 I had a couple of thoughts.

Speaker 74 My thought is on an opening argument, you've got to try to explain me what happened, what's going to happen.

Speaker 63 Tom understood the law, and Tom was a smart individual. I could see that Tom could be, if he wasn't handled right, could be a problem client.

Speaker 57 I would think if he just looked right at the jury and says, you know, we talked to you, and this is really important, and it's a big responsibility, and you've been lied to.

Speaker 72 You're just fluff.

Speaker 74 You don't mean nothing.

Speaker 5 This has no bearing on you whatsoever.

Speaker 72 It's just fluff. I'll tell you one thing.

Speaker 63 I'm not going to start this damn case off telling the jury that they're fluff.

Speaker 12 That ain't going to work, Bro.

Speaker 14 I'm telling you.

Speaker 63 It's almost like every time you go to see Thomas, it's like you're in a question in law school again. You know, he wants to show them, I'm smarter than you.
I controlled this.

Speaker 63 You know, in other words, he's controlling the situation.

Speaker 63 I mean, we understand what's going on. This is a death penalty case.
You know, we lose, this guy dies.

Speaker 63 I just got the decision on this.

Speaker 63 Judge Miley finally decided on these prior bad acts whether or not they're going to come in.

Speaker 12 You know, lo and behold, she says yes.

Speaker 63 So the judge ruled in her order that the Utah case could come in.

Speaker 63 And that

Speaker 19 really

Speaker 63 is very difficult to overcome.

Speaker 14 How you doing, man? What's up?

Speaker 63 You know, the judge came back with this order.

Speaker 26 She is

Speaker 26 going to let this murder come in.

Speaker 63 And

Speaker 63 so it's going to make the job a little more difficult.

Speaker 26 It's not impossible.

Speaker 63 We just got a lot of work to do.

Speaker 70 How do you go back and prove you didn't do something 20-some years later, especially considering most everybody's dead?

Speaker 63 I mean we knew this was going to go down one or two roads. So I mean it's not like this caught us completely by surprise.

Speaker 5 So if the jury decides that I'm guilty of the Utah thing, will they kill me in Utah or will they kill me in Vegas?

Speaker 33 It's insane.

Speaker 32 It's insane.

Speaker 14 You know, this is obviously a kick in the butt, but like I said, I have an advantage.

Speaker 65 I was there. I really know what happens.

Speaker 32 I'm not a killer.

Speaker 6 I'm not a stalker of women. Just the opposite.

Speaker 65 I love women.

Speaker 14 But I was more conservative judging.

Speaker 63 You guys were filming.

Speaker 63 And Tom loved the cameras.

Speaker 28 You're looking super.

Speaker 63 I mean, he loved the cameras. He loved the attention.
To the extent that often I'd have to tell Tom, hey, chill out a little bit.

Speaker 70 I've had several fiancés and six wives and so many girlfriends I can't remember.

Speaker 21 And I've slept with a gazillion women just because I can.

Speaker 19 Let's just hold off on that, okay?

Speaker 70 This is the state's theory, four of six wives.

Speaker 5 It was from day one, they're saying this, and they're certainly telling witnesses against me this.

Speaker 12 Tom,

Speaker 19 they want to kill you, man.

Speaker 12 Well, you know, okay?

Speaker 19 I mean, let's put it out on the table. They don't like you, they want to kill you, okay? They're trying to do whatever they can do to make it happen.

Speaker 28 Okay, that's true.

Speaker 12 Well, hopefully, I can prevent it with your help.

Speaker 12 Okay, we're okay.

Speaker 19 So let's kick their ass and forget about it.

Speaker 14 We're okay.

Speaker 63 That's what I'm talking about.

Speaker 63 We had a trial date. I was preparing to file a whole bunch of different types of motions.

Speaker 56 And

Speaker 63 Tom had a falling out with one of the other attorneys that was involved in the case.

Speaker 63 Tom fired the other attorney, fired me, fired the investigator, and that was that.

Speaker 63 Tom went his way, I went my way.

Speaker 12 You asked me to be here alone.

Speaker 14 You are. You said

Speaker 14 no attorneys.

Speaker 42 That's correct.

Speaker 57 These lawyers are, I don't get it.

Speaker 28 I'm

Speaker 71 it's like you came.

Speaker 75 I've been in I've done a murder trial before, so I know how it sort of works.

Speaker 15 I don't have a problem with going to trial.

Speaker 12 I I will be acquitted.

Speaker 21 I've told you this from day one. Have I not been absolutely adamant? The only thing that concerns me about going to trial is these turds for lawyers.

Speaker 77 I'm curious if there's any secrets.

Speaker 67 Is that on?

Speaker 14 Yeah.

Speaker 67 Normally, I'd say, well, you know, if I tell you my secrets, I'm going to have to kill you.

Speaker 54 But next thing I know, I'll be getting charged with that too.

Speaker 54 Hello.

Speaker 14 We're here from Dateline.

Speaker 45 I'm here to see an inmate.

Speaker 64 How long have you been in here now?

Speaker 63 Going on 18 months.

Speaker 72 You want your day in court? Are you eager to get that day?

Speaker 74 Oh, yeah, yeah. That'll get done and go home, start doing something else.

Speaker 72 It's never really have been worried about the conviction part of it.

Speaker 5 I just never have.

Speaker 6 I just don't see it happening. But it dawned on me that this is Utah over again.
This is the Tommy Show.

Speaker 57 And now it's the Tommy Show live from Las Vegas.

Speaker 57 Am I beautiful?

Speaker 39 I mean, you've been in jail here now for what?

Speaker 14 Three and a half years, you know.

Speaker 42 It's hard on everybody.

Speaker 28 I want to go home.

Speaker 22 I'm the victim in this. I'm the victim in this.

Speaker 78 What is it about you and women, Adam? I love women. I love all women.

Speaker 5 Well, obviously, you know, there for a while.

Speaker 70 The man poison, look at the cat drug in.

Speaker 39 I know damn well I slept with both last night. I thought they wrote that about me.

Speaker 45 Name your wives.

Speaker 54 Kathy Randolph,

Speaker 14 Becky Randolph,

Speaker 14 Leona Randolph, Gana Randolph, Francis Randolph, Sherry Randolph.

Speaker 21 Do you want the names of my fiancés too?

Speaker 77 I'm curious if there's any secrets.

Speaker 67 Is that on? Yeah.

Speaker 67 Normally I'd say, well, you know, tell you my secrets, I'm going to have to kill you.

Speaker 54 But next thing I know, I'll be getting charged with that too.

Speaker 67 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 61 And we're not married. There's no insurance, so hello, we'd be profitable with it.

Speaker 79 What's up with your hair?

Speaker 70 It was this long last time he was here. It was just, yeah, it was just back in a ponytail.

Speaker 65 I got to have a fair trial.

Speaker 14 That's all I'm asking for, is a fair trial.

Speaker 21 All of my lawyers have said, if the Utah case comes in, you will be convicted and you will get the death penalty.

Speaker 65 And then three years later, the Supreme Court will overturn it.

Speaker 70 Kathy was my first wife.

Speaker 70 Just the first time I seen her, I knew that I was going to have a baby with her.

Speaker 65 She was beautiful. She looked like Farah Fawcett.
I had two children with her.

Speaker 70 Justice is my gift to the world, and Krista is my other gift to the world.

Speaker 41 How was your marriage to Kathy?

Speaker 65 It wasn't good.

Speaker 70 It was my fault, totally doing too much drugs and

Speaker 12 other women.

Speaker 70 Becky was my second wife.

Speaker 33 What was special about Becky? What did you love about her?

Speaker 41 She was perfect.

Speaker 70 Becky was whatever I wanted her to be. I could call up and say, I want steak tonight and I want you to dress up as a clown to serve it to me.

Speaker 70 And she would say, well, do you mean like a sexy girl clown or do you want me to have the floppy shoes and the honk nose?

Speaker 70 She didn't deserve me cheating on her.

Speaker 21 The last I talked to her, I gave her the ultimatum.

Speaker 41 Said, I am so sick and tired of hearing about how you want to kill yourself.

Speaker 70 If you want to kill yourself, do it, do it, and put everybody out of their misery.

Speaker 12 And she's just bawling and says, you're mean.

Speaker 65 And all I had to do was just hug her, say, I love you. Everything will be okay.

Speaker 40 What the f ⁇ was thinking?

Speaker 65 I said, there's some rope downstairs from, you know, I repelled and stuff.

Speaker 65 I said, I think there's some of my rope downstairs. Maybe you can just hang yourself.

Speaker 30 When Becky Ray Randolph died two years ago from a gunshot wound to the head, Clearfield police called it apparent suicide.

Speaker 30 And that's the

Speaker 58 last time I seen Becky alive.

Speaker 41 My third wife was Leona.

Speaker 70 It was Lee, went by Lee.

Speaker 75 So beautiful.

Speaker 74 She's part Guamanian and

Speaker 70 kind of reminds you of an island girl.

Speaker 44 So how long were you married to Lee for?

Speaker 70 About a year. She likes to party.
Sometimes she forgets to come home on time.

Speaker 70 My fourth wife is Gaina Almond.

Speaker 25 You married Gaina right away.

Speaker 70 I married them all right away because they all want to.

Speaker 81 He was sitting at the dining room table and was cleaning the gun, and I wasn't very far away from him at all. And it went on.

Speaker 30 You remember cleaning a gun went past her head or into the floor?

Speaker 65 That's just such a bull story.

Speaker 39 My fifth wife is Frances.

Speaker 12 Did you love Frances?

Speaker 65 Oh, absolutely.

Speaker 70 I married her as soon as I could because she was wonderful.

Speaker 44 Were you surprised when Frances died?

Speaker 13 No, no, she was, she was, Frances was sick.

Speaker 5 You remember she was born with heart disease.

Speaker 57 I didn't do the heart surgery on Frances.

Speaker 14 That's all.

Speaker 24 I know she chums.

Speaker 78 You had her shoot a video will.

Speaker 65 Why would you do that?

Speaker 14 Who does that?

Speaker 16 And I'm making this tape so that people will know what I want

Speaker 16 for Rachel.

Speaker 21 It's not about the money.

Speaker 70 It's about custody of Rachel.

Speaker 33 Rachel thinks that you killed her mother.

Speaker 70 Rachel knows better.

Speaker 70 My sixth wife was Sharon. She wakes up in the morning and she's got a smile on her face.

Speaker 70 It's like the sun, the moon, the stars.

Speaker 5 It was just...

Speaker 30 What is it like to come home and see your wife dead on the floor?

Speaker 70 When I first opened the door, I seen she fell. She'd been having some problems with her hip and stuff.
And I

Speaker 72 started to go toward her.

Speaker 5 Some noise.

Speaker 6 And

Speaker 65 I smell gunpowder.

Speaker 19 Sharon.

Speaker 7 Sharon.

Speaker 70 There's absolutely nothing to solve. I was there.

Speaker 12 Mike Miller shot Sharon.

Speaker 33 Every wife that you've had, one of the first things you've done is get life insurance on them.

Speaker 70 Well, they want to know about your finances.

Speaker 44 You got insurance money from Becky.

Speaker 33 You got insurance money from Francis.

Speaker 39 You got a wrongful death from Francis.

Speaker 44 You had several insurance policies on Sharon.

Speaker 12 Don't you think it looks fishy at all to people when you have...

Speaker 70 It is, sure, unless somebody would take the time to sit and look.

Speaker 44 You think you're a narcissist?

Speaker 48 Absolutely.

Speaker 14 I am a narcissist.

Speaker 44 So, do you think it's possible that because you're a narcissist, you're unable

Speaker 33 to possibly see what the truth might be.

Speaker 70 If you're talking about the truth of me killing Sharon or having anything to do with Sharon's death or Becky's death, then no, because I had nothing to do with it.

Speaker 72 I'm telling you, Becky killed Becky.

Speaker 33 So, two different police agencies, two different prosecutors' offices,

Speaker 14 30 years apart are both talking to each other.

Speaker 12 Yes, they're wrong.

Speaker 41 It's all interconnected.

Speaker 65 I'm expecting to be acquitted.

Speaker 52 She thinks about him all the time.

Speaker 82 He's been given every chance in the world and then three more. You know,

Speaker 52 is he going to wait for all the witnesses to die?

Speaker 80 What's the deal?

Speaker 20 That was super hard going through all those years

Speaker 20 of having a trial date.

Speaker 20 You're waiting for it, you're waiting for it, and then it gets close,

Speaker 20 and they say, Nope.

Speaker 20 It's like, when is it gonna end?

Speaker 20 How many

Speaker 20 times

Speaker 20 can he extend this?

Speaker 20 So, again, that's like another stab in the heart.

Speaker 20 Another year, another year, another year.

Speaker 20 My name is Katie McBeyer.

Speaker 83 I'm seven years old and I'm in second grade. My birthday is September 17th,

Speaker 83 2008.

Speaker 27 There you go.

Speaker 20 And what's your favorite color? My favorite colors are light blue and purple.

Speaker 83 Hmm? Well, my favorite things are animals, stuffed animals, and my family.

Speaker 84 And your family all.

Speaker 20 Yes, it's been eight years.

Speaker 80 And you're still waiting for justice.

Speaker 14 Yes.

Speaker 52 She thinks about him all the time and the moments that

Speaker 80 were stolen, that should have been.

Speaker 80 Yeah.

Speaker 80 Yeah.

Speaker 54 Obviously, he's been given every chance in the world and then three more.

Speaker 80 Now that's the issue that we have. It's like,

Speaker 82 you know,

Speaker 52 is he going to wait for all the witnesses to die?

Speaker 80 What's the deal?

Speaker 14 It's like from Scott Conley and Dick Martin and,

Speaker 14 you know, when Dick Martin went down for the autopsy and they didn't find the bullet, he hurried back and the whole house had been emptied and carpets tore up and replaced and the walls.

Speaker 53 I'm listening to one of his jail calls right now. He's talking about Becky.

Speaker 53 I think he's on his fourth set of attorneys, and he's just been delaying the process. Each time the court date comes up, he does what he can to put it off.

Speaker 53 It's frustrating to see somebody manipulate the system when you know that that's their intent.

Speaker 9 It was year after year after year. There was something that came up.
Multiple teams of attorneys that were fired.

Speaker 35 You know, it got so routine that when a trial date was coming up, we'd sit there and go, okay,

Speaker 9 what's he going to do this time?

Speaker 53 I'm like, how are we moving the body without me standing here?

Speaker 56 You know what I mean?

Speaker 34 This hasn't consumed me like

Speaker 34 it has Dean. My life went on.
If it wasn't for Dean, this case wouldn't even be prosecuted because it would have gone off as a justified shooting of a home invasion.

Speaker 34 If it wasn't even for him from the very beginning sticking to his gun, saying something's not right about this, we wouldn't even be considering this at all.

Speaker 34 There would be no story and you wouldn't be filming me right now.

Speaker 39 You go on a trial next week after nine years.

Speaker 57 I'm excited, but the lawyers are still useless.

Speaker 70 Tell me the history of the representation.

Speaker 33 So, start from the beginning.

Speaker 22 You had.

Speaker 5 Yoga Lanter, Gabe Grasso, Brent Bryson, Belinda Weaver, then Curtis Brown, Norman Reed,

Speaker 5 then Randy Pike, and Clark Patrick.

Speaker 13 They tell me every homicide case usually goes through two sets of attorneys.

Speaker 44 Yeah, but you went through ten.

Speaker 5 Well, there's three at a time.

Speaker 32 Tell me why you

Speaker 6 are the most misunderstood man in America.

Speaker 14 I mean, how do they get it wrong?

Speaker 5 They're saying that lightning has struck twice.

Speaker 41 I didn't kill Becky. Unfortunately, Becky killed Becky.
I didn't kill Sharon.

Speaker 57 Mike Miller killed Sharon.

Speaker 70 You've got to realize what they're saying.

Speaker 8 She's shot in the head in the home, and I find her.

Speaker 7 Sharon. Sharon.

Speaker 28 You know,

Speaker 70 I should be acquitted on this because the bottom line is, who's going to say I did what?

Speaker 39 They're going to say that you hired Mike Miller to kill Sharon and you killed Mike to make it look like a botch burglary.

Speaker 14 That's what they're going to say.

Speaker 28 Okay, well, who's going to say I did that other than the state?

Speaker 70 There ain't going to be anybody because that just didn't happen. There's just not going to be anybody to say that.

Speaker 54 You can understand why people raise their eyebrows when they hear that you've had six wives and four wives are dead and this is the second time you're facing a death family.

Speaker 70 That's the corruption in Las Vegas. I've never had six wives and four of them are dead.

Speaker 28 I mean, when you say that, you say that like...

Speaker 33 You don't have six wives?

Speaker 12 Well, I did.

Speaker 39 Four of them are not dead?

Speaker 70 Well, the way they say it, the way they say it is somehow I've caused their death.

Speaker 33 I'm just saying the fact is the headline is, is that you did have six wives and four of those six wives are dead. That's true.

Speaker 31 So you just think you're super unlucky.

Speaker 61 No, I'm one of the luckiest men in the world.

Speaker 13 I've had six wives.

Speaker 70 Six women that loved me enough to not just give me their body, give me their sex.

Speaker 5 They gave me their love. They married me.

Speaker 65 They trusted me.

Speaker 14 We took care of them. A lot of them didn't work out.

Speaker 5 I got nothing to hide and besides that I want to make him look like a fool again because that's just that's how I roll.

Speaker 16 We got a jury about two o'clock this afternoon. It's go time and we're ready.

Speaker 45 I am ready. I am caps ready.

Speaker 27 What's up where? I know

Speaker 27 still here man.

Speaker 16 His gig is up.

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Speaker 16 Witnesses are flying in from all over the country.

Speaker 45 I want him to be found guilty on this one.

Speaker 16 Scott Connolly is

Speaker 16 one of the detectives in Utah who had dealt with Randolph for a really long time, knew him just from his interactions as being a a police officer and a detective.

Speaker 35 Over the 10 years I've been working on this case, you know, developed a friendship with Scott Conley.

Speaker 16 He's the Dean O'Kelly of Becky's case. Without him and without his memory, we would be lost.

Speaker 16 Were you scared about his position in society?

Speaker 84 Yes.

Speaker 16 I think the most critical

Speaker 16 witness

Speaker 16 was Eric Tarantino.

Speaker 10 Just a point blank, I want you to kill my wife.

Speaker 84 And no, it was the first thing out of my mouth.

Speaker 9 Tom Randolph had befriended him years earlier.

Speaker 9 He ended up starting to groom him to kill Becky Randolph.

Speaker 86 Tom was very intimidating.

Speaker 34 He could intimidate you just by looking at you.

Speaker 16 Somebody wants to say hi. I don't know if you know him or not.

Speaker 14 He's changed a little in all these years.

Speaker 14 Good to see you.

Speaker 5 I hadn't spoken to Neric in some time, but there's still a special bond between he and I.

Speaker 53 He's the only guy that kept me alive the whole time.

Speaker 61 And that comes again, I think, because Eric wanted to right the wrong.

Speaker 16 We got a jury about two o'clock this afternoon, and then we go into openings at 9:30.

Speaker 16 It's go time, and we're ready.

Speaker 25 By the time we got the case, we were Tom's eighth, ninth, tenth lawyers. And the first thing you think of is that this may be either a very difficult case or maybe a difficult client.

Speaker 25 Tom was pretty much both.

Speaker 71 It was our obligation and duty to do everything that we could to represent him.

Speaker 71 Aggressively, legally, ethically.

Speaker 25 I always thought this was a winnable case.

Speaker 45 I am ready. I am caps ready.

Speaker 27 What's up, Gwerf? Hi, North.

Speaker 12 Still here?

Speaker 28 Still here.

Speaker 87 Good morning.

Speaker 40 Good morning.

Speaker 83 We have to stop him.

Speaker 16 There can't be any more Sharon's. There can't be any more Becky's.
There can't be any more Francis's.

Speaker 31 I hope they brought the new clothes in or the different clothes or something

Speaker 58 his gig is up did they not bring new clothes that's it

Speaker 53 I'm anonymous

Speaker 58 when it comes to shopping I must have a feminine gene because I love

Speaker 55 to shop I love to take the women shopping they think I'm such a gentleman because I buy them these clothes hell it's just it's nice just to get him dressed up and what I like knowing I'm gonna be taking them off later you know so it's like a

Speaker 54 win-win situation for me.

Speaker 14 But uh,

Speaker 20 I wanted him convicted so bad,

Speaker 20 just wanted him put away forever.

Speaker 20 And I was

Speaker 20 thank God, this is finally happening.

Speaker 25 Justice, page one of our 9:30 trials, C-250-966, Randolph.

Speaker 18 I'm learning, everybody.

Speaker 16 I asked David, who was lead counsel, I said, I want to do the opening. And Dave said, Hey, knock yourself out.

Speaker 14 You go for it, girl.

Speaker 16 It's a lot of work to do, an opening argument.

Speaker 18 All right, let's bring the jury in.

Speaker 88 If the state wants to present its opening.

Speaker 16 Thank you, Your Honor.

Speaker 16 Ladies and gentlemen, you will hear

Speaker 16 two stories of two men 20 years apart that never even met each other. Yet their stories are the exact same.
Their job was to kill two women. the wives of Thomas Randolph.

Speaker 16 And the only reason

Speaker 16 why Mike Miller is dead

Speaker 16 is because Eric Tarantino lived to tell the story. And Thomas Randolph was not going to make that mistake twice.

Speaker 16 You will know the who, the why, and the how. And all of those roads will lead back to the man in this courtroom.

Speaker 27 Thank you.

Speaker 18 At this time, would defense like to present?

Speaker 18 Mr. Peich whenever you're ready.

Speaker 71 What we felt was most important was that they understood that his wife was a victim, he was a victim, and he acted appropriately.

Speaker 86 Ladies and gentlemen, the jury, the one thing that we'll always agree with as the state

Speaker 5 is it was

Speaker 27 Mr.

Speaker 71 Miller that came in with a gun and shot and killed Sheriff.

Speaker 25 Our strategy was to get the jury to understand that the case against Becky in Utah was irrelevant.

Speaker 71 We had that heavy burden that we had to do, and so we had to face that head on.

Speaker 89 We are involved in facts and circumstances that have no relation, no connection to the Utah case. And the truth is that Thomas Randolph didn't plan anything with Mr.

Speaker 89 Miller, didn't do anything that would merit him being charged with killing his wife, and that you'll find him not guilty at the conclusion of this trial.

Speaker 57 Thank you very much.

Speaker 20 It was just a few months into the relationship and he wanted to get life insurance policies and pick out his and hers matching earns.

Speaker 16 State calls Colleen Beyer.

Speaker 16 Colleen was critical because I felt like Randolph's behavior was very atypical. I felt it was inappropriate.

Speaker 20 It was just a few months into the relationship, and he wanted to get life insurance policies and pick out his and hers matching urns.

Speaker 16 Urns?

Speaker 20 Urns?

Speaker 20 Like what you put ashes in.

Speaker 20 Crimination.

Speaker 20 He looked at me, but there was like...

Speaker 20 It was like nothing.

Speaker 20 He had no feelings.

Speaker 20 He didn't care.

Speaker 16 How was it that you found out about your mother's death?

Speaker 91 A friend of ours

Speaker 91 called me.

Speaker 16 Did you call the defendant or did he call you?

Speaker 14 Called him.

Speaker 16 When you called him, what did you say?

Speaker 25 What did you do to my mother?

Speaker 16 What did he say?

Speaker 20 He said, no, I didn't kill your mother.

Speaker 91 Michael Shot killed your mother. And then he hung up on me.

Speaker 20 That was the hardest thing I've ever done.

Speaker 14 This is awful.

Speaker 20 Absolutely awful.

Speaker 16 The state calls Alice Wolf.

Speaker 16 Good afternoon, Miss Wolf. The purpose of calling in Sharon's friends was that

Speaker 16 they saw the relationship between Thomas and Sharon. How would you characterize the state of their relationship?

Speaker 25 It was just madness.

Speaker 16 Did you have contact with Sharon on the day that she learned that the defendant had a life insurance policy on her?

Speaker 12 Yes.

Speaker 25 She was extremely, extremely upset.

Speaker 16 Did the two of you go

Speaker 16 to get paperwork together to make a will?

Speaker 16 Yes.

Speaker 16 What were the directions that Sharon gave to you to do with the will?

Speaker 25 She said to me, If anything happens to me, give this to Colleen.

Speaker 72 This doesn't seem to be really greatly affecting you.

Speaker 67 No, this is me.

Speaker 44 Would you give it all back not to be standing trial right now?

Speaker 72 Give all what back? All those wives.

Speaker 74 Well, I'd certainly give Becky and Francis and Sharon back because then they'd be alive.

Speaker 72 Yeah, of course, that's like a give me.

Speaker 72 Yeah.

Speaker 64 Really, Miss Sharon.

Speaker 77 Assume for a moment you're convicted, right? And then they say guilty, and then the week of mitigation hearings, and they say, all right, he's sentenced to death.

Speaker 72 Good. Yeah.

Speaker 77 Why good?

Speaker 33 I'd hate to do life in prison.

Speaker 18 The next witness, please.

Speaker 40 Is that Scott Conley? It is your honor.

Speaker 18 Ladies and gentlemen, the jury, you're about to hear testimony from Scott Conley.

Speaker 64 Even knowing what he was involved in,

Speaker 61 I wanted eye contact with him.

Speaker 74 I wanted him to know probably the anger I have.

Speaker 88 The state has introduced evidence that Mr. Randolph was previously charged with a killing in Utah in 1988.
Mr. Randolph was found not guilty of that offense by a Utah jury.

Speaker 59 There are facts that occur in Utah that explain the behavior and the facts that exist in Sharon Randolph's death in Las Vegas.

Speaker 59 Were you able to determine that there were insurance policies taken out in the case of Becky Randolph's death where the defendant Thomas Randolph was a beneficiary?

Speaker 85 Yes.

Speaker 59 Was it an arrest warrant issued for Thomas Randolph for the death of Becky Randolph?

Speaker 32 It was.

Speaker 18 We're going to call the next witness, Mr. Eric Tarantino.

Speaker 10 It was just little innuendos here and there, and then just a point-blank, I want you to kill my wife.

Speaker 16 During your friendship with Mr. Randolph, did the defendant ask you questions that you thought odd or made you feel uncomfortable?

Speaker 84 Yes.

Speaker 84 He told me that

Speaker 84 he wanted me to kill his wife.

Speaker 16 Did he discuss with you why he wanted to kill Becky?

Speaker 84 The money from insurance policies.

Speaker 5 Eric Tarantino is the prosecution star witness.

Speaker 59 Eric Tarantino lived to testify and in our case Mike Miller wasn't afforded that opportunity.

Speaker 59 What Randolph learned in Utah in the 1980s he applied to Nevada in the 2000s and that is don't leave anybody alive.

Speaker 84 We discussed having a burglary. I was to go in,

Speaker 84 grab a couple of things, rummage through some drawers. when she came home, shoot her,

Speaker 84 and leave. I said, I'm not doing this.

Speaker 84 and I left.

Speaker 10 And I got on that plane and ran.

Speaker 16 It was important for the jury to see that because I think it allows them to get more into the mind of Thomas Randolph.

Speaker 9 I was the last witness for the state.

Speaker 14 I was back in cleanup.

Speaker 9 I had been waiting a long time for this moment to testify.

Speaker 59 Detective, what was the total number of life insurance policies for?

Speaker 59 What was the total value of those policies?

Speaker 85 $360,000.

Speaker 59 Was there a common beneficiary?

Speaker 85 Yes, Thomas Randolph.

Speaker 85 Steve would call it Mark Bartlett, John.

Speaker 16 So Mark Bartlett, incredibly, incredibly important because we needed to establish this timeframe.

Speaker 60 I knew it had to be like one of these houses right here across the street because it was like boom, boom, you know, I heard it.

Speaker 59 And on that evening at precisely 8.33, did you happen to have a telephone conversation on your cell phone with a friend of yours?

Speaker 60 Yes, I did. I was on the phone and I heard gunshots, three rapid gunshots.

Speaker 16 We were able to look at his phone, find out when he heard those shots, and then compare that to the time that Thomas Randolph actually calls 911. 911 emergency.

Speaker 90 My wife's been shocked at this. So, all told, how long do you think it took from the time you opened the door to you being on 9-1-1?

Speaker 53 Two, three minutes, maybe, two, three minutes, total.

Speaker 16 What was the time stamp coming through when the defendant makes connection to 911?

Speaker 54 20:45, 8:45 p.m.

Speaker 4 So, we're talking about 12-13 minutes difference between the time that Randolph said that he got home and when he got on the phone with 9-1-1. Oh my god.

Speaker 16 Randolph had to be damn sure she was completely dead before 9-1-1 was called, before the police ever get there.

Speaker 16 That video in the hallway and that 9-1-1 call to me, I thought were really damning, damning to him.

Speaker 9 I've been waiting a long time for this moment to testify.

Speaker 16 There's certain detectives that are really good on the stand. I think juries naturally like them, want to hear from them, believe them.

Speaker 16 Dean O'Kelly is that witness.

Speaker 59 The state will call Detective Dean O'Kelly.

Speaker 87 So when you first fire, he's right in this area.

Speaker 6 Still facing him? Probably,

Speaker 6 maybe a little more that way, maybe a little more this way.

Speaker 59 You, in the walkthrough video, spent several minutes going over with Mr. Randolph the positioning of Mr.

Speaker 12 Miller in the hallway.

Speaker 85 I was trying to lock Mr. Randolph into the position of Mr.
Miller to determine for myself. Mr.
Randolph was not telling the truth about where he was when those shots were fired.

Speaker 30 I just, I just, I shot, I shot, shot, shot, and shot.

Speaker 85 With the amount of rounds that Mr. Randolph said he fired from the hallway, we'd have expected to see more cases in the hallway.

Speaker 59 All of the evidence that you found relative to a shooting and the injuries that Mr. Miller suffered were found where?

Speaker 85 In the garage, save for the one cartridge case.

Speaker 16 We needed people to understand Mike.

Speaker 16 Now, all of a sudden, this relationship with this guy named Thomas Randolph, who comes out of nowhere and then basically almost adopts him, and he's with them all the time.

Speaker 59 From February up until May 8th of 2008, how many phone calls were you able to locate between the defendant and Mr. Miller?

Speaker 85 I found 283 phone calls.

Speaker 80 Mr.

Speaker 58 Ted Prosharan, I'll show you what's been marked as 14A.

Speaker 54 Do you recognize what's contained therein?

Speaker 85 Yes, this is the black ski mask that was at the scene adjacent to Mike Miller's body on the floor.

Speaker 59 From your observations at the scene, did you look for whether there were any other bullet defects or anything associated with a head gunshot wound on that mask?

Speaker 85 We didn't see any such defects. That seemed odd.

Speaker 85 It certainly indicated that it was not on his head when the rounds were fired through his head.

Speaker 59 Detective, what was the total number of life insurance policies ensuring Ms. Randolph's death at the time of her death?

Speaker 85 The ones that we were able to locate was four.

Speaker 59 What was the total value of those policies?

Speaker 85 $360,000.

Speaker 59 Was there a common beneficiary in all four policies?

Speaker 85 Yes, Thomas Randolph.

Speaker 88 Thank you. All right, have a lovely day.

Speaker 18 You're excuse.

Speaker 9 When I got off the stand and walked out of the courtroom, what I had hoped is that I conveyed enough to the jury

Speaker 9 what we knew about what Tom Randolph did.

Speaker 34 Your Honor, with the conclusion of Detective O'Kelly's testimony, the state of rest.

Speaker 14 All right.

Speaker 25 Tom, protecting himself, protecting his family, protecting his home, took the necessary action and killed Mr. Miller.
We weren't going to hold back on anything.

Speaker 68 You didn't ask the questions. You didn't take it in detail.

Speaker 65 These attorneys suck.

Speaker 39 I keep trying to explain them.

Speaker 27 There's a way to do it, but we don't need to do that.

Speaker 28 We made our point.

Speaker 14 What point?

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Speaker 25 Dealing with Tom's personality was challenging for us.

Speaker 68 He didn't ask the questions, he didn't take it into evidence

Speaker 25 because he wanted to run the show and that we should just do whatever he said.

Speaker 80 I still just don't think you guys got all of it in.

Speaker 14 I want more impact.

Speaker 25 Whether or not it was ethical, or sound legal strategy, or something that we thought needed to be done.

Speaker 13 We miss so much stuff, it's unbelievable.

Speaker 13 All we want from you today is to look through this, see what the truth is, and that they can't prove this case without smearing him with a, you know, a red M.

Speaker 3 Murderer.

Speaker 71 Murder. He's got away with it before.

Speaker 6 Objection, Your Honor.

Speaker 90 Objection, Your Honor. Objection, Your Honor.

Speaker 18 So your continuing objection is that you object to any admission regarding the events in Utah, correct?

Speaker 43 Yes, Your Honor.

Speaker 25 I don't think the Utah case should have come in at all. It was completely irrelevant to what was going on in the case here in Las Vegas.

Speaker 71 We had to fight that tooth and nail every step of the way.

Speaker 2 Do you have a recollection that there was gunshot residue testing on the hand of Becky?

Speaker 25 I do not recall that, to be honest with you.

Speaker 2 And in this case, it was processed as a suicide.

Speaker 65 It was.

Speaker 71 We had to tell the jury, it's nothing. It's gone.
It was not proven. Let's deal with what we know about this case.
Look at this evidence.

Speaker 7 Sharon. Sharon.

Speaker 7 Sharon.

Speaker 25 The walkthrough video that Tom did, that was another hurdle that we had to overcome. It was clear that when he did it, he was very intoxicated on the pain medications he was taking.

Speaker 74 My name is Tom Randolph. My data birds.

Speaker 88 You want to call your witness?

Speaker 25 Thank you, Honor. Joe Randolph? Good evening.

Speaker 25 Good afternoon, Joe.

Speaker 75 Good morning. Do you know Tommy?

Speaker 9 Yes, my brother.

Speaker 25 And older or younger? Older.

Speaker 25 His brother had to drive Tom to the house to do this walkthrough video.

Speaker 9 I didn't feel like he should drive.

Speaker 25 Okay, and that was because you felt that Tom was under the effects of the medications? Yes.

Speaker 74 Just kind of, you know, just didn't know what to do.

Speaker 25 Did you think it was a good idea for Tom to do the walkthrough that night? No.

Speaker 18 Here free to go, sir. Have a nice day.

Speaker 18 Does the defense have any additional witnesses at this time?

Speaker 25 It's a dangerous thing to put your client on the stand and be cross-examined by the prosecution. We advised him not to testify, and he agreed with us.
The defense will rest.

Speaker 72 How's it going, Tom?

Speaker 74 These attorneys suck.

Speaker 1 You think so?

Speaker 65 I know so.

Speaker 33 You're not happy with the way things are going?

Speaker 13 There's so much they can do. They just

Speaker 13 keep

Speaker 13 off.

Speaker 14 I keep trying to explain them.

Speaker 28 There's a way to do it, but we don't need to do that. We don't need to do that.
We made our point.

Speaker 12 What point? They're not happy.

Speaker 14 Not in the least.

Speaker 54 Community Theater Industrial 23 is now back in session.

Speaker 58 All right, is the state ready?

Speaker 16 Yes, Sean, thank you.

Speaker 16 Thomas Randolph has had a lot of secrets, some of which date back to over 30 years ago. But those secrets back then

Speaker 16 and the secrets leading up to May 8th of 2008 have exposed him for exactly what and who he is. And that is someone that is willing to kill those closest to him for his own monetary gain.

Speaker 16 Thomas Randolph's gig is up.

Speaker 16 He is done.

Speaker 16 Tell him he is done by finding him guilty of the murder of Sharon Randolph and Mike Miller. Thank you.

Speaker 68 Whenever you're ready,

Speaker 25 when Tom was assaulted by a masked intruder, a home invader, in his house, an intruder who had just killed his wife, Tom had every right to defend himself, to defend his wife, to defend his home, no matter where he shot Miller, no matter how many times he shot Miller.

Speaker 25 And you should come to the same decision that jury did in Utah 28 years ago.

Speaker 25 Not guilty.

Speaker 58 It's not over completely, but

Speaker 64 feeling really good.

Speaker 16 Jury's out. They've been out since 9 a.m.
It's now one o'clock, so we're on hour four.

Speaker 16 Waiting for a jury's verdict is the worst.

Speaker 16 I don't think we could have done anything more. I don't think we could have done anything different.

Speaker 16 I go through every aspect of my closing argument in my head and what could I have said more? Oh, if I would have said this, they would have been already back by now.

Speaker 55 If it goes into day two?

Speaker 16 If it goes into day two, we've got to hold out.

Speaker 55 So are you concerned right now?

Speaker 16 Yeah, I mean, I'm always concerned. It doesn't matter how solid.
I mean, I've had solid cases with confessions, and I've still been nervous.

Speaker 25 As it went on, we thought maybe we had either a hung jury or that we actually had won the case.

Speaker 43 Every half an hour,

Speaker 43 how long did they stay on?

Speaker 13 They're actually thinking about it.

Speaker 54 Okay, who just sent aggressive tax verdict?

Speaker 85 will be back in around 11 to 11:30.

Speaker 43 I'm nervous. Why?

Speaker 51 First trial didn't go so well.

Speaker 84 And I'm hoping they come back with a guilty on this one.

Speaker 5 I would be extremely disappointed if this didn't turn our way.

Speaker 16 Of course, you gotta keep behind me.

Speaker 34 Time to start trial. 9 a.m.

Speaker 34 966, Randolph.

Speaker 43 Okay, bring the jury in, please.

Speaker 5 It's sad I had to wait nine years to get here.

Speaker 72 I wanted this to see his face.

Speaker 88 Ms. Forperson, would you give the verdict to the marshal, please?

Speaker 16 There's this noise when the jury's about to come in and the door opens. And that clicking noise, to this day, a chill will run down the back of my neck.

Speaker 53 I wanted to see his face.

Speaker 9 I wanted to see if there was any trace of remorse, any kind of real reaction.

Speaker 88 All right, Ms. Forperson, would you give the verdict to the marshal, please?

Speaker 92 We, the jury, in the above entitled case, find the defendant Thomas William Randolph as follows. Count one, conspiracy to commit murder.

Speaker 87 Guilty of conspiracy to commit murder.

Speaker 88 Count two, murder with the use of a deadly weapon.

Speaker 87 Sharon Randolph, guilty of first-degree murder.

Speaker 92 Count three, Michael James Miller, guilty of first-degree murder.

Speaker 88 All right, before the verdict is recorded, does either side wish to be a murder?

Speaker 20 I heard it pop out of my chest.

Speaker 20 It was

Speaker 14 very

Speaker 20 intense,

Speaker 20 exciting. It was good.

Speaker 14 I think next time, maybe we better call some witnesses, huh?

Speaker 88 Well, welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, the jury. This is the penalty phase of the trial.

Speaker 71 The jury had to make a decision: is Thomas Randolph going to live out his life in a closet-sized room, or is he going to die by execution?

Speaker 16 Thank you, Your Honor. The state calls Rachel Gaskins.
Rachel Gaskins is the daughter of Francis. Francis is Thomas's fifth wife.

Speaker 16 Did you ever see him be physical towards your mother?

Speaker 12 Yes.

Speaker 16 In what ways?

Speaker 11 She went and got Burger King one time and Burger King put mayonnaise on the sandwich and he slammed it into her face.

Speaker 16 He slammed the sandwich into your mother's face?

Speaker 14 Yeah.

Speaker 16 Because it had mayonnaise on it? Yes.

Speaker 15 Unbelievable.

Speaker 16 She was just

Speaker 16 so powerful.

Speaker 16 And when she was talking, you could hear a pin drop.

Speaker 16 Your mom needs to go in for a surgery, is that right?

Speaker 12 Yes, ma'am.

Speaker 16 After he goes into the room with your mother and comes back out, what does he tell you?

Speaker 55 That she had passed away. And he was crying.

Speaker 11 He got down on his knees and started hugging me.

Speaker 16 During the time you lived with your mother and Tom, did a custody battle ensue between your mother and your father being Jesse?

Speaker 11 Yes.

Speaker 16 Did the defendant tell you to say certain things to the the judge so that he and your mother could keep you?

Speaker 11 Yes, I should say that my dad was a pedophile so that I wouldn't be taken away from my mom.

Speaker 16 Did you tell the judge that?

Speaker 11 Yes.

Speaker 16 But today you cleared your dad's name in the 20 years that you weren't able to clear your dad's name. Has that haunted you?

Speaker 11 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 25 Our whole mission became to save Tom's life.

Speaker 71 His life does have meaning to many people.

Speaker 20 My name is Dorothy Arlene Randolph.

Speaker 55 This is where

Speaker 12 I

Speaker 68 should be as a mother today

Speaker 55 to support my son.

Speaker 88 I love you, son.

Speaker 14 Since I was 12, I've been a Cowboys fan. As I got older and started becoming a fan of football, it gives me comfort and even in here.

Speaker 16 I have never had a defendant walk into the day of his death penalty case where he gets to address the jury wearing a football jersey. I think that pretty much sums it up.

Speaker 59 That was a f you to everybody in that courtroom, to include the jury, me, and the judge, in my opinion.

Speaker 25 Yes, we would call Chris Durandol.

Speaker 25 How do you know, Tommy?

Speaker 11 He's my father. My dad was a terrific dad.
He was loving. He was always there for me.
He's a great grandpa.

Speaker 1 To my children, he's loving and

Speaker 20 caring.

Speaker 11 Spent a lot of quality time with them. He's just an excellent grandfather to them.

Speaker 25 Does your dad's life still have meaning to you?

Speaker 11 Of course, a ton.

Speaker 88 Is it justice next?

Speaker 25 Yes, Justice Randolph.

Speaker 79 This is kind of absurd to me because I think that this impression that you have of my dad or this reality is so different from my reality growing up with him.

Speaker 79 I mean, he was somebody who was just a great father to me.

Speaker 25 And that's valuable to you.

Speaker 79 It's invaluable.

Speaker 25 Your Honor, at this time, the...

Speaker 25 Tommy, you'd like to make an allocution.

Speaker 59 The allocution is when the defendant has the right to give a statement to the jury.

Speaker 29 I'm so sorry that all this happened.

Speaker 29 You've heard what you've heard, and you can't imagine how much I miss Sharon

Speaker 29 and how much I miss Francis.

Speaker 29 I don't want to spend the rest of my life on death row.

Speaker 29 And I don't want to spend the last my life in prison, but

Speaker 29 for my mother and my children, and

Speaker 29 I suspect for me.

Speaker 68 But

Speaker 65 yeah,

Speaker 29 it's going to be hard on my family more than anything.

Speaker 65 So I don't know what else to say.

Speaker 65 All right, jury.

Speaker 16 The record will reflect the presence of the jury.

Speaker 87 Madam poor person, do you have a verdict?

Speaker 92 We, the jury, in the above entitled case, having found the defendant Thomas William Randolph guilty of murder of the first degree of Sharon Randolph and Michael James Miller, impose a sentence of death.

Speaker 20 Justice finally, after nine years years of nine really really hard years.

Speaker 43 Yeah, but it's over.

Speaker 43 Yes.

Speaker 14 It's gonna feel better.

Speaker 20 It's gonna get better for me and my family. Oh yes.

Speaker 54 Well it's it's just the next step.

Speaker 12 It's no big deal really.

Speaker 5 It's sad I had to wait nine years to get here. We should have already been through the appeal process and out, but it's just a matter of three more years, and we'll get a fair trial.

Speaker 59 I'm sitting at work, email comes in, see the title line of Randolph decision.

Speaker 47 I couldn't believe it.

Speaker 59 This guy is a psychopath, Paul Capps.

Speaker 21 All of my lawyers have said if the Utah case comes in, you will be convicted and you will get the death penalty.

Speaker 32 And then three years later, the Supreme Court will overturn it.

Speaker 6 I've never even thought about any other thing other than acquittal.

Speaker 12 I'm the victim in this.

Speaker 22 I'm the victim in this.

Speaker 12 It's no big deal, really.

Speaker 5 It's sad I had to wait nine years to get here. We should have already been through the appeal process and output.
It's just a matter of three more years and we'll get a fair trial.

Speaker 93 This is the time set for oral argument

Speaker 93 in the case of Randolph versus State.

Speaker 93 The only way the state was able to get a conviction in this case was to portray Thomas Randolph as a serial wife killer.

Speaker 93 The prosecutor set about to revive the Utah case involving Becky's death and to admit evidence in that case against Randolph in this case involving Sharon's death by suggesting that Randolph killed Becky and so he probably killed Sharon as well.

Speaker 93 This is a man's life we're talking about and the Becky evidence should have never come in. Mr.
Stanton, do you think you could approve this case without this prior?

Speaker 93 I'm not sure whether or not I've ever assessed

Speaker 93 this case in that way.

Speaker 12 I'm sitting at work,

Speaker 59 email comes in, see the title line of Randolph decision, pull it up and then read it.

Speaker 59 They're going to give him a new trial and disagree that the evidence from Utah should have come in. They conclude that it should not have.

Speaker 9 He's still remanded in custody.

Speaker 53 He doesn't get to get out, but he's going to get a new trial.

Speaker 47 I was, I couldn't believe it.

Speaker 14 I can't say what I said on you know on TV.

Speaker 5 I was just flabbergasted.

Speaker 59 This guy is a psychopath, all caps.

Speaker 59 And that's why he is, in my opinion, you can't find a more dangerous person in the community than this guy.

Speaker 20 I've started to get back to normal.

Speaker 20 Yeah.

Speaker 12 Well, not right away.

Speaker 20 The trial brought a bunch of more emotions back up.

Speaker 20 My kids are my focus and they are my joy.

Speaker 20 I was about five and a half months pregnant with Katie. My mom died.

Speaker 64 I missed my baby girl.

Speaker 83 I'm seven years old and I'm in second grade.

Speaker 14 Katie's twelve.

Speaker 20 She's so grown up now. She's so beautiful.

Speaker 20 It's just crazy how much time has passed.

Speaker 18 I wish

Speaker 14 she could have met a grandma.

Speaker 16 How I would sum up the Thomas Randolph case is, it's like a movie, how it plays out. It's almost unbelievable until you believe it.

Speaker 16 Thank you, Smother.

Speaker 54 Hey, you know what she said about you after you were acquitted in the 80s?

Speaker 14 He's guilty.

Speaker 14 And he's just going to kill somebody else's daughter so he could.

Speaker 78 That's what she said about you in the 1980s.

Speaker 14 Thank you, Smother.

Speaker 68 Hey, maybe

Speaker 55 she's psychic. Who knows?

Speaker 55 I'm just elated.

Speaker 55 I'm hoping for bail

Speaker 5 because the only one I'm a threat to is married women.

Speaker 64 So I pose a threat to nobody.

Speaker 64 No married women, nobody I have insurance on.

Speaker 59 We start back at square one. He's not convicted of any charges.
He will stand trial for the second time. There's no guarantees in any trial.

Speaker 59 Yeah, he could be found not guilty and walk out of the court a free man.

Speaker 9 I only ran across probably

Speaker 35 a half a dozen people who, when you're sitting, you just sense that they're

Speaker 9 the darkness in them.

Speaker 67 Is your wife deadlined

Speaker 67 for you think?

Speaker 14 To kill for?

Speaker 9 You see that they not only killed that person, they don't regret it.

Speaker 32 Am I beautiful?

Speaker 9 And if they were able to get out, they would kill someone else.

Speaker 6 I shot him again,

Speaker 6 and he just lay in there.

Speaker 6 Some noise.

Speaker 9 Tom Randolph's real sentence will start when he takes his last breath on this earth, and it'll be for eternity.

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