The Widower Ep. 2: 6 Wives, 4 Funerals

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Speaker 4 Thomas Randolph took his wife wife out to dinner for Mother's Day.

Speaker 5 We had a theory that as they're walking together holding hands, he knows within a very short period of time she'd be dead on the floor in her house.

Speaker 4 He groomed a person that would be willing to kill for him.

Speaker 5 Think we should tell you you're under arrest?

Speaker 7 No, because if you are, you f ⁇ ed up.

Speaker 5 There was more that we needed to know about Tom Randolph.

Speaker 5 We're going to have to go back through every relationship we ever had. We went to Washington State, Indiana, Kentucky, New Hampshire, Utah.
He'd been married six times, and four of his wives are dead.

Speaker 8 Becky was shot in the head.

Speaker 6 Only had a gun in her hand.

Speaker 5 Seems like a suicide.

Speaker 8 She would never have killed herself.

Speaker 9 Police arrested Thomas Randolph on charges of murder.

Speaker 5 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 He's really a sick son of a bitch.

Speaker 6 Get on the ground. On the ground.
Yeah, God.

Speaker 13 Not to me.

Speaker 6 Boom, boom, boom.

Speaker 14 Put your hands on your head right now.

Speaker 6 Put your hands on your head.

Speaker 12 What did you do over the

Speaker 6 car?

Speaker 6 I let you come back.

Speaker 6 Control gonna come.

Speaker 6 I'm like, who's gonna come?

Speaker 5 Well, it's 2021.

Speaker 5 I never thought that we'd still be talking about Thomas Randolph, but it is definitely a story that needs to be told.

Speaker 15 I open it up.

Speaker 16 I get right here, and Sharon's laying in the floor.

Speaker 5 It's rare that you come across somebody like a Tom Randolph where they methodically map out how they're going to take someone's life.

Speaker 5 And it's chilling.

Speaker 16 I thought I just seem like a shadow or

Speaker 16 something over this way.

Speaker 4 I would describe Thomas Randolph as egotistical, selfish, a narcissist that cares for

Speaker 4 nothing and no one other than himself.

Speaker 17 Sharon. Sharon.

Speaker 5 My partner Rob Wilson and I were investigating the murder of Sharon Randolph and Mike Miller.

Speaker 5 We had every belief that Tom Randolph had met Mike Miller, that he befriended him, that he started grooming him for what eventually occurred on May 8th of 2008.

Speaker 5 And as soon as she walked into this area here, where her head was positioned right here, Michael Miller fired that shot.

Speaker 5 As Miller started to walk through the garage door to leave with Thomas Randolph behind him, Tom Randolph fired the first shot. They ambushed him.

Speaker 6 Boom!

Speaker 6 I say, hi, I'm beat.

Speaker 18 I remember her showing up to my front door with him, and I was like, where did he come from? You know, and then I heard about him coming from Utah.

Speaker 18 She really didn't say much about him.

Speaker 18 I didn't know how many wives he had. I didn't realize that my mom was his sixth wife.

Speaker 18 There was a lot that I did not know in his past, how really, really dangerous he was.

Speaker 6 Crazy.

Speaker 5 Well, after we met Colleen, we learned from her that she had found a will.

Speaker 5 that her mother had left that Tom Randolph didn't know anything about.

Speaker 18 So my will was valid and his was no longer valid, which

Speaker 6 really upset him.

Speaker 5 His whole idea was to get everything and that's not what was taking place. He saw his plan slipping away and that made Colleen very afraid.

Speaker 18 I never liked his whole vibe at all.

Speaker 18 I thought he was very strange,

Speaker 18 kind of creepy.

Speaker 5 There came a point in time where Colleen wanted to change the locks on the house.

Speaker 18 And I was afraid to go by myself.

Speaker 13 Should we go get your shoes?

Speaker 18 So Kelly went with me.

Speaker 5 It's just more or less almost like a keep the piece move out type of situation here with me being here today.

Speaker 4 It's a civil issue, and that's what it is.

Speaker 18 We're changing out all the locks on the house so Tommy Randolph doesn't have access.

Speaker 5 Colleen came in and she saw the tape up on the wall, the blood spatter, and things like that. She had more questions, and I answered as many as I could for her.

Speaker 13 Because it's more of annoying.

Speaker 18 That was my first

Speaker 18 where I heard of what exactly happened. I only had bits and pieces.

Speaker 5 But this is very important to us. It tells us a lot.

Speaker 5 Which is also consistent with. She knew about Mike Miller being the one who killed her mother.

Speaker 18 So she just walked in the house from the garage?

Speaker 20 Doesn't make sense.

Speaker 6 Yeah, I mean...

Speaker 5 It makes more sense that there's a person in here waiting when your mother comes into the house.

Speaker 5 It's far, far more consistent with a person being in here laying in wait for your mother to cross over this this area in the hallway

Speaker 18 I would think of logically then why didn't

Speaker 18 Michael knew Tommy was going to walk in the door next shoot him the second he came in the door well yeah and that's all

Speaker 5 that's all also consistent with Michael being part of this plan to kill your mother

Speaker 18 I'm looking for some sort of So we're walking through the house and the front door was left open.

Speaker 5 Tom Randolph showed up.

Speaker 18 Randolph was standing right in the doorway with this crazy look on his face.

Speaker 18 And I froze.

Speaker 6 Have you got a piece of paper that says I can't be here? No, that's what I thought. So you're just in front of you.

Speaker 18 Oh, my heart's still going pretty fast. It just scared the crap out of me.

Speaker 5 You could see when Colleen tensed up. I mean, quite a bit when we knew he was there.
And he was immediately agitated.

Speaker 6 I still don't know if she only understands this.

Speaker 5 He felt like he could come in and start pushing his way around. And we were like, nope, I'm not having any of it.

Speaker 18 And Randolph looked even more upset that

Speaker 18 I was with O'Kelly.

Speaker 6 Have you got a piece of paper that says I can't be here?

Speaker 6 No, that's what I thought, so I think I'll stay in my house.

Speaker 6 I get here.

Speaker 6 This is my house of regress. No, that's not the way I actually moved it.

Speaker 6 You're just an aren't you?

Speaker 6 Yeah, you really are. I need to get some of my stuff, all the people.
No, go ahead.

Speaker 6 Leave me I can't get my clothes. No, no, that's something

Speaker 6 you gotta work out with your attorney.

Speaker 18 He's locked out because he can't get his clothes

Speaker 18 and I'm not talking to him.

Speaker 18 Oh, my heart's still going. It's pretty fast.

Speaker 18 Just scared the crap out of me.

Speaker 5 Rob and I have gathered enough information based on the crime scene and witnesses, video surveillance we had obtained to that point, and had every degree of confidence that we had enough to arrest Thomas Randall.

Speaker 5 We're getting ready to go over to the district attorney's office, go over the case, go over what what we have at this point and

Speaker 5 see if we have enough.

Speaker 5 I'm hopeful, but I'm doubtful.

Speaker 5 I'm a little more pessimistic than Dean is.

Speaker 5 I'm not sure we're quite there yet.

Speaker 4 We presented the case to Robert Daskis and David Stanton, two of the very experienced district attorneys.

Speaker 5 We were hoping to walk out of that meeting with an arrest warrant. I thought, this is good.

Speaker 5 We have plenty. We have this home invasion that occurs on the 8th of May.
We have a pretty good idea of when they got home.

Speaker 5 We presented the facts that we had that we knew at the time. He lets her out.
In addition to some things that had come to light about Mr. Randolph,

Speaker 5 we believe that this was planned months earlier. over the period of five months that

Speaker 5 Randolph befriends Miller. They're in daily contact with each other.
They do all sorts of stuff together, to include day and afternoon of the murder. They went out together shopping for jet skis.

Speaker 19 Dean believes that this was a setup by Randolph to use Miller as a pawn to do the dirty work. Then he got rid of the only witness that could tie him to this conspiracy.

Speaker 5 You both believe without question that Miller

Speaker 5 shoots Sharon and then of course Randolph comes in and plays the hero. You don't think there's any chance that

Speaker 5 Randolph shoots both? Well we don't believe so. That kind of surprises me.

Speaker 5 You're telling me that you don't think that Randolph

Speaker 5 popped the wife.

Speaker 5 No.

Speaker 5 Let's just walk through it from Randolph's version of events.

Speaker 5 They had this struggle in the hallway. There's a bunch of shots fired.
He wants to make sure the guy who just killed his wife and is in his house is dead.

Speaker 5 So he goes over and puts a couple rounds in his hat, in his head. Absolutely thought that night.

Speaker 5 And Randolph says during the struggle, the mask comes up. Pushed up a little.
Okay. And does he say at some point that he takes it off of him? No.

Speaker 5 He said that when he shot him in the head, that he believed he still had the mask on. And there's no holes in the mat.
There's no holes in the ski mask. There's no bullet holes.

Speaker 5 There's no blood on it. Dave, Dave, there's so much more to it.
There's so much more to it. He's been married.

Speaker 5 He's been married six times.

Speaker 5 Four wives are dead. Wow.

Speaker 5 Four wives are dead.

Speaker 19 In my line of work, I don't believe in coincidences. Obviously, at this point, I don't know a lot of the details about his other wives, both living and dead.

Speaker 5 They wanted some time to think about it. It was kind of disappointing.
Like, well, maybe I didn't say it right. Maybe I didn't, you know, focus on the right things.

Speaker 5 But obviously, they weren't getting it at that point. They weren't feeling it.

Speaker 6 There were some

Speaker 19 very strong conclusions that you could draw, but they weren't absolutes.

Speaker 5 Rob and I were frustrated. We just couldn't say, Okay, that's it.
Let's go. You know, let's put the handcuffs on him and take him in.

Speaker 18 This is mostly all of his stuff. This is the ammunition.
Two giant guffel bags and bullets.

Speaker 5 What if he's never arrested?

Speaker 18 I'm gonna be afraid. Really afraid.

Speaker 5 It's a helmet.

Speaker 5 For me.

Speaker 12 Rollerblade. It's a helmet for me.

Speaker 18 Your parents die and then all of a sudden everything

Speaker 18 is just so overwhelming. You're in charge of everything.
What do you do with it? You know?

Speaker 18 And, um,

Speaker 18 This is all old mail, which is sealed.

Speaker 18 I don't sleep good.

Speaker 18 I have some really strange dreams, nightmares.

Speaker 18 More involving him.

Speaker 18 You know,

Speaker 18 I know I've pissed him off pretty bad by locking him out of the house, and he's not been able to get his stuff for quite a while. We've been rooting through the house and seeing

Speaker 18 all of his things. I can see why he's so upset now.

Speaker 18 There's some naked pictures in here. We found some business cards.

Speaker 18 He's got a lot of attorneys' cards.

Speaker 18 That's his stuff.

Speaker 18 He was extremely creepy going through his things.

Speaker 18 Driver's licenses from his ex-wives.

Speaker 18 It's hard to swallow.

Speaker 18 It's crazy.

Speaker 18 Here's his scuba gear.

Speaker 18 There's that. And then he's got this bulletproof best going on.
I don't know what you need that for.

Speaker 18 This was the bedroom. This was his side.

Speaker 18 He stashes all his drugs and medications in here.

Speaker 18 This is mostly all of his stuff.

Speaker 18 This is the ammunition.

Speaker 18 He had two giant duffel bags of bullets. They're those hollow-tip bullets.

Speaker 5 What if he's never arrested?

Speaker 18 Gosh, I don't know. I'm going to be afraid.
Really afraid.

Speaker 21 Here you go, sweetie.

Speaker 18 I took some control away from him. I know he's a control freak.
I really have faith in the police.

Speaker 5 All the things that we were able to put together about him added that credibility to Colleen's fear, that she truly believed that as long as Tom Randolph was free, that she needed to be afraid.

Speaker 4 As we were walking into that second meeting with the the district attorneys, I mean, we were both hopeful that we'd be able to walk out of there with an arrest warrant for Thomas Randolph.

Speaker 4 What a jury is going to know is he claims there's an intruder, he's startled.

Speaker 4 Lucky for him, he gets a gun.

Speaker 17 And the explanation he provides you doesn't make a lot of sense given the physical evidence that he gives.

Speaker 5 Is it any wonder he can't remember exactly where he was when he fired that gun? I was not happy.

Speaker 5 I remember sitting there thinking, I don't know how you're not seeing this. I don't know what the reason is.

Speaker 5 And so, you know, when I look at it, I say there's no way

Speaker 5 given that evidence that a jury convicts them of anything with that explanation. I think it's not there.

Speaker 4 I tend to agree with Robert.

Speaker 19 The most critical thing at that juncture is, you know, is there any evidence that's relevant and admissible to the current case that Dean's investigating.

Speaker 4 If I'm a defense attorney, yeah, he's panicked.

Speaker 5 Oh, we've got the gal in North Carolina that says that Miller told her that this guy was looking for somebody to kill his wife. He said, I don't know.
He told me that he wanted me to peer in the fire.

Speaker 5 Okay, who does that witness say that that comes from? From Michael Miller. From Michael Miller.

Speaker 25 Robert, what's your thought about

Speaker 4 the statements to Miller? about him being solicited to...

Speaker 17 Right. I mean, I don't think that's ever coming in.

Speaker 25 Yeah.

Speaker 17 I don't see any way to get around to Pearsa.

Speaker 17 If we get Randolph telling somebody something and that person comes forward, then we've got no problem.

Speaker 4 They told us we didn't have enough.

Speaker 4 They felt like there was a plausible deniability there for him and that the case just wasn't strong enough and they didn't want to take a chance of losing it in court.

Speaker 4 We had a lot more work to do ahead of us.

Speaker 5 They go, okay, well, we need to dig deeper. That means we're going to have to go back through every relationship he ever had,

Speaker 5 you know, and talk to everyone. And

Speaker 5 that we did. There was a lot more that we put together, things that we absolutely never anticipated.

Speaker 5 We were determined to keep going to gather as much information as we needed to put him in cuffs.

Speaker 4 So we wanted to know exactly what had happened to each one of his prior wives.

Speaker 5 We needed to look at each one of those marriages, each one of those relationships, to see if that would have any bearing on our case. And so

Speaker 5 we started with wife number one.

Speaker 5 Catherine, hi. Can we come in? Come on in.
Okay. Do you know if he had an insurance policy on you?

Speaker 27 Yes, he did.

Speaker 5 After we left the DA's office, we had to just dig as deep as we could into Tom Randolph's life.

Speaker 5 He'd been married six times, and four of his wives are dead.

Speaker 4 His first wife was still alive. She was married to someone else and was living up in Washington State.

Speaker 5 Arriving at Edwards Unright.

Speaker 5 We're dealing with a relationship that was that's that's pretty old, 25 years old.

Speaker 5 Catherine, hi. Hi.
Can you come in?

Speaker 6 Come on in. Okay.

Speaker 27 This was probably in the 1970s.

Speaker 5 He liked the long hair, didn't he? Yeah.

Speaker 5 How did you

Speaker 5 meet Thomas Randolph?

Speaker 27 Um, I was in high school. I was a senior, and I had a girlfriend, and her boyfriend happened to be roommates.

Speaker 5 When did you get married?

Speaker 27 Uh, August 2nd, 1975.

Speaker 27 I was 18. He was 20.

Speaker 5 And this was where?

Speaker 27 This was in Clearfield, Utah.

Speaker 27 We were married at his parents' house and I was very drawn to his parents. They were very good to me.

Speaker 27 He was a very charming and witty person and very intelligent.

Speaker 27 And I fell for that at first.

Speaker 5 And you have two children with him? Mm-hmm. Okay.

Speaker 27 Justice and Krista.

Speaker 5 Randolph and Kathy had two kids. One, her son's name was Justice.
We found that to be rather ironic.

Speaker 27 I mean, he didn't hold a steady job for too long.

Speaker 27 The first sign I saw of things going wrong, I made him a bowl of oatmeal one morning.

Speaker 27 And because it didn't have sugar on it, he picked it up and threw it against the wall and said, my mother always puts sugar on my oatmeal.

Speaker 5 What happened after that, after you saw that first sign?

Speaker 27 Well, I think Course deteriorated from there.

Speaker 27 He just, you know, wouldn't quit harassing me.

Speaker 27 He started seeing other women

Speaker 27 doing a lot of drugs,

Speaker 27 started to deal drugs,

Speaker 27 was arrested, but his parents bailed him out every time.

Speaker 5 Do you know if he had an insurance policy on you?

Speaker 27 Yes, he did.

Speaker 27 We actually divorced in April 7th of 83.

Speaker 5 What was the reason why you

Speaker 5 ended the marriage?

Speaker 27 He got really scary

Speaker 27 and abusive, not physically but psychologically. He was very narcissist.

Speaker 27 He liked to control you, you know.

Speaker 5 And then at some point you meet Steve. Mm-hmm.
And how long after you had started dating did he find out about the relationship?

Speaker 5 I think it was pretty soon.

Speaker 27 It was pretty soon because we'd had a...

Speaker 4 Her husband, Steve, had been friends with Thomas Randolph prior to them even getting married.

Speaker 5 His reaction was that it was like stealing meat from another man's refrigerator. You going out with his ex-wife, like you were stealing meat from his refrigerator.

Speaker 5 You had a brief conversation with Detective O'Kelly on the phone, and specifically, I guess there was a conversation that Mr.

Speaker 5 Randolph had initiated with you where he was asking you about what you'd be willing to do for money.

Speaker 5 Yes, I did. He had approached me and asked me if I would kill somebody for money if I knew I could get away with it.

Speaker 5 And on several occasions, he did approach me and say something like this. Several occasions? Several occasions, yes.
Not just once, but several times. Looking back, you know, I...

Speaker 5 You know, I firmly believe that she was the target.

Speaker 5 It shows a pattern.

Speaker 5 You know, not just the approach, but just kind of, you know, that he's around somebody for a while and then he'll just maybe put something out there and see whether or not they, like you say, whether or not they bite on it, you know.

Speaker 5 This is all fitting the pattern. We needed to find out more.

Speaker 18 He was still out on the loose.

Speaker 18 And he was in town.

Speaker 18 I was very afraid. I knew he killed her.

Speaker 5 I think Colleen had every reason to be afraid. The only thing we could do at that point was just tell her: if you thought you were under immediate threat, call 911.

Speaker 5 You know, make sure you protect yourself. And we had to tell her that because at that point, there was nothing we could do to restrict Tom Randolph's movement.

Speaker 8 I just remember remember screaming and just dropping to my knees.

Speaker 5 Becky Randolph was Tom Randolph's second wife.

Speaker 12 I said, Becky, and she said, just come home. And I said, she's dead.

Speaker 12 Just come home.

Speaker 5 At this point, with our investigation and now talking to Kathy and Steve, her husband, we're very interested in finding out what had happened with the other wives.

Speaker 5 Becky Randolph was Tom Randolph's second wife. They were married in 1983.

Speaker 5 When we first found out about Becky Randolph, we found that it was ruled a suicide. The initial investigation said that it was his suicide.
Yeah, this this is Detective Wilson from Las Vegas.

Speaker 5 We wanted to get the information about what happened. Was it similar to what we had?

Speaker 4 So we had to follow the breadcrumb trail all the way back to Utah and talk to everyone that was still around that was willing to talk to us.

Speaker 15 Rob Wilson.

Speaker 5 Rose Allred. Nice to meet you, Rose.
Hey, Kelly. Hi.

Speaker 3 Good to meet you.

Speaker 5 Come on in.

Speaker 5 One of the first stops we made in Utah was Becky's aunt, Rosalie Allred.

Speaker 5 And she has some very interesting things to tell us.

Speaker 12 Here's one picture of her. I think that was when she got married.

Speaker 4 Becky had confided in Rosalie, and

Speaker 4 so she was able to remember a lot of information.

Speaker 5 Tell her what you know about Tom Randolph and about their relationship.

Speaker 12 I just didn't like like him. I just didn't like the man.

Speaker 5 Did you point to anything?

Speaker 12 He was just an arrogant,

Speaker 12 smart ass.

Speaker 12 I just didn't like him.

Speaker 5 Did Becky ever talk to you about him or anything that he was doing to her?

Speaker 12 Yeah.

Speaker 5 What do you remember about that?

Speaker 12 She told me that

Speaker 12 he had a room down in the basement and and he always kept it locked and he'd have other girls down there make her go down and watch him have sex.

Speaker 12 And I asked her, doesn't it kill you to watch it do that with other girls? And she said, yeah,

Speaker 12 but I do it because he wants me to.

Speaker 4 What really kind of hit me the most is how raw her pain was.

Speaker 12 He's really a sick son of a bitch.

Speaker 5 One of the things that stood out to me the most was apparently Tom and Becky were having a lot of financial problems.

Speaker 4 Their lights were off, they're behind on their rent.

Speaker 5 And at some point they go to Rosalie to borrow some money.

Speaker 12 And for some reason this popped up in my stuff and I don't know why.

Speaker 4 She was able to find a receipt for, I believe it was $2,000 that she had loaned to

Speaker 4 Becky so that they could get out of debt.

Speaker 12 And he took it and paid the insurance premiums.

Speaker 5 How do you know that he used that money to pay for the premium?

Speaker 12 Because

Speaker 12 she told me that Tom was bitching because the

Speaker 12 insurance premium was due on their insurance.

Speaker 5 The life insurance.

Speaker 5 Tom's major priority was to keep the insurance premiums for Becky Randolph, a perfectly healthy woman, keep her life insurance premiums up to date. For him, that was a priority.

Speaker 12 He had three posts to sell them.

Speaker 5 You remember he had three?

Speaker 12 I know he had three.

Speaker 5 Yeah, he was the beneficiary of all of the meals.

Speaker 6 Becky was...

Speaker 24 Her smile was

Speaker 24 infectious.

Speaker 24 She walked into a room and you could do nothing but be happy she was there.

Speaker 8 Becky is my first cousin.

Speaker 8 She's more like a sister. We grew up together.

Speaker 24 We were just all sitting around and she kept talking about this guy she met named Tom. She was just really happy to meet him and how cute he was and all this other stuff.

Speaker 24 So, I mean, he was a real smooth talker.

Speaker 8 I thought Thomas Randolph, when I very first met him, was a show-off. He was always telling people how smart he was.

Speaker 8 Tom was working for a law firm, trying to become an attorney.

Speaker 24 At first they seemed like they were pretty happy, and then things started to get worse.

Speaker 8 As the relationship got bad, I said, why don't you leave him?

Speaker 8 And she would say, I'm so afraid of what Tom's going to do to me if I leave.

Speaker 8 And she was at my house, and she says, Dela, I need to run

Speaker 8 to my home in Clearfield just to pick up a few things.

Speaker 8 She never came home. She never came back.

Speaker 8 She was shot. She was shot in the head.

Speaker 24 And everybody kept telling me that she shot herself. And I said, no, Becky didn't shoot herself.

Speaker 4 She would never shoot herself.

Speaker 8 And I just remember screaming and saying, you've got to be kidding, and just dropping to my knees and

Speaker 6 crying.

Speaker 12 My cousin called and told me to come home.

Speaker 5 That doesn't work, told me to come home.

Speaker 12 And I said, is it Mama? And she said, no. And I said, is it Becky? And she said, just come home.
And I said, she's dead.

Speaker 5 And she just come home.

Speaker 12 And she was dead.

Speaker 4 The depth of her grief was so profound. It was very clear that

Speaker 4 justice had not been done in her mind and that there was no peace.

Speaker 5 We were finding quite a bit more and it was painting a clear, clear picture of who we were dealing with in Tom Randolph.

Speaker 5 We needed to meet with the people that were involved in the original investigation of Becky Randolph's death.

Speaker 5 There were a lot of things that was a red flag to me. Just by looking at it, she'd have to be on her head in amber decks just in order to pull that trigger.

Speaker 5 There was no way in my mind that could have happened.

Speaker 5 That should be the police department.

Speaker 5 We're at the Davis County Justice Center to speak to Deputy District Attorney Steve Maiden.

Speaker 5 The goal is to find out everything about how Becky died.

Speaker 5 We're going to take you back many, many, many years.

Speaker 22 Many years ago.

Speaker 5 He was at the scene, and when he looked at it, I mean, his impression overall was that it was a suicide.

Speaker 5 I remember going into the house.

Speaker 5 It was a newer house at the time.

Speaker 5 When we had gotten into the house, she was upstairs in a bedroom.

Speaker 5 and they had found a suicide note or what we thought was a suicide note on the kitchen counter and then she was upstairs in the bedroom. She was lying on the water bed.

Speaker 5 She was covered up to the top just below her breast with a blanket. Literally, I think we all walked in.
We had a note. We had her on the bed.
We had a gun in her hand.

Speaker 5 You know, gunshot wound to the head. We're saying, you know, this is like a suicide.
You know, and so from that point is basically how we started treating the thing as being a suicide.

Speaker 5 We also met with, you know, my counterpart, the lead investigator in the case, Dick Martin.

Speaker 5 There were a lot of things that was a red flag to me, such as the position of the hands, the position where the gun fell.

Speaker 5 He felt uncomfortable with calling it a suicide, that there were things about it that troubled him.

Speaker 4 He

Speaker 4 related to us about his concerns about the positioning of the gun and how he felt that it was odd.

Speaker 5 Because of the way her head was like this, with the, now you gotta think of the impression on the barrel be reversed

Speaker 5 so now my sight's here instead of here which is totally abnormal so now she's like this

Speaker 5 upside down laying like this to pull the trigger

Speaker 5 me and

Speaker 5 just by looking at it she'd have to be on her head named extra motor to pull that trigger there was no way in my mind that could have happened He went back to the crime scene.

Speaker 5 He went back to investigate further.

Speaker 4 It was his understanding that the scene had been secured.

Speaker 2 I was really upset when I went back to the house.

Speaker 5 I was under the impression that the county attorney's office had locked the house down.

Speaker 5 By the time I could get my warrant in order to get back in there and do things, everything that I wanted to do was gone.

Speaker 5 Thomas Randolph had come in and basically scoured the place clean.

Speaker 5 Apartment was up,

Speaker 5 walls painted, you know, I mean, you name it, it was bad.

Speaker 5 Becky Randolph's death was declared a suicide. So now Tom Randolph not only gets to go on with his life, but he also cashed in on a life insurance policy close to a half a million dollars.

Speaker 5 Becky's death remained a suicide for the next couple of years

Speaker 5 until Lieutenant Scott Connolly from Ogden, Utah got involved in the investigation. So we needed to talk to Scott Connolly.
So we went to Ogden Police Department.

Speaker 5 Detectives with Las Vegas Metro, we're here for Lieutenant Connolly.

Speaker 25 I'll never forget the day that, you know, my phone rang. I was a lieutenant with the police department at that time.
And it was Las Vegas PD and they wanted to know about Tom Randolph.

Speaker 25 And I thought, holy hell, here we go again.

Speaker 25 I first heard of Tom Randolph in the detective division. And if this guy wanted to be a major drug player in the Ogden area,

Speaker 25 Everybody would tell me this guy is so enthralled with the Scarface movie that he demanded that they all call him Tony Montana.

Speaker 5 This is all your stuff? Yeah, it's awesome.

Speaker 5 I haven't been through this stuff in a long, long time.

Speaker 5 He had all this information about Tom Randolph. Same look, fan, right there.
Look at that. Same kind of look.

Speaker 5 He developed a huge case file.

Speaker 4 The way he got involved in the Becky Randolph investigation is that a woman told him that her husband had been approached by Thomas Randolph about killing Becky.

Speaker 5 Her husband's name was Eric Tarantino.

Speaker 5 Tom Randolph had befriended him years earlier. He ended up starting to groom him to kill Becky Randolph.

Speaker 25 Eric and I started off on a conversation, you know, about what had taken place.

Speaker 6 He and Tom were really close.

Speaker 25 Eric started telling me of

Speaker 22 the different plots

Speaker 25 to take Becky out, that he had Becky insured.

Speaker 30 Tom and Eric had developed like four or five different plans of

Speaker 30 taking her out, basically killing her for a profit.

Speaker 4 Because Eric Tarantino was such an important person in Becky Randolph's murder investigation, he also became important to us because of the similarities between Becky's death and Sharon's death.

Speaker 5 After talking to Scott Conley, it became very apparent that we needed to talk to Eric Tarantino.

Speaker 5 There was little innuendos here and there, and then just a point blank, I want you to kill my wife. this is exactly what he said you know way too much to say no so it's you or her

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Speaker 5 Eric Tarantino was somebody who Tom Randolph befriended and over a period of time had groomed him to kill Becky Randolph.

Speaker 5 They got a 745 flight on Thursday.

Speaker 5 And so it was very apparent that Eric Tarantino could play a major role in moving forward in our investigation.

Speaker 4 It sucks.

Speaker 5 I hate flying. The whole time that we're trying to gather information, we realize that Tom Randolph is free.
He's out and able to do whatever you want to do.

Speaker 5 My partner Rob Wilson and I end up getting on another plane and we're off to New Hampshire to meet with Air Tarantino.

Speaker 5 Really appreciate you coming. Dean, good to have you.

Speaker 5 Rob Wilson, my partner,

Speaker 4 he's kind of a wise guy, kind of character.

Speaker 5 How do you know Thomas Randolph? I met him. He was the foreman in a cabinet shop that I worked at.
Tom and I had become good friends while I was working.

Speaker 5 We remained good friends after.

Speaker 4 Initially, it was an admiration type of thing. Funny.
And then he kind of fell into that

Speaker 6 trap that

Speaker 4 Thomas Randolph probably laid for him.

Speaker 5 It started with

Speaker 5 him coming up and having

Speaker 5 odd jobs. I could go by the house and shovel the driveway and

Speaker 5 come in and have dinner. And I started getting to know his wife.

Speaker 5 Some of the jobs that I did for Tom was collecting money. He dealt drugs to everybody.
He dealt drugs to police officers, individuals on the street.

Speaker 5 I'd go and collect money for them when they didn't pay. What kind of drugs?

Speaker 5 Everything.

Speaker 5 Pharmaceutical, marijuana, cocaine, valium, things like that. There came a point in time where he's talking to you about killing somebody.
You had said something about that.

Speaker 5 Once you go back to that, how did all that transpire? Describe that for me. Just, you know, little things here and there about

Speaker 5 killing somebody for collecting insurance.

Speaker 5 You know, would I be capable of shooting somebody?

Speaker 5 It was just one thing after another. It was little innuendos here and there, and then just a point blank, I want you to kill my wife.

Speaker 5 When he talks to you about killing his wife, tell me how that took place. Where were you? What were you doing? Do you remember? We were

Speaker 5 shooting guns in, I want to say Weber Canyon. He had a 22 with a silencer.
We shot it a couple times and he said, you know, I want you to kill my wife. And no was the first thing out of my mouth.

Speaker 5 But we'd gone through so many scenarios. When he actually said who it was and I said no,

Speaker 5 it was real simple. And this is exactly what he said.

Speaker 5 You know way too much to say no, so it's you or her.

Speaker 5 Well, I wasn't ready to die, so I played the game. As we listened to him tell his story,

Speaker 5 the similarities with what we knew about Michael Miller were striking. I mean, you could almost envision Mike Miller sitting across the table from us in the park instead of Eric Tarantino.
From there,

Speaker 5 it was kind of like being in a hostage situation. The minute I said no,

Speaker 5 everything in our relationship changed. I didn't trust him anymore.
I became fearful of him. Every time he showed up, I didn't know if I was going to be dead.
Like I said, I'd walk into a room.

Speaker 5 He'd put a gun to my head. Load it or not.
I don't know. Boom, blow a chair away.
Guess it was loaded.

Speaker 5 I walked into his house one day, he walked up behind me with chloroform on a rag, grabbed a hold of me, and you know, the next thing I know, I'm laying on the floor and he's standing over me laughing.

Speaker 5 I did whatever he asked me to do. I mean, we went out so many different times practicing misfiring guns.
So you're practicing an accidental shooting where she would get killed? Exactly.

Speaker 5 You know, if we were out camping and they were in the tent, he could get up and go to the bathroom, might be sleeping in the blazer, knock the truck in the neutral, and it rolls over the tent and runs her over and kills her.

Speaker 5 Pushing her down in a canyon with a raging river in it.

Speaker 5 Shooting her. Accidental, non-accidental, just walking in and putting a hole in it.

Speaker 5 You know, sliding the rifle into the case and it goes off.

Speaker 1 We did, you know.

Speaker 5 the fire scenario that was discussed for over a month, how it could be done, you know, when she was sleeping, where it could start, in the trail.

Speaker 4 It was almost like a battered wife syndrome.

Speaker 4 He was scared. He was afraid.

Speaker 5 On any of these things. He was afraid, and rightly so, Tom Randolph's a dangerous person.
There was nobody to tell. You know, Tom dealt to police officers.
He knew judges. He knew lawyers.

Speaker 5 He knew everybody that I would have turned to to say, okay, this guy's out of his mind. Somebody get me out of here.
I never had the intention to kill him Becky Ever.

Speaker 5 He developed a relationship with Becky Randolph. He started to care about her, that she was a human being.
He couldn't see himself doing it. He couldn't follow through.

Speaker 5 And that brought him to the point where he knew that he had to tell her. So he ended up calling her.

Speaker 5 And said, Becky, look at Tom's going to kill you. He's got life insurance policies in the bottom drawer of his bureau at his mother's house.
I've seen them. They're under a yellow sweater.

Speaker 5 I knew when I made that phone call, I either had to run or I was going to be dead. I just packed up and ran.

Speaker 5 My wife called me, I want to say a year, a year later. She didn't say hi.
She said she's dead.

Speaker 5 And I dropped the phone.

Speaker 8 We saw the arrest on TV. We're all just thinking that they have to find Tom guilty.
It's obvious that he's guilty.

Speaker 18 How are you feeling?

Speaker 6 Wonderful.

Speaker 9 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 4 Scott Connolly brought it back to the forefront and was able to get it to the point where Randolph was arrested for Becky's murder.

Speaker 25 Talking with Eric Tarantino, I basically confirm that what Tom's plan is, what's his involvement in it.

Speaker 25 I want to right the wrong that this wasn't a suicide, that this was a homicide.

Speaker 9 Officers took Thomas Randolph Jr. into custody after new evidence implicated him in the shooting.

Speaker 8 We saw the arrest on TV.

Speaker 8 We felt joy. Finally, Tom's going to be paying for what he did to Becky.
Finally, it's going to come to the light that he did kill Becky.

Speaker 24 I was pretty excited. I was hoping for the best.
I kind of relieved that maybe justice would be done.

Speaker 31 Randolph is suspected of concocting an elaborate scheme to kill his wife, then collect on her life insurance policy.

Speaker 13 Eric Tarantino is the prosecution's star witness.

Speaker 5 Randolph knew that Tarantino was the key witness against him. Everything for the Utah case hinged on Eric Tarantino's testimony.

Speaker 5 And Tom, of course, knew that. And so he hatched a plan to have him killed.

Speaker 5 he ended up having a conversation with what he thought was a hitman but it ended up being an undercover police officer

Speaker 5 tarantino is in protective custody he says his life is in danger for testify tom is on trial for killing becky while at the same time he's under investigation for trying to have eric tarantino killed

Speaker 13 The attorneys in the case paint vastly different views of this trial.

Speaker 31 The defense says it's suicide, not murder. But the prosecution says it's more complicated than that.

Speaker 8 This trial began in April of 89.

Speaker 8 I was in the courtroom.

Speaker 8 I remember listening to them going through the trial.

Speaker 8 We all knew Tom killed her.

Speaker 8 Becky would never have killed herself.

Speaker 8 Never.

Speaker 13 The prosecution also referred to this man's testimony. His name is Eric Tarantino, who told the court that he and Randolph rehearsed ways to kill Becky and make it look accidental.

Speaker 13 Tarantino, a former friend of Randolph, claims the murder defendant once jumped up on a bed and began singing along with the Rod Stewart song.

Speaker 13 The lyric says, or should I act quite cold and deliberate, or maybe blow out her brains with a bullet?

Speaker 8 We were shocked.

Speaker 8 I just remember feeling so much hate, you know, with Tom sitting up there.

Speaker 8 Just so much hate.

Speaker 17 The 34-year-old Randolph testified for more than two hours and in a long and rambling narrative described marriage to a woman he said was disturbed, depressed, and dependent on drugs.

Speaker 8 It was horrible because, I mean, we knew Becky was addicted to drugs, but we knew it was him that got her addicted. You got her there.
You're the one that got her addicted to it.

Speaker 8 You know she didn't commit suicide. You know you did it.

Speaker 32 KUTV's Michael Rodson is standing by now with details of tonight's verdict in Farmington. Michael?

Speaker 13 Michelle, we were just informed a few moments ago that the jury has returned a verdict.

Speaker 8 We're outside the family and we're just all very tense and we're all just thinking they have to find Tom guilty.

Speaker 8 It's obvious that he's guilty

Speaker 8 and just waiting, waiting, and then we get called back in there.

Speaker 23 The jury ruled Becky Randolph died from her own hand and not her husband.

Speaker 5 I just need to thank the jury for being so attentive.

Speaker 8 When we heard not guilty,

Speaker 8 you can't even explain how that feels. It was.

Speaker 8 It was horrible.

Speaker 24 When it came back that he wasn't guilty,

Speaker 5 that was tough.

Speaker 24 And then to be so arrogant about it was even tougher.

Speaker 13 How are you feeling?

Speaker 6 Wonderful.

Speaker 8 He's evil. He's truly evil.
He's a smart man and he manipulates people.

Speaker 8 To see my mom break down and to see my grandma and Becky's mom, it was just devastating for everybody in the family.

Speaker 13 I think it was very unfair and unjust.

Speaker 13 He's guilty.

Speaker 13 And he's just going to kill somebody else's daughter, so beware.

Speaker 25 When that verdict came in,

Speaker 25 I mean, it was like your gut just dropped out.

Speaker 6 Tom Randolph walked out.

Speaker 25 He basically gave me the, you know, middle finger, like, you know, hey, I'm going home free,

Speaker 25 but I knew I had the ace in the hole. You know, we had the conspiracy to commit murder charge, you know, against Eric Tarantino, where he wanted Tarantino killed for, you know, testifying in the case.

Speaker 6 And he wasn't going home free and ultimately pled pled guilty to it.

Speaker 25 After Tom had served his time, he went back into the Tom role.

Speaker 25 Randolph decides to sue Davis County, Clearfield PD, and Ogden PD for libel and slander.

Speaker 6 So the decision was to pay him off.

Speaker 25 He gained monetarily off that whole

Speaker 15 event.

Speaker 25 A settlement came and then he was gone.

Speaker 25 That gut feeling comes out again. God, if I would have stopped him the first time,

Speaker 6 what could I have done different?

Speaker 6 Why?

Speaker 25 Man, it's almost bringing me to tears thinking of how he destroyed so many lives

Speaker 25 and how many lives have been affected since then.

Speaker 5 You were at one time married to somebody by the name of Thomas Randolph, is that correct?

Speaker 6 Correct.

Speaker 34 He was cleaning the gun, and I wasn't very far away from him at all.

Speaker 2 And it went off.

Speaker 23 The jury ruled Becky Randolph died from her own hand and not her husband.

Speaker 5 After Randolph was acquitted for the murder of his second wife, Becky Randolph, he met his third wife, Leona. They ultimately ended up moving to Indiana.

Speaker 5 We don't know a lot about her. They were only married for about 11 months.
Then they divorced. She died approximately a decade later from cancer.

Speaker 5 Then it wasn't too long after Leona that he met his fourth wife, and that's Gaina.

Speaker 5 We are going to Nineveh, Indiana to talk to Gaina, Randolph's only other surviving wife.

Speaker 5 Hi Gana.

Speaker 27 What you doing?

Speaker 5 Hi, how you doing? Yeah.

Speaker 5 You were at one time married to somebody by the name of Thomas Randolph, is that correct? Correct. Okay, how did you meet Tom Randolph?

Speaker 29 Through

Speaker 34 an ad and date thing in the newspaper.

Speaker 5 Okay, so there's a section in the newspaper for people that kind of before the internet?

Speaker 6 Correct.

Speaker 34 We went out for a period of time, of course. I mean, he was very nice, brought flowers and all this kind of stuff, and then the next thing I know, I'm stupid enough to marry him.

Speaker 5 Alright, and you mentioned that there was an insurance policy that he had taken out on you?

Speaker 34 He'd taken it, he said that he was taking it out within a month or so.

Speaker 5 She told us it wasn't long after they were married that Randolph had gotten involved in a bar fight that resulted in a shooting with a couple of people wounded.

Speaker 34 I just remember a phone call from the police department saying that he had been arrested.

Speaker 5 So she had a friend of hers on the police department that knew a lot of the history relating to Randolph and he was communicating some of that to Gainer.

Speaker 34 Jay had told me because they were asking me all these kind of questions that they had dug up information and asked me if he'd taken out a life insurance policy on me and I told him yes that he had.

Speaker 34 And then they explained to me about an incident that happened in Utah that he had been under suspicion as far as murder there of a wife.

Speaker 34 And I had no knowledge of any of that.

Speaker 5 Now all the warning signs are going off in Gaina's head.

Speaker 34 And then shortly thereafter is when he was cleaning a gun and it had gone off.

Speaker 5 Alright, so

Speaker 5 can you tell me about that? How'd that happen?

Speaker 34 He was sitting at the dining room table and was cleaning the gun and I wasn't very far away from him at all.

Speaker 5 And it went off. About how far do you think you were between?

Speaker 5 I would say it would be the distance between him and I. Like about three feet?

Speaker 34 And it went off and it was just, you know, within a foot away from me. And it was a hole in the floor.
And he said that he didn't realize it was loaded and it went off.

Speaker 5 What did you do?

Speaker 34 Well, I mean, of course I started yelling and I was scared. And it wasn't too long after that that he went to work and I packed up my stuff and I was gone.

Speaker 34 I mean, I went to hiding basically.

Speaker 5 So he was real smart for getting out of there.

Speaker 5 As a matter of fact, we learned that he had approached a man, somebody he befriended, and then ultimately popped the question: Would you be willing to kill somebody for money?

Speaker 5 And we ended up going out to Kentucky and speaking with that man, and that was Glenn Morrison.

Speaker 5 You were describing earlier that he was kind of into guns and things like that. Yeah.
Did you ever see these guns that he had? Oh, yeah. Okay.

Speaker 5 And where did you see him at?

Speaker 5 At his house. He has them in a safe.
He carries them in a briefcase to truck with car.

Speaker 5 He mapped out everything that Tom Randolph had planned. And it was an exact match to what we had in Las Vegas with Sharon Randolph.
He asked me something about making some quick money.

Speaker 5 I needed a car, you know, he'd go, well, I can give you a car if you do

Speaker 5 to make some quick money. I said, what are you talking about? He said, well, my wife says, I got a lot of interest, but he said, shoot her and shoot me in the leg.
I said, you're on your mind, man.

Speaker 5 I said, I ain't had nothing to do with that.

Speaker 5 I'm thinking, this could be, this is the same conversation that Tom Randolph had with Mike Miller. I'm sitting here looking at Mike Miller across the table from me.

Speaker 5 If I understand correctly what you were explaining to us about this whole plan that he had, that he proposed to you, he was trying to make it look like a robbery. Yeah, where you came in

Speaker 5 and and forced him to open the safe and that you had shot the wife during this right this robbery and then shot him in the leg yeah to make and then you stole the car right as you were leaving right when he opened that safe he has a gun in there too if i did that he'd shot me and if she does shot he don't leave me no more it'd be perfect out of body

Speaker 5 no witness

Speaker 5 what he related to us as the plan that he had with Randolph was an exact match to what we had in Las Vegas. Thank you you for your hospitality.

Speaker 5 Thank you.

Speaker 5 But Glenn Morrison wasn't, he wasn't buying it. He believed that Tom Randolph would double-cross him.

Speaker 5 He probably prevented himself from being the Mike Miller of

Speaker 5 Indiana. You know what I mean?

Speaker 5 Because he figured it out. He's smart enough to see it.
He's a little bit further ahead than Mike Miller.

Speaker 4 I think what makes Thomas Randolph stand out

Speaker 4 is the

Speaker 4 calculated nature of grooming his victims and grooming his accomplices.

Speaker 4 He uses people and when he's done using them, he tosses them aside. That's who he is and that's who he will always be.

Speaker 5 Now we need to look into Tom Randolph's fifth wife, Frances Randolph. And in many ways, it was one of the creepiest.
It was one of the most difficult to stomach

Speaker 21 he just said can you give me and your mom a minute I left the room and like 45 minutes later he came out and told me that my mom passed away what's the chance that she passed away in the time that I was out of that room

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Speaker 5 You were at one time married to working down this list of Tom Randolph's wives, both living and dead.

Speaker 5 Everything's been consistent so far.

Speaker 5 We're getting this just this pattern of finding women, marrying them, getting insurance money on them, and then after a period of time, he's finding somebody to kill the wife.

Speaker 5 We're racing against the clock, in our opinion, because Randolph was free. We've got to get this guy in custody.

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Speaker 5 Now we need to look into

Speaker 5 Tom Randolph's fifth wife.

Speaker 4 The fifth wife was named Frances.

Speaker 5 We knew that Francis was dead. The question was: why? How did that happen?

Speaker 5 Her sisters lived in Edinburgh, Indiana, so Rob Wilson and I went there to speak with them.

Speaker 5 This is taking us to 502 or what's the 505 or 3101?

Speaker 28 Destination on the left in Point 3 Miles.

Speaker 5 We are in Edinburgh to meet with Carolyn and Hilda.

Speaker 5 Hello.

Speaker 5 Hi, Hilda. How are you doing?

Speaker 11 And this is my husband, Arnold.

Speaker 5 About how long before Francis and and Tom were married? Well, he kind of pushed her into marrying after she met him. He wanted to get married right off, and

Speaker 5 she had to get a divorce. So

Speaker 5 it was,

Speaker 5 I'll say, six months after they met, they married.

Speaker 5 What we learned was that Francis had a heart condition. It was serious.

Speaker 5 but not so serious that it would require immediate surgery. But Tom Randolph Randolph convinced her that she needed to get the surgery.

Speaker 5 She had surgery, come out of recovery, and was doing fine, was setting up eating, talking, and then something went wrong.

Speaker 21 My mom was my best friend.

Speaker 21 She always was right there by my side.

Speaker 5 My mom was short and really pretty

Speaker 21 and sweet, the sweetest person you've ever met.

Speaker 21 My mom moved in with Tom in Taylorsville, Indiana, and we stayed there until we moved to Clearfield, Utah.

Speaker 21 He seemed like picture-perfect dad. Put me in gymnastics, put me in cheerleading, taught me how to skate.

Speaker 21 He was like the role model dad to me.

Speaker 21 But him and my mom would slowly start fighting more and more.

Speaker 21 She had her heart surgery getting a valve replaced. And she came out of surgery and seemed like she was doing okay.

Speaker 21 She was doing fine for I don't know how many days.

Speaker 21 And then one day Tom asked me to leave the room. He just said, can you give me and your mom a minute?

Speaker 21 And I left the room in like 45 minutes later, he came out and told me that my mom passed away.

Speaker 21 And then, right after that, he held me on his knees and he was boohooing about not another wife. I can't lose another one.
And

Speaker 21 then the doctor came in, asked if he wanted an autopsy. My stepdad said no, he didn't want my mom cut up into a bunch of little pieces.

Speaker 21 And

Speaker 21 that was that. And then he had her cremated.

Speaker 21 Nothing was right. He should have had an autopsy.
What's the chance that she passed away in the time that I was out of that room?

Speaker 21 When I was just in there talking to her in 30, 45 minutes when she was just fine.

Speaker 21 It don't make sense.

Speaker 5 He told me she died on the

Speaker 5 operating tape.

Speaker 5 Frances' death was ruled not suspicious. It was considered a medical death that occurred in a medical facility post-surgery.

Speaker 5 And even though it was not ruled suspicious, Frances' sisters believed it was very suspicious.

Speaker 11 My sister was dying before she ever went into surgery. Her face was swollen.

Speaker 11 I just think she was being poisoned before she ever went in.

Speaker 28 I don't think she had a chance.

Speaker 5 There's no way for us to go back and look at maybe your suspicions of her having been poisoned or drugged or anything of that nature.

Speaker 5 We can't go back now and do an analysis to see how she's going to be. How long

Speaker 5 she had her cremated.

Speaker 11 And it didn't seem like everybody he's ever around, these women come up dead, he comes up with money.

Speaker 4 He actually profited in... not only from life insurance on her, but also he sued the hospital and was able to get some money from the hospital that way, also.

Speaker 5 We don't know the exact amount, but we heard from Francis' sisters that it could have been up to $1.2 million.

Speaker 11 And that scumbum, whatever he got, he got. So, see, every time there's money, he's always getting money.

Speaker 5 Francis' sister produced a videotape. And that videotape was of Francis basically given a last will will and testament.
You're going to show us what you have.

Speaker 11 I've never watched this because I can't, I just feel like I can't bear to watch it.

Speaker 5 Right.

Speaker 11 This is what they tell me, those that have seen it, that they can kind of hear him in the background coaching.

Speaker 5 I did watch that tape and it's obvious that Randolph was coaching Francis.

Speaker 18 You let me go ahead and do it now.

Speaker 6 Francis.

Speaker 18 And this is Francis Louis Randolph, and I'm making this tape so that people will know what I want for Rachel for myself when I pass away. I would like for Tom to raise Rachel

Speaker 18 because he's a stepdad to her and Tommy I hope you never have to look at this tape

Speaker 6 because

Speaker 18 I hope we do it and put it away because I love you too much to thank someday I'll be here.

Speaker 18 I love you, Tommy.

Speaker 5 What do you want done with yourself?

Speaker 18 And for my burial, I would like to be cremated and cut along

Speaker 18 with Tom and the place. I don't want to be separated from it.
So, please, Tom, do what you think is best because I know you do what's right for me.

Speaker 6 Who does that?

Speaker 5 Setting up a video camera and having her sit there and explain what she wants done with her body.

Speaker 5 Who would do that?

Speaker 5 So now we've gone through all of Tom Randolph's wives, both living and dead.

Speaker 4 We were very, very hopeful that we would be able to get an arrest warrant and make an arrest in this case.

Speaker 20 I worry all the time about my safety and my kids.

Speaker 5 It's the moment of truth, right?

Speaker 4 Chasing someone like Thomas Randolph,

Speaker 4 it is satisfying,

Speaker 4 but there is a level of fear that he could get away.

Speaker 4 That is a huge fear when you're conducting these investigations.

Speaker 4 We finally felt we had enough to get an arrest warrant for the murder of Sharon Randall.

Speaker 5 Today's date is September 9th

Speaker 5 and we are heading up to Dave Stanton's office to discuss the completion of the affidavit and are being ready to submit the case.

Speaker 5 Hey, Rafael.

Speaker 5 Thanks, Mike. It's the moment of truth, all right.

Speaker 5 Tarantino said that he and Randolph practiced having an accidental discharge with a rifle.

Speaker 5 We told him about what happened with our meetings in Utah when we were able to talk, you know, in depth about conversation with Eric Tarantino, Glair Morrison, and it was an exact match to what we had in Las Vegas with Sharon Randolph.

Speaker 5 And he talked about Randolph wanting Miller Miller to kill his wife.

Speaker 5 Flat out, that's what she says. Yes.
You know, one of the things I wanted to talk about today is talk over some strategies about pulling the trigger when we do grand jury versus prelim.

Speaker 19 The complexity of the case primarily was the reason that I decided to take it to the grand jury. This was going to be something that we needed witnesses from several different states to fly in.

Speaker 5 And that would take months.

Speaker 12 Nine months pregnant,

Speaker 20 going on 40 weeks.

Speaker 20 I'm

Speaker 20 short-tempered,

Speaker 18 I've lost patience,

Speaker 20 I'm losing faith.

Speaker 3 I just, I worry,

Speaker 20 I worry all the time

Speaker 20 about my

Speaker 20 safety and my kids.

Speaker 18 He's a crazy man.

Speaker 18 I think he's desperate.

Speaker 20 I think he's got a real hate for women.

Speaker 18 He's free.

Speaker 5 There's arguments over the property. Ultimately, there's decisions made and agreements made between Colleen and Randolph as to what property he can remove from the house.

Speaker 18 He was allowed to come and get just his personal belongings. I did not go.

Speaker 18 I did not want to be present for that, even though I knew the police were going to be there and the lawyers, and it would have been safe, but

Speaker 18 I couldn't see him again

Speaker 18 and watch him taking things out of my mom's house.

Speaker 18 My husband went

Speaker 18 to homicide detectives, my attorney, his attorney.

Speaker 5 We need to be careful. We're there to keep the peace, but we also knew that Tom Randolph traveled with guns.
Both parties are here now, so there still could be weapons in the house. And

Speaker 5 so we just gotta

Speaker 5 keep an eyeball on this guy while he's getting everything out of here.

Speaker 5 We're looking at a man who's planned months and months in advance to kill somebody. When Randolph came to the house, we had a surprise for him.
We're going to grand jury him for two counts of murder.

Speaker 5 I'm serving him with a Markham notice. It's called a Markham notice.
It's a notice of indictment.

Speaker 19 It is a formal procedure that is based upon Nevada law to give the target of the grand jury notice of our intent to present the case to them.

Speaker 5 I'll need to talk to you for a minute, Mr. Randolph.

Speaker 5 Do you mean served with a notice that we're indicting you for two counts of murder and conspiracy to commit murder?

Speaker 5 This is a notice that we're seeking indictment.

Speaker 5 So we'll be going to grand jury later.

Speaker 5 We're at the back of a vehicle, and Ms. reaction was pretty much, all right, all right, I just need your signature right here.

Speaker 5 He was allowed to leave.

Speaker 5 I mean, we weren't having additional contact with Randolph. All we could do was wait.

Speaker 5 Helen's round on.

Speaker 5 Katie Lynn Bayer,

Speaker 18 born September 17th.

Speaker 35 Say hi, Katie, say hi.

Speaker 18 Four weeks today, huh? She was born on Wednesday.

Speaker 21 She's a little piggy.

Speaker 18 That actually hit me the day

Speaker 18 after when she was born.

Speaker 18 My mom was so excited to have a granddaughter.

Speaker 18 She was thrilled.

Speaker 18 She loved being a grandma, but she was really hoping for a girl.

Speaker 18 So it was hard. It's very hard.

Speaker 6 It's hard now, not having her here.

Speaker 12 We miss her.

Speaker 5 So it took several months for the grand jury to come back and it is now early January, eight months after

Speaker 5 Sharon and Mike Miller were killed and we finally got the arrest warrant for for Tom Randolph.

Speaker 5 I'm telling you, I don't think the ink was dry dry and we were on our way to jump in the car

Speaker 5 and drive up to Clearfield, Utah.

Speaker 4 Thomas Randolph was living with his mother up in Utah and so we reached out to the local police department up there and got some detectives on board.

Speaker 6 That was a long drive.

Speaker 4 We drove up all almost basically all night.

Speaker 6 Did I turn here?

Speaker 4 It was freezing cold.

Speaker 22 I remember that.

Speaker 4 Not sure where it's telling me to turn. Here? There was snow and ice all over the ground.

Speaker 4 Located the residence.

Speaker 29 I'm excited, man. I'm also kind of nervous, you know.

Speaker 4 Cautiously upstick.

Speaker 5 Right now we're in Leighton having some breakfast right next to Clairfield.

Speaker 5 Right after we get done with this, we're getting some things in place and getting a team together that is going to take him into custody and get him booked into a local facility.

Speaker 14 Do we want to sit on it at all and try and wait and watch? If not, we'll set up a perimeter and call in the boys and feed them that way.

Speaker 5 Perimeter.

Speaker 5 Rob and I

Speaker 5 kind of stayed out towards the street.

Speaker 5 It didn't go as smoothly as Tom Randolph probably would have expected.

Speaker 17 Watch that side door.

Speaker 6 Hello.

Speaker 17 Can I talk to you real quick?

Speaker 14 Put your hands on your head right now.

Speaker 6 Put your hands on your head right now. I'm on your head.
Keep on it. Watch it.
Watch. Watch.
Let me see. Come out.

Speaker 5 You could see that he kept his right hand behind the door frame and he refused to show his hands.

Speaker 6 Taser, let me see you. Taser, take it.

Speaker 6 You're on the ground.

Speaker 6 On the ground.

Speaker 6 On your belt.

Speaker 6 Hands behind your back. My hand.
Oh, my God, you fool.

Speaker 6 What are you doing?

Speaker 33 You're under arrest.

Speaker 6 I understand it.

Speaker 6 Oh,

Speaker 6 I'm... Oh.

Speaker 6 Jesus. Oh.

Speaker 33 Hold the pants up. Let's get him up.

Speaker 6 Sketch him out.

Speaker 6 Oh,

Speaker 6 oh, my God. Stand up and walk.

Speaker 6 Stand up. You shit with f.

Speaker 6 Get him out of the house.

Speaker 6 Walk. Can't let me

Speaker 6 get.

Speaker 6 Walk. Uh-oh.

Speaker 6 Walk it slow. Let's walk.

Speaker 6 Jesus.

Speaker 6 Hold on.

Speaker 14 That's double coverage.

Speaker 6 But I'm keeping taser on, so.

Speaker 5 Tom Randolph was arrested for the murders of Sharon Randolph and Mike Miller.

Speaker 5 I loved it. Rob and I were...

Speaker 5 I was so glad that it went the way it did.

Speaker 4 It was pretty satisfying to finally see that happen, knowing the type of person he is and predator that he really is.

Speaker 14 You should have shown him your hands, brother.

Speaker 26 I couldn't let go, you stupid. I tried to tell you that.
I couldn't have made it much plainer, could I?

Speaker 26 I'm disabled. I can't let go of the door.

Speaker 5 Okay.

Speaker 33 We're going to run him to the hospital and get a medical clearance because he says I can't walk from the arrest. We're going to cover CYA.

Speaker 6 That's

Speaker 33 we're going to get the medical release real quick at the hospital after we get that. Then we'll go to the jail.
So

Speaker 5 I do remember his mother coming out. She approached the vehicle and she seemed very confused as to what was going on.

Speaker 6 What did she say?

Speaker 7 He refused to show his hands when he was ordered to do so and to put his hands on top of his head.

Speaker 26 I think that was a little rough there when I told you I couldn't let go of the door. I was holding myself up.

Speaker 14 Thomas, you understand that I was there to arrest you on homicide warrants, correct?

Speaker 26 You seem to speak pretty good English right now.

Speaker 13 Yeah.

Speaker 14 You understand I was there to arrest you on a homicide warrant, right?

Speaker 26 I don't remember me resisting. I don't.

Speaker 14 Are you a gun enthusiast? Do you have guns?

Speaker 6 Of course I've got guns.

Speaker 1 Okay, you have to.

Speaker 26 Did I have one in your face?

Speaker 15 No, but you had one in mind.

Speaker 14 Thomas, I'm not taking any chances when you won't show me your hands.

Speaker 1 When you don't show me your hands, when I tell you,

Speaker 14 your left hand was on the door, your right hand was behind the door frame, and I don't know if you have a gun in that right hand.

Speaker 6 That's what happened.

Speaker 14 That's why you were tased, and that's why you were brought out the way you were. You failed to follow instructions.

Speaker 7 That's what happened.

Speaker 26 Yeah, you're jerking me off my feet, but that's okay.

Speaker 25 That's how they all do it.

Speaker 14 My safety is paramount.

Speaker 14 You understand?

Speaker 5 It's a completely circumstantial murder case.

Speaker 8 So they got, oh, they got just somebody saying this, somebody's saying that.

Speaker 18 It's gotta happen. She has to be stopped.

Speaker 5 This is the Tommy Show, live from Las Vegas.

Speaker 5 There was a lot of women. There was a lot of weapons.
Hi, good morning, counsel. We lose this guy, guys.

Speaker 5 I have nothing to hide.

Speaker 19 That was a f you to everybody in that courtroom.

Speaker 35 And that you send.

Speaker 35 Trouble gonna come.

Speaker 5 I won't be acquitted. I've told you this from day one, have I not?

Speaker 6 Gonna come.

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