THE WIFE SLAYER
MONSTERS OF DEATH ROW
THOMAS Randolph would have you believe he’s a hero.
According to his version of the events of May 8, 2008, he awoke in the night at his home in Las Vegas, Nevada, having heard gunshots.
There on the floor he found his beloved wife, Sharon Clausse, surrounded by an ever-expanding puddle of blood caused by a gunshot blast to the head.
Randolph described it as “the grossest thing I’ve ever seen”.
And there in the hallway was a masked intruder. Randolph gave chase, pursuing the “attacker” into his garage before shooting him dead.
He told police: “I don’t remember if I saw the handle in his sweatshirt, or if I saw the handle in his pants, but he was doing something – he was going for something.
“He kind of rushed up on me a little bit and that’s when I just pushed him, boom boom boom.”
In a recorded phone call to police shortly after the incident, he’d screamed at the operator: “My wife’s been shot! There’s blood everywhere! Oh God, Sharon...” Sounds convincing, doesn’t it? But the truth of this tragic event is that Randolph orchestrated the entire thing.
Too weak to kill his own wife himself, he’d arranged for a hitman – his friend Michael Miller – to do the dirty deed instead, and he wanted to make it look like a burglary gone wrong.
But Randolph knew there could be no witnesses… no flies in the ointment.
And so he not only set in motion the murder of his own partner, he then brutally gunned down the man he’d hired to fulfil this heinous plot.
Having been handed a death sentence by the State of Nevada in July this year, one of Sharon’s closest friends, Sandra Miner, rejoiced at the punishment, saying: “If he got the death sentence twice, and if they could resurrect him, he deserves to be killed a second time.”
Sharon’s daughter, Colleen Beyer, added: “It’s been way too long. It hurts every day.
“I feel that’s really what he deserves. He’s a monster. He’s one evil, evil monster.”
So what actually drove Randolph – a drug dealer and a handyman – to kill the woman he married?
Four life insurance
IN COURT: Thomas Randolph
DEATH SENTENCE: Evil Thomas Randolph was married six times policies worth a total of £280,000, that’s what.
And, more amazingly, this wasn’t the first time Randolph had seen a wife die in mysterious circumstances.
In 1983 he divorced his first missus, with whom he has one child.
Just a day after the divorce was finalised, he married Becky Gault.
Three years later, Becky – a cocaine user – was found dead in bed, a single gunshot wound to her head and a pistol in her hand.
At first, the cause of death seemed clear cut.
But detectives were not convinced it was a simple suicide.
Having learned how Randolph pocketed £500k in life insurance from Becky’s demise, they charged him with murder.
It didn’t look good for him – not only had he lined his pockets, a key witness – a man named Eric Tarantino – testified that Randolph had tried to hire him to kill Becky.
Randolph made Eric rehearse different ways to make her death look like an accident or a suicide – including him setting fire to their trailer, a car crash, rolling over her with a car at a campsite, a hunting accident, pushing