Netflix Quietly Added a Chilling 90-Minute True-Crime Documentary — and Viewers Say the Six-Marriage Case Is Completely ‘Insane’

Netflix has quietly added a true-crime documentary built around a case so strange that even the journalists who investigated it struggled to believe where the story would lead.

Running for more than 90 minutes, The Widower: ’Til Death Do Us Part examines the life of Thomas Randolph — a man who married six times, lost four of his wives to death and eventually became the centre of a years-long murder investigation.

The documentary arrived on Netflix on September 30, bringing together interviews, police evidence, archival footage and Randolph’s own account of a case filled with suspicious deaths and extraordinary legal twists.

Six Marriages and Four Dead Wives

Randolph first married when he was just 20 years old.

Over the decades that followed, he would marry five more times.

Four of those women died.

Those circumstances eventually earned Randolph the nickname the Black Widower, but the documentary’s central focus is the death of his sixth wife, Sharon Randolph.

In 2008, Sharon was found fatally shot inside the couple’s home.

Another man, Michael Miller, was also killed.

Randolph initially told authorities that an intruder had entered the house.

But investigators began noticing details that they believed did not fit his version of events.

A Chilling 911 Call Opens the Door to the Case

The documentary revisits the immediate aftermath of Sharon’s death, including Randolph’s emergency call.

“My wife’s been shot,” he can be heard telling 911, before adding that he believed she had been shot in the head.

From there, investigators began pulling apart the circumstances surrounding the killings.

The deeper they looked into Randolph’s past, the more complicated the story became.

His previous marriages and the deaths surrounding some of them became part of an investigation that would continue through years of courtroom battles.

The documentary’s official synopsis describes a journalist and detective attempting to uncover the truth about a killer whose charm concealed “a trail of failed marriages and suspicious deaths.”

The Case Took an Extraordinary Legal Journey

Randolph’s path through the courts was anything but straightforward.

According to the supplied report, he was ultimately found guilty of two counts of murder following a retrial in 2023 in connection with the deaths of Sharon Randolph and Michael Miller.

He was sentenced to a minimum of 60 years behind bars.

The documentary also states that his latest appeal was denied in September 2026.

But Randolph continues to maintain his innocence.

Speaking in the documentary, he describes himself as a “nice guy” who can be cocky and flashy, while insisting those personality traits do not make him a murderer.

That clash between Randolph’s own version of himself and the evidence examined by investigators forms a major part of the documentary.

True-Crime Viewers Are Already Fascinated

The case isn’t completely unfamiliar to dedicated true-crime followers.

Dateline previously investigated Randolph, although one viewer noted that the earlier coverage ended while his case was still before the Nevada Supreme Court, leaving audiences without a definitive conclusion at the time.

Now the Netflix documentary takes the story further.

Reaction to its trailer quickly showed how much interest remains around the case.

One viewer called the investigation “insane,” while others said they were already committed to watching after seeing the preview.

Another reaction described the documentary as particularly chilling because it doesn’t unfold like a conventional horror story. Instead, the unsettling material comes from real interviews, police evidence and footage collected across years of investigation.

Netflix’s Latest True-Crime Story Is Stranger Than Fiction

There is no elaborate fictional villain at the centre of this story.

Instead, there are six marriages, four dead wives, a double killing inside a home, conflicting accounts and a legal battle stretching across years.

And at the centre of everything is Randolph himself, continuing to insist that he is innocent despite his murder convictions.

For true-crime viewers, that combination makes The Widower: ’Til Death Do Us Part difficult to ignore.

More than 90 minutes of interviews, evidence and unexpected courtroom developments attempt to unravel how one man’s complicated marital history became connected to one of the most disturbing murder investigations featured on Netflix.