Murders of Sharon Causse and Michael Miller

On May 8, 2008, Sharon Causse Randolph died of a single gunshot wound to the head inside the Las Vegas-area home she shared with her husband, Thomas Randolph. Michael Miller, a handyman Randolph had befriended months earlier, was shot five times, twice in the head, in the garage of the same house.

Randolph told police that when the couple came home, his wife went into the house while he parked in the garage. He said he found her shot in the hallway, took a handgun, struggled with a masked intruder and shot him several times, then fired two more shots into the man's head in the garage. He later identified the man as Miller.

Prosecutors argued a different account. They said Randolph had taken out a life insurance policy on his wife early in their relationship, arranged for Miller to kill her in a staged robbery, and then shot Miller. Randolph stood to gain $360,000 in insurance money from her death.

Randolph was charged with conspiracy to commit murder and two counts of murder with the use of a deadly weapon, and the state sought the death penalty. In 2017 a jury convicted him on all counts and sentenced him to death. On December 10, 2020, the Nevada Supreme Court reversed the convictions and ordered a new trial. It held that the trial court should not have admitted evidence about the 1986 death of Randolph's second wife in Utah, a case in which he had been tried and acquitted of murder, because the risk of unfair prejudice outweighed its value.

The retrial began in August 2023, and a Clark County jury again convicted Randolph of conspiracy to commit murder and two counts of murder with the use of a deadly weapon. On April 4, 2024, District Judge Tierra Jones sentenced him to 60 years to life in prison, with the terms running consecutively. At sentencing Randolph maintained his innocence, telling the court, "I didn't kill Sharon."

On appeal, Randolph argued that the 15 years before his 2023 conviction violated his right to a speedy trial and that statements he made during a videotaped walkthrough of the house with detectives should have been suppressed. In a 10-page order issued in 2026, the Nevada Supreme Court affirmed the conviction. It found that the state was not responsible for the delays and that Randolph had agreed on video that he was taking part in the walkthrough of his "own free will." Randolph, 71, is serving his sentence at Lovelock Correctional Center.