A new true crime phenomenon has captured the attention of Netflix subscribers since Wednesday, September 30, 2026. Directed by Chris Smith (Tiger King), the documentary film Le Veuf : Jusqu'à ce que la mort retraces the chilling history of Thomas Randolph. The film explores what has become of the man known as "the black widow," how the legal saga that lasted nearly thirty years concluded, and whether he is still alive or imprisoned. To understand the conclusion of Le Veuf : Jusqu'à ce que la mort, available on Netflix, one must trace the life of Thomas Randolph, marked by a methodical criminal pattern spanning several decades. The case began in 1986 with the death of his second wife, Becky Gault, found shot in the head. Although the death was initially classified as a suicide, allowing Randolph to collect over $500,000 in life insurance, he was eventually charged with murder but was acquitted in 1989 due to insufficient physical evidence. Despite this first high-profile trial, suspicious deaths continued to accumulate around Thomas Randolph. His fourth wife, Francis, died in 2004 following surgical complications, followed by his fifth wife, Leona Stapleton, officially dying of liver cancer. In both cases, the speed with which Randolph cremated the bodies, claimed life insurance policies, and disposed of personal belongings raised suspicion and anger among families, although no immediate legal action was taken. The turning point came in May 2008 with the murder of his sixth wife, Sharon Causse, shot at their Las Vegas home. Thomas Randolph claimed he had surprised an intruder, Michael Miller, and killed him in self-defense after Miller shot his wife. However, meticulous police and journalistic investigations revealed a different reality: Randolph had hired Miller to stage a false burglary and kill Sharon before shooting his own accomplice to eliminate the sole witness. Arrested in January 2009, Thomas Randolph entered an endless legal saga. Initially sentenced to death in 2017, the judgment was overturned in 2020 by the Supreme Court of Nevada due to a procedural error, as the court deemed the jurors should not have been informed of his 1986 trial for the murder of Becky Gault. A second trial finally began in 2023. After the hearings, Thomas Randolph was again found guilty of two counts of first-degree murder (for Sharon Causse and Michael Miller) as well as conspiracy to commit murder. On April 4, 2024, the verdict was delivered: the "black widow" escaped the death penalty but received a 60-year prison sentence without the possibility of parole for many decades. Today, at 71 years old, Thomas Randolph is alive but definitively incarcerated. He is currently serving his sentence at the Lovelock Correctional Center, a high-security prison located in the state of Nevada. Given his advanced age and the minimum duration of his sentence, he will spend the rest of his life in prison, bringing an end to a case that haunted the American judicial system for nearly three decades.