Where Is Gayna Allmon Now? Tom Randolph’s Fourth Wife Explained

Gayna Allmon Now: What Happened to Tom Randolph’s Fourth Wife?

Gayna Allmon had already walked away from Tom Randolph by the time his complicated marital history began drawing serious attention from investigators. The fourth woman to marry Randolph, Allmon became an important witness years later when detectives revisited the deaths surrounding him, and her account offered a glimpse into a marriage she had once believed was a fresh start. After learning about the death of Randolph’s second wife, Becky Gault, and experiencing a frightening gun incident herself, Allmon decided she had seen enough and left. 

Gayna was from Nineveh, Indiana, and had already been through a divorce when she decided to try dating again in the mid-1990s. In 1995, she came across a newspaper advertisement for Thomas “Tom” Randolph, and the two eventually met. According to Gayna’s later account, Randolph initially came across as attentive and charming, bringing her flowers and saying the sort of things she wanted to hear. It was hardly the opening chapter anyone would expect from a marriage that would later become part of a much darker investigation.

The pair married in October 1995, with Gayna believing she was starting something new. She later told investigators that Randolph had taken out life insurance policies in her name, although that was not what immediately caused her concern. At the time, there was no obvious reason for her to think that her new husband’s past would eventually become a major part of her own story.

That changed after an incident involving a firearm brought police into the picture. Gayna recalled that officers later told her about Becky Gault, Randolph’s second wife. Randolph had previously faced trial over Gault’s death and was acquitted, while her death had been treated as a suicide. Gayna said she had not known about that part of Randolph’s history when she married him. Finding out about it understandably changed how she viewed the man she had married.

By July 1997, Gayna and Randolph were divorced. But her concerns about him did not simply disappear with the paperwork. When investigators returned to her story in 2008 while examining the death of Randolph’s sixth wife, Sharon Randolph, Gayna described another incident that had stayed with her.

According to Gayna, Randolph was cleaning a gun one day when it fired at close range, with the bullet travelling through the floor. Randolph reportedly told her it had been an accident because he did not realise the firearm was loaded. Gayna, however, said she did not believe the explanation. Once Randolph left for work, she packed her belongings and left the home. It was a fairly decisive exit, and thankfully, unlike most dramatic television departures, she did not stick around for a sequel.

Years later, Gayna's account became relevant in court. During Randolph’s second trial in 2017, Gayna Mudge Allmon testified against her former husband. She said she believed the shooting incident had not been accidental and suspected Randolph had intended to kill her. Her testimony became part of the broader picture prosecutors presented about Randolph and the events surrounding his marriages.

As for where Gayna Allmon is now, the information provided indicates that she built a life well away from Randolph. She has been in a domestic partnership with Thomas Bowers since August 2000, and the pair live together in Mooresville, Indiana. Gayna has also referred to herself as the “Queen of Hummingbird Retreat”, suggesting a quieter life centred on her own home and interests rather than the extraordinary legal history attached to her former husband.

Family also appears to remain important to Gayna. She has maintained close relationships with her siblings Ronald Mudge, Sandy Hysell and Julia Brill, while the family has also remembered their brother, Steven R. Mudge, who died in February 2012. Much of Gayna’s present-day life remains private, but the available details point to a woman who moved forward and established a long-term relationship after leaving Randolph.

The most striking part of Gayna Allmon’s story is not simply that she was one of Randolph’s wives, but that she got out before becoming another entry in the tragic history surrounding his marriages. Her account also shows how information can arrive long after someone has made a major personal decision: she married Randolph without knowing about Becky Gault’s death, then later reassessed what she thought she knew about him. 

There is an uncomfortable irony in how ordinary the beginning sounds — a newspaper advert, flowers, compliments and a new marriage — before everything became part of a criminal investigation. Gayna ultimately chose distance, privacy and a different life, which makes her later court testimony all the more significant. Her story leaves plenty to think about, especially the warning signs she described in hindsight. What do you make of Gayna’s decision to leave, and how her story fits into the wider Randolph case?