65 Facts About Randy Roth

Randy Roth was born on December 26,1954 and is a convicted murderer and thief from Washington.

Randy Roth was convicted of the 1991 murder of his fourth wife, Cynthia Baumgartner Roth, and he was suspected of murdering his second wife, Janis Roth, in 1981, but was never tried.

Randy Roth claimed the activities that led to the deaths were the ideas of his deceased wives and he had the bodies cremated as quickly as could be arranged.

Randy Roth was convicted of stealing in the form of defrauding insurers and the Social Security Administration.

Randy Roth was born December 26,1954, one of five children of Gordon and Lizabeth Roth.

Randy Roth apparently bonded with his father more closely and remained in touch with him throughout his life while snubbing his mother, telling friends she was dead or mentally unstable.

In 1977, David Randy Roth was charged with the murder of a hitchhiking girl he picked up.

Friends of Randy Roth would describe his extreme misogyny and dislike of women or anything feminine.

Randy Roth was dominating and controlling of his girlfriends, and his male friends were only those who toadied to him.

Randy Roth enjoyed fixing cars and driving them recklessly on country back roads.

Randy Roth was disappointed at his time in the Marines as he ended up serving as a file clerk in Okinawa rather than the combat action he'd fantasized about.

Randy Roth's parents let Roth live in an empty house they were selling, but she broke off the relationship after finding another woman's purse in the house.

Charges related to the previous stick-up were dropped, and Randy Roth served only two weeks in jail.

Shortly after being released, Randy Roth married the other woman he'd been seeing.

In early 1981, Randy Roth met Janis Miranda, a divorced single parent, and they married that March.

Randy Roth had come from an impoverished upbringing in Texas, raised by a mother who labored to support her several children after their alcoholic father abandoned them.

Randy Roth insisted on ample life insurance for his new wife as they were buying a house together and he told her he wanted to be able to pay the mortgage if the worst should come to pass.

Police and rescue workers were unable to locate the body for several hours after the fall, and it was later determined that it would have been virtually impossible for her to have fallen from where Randy Roth claimed the accident occurred.

Randy Roth arranged the same day to have his wife cremated and filed a claim on her life insurance policy early the next morning, while failing to contact her friends and family and inform them of her death.

Randy Roth planned to adopt her daughter Jalina, however Janis had already arranged that the girl was to be raised by her family in Texas should something happen to her.

Randy Roth moved to a new house in Mountlake Terrace, where he befriended his neighbor Ben Goodwin and his family.

The Roths and Goodwins remained good friends for most of the following six years, but Randy secretly seduced their teenage daughter, Brittany, with the promise of eventually marrying her when she was 18.

Randy Roth told numerous fictitious tales of serving in Vietnam, making his brief stint as a Marine Corps file clerk appear as if he had been in action similar to movies like Hamburger Hill.

In 1985, Randy Roth married twenty-one-year old Donna Clift, another divorced mother with a small child.

Randy Roth quickly talked her into marrying him, but as usual didn't tell her his age or much about his life beyond various contradictory stories.

When Randy Roth proposed adopting Brittany and becoming her legal guardian, Donna refused.

Randy Roth went out with Donna alone on an inflatable raft, which he attempted to steer through the rapids into sharp rocks.

Randy Roth became engaged to her, but abruptly broke it off when he found that she'd been treated for cancer once before and wasn't insurable.

Randy Roth remained single until 1990, when he met Cynthia Loucks Baumgartner at one of his son's Little League games.

Since she refused to marry a divorced man due to her religious beliefs, Randy Roth told her nothing about his marriages except that Janis Miranda had accidentally fallen to her death.

Randy Roth quickly put up his house for sale and purchased a big new home in Woodinville where he moved with his new enlarged family.

Cynthia gradually became aware that Randy Roth felt a need to control every aspect of her life, and did not want her doing anything on her own.

Randy Roth was physically and mentally abusive to all three boys.

Several hours later Randy Roth returned with an unresponsive Cynthia lying in the raft.

Randy Roth was treated at the scene, but all efforts were unsuccessful and after being taken to a hospital, was pronounced dead.

Randy Roth claimed that the wake from a speedboat had caused the raft to flip while Cynthia was swimming next to it and she had drowned as a result.

Once again Randy Roth failed to inform family and friends of the death, but immediately went about trying to collect on a large life insurance policy, nearly $400,000, that he had taken out on his wife.

The investigators came to the conclusion that Randy Roth wanted a much more lavish lifestyle than he could afford on a mechanic's income, with expensive homes, multiple cars, and various other expensive toys for himself and his son.

Randy Roth had discovered a talent for seducing single mothers with money, then disposing of them to fund his lifestyle.

Lori Baker, a long time friend of Cynthia's, discovered that her will and other possessions were missing from her safe deposit box, and that Randy Roth was the last person to have accessed the box, two days after Cynthia's death.

Randy Roth had planned to adopt Cynthia's sons and raise them as his own while collecting survivor's benefits for them and he was surprised and outraged to learn that she'd named Lori Baker as the legal guardian of them in the event of her death.

When Baker came to collect the children's belongings, Randy Roth let them into the house only reluctantly, would not let them take some of their possessions and proceeded to rant about how they'd "ruined" his scenario and he wouldn't have enough money to keep up his house payments.

Randy Roth could spend all his free time buying, selling, and fixing cars, and racing.

Shortly after Tyson and Rylie went to live with Lori Baker, Randy Roth put the Woodinville home back on the market at a lower price than he'd paid for it, in an apparent desire to unload it as quickly as possible.

Randy Roth talked of divorcing Roth, but Baker said she would have never carried through on it because of her religious beliefs.

Randy Roth had them watch graphic war movies like Hamburger Hill and Full Metal Jacket.

Randy Roth started getting rid of Cynthia's belongings the day after her death and urged them to not be upset over anything.

Randy Roth was not happy at learning that he wouldn't get custody of Tyson and Rylie and when the latter showed up with Lori Baker to collect theirs and Cynthia's belongings, he only grudgingly let them into the house.

Randy Roth became angrier and angrier as their visit progressed and wouldn't let the boys take some of their things.

Whatever they did get from Randy Roth had been jammed into trash bags and in many cases crushed and damaged.

Meanwhile, the Goodwins told investigators about Randy Roth's having seduced their daughter and of a staged burglary he'd conducted on his own house in 1988 for insurance money, but had told nobody about this before because they were afraid of him.

Randy Roth had carried on an affair with his son's babysitter for years, but her husband did nothing either for the same reason.

Randy Roth's story had not quite made sense, he had not seemed like he was particularly upset that his wife was dead, but there was no direct evidence of foul play and the body had been speedily cremated.

Randy Roth had a large collection of military uniforms, plaques, medals, magazines, and books about the Vietnam War, some of which had fresh receipts from stores where he'd purchased them.

Investigators discovered that Randy Roth had telephoned a friend just after being arrested and the friend had already removed further evidence at his behest.

Randy Roth had lied to the interviewer at the Social Security office about Cynthia, claiming she had divorced her first husband.

Randy Roth was visibly thinner and meeker looking than before and he appeared detached and lacking in emotion throughout the proceedings.

Eyewitnesses from Lake Sammamish described Randy Roth slowly paddling the raft back to the beach, not appearing panicked and not signaling for help until he had beached the raft, despite the fact that lifeguards were warning him not to bring the raft into the designated swimming area.

Jalina Miranda, daughter of Janis Randy Roth, described how her mother had shown her a hidden envelope with money in it only a few days before her fatal fall from Beacon Rock.

Randy Roth told her daughter that the money was for her and that she was to take it if anything happened to her.

Mary Jo Phillips told how Randy Roth had suddenly dumped her after finding that she was uninsurable.

Randy Roth eventually took the stand and gave more than 20 hours of testimony over the course of a week.

The financially strapped Skamania County, where Janis Randy Roth had died, had stated they would not pursue a conviction for that death if Randy Roth was sentenced to more than fifty years.

Randy Roth was sentenced to fifty years for the murder and one year for the theft charges and was therefore never charged with the death of Janis Roth.

Lori Baker, the friend named guardian of Cynthia Randy Roth's sons, filed a lawsuit to bar Randy Roth or his family from benefiting financially from either insurance payments or the sale of the couple's former home.