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For the Love of Money: The Crimes of Randy Roth, FINALE

True Crime Campfire

True Crime Campfire

True Crime, History, Society & Culture

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In Part Two of this story last week, we learned how serial husband and waste of DNA Randy Roth seduced, married, and almost certainly murdered his second wife Jan for a life-insurance payout, and tried and failed to use the same scheme on wife number three, Donna Clift. And if you already hate Randy, that’s only going to get worse after the tragic conclusion to his story this week.Sources: Fatal Charm, Carlton SmithA Rose For Her Grave, Ann Rulehttps://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/shes-got-her-name-back-teenager-murdered-in-1977-finally-identified-with-new-dna-technique-and-genetic-genealogy/Follow us, campers!Patreon (join to get all episodes ad-free, at least a day early, an extra episode a month, and a free sticker!): https://patreon.com/TrueCrimeCampfirehttps://www.truecrimecampfirepod.com/Facebook: True Crime CampfireInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/truecrimecampfire/?hl=enTwitter: @TCCampfire https://twitter.com/TCCampfireEmail: truecrimecampfirepod@gmail.comMERCH! https://true-crime-campfire.myspreadshop.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-campfire--4251960/support. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, campers, grab your marshmallows and gather around the true crime campfire.

0:04.8

We're your camp counselors.

0:06.2

I'm Katie.

0:06.8

And I'm Whitney.

0:08.1

And we're here to tell you a true story that is way stranger than fiction.

0:12.0

We're roasting murderers and marshmallows around the true crime campfire.

0:20.1

In part two of this story last week, we learned how serial husband and waste of DNA, Randy Roth,

0:26.1

seduced, married, and almost certainly murdered his second wife, Jan, for a life insurance payout,

0:31.6

and tried and failed to use the same scheme on wife number three, Donna Clift.

0:36.8

And if you already hate Randy, that's only going

0:39.2

to get worse after the tragic conclusion to his story this week. This is the finale of For the

0:44.7

Love of Money, the crimes of Randy Roth. Donna Clift, Randy's third wife, was now out of his life.

1:00.1

Well, almost.

1:01.8

Not long after his divorce from Donna, Randy and Ben Goodwin were in a bar one night when one of Donna's friends recognized Randy.

1:09.2

She stopped dead, then slapped him dead in the face, said, you child-abusing, son of a bitch.

1:16.9

Randy burst into tears.

1:19.7

He was like, nobody's more important in my life than Greg.

1:23.4

Greg is my whole life.

1:25.3

Well, maybe you should stop torturing him then. By the way, damn, Donna's friend, like, I don't condone slapping anybody, okay? I really don't. I prefer to carefully dismantle my enemies with my devastating wit, but damn, you know, Donna's girl's standing on business over here. By the spring of 1986, Randy was fishing again. Mary Jo Phillips was

1:47.7

separated from her husband and in the process of getting divorced. She had five kids who split time

1:53.7

between her and their father, and one evening she'd just dropped them off at home after a trip to the

1:58.8

beach and went out to Albertson's grocery store

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