Safari Story

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Speaker 5 They were a great couple, the power couple.

Speaker 6 She was a good hunter, a good shot. She would never mishandle a firearm that way.

Speaker 8 Never.

Speaker 9 They had just just finished their safari.

Speaker 10 You hear a gunshot.

Speaker 11 We had their gunshots.

Speaker 9 There are people in that room within seconds.

Speaker 12 They see Larry hysterical in shock.

Speaker 13 Larry said that Bianca was packing the shotgun at a discharge.

Speaker 14 They ruled it an accident.

Speaker 15 Yes, they did.

Speaker 15 Some of Bianca's friends are saying there's something going on here. Larry's been having an affair.

Speaker 17 Did you do this? You know, I just didn't want it to be true.

Speaker 18 My heart was telling me that, no, there's no way that Larry could do something like this.

Speaker 20 You happened to overhear something.

Speaker 18 Yes. It was a shocking moment.

Speaker 6 I knew in my heart what had happened.

Speaker 15 You think this was planned? I do.

Speaker 22 The perfect place for a murder.

Speaker 6 Almost.

Speaker 23 No one could have imagined that it would happen here,

Speaker 25 halfway around the world,

Speaker 26 where the elephants roam,

Speaker 4 zebras run free,

Speaker 26 and the hippos patrol the waters.

Speaker 29 In the wild, untamed heart of Africa, that is Zambia.

Speaker 31 A place teeming with some of the world's most exotic wildlife.

Speaker 35 Some Some people come here to photograph big game.

Speaker 37 Others come to hunt.

Speaker 38 Especially here in Zambia's massive Kafui National Park.

Speaker 6 It is very special.

Speaker 6 Africa on its own is a special place.

Speaker 34 Betsy Wonkey is a world traveler and hunter who has been to Africa on Safari several times.

Speaker 6 When you go out to Zambia, not only are the animals phenomenal, but it's just the whole atmosphere.

Speaker 6 Africa is one of those places that draws you back.

Speaker 43 Among those who kept coming back, especially to Kafui National Park, were Betsy's close friend, Bianca Rudolph, and her husband Larry, a prominent dentist and big game hunter from Pittsburgh.

Speaker 7 They loved the people there.

Speaker 6 They love the animals there. The hunting was second to none, so it doesn't surprise me that they wanted to go back so many times.

Speaker 46 They loved it so much they had their own cabin built at the hunting camp.

Speaker 48 They did. They did.

Speaker 41 Right on the banks of the Kafui River, Bianca and Larry's own private little paradise, in the middle of paradise.

Speaker 32 And it was here that they returned in 2016 for the last time.

Speaker 42 It was September, prime season for hunting.

Speaker 34 The Rudolphs got a hunting permit, which is only legal in certain sections of Kafui National Park.

Speaker 38 The rest of the park is set aside for wildlife conservation.

Speaker 50 They hoped to bring home a leopard.

Speaker 52 But on this safari, only Bianca would be hunting.

Speaker 40 Larry was there to assist and observe.

Speaker 33 Over the course of nearly two weeks, Bianca and Larry scoured the massive park in search of that elusive leopard.

Speaker 50 Spencer Kokoma is an experienced game scout who accompanied the Rudolphs.

Speaker 56 He knows the park well, along with many of its best hunting spots.

Speaker 11 I thought maybe it is going to be a very good hunting, a successive hunting.

Speaker 55 How experienced was Bianca?

Speaker 11 Bianca, she was very experienced. There is very few hunters who can kill maybe some animals with just a single shot.

Speaker 21 With one shot? Yes.

Speaker 57 Were you impressed?

Speaker 11 I was very impressed.

Speaker 6 She was a good hunter. She was a good shot.
She could handle a gun as well, if not better, than most of the men I know.

Speaker 32 Larry was also an experienced hunter and brought both a rifle and a shotgun on the trip.

Speaker 40 But on this safari, he was all about supporting Bianca in her quest.

Speaker 42 Godfrey Nekoube was the camp manager who maintained the Rudolph's cabin and got to know them.

Speaker 48 They were a good couple.

Speaker 58 Very humble, especially with Bianca.

Speaker 7 Did she seem happy to be out here in the wilderness?

Speaker 11 She looked happy, cheerful.

Speaker 11 They seemed to be happy because every time early in the morning when you want to start off going for a hunt, they start hugging each other, kissing each other.

Speaker 11 It seemed as if it's a very good marriage.

Speaker 41 But the hunting wasn't so good.

Speaker 60 As the safari stretched into October, Bianca's dream of bagging her prized leopard faded.

Speaker 57 So she never got her male leopard?

Speaker 11 Yeah, she never got your mail.

Speaker 61 Was she disappointed?

Speaker 11 Yeah, she was very disappointed, but she wasn't annoyed.

Speaker 20 After all, the safari was still exciting.

Speaker 37 But now, after almost two weeks in Zambia, the Rudolphs were eager to return to the States for the wedding of their nephew.

Speaker 28 Just before dawn on a cool, clear October morning, the Rudolphs were up early packing for their long flight home.

Speaker 23 Godfrey was waiting near the cabin to say goodbye when suddenly he heard an unmistakable sound echo across the camp.

Speaker 58 We heard a gun bang and a yelling voice.

Speaker 11 We were very surprised because it was very close.

Speaker 28 The shot was not only close, it came directly from Larry and Bianca's cabin.

Speaker 11 I just decided to start off

Speaker 11 to the direction where the gunshot has been head.

Speaker 64 You should not be hearing a gunshot at this point.

Speaker 11 I was not hoping to hear a gunshot because we have already finished hunting.

Speaker 65 Yes, the hunt was over, but the mystery was just beginning.

Speaker 33 Something horrible had happened inside Bianca and Larry's cabin.

Speaker 38 Something so tragic, so inexplicable, that the investigation would span two continents, three countries, and take the next six years to solve.

Speaker 67 A single gunshot at dawn.

Speaker 42 What had happened inside that cabin?

Speaker 69 It must have been such a shock to come back in here and see that.

Speaker 11 That's exactly. I was very shocked.

Speaker 68 A wife on the floor, a husband in agony.

Speaker 11 You're saying, what am I going to tell my children?

Speaker 7 It was dawn in Zambia's Kafui National Park.

Speaker 59 Its serenity had suddenly been shattered by a single gunshot

Speaker 32 and a frantic scream coming from Larry and Bianca Rudolph's cabin.

Speaker 32 Within seconds, Game Scout Spencer Kokoma rushed inside.

Speaker 11 When I entered the cabin, I saw Bianca Rudolph. She was lying here.

Speaker 69 It must have been such a shock to come back in here and see that.

Speaker 11 Exactly. I was very shocked.

Speaker 24 Bianca lay in a pool of blood.

Speaker 32 Next to her was a shotgun still in its case, which was partially unzipped.

Speaker 23 There was a hole blown open at the end of the case from a shot that went through it.

Speaker 28 Minutes later, camp manager Godfrey Nekube also arrived at the cabin.

Speaker 57 Did you think that maybe she was alive at first?

Speaker 58 Yeah, I said maybe I can do something, but immediately I saw the wound, I knew that there's nothing I can do.

Speaker 20 She was dead.

Speaker 58 Yeah, she's dead.

Speaker 3 She's dead.

Speaker 58 Rudolph was crying.

Speaker 74 Larry Rudolph, according to Hunting Scout, Spencer Kokoma, was beside himself.

Speaker 11 You're saying, what am I going to tell my children? What am I going to tell my children?

Speaker 23 As the morning wore on, Spencer said Larry calmed down and detailed what happened in the cabin.

Speaker 11 He told me that me, I was in the bathroom.

Speaker 20 What was he doing in the bathroom?

Speaker 76 Did he say?

Speaker 3 He was bathing.

Speaker 7 He was taking a shower? Yeah.

Speaker 11 And my wife, she was very busy packing.

Speaker 11 So she was trying to force the gun in the gun case. That's how it fired.

Speaker 21 And then it went off accidentally?

Speaker 11 Yes, then it went off accidentally.

Speaker 35 A terrible accident, insisted Larry, that suddenly took Bianca away after 34 years of marriage.

Speaker 32 The two met at the University of Pittsburgh.

Speaker 38 Bianca was an undergrad.

Speaker 55 Larry was attending the dental school.

Speaker 78 They soon fell in love, got married, and stayed in Pittsburgh, where they had two children.

Speaker 44 For Bianca, who was deeply religious, this was the stable, loving life she'd always wanted.

Speaker 6 Bianca was a really proud woman. She was wonderful and caring.
She wanted their marriage to be the one that everybody looks at and says, I want a relationship like that.

Speaker 34 Meanwhile, Larry's career was taking off, especially after he started his own dental practice.

Speaker 32 He eventually opened four clinics around Pittsburgh, which he heavily promoted, as seen in these commercials.

Speaker 2 I'm Dr. Larry Rudolph.

Speaker 12 At Three Rivers Dental Group, we specialize in smile makeovers.

Speaker 79 From the beginning, the business was a success, as former employee Sherry Hauk.

Speaker 17 We did sedation dentistry, so you would do the dentistry all-in-one visit for the patient. So it would include root canals and crowns and everything.

Speaker 17 It wasn't odd to do a $10,000, $20,000, $40,000 case on somebody.

Speaker 80 They knew Three Rivers. They knew Larry because he was commercialized.

Speaker 34 Anna Grimley was Larry's office manager.

Speaker 80 People felt like they'd trust him.

Speaker 80 If they saw him, it's like, oh, it's Dr. Rudolph, you know, they...
they would connect with the commercial.

Speaker 81 Did Larry seem to be making a lot of money from the business?

Speaker 80 Absolutely.

Speaker 82 Larry's business was so successful, he and Bianca bought a second home in a swanky Phoenix suburb called Paradise Valley, where he continued to oversee his dental business remotely.

Speaker 80 We didn't see him a lot, so you understand he lived in Arizona and came in to visit the offices to see what was going on.

Speaker 32 The Rudolph's daughter, Anna Bianca, followed her father into the family dental business, while their son Julian became a lawyer.

Speaker 10 A successful, high-achieving family.

Speaker 34 Business kept booming, allowing Larry to further indulge in his expensive hobby, big game hunting.

Speaker 43 He traveled the world on safaris, and Bianca often joined him.

Speaker 6 It was a passion of hers, and part of that came when she married Larry, and she really embraced it.

Speaker 64 This was something that really bonded those two, Larry and Bianca, the love of hunting.

Speaker 5 Absolutely.

Speaker 6 They could do it together and have that experience together.

Speaker 32 Larry was so passionate about the sport, he joined a hunting advocacy group called Safari Club International, or SCI for short.

Speaker 55 Ron Arendt was on SCI's executive committee when he met Larry.

Speaker 85 He seemed like a real nice guy. He was someone to visit with.

Speaker 66 And some personality traits that you noticed right away.

Speaker 85 Very friendly, smiling, joking.

Speaker 9 Very open.

Speaker 85 He was someone you'd like to be around.

Speaker 83 Larry quickly rose through the ranks, becoming the president of Safari Club International in 2009.

Speaker 12 I'm proud to be serving SCI. We're the most powerful hunting and conservation group in the world.

Speaker 38 Later, Larry and Bianca joined another hunter's advocacy group called the Weatherby Foundation.

Speaker 40 Betsy Wonke was director of operations.

Speaker 6 He left Safari Club and then he was working with us all the way to president. Yes, Larry came into the organization and won over, you know, the hearts and minds of the board members and me.

Speaker 6 He would make you feel important.

Speaker 6 That was Larry's gift.

Speaker 4 And Bianca was right there with him, helping raise money and awareness for the foundation.

Speaker 5 I thought they were a great couple, the power couple.

Speaker 6 They worked together and they were both very well respected. But of course that changed.

Speaker 24 Changed literally in a flash from a single shotgun blast, and the shockwaves would only keep spreading.

Speaker 54 The Rudolph's son and daughter learned the awful news.

Speaker 47 She was unsettled like something wasn't right.

Speaker 17 Well, it was just shocking. And he wasn't clear exactly what happened.
She was really upset.

Speaker 73 The morning after

Speaker 38 It was quiet now at the Rudolph's little hunting cabin in mid-October 2016.

Speaker 20 Zambian police had taken Bianca's body to Lusaka, the capital city, four hours away.

Speaker 4 It's a teeming, bustling place where most of Zambia's government services are located

Speaker 63 and where Bianca's body would undergo an autopsy.

Speaker 73 It didn't take long.

Speaker 4 Cause of death was a shotgun blast directly to the chest.

Speaker 78 Zambian police investigated the case and concluded Bianca's death was simply an accident.

Speaker 35 Thousands of miles away in the States, the Rudolph's children, Anna Bianca and Julian, had no idea what had happened to their mom.

Speaker 32 However, Larry had sent an email to his brother-in-law saying he and Bianca would miss that upcoming family wedding.

Speaker 55 But according to Larry's former employee, Sherry Hauk, who saw Anna Bianca around this time, the Rudolph children sensed something was wrong.

Speaker 17 Julian and Anna couldn't get a hold of their mom. And they were getting really nervous and upset.

Speaker 23 And no communication?

Speaker 17 No communication. We just thought sometimes you can't get a hold of people, but it was very bizarre.

Speaker 32 Back in Zambia, Larry was making final arrangements at this funeral home.

Speaker 28 Grace Musazulwa, who worked there at the time, showed us the logbook.

Speaker 55 There's her name. Yes, yes.

Speaker 92 Yeah, Bianca Tirodo.

Speaker 38 Grace was there when Larry came by to identify Bianca's body.

Speaker 61 What was his demeanor like? How was he handling the situation?

Speaker 92 He was mourning the wife, of course.

Speaker 92 He was crying.

Speaker 61 Did your heart go out to him as you're watching this?

Speaker 92 I told him, I said, no, just leave everything to God. You know, these things happened, and that's how we ended with him.

Speaker 38 Less than a week after Bianca's death, Larry left Lusaka.

Speaker 30 It was a long journey back home to Arizona.

Speaker 34 During a stopover in Johannesburg, Larry called his son Julian and finally revealed the awful news.

Speaker 38 Julian then flew to Pittsburgh to tell his sister Anna Bianca in person.

Speaker 23 Anna Bianca wasn't home.

Speaker 24 Sherry Houck was taking care of her dogs.

Speaker 17 I saw him walking down the driveway, so, you know, I knew that it was not good news if he flew home.

Speaker 47 Are you thinking Bianca, this is about Bianca?

Speaker 48 Yeah.

Speaker 17 And he didn't say that she was gone. He just said there was an accident.

Speaker 32 Less than two weeks after Bianca's death, her family gathered at this Catholic Retreat Center in Scottsdale, Arizona to say goodbye.

Speaker 6 I know that she took her religion very seriously.

Speaker 34 Following the funeral, Anna Bianca returned home to Pittsburgh.

Speaker 17 I stayed with her, just consoled her, you know, and she had talked to me, you know, just about just how unresolved everything was.

Speaker 47 She was unsettled like something wasn't right.

Speaker 17 Well, it was just shocking, and she was just really surprised. And it wasn't clear exactly what happened, but she was really upset.

Speaker 93 With the funeral over and his children back in their homes, Dr.

Speaker 27 Larry Rudolph was now all alone.

Speaker 51 For the first time in 34 years, he was without Bianca.

Speaker 55 He spent the next few weeks handling the mundane but necessary task of sorting out her estate and filing claims on Bianca's life insurance policies.

Speaker 28 Slowly, he started putting his life back together and resumed overseeing his busy Pittsburgh dental practice.

Speaker 33 Was Larry spending a lot of time in Pittsburgh or mostly most of his time in Arizona?

Speaker 17 When he was in town, we always wouldn't know. I always thought like he kept it a secret whether he was in town or not because he didn't want like the employees to play while he was away.

Speaker 52 One of his former employees, Anna Grimley, hadn't heard anything about Larry or what had happened in Africa.

Speaker 31 Anna had left the practice months earlier, but kept in touch with her former colleagues.

Speaker 87 And one day, several weeks after Bianca's death, she got a call from one of them.

Speaker 80 She said, Did you hear about Bianca, Rudolph? And it's like, no, I was like, what happened? And she's like, well, she was shot

Speaker 80 in a safari trip.

Speaker 32 And just like that, the memories came flooding back about her time at Three Rivers Dental, what she saw, and what she knew.

Speaker 59 Secrets in the office.

Speaker 17 They always came together, left together. Obviously, they're like a thing, but don't mention it.

Speaker 32 And questions from Larry's daughter.

Speaker 17 She was constantly like asking who is Lori? Why is she always with my dad?

Speaker 32 After the death of Bianca Rudolph, the staff of Three Rivers Dental tried to resume business as usual.

Speaker 34 But dental assistant Sherry Houck says it was difficult.

Speaker 17 Everybody was just in shock and I think just shell-shocked that this could happen.

Speaker 60 Dr.

Speaker 38 Larry Rudolph made it very clear his wife's death was not to be mentioned.

Speaker 17 I never did talk to Larry about it ever or say a word to him.

Speaker 6 We were told not to.

Speaker 76 So you just had to pretend almost like nothing happened.

Speaker 6 Yeah.

Speaker 94 It was awkward, but not unheard of.

Speaker 4 There were other subjects that were off-limits at Three Rivers Dental, like the role of an employee named Lori Milliron.

Speaker 80 I don't know what her title was. Never knew her title.

Speaker 32 Anna Grimley started at Three Rivers as a manager in 2015, more than a year before Bianca's death. That's when she met Lori, a former hygienist who seemed to have taken on bigger responsibilities.

Speaker 80 She did some insurance as far as setting things up on our programs to bill. And she did show me how the system and what computer system and helped me with that.

Speaker 80 So I spent a little bit of time with her in the beginning.

Speaker 32 Lori had three grown children and was helping to raise her grandson in Pittsburgh.

Speaker 37 She seemed friendly, helpful.

Speaker 20 But there was talk around the office about Lori and Larry.

Speaker 17 They always came like in the same car even early and left together, came together, left together. And just

Speaker 17 from rumors in the office, obviously they're like a thing, but don't mention it.

Speaker 33 Especially after the Rudolph's daughter, Anna Bianca, graduated from dental school and joined the practice. She became a dentist because of him, right? Yeah.

Speaker 17 She wanted to be like her dad. She looked up to him.

Speaker 17 She like adored him.

Speaker 74 But Anna Bianca did notice something strange about her father and this Lori Milliron woman.

Speaker 17 She was constantly like asking, who is Lori? Why is she always with my dad? What's she do here? Does she have a job here?

Speaker 24 Anna grimly heard the rumors, but she and Lori got along fine.

Speaker 73 But then one day, Anna says Lori overshared.

Speaker 80 I needed some help putting a dresser together and I had no tools. So Lori offered to come to my house and she had tools from the office and she was going to help me build this dresser.

Speaker 80 And at that time is when she disclosed that they were together.

Speaker 14 So she just volunteered it?

Speaker 80 She volunteered it.

Speaker 39 Oh, here's the screw. Like, yeah, I'm having an affair.

Speaker 81 Yep, this, you know, wow, this is intense.

Speaker 80 Yeah, yeah. It was extremely intense.

Speaker 43 Intense and uncomfortable.

Speaker 35 After that conversation with Lori, Anna says she tried to probe delicately to figure out what Anna Bianca knew or didn't know.

Speaker 80 And I'm saying, hey, do you think anything's going on with Lori and your dad? And she's like, no, no, nothing's going on. I go, they seem pretty close together.

Speaker 80 I go, you're not catching that or do you know something? She's like, no, they're just working.

Speaker 80 Nothing's happening.

Speaker 14 So did you just drop it after that?

Speaker 23 I dropped it.

Speaker 28 In the hunting world, Larry had a reputation of being a womanizer going back several years.

Speaker 43 And this wasn't the first time he may have crossed the line in a professional setting.

Speaker 32 While Betsy Wonke was working for the Weatherby Foundation, she said she had an awkward interaction with then-president Larry Rudolph when he called her for an after-hours meeting.

Speaker 6 I got a phone call at 3 o'clock in the morning at a board meeting from Larry asking if he could come up and talk business. And

Speaker 6 I was not going to take that bait.

Speaker 14 You feel that he wanted to...

Speaker 61 come up to your room for

Speaker 6 sexual reasons. You can draw your own conclusions.
I wasn't in that man's head, but I do know that three o'clock in the morning is kind of an odd time to discuss business.

Speaker 22 Were you aware of his infidelities at this time?

Speaker 76 I was.

Speaker 20 Larry's love life also caused rumblings at Safari Club International.

Speaker 24 According to Ron Arendt, he and other members tried to confront Larry at a board meeting.

Speaker 85 There were three or four of us that wanted to talk about it and say, what's going on?

Speaker 85 You're not presenting a good moral image of Safari Club International president or people on the executive committee. And Larry and his folks that didn't want to hear about it.

Speaker 85 So Larry said, I don't want it in there. We're not going to put it on the agenda.
And that's it. So it was stopped.

Speaker 83 But in 2012, Safari Club International leaders took a drastic step.

Speaker 32 They accused Larry of misconduct for committing adultery.

Speaker 4 They expelled him from the club and stripped him of his hunting awards.

Speaker 32 Larry fought back, filing a defamation lawsuit against the club's officers.

Speaker 94 Do you swear or affirm that?

Speaker 32 The case dragged on for years, and in May 2016, he appeared for a video deposition.

Speaker 98 And those rumors included that I was having a long-term affair

Speaker 13 with a woman from Atlanta and that my wife was fully aware of this.

Speaker 99 I was surprised.

Speaker 32 Surprised because he claimed in that lawsuit the rumors were flat out false.

Speaker 32 In July 2016, just three months before her death, Bianca was also deposed and was asked if she knew whether her husband was having an affair with Lori.

Speaker 31 She answered, no.

Speaker 28 The lawsuit eventually settled and SCI paid Larry an undisclosed sum.

Speaker 44 But Betsy believed Bianca was aware of Larry's affair with Lori.

Speaker 6 I just asked her if this is what she wanted and how things were going.

Speaker 6 And she was going to hang in there. She was loyal.
She was going to do her damnedest to keep things together.

Speaker 7 During this time, you started to see a change in Bianca as well?

Speaker 76 I did.

Speaker 6 Meeting Bianca for the first time with those mischievous eyes and

Speaker 6 the life that was behind it, as time went on, I saw those eyes start to dim.

Speaker 14 What did you feel was happening?

Speaker 6 I know it was Larry. He had other relationships going.
And unfortunately, Bianca knew about some of that. She loved Larry, you know, she wanted to make it work.

Speaker 25 Whether or not Bianca knew about Lori,

Speaker 39 Lori definitely knew about Bianca.

Speaker 60 And that led to an alleged ultimatum.

Speaker 80 She's saying she wants to be with Larry. So the ultimatum was to leave, or I'm leaving.

Speaker 4 Lori puts Larry on notice and questions begin to grow about Bianca's death.

Speaker 80 I'm not the only one feeling these feelings about what's going on. Somebody needs to look into it.

Speaker 28 Dr.

Speaker 55 Larry Rudolph had built a highly successful and lucrative dental practice in his hometown of Pittsburgh.

Speaker 32 He promoted the business as family-friendly, even featuring employee Sherry Hauck's daughter in a commercial.

Speaker 77 I went to Three River's demo because because I needed help with my braces.

Speaker 50 But the truth was, according to Sherry, Larry wasn't easy to work for.

Speaker 17 He could be super nice at times and then he would just snap and we would just say that it was like going Rudolph. He'd be going Rudolph.

Speaker 6 That happened often.

Speaker 80 Everybody lived in fear with him. I don't know what manager didn't live in fear, what employee didn't live in fear.

Speaker 89 Office manager Anna Grimley realized pretty quickly after she joined the practice that Larry's anger was an issue.

Speaker 14 When you say he was angry at the office, what would get him fired up?

Speaker 80 It would be something as simple as an employee who had an index card of what they're supposed to say or how to answer a phone.

Speaker 80 If they didn't have that and say exactly what he wanted them to say, it could trigger him. And that moment of that trigger, you would see anger.

Speaker 95 And she says Larry would often get physical.

Speaker 80 Like pounding on the wall. Wow.

Speaker 64 And throwing like what, like trades of instruments kind of thing?

Speaker 33 Yep.

Speaker 61 This place is like a soap opera. Yeah.

Speaker 16 Dental office. Yeah.

Speaker 80 Yeah.

Speaker 4 Anna only lasted a year at Three Rivers Dental.

Speaker 38 She was living in Las Vegas in December 2016. That's when she got the call from a former coworker about Bianca's death.

Speaker 60 That co-worker had no doubt about who she thought was responsible.

Speaker 80 She goes, you know, he did it. It's like, I know.

Speaker 39 Larry, yes.

Speaker 21 Oh, you both thought that? Yep.

Speaker 80 instantly because of the anger and everything we saw with him that's the first thing that comes to your head

Speaker 40 to anna it all made sense that her former boss just might be capable of murder especially when she remembered something else the money for years larry had encouraged patients to pay in cash and gave them discounts when they did according to anna and sherry a lot of cash flowed through the business How much cash do you think was coming through the office every month?

Speaker 17 Oh, like each office be close to $200,000 or plus, maybe even more than that.

Speaker 76 In cash alone?

Speaker 17 In fees.

Speaker 17 Cash, I mean, a lot of cash.

Speaker 80 The cash that we did receive, we would have to put the cash in a safe, which is a huge safe.

Speaker 42 Anna says she didn't just see cash come in, she saw it go out too.

Speaker 80 Lori and Dr. Rudolph would come in, take the cash out,

Speaker 80 and every office had a safe. So they would put it in an envelope and leave together with this, the cash.

Speaker 38 According to Anna, Lori and Larry plan to use that cash to fund a whole new life together.

Speaker 32 Her source of information, she says, was Lori herself.

Speaker 80 She was telling me about them wanting to leave and take all the cash and not let the family know where they were at out of the country. I said something, you know, how could you just leave your kids?

Speaker 80 How can you just pick up and just, like, not tell them?

Speaker 80 And her comment was to me, well, they're well taken care of.

Speaker 38 As Anna thought back about this conversation, she knew she had to do something or tell someone.

Speaker 28 She thought long and hard, then made a bold move and called the FBI, telling them.

Speaker 80 Somebody needs to look into it. You know, just take a look at everything that's happened.

Speaker 38 Anna said the agent she spoke with told her something surprising.

Speaker 29 Anna wasn't the first person to share her suspicions with the FBI.

Speaker 30 In fact, a friend of Bianca's had called just days after the funeral to say that Bianca, a devout Catholic, would never have wanted to be cremated.

Speaker 38 The friend asked the bureau to investigate Bianca's death.

Speaker 80 Hearing that, it sort of gave me like, okay, this definitely was the right thing to do because I'm not the only one feeling these feelings about what's going on.

Speaker 38 After Anna tipped off the FBI, she said agents came to Las Vegas to meet with her.

Speaker 14 Were you afraid that Larry might find out what you did?

Speaker 80 Absolutely. I'll be honest with you.
That's something that I feared. I was nervous.

Speaker 37 Nervous, maybe.

Speaker 24 But Anna had to talk to the FBI about one more thing Lori had shared with her during that intense conversation they had while assembling the dresser.

Speaker 80 What she said to me is he has a year to get rid of Bianca. is what she gave him one year.

Speaker 39 A year to get rid of her or

Speaker 48 what?

Speaker 80 Or she's leaving.

Speaker 7 And did you say, what do you mean, get rid of her?

Speaker 80 I didn't question it at the time, knowing she's saying she wants to be with Larry. She wanted Bianca out of the picture.
So the ultimate was to leave, or I'm leaving.

Speaker 31 It sounded sinister, but it wasn't proof of anything.

Speaker 89 To get proof, the FBI would travel thousands of miles back to a blood-stained cabin in Zambia.

Speaker 57 Larry is afraid that he's going to be arrested?

Speaker 3 Yes.

Speaker 84 New doubts about Larry Rudolph's story.

Speaker 61 Did you believe what Larry was telling you?

Speaker 100 No, at that moment, we didn't believe the story.

Speaker 28 Just months after Bianca Rudolph's funeral, her husband Larry welcomed a new woman into his home, his longtime lover, Laurie Milliron.

Speaker 34 The two lived together in Larry's mansion in Paradise Valley, Arizona.

Speaker 40 Months passed, then two years.

Speaker 74 By all accounts, they lived large.

Speaker 51 One of their favorite hangouts was Stake 44.

Speaker 18 It's a high-end restaurant. You have some great clientele, a very affluent community and guests.

Speaker 32 Ryan Lovelace was a bartender there, someone you might want to remember.

Speaker 18 Larry was extremely friendly, very polite, respectful, generous.

Speaker 34 Big tipper?

Speaker 18 He was a generous tipper, yes. He was my favorite regular.

Speaker 32 Larry may not have known it, but a completely different kind of tip had caught the attention of the FBI.

Speaker 30 Tips from Bianca's friends and Larry's former employee that suggested he might have had something to do with her death.

Speaker 43 FBI agents took them seriously and were digging for any possible clues.

Speaker 34 But there was no solid evidence that Larry killed his wife.

Speaker 71 Then, in 2019, the investigation entered a whole new phase.

Speaker 14 Thousands of miles from Arizona, little did Larry know that the FBI was here on the ground in Zambia investigating Bianca's death.

Speaker 14 They were interviewing witnesses from the scene and talking to anyone who had interacted with Larry in the days after the shooting.

Speaker 39 we retrace the FBI's steps, which included a visit to the Rudolphs' hunting cabin where Bianca was shot.

Speaker 32 They later interviewed Game Scout Spencer Kokoma.

Speaker 50 Remember him?

Speaker 42 He was with the Rudolphs during their safari and rushed into the cabin when he heard that fatal shot.

Speaker 79 Spencer still vividly remembers the scene and how Larry was behaving.

Speaker 57 How chaotic was it?

Speaker 47 in the cabin.

Speaker 11 He was like crazy because he was busy crying what he was like crazy.

Speaker 67 She's dead.

Speaker 64 He's freaking out.

Speaker 21 People are trying to figure out what happened.

Speaker 11 Exactly.

Speaker 42 During the chaos in the cabin, Spencer also heard Larry say something stunning.

Speaker 11 He said, I want to kill myself, Cozy.

Speaker 11 My wife has committed suicide.

Speaker 55 To Spencer, who had just spent several days with Bianca on Safari, suicide seemed unimaginable.

Speaker 94 No, no, no, no.

Speaker 11 She was very happy, was laughing at any time, joking with people.

Speaker 11 So she wasn't depressed.

Speaker 76 That didn't make sense to you, that she would kill herself on the last day of the trip.

Speaker 11 That didn't make sense to me, and I cannot believe that.

Speaker 34 Spencer said Larry also changed his story, suggesting that Bianca's death was an accident.

Speaker 11 He told me that my wife, she was very busy parking.

Speaker 11 So she was trying to force the gun in the gun case. That's how it fired.

Speaker 7 One person the FBI didn't interview in Zambia that we did was Godfrey Nekoube, the manager of the Rudolph's hunting camp.

Speaker 42 He too descended on the cabin that morning.

Speaker 11 I said he would need the help of the police.

Speaker 57 You insisted that Larry go to the police department?

Speaker 3 Yes, yes.

Speaker 57 Why was it so important for you that Larry go to the police department?

Speaker 58 He's the one who actually saw the activity.

Speaker 90 But the witnesses told us Larry wasn't eager to go to the police.

Speaker 32 Spencer remembers him saying this.

Speaker 11 Are they going to arrest me?

Speaker 57 Larry is afraid that he's going going to be arrested?

Speaker 3 Yes. So now I asked him,

Speaker 11 Why are you going to be arrested? Because you said it was an accident. So, you are going to explain what it has happened.

Speaker 38 Later that day, Larry agreed to go meet with Zambian police. So he and Spencer, along with the Rudolph's hunting guide, hit the road,

Speaker 28 heading for the town of Mumbwa, two hours away.

Speaker 31 Home to some 20,000 people and a small police station.

Speaker 59 There, Larry was met by investigators and police commander Rostin Yeyenga, who later spoke to the FBI.

Speaker 64 What kind of state of mind was Larry Rudolph in at that point?

Speaker 100 He seemed to be sorrowful and then I could see some tears in his eyes.

Speaker 23 Commander Yeyenga told the FBI about Larry's account of what happened in the cabin that horrible morning in October 2016.

Speaker 28 Agents were also provided a written statement from Larry taken during his police interview.

Speaker 85 We had left the wife packing the luggages.

Speaker 100 He was taking a shower. And then he just heard a gunshot.

Speaker 21 He says he rushed out of the bathroom. Yeah.

Speaker 100 So when he rushed there to see what had transpired, he just found the wife lying in a pool of blood.

Speaker 33 Yeyenga told the FBI that Larry said Bianca accidentally shot herself.

Speaker 61 Did you believe what Larry was telling you?

Speaker 100 No, at that moment, we didn't believe the story. There's a question mark there.

Speaker 100 You didn't believe him i had doubts really yeah he would have killed the wife for reasons known to himself or maybe he was telling the truth you wanted to find the truth yes so that's why officers went to to the camp

Speaker 32 commander yeyenga also told the fbi that he sent a team of investigators down the rugged back roads to the rudolph's remote cabin

Speaker 57 Larry returned here to the cabin that afternoon with the police.

Speaker 20 The guides said that he had calmed down at that point, and he walked the officers through what he said happened that morning.

Speaker 61 Once again, he said he heard a gunshot.

Speaker 78 He raced out of the bathroom, only to find his wife dead.

Speaker 55 In fact, you can still see stains on the floor left over from her blood.

Speaker 27 Detectives collected some of that blood along with the shotgun that killed Bianca.

Speaker 5 They wanted to find out if the gun hadn't been properly unloaded and accidentally went off, or if Bianca mistakenly touched the trigger.

Speaker 42 Commander Yeyenga said that Bianca's body was then taken from the cabin to the capital of Zambia for a complete autopsy.

Speaker 32 But the FBI learned that Larry Rudolph had other ideas about how to proceed that seemed to catch everybody by surprise.

Speaker 66 Something curious at the funeral home.

Speaker 16 They start to take pictures of Bianca's body.

Speaker 15 He says, this doesn't look like a self-inflicted wound to me.

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Speaker 97 As FBI agents made their way through Zambia in 2019 investigating the death of Bianca Rudolph, They wanted more information about a part of the story they found odd.

Speaker 57 The day after Bianca's death, her body was taken here to Lusaka, the capital city of Zambia, where it was to undergo a post-mortem exam, all standard procedure, until Larry caught everyone off guard when he insisted his wife's body be cremated.

Speaker 32 The autopsy proceeded, but when Zambian police wanted to conduct their own post-mortem exam, Larry insisted it be canceled.

Speaker 73 Instead, as the FBI learned, he had other, more urgent priorities, which he made clear when he called the U.S.

Speaker 43 Consulate about Bianca.

Speaker 15 To report the death and then just to say, I need her body cremated because I need to take it back to the States.

Speaker 38 Pam Flick is a former FBI special agent and analyst for NBC News.

Speaker 32 She didn't work on the Rudolph investigation, but reviewed the case for us.

Speaker 15 So the Consulate General talks to him a little bit, and Larry keeps kind of going back to, no, you don't understand. I need this cremation expedited.

Speaker 15 And Larry just kept pushing, pushing, pushing the cremation. It has to be done now.
And he thinks this is kind of odd.

Speaker 38 The consular chief told the FBI that he heard from the funeral home some 48 hours after Bianca's death, saying her body was scheduled for cremation the very next day.

Speaker 32 And he had a bad feeling about the situation, which he thought was moving too quickly.

Speaker 32 So unbeknownst to Larry, he raced over to the funeral home where Bianca's body was being held and brought along two security agents and a camera.

Speaker 15 And they start to take pictures of Bianca's body to make the identification of the body.

Speaker 38 But when the consular chief saw Bianca's gaping chest wound, he was concerned.

Speaker 15 He's a former Marine and has seen gunshot wounds and looks at this and says, this doesn't look like a self-inflicted wound to me.

Speaker 14 Maybe this isn't an accident.

Speaker 42 So pictures of the wound were taken since they might be needed as part of the investigation.

Speaker 23 Meanwhile, two hours away in Mumbwa, Zambian detectives were trying to determine how and why Bianca Rudolph was killed.

Speaker 28 This was a high-profile case involving a prominent American.

Speaker 34 So, Zambian police management and the U.S.

Speaker 42 Embassy jointly decided to move the investigation to the headquarters in Lusaka.

Speaker 32 Investigators in the capital city now took over the case and reviewed the evidence.

Speaker 42 They also conducted a drop test with the gun to see if it would fire when it hit the floor.

Speaker 19 It didn't,

Speaker 38 which conflicted with the theory that Bianca's death was accidental.

Speaker 15 Nevertheless, just days later, they came to the conclusion it was an accident.

Speaker 67 The report from Lusaka police also said the firearm was loaded from the previous hunting activities and safety precautions were not taken causing the firearm to accidentally fire.

Speaker 66 Which came as a total surprise to the Rudolph's game scout, Spencer Kokoma.

Speaker 64 That gun would have been clean the night before and shot her?

Speaker 11 Yes, to me, I even saw Bianca Rudolph cleaning it.

Speaker 20 You saw her yourself?

Speaker 11 Yeah, I saw her. Cleaning it.
I saw her myself.

Speaker 32 Assuming Spencer Kokoma's account was true, how could Bianca have accidentally shot herself?

Speaker 28 Spencer told us he was convinced the gun was both clean and unloaded when the Rudolphs went to bed the night before her death.

Speaker 33 That would mean that someone had to have put a shotgun shell back into the gun after she cleaned it.

Speaker 11 Exactly. Because someone was under the shotgun.

Speaker 57 Someone purposely put a shell in there.

Speaker 11 100%.

Speaker 31 Spencer wouldn't speculate as to who that might be,

Speaker 38 but he did say there was something else that bothered him about Bianca's death.

Speaker 4 Larry's story.

Speaker 34 Remember, Larry said he was in the shower when the shot was fired.

Speaker 43 But when Spencer heard that shot, he rushed right to the cabin, only to find Larry fully dressed, as seen in this photo taken shortly after the shooting.

Speaker 11 It just took me maybe 15 seconds. How can he manage to put on everything? Shoes, t-shirt, t-shirt, a jean, a belt.
So to me, it was like a puzzle.

Speaker 30 A puzzle with lots of pieces.

Speaker 56 We reached out to Zambian police for comment on their investigation, but did not get a response.

Speaker 33 In the end, they concluded Bianca had accidentally shot herself, as Larry had told them.

Speaker 15 They took his word for it because Larry had given testimony to them saying, no, this was an accident. I was in the other room.

Speaker 32 So Zambian police cleared Larry.

Speaker 32 Nima Romani is a former federal prosecutor who studied the case.

Speaker 13 There was a limited investigation, but certainly nowhere what needed to be done under the circumstances of the case.

Speaker 56 What didn't they do?

Speaker 13 They didn't conduct the tests that would have happened here in the United States. Law enforcement in other countries, they have limited resources.
They don't have the testing that we do.

Speaker 13 They don't have the financial resources. And that's really what happened here.

Speaker 32 With the Zambian police investigation over, Bianca's cremation soon followed.

Speaker 81 As far as the Zambian police were concerned, this was considered case closed.

Speaker 2 It was.

Speaker 13 They spent a matter of days investigating this case and they closed their file.

Speaker 74 Bianca's friend, Betsy Wonke, herself an expert hunter, never believed Bianca shot herself accidentally.

Speaker 6 She was way too comfortable with firearms and how to handle them, how to clean them, how to put them away.

Speaker 55 There's only three scenarios here.

Speaker 15 I mean, one is that she killed herself.

Speaker 76 Two, she killed herself by accident.

Speaker 61 Three, she was murdered. Right.

Speaker 6 And for her to put a gun away and get shot by accident, I don't think that could ever happen.

Speaker 30 The FBI's findings regarding Larry's activities in Africa seem to cast even more doubt on his story about Bianca's accidental death.

Speaker 28 And investigators would also learn about one more strange safari story involving Dr.

Speaker 32 Larry Rudolph that happened at the very same hunting camp where his wife was killed.

Speaker 66 Flashback to years ago.

Speaker 14 A different safari, a bizarre injury, and gunshots.

Speaker 11 He shot almost three shots.

Speaker 48 Larry did.

Speaker 11 That's how they lashed there.

Speaker 56 An omen of the tragedy to come?

Speaker 23 The FBI's investigation in Zambia had been revealing.

Speaker 38 From the scene at the cabin to Larry Rudolph's behavior after Bianca's death, they had uncovered a treasure trove of clues, all circumstantial.

Speaker 55 But one key piece of physical evidence was missing.

Speaker 42 Zambian police conducted tests on the shotgun that killed Bianca, but they hadn't kept it.

Speaker 15 The shotgun was given back to Larry?

Speaker 39 The FBI didn't know where it was.

Speaker 42 Even if they couldn't find the weapon, maybe they could find a motive.

Speaker 7 The FBI took a deep dive into the insurance claims Larry filed after Bianca's death.

Speaker 95 They found out she had several policies.

Speaker 42 The insurance companies had hired an investigative firm to review the claims.

Speaker 78 Its final report said, police concluded the death was accidental, but they still have unresolved questions.

Speaker 32 Despite those questions, the insurance companies paid up.

Speaker 10 The grand total, $4.8 million.

Speaker 39 And the FBI just wasn't satisfied.

Speaker 15 Just wasn't satisfied.

Speaker 22 With the investigations that have been done.

Speaker 42 No.

Speaker 76 This case was not closed.

Speaker 15 No, it wasn't.

Speaker 45 Not by a long shot. No.

Speaker 15 There is a citizen that was possibly murdered overseas, and that's important.

Speaker 32 But really, it didn't take much detective work to see that Larry was spending plenty of cash after Bianca's death.

Speaker 23 He bought fancy cars, began construction on a brand new home in Paradise Valley, and took high-end vacations.

Speaker 52 All with his longtime mistress, now partner, Lori Milliron.

Speaker 32 Three Rivers dental employee Sherry Howe couldn't ignore her suspicions.

Speaker 22 You're thinking about money?

Speaker 23 Yeah. And you're thinking about this other life he's living.

Speaker 76 Yeah. Lori.

Speaker 17 Yeah.

Speaker 14 He could have both.

Speaker 17 That's the kind of man he was was there any part of you that thought what if he did this of course yeah i'd always be like thinking in my mind did you do this did you do this like are you really that person

Speaker 15 could you be that cruel

Speaker 95 fbi agents had the same questions and they heard a bizarre story that seemed to them like a possible precursor of what happened to bianca

Speaker 55 Bianca's death wasn't Larry's first incident here in Zambia.

Speaker 55 Ten years earlier, he says while he was out here fishing in these crocodile-infested waters, he learned firsthand just how dangerous the wildlife can be.

Speaker 15 Larry claimed that he was fishing and when he went down to grab his fish out of the water, a crocodile came and bit the fish and inadvertently bit his thumb and then pulling him into the water where he wrestled around with the crocodile, was able to get himself free, swim to shore, and call for help.

Speaker 31 According to Larry, he somehow miraculously escaped with just that one injury, a partially bitten-off thumb.

Speaker 60 Back in the States, some people who knew Larry thought his battle with the crocodile was downright fishy, especially members of Safari Club International like Ron Arendt.

Speaker 85 I've seen crocodile attacks, you know, whether it's filmed, which I never saw one live.

Speaker 85 But a 10-foot crocodile taken off the tip of a thumb only?

Speaker 86 You can see what's left of the thumb in this this video that Larry made and posted on YouTube.

Speaker 33 Spencer Kokoma, the game scout at Kafui National Park, heard about what happened, or at least what Larry said happened that day at Kafui River.

Speaker 78 He also heard that Larry was not only carrying a fishing rod that day, he was carrying a rifle.

Speaker 11 I was told that he shot almost three shots.

Speaker 32 Three shots, the international distress signal.

Speaker 11 That's how they lashed there. They find Nimu with the half finger.

Speaker 21 They find Larry with a half thumb.

Speaker 102 Yes.

Speaker 52 But no crocodile.

Speaker 78 The hunting guide and camp staff told the FBI they didn't believe there was a crocodile.

Speaker 32 They thought Larry fired his gun for an entirely different reason.

Speaker 15 They surmised that Larry had shot his thumb off.

Speaker 51 To the FBI, the entire episode seems suspicious, especially when they learned Larry filed an insurance claim right after the incident.

Speaker 15 He was able to get, I believe, a $30,000 a month disability payment.

Speaker 39 Wow, that's, I mean, painful, but lucrative.

Speaker 15 Yes, very lucrative.

Speaker 38 Over the next 15 years, Larry collected at least $3.5 million in disability insurance.

Speaker 85 He still had his business. He just didn't have to work it anymore, right?

Speaker 2 As always, he can go out and do his hunting.

Speaker 85 Didn't stop him from hunting.

Speaker 23 Federal investigators believe the crocodile story might be evidence of planning and motive.

Speaker 67 If Larry was willing to shoot himself to collect insurance money, would he shoot his wife to collect even more?

Speaker 38 That question, along with Larry's rush to cremate Bianca's body and his affair with Lori, were all intriguing.

Speaker 43 But it was not enough to charge Larry with murder. Not yet.

Speaker 55 Something was about to boil over.

Speaker 5 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 17 I didn't know it was going to be

Speaker 10 as

Speaker 17 big as it was. was.

Speaker 63 Larry, Lori, and a couple of cocktails.

Speaker 66 A bartender overhears an overheated conversation.

Speaker 18 You could hear a pin drop at that moment.

Speaker 66 Are you 100%

Speaker 39 sure you heard what you heard?

Speaker 18 It was crystal clear. A couple of people said, hey, you need to go to the police about this.

Speaker 51 It was early 2020, more than three years since Bianca Rudolph's tragic death.

Speaker 84 Life in paradise, Valley that is, was good for Dr.

Speaker 93 Larry Rudolph and Lori Milliron.

Speaker 86 They were building a new mansion and had plenty of money, too.

Speaker 84 When they weren't traveling the world, Larry and Lori were often at their regular spot, Steak 44.

Speaker 88 Bartender Brian Lovelace was always happy to see them.

Speaker 18 They came in often, probably twice a month, and you know, they spent a lot of money.

Speaker 38 Lori and Larry usually sat right at the bar where Brian served them martinis followed by big steaks.

Speaker 18 They were always together and very kind and nice to each other.

Speaker 24 One night, Larry and Lori were at their usual place at the bar.

Speaker 55 It was busy.

Speaker 74 Music playing, drinks flowing.

Speaker 31 Then, all of a sudden, Brian said something happened between them.

Speaker 18 It was an uncomfortable conversation that you can tell that they were having, and there was a moment of silence where the music had changed from song to song.

Speaker 45 That's when Brian heard something he'll never forget.

Speaker 85 He said to Lori, I killed my effing wife for you.

Speaker 18 My gosh. And you could hear a pin drop at that moment.

Speaker 23 What are you thinking when you hear that?

Speaker 33 I mean, there's a lot to process in that moment.

Speaker 18 Yeah, it's a lot to process. And the very first thing I was thinking is: well, I killed my wife for you.
Well, who's Lori? I thought Lori was his wife.

Speaker 40 Brian says Lori stormed out, upset, red-faced.

Speaker 33 Larry quickly paid the bill and also rushed out.

Speaker 66 Are you 100%

Speaker 39 sure you heard what you heard?

Speaker 18 Yes, I'm 100% sure. There's definitely no doubt.
It was crystal clear.

Speaker 38 Later that night, Brian told his wife Amber about what happened.

Speaker 27 Word of the incident also spread fast among the other bartenders via a group text.

Speaker 18 So there was a couple of people in the group chat that said, hey, you need to go to the police about this.

Speaker 18 And I said,

Speaker 18 no,

Speaker 18 there's not enough information. What am I going to say to the police?

Speaker 39 Amber agreed.

Speaker 69 Remember, at this point, she and Brian didn't know anything about Bianca's death.

Speaker 103 I'm like, I don't think you should do anything about this.

Speaker 26 So they let it go.

Speaker 31 Weeks went by.

Speaker 88 The Larry Laurie bar blow up seemed to fade away.

Speaker 19 Until

Speaker 18 one of the bartenders sent a link to all of us. And that link had shown Dr.
Larry Rudolph, wife, was killed by accident on Safari in Africa. Extremely shocking to say the least.

Speaker 18 And so, of course, read the article and saw, wow, okay, Lori is not his wife. He did have a wife and she did die.

Speaker 54 Brian was conflicted.

Speaker 59 Call the police or just clam up?

Speaker 18 So I was hung on that and thinking, well, it was investigated and it was deemed an accident.

Speaker 103 I didn't want Brian saying anything about this guy. Like, I don't know what he's capable of.
I have two children.

Speaker 103 If he were to get him in trouble, I don't know what kind of power he has to maybe affect our lives.

Speaker 22 Did you leave it there then?

Speaker 18 I felt that I should leave it alone.

Speaker 37 Nearly two years passed.

Speaker 19 It was December 2021, five years since Bianca's death.

Speaker 33 The FBI knew nothing about Brian Lovelace and the bar incident, but they kept investigating Bianca's death.

Speaker 33 The agency started conducting a series of ballistics tests in their lab, where shots were fired at a target ranging from half an inch to a little over nine feet away.

Speaker 43 The shotgun pellets left a unique pattern. The FBI then compared that pattern to photos of Bianca's wound.

Speaker 38 Remember, those were the photos taken by the consular chief in Zambia just days after Bianca died.

Speaker 15 The shot pattern was consistent with a shot that was fired from one to three feet, not right up against her chest. Not right up against her chest.

Speaker 14 And they were able to figure out that there's no way on earth she was able to shoot that gun.

Speaker 40 So who did?

Speaker 53 The FBI had a prime suspect, not in Africa or Arizona, but Mexico.

Speaker 99 Mexican police came in and started asking for people's passports.

Speaker 42 An arrest in the case at last.

Speaker 17 I was just in shock.

Speaker 18 This is unbelievable.

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Speaker 38 Cambo San Lucas was a special place for Larry Rudolph and Lori Milliron. They visited often, brought Lori's kids, even bought a condo there.

Speaker 32 But everything changed in December 2021, according to attorney John Dill.

Speaker 99 They were flying down there for the Christmas holidays. When they landed, Lori sees Mexican police lining up on the tarmac.
They came in, they started asking for people's passports.

Speaker 5 Wow.

Speaker 99 And that's when he was put in jail and detained.

Speaker 46 The next day, U.S.

Speaker 87 Marshals escorted Larry back to the States.

Speaker 38 More than five years after Bianca's death, Dr.

Speaker 28 Larry Rudolph was arrested for murder and for defrauding the life insurance companies that paid him millions of dollars.

Speaker 39 Facing life in prison, he was being held in Denver, home to one of those insurance companies.

Speaker 27 He spoke with Lori by phone from jail.

Speaker 85 I'm just more depressed now now than I thought I could ever be.

Speaker 48 I'm so sorry, baby.

Speaker 85 It's a bad place, Lori.

Speaker 91 Yeah, it's a really bad place.

Speaker 91 You're locked in a cell 23 hours a day.

Speaker 91 Not good, man.

Speaker 32 Two weeks after Larry's arrest, Lori flew to Denver to support him at a detention hearing in federal court.

Speaker 29 This was a key hearing, according to former federal prosecutor Nima Romani.

Speaker 13 Prosecutors believed that Larry Rudolph was a flight risk and a danger and argued for no bond.

Speaker 13 The defense tried to convince the judge to allow him to remain on house arrest, but the judge said, absolutely not. I'm not going to treat Larry Rudolph differently just because he has a lot of money.

Speaker 38 The judge denied bail.

Speaker 51 Larry would stay in jail.

Speaker 32 As for Lori, she'd received a subpoena to appear before the grand jury.

Speaker 23 She talked to Larry about it in that phone call.

Speaker 48 I will be there, and I'm going to

Speaker 98 be honest, you know.

Speaker 91 Don't talk about it. Don't talk about it.

Speaker 91 Just don't change it. It's okay.
It's all good.

Speaker 99 It's all good. So she goes in front of the grand jury, and now they're pulling out financial records and they're putting everything in front of her.

Speaker 51 That very same day, the grand jury indicted Larry for murder.

Speaker 75 Investigators now say, which was big news, especially for his hometown of Pittsburgh and NBC station WPXI.

Speaker 107 Dr. Lawrence Rudolph started Three Rivers Dental, but now he's accused by the feds of actually murdering his wife and all to collect millions in life insurance.

Speaker 54 Dr. Rudolph entered a not guilty plea.

Speaker 17 I was just in shock, you know, like, wow, after all this time, this is really happening now.

Speaker 54 Sherry's former coworker, Anna Grimley, felt a sense of relief.

Speaker 80 I felt like maybe Justice is is going to do something correct, especially for Bianca. She didn't have a voice.
So to hear that he was arrested,

Speaker 80 it felt good that the FBI actually put all the pieces together completely with everybody.

Speaker 35 But not everybody felt that way.

Speaker 23 Sherry Houck said that Larry's daughter, Anna Bianca, never wavered in her support for him.

Speaker 17 She never said she thought he had anything to do with it.

Speaker 5 Ever.

Speaker 33 Did she ever express that this is unfair?

Speaker 17 Well, she didn't ever want to believe her father did this.

Speaker 32 Shockwaves from Larry's arrest reached all the way to Phoenix and NBC station KPNX.

Speaker 57 He told investigators that she accidentally shot herself. Now he is under arrest, accused of murder.

Speaker 24 Which was stunning news to bartender Brian Lovelace.

Speaker 18 That really changed things. To actually read that he was indicted for murder.
The FBI doesn't reopen cases, you know, to lose them. This is unbelievable.

Speaker 32 Brian still didn't know what to do about the conversation he'd overheard between Larry and Lori.

Speaker 84 But one of his coworkers at Stake 44 apparently thought she knew what to do.

Speaker 97 The coworker had a nickname, Nancy Drew.

Speaker 18 Nancy Drew loves to investigate pretty much any and all situations that seem suspicious. And she took it upon herself to contact the FBI.

Speaker 94 Oh, my.

Speaker 18 So she gave me a heads up, said, you know, sorry, but the FBI is going to be calling you.

Speaker 31 What'd you say?

Speaker 18 I said, are you crazy? Don't you think this is something you should have talked to me about first?

Speaker 89 As FBI agents made their way to Phoenix to talk to Brian, there was someone else the government was keeping an eye on.

Speaker 52 Lori Milliron.

Speaker 13 Lori and Larry's affair was a huge piece of the circumstantial puzzle and the reason that Larry had a motive to kill Bianca.

Speaker 32 Lori was back in Phoenix managing the dental practice remotely.

Speaker 33 Meanwhile, the U.S.

Speaker 89 Attorney's Office was taking a closer look at the transcript of her grand jury testimony. Former prosecutor Romani read the transcript, too.

Speaker 13 Lori was very evasive during the grand jury testimony. There were a lot of, I don't recalls, I don't remember,

Speaker 13 and her story shifted over time.

Speaker 30 Six weeks after she testified, Lori's attorney, John Dill, got a surprise call from the FBI

Speaker 99 saying, hey, do you represent Lori Millire?

Speaker 3 And I was like, Lori Milliye, yeah, I represent Lori.

Speaker 99 Well, we're outside her house and we're going to arrest her.

Speaker 65 Federal agents had a warrant for Lori's arrest.

Speaker 99 They searched her, put her in shackles, to appear in front of the court.

Speaker 61 What exactly are they alleging she did?

Speaker 99 They're alleging that Lori went in front of the grand jury and gave misleading answers to certain questions, specifically about her relationship with Dr.

Speaker 99 Rudolph and about the way that he was supporting her, essentially.

Speaker 38 Lori was indicted for obstruction, perjury, and accessory after the fact.

Speaker 23 She appeared in court in Denver to plead not guilty, but the judge allowed her to go home to Phoenix, where she would be under house arrest.

Speaker 33 As a condition of her bond, the judge ordered Lori not to have any contact with Larry, as Lori's attorney told us at the time.

Speaker 99 There's been no communication between the two of them.

Speaker 20 But they still say they're together.

Speaker 99 They're still together. I mean, I believe they're both in a horrible situation.

Speaker 40 Former prosecutor Romani believed the whole situation was part of the government's strategy.

Speaker 13 Prosecutors wanted to trap Lori and get her to flip on Larry. That was their entire strategy here.

Speaker 27 Maybe prosecutors felt they needed Lori's help.

Speaker 24 Larry had hired a high-powered defense attorney who was confident he could take the government's case apart.

Speaker 9 This is all theater. This is all trying to say, look at all this smoke when they don't have any proof of fire.

Speaker 34 Criminal prosecutions are about, do you have the goods?

Speaker 85 Do you have the proof?

Speaker 9 And they don't have it.

Speaker 42 The defense questions everything.

Speaker 53 The gun.

Speaker 9 There's no proof that Larry Rudolph pulled the trigger.

Speaker 52 The cremation.

Speaker 9 Her will showed that she, in fact, wanted to be cremated. He loved her very much, and he did not do this.

Speaker 38 More than five years had passed since Bianca Rudolph's death, and her husband Larry was now behind bars at a Denver jail,

Speaker 60 thousands of miles away from Zambia's Kafui Kafui National Park, where Bianca had been shot.

Speaker 32 Prosecutors thought Larry murdered her and that they could get Larry's longtime lover, Lori Milliron, to flip and testify against him.

Speaker 60 So said Lori's attorney, John Dill, who also said this.

Speaker 99 If Lori knew something and had something to give them, then I can understand why they would hope that.

Speaker 99 The problem is they've got the facts wrong, and so she can't be the star witness for a theory of the truth that doesn't exist.

Speaker 78 Did she have any involvement in Bianca's death, whether it was before, after?

Speaker 99 Absolutely not. Lori Milliron had nothing to do with lying before the grand jury.
She had nothing to do with his death. She hasn't tried to cover anything up.

Speaker 51 Lori denied ever giving Larry an ultimatum to get rid of Bianca.

Speaker 25 And Lori did not flip on him.

Speaker 30 Instead, she would take her chances at trial.

Speaker 89 So now, without Lori's testimony, prosecutors look to bolster their case.

Speaker 67 That led them to, of all places, the tiny town of Yellow Springs, Ohio, and this unassuming house, headquarters of a company called Anthrotech.

Speaker 34 Dr.

Speaker 42 Bruce Bradmiller is one of the world's leading experts on the study of people's personal measurements.

Speaker 102 Whether it's their arm length, leg length, or overall height or whatever.

Speaker 33 Not something that you would usually apply to a crime, a potential crime?

Speaker 108 Definitely not.

Speaker 90 That is, until Dr.

Speaker 42 Brad Miller got a call from an FBI agent about the Bianca Rudolph investigation.

Speaker 102 He gave me the broad outlines of the case.

Speaker 96 So something that happened all the way in Zambia, in Africa, has now landed here in your lap in Yellow Springs, Ohio.

Speaker 67 It did.

Speaker 102 Crazy. Totally crazy.

Speaker 72 The FBI wanted Dr.

Speaker 32 Brad Miller to lend his expertise and confirm their findings that Bianca Rudolph could not have accidentally shot herself.

Speaker 70 They're going to be handed a shotgun and a shotgun bag.

Speaker 32 So he recruited 36 additional women and conducted an even more extensive experiment, beginning with a simple behavioral study.

Speaker 108 Please place the shotgun in the bag.

Speaker 102 We gave the women: here's a gun, here's a bag, put it in, and zip it up. Nobody pointed it at themselves.

Speaker 108 Keep this part pointed at your heart.

Speaker 23 But if Larry's story was true, Bianca must have somehow pointed the gun at herself. Dr.

Speaker 38 Bradmiller tried to figure out if that was even possible.

Speaker 38 I can't reach it.

Speaker 102 It would be so difficult to position the gun at 90 degrees and have it go off accidentally. I mean, you would have to be really trying to make that happen.
And, you know, who would do that?

Speaker 28 We wanted a first-hand look at what the test entailed, so Dr. Bradmiller conducted it one more time.

Speaker 102 Straighten your fingers. Perfect.

Speaker 108 706.

Speaker 85 You would be certainly within the range of people that we would have been measuring.

Speaker 108 Here's the shotgun, and notice that it's unloaded.

Speaker 33 This part of of the test was more complicated and cumbersome.

Speaker 21 This is really heavy.

Speaker 85 It is heavy and the weight is not distributed evenly throughout the thing.

Speaker 42 We want to emphasize again that the gun was not loaded.

Speaker 3 There. I want you to zip the bag while holding the muzzle at 90 degrees to your chest.

Speaker 21 And I'm trying to zip it and then pulling the trigger.

Speaker 85 Right, but you're not at 90 degrees to your chest.

Speaker 57 Because I can't.

Speaker 42 I'm not strong enough and this gun is too long and too heavy.

Speaker 76 Yeah. This is impossible.
Gotcha.

Speaker 23 If that wasn't hard enough, the last part of the test required reaching inside the case and touching the trigger to see if Bianca could have accidentally caused the gun to fire.

Speaker 60 This is not happening. Right.

Speaker 22 There's no way I could ever get to that trigger.

Speaker 60 I can't even touch it.

Speaker 3 With the exception of one participant, your experience was exactly the same as everybody else. You can't possibly get there.

Speaker 32 That one person out of the entire test group, he told us, had unusually flexible shoulders, shoulders, which allowed her to barely touch the trigger.

Speaker 61 Did that give you pause that maybe Bianca was able to reach the trigger?

Speaker 102 It certainly introduces a tiny bit of doubt, but the fact that nobody pointed the gun at themselves gave me pretty good confidence that this proposed scenario was highly unlikely.

Speaker 72 Dr.

Speaker 39 Brad Miller reported his findings to the FBI.

Speaker 102 We found it extremely unlikely that Bianca had somehow positioned the gun at her chest and then pulled the trigger.

Speaker 71 Compelling?

Speaker 39 Maybe, but would it be convincing to a jury?

Speaker 32 Finally, in July 2022, almost six years after Bianca's death, the case went to court.

Speaker 4 Larry and Lori would stand trial together in the same courtroom with the same jury deciding their fates.

Speaker 34 Since this was a federal case, there were no cameras allowed.

Speaker 30 Larry's attorney, David Marcus, was confident as the trial began.

Speaker 9 They should not have charged this case. The Zambians, the insurance company, found an accident, and there's no proof that Larry Rudolph pulled the trigger.

Speaker 4 Even though Dr.

Speaker 33 Bradmiller's study indicated Bianca couldn't have pulled the trigger either, Larry's defense had an entirely different theory on how she was shot.

Speaker 9 Our position is that it was an accident that the gun dropped.

Speaker 55 Zambia police did ballistic tests and they did a drop test and they said that the gun did not misfire.

Speaker 9 Yeah, it's interesting. The Zambian test wasn't videotaped, it wasn't documented, so we don't really know how that drop test was conducted.

Speaker 67 And there was no way for the defense or anyone else to test the gun again because it was gone.

Speaker 28 Larry got rid of it in the years after Bianca's death.

Speaker 28 But Marcus pointed out that even the owner's manual warns of accidental discharge.

Speaker 32 As for the other evidence against Larry, the defense said it was misleading or flat out wrong.

Speaker 32 For example, Bianca's cremation.

Speaker 55 Did Larry Rudolph have her cremated so quickly to dispose of evidence?

Speaker 9 No, and this is a crazy claim made by the prosecutor. They believed that Bianca Rudolph did not want to be cremated, and that gave them some suspicions.

Speaker 9 And her will showed that she, in fact, wanted to be cremated.

Speaker 49 There it was.

Speaker 33 Signed on April 25th, 2016, almost six months before her death.

Speaker 20 At the core of this, did Larry Rudolph love Bianca?

Speaker 9 He loved her very much, and he did not do this.

Speaker 20 How are Larry's children handling this?

Speaker 55 Are they supporting him?

Speaker 9 Let me tell you, they both love their father. They support their father.
They love their mother, too. They know their father better than anyone, and they support him.

Speaker 23 Anna Bianca and Julian showed that support by attending the trial, sitting behind their father. They listened as the prosecution methodically outlined the details surrounding their mother's death.

Speaker 13 This wasn't a smoking gun case. This was a case about individual pieces of circumstantial evidence.

Speaker 41 That circumstantial evidence included FBI ballistics tests, which, along with those photos of Bianca's wound, indicated that the gun would have been one to three feet away from Bianca's chest when it went off.

Speaker 34 Prosecutors detailed those insurance claims, too, which Larry filed within weeks of Bianca's death, totaling $4.8 million.

Speaker 32 A clear motive, they said, to cash in and move on with Lori Milliron.

Speaker 51 But it was that conversation between Lori and Larry that the prosecution saved for last.

Speaker 27 The one bartender Brian Lovelace overheard that night at Stake 44.

Speaker 18 He said to Lori, I killed my wife for you.

Speaker 19 But during cross-examination, Larry's attorney asserted Lovelace didn't hear the entire conversation in context.

Speaker 87 According to the defense, what Larry really said was, they think I killed my wife for you.

Speaker 35 They, being the FBI.

Speaker 9 Larry never confessed to killing his wife. Let me be very clear about that.
Just did not happen.

Speaker 48 What did you make of that argument?

Speaker 59 Did it make sense?

Speaker 18 It didn't make sense. That one phrase was by itself.
I'm positive of what I heard.

Speaker 25 In the end, the whole trial came down to one witness: Dr.

Speaker 93 Larry Rudolph himself.

Speaker 24 A father-daughter conversation that's a heartbreaker. Why did you love more

Speaker 24 than you love?

Speaker 91 He involved the wind.

Speaker 75 And Larry Rudolph on the stand.

Speaker 13 If he were able to convince those jurors that this was an accident, he would walk.

Speaker 56 What would the verdict be?

Speaker 32 For two weeks, the legal drama played out in this federal courthouse in downtown Denver. Then came the witness everyone was waiting for.

Speaker 44 Someone the defense had saved for last and believed would seal its case.

Speaker 67 The defendant himself, Dr.

Speaker 24 Larry Rudolph.

Speaker 13 It's a huge risk to have Larry take the stand, or in the case of a client like Larry, he may have insisted on taking the stand.

Speaker 34 Over the course of two days, Larry answered questions about what happened inside that cabin in Zambia.

Speaker 43 Larry testified that when he heard the shot that morning, he was in the bathroom, but not in the shower, as the game scout had said.

Speaker 38 That's why he was fully dressed in that photo from the scene.

Speaker 28 He said he'd rushed out, only to see Bianca lying dead on the floor.

Speaker 34 A tearful Larry was emphatic he loved his wife, would never harm her.

Speaker 87 Bianca's death was simply a tragic accident, he said.

Speaker 13 If he were able to convince those jurors that this was an accident, he would walk. And if not, he would be convicted.

Speaker 42 Lori didn't take the stand, but her defense insisted she had no part in Bianca's death.

Speaker 32 On a Friday afternoon, jurors got the case with Larry and Lori's fates in their hands.

Speaker 28 Day one ended without a verdict.

Speaker 32 Larry's devoted daughter, Anna Bianca, returned to Pittsburgh.

Speaker 73 Her father called her from jail.

Speaker 21 Hi, honey, how you doing? And talked about testifying. That was hard.

Speaker 48 I thought that was scary in front of all those people.

Speaker 3 No, that didn't scare me. It was just having to relive everything and talk about everything.

Speaker 3 It's been too much, too long.

Speaker 35 Anna Bianca felt confident the jury would acquit her father.

Speaker 91 God willing, you get out of there soon. We want you to be able to get home and fly straight to Pittsburgh.
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.

Speaker 91 I'd like to come to Pittsburgh.

Speaker 91 Stay with you guys for a few days. You can stay here with me as long as you want.

Speaker 73 Day two, Monday.

Speaker 37 Hours passed.

Speaker 51 Still no word from the jury.

Speaker 28 Then, just minutes before court adjourned for the day, a decision that made big news in Denver, where the trial took place.

Speaker 38 Guilty verdict for a dentist accused of shooting and killing his wife

Speaker 13 larry was convicted of all counts premeditated murder and male fraud lori was convicted of being an accessory after the factor murder she was convicted of obstruction of justice and convicted of some but not all of the perjury charges but that wasn't the end of the story far from it after the verdict larry made a call to his daughter anna bianca

Speaker 13 Tanya, don't cry. No.

Speaker 13 I didn't call to upset you, sweetheart. I just called to tell you I love you.
How could they take you away from me? And I never even come to give you a hug.

Speaker 13 I know, honey, I don't want to lose you either.

Speaker 65 Anna Bianca was angry, and not just at the prosecutors. I don't understand why did you love

Speaker 91 Morikor than you love me and Mona to win.

Speaker 91 I didn't, Tony. I didn't.

Speaker 91 It just felt that way. She was just my friend.
I needed a friend to have sex with.

Speaker 91 I'm your friend. I'm your friend.
I wouldn't do anything for you. I dedicated my whole life to you.
You become a dentist to follow in your footsteps.

Speaker 91 I'm so sorry, honey. I never wanted any of this to happen, baby.
Ever, ever, ever.

Speaker 34 In another call, Anna Bianca placed the blame squarely on Lori. He said, Lori, ruined our family.

Speaker 34 made me lose my dad.

Speaker 91 Remember, honey, we can't say too much on these phones, okay?

Speaker 91 I'm just so brokenhearted.

Speaker 33 The judge allowed Lori to return to Phoenix under house arrest to await sentencing.

Speaker 48 Hello.

Speaker 48 Hey, Larry.

Speaker 10 Five days after the verdict, Larry called Lori from jail.

Speaker 91 I didn't even get to say goodbye to you, so I wanted to give you a call.

Speaker 17 Hello.

Speaker 48 Hello. I didn't even

Speaker 91 speak to you or anything.

Speaker 91 Terrible. The worst thing in the world.

Speaker 87 Both seemed stunned by the jury's decision.

Speaker 91 I testified for five hours and getting to the game that it would.

Speaker 48 I know.

Speaker 91 I knew when that jury came in, they wouldn't even look at us.

Speaker 91 Exactly. If they don't look at you, you're done.

Speaker 48 Uh-huh.

Speaker 23 Larry seemed to have his own theory about why the jury convicted him.

Speaker 91 I think it all had to do with having girlfriends, affairs and money. Because to your point,

Speaker 91 there's no proof of anything, no solid proof to put me away.

Speaker 28 But Lori had her own concerns, big ones.

Speaker 32 Remember, she turned down the chance to take a plea deal and testify against Larry.

Speaker 50 Even though she'd been found guilty, Lori had planned to run Three Rivers Dental until she had to report to prison.

Speaker 56 Lori also thought she would move into the nearly finished Paradise Valley Mansion.

Speaker 78 Here she is checking on the construction.

Speaker 55 That didn't happen.

Speaker 84 To her apparent surprise, Lori was fired by Larry's son and cut off from all the Rudolph's bank accounts and properties.

Speaker 23 She vented about it in that jail call with Larry.

Speaker 91 Please provide me a way to earn a living, please. I'm working on it.
I am.

Speaker 91 Please. Because you know what? These kids don't deserve anything.

Speaker 91 They really don't. They've never worked for any of it like you and I have.
I'm watching our business

Speaker 91 fumble. It's just idiot because they've set all the credit for the job.

Speaker 24 Besides her loss of income and a place to live, Lori had another very big problem.

Speaker 27 By talking to Larry, she was violating a court order. Remember, Lori and Larry were not supposed to have contact while she was on house arrest.

Speaker 91 It's a mess.

Speaker 107 I'm not supposed to be talking to you.

Speaker 91 He's going to get me in trouble with my bond. All right, I'll let you go.
I'm sorry.

Speaker 43 The U.S.

Speaker 38 Attorney's Office pounced and had Lori arrested again.

Speaker 32 She was later sentenced to 17 years.

Speaker 33 As for Larry Rudolph, he was sentenced to life.

Speaker 30 Both have filed appeals.

Speaker 60 Larry, who declined our interview request, was sent to serve his time at a federal prison thousands of miles away from the cabin in Kafui National Park, where a fatal shot ended the life of Bianca, the hunter, the mother, the friend.

Speaker 6 Bianca was a beautiful, vibrant woman.

Speaker 23 Betsy Wonkey hopes the focus can once again be on Bianca's memory.

Speaker 6 She was this just wonderful woman who made a difference in this world.

Speaker 6 Without people talking about Bianca and what a great woman she was, Larry wins. And I'm not going to let that happen.

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