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Secret Sex Leads to Jail Time for Millionaire Hubby and Mistress after Wife "Commits Suicide" on African Safari · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Lay Down with the Dog,
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Speaker 1: Wake Up with a flea. Truer words were never spoken
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Speaker 1: in the last days. The mistress of a prominent dentist
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Speaker 1: and a big game hunter is jailled for seventeen years.
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Speaker 1: Why because Laurie mill Iron, the mistress of the dentist,
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Speaker 1: did everything she could to murder the wife of Larry Rudolph.
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Speaker 1: I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thanks for being
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Speaker 1: with us here at Foxxination and Serious adem one eleven.
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Speaker 1: That's right, all you women out there dating cheating husbands,
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Speaker 1: take a listen. The girlfriend of a married dentist and
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Speaker 1: big game hunter that traveled all over the world to
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Speaker 1: shoot animals dead and stuffed them, who fatally shot his
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Speaker 1: wife of thirty four years. A wife of thirty four
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Speaker 1: years takes the wife on an African safari and kills her.
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Speaker 1: And now the mistress gets seventeen years behind bars as
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Speaker 1: an accessory to murder. How did the whole thing unfold
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Speaker 1: and what does the mistress have to do with it?
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Speaker 1: You know, you think of dentists being meek and mild mannered,
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Speaker 1: think again. Listen to this.
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Speaker 2: Nine at life insurance Policies totally more than four point
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Speaker 2: eight million dollars could be a possible motive for murder.
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Speaker 1: Doctor Lawrence Rudolph ran through.
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Speaker 2: Rivers Gental for decades, but he's now charged by federal
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Speaker 2: agents for allegedly scheming to defraud life insurance companies after
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Speaker 2: his wife was shot and killed on a big game
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Speaker 2: hunting trip in Zambia more than five years ago. In
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Speaker 2: a detailed twenty three page complaint, the fence say they
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Speaker 2: believe Lawrence murdered his wife, Bianca, with premeditation in such
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Speaker 2: a manner that he could falsely claim the death was
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Speaker 2: the result of an accident. The claims don't come as
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Speaker 2: shocking for Lisa Stanley, who used to work for doctor
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Speaker 2: Rudolph in his Green Tree office kind of something.
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Speaker 3: I wasn't surprised. As soon as I saw the name,
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Speaker 3: I knew exactly who it was, and I thought to myself, yeah,
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Speaker 3: I'm not like that surprised.
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Speaker 2: Former employees we talked to didn't know Bianca personally, but
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Speaker 2: said Lawrence's behavior in the office was alarming.
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Speaker 3: I've never been afraid to go to a job until
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Speaker 3: this one.
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Speaker 4: You know.
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Speaker 3: I just was very uncomfortable, very uneasy around him.
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Speaker 1: Wow, when people are afraid to go to work, afraid
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Speaker 1: of the dentist. So how did Bianca if As Rudolph
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Speaker 1: end up dead his wife of thirty four years, That's
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Speaker 1: the question. And we often hear of men taking their
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Speaker 1: wives or girlfriends on an exotic trip and then somehow
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Speaker 1: the girl ends up dead and the man lives. What
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Speaker 1: do we know about their trip, their exotic trip to Zambia.
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Speaker 1: I mean, if you're going to commit a crime, that's
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Speaker 1: a long way from home to do it. Take a
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Speaker 1: listen to our cut three A my longtime friend and
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Speaker 1: Collie Jim Ray at Inside Edition.
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Speaker 5: On the last day of their two week trip, a
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Speaker 5: gunshot was heard coming from their cabin. Bianca Rudolph was
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Speaker 5: found dead with a gunshot wound to the chest. According
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Speaker 5: to the criminal complaint, Her dentist husband told Zambian police
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Speaker 5: he believed his wife had accidentally shot herself with her
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Speaker 5: twelve gage shotgun while she was packing up the weapon.
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Speaker 5: The dentists came under suspicion and after a US empathy
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Speaker 5: official said he believed that the distance between the muzzle
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Speaker 5: of the shotgun and Bianca's chest was approximately six point
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Speaker 5: five to eight feet. According to the criminal complaint. If true,
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Speaker 5: it would make an accidental shooting unlikely.
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Speaker 1: Which opens up a whole can of worms about how
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Speaker 1: do you commit suicide with a long gun? Now, believe
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Speaker 1: it or not, I've seen a few cases like that
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Speaker 1: where the person sits down with their legs extended straight
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Speaker 1: out in front of them, like on the floor. They
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Speaker 1: point the rifle toward them, the long gun, and they
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Speaker 1: actually pull the trigger with their toe. Yes, it's happened,
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Speaker 1: but how I mean, how else can you commit suicide
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Speaker 1: with a long gun? Or they can caught some type
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Speaker 1: of a string or pulley apparatus, so they can pull
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Speaker 1: the trigger at themselves with a string, for example, But
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Speaker 1: holding a long gun in your hand and shooting yourself,
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Speaker 1: that's really hard to do. So how did these two meet?
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Speaker 1: To start with? Take a listen to our friends at
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Speaker 1: crimeonline dot com. This is Jackie Howard and our cut a.
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Speaker 1: Lawrence and Beyonca. Rudolph meet while Rudolph is in dental school.
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Speaker 1: Bianca is an undergraduate at the University of Pittsburgh. The
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Speaker 1: couple mary in nineteen eighty two, around the same time
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Speaker 1: that Lawrence starts a dental firm Beyonca Rudolph joins her
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Speaker 1: husband working in the practice. In two thousand and six,
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Speaker 1: Rudolph separates from his partners, forming a new dental group,
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Speaker 1: three Rivers Dental. In twenty fourteen, the couple moved to Arizona,
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Speaker 1: but keep the practices in Pennsylvania. Their net worth about
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Speaker 1: eight million dollars. When they aren't working, the couple likes
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Speaker 1: to travel worldwide and hunt, especially in Africa. Both Lawrence
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Speaker 1: and Bianca are well respected international hunters, with Bianca occasionally
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Speaker 1: undertaking excursions without her husband. They become active members of
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Speaker 1: Safari Club intern, a prominent hunting organization, with Lawrence serving
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Speaker 1: at one time as the club's president. Okay, the way
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Speaker 1: I was raised, you don't shoot anything you're not going
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Speaker 1: to eat. So I'm just wondering about all the hunting
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Speaker 1: at Don't get me wrong. I believe and the right
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Speaker 1: to bear arms. While I support gun control in many cases,
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Speaker 1: being a victim of gun violence to go hunting is
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Speaker 1: covered in the Constitution. And that's not what we're arguing about.
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Speaker 1: We're arguing about murder. With me an all star panel
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Speaker 1: to make sense of what we know right now. First
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Speaker 1: of all, high profile lawyer joining me out of Houston.
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Speaker 1: Former Prosecutor Nicole de Boord hotch Globe and you can
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Speaker 1: find her at Houston Criminal Defense dot com. Doctor Jorkrawls
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Speaker 1: and a boy, do we need a shrink? He is
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Speaker 1: a psychologist on faculty at Saint Leo University, consultant with
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Speaker 1: the Blue Wall Institute, and author of Operation Soos. Lisa Daddio,
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Speaker 1: Former Police Lieutenant Nhave, Senior Lecturer and Director of the
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Speaker 1: Center for Advanced Policing at University of New Haven. Doctor
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Speaker 1: Tim Gallagher. He is the medical Examiner for the entire
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Speaker 1: State of Florida, lecturer University of Florida Medical School in
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Speaker 1: Forensic Medicine, and he is the founder and host of
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Speaker 1: the International Forensic Medicine Death Investigation Conference. Wow, that's a mouthful,
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Speaker 1: and that's just a tiny portion of his resume. But
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Speaker 1: first to Alexis Terrestcheate joining me crimeonline dot com investigative reporter.
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Speaker 1: You know, Alexis, we've covered so many cases where the
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Speaker 1: woman ends up dead and the man miraculously survives the scenario.
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Speaker 1: And also, Alexis, we've covered a lot of cases where
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Speaker 1: the deaths of these women happen either on the high
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Speaker 1: seas or in another country, some little island that meaning
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Speaker 1: people have only heard of and can barely find on
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Speaker 1: a map. But you know, to commit a crime in
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Speaker 1: another country, a murder, when you pick a country that
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Speaker 1: has let's just say an underdeveloped police department. Let's say
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Speaker 1: this is not the NYPD Homicide Task Force investigating this
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Speaker 1: in Zambia. I'm putting the cart before the horses. I
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Speaker 1: love to call you on an Alexis test, Chuck, why
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Speaker 1: don't we start at the beginning, Tell me everything, don't
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Speaker 1: leave anything out, Alexis.
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Speaker 4: Okay. So Laurence and Bianca, as you said, they have
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Speaker 4: been hunting for decades. They take a trip to Zambia.
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Speaker 4: It is about a two week trip. They leave on
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Speaker 4: their final day of the trip, early early in the morning.
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Speaker 4: They are getting ready to leave. All there in a small,
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Speaker 4: one bedroom, one bathroom cabin. All of a sudden, a
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Speaker 4: shot rings out. Lawrence says that his wife was in
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Speaker 4: the living room, he was in the bathroom. Into the
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Speaker 4: other room, he sees that she is on the ground bleedings.
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Speaker 4: He hears the shotgun. So the people from as you said,
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Speaker 4: you know, it's a hunting trip, it's safari. There are
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Speaker 4: a lot of people there. Everybody comes running to their
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Speaker 4: hut and she is on the ground. The gun, which
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Speaker 4: is a long barrel shotgun, is sort of tucked a
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Speaker 4: little bit into a case, like a soft sided travel case.
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Speaker 1: Slow down, tell me that part again, part of the
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Speaker 1: long gun, which is a rifle is tucked in the
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Speaker 1: carry case. Yes, I assume that would be the butt.
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Speaker 1: Go ahead, so.
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Speaker 4: He What LAWRENCEA. Said is that she was packing up
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Speaker 4: the gun because they were getting ready to leave. He
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Speaker 4: was in the bathroom. She was packing it up and
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Speaker 4: it fired accidentally. She accidentally, somehow, somehow triggered the trigger
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Speaker 4: and it shot her right in the chest and knocked
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Speaker 4: her blue, her to the ground.
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Speaker 1: So from what you're telling me, she is an experienced
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Speaker 1: hunter herself, yes, and would go on safaris without him,
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Speaker 1: So she knows how to handle a gun.
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Speaker 4: Yes, And in fact, she was the only one hunting.
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Speaker 4: She was the only one hunting this time because she
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Speaker 4: wanted to kill a leopard. They had a special permit
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Speaker 4: for her to kill a leopard and shoot, so this
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Speaker 4: was her special trip to kill the leopard that was
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Speaker 4: her soul this time.
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Speaker 1: Prime Stories with Nancy Grace, the wife of prominent Dennis
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Speaker 1: Larry Rudolph, wife of thirty four years, the mother two
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Speaker 1: children by Rudolph, shot in the heart by her own husband,
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Speaker 1: Lawrence Rudolph, while the two were away on a hunting
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Speaker 1: trip in Zambia. Now Rudolph claimed his wife accidentally shot
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Speaker 1: herself while she was packing to head back home. That's right, Rudolph,
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Speaker 1: I guess your wife was packing her scope and her
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Speaker 1: long gun in her suitcase when she shot herself. How
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Speaker 1: do you shoot yourself.
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Speaker 6: With a long gun anyway?
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Speaker 1: I guess you'd have to pull the trigger with your
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Speaker 1: toe or set up a very elaborate self shooting process.
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Speaker 6: Well, that didn't happen. He did it. He did it.
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Speaker 1: But then, to make matters the worse, the high profile
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Speaker 1: dentist out of Pennsylvania then fraudulently claimed four point eight
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Speaker 1: million dollars in life insurance payouts.
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Speaker 6: According to the FBI.
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Speaker 1: Now, his bottle blonde mistress, Lorie Milron is looking at
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Speaker 1: hard jail time for helping in this scheme so her
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Speaker 1: lover could collect millions of dollars of life insurance. You know,
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Speaker 1: there's a special place in h double l for those
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Speaker 1: that kill.
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Speaker 6: For pecuniary or money interest.
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Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, that is very often an
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Speaker 1: aggravating circumstance that can lead a murder from being a
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Speaker 1: simple homicide to a death penalty case lying in wait
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Speaker 1: or murder for a pecuniary or money interest. And that's
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Speaker 1: exactly what happened here. Now. Of course, this woman, the mistress,
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Speaker 1: tells the judge she's innocent, but the judge announced the
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Speaker 1: lengthy sentence was well deserved based on the fact that
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Speaker 1: mill Iron encouraged the heinous act.
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Speaker 6: According to the.
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Speaker 7: Evidence, Bianca Rudolph was shot in the chest, the bullet
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Speaker 7: coming from her personal shotgun. Lawrence Rudolph told the Zambian
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Speaker 7: police he had been in the bathroom when he heard
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Speaker 7: the gun shot. Rudolph said he found his wife lying
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Speaker 7: on the ground bleeding and believed that the gun had
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Speaker 7: gone off while Bianca Rudolph was trying to pack it
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Speaker 7: into its case. Lawrence Rudolph said he believed the gun
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Speaker 7: was still loaded from the previous days hunt still loaded.
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Speaker 1: I mean, any expert marksman does not leave a gun loaded,
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Speaker 1: much less pointed towards yourself when it's loaded. Enter doctor
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Speaker 1: Tim Gallagher. You know they're now a medical examiner. I
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Speaker 1: told you about earlier the medical examiner for the entire
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Speaker 1: state off Florida, Doctor Gallagher, could you put in regular
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Speaker 1: people talk, Dr Gallagher, what is a trajectory path?
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Speaker 8: Well, a trajectory path is the path or the track
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Speaker 8: that the bullet takes when it exits the muzzle of
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Speaker 8: the firearm. You know, in this case we're talking about
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Speaker 8: a shotgun, and a shotgun is different than a handgun
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Speaker 8: and a rifle. In a rifle and a handgun, when
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Speaker 8: you pulled it trigger once, one bullet comes out of
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Speaker 8: the firearm. A shotgun is different when you pull the
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Speaker 8: trigger once. In a shotgun, many many bullets or projectiles
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Speaker 8: or lead shot come out of the shotgun all at once,
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Speaker 8: and they come out in a very clustered, tight pattern,
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Speaker 8: kind of like a bunch of grapes, and then as
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Speaker 8: they fly through the air, they just spread apart a
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Speaker 8: little bit more. And judging by how much the projectile
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Speaker 8: spread apart, you can determine how far those that lead
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Speaker 8: traveled after it left the gun and hit the body.
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Speaker 8: So you can determine the range of fire from the
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Speaker 8: bullet wound or the projectile wounds and your knowledge of ballistics,
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Speaker 8: so this the area of forensic called ballistics, and this
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Speaker 8: is typically what they do on a daily basis, check
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Speaker 8: for range of fire, how far was the victim from
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Speaker 8: the gun when the gun was discharged.
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Speaker 1: Doctor Gallagher, what you just said was like an aria.
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Speaker 9: It was just.
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Speaker 1: Beautiful. I feel like the Mormon Tabernacle choir just let
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Speaker 1: loose in this studio. Thank you, Nancy, Thank you listening
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Speaker 1: you talk all day long. I bet Jerry's love you.
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Speaker 8: Come on to come on down to the conference.
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Speaker 1: Phrase what you just said and tell me if I've
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Speaker 1: got it right. So, with a shot gun, which is
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Speaker 1: unlike a rifle or handgun, it's a long gun. It
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Speaker 1: shoots out a spray of buttshot, and the closer you
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Speaker 1: are to the muzzle, the tighter together the pellets will be.
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Speaker 1: The further away ere you get more of the spray,
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Speaker 1: it will be a wider gunshot one correct, the sprite
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Speaker 1: will be much wind pattern.
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Speaker 8: You're absolutely right.
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Speaker 1: And I guess you would also look for stippling, which
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Speaker 1: should be burning on the scan if the muzzle the
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Speaker 1: gun is contact, and you would look for gunshot residue
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Speaker 1: on the victim's hands. Jump in.
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Speaker 8: You're right, I mean that's true. But one thing we
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Speaker 8: have to know here is that the gun may have
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Speaker 8: been fired through the gun case, and if there's an
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Speaker 8: intermediary target, the range of fire distance becomes less precise.
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Speaker 8: You have to adjust to was the gun shot through
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Speaker 8: the case, what was the case made of cannabis? Was
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Speaker 8: it made of plastic? Could have been metal in the case.
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Speaker 8: So all those would affect the range of fire, and
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Speaker 8: that has to be determined into your equation.
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Speaker 1: And it would defuse the pellace understood. I don't have
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Speaker 1: any evidence that the gun came pe was shot in
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Speaker 1: any way, Jackie know. So, wow, this is quite the
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Speaker 1: the You know this, This woman should have been a
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Speaker 1: contortionist for the circus because she somehow managed to get
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Speaker 1: the butt end of the shotgun in that I'll just say,
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Speaker 1: leather carrying pouch or canvas, whatever it was, and shoot
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Speaker 1: herself before the muzzle could be put in. Well, that's
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Speaker 1: certainly a feat. Lisa M. Daddio for a police lieutenant
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Speaker 1: and Haven PD, now Director Center for Advanced Policing. Lisa Daddio,
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Speaker 1: how many suicides have you seen with a long gun? None?
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Speaker 10: It's not It's very difficult to do given a lot
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Speaker 10: of different things. The length of the barrel, just how
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Speaker 10: long you would need to be unless you rig it
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Speaker 10: somehow in order to kill yourself. And so in twenty
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Speaker 10: years of doing investigations and whether it was me or
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Speaker 10: the people that worked for me, we never had a
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Speaker 10: single case.
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Speaker 1: Wow, never never once, never once. When you say it
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Speaker 1: would be difficult to rig it to commit suicide with
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Speaker 1: a long gun, how could it be done? You know?
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Speaker 10: There are well documented cases where people prop it up
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Speaker 10: in such a way where they like put a string
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Speaker 10: on the trigger and then they pull the string in
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Speaker 10: order to kill themselves theoretically causing the gun to go off.
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Speaker 10: That's been kind of the most common, and then there's
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Speaker 10: been other like contraptions that they actually make because they're
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Speaker 10: so determined on killing themselves via a shotgun, which, as
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Speaker 10: you can imagine, causes catastrophic, permanent and death injuries no
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Speaker 10: matter where you get it. If you get it center
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Speaker 10: mass and up, you know, your body, parts of your
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Speaker 10: or shredded. So those that are really kind of set
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Speaker 10: on killing themselves utilizing a long gun, a shotgun, her
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Speaker 10: rifle have designed ways to do it versus where it
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Speaker 10: would be just much easier with a handgun. But you
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Speaker 10: can survive with a handgun.
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Speaker 1: You know. Another factor, Lisa Daddio, is that the victim
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Speaker 1: in this case, Bianca, is only five to four.
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Speaker 10: So even then it makes it much more difficult. I mean,
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Speaker 10: unless she has like these super you know, not human
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Speaker 10: arms that are four feet long. How the heck is
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Speaker 10: she killing herself and hitting herself in the chest.
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Speaker 6: Again. I can't say it enough.
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Speaker 1: Lay down with a dog, wake up with the flea.
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Speaker 1: That's exactly what mill Iron did when she launched into
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Speaker 1: a sex affair with a married dentist, a married dennist
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Speaker 1: of thirty four years and two children. But at trial,
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Speaker 1: when graphic images were shown and the family's painful testimony
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Speaker 1: came out, the judge denounced that mill Iron. The judge
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Speaker 1: announced mill Iron seemed remorseless. She didn't care about the
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Speaker 1: photos of a dead body. She didn't care about the
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Speaker 1: family's suffering and pain. She's also convicted of false misleading
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Speaker 1: testimony to a grand jury about the money and her
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Speaker 1: relationship with Rudolph Well. I can tell you what that is,
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Speaker 1: sex sex. The lawyer for mil Iron claimed the prison
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Speaker 1: sentence was excessive. You know what I think, I think
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Speaker 1: she and her lover should go to jail when the
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Speaker 1: victim gets out of her coffin there?
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Speaker 6: What about that?
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Speaker 1: The victim Bionca children united in the courtroom with heartbreaking testimony,
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Speaker 1: and they told their father's mistress how she destroyed their family.
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Speaker 1: The daughter Anna Rudolph, testified that mel Iron plotted to
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Speaker 1: eliminate her mother. As a matter of fact, the daughter
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Speaker 1: Bianca's daughter Anna said, and I quote Laurie, you have
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Speaker 1: taken my parents, but despite everything you've done, you will
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Speaker 1: never take my soul. That might be difficult to understand, Laurie,
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Speaker 1: because you don't have one. Wow.
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Speaker 6: That had to her?
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Speaker 1: Oh wait, according to the judge, it didn't, because the
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Speaker 1: mistress seemingly had no remorse whatsoever. A jury of six
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Speaker 1: men and six women sided with prosecutors who stated the
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Speaker 1: dentist's pre planned to murder his wife in cold blood
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Speaker 1: then launch a new life with mell Iron, his longtime mistress.
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Speaker 1: She mill Iron was also found guilty by that very
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Speaker 1: same jury of being an accessory after the fact to murder,
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Speaker 1: obstruction of a grand jury, and two counts of perjury
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Speaker 1: before the grand jury.
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Speaker 6: How did the whole thing unfold?
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Speaker 1: He wanted his wife's body cremated immediately. I know that
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Speaker 1: Nicole de Board hots Glow, former prosecutor, now high profile
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Speaker 1: defense attorney out of Houston. We claim this means absolutely nothing.
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Speaker 1: The fact that he wanted his wife's body cremated right
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Speaker 1: there in Zambia. Forget about bringing her body home for
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Speaker 1: a burial. Uh uh, he wanted to bring her back
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Speaker 1: in a plastic bag. Okay, take a listen at our
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Speaker 1: cut sea again our friends at crime Online.
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Speaker 7: Lawrence Rudolph called the US Embassy in Zambia while discussing
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Speaker 7: funeral options. Rudolph tells official that he wants Bianca Rudolph's
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Speaker 7: body cremated. She is Just three days after the shooting,
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Speaker 7: the US Embassy's consular chief alerted the FBI, saying he
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Speaker 7: thought the situation was moving too quickly, so the chief,
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Speaker 7: along with two embassy officials, traveled to a local funeral
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Speaker 7: home to take photos of the body to preserve evidence.
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Speaker 7: During the funeral home visit, doctor Rudolph suggested that Bianca
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Speaker 7: may have committed suicide. The funeral home visit troubled embassy officials.
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Speaker 7: The consular chief, a twenty year US Marine veteran told investigator,
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Speaker 7: said the angle of the wound was straight on the heart,
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Speaker 7: not angled, as it would be from a self inflicted
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Speaker 7: shot from a long arm. The chief also pointed out
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Speaker 7: that the wound did not appear to be caused by
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Speaker 7: a tight group of pellets. When a shotgunfire's bookshot the
23:43
Speaker 7: pellets spread out as they traveled to a target up closed,
23:46
Speaker 7: the pellets would be tight. There were also no gas
23:49
Speaker 7: burns on the body, which are typical for gunshot wounds
23:52
Speaker 7: at point blank or near point blank range. The consular
23:55
Speaker 7: chief also noted that Bianca had a second injury to
23:58
Speaker 7: the chest, caused by wanting from a shotgun cartridge.
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Speaker 1: Now it's really interesting that he immediately wants his wife cremated. Now,
24:06
Speaker 1: Nickel Deboord Hotchclobe, you yourself are the one that told
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Speaker 1: me that she was Catholic. Now, what does that have
24:13
Speaker 1: to do with anything.
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Speaker 9: Well, her friends and family say that that is not
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Speaker 9: what she would have wanted, that she would not have
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Speaker 9: wanted to be cremated. And I've also learned that, in fact,
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Speaker 9: there was a family member or a close friend of
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Speaker 9: the couple who tried to talk to him about not
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Speaker 9: having her cremated, and he persisted. So I think These
24:33
Speaker 9: are going to be difficult, circumstantial pieces of evidence for
24:37
Speaker 9: the defense, but they certainly don't mean that he killed
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Speaker 9: her on purpose.
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Speaker 1: Take a listen to our friend Royce Jones at CBS.
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Speaker 11: Bianca's death was ruled an accident by Zambia law enforcement
24:49
Speaker 11: and that Lawrence Rudolph told police he suspected the gun
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Speaker 11: discharged while she was packing it into its case. We
24:56
Speaker 11: reached out to doctor Rudolph's attorneys. They all say this
24:59
Speaker 11: is out rages Doctor Larry Rudolph loved his wife of
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Speaker 11: thirty four years and did not kill her. They go
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Speaker 11: on to say that the government is seeking to manufacture
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Speaker 11: a case against this well respected and law abiding dentist.
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Speaker 1: Straight out to Alexis Terestschuk with Crime online dot Com. So,
25:16
Speaker 1: Alexis terestschach they had been married thirty four years? Is
25:19
Speaker 1: that correct?
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Speaker 4: They had thirty four years. They had two children together.
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Speaker 4: One of their adult children actually worked in the dental
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Speaker 4: practice with dad with Larry Wow.
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Speaker 1: Okay, well, surprise, surprise, surprise, As my friend Gomer Pyle
25:39
Speaker 1: would say, take a listen to our cut three me
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Speaker 1: Jim Murray with Inside Edition.
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Speaker 5: The investigation was launched after a friend of Bianca's told
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Speaker 5: the FBIID she suspected foul play because doctor Rudolph was
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Speaker 5: allegedly having an affair with the manager of his dental
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Speaker 5: office outside Pittsburgh. The dentist's alleged mistress reportedly gave him
25:58
Speaker 5: an ultimatum of one year to sell his dental offices
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Speaker 5: and leave Bianca.
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Speaker 1: An ultimatum, Alexis Terreschuk, did you leave a little one
26:08
Speaker 1: of the facts out an ultimatum a mistress that he
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Speaker 1: works with? I mean, really, could somebody just surprised me
26:16
Speaker 1: one time and and not be the secretary or the assistant.
26:21
Speaker 1: I remember one case, a husband's having a midlife crisis
26:24
Speaker 1: and he starts an affair with the cashier and the
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Speaker 1: G and C where he's buying all sorts of vitamin
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Speaker 1: supplements to enhance his manhood. You know, surprised me for
26:34
Speaker 1: one time for Pete's sake, Alexis a sex affair.
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Speaker 4: And it wasn't just for a month or two. It
26:42
Speaker 4: was about a decade. And in fact, he and this girlfriend,
26:47
Speaker 4: they traveled out of the country all the time. They
26:48
Speaker 4: would constantly go to Pablo San Lucas. They went in
26:51
Speaker 4: twenty ten, they went twice in twenty eleven. They went
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Speaker 4: again in twenty thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, and in July twenty
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Speaker 4: sixteen before Bianca's jests just a few months later, and
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Speaker 4: then after she died, just a few short months after
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Speaker 4: she died. Three months after she died, they went back
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Speaker 4: to Cabo again. He and the girlfriend was there. Was
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Speaker 4: barely a blip of time where he wasn't where he
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Speaker 4: was mourning his wife dying.
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Speaker 1: Tell me that timeline one more time again.
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Speaker 4: So Lawrence, doctor Rudolph and the girlfriend. They traveled to
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Speaker 4: Cabo San Lucas, which is in Mexico. Beautiful, beautiful resort
27:22
Speaker 4: on the west coast, very nice. They went in twenty ten,
27:26
Speaker 4: then they went twice in twenty eleven. They went again
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Speaker 4: together in twenty thirteen, twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen, and then
27:34
Speaker 4: in July of twenty sixteen, just months before Beyonca's October
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Speaker 4: twenty sixteen deaths, they went to Coabo Stan Lucas. Then
27:40
Speaker 4: again in February of twenty seventeen.
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Speaker 1: That's right after she's killed, you die, yes, like three
27:49
Speaker 1: months after she's dead, he takes his mistress to Cabo. Okay,
27:57
Speaker 1: Doctor Joy Crasin, we need a shrink? What is wrong
28:02
Speaker 1: with men? Don't they think we'll notice he's taking his
28:06
Speaker 1: mistress on an international trip while his wife was just killed.
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Speaker 12: That's easy to track too, and looking at his thought processes?
28:16
Speaker 1: What's wrong with men? That was my question?
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Speaker 8: Oh well, we're just.
28:23
Speaker 1: Why don't you just do what my husband does? I've
28:26
Speaker 1: actually given up asking this. When he does something, I
28:29
Speaker 1: say what he's wrong with you? And he goes to everything.
28:32
Speaker 1: And when he says that, I'm kind of like, there's
28:35
Speaker 1: nowhere I can go with that and have to stop.
28:37
Speaker 1: It ruins the whole argument everything. I mean, this guy
28:41
Speaker 1: is a dentist for Pete's sake? Or is Alexis Tereschuk
28:45
Speaker 1: keeps calling him doctor Rudolph, And he doesn't think we're
28:49
Speaker 1: going to find out about the sex at the dentist office.
28:53
Speaker 1: Oh okay, whoa whoa whoa sex at the dentist office.
28:57
Speaker 1: I wish I hadn't even said that. I didn't know
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Speaker 1: those three words to be put together, sex and dentist
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Speaker 1: office forwards. Oh anything would find out about that, joy grasin.
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Speaker 12: I don't think he really cared because if you look
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Speaker 12: at how long he had been doing it and getting
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Speaker 12: away with.
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Speaker 1: It ten years?
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Speaker 4: Yeah?
29:14
Speaker 1: Is that right, Alexis.
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Speaker 12: Ten years a routine behavior for him.
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Speaker 4: Yep, almost a decade at least. They started traveling that
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Speaker 4: Kabos me Lucas in twenty ten, but they could have
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Speaker 4: been it may have been longer. That one of his
29:27
Speaker 4: other employees who left said that the person, the woman,
29:31
Speaker 4: confessed that they had been together for between fifty to
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Speaker 4: twenty years, which is almost ton't you know, his entire
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Speaker 4: time that he was.
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Speaker 1: Married, they had been married for thirty four years? What
29:40
Speaker 1: did he have a misstress on day one? Alexis?
29:43
Speaker 4: I mean it seems like, well, I don't know if
29:44
Speaker 4: he had a different mistress, but this one was very
29:46
Speaker 4: soon after.
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Speaker 1: And can you tell me? Is it true that within
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Speaker 1: twelve months, in less than twelve months, he moves her
29:55
Speaker 1: into the marital home. Is this true?
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Speaker 4: Yes, that is what the investigat determined, And in fact,
30:01
Speaker 4: people were calling her his new wife. They say they're
30:04
Speaker 4: not quite sure if they ever got married, but she
30:06
Speaker 4: definitely was living with him.
30:08
Speaker 1: So in less than a year he's moved her into
30:11
Speaker 1: the home and within a couple of months he's taking
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Speaker 1: her off for another sex soaked trip to Cabo Wow,
30:19
Speaker 1: jury's gonna love that. We're trying to find out more.
30:24
Speaker 1: Was it just sex that was the motive? Take a
30:29
Speaker 1: listen to our cut to a Melanie Gillespie at NBC.
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Speaker 2: Former employees we talked to didn't know Bianca personally, but
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Speaker 2: said Lawrence's behavior in the office was alarming.
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Speaker 3: I've ever been afraid to go to a job until
30:44
Speaker 3: this one.
30:45
Speaker 4: You know.
30:45
Speaker 3: I just was very uncomfortable, very uneasy around him.
30:48
Speaker 2: The FBI said the embassy in Zambia grew suspicious and
30:51
Speaker 2: looked into Beyonca's death. FBI agents found those life insurance
30:55
Speaker 2: policies were adjusted and updated just a few months before
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Speaker 2: their hunting trip. The agent said the primary beneficiary of
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Speaker 2: each of these policies was a revocable trust established by
31:04
Speaker 2: the RUDOLPHS. Honor about April twenty fifth, twenty sixteen. The
31:08
Speaker 2: terms of that trust made Lawrence the ultimate beneficiary. Witness
31:12
Speaker 2: has told investigators Lawrence was having extramarital affairs, allegedly with
31:16
Speaker 2: a former office manager who moved in with him in
31:18
Speaker 2: January of twenty seventeen, just months after Beyonca's death.
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Speaker 1: Not only that, Take a listen to our cut e
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Speaker 1: from Crime online dot Com.
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Speaker 7: After Beyonca Rudolph died, a friend contacted the FBI in Pretoria,
31:31
Speaker 7: South Africa, suggesting that Beyonca's death was foul play. The
31:35
Speaker 7: friend claimed that Lawrence Rudolph was verbally abusive and the
31:38
Speaker 7: couple had fought over money. What's more, she claimed Lawrence
31:41
Speaker 7: Rudolph was having an affair. She also pointed out that
31:44
Speaker 7: Beyonca Rudolph was a strict Catholic and would not have
31:47
Speaker 7: wanted to be cremated.
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Speaker 1: Would not have wanted to be cremated, And what better
31:53
Speaker 1: place to commit a murder than far far away from home?
31:59
Speaker 1: What about at least foreign police Lieutenant now director of
32:02
Speaker 1: the Center for Advanced Policing. Why is it when couples
32:06
Speaker 1: go away suddenly the woman ends up dead and the
32:08
Speaker 1: husband makes it.
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Speaker 10: Home easier to get away with in countries Like I
32:14
Speaker 10: hate to say, but in certain countries it's so much
32:17
Speaker 10: easier to get away with that type of crime.
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Speaker 1: Why do you hate to say? It is true because
32:22
Speaker 1: their police forces are not used to investigating homicides. It's
32:27
Speaker 1: just that simple. Like where I grew up in Bibb County,
32:32
Speaker 1: out in the middle of Middle Georgia, there were many
32:34
Speaker 1: less homicides than are in New York City or in
32:39
Speaker 1: inner city Atlanta. The reality is detectives are trained in
32:44
Speaker 1: the field, and when they don't see a lot of
32:46
Speaker 1: complicated homicides, then they don't know how to investigate them.
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Speaker 1: It's just it's not a slight in any way. It's reality,
32:54
Speaker 1: Lisa Daddio.
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Speaker 10: You're right, Nancy, and so that's why we're seeing it
32:58
Speaker 10: happen outside of the United States. Laws are different, penalties
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Speaker 10: are different, investigative techniques are different, and in this case,
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Speaker 10: it was believed he got away with murder.
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Speaker 1: You know, I'm just thinking about the way this whole
33:11
Speaker 1: thing went down. Take a listen to our.
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Speaker 7: Cut d The consular chief estimated that Bianca Rudolph had
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Speaker 7: been shot from between six and a half and eight
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Speaker 7: feet away. A separate inquiry by a Colorado medical examiner
33:24
Speaker 7: concluded that it would be physically impossible to accidentally fire
33:28
Speaker 7: the shotgun in its carrying case and produce an entrance
33:31
Speaker 7: defect noted on the body of Bianca Rudolph. The medical
33:35
Speaker 7: examiner determined the tip of the carrying case was at
33:38
Speaker 7: least two feet away from Bianca Rudolph when it discharged.
33:41
Speaker 7: What's more, at just five feet four inches tall, it
33:44
Speaker 7: would be extremely difficult, if not impossible, for Bianca Rudolph
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Speaker 7: to reach the trigger of the weapon, even if it
33:50
Speaker 7: was placed in the case with the muzzle pressed against
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Speaker 7: her chest.
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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Think about what the wife,
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Speaker 1: Bianca went through. She was shot with a Browning shotgun
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Speaker 1: in a cabin far away from home in Zambia, just
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Speaker 1: as the couple were planning to come home. It was
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Speaker 1: around five am October eleven. Gamekeepers and scouts hear a
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Speaker 1: gunshot come from the cabin. When they get there, they
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Speaker 1: find Beyonca lying on the ground with a gunshot wound
34:36
Speaker 1: to the chest. Now, of course, the husband claimed she
34:40
Speaker 1: did it to herself it was an accident, but prosecutors
34:44
Speaker 1: claimed Rudolph murdered his wife to be with mill Iron,
34:47
Speaker 1: who would bend his mistress for twenty years? Can you
34:52
Speaker 1: believe this? He says he was in an open marriage,
34:56
Speaker 1: as I tell my husband, open marriage, open casket. David Lynch. No,
35:02
Speaker 1: this woman did not know anything about any open marriage.
35:05
Speaker 1: And now she's dead and the mistress is heading to
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Speaker 1: jail where she needs to be What exactly happened between
35:13
Speaker 1: the longtime sex affair with the office manager and the
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Speaker 1: money motive millions of dollars and the forensics. I'm just
35:27
Speaker 1: surprised that it was initially ruled to be accidental. How
35:31
Speaker 1: did that happen?
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Speaker 4: Well, there were the investigation was very quickly ended. You know,
35:38
Speaker 4: he's a very very wealthy man who's obviously been going
35:42
Speaker 4: on these trips for years and years.
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Speaker 1: Do you know how rich people are, The more money
35:46
Speaker 1: they have, the more they don't want to share it.
35:49
Speaker 4: And he well, he did kind of share his money
35:51
Speaker 4: a little bit, because a witness has come forward and
35:55
Speaker 4: said that he was actually paying bribes to people in
35:58
Speaker 4: Zambia who expedite the cremation of his wife.
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Speaker 1: Did it work well, did yes?
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Speaker 4: She got she got cremated very quickly, and so she
36:08
Speaker 4: and it would have just nothing would have happened. But
36:11
Speaker 4: the US Embassy, that the person that was contacted in
36:14
Speaker 4: the US Embassy was very concerned that this was happening
36:17
Speaker 4: so quickly. So the embassy sent someone to the funeral
36:21
Speaker 4: home to take pictures of her body. And in fact
36:24
Speaker 4: they got these photos and these are what are being
36:26
Speaker 4: used now as prous because and he was curious when
36:29
Speaker 4: this happened. The officer in fact that he was quote
36:32
Speaker 4: livid that the embassy staff had taken photos and.
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Speaker 9: In the investator of his wife's dead body.
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Speaker 1: How did it go again, Alexis Tereshak. The funeral home
36:41
Speaker 1: gets the body and then what happens.
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Speaker 4: Well, so the doctor called the embassy and said, my
36:47
Speaker 4: wife has died. And then he's like, I need to
36:49
Speaker 4: get her out of the country really quickly. So I'm
36:52
Speaker 4: very concerned, you know. The consular chief at the embassy
36:55
Speaker 4: said Lawrence identified himself. He said she died of a gunshot.
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Speaker 4: And then he said, you know, we got to get
37:01
Speaker 4: her cremated and out of here very quickly, which seemed.
37:04
Speaker 1: A little suspicious.
37:05
Speaker 4: So the consoler chiefs called the funeral home, and then
37:10
Speaker 4: the funeral home said, we are scheduling the cremation for
37:14
Speaker 4: the next day. But this raised the flag for the
37:17
Speaker 4: embassy employee. He said this he had a bad feeling
37:20
Speaker 4: about this. He just thought it was going too quickly.
37:23
Speaker 4: After having a conversation with Larry, who said, you know,
37:25
Speaker 4: let's go, let's go, let's get it, get her cremated,
37:27
Speaker 4: let's get her out of here. And so he decided
37:30
Speaker 4: to take it upon himself, and he took two other
37:32
Speaker 4: employees from the embassy and they went to the funeral
37:35
Speaker 4: home and they took the photos.
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Speaker 1: And so I'm understanding that the husband, the dentist, was furious.
37:42
Speaker 1: You said that also.
37:43
Speaker 4: Yes, he was quote the livid that they had taken
37:49
Speaker 4: the pictures of her and the consular chief he said,
37:52
Speaker 4: come to the embassy. I will meet with you, but
37:54
Speaker 4: he declined. And so the interesting thing was the dentist
37:57
Speaker 4: was complaining. He was thinking, it's so good, it's going
37:59
Speaker 4: to be so hard to take the body back to
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Speaker 4: the United States. You must you need a leadlined coffin
38:05
Speaker 4: to do so, and it was a very difficult and
38:07
Speaker 4: very expensive, and that's why he just wanted to get
38:08
Speaker 4: her cremated. But they investigated. He has taken many of
38:13
Speaker 4: these large game animals back to the United States and
38:16
Speaker 4: they have to be transported in a similar fashion. You
38:19
Speaker 4: can't just stick them in your overnight bag and stick
38:21
Speaker 4: them in the cabin of the airplane. So he is
38:24
Speaker 4: very familiar with dealing with this and it's you know,
38:28
Speaker 4: it's not easy, but certainly if you wanted to take
38:31
Speaker 4: your wife's body home, them so that your children could
38:34
Speaker 4: see them before you cremate mommy, that that was something
38:37
Speaker 4: that could happen. But he was complaining, saying it was
38:39
Speaker 4: much too complicated and difficult, even though he'd been doing
38:42
Speaker 4: it for decades with animals.
38:43
Speaker 1: Alexis terresha crimeonline dot Com. Isn't it true that he
38:47
Speaker 1: allegedly also paid at least one tour guide to state
38:53
Speaker 1: as a witness how the tour guide saw the body
38:57
Speaker 1: and their bungalow.
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Speaker 4: Yes, that is what it claimed that he paid this
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Speaker 4: tour guide to say that she was on the ground
39:02
Speaker 4: that the gun was facing and it was just a
39:05
Speaker 4: few feet away from her.
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Speaker 1: Starting around, money doesn't seem to be helping him. Speaking
39:11
Speaker 1: of money, you know, the smarter people are, you'd think
39:15
Speaker 1: the better they could cover their tracks. Not necessarily true.
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Speaker 1: Take a listen to Royce Jones CBS are cut.
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Speaker 11: Four federal investigators alleged Rudolph killed his wife and had
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Speaker 11: her cremated in Africa in a scheme to collect millions
39:30
Speaker 11: in life insurance claims tied to her death. According to
39:34
Speaker 11: the criminal complaint, Rudolph allegedly made claims through seven different
39:38
Speaker 11: insurance companies, totaling more than four point eight million dollars
39:42
Speaker 11: in payouts. Investigators go on to say that Rudolph had
39:46
Speaker 11: his attorneys use FedEx to mail claim related documents to
39:49
Speaker 11: one of the insurance companies. The complaint also states the
39:53
Speaker 11: earliest life insurance policy to cover Bianca was purchased around
39:57
Speaker 11: nineteen eighty seven, and that the policies in which Lawrence
40:00
Speaker 11: Rudolph was the primary beneficiary were updated and adjusted in
40:04
Speaker 11: twenty sixteen, the same year Bianca died.
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Speaker 1: You know, to you, Donna dor Craws in psychologist faculty
40:10
Speaker 1: Saint Leo University, to adjust your wife's life insurance policy
40:15
Speaker 1: just before a rifle accident in Zambia. Isn't that a
40:21
Speaker 1: little bit too much for jury to swallow?
40:24
Speaker 8: Yeah?
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Speaker 12: And I think also he put it in a trust
40:27
Speaker 12: that he controlled. I mean again thinking like you know,
40:30
Speaker 12: I would consider him, thinking that he's considering he's covering
40:34
Speaker 12: his tracks by putting it in a trust. Yet you
40:37
Speaker 12: know the trust is under his total control.
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Speaker 1: Anti clousen to our cut one a our friend, Sheldon
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Speaker 1: Ingram at Pittsburgh Action News.
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Speaker 13: In twenty sixteen, It says Rudolph killed his wife, Bianca
40:50
Speaker 13: Rudolph during an African Safari in Zambia. He told authorities
40:55
Speaker 13: it was an accidental shooting, as Bianca packed away a
40:58
Speaker 13: shotgun and went off, but forensic analysis, they say, do
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Speaker 13: not match that story. And investigators also say Rudolph collective
41:07
Speaker 13: four point eight million dollars in life insurance after his
41:11
Speaker 13: wife's death. Those policies were updated the same year before
41:16
Speaker 13: her death, in October of twenty sixteen. Investigators also say
41:20
Speaker 13: they were told by a friend of Rudolph's wife that
41:23
Speaker 13: he had an active affair with another woman at the
41:26
Speaker 13: time of Bianca's death.
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Speaker 1: You know, to Nicole Devard Hodgeglove joining us from Houston.
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Speaker 1: The reality is, while this seems very nefarious, how hard
41:37
Speaker 1: is it going to be to prove all of this
41:40
Speaker 1: ballistics without a body and without the appropriate investigative photos
41:45
Speaker 1: and measurements.
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Speaker 9: That's a great point, And the reality is that I
41:48
Speaker 9: think this is where the defense team has its strongest argument.
41:51
Speaker 9: They don't have the ability to go back and analyze
41:54
Speaker 9: the forensics because there were no forensics.
41:56
Speaker 4: There were a few photographs.
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Speaker 9: In photographs can really look different based on perspective, and
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Speaker 9: that's why you'll see in the complaint the FBI has
42:06
Speaker 9: spent such a huge amount of time going back and
42:09
Speaker 9: trying to reconstruct these photographs still though the data just
42:14
Speaker 9: can never be there.
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Speaker 1: Take a listen to our cut five from Pittsburgh Action
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Speaker 1: News Tom Garris.
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Speaker 14: A federal grand jury is charging the owner of three
42:24
Speaker 14: Rivers Dental with foreign murder and mail fraud. The FBI
42:30
Speaker 14: claiming that Lawrence Rudolph killed his wife in twenty sixteen
42:33
Speaker 14: on that hunting trip in Zambia in order to collect
42:37
Speaker 14: nearly five million dollars in life insurance money. Now, the
42:41
Speaker 14: FBI also says the owner of the dental practice had
42:44
Speaker 14: a long time relationship with a manager.
42:47
Speaker 1: At the practice.
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Speaker 14: That woman is said to have given Rudolph and ultimatum
42:50
Speaker 14: to sell the dental offices and to leave his wife,
42:52
Speaker 14: Bianca within a year.
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Speaker 1: The ultimatum, the money, the mistress, the forensics. What does
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Speaker 1: it boil down to a federal grand jury or investigation?
43:05
Speaker 1: Does not a conviction make well? He was taken into custody? Ultimately,
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Speaker 1: take a listen to our cut one.
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Speaker 13: Doctor Laurence Rudolph owns three Ververs Dental and he greets
43:17
Speaker 13: all callers with a recorded automated message. But tonight he
43:21
Speaker 13: is in federal custody in Colorado, accused of murdering his wife.
43:25
Speaker 13: No one in his five officers are talking, which includes
43:28
Speaker 13: locations in Greensburg and Green Tree. His arrest is detailed
43:32
Speaker 13: in a twenty one page affidavit from the FBI. It
43:36
Speaker 13: details how he allegedly killed his wife to collect more
43:39
Speaker 13: than four million dollars with a life insurance policy.
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Speaker 1: And that's not all. Take a listen to what the
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Speaker 1: defense says. Our cut six from KDKA.
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Speaker 15: Doctor Larry Rudolph's attorneys call this case manufacture, saying it's
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Speaker 15: so weak they're keeping a nearly seventy year old man with.
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Speaker 1: A severe heart condition in jail.
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Speaker 15: All is part of what they're calling an FBI witch hunt.
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Speaker 15: In court documents just released, attorneys claimed the couple signed
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Speaker 15: a prenup saying he wouldn't lose much during a divorce,
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Speaker 15: and also claiming his dental franchise, Three Rivers Dental, is
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Speaker 15: valued a close to eight million dollars. Claiming he had
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Speaker 15: no financial reason.
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Speaker 1: To kill his wife, local law.
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Speaker 15: Enforcement in Africa rolled it an accident and allowed for
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Speaker 15: cremation days after her death. Now, FBI agents believe Bianca
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Speaker 15: could not have physically pulled the trigger.
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Speaker 1: Investigators believe his.
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Speaker 15: Wife's life insurance policies, some adjusted in the months leading
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Speaker 15: up to her death, tell a different story, a nearly
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Speaker 15: five million dollar story. The dates show doctor Rudolph received
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Speaker 15: the money in under one month's time.
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Speaker 1: He got the money in under one month's time after
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Speaker 1: her death. And don't be feeling sorry for this guy
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Speaker 1: because he's seventy years old. He's still young enough to
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Speaker 1: take his mistress to Cabo for a six soaked weekend Again,
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Speaker 1: our friends at crime Online.
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Speaker 7: Larry Rudolph convicted of first degree murder and mil fraud.
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Speaker 7: Rudolf is still in jail awaiting his sentencing. His mistress,
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Speaker 7: Lorie Milron, now sentenced to seventeen years in prison as
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Speaker 7: an accessory to the murder of Bianca Rudolph.
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Speaker 1: Justice unfolding in a Pennsylvania courtroom.
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Speaker 6: Goodbye friend,