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Secret Sex Life Revealed After Millionaire Dentist-Wife "Commits Suicide" on African Safari With Hubby · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. You know, when I go
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Speaker 1: into a home and I see wild animals stuffed and
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Speaker 1: put up on the wall, feels like their fake eyes
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Speaker 1: are watching me everywhere I go. I can't help but
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Speaker 1: wonder how people would feel if animals kill them and
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Speaker 1: put them on their walls. Safaris. I can't really connect
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Speaker 1: with safari's a They're incredibly expensive and be whatever happened
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Speaker 1: to a photo safari? Why do you have to kill
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Speaker 1: the animal that you're admiring and stuff it and stick
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Speaker 1: it on your wall? I don't understand that, but hey,
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Speaker 1: to each their own. A lot of people just take
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Speaker 1: it as a matter of fact SOP standard operating procedure
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Speaker 1: that safaris do happen just for the thrill of the kill,
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Speaker 1: and innocent animals are hunted down with scopes and shot
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Speaker 1: at distances where they have no idea what's happening? Innocent animals?
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Speaker 1: But what about innocent wives that are shot dead on
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Speaker 1: extravagant safaris. I'm Nancy Grace, this is Crime Stories. Thank
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Speaker 1: you for being with us here at Fox Nation and
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Speaker 1: Serious x one eleven. You know you think of dentists
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Speaker 1: being meek and mild mannered think again, listen to this
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Speaker 1: nine at life insurance policies totally more than four point
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Speaker 1: eight million dollars could be a possible motive for murderer.
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Speaker 1: Doctor Lawrence Rudolf ran Three Rivers Dental for decades, but
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Speaker 1: he's now charged by federal agents for allegedly scheming to
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Speaker 1: defraud life insurance companies after his wife was shot and
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Speaker 1: killed on a big game hunting trip in Zambia more
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Speaker 1: than five years ago. In a detail twenty three page
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Speaker 1: complaint defensive, they believe Lawrence murdered his wife, Bianca, with
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Speaker 1: premeditation in such a manner that he could falsely claim
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Speaker 1: the death was the result of an accident. The claims
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Speaker 1: don't come as shocking for Lisa Stanley, who used to
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Speaker 1: work for doctor Rudolph in his Green Tree office. Honestly,
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Speaker 1: I wasn't surprised. It's as soon as I saw the name,
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Speaker 1: I knew exactly who it was, and I thought to myself, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm not like that surprised. Former employees we talked to
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Speaker 1: didn't know Bianca personally, but said Lawrence's behavior in the
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Speaker 1: office was alarming. I've never been afraid to go to
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Speaker 1: a job until this one. You know, I just was
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Speaker 1: very uncomfortable, very uneasy around him. Wow, when people are
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Speaker 1: afraid to go to work afraid of the dentist again,
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Speaker 1: I mean, and see, Grace, this is crime stories. Thanks
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Speaker 1: for being with us. So how did Bianca Phanisia 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: colleague Jim Ray at Inside Edition. On the last day
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Speaker 1: of their two week trip, a gunshot was heard coming
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Speaker 1: from their cabin. Bianca Rudolph was found dead with a
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Speaker 1: gunshot wound to the chest. According to the criminal complaint,
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Speaker 1: her dentist husband told Zambie and police he believed his
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Speaker 1: wife had accidentally shot herself with her twelve gage shotgun
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Speaker 1: while she was packing up the weapon. The dentist came
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Speaker 1: up or suspicion after a US empathy. Official said he
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Speaker 1: believed that the distance between the muzzle of the shotgun
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Speaker 1: and Bianca's chest was approximately six point five to eight feet,
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Speaker 1: according to the criminal complaint. If true, it would make
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Speaker 1: an accidental shooting unlikely, which opens up a whole cannon
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Speaker 1: worms about how do you commit suicide with a long gun? Now,
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Speaker 1: believe it or not, I've seen a few cases like
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Speaker 1: that where the person sits down with their legs extended
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Speaker 1: straight out in front of them, like on the floor,
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Speaker 1: they point the rifle toward them, the long gun, and
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Speaker 1: they actually pulled 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 pully 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: crime online dot com. This is Jackie Howard and our
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Speaker 1: cut a. Lawrence and Bianca. Rudolph meet while Rudolph is
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Speaker 1: in dental school. Bianca is an undergraduate at the University
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Speaker 1: of Pittsburgh. The couple marry in nineteen eighty two, around
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Speaker 1: the same time that Lawrence starts a dental firm, Bianca
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Speaker 1: Rudolph joins her husband working in the practice. In two
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Speaker 1: thousand and six, Rudolph separates from his partners, forming a
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Speaker 1: new dental group, three Rivers Dental. In twenty fourteen, the
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Speaker 1: couple moved to Arizona, but keep the practices in Pennsylvania.
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Speaker 1: Their net worth about eight million dollars. When they aren't working,
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Speaker 1: the couple likes to travel worldwide and hunt, especially in Africa.
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Speaker 1: Both Lawrence and Bianca are well respected international hunters, with
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Speaker 1: Bianca occasionally undertaking excursions without her husband. They become active
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Speaker 1: members of Safar Club International, a prominent hunting organization, with
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Speaker 1: Lawrence serving at one time as the club's president. Okay,
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Speaker 1: the way I was raised, you don't shoot anything you're
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Speaker 1: not going to eat. So I'm just wondering about all
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Speaker 1: the hunting at Don't get me wrong. I believe and
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Speaker 1: the right to bear arms. While I support gun control
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Speaker 1: in many cases being a victim of gun violence to
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Speaker 1: go hunting is covered in the Constitution, and that's not
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Speaker 1: what we're arguing about we're arguing about murder with me
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Speaker 1: and all star panel to make sense of what we
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Speaker 1: know right now. First of all, high profile lawyer joining
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Speaker 1: me out of Houston, former prosecutor Nicole Deboard hots Globe
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Speaker 1: and you can find her at Houston Criminal Defense dot com.
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Speaker 1: Doctor Jory Krals and a boy, do we need a shrink?
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Speaker 1: He is a psychologist on faculty at Saint Leo University,
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Speaker 1: consultant with a Blue Wall Institute, and author of Operation
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Speaker 1: s O s Lisa daddy O. Former Police looten in Haven,
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Speaker 1: Senior Lecturer and Director of the Center for Advanced Policing
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Speaker 1: at University of New Haven. Doctor Tim Gallagher. He is
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Speaker 1: the medical Examiner for the entire State of Florida, lecturer
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Speaker 1: University of Florida Medical School in Forensic Medicine, and he
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Speaker 1: is the founder and host of the International Forensic Medicine
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Speaker 1: Death Investigation Conference. Wow, that's a mouthful, and that's just
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Speaker 1: a tiny portion of his resume. But first to Alexis
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Speaker 1: Terresche joining me crime online dot com investigative reporter. You know, Alexis,
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Speaker 1: We've covered so many cases where the woman ends up
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Speaker 1: dead and the man miraculously survives the scenario. And also, Alexis,
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Speaker 1: We've covered a lot of cases where the deaths of
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Speaker 1: these women happen either on the high seas or in
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Speaker 1: another country, some little island that many people have only
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Speaker 1: heard of and can barely find on a map. But
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Speaker 1: you know, to commit a crime in another country, a
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Speaker 1: murder when you pick a country that has let's just
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Speaker 1: say an underdeveloped police department. Let's say this is not
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Speaker 1: the NYPD Homicide Task Force investigating this in Zambia. I'm
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Speaker 1: putting the cart before the horses. I love to call
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Speaker 1: you on an Alexis tres Chuck. Why don't we start
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Speaker 1: at the beginning, Tell me everything, don't leave anything out,
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Speaker 1: Alexis okay. So Lawrence and Beyond, as you said, they
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Speaker 1: have been hunting for decades. They take a trip to Zambia.
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Speaker 1: It is about a two week trip. They leave on
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Speaker 1: their final day of the trip early early in the morning.
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Speaker 1: They are getting ready to leave all of their in
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Speaker 1: a small, one bedroom, one bathroom cabin. All of a sudden,
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Speaker 1: a shot rings out. Lawrence says that his wife was
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Speaker 1: in the living room, he was in the bathroom. He
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Speaker 1: runs into the other room. He sees that there she
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Speaker 1: is on the ground bleeding. He hears, he hears the shotgun.
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Speaker 1: So the people from as you said, you know, it's
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Speaker 1: a hunting trip, it's safari. There are a lot of
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Speaker 1: people there. Everybody comes running to their hut, and she
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Speaker 1: is on the ground. The gun, which is a long
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Speaker 1: barrel shotgun, is sort of tucked a little bit into
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Speaker 1: a case. It's like a soft sided travel case. And
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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 rifle, is tucked in the carry case. Yes,
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Speaker 1: I assume that would be the butt. Go ahead, so
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Speaker 1: he What Larenza said is that she was packing up
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Speaker 1: the gun because they were getting ready to leave. He
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Speaker 1: was in mathroom. She was packing it up and it
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Speaker 1: fired accidentally. She accidentally, somehow, somehow triggered the trigger and
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Speaker 1: it shot her right in the chest and knocked her,
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Speaker 1: blew her to the ground. So from what you're telling me,
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Speaker 1: she is an experience hunter herself, yes, and would go
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Speaker 1: on safari's without him, So she knows how to handle
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Speaker 1: a gun. Yes, And in fact, she was the only
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Speaker 1: one hunting. She was the only one hunting this time
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Speaker 1: because she wanted to kill a leopard. They had a
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Speaker 1: special permit for her to kill a leopard and shoot.
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Speaker 1: So this was her specials to kill the leopard that
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Speaker 1: was her soul. This time Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
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Speaker 1: I want you to take a listen to what our
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Speaker 1: friends have to say at crime Online. Our cut b
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Speaker 1: Bianca Rudolph was shot in the chest, the bullet coming
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Speaker 1: from her personal shotgun. Lawrence Rudolph told the Zambian police
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Speaker 1: he had been in the bathroom when he heard the
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Speaker 1: gun shot. Rudolph said he found his wife lie on
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Speaker 1: the ground bleeding and believed that the gun had gone
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Speaker 1: off while Bianca Rudolph was trying to pack it into
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Speaker 1: its case. Lawrence Rudolph said he believed the gun was
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Speaker 1: still loaded from their previous day's hunt. Still loaded, I mean,
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Speaker 1: any expert marksman does not leave a gun loaded, much
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Speaker 1: less pointed towards yourself when it's loaded. Enter doctor Tim Gallagher.
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Speaker 1: You know they were now a medical examiner I told
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Speaker 1: you about earlier, the medical examiner for the entire state
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Speaker 1: of Florida. Doctor Gallagher, could you put in regular people talk,
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Speaker 1: doctor Gallagher, what is a trajectory path? Well, a trajectory
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Speaker 1: path is the path or the track that the bullet
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Speaker 1: takes when it exits the muzzle of the firearm. You know,
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Speaker 1: in this case, we're talking about a shotgun, and a
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Speaker 1: shotgun is different than a handgun and a rifle, and
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Speaker 1: a handgun, when you pull the trigger once, one bullet
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Speaker 1: comes out of the firearm, a shotgun is different when
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Speaker 1: you pull the trigger once in a shotgun, many many
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Speaker 1: bullets or projectiles or lead shot come out of the
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Speaker 1: shotgun all at once, and they come out in a
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Speaker 1: very clustered, tight pattern, kind of like a bunch of grapes,
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Speaker 1: and then as they fly through the air, they just
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Speaker 1: spread apart a little bit more. And judging by how
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Speaker 1: much the projectile spread apart, you can determine how far
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Speaker 1: those that lead traveled after it left the gun and
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Speaker 1: hit the body. So you can determine the range of
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Speaker 1: fire from the bullet wound or the projectile wounds and
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Speaker 1: your knowledge of ballistics. So this is an area of
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Speaker 1: forensic called ballistics, and this is typically what they do
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Speaker 1: on a daily basis, check for a range of fire,
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Speaker 1: how far was the victim from the gun when the
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Speaker 1: gun was discharged. Doctor Gallagher, what you just said was
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Speaker 1: like an aria. It was just beautiful. I feel like
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Speaker 1: the Mormon Tabernacle required just let loose in this studio.
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Speaker 1: We thank you, Anthony, thank you listening to you talk
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Speaker 1: all day long. I bet Jerry's love you come on
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Speaker 1: to come on down to the conference one year at
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Speaker 1: me you just said, and tell me if I've got
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Speaker 1: it right. So with a shotgun, which is unlike a
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Speaker 1: rifle or a handgun, it's a long gun. It shoots
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Speaker 1: out a spray of buckshot, and the closer you are
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Speaker 1: to the muzzle, the tighter together the pellets will be.
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Speaker 1: The further way you are, you get more of the spray,
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Speaker 1: it will be a wider gunshot. Win correct the spy pattern.
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Speaker 1: You're absolutely right, And I guess you would also look
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Speaker 1: for stippling, which would be burning on the scan if
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Speaker 1: the muzzle the gun is contact, and you would look
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Speaker 1: for gunshot residue on the victim's hands. Jump in. You're right,
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Speaker 1: I mean that's true. But one thing we have to
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Speaker 1: know here is that the gun may have been fired
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Speaker 1: through the gun case, and if there's an intermediary target,
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Speaker 1: the range of fire distance becomes less precise. You have
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Speaker 1: to adjust. So was the gun shot through the case,
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Speaker 1: what is the case made of? Canvas. Was it made
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Speaker 1: of plastic? Could have been metal in the case. So
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Speaker 1: all those would affect the range of fire, and that
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Speaker 1: has to be determined into your equation, and it would
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Speaker 1: defuse the pellets. Understood, I don't have any evidence that
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Speaker 1: the gun case was shot in any way, Jack, You
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Speaker 1: know so, Wow, this is quite the the You know this,
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Speaker 1: This woman should have been a contortionist for the circus
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Speaker 1: because she somehow managed to get the butt end of
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Speaker 1: the shotgun in that I'll just say, leather carrying pouts
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Speaker 1: or canvas, whatever it was, and shoot herself before the
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Speaker 1: muzzle could be put in. Wow, that's certainly a feat.
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Speaker 1: M Lisa M. Daddyo for a police lieutenant in Haven PD,
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Speaker 1: now direct or Center for Advanced Policing, Lisa Daddio, how
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Speaker 1: many suicides have you seen with a long gun? None?
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Speaker 1: It's not um. It's very difficult to do, given a
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Speaker 1: lot of different things. The length of the barrel, just
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Speaker 1: how long you would need to be unless you rig
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Speaker 1: it somehow in order to kill yourself. And so in
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Speaker 1: twenty years of doing investigations, and whether it was me
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Speaker 1: or the people that worked for me, we never had
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Speaker 1: a single case. Wow. Never never once, never once. When
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Speaker 1: you say it would be difficult to rig it to
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Speaker 1: commit suicide with a long gun, how could it be done?
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Speaker 1: You know, there are well documented cases where people prop
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Speaker 1: it up in such a way where they like put
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Speaker 1: a string on the trigger and then they pull the
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Speaker 1: string in order to kill themselves theoretically causing the gun
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Speaker 1: to go off. That's been kind of the most common,
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Speaker 1: and then there's been other like contraptions that they actually
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Speaker 1: make because they're so determined on killing themselves the shotgun,
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Speaker 1: which as you can imagine, causes catastrophic, permanent and death
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Speaker 1: injuries no matter where you get it. If you get
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Speaker 1: it center mass and up, you know, your body, parts
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Speaker 1: of your body are shredded. So those that are really
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Speaker 1: kind of set on killing themselves utilizing a long gun,
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Speaker 1: a shotgun, her rifle have designed ways to do it
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Speaker 1: versus where it would be just much easier with a handgun.
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Speaker 1: But you can survive with a handgun, you know. Another factor,
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Speaker 1: Lisa daddy Oh, is that the victim in this case, Bianca,
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Speaker 1: is only five four, So even then it makes it
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Speaker 1: much more difficult. I mean, unless she has like these
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Speaker 1: super you know, not human arms that are you know
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Speaker 1: four feet long. How the heck is she killing herself
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Speaker 1: and hitting herself in the chest? Time stories with Nancy Grace.
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Speaker 1: He wanted his wife's body cremated immediately. I know that
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Speaker 1: Nicoladeward Hotscholow, former prosecutor now high profile defense attorney out
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Speaker 1: of Houston, would claim this means absolutely nothing. The fact
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Speaker 1: that he wanted his wife's body cremated right there in Zambia.
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Speaker 1: Forget about bringing her body home for a burial. He
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Speaker 1: wanted to bring her back and a plastic bag. Okay,
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Speaker 1: take a list of our cut sea again our friends
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Speaker 1: a crime online. Laurence Rudolph called the US Embassy in
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Speaker 1: Zambia while discussing funeral options. Rudolph tells officials that he
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Speaker 1: wants Bianca Rudolph's body cremated. She is. Just three days
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Speaker 1: after the shooting, the US Embassy's consular chief alerted the FBI,
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Speaker 1: saying he thought the situation was moving too quickly, so
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Speaker 1: the chief, along with two embassy officials, traveled to a
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Speaker 1: local funeral home to take photos of the body to
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Speaker 1: preserve evidence. During the funeral home visit, doctor Rudolph suggested
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Speaker 1: that Bianca may have committed suicide. The funeral home visit
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Speaker 1: troubled embassy officials. The consular chief, a twenty year US
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Speaker 1: Marine veterans, told investigators that the angle of the wound
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Speaker 1: was straight on the heart, not angled as it would
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Speaker 1: be from a self inflicted shot from a long arm.
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Speaker 1: The chief also pointed out that the wound did not
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Speaker 1: appear to be caused by a tight group of pellets.
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Speaker 1: When a shotgun fire's buckshot, the pellets spread out as
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Speaker 1: they traveled to a target. Up clothes, the pellets would
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Speaker 1: be tight. There were also no gas burns on the body,
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Speaker 1: which are typical for gunshot wounds at point blank or
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Speaker 1: near point blank range. The consular chief also noted that
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Speaker 1: Bianca had a second injury to the chest, caused by
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Speaker 1: wadding from a shotgun cartridge. Now it's really interested that
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Speaker 1: he immediately wants his wife cremated now in the Coldeboard
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Speaker 1: hots globe. You yourself are the one that told me
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Speaker 1: that she was Catholic. Now, what does that have to
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Speaker 1: do with anything. Well, her friends and family say that
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Speaker 1: that is not what she would have wanted, That she
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Speaker 1: would not have wanted to be cremated. And I've all
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Speaker 1: learned that in fact, there was a family member or
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Speaker 1: a close friend of the couple who tried to talk
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Speaker 1: to him about not having her cremated, and he persisted.
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Speaker 1: So I think these are going to be difficult, circumstantial
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Speaker 1: pieces of evidence for the defense, but they certainly don't
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Speaker 1: mean that he killed her on purpose. Take a listen
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Speaker 1: to our friend Royce Jones at CBS. Bianca's death was
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Speaker 1: ruled an accident by Zambian law enforcement and that Lawrence
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Speaker 1: Rudolph told police he suspected the gun discharged while she
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Speaker 1: was packing it into its case. We reached out to
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Speaker 1: doctor Rudolph's attorneys. They all say this is outrageous. Doctor
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Speaker 1: Larry Rudolph loved his wife of thirty four years and
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Speaker 1: did not kill her. They go on to say that
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Speaker 1: the government is seeking to manufacture a case against this
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Speaker 1: well respected and law abiding dentist. Straight out to Alexa's
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Speaker 1: Terrestschik with Crime online dot Com. So, Alexa's terrest ship
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Speaker 1: they had been married thirty four years, is that correct?
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Speaker 1: They had thirty four years, They had two children together.
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Speaker 1: One of their adult children actually worked in the dental
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Speaker 1: practice with dad with Larry. Wow. Okay, well, surprise, surprise, surprise,
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Speaker 1: as my friend Gumer Pyle would say, take a listen
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Speaker 1: to our cut three B Jim Moray with Inside Edition.
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Speaker 1: The investigation was launched after a friend of Bianca's told
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Speaker 1: the EPIID she suspected foul play because doctor Rudolph was
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Speaker 1: allegedly having an affair with the manager of his dental
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Speaker 1: office outside Pittsburgh. The dentist's alleged mistress reportedly gave him
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Speaker 1: an ultimatum of one year to sell his dental offices
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Speaker 1: and leave Bianca. An ultimatum, alexis ters Chuck, did you
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Speaker 1: leave a little one of the facts out an ultimatum
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Speaker 1: a mistress that he works with? I mean, really, could
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Speaker 1: somebody just surprised me one time and not be the
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Speaker 1: secretary or the assistant. I remember one case, the husband's
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Speaker 1: having a middle five crisis and he starts an affair
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Speaker 1: with the cashier and the GNC where he's buying all
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Speaker 1: sorts of vitamin supplements to enhance his manhood. You know,
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Speaker 1: surprise me for one time. For Pete say, alexis a
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Speaker 1: sex affair, and it wasn't just for a month or two,
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Speaker 1: it was about a decade. And in fact, he and
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Speaker 1: this girlfriend that they traveled out of the country all
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Speaker 1: the time. They would constantly go to Cabo sant Lucas.
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Speaker 1: They went in twenty ten, they went twice in twenty eleven.
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Speaker 1: They went again in twenty thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, and in
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Speaker 1: July twenty sixteen before Bianca's jest just a few months later,
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Speaker 1: and then after she died, just a few short months
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Speaker 1: after she died. Three months after she died, they went
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Speaker 1: back to Cabo again, he and the girlfriend. It was
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Speaker 1: there was barely a blip of time where he wasn't
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Speaker 1: where he was mourning his wife dying. Tell me that
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Speaker 1: timeline one more time again. So Lawrence, doctor Rudolph and
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Speaker 1: the girlfriend. They traveled to Cabo San Lucas, which is
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Speaker 1: a Mexico beautiful, beautiful resort on the west coast. Very
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Speaker 1: nine they went in twenty ten, then they went twice
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Speaker 1: in twenty eleven. They went again together in twenty thirteen,
23:07
Speaker 1: twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen, and then in July of twenty sixteen,
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Speaker 1: just months before beyond because October twenty sixteen deaths, they
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Speaker 1: went to Calbus ben Lucas. Then again in February of
23:19
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, that's right after she's killed. Yes, like three
23:26
Speaker 1: months after she's dead. He takes his mistress to Cabo. Okay,
23:33
Speaker 1: doctor Jerry Crossing, we need a shrink? What is wrong
23:38
Speaker 1: with men? Don't they think we'll notice he's taking his
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Speaker 1: mistress on an international trip while his wife was just killed.
23:47
Speaker 1: That's easy to track two. And it's looking at his thought. Pross,
23:53
Speaker 1: that's what's wrong with men? That was my question. Oh well,
23:57
Speaker 1: we're just did you just see what my husband does?
24:02
Speaker 1: I've actually given up asking this. When he does something,
24:05
Speaker 1: I say, what are he's wrong with you? And he
24:08
Speaker 1: goes to everything. And when he says that, I'm kind
24:10
Speaker 1: of like there's no where I can go with that
24:12
Speaker 1: and have to stop. It ruins the whole argument everything.
24:16
Speaker 1: I mean, this guy is a dentist, repeat say, or
24:21
Speaker 1: is Alexis TERRESTIUK keeps calling him doctor Rudolph And he
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Speaker 1: doesn't think we're gonna find out about the sex at
24:28
Speaker 1: the dentist office. Oh okay, whoa whoa whoa sex? Said
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Speaker 1: the dentist office. I wish I hadn't even said that.
24:35
Speaker 1: I didn't know those three words should be put together,
24:38
Speaker 1: sex and dentist office. Forwards Oh, he didn't think would
24:42
Speaker 1: find out about that. Jerry Crossen. I don't think he
24:45
Speaker 1: really cared because if you look at how long he
24:47
Speaker 1: had been doing it and getting away with it. Ten years, Yeah,
24:51
Speaker 1: is that right, Alexis? Ten years a routine behavior for him. Yep,
24:56
Speaker 1: almost a decade at least. They started traveling to Cambo
24:59
Speaker 1: Saint Lucas in twenty ten, but they could have been
25:02
Speaker 1: it may have been longer that. One of his other
25:04
Speaker 1: employees who left said that the person, the woman, confessed
25:08
Speaker 1: that they had been together for between fifty to twenty years,
25:10
Speaker 1: which is almost to his entire time that he was married. Mean,
25:14
Speaker 1: they have been married for thirty four years. When did
25:16
Speaker 1: he have a mistress on day one? Alexis? I mean
25:19
Speaker 1: it seems like but well, I don't know if he
25:21
Speaker 1: had a different mistress, but this one was very soon after.
25:24
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
25:31
Speaker 1: into the Marriagal home. Is this true? Yes, that is
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Speaker 1: what the investigators determined, and in fact, people were calling
25:38
Speaker 1: her his new wife. They say they're not quite sure
25:41
Speaker 1: if they ever got married, but she definitely was living
25:43
Speaker 1: with him. So in less than a year, he's moved
25:47
Speaker 1: her into the home, and within a couple of months
25:51
Speaker 1: he's taking her off for another sex soaked trip to Cabo. Wow,
25:56
Speaker 1: A jury's gonna love that. We're trying to find out more.
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Speaker 1: Was it just sex that was the motive? Take a
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Speaker 1: listen to our cut to a Melanie Gillespie at NBC.
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Speaker 1: Former employees we talked to didn't know Bianca personally, but
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Speaker 1: said Lawrence's behavior in the office was alarming. I've never
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Speaker 1: been afraid to go to a job until this one.
26:21
Speaker 1: You know. I just was very uncomfortable, very uneasy around him.
26:25
Speaker 1: The FBI said the embassy in Zambia grew suspicious and
26:28
Speaker 1: looked into Bianca's death. FBI agents found those life insurance
26:31
Speaker 1: policies were adjusted and updated just a few months before
26:34
Speaker 1: their hunting trip. The agent said the primary beneficiary of
26:38
Speaker 1: each of these policies was a revocable trust established by
26:41
Speaker 1: the RUDOLPHS. Honor about April twenty five, twenty sixteen. The
26:45
Speaker 1: terms of that trust made Lawrence the ultimate beneficiary. Witnesses
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Speaker 1: told investigators Lawrence was having extramarital affairs, allegedly with a
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Speaker 1: former office manager who moved in with him in January
26:55
Speaker 1: of twenty seventeen, just months after Bianca's death. Not only that,
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Speaker 1: take a listen to our cute from crime online dot Com.
27:04
Speaker 1: After Bianca Rudolph died, a friend contacted the FBI in Pretoria,
27:07
Speaker 1: South Africa, suggesting that Bianca's death was final play. The
27:11
Speaker 1: friend claimed that Lawrence Rudolph was verbally abusive and the
27:14
Speaker 1: couple had fought over money. What's more, she claimed Lawrence
27:17
Speaker 1: Rudolph was having an affair. She also pointed out that
27:20
Speaker 1: Bianca Rudolph was a strict Catholic and would not have
27:23
Speaker 1: wanted to be cremated. Would not have wanted to be cremated,
27:29
Speaker 1: And what better place to commit a murder than far
27:33
Speaker 1: far away from home? What about a Lisa Daddy I
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Speaker 1: foreim police lieutenant now director of the Center for Advanced Policing.
27:41
Speaker 1: Why is it when couples go away suddenly the woman
27:44
Speaker 1: ends up dead and the husband makes it home easier
27:46
Speaker 1: to get away with in countries like and I hate
27:51
Speaker 1: to say, but in certain countries it's much easier to
27:54
Speaker 1: get away with that type of crime. Why do you
27:56
Speaker 1: hate to say? It is true because their police forces
28:00
Speaker 1: are not used to investigating homicides. It's just that simple.
28:05
Speaker 1: Like where I grew up in bib County, out in
28:08
Speaker 1: the middle of Middle Georgia, there were many less homicides
28:12
Speaker 1: were than are in New York City or in inner
28:15
Speaker 1: city Atlanta. The reality is detectives are trained in the field,
28:21
Speaker 1: and when they don't see a lot of complicated homicides,
28:24
Speaker 1: then they don't know how to investigate them. It's just
28:27
Speaker 1: it's not a slight in any way. It's reality. Lisa,
28:31
Speaker 1: Daddy O your rainancy, And so that's why we're seeing
28:35
Speaker 1: it happen outside of the United States. Audible laws are different,
28:38
Speaker 1: penalties are different, investigative techniques are different. And in this case,
28:43
Speaker 1: it was believed he got away with murder. You know,
28:45
Speaker 1: I'm just thinking about the way this whole thing went down.
28:50
Speaker 1: Take a listen to our cut d The consular chief
28:53
Speaker 1: estimated that Bianca Rudolph had been shot from between six
28:56
Speaker 1: and a half and eight feet away. A separate inquiry
28:59
Speaker 1: by a Colorado medical examiner concluded that it would be
29:02
Speaker 1: physically impossible to accidentally fire the shotgun in its carrying
29:06
Speaker 1: case and produce an entrance defect noted on the body
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Speaker 1: of Bianca Rudolph. The medical examiner determined the tip of
29:13
Speaker 1: the carrying case was at least two feet away from
29:16
Speaker 1: Bianca Rudolph when it discharged. What's more, at just five
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Speaker 1: feet four inches tall, it would be extremely difficult, if
29:22
Speaker 1: not impossible, for Bianca Rudolph to reach the trigger of
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Speaker 1: the weapon, even if it was placed in the case
29:28
Speaker 1: with the muzzle pressed against her chest. Crime Stories with
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Speaker 1: Nancy Grace So Alexais Teresia crime online dot Com. Between
29:50
Speaker 1: the longtime sex affair with the office manager and the
29:57
Speaker 1: money motive millions of do dollars and the forensics, I'm
30:04
Speaker 1: just surprised that it was initially rule to be accidental.
30:08
Speaker 1: How did that happen? Well, there were the investigation was
30:13
Speaker 1: very quickly ended. He's you know, he's a very very
30:17
Speaker 1: wealthy man who's obviously been going on these trips for
30:20
Speaker 1: years and years. Do you know how rich papal are.
30:23
Speaker 1: The more money they have, the more they don't want
30:25
Speaker 1: to share it. And he well, he did kind of
30:28
Speaker 1: share his money a little bit because a witness has
30:31
Speaker 1: come forward and said that he was actually paying bride
30:34
Speaker 1: to people in Zambia to expedite the cremation of his wife.
30:40
Speaker 1: Did it work well? Did yes? She got she got
30:43
Speaker 1: cremated very quickly, and so she and it would have
30:46
Speaker 1: just nothing would have happened. But the the US Embassy,
30:50
Speaker 1: the person that was contacted in the US Embassy, was
30:53
Speaker 1: very concerned that this was happening so quickly. So the
30:56
Speaker 1: embassy sent someone to the funeral home to take pictures
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Speaker 1: of her body, and in fact, they got these photos
31:02
Speaker 1: and these are what are being used now as proved
31:05
Speaker 1: because and he was curious when this happened. The officer
31:08
Speaker 1: in fact that he was quote livid that the embassy
31:11
Speaker 1: staff had taken photos and the investiator of his wife's
31:15
Speaker 1: dead body. How did it go again, alexas terre shook,
31:18
Speaker 1: the funeral home, gets the body and then what happens, Well,
31:20
Speaker 1: so the doctor called the embassy and said, my wife
31:24
Speaker 1: has died. And then he's like, I need to get
31:27
Speaker 1: her out of the country really quickly. So I'm very concerned.
31:30
Speaker 1: You know. The consular chief at the embassy said Lawrence
31:35
Speaker 1: identified himself. He said she died of a gunchat wood
31:37
Speaker 1: and then he said, you know, we got to get
31:38
Speaker 1: her cremated and out of here very quickly. Which seemed
31:41
Speaker 1: a little suspicious. So the consular chiefs called the funeral
31:45
Speaker 1: home and then he the funeral home said, we are
31:50
Speaker 1: scheduling the cremation for the next day. But this raised
31:54
Speaker 1: the flag for the embassy employee. He said this. He
31:57
Speaker 1: had a bad feeling about this. He just thought it
31:59
Speaker 1: was going quickly. After having a conversation with Larry, who said,
32:02
Speaker 1: you know, let's go, let's go, let's get it, get
32:04
Speaker 1: her cremated, let's get her out of here. And so
32:07
Speaker 1: he decided to take it upon himself and he took
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Speaker 1: two other employees from the embassy and they went to
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Speaker 1: the funeral home and they took the photos. And so
32:15
Speaker 1: I'm understanding that the husband, the dentist, was furious. You
32:20
Speaker 1: said that also. Yes, he was, quote the livid that
32:25
Speaker 1: they had taken the pictures of her and the consular
32:28
Speaker 1: chief he said, come to the embassy. I will meet
32:31
Speaker 1: with you, but he declined. And so the interesting thing
32:33
Speaker 1: was the dentist was complaining. He was thinking, it's so good,
32:36
Speaker 1: it's going to be so hard to take the body
32:38
Speaker 1: back to the United States. You must you need a
32:40
Speaker 1: lead lined coffin to do so. And it was very
32:43
Speaker 1: difficult very expensive and that's why he just wanted to
32:46
Speaker 1: get her cremated. But they investigated. He has taken many
32:50
Speaker 1: of these large game animals back to the United States
32:53
Speaker 1: and they have to be transported in a similar fashion.
32:56
Speaker 1: You can't just stick them in your overnight bag and
32:59
Speaker 1: stick them in the cabinet of the the airplane. So
33:01
Speaker 1: he is very familiar with feeling with this and it's
33:05
Speaker 1: you know, it's not easy. But certainly if you wanted
33:08
Speaker 1: to take your wife's body home them so that your
33:10
Speaker 1: children could see them before you cremate mommy, that that
33:14
Speaker 1: was something that could happen. But he was complaining, saying
33:17
Speaker 1: it was much too complicated and difficult, even though he'd
33:19
Speaker 1: been doing it for decades with the animals. Alexis Terres
33:22
Speaker 1: shut crime online dot com. Isn't it true that he
33:24
Speaker 1: allegedly also paid at least one tour guide to state
33:31
Speaker 1: as a witness how the tour guide saw the body
33:34
Speaker 1: in their bungalow. Yes, that that is what Its claimed
33:37
Speaker 1: that he paid this tour guide to say that she
33:39
Speaker 1: was on the ground that the gun was facing and
33:42
Speaker 1: a few feet away from her. Throwing him around money
33:46
Speaker 1: doesn't seem to be helping him. Speaking of money, you know,
33:50
Speaker 1: the smarter people are, you'd think the better they could
33:53
Speaker 1: cover their trucks. Not necessarily true. Take a listen to
33:57
Speaker 1: Royster Jones CBS our Cut. Four federal investigators alleged Rudolph
34:03
Speaker 1: killed his wife and had her cremated in Africa in
34:06
Speaker 1: a scheme to collect millions in life insurance claims tied
34:10
Speaker 1: to her death. According to the criminal complaint, Rudolph allegedly
34:14
Speaker 1: made claims through seven different insurance companies, totaling more than
34:18
Speaker 1: four point eight million dollars in payouts. Investigators go on
34:22
Speaker 1: to say that Rudolph had his attorneys used FedEx to
34:25
Speaker 1: mail claim related documents to one of the insurance companies.
34:29
Speaker 1: The complaint also states the earliest life insurance policy to
34:32
Speaker 1: cover Bianca was purchased around nineteen eighty seven, and that
34:36
Speaker 1: the policies in which Lawrence Rudolph was the primary beneficiary
34:40
Speaker 1: were updated and adjusted in twenty sixteen, the same year
34:43
Speaker 1: Bianca died. You know to you, Donna Jory Krassen, Psychologists
34:47
Speaker 1: faculty Saint Leo University to adjust your wife's life insurance
34:52
Speaker 1: policy just before a rifle accident in Zambia isn't that
34:58
Speaker 1: a little bit too much for Jerry Swallen. Yeah, and
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Speaker 1: to think also he put it in a trust that
35:05
Speaker 1: he controlled, I mean again thinking like you know, I
35:08
Speaker 1: would consider him thinking that he's considering he's covering his
35:12
Speaker 1: tracks by putting it in a trust. Yet you know
35:15
Speaker 1: the trust is under his total control. Antiklosen our cut
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Speaker 1: one ay our friend Sheldon Ingram at Pittsburgh Action Needs.
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Speaker 1: In twenty sixteen, it says Rudolph killed his wife, Bianca
35:28
Speaker 1: Rudolph during an African safari in Zambia. He told authorities
35:32
Speaker 1: it was an accidental shooting, as Bianca packed away a
35:36
Speaker 1: shotgun and it went off, But forensic analysis, they say,
35:40
Speaker 1: do not match that story. And investigators also say Rudolph
35:44
Speaker 1: collected four point eight million dollars in life insurance after
35:48
Speaker 1: his wife's death. Those policies were updated the same year
35:53
Speaker 1: before her death in October of twenty sixteen. Investigators also
35:57
Speaker 1: say they were told by a friend of Rudolph's wife
36:00
Speaker 1: that he had an active affair with another woman at
36:03
Speaker 1: the time of Bianca's dead you know, to Nicoldemort Hodgeglove
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Speaker 1: joining us from Houston. The reality is, while this seems
36:13
Speaker 1: very nefarious. How hard is it going to be to
36:16
Speaker 1: prove all of this ballistics without a body and without
36:20
Speaker 1: the appropriate investigative photos and measurements. That's a great point,
36:24
Speaker 1: And the reality is, I think this is where the
36:26
Speaker 1: defense team has its strongest argument. They don't have the
36:29
Speaker 1: ability to go back and analyze the forensics because there
36:32
Speaker 1: were no forensics. There were a few photographs, and photographs
36:37
Speaker 1: can really look different based on perspective, and that's why
36:41
Speaker 1: you'll see in the complaint the FBI has spent such
36:44
Speaker 1: a huge amount of time going back and trying to
36:47
Speaker 1: reconstruct these photographs. Still, though the data just can never
36:52
Speaker 1: be there, will he get away with it? Take a
36:57
Speaker 1: listen to our cut five from Pittsburgh Actions Tom Garris.
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Speaker 1: A federal grand jury is charging the owner of Three
37:05
Speaker 1: Rivers Dental with a foreign murder and mail fraud. The
37:10
Speaker 1: FBI claiming that Lawrence Rudolph killed his wife in twenty
37:14
Speaker 1: sixteen on that hunting trip in Zambia in order to
37:17
Speaker 1: collect nearly five million dollars in life insurance money. Now,
37:21
Speaker 1: the FBI also says the owner of the dental practice
37:25
Speaker 1: had a longtime relationship with a manager at the practice.
37:28
Speaker 1: That woman is said to have given Rudolph an ultimatum
37:31
Speaker 1: to sell the dental offices and to leave his wife,
37:33
Speaker 1: Bianca within a year. The ultimatum, the money, the mistress,
37:40
Speaker 1: the forensics. What does it boil down to a federal
37:44
Speaker 1: grand jury or investigation? Does not a conviction make well?
37:50
Speaker 1: He was taken into custody. Ultimately take a less an
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Speaker 1: hour cut one. Doctor Laurence Rudolph owns three Rivers Dental
37:58
Speaker 1: and he greeked all callers with every courted automated message.
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Speaker 1: But tonight he is in federal custody in Colorado, accused
38:05
Speaker 1: of murdering his wife. No one in his five offices
38:08
Speaker 1: are talking, which includes locations in Greensburg and green Tree.
38:12
Speaker 1: His arrest is detailed at a twenty one page affidavit
38:15
Speaker 1: from the FBI. It details how he allegedly killed his
38:19
Speaker 1: wife to collect more than four million dollars with a
38:22
Speaker 1: life insurance policy. And that's at all. Take a listen
38:26
Speaker 1: of what the defense says. Our cut six from KDKA.
38:31
Speaker 1: Doctor Larry Rudolph's attorneys call this case manufacture, saying it's
38:35
Speaker 1: so weak they're keeping a nearly seventy year old man
38:38
Speaker 1: with a severe heart condition in jail, all as part
38:42
Speaker 1: of what they're calling an FBI witch hunt. In court
38:45
Speaker 1: documents just released, attorneys claimed the couple signed a prenup
38:49
Speaker 1: saying he wouldn't lose much during a divorce, and also
38:52
Speaker 1: claiming his dental franchise, Three Rivers Dental, is valued at
38:56
Speaker 1: close to eight million dollars. Claiming he had no financial
38:59
Speaker 1: reason kill his wife, local law enforcement in Africa rolled
39:02
Speaker 1: it an accident and allowed for cremation days after her death. Now,
39:07
Speaker 1: FBI agents believed Bianca could not have physically pulled the trigger.
39:11
Speaker 1: Investigators believe his wife's life insurance policies, some adjusted in
39:16
Speaker 1: the months leading up to her death, tell a different story,
39:18
Speaker 1: a nearly five million dollars story. The dates show doctor
39:22
Speaker 1: Rudolph received the money in under one month's time. He
39:25
Speaker 1: got the money in under one month's time after her death.
39:29
Speaker 1: And don't be feeling sorry for this guy because he's
39:32
Speaker 1: seventy years old. He's still young enough to take his
39:35
Speaker 1: mistress Ticabo for a sex soaked weekend. We wait as
39:40
Speaker 1: justice unfolds Nancy Gray's crime story. Signing off Goodbye friend,