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- 0:01Speaker 1: Hi, guys, Welcome to an episode of Legally Brunette Present
- 0:06Speaker 1: Till Death Do Us Part where we talk about cases
- 0:10Speaker 1: that involve husbands getting rid of wives and wives getting
- 0:14Speaker 1: rid of husband's I didn't know if we should expand
- 0:17Speaker 1: it into like boyfriend girlfriend relationships, but there are plenty
- 0:20Speaker 1: of husbands and wives out there that are just taking
- 0:23Speaker 1: each other out, so there's not a lack of content. Anyway.
- 0:28Speaker 1: Today we are going to discuss This was a three
- 0:31Speaker 1: part series that is on Hulu and it's called Trophy
- 0:34Speaker 1: Wife and it is about Larry Rudolph and Lori mill Iron.
- 0:38Speaker 1: So I watched this a while ago. It was very interesting.
- 0:42Speaker 1: Larry Rudolph is quite the character, so we're going to
- 0:45Speaker 1: get into that. So let's just go through like a
- 0:47Speaker 1: brief synopsis to give you a background on what this
- 0:50Speaker 1: case is about. So in October of twenty sixteen, Bianca
- 0:55Speaker 1: Rudolph traveled to Zombia is it Zambia or Zombia This
- 0:59Speaker 1: is Africa with her husband Larry Rudolph for a big
- 1:02Speaker 1: game hunting trip. On the final day, she was found
- 1:06Speaker 1: dead in their cabin from a shotgun wound to the chest.
- 1:10Speaker 1: Larry claimed it was a you're laughing already, yes, shot
- 1:14Speaker 1: to the chest right. Larry claimed it was a tragic
- 1:17Speaker 1: accident that she had accidentally shot herself while packing her
- 1:21Speaker 1: own guy acc Zambian authorities initially accepted this explanation, and
- 1:28Speaker 1: Bianca was quickly cremated.
- 1:31Speaker 2: I feel like you should hold on that, you know,
- 1:33Speaker 2: like when you file for divorce in California, waste six
- 1:37Speaker 2: months cooling off period because it's like, hold everything, let's
- 1:42Speaker 2: talk it through and figure it out.
- 1:44Speaker 1: That's media.
- 1:44Speaker 2: They should do that with cremations.
- 1:46Speaker 1: I agree. Soon after returning to the US, Larry collected
- 1:49Speaker 1: nearly five million dollars in life insurance policies taken out
- 1:53Speaker 1: on his wife. However, investigators later uncovered that Larry had
- 1:58Speaker 1: been carrying on a year's law affair with his office manager,
- 2:02Speaker 1: Lori mill Iron, and prosecutors argued he killed Bianca to
- 2:06Speaker 1: be with her and to obtain the insurance money. So
- 2:09Speaker 1: that's a little background on that, you know. First of all,
- 2:12Speaker 1: before we go into this, I just want to talk
- 2:13Speaker 1: about this big game hunting. First of all, I don't
- 2:16Speaker 1: I'm I don't like hunting at all, like it bothers me.
- 2:20Speaker 1: But I do understand that some people enjoy hunting, and
- 2:24Speaker 1: then I do have a respect for people who hunt
- 2:27Speaker 1: and then use the meat, you know, and nature and
- 2:34Speaker 1: you know, they kill a deer, but then they use
- 2:36Speaker 1: all of the deer meat and you know, okay, I
- 2:39Speaker 1: I could never do that personally.
- 2:41Speaker 2: If you saw a rat in their house, you would
- 2:42Speaker 2: pick it up by the tail and put it outside.
- 2:44Speaker 1: I would. I did that. I found a rat in
- 2:46Speaker 1: the backyard that the dogs got to and it wasn't dead,
- 2:49Speaker 1: and I wrapped it up in a towel. I gave
- 2:51Speaker 1: it some cheese. I tried to put it back into
- 2:54Speaker 1: its natural environment. I was very concerned about it.
- 2:57Speaker 2: Okay.
- 2:57Speaker 1: So I'm just saying personally, I could never kill an animal.
- 3:01Speaker 1: An animal, I can't do it. But this big game hunting,
- 3:06Speaker 1: this really bothers me, Like I just find it.
- 3:09Speaker 2: Especially it's like, I mean, these are just my thoughts.
- 3:13Speaker 2: Like if it's like you can afford to travel and
- 3:16Speaker 2: have some tour guye that takes you where it is
- 3:19Speaker 2: where the animals are, Like, that's not where's the sport
- 3:22Speaker 2: in that. When I lived in Utah, I had a
- 3:24Speaker 2: roommate who hunted like kind of casually, not like hardcore.
- 3:28Speaker 2: But he only used a bow and arrow because he thought,
- 3:32Speaker 2: if I can catch a deer with a bow and.
- 3:35Speaker 1: Arrow like the like the Native America, that's a.
- 3:37Speaker 2: Sport, and then I've earned it and it and it
- 3:39Speaker 2: would take him years to because you have to have
- 3:42Speaker 2: a perfect moment, you know, so so, and he never
- 3:46Speaker 2: caught one.
- 3:48Speaker 1: He never killed.
- 3:50Speaker 2: I mean maybe to this day he does. But I
- 3:51Speaker 2: mean like he felt like if you can earn it
- 3:54Speaker 2: and like work hard for it, and then you'd have
- 3:56Speaker 2: more of an appreciation for the venison and stuff like that,
- 3:59Speaker 2: versus say is just kind of well, let's lined up
- 4:03Speaker 2: for you and you just shoot him and you move on.
- 4:05Speaker 2: And you know what, it.
- 4:06Speaker 1: Bothered me that they would call him an expert hunter,
- 4:09Speaker 1: and I'm thinking, are you kidding me? This man just
- 4:11Speaker 1: has a lot of money.
- 4:12Speaker 2: It's like people climb Mount Evers now. Now there's so
- 4:14Speaker 2: many people that got mana everest because now it's just
- 4:17Speaker 2: people are like, oh, you can just pay the guide
- 4:19Speaker 2: did the Yeah, you can just pay him and and
- 4:24Speaker 2: they fork out lots of money that really tempt the
- 4:27Speaker 2: sherpas to accept it and then put everyone in danger.
- 4:31Speaker 2: And it's risky and this and that, and it's like,
- 4:33Speaker 2: now it's not like you're with nature now, it's just
- 4:36Speaker 2: like kind of a goal in business. They pay for it.
- 4:39Speaker 1: Well that's what I'm saying about this big game hunting.
- 4:41Speaker 1: It's like they call him an expert shooter, and I'm like,
- 4:44Speaker 1: all he does is he has money. He flew into town,
- 4:46Speaker 1: so he goes there. They put him in a vehicle.
- 4:48Speaker 1: They drive him out to where he's a very.
- 4:50Speaker 2: Good hunting because he had a tragic accident where he
- 4:52Speaker 2: shot his wife.
- 4:53Speaker 1: Well he didn't, he says, she shot herself. But anyway,
- 4:56Speaker 1: they I know. But then you know, they they drive
- 4:59Speaker 1: him out to where a lion is and they're like,
- 5:03Speaker 1: there's the lion.
- 5:05Speaker 2: I tranquilize the lion. He should be waiting for you now,
- 5:08Speaker 2: and then he just shoots the lion.
- 5:10Speaker 1: And then you know, there's all these photos they show
- 5:12Speaker 1: in this documentary of him with all these like majestic,
- 5:15Speaker 1: beautiful animals and they hold their heads up and it's sough.
- 5:18Speaker 1: I just I can't stand it.
- 5:20Speaker 2: Anyway, get jellycats and then okay, let's go.
- 5:25Speaker 1: That is if you have a thirteen year old girl,
- 5:27Speaker 1: you don't know what that is in the nineteen eighties.
- 5:30Speaker 1: So Larry Rudolph, this is we're going back to the eighties.
- 5:33Speaker 1: We're going to take a little time travel here. Larry
- 5:36Speaker 1: Rudolph built a successful dental career in the Pittsburgh area
- 5:39Speaker 1: after graduating from the University of Pittsburgh, founding a practice
- 5:43Speaker 1: that emphasized sedation dentistry to ease patient anxiety. Have you
- 5:49Speaker 1: ever heard of this? Because I hate going to the dentists?
- 5:51Speaker 1: Do you like going I can't stand.
- 5:53Speaker 2: I don't like any I do it, but I don't
- 5:55Speaker 2: like it.
- 5:56Speaker 1: It's been a while since you went to the dentists.
- 6:00Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, brush my teeth.
- 6:01Speaker 1: I know you brush your teeth, but I'm saying going
- 6:04Speaker 1: to the dentist is stressful, and apparently it's stressful for
- 6:06Speaker 1: a lot of people. So he marketed his He became
- 6:10Speaker 1: very wealthy doing sedation dentistry where he just knocked people
- 6:14Speaker 1: out completely.
- 6:16Speaker 2: Which well, yeah, that's questionable. Well he's very shady.
- 6:21Speaker 1: We're going to get into that too, because not only
- 6:23Speaker 1: was he just like knocking, he was just him. He
- 6:25Speaker 1: did this sedation kind of dentistry, but apparently he also
- 6:29Speaker 1: gave every patient a root canal, like every patient had
- 6:32Speaker 1: to have a root canal. You know, it's like, oh,
- 6:34Speaker 1: you need a root canal. You just came in for
- 6:36Speaker 1: a cleaning, but you need a root canal. So also
- 6:40Speaker 1: his wife, Bianca, whom he met in college, helped support
- 6:43Speaker 1: the business and together they raised two children and what
- 6:46Speaker 1: appeared to be a stable family life. So this is
- 6:48Speaker 1: in the eighties, early on Larry Rudolph. Then in the
- 6:51Speaker 1: early two thousands, we're going to skip ahead, Larry Rudolph
- 6:54Speaker 1: begins an extramarital affair with his dental hygienist and office manager,
- 6:59Speaker 1: Laurie Iron in two thousand and two. You know, also,
- 7:03Speaker 1: though they say in this because they interviewed so many
- 7:05Speaker 1: people that were involved, that worked in his office, that
- 7:08Speaker 1: were business partners with him. Not he has this affair
- 7:11Speaker 1: with this woman named Lori mill Iron. But he was
- 7:13Speaker 1: a womanizer. He's married to Bianca and he never wants
- 7:17Speaker 1: to divorce Bianca. That's his wife and the mother of
- 7:19Speaker 1: his children. But I guess he hit on everything in
- 7:23Speaker 1: anyone around. He hit on patience. All the workers in
- 7:27Speaker 1: his office, they all were blonde and attractive, and he
- 7:30Speaker 1: hit on them. And I don't know, he was just
- 7:33Speaker 1: he was one of those kind of guys. I don't
- 7:35Speaker 1: know what you call him, but he just he had
- 7:37Speaker 1: lots of affairs. He was always he is a douche. Yes,
- 7:41Speaker 1: he was a douche. Around this time has been what
- 7:45Speaker 1: is he, oh, hedonistic? I've never heard you say that
- 7:48Speaker 1: word before the pleasure.
- 7:50Speaker 2: Yes, sex, he could any kind of a.
- 7:53Speaker 1: Vice, gambling, drinking, drugs as he wished. Yes. Around this time,
- 8:00Speaker 1: his professional reputation comes in to question. His business partners
- 8:04Speaker 1: accuse him of financial misconduct, though he denied the allegations.
- 8:09Speaker 1: He left the practice under pressure and went on to
- 8:11Speaker 1: open a new dental office right across the street, and
- 8:13Speaker 1: he called it Three Rivers Dental. This is actually the
- 8:16Speaker 1: kind of guy this is. So he had business partners
- 8:18Speaker 1: in this dental office. Okay, he is doing this big
- 8:23Speaker 1: game hunting in Africa. I don't remember where he was exactly,
- 8:27Speaker 1: and he was alone, and he claims that he was fishing,
- 8:32Speaker 1: and he says that when he went to grab the fish,
- 8:34Speaker 1: a crocodile came out of the water and chopped off
- 8:38Speaker 1: his thumb, just his thumb, none of his other fingers.
- 8:42Speaker 1: This is Larry Rudolph. So he claims that while he's
- 8:45Speaker 1: hunting in Africa that he was.
- 8:47Speaker 2: Fishing before he killed his wife.
- 8:48Speaker 1: This is before he killed his wife. Yes, this is
- 8:50Speaker 1: We're talking about his shady business practices right now, so
- 8:53Speaker 1: we're just this guy's just okay.
- 8:56Speaker 2: Thumb.
- 8:56Speaker 1: He claims he loses his thumb to a crocodile in Africa.
- 9:01Speaker 1: So what does he do. He is a dentist who
- 9:03Speaker 1: has to use his fingers and thumbs. That is part
- 9:06Speaker 1: of right. Like, so he gets an insurance payout or claim.
- 9:12Speaker 1: He makes an insurance claim that you know, his livelihood
- 9:15Speaker 1: is affected because now he can't do dentistry because he
- 9:17Speaker 1: lost a thumb. He gets thirty thousand a month. What
- 9:22Speaker 1: an insurance money?
- 9:23Speaker 2: Okay, So did he a thumb?
- 9:26Speaker 1: Yeah, it showed a picture. It had like a chunk
- 9:28Speaker 1: out of it. But I don't know if I believe
- 9:31Speaker 1: the crocodile story.
- 9:33Speaker 2: The alligator.
- 9:34Speaker 1: It's a crocodile.
- 9:35Speaker 2: The crocodile nibbled his thumb.
- 9:36Speaker 1: The crocodile.
- 9:37Speaker 2: That's I'm sorry. If I have a crocodile that's coming
- 9:40Speaker 2: after me and you're goin to chop my hand, I
- 9:42Speaker 2: think more than a little little nibble.
- 9:44Speaker 1: A little Yeah, so it didn't take his whole thumb off.
- 9:46Speaker 1: But I saw a picture and it took like a chunk.
- 9:48Speaker 2: But he still practiced. Yes, that is my point. Why
- 9:52Speaker 2: wouldn't the insurance company say, you're still practicing? Because that
- 9:56Speaker 2: was in work camp and in work comp It's like,
- 9:58Speaker 2: if you can go to work, you're not going to
- 10:00Speaker 2: collect disability.
- 10:02Speaker 1: So he was collecting this thirty thousand dollars a month
- 10:05Speaker 1: payout disability whatever you want to call it, and continuing
- 10:09Speaker 1: to work as a dentist. But what he was also
- 10:11Speaker 1: doing is he had business partners and this dental practice,
- 10:14Speaker 1: and after hours when the dentist's office closed, he was
- 10:18Speaker 1: doing root canals for cash and keeping all of the
- 10:22Speaker 1: cash and not sharing any of the money with and
- 10:26Speaker 1: keeping it a secret from He was moonlighting. So then
- 10:29Speaker 1: when his partners find out about what he's doing, they
- 10:33Speaker 1: basically gave him two choices. They were like, we can
- 10:35Speaker 1: either sue you for I don't know fraud and you
- 10:39Speaker 1: know all all the extore I don't know whatever, all
- 10:41Speaker 1: the things the financial issues right, or you can walk
- 10:46Speaker 1: away and just leave us alone. We never want to
- 10:49Speaker 1: hear from you again. So he took the choice walk away,
- 10:52Speaker 1: never hear from him again, So what does he do.
- 10:54Speaker 1: He literally goes across the street from that business and
- 10:58Speaker 1: opens a new dentalsh right, And he wouldn't have cared,
- 11:04Speaker 1: he would have signed it and open it. Anyway, you
- 11:05Speaker 1: think this guy abides by any kind of rules at all.
- 11:08Speaker 2: He didn't kill them.
- 11:09Speaker 1: Well, maybe they were next on the list. I don't know.
- 11:11Speaker 1: But anyway, he opens a new dental office across insurance company.
- 11:16Speaker 1: I don't understand that either. I'm confused by that.
- 11:19Speaker 2: So he goes across the street and he opens up
- 11:20Speaker 2: his practice, a.
- 11:21Speaker 1: New practice, and then he does yes. And this is
- 11:25Speaker 1: what makes no sense to me. This man got insurance
- 11:28Speaker 1: money for because he was unable to practice dentistry. Yet
- 11:32Speaker 1: he opens a new office and then makes commercials about
- 11:35Speaker 1: his office, like tons of commercials advertising his picture. Yeah,
- 11:40Speaker 1: I saw a picture of it. It was just like
- 11:41Speaker 1: a little well it's mangled, but it was it was
- 11:45Speaker 1: still attached. How does a crocodile.
- 11:50Speaker 2: So anyway, it wasn't a crocodile.
- 11:53Speaker 1: That's see. That's my my takeaway is this man damaged
- 11:57Speaker 1: his thumb somehow cheated on.
- 11:58Speaker 2: His mistress, and she came out after him and probably
- 12:00Speaker 2: whacked him.
- 12:01Speaker 1: Maybe but I don't think it was a crocodile. I
- 12:03Speaker 1: think he planned all along to have some kind of
- 12:05Speaker 1: insurance fraud, and he knew he knew the insurance policy
- 12:09Speaker 1: well enough to know that if he, you know, could
- 12:11Speaker 1: claim that he couldn't do his livelihood or whatever, he
- 12:14Speaker 1: would get this disability. And he did. I think he
- 12:16Speaker 1: damaged himself all.
- 12:18Speaker 2: Kinds of insurance fraud too, with like his medical practice.
- 12:21Speaker 1: Oh, I'm sure. So he opens up across the street.
- 12:31Speaker 1: It's called three Rivers Dental. It becomes very successful, and
- 12:34Speaker 1: he actually I don't three three Rivers Dental. It should
- 12:39Speaker 1: be called three crocodiles practice. He opens up there's several locations.
- 12:46Speaker 1: When I was watching the documentary, it shows like all
- 12:48Speaker 1: kinds everywhere.
- 12:51Speaker 2: His cockiness. He can get away with all this insurance.
- 12:54Speaker 2: Go across the street. My partners can't bug me. I
- 12:57Speaker 2: go across the street. I open up practice. I make money,
- 12:59Speaker 2: I get cash at night, I sleep with women, I
- 13:02Speaker 2: hunt lions. Yeah, I mean, it's just like.
- 13:05Speaker 1: This guy is just Yeah, he thinks he's just.
- 13:08Speaker 2: He is all that living large.
- 13:13Speaker 1: His affair with Laurie continues secretly for over a decade,
- 13:16Speaker 1: as she follows him to his new business.
- 13:18Speaker 2: Because he was faithful to her for a decade.
- 13:20Speaker 1: Well I don't think he was.
- 13:21Speaker 2: And they were together for a decade.
- 13:24Speaker 1: Yeah, and he remains married to Bianca, So he still
- 13:26Speaker 1: is married to the wife.
- 13:28Speaker 2: Does she know?
- 13:29Speaker 1: You know? That is what I could not understand, because
- 13:31Speaker 1: they interview this employee that he had for twenty five years,
- 13:34Speaker 1: and actually I felt really sorry for her, but she
- 13:37Speaker 1: worked for him for twenty five years. And then she
- 13:40Speaker 1: claims that peoples, I don't know which location, and you know,
- 13:44Speaker 1: he also opened up a lot of these Three Rivers
- 13:47Speaker 1: dental and malls. He was like he was like the
- 13:50Speaker 1: first to initiate, like opening up like a dental.
- 13:53Speaker 2: D Yes, he was walking down a chair, right, we
- 13:56Speaker 2: did walkins welcome, right.
- 13:59Speaker 1: But she claimed that people would tell Bianca you know
- 14:02Speaker 1: about these affairs and that you know, he had a
- 14:05Speaker 1: girlfriend and all these things, and Beanca would say things like,
- 14:07Speaker 1: Larry would never do that to me. So I don't
- 14:10Speaker 1: know if she did know, but she just you know,
- 14:15Speaker 1: if you just never accept it and you never talk
- 14:17Speaker 1: about it, maybe you just live in denial. I don't know,
- 14:20Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 14:21Speaker 2: Maybe he was making a bunch of money. So she
- 14:23Speaker 2: was just kind of I'm not saying that she was
- 14:25Speaker 2: all about money, but maybe she was kind of like, Okay,
- 14:27Speaker 2: you do your thing. Maybe I would think they have
- 14:29Speaker 2: a comfortable life.
- 14:30Speaker 1: They had two children take care of the kid, had
- 14:32Speaker 1: a boy and a girl. I don't know if she
- 14:35Speaker 1: just yeah, like maybe she just and she also was
- 14:38Speaker 1: a big game hunter with him. They had that in common.
- 14:40Speaker 1: She would go to Africa with him and they would
- 14:42Speaker 1: hunt together together. Yeah, so maybe she just didn't want
- 14:47Speaker 1: to know. That's what it would seem to me, because
- 14:49Speaker 1: this guy, he would they would It's not like he
- 14:51Speaker 1: kept this affair with Lori's secret. Like they would just
- 14:53Speaker 1: go out to dinner. All over town. People would see
- 14:55Speaker 1: him together. So I can't imagine that Bianca didn't know.
- 14:57Speaker 1: I think she just didn't want to know.
- 14:59Speaker 2: Would you prefer that keep it in secret?
- 15:01Speaker 1: Yeah? No, what you're such a dumb dumb.
- 15:04Speaker 2: You answered the question. Do you want me to be
- 15:06Speaker 2: in public about it? No?
- 15:08Speaker 1: You know what's funny is Shane can't even go this summer. No,
- 15:11Speaker 1: I don't, please stop. No, Shane can't even go to
- 15:14Speaker 1: Costco without like me seeing it on Facebook. There was
- 15:17Speaker 1: I was scrolling Facebook and I saw a photo and
- 15:20Speaker 1: I was like, that looks like Shane's rear, And then
- 15:22Speaker 1: I was like, that is Shane. It was you in
- 15:24Speaker 1: and out. Someone took a picture of you in and out, Shane.
- 15:27Speaker 2: There's no way, Shane picture of my rear and put
- 15:29Speaker 2: it on.
- 15:29Speaker 1: Yeah, because you were staying, you were ordering it in
- 15:31Speaker 1: and out, and they were behind you.
- 15:32Speaker 2: So they took a picture of you with what female?
- 15:34Speaker 2: Was I with you?
- 15:35Speaker 1: Weren't? You were with the boys, because you're a good
- 15:37Speaker 1: dad and you don't do that.
- 15:39Speaker 2: I wasn't with boys. I was with our boys.
- 15:41Speaker 1: You were with our boys, right, not with some boys.
- 15:45Speaker 2: All right?
- 15:46Speaker 1: So in twenty ten's this is where we're getting up to,
- 15:49Speaker 1: you know, the murder prosecutors argue that mill Iron, So
- 15:54Speaker 1: this is the girlfriend right one till Her name is
- 15:57Speaker 1: Lori mill Iron. She wanted a future with Larry and
- 16:01Speaker 1: allegedly pressured him to choose between her and his wife.
- 16:06Speaker 1: They say she wanted to be Bianca. Bianca is still
- 16:08Speaker 1: number one, right, She's married to Larry, So Laurie has
- 16:11Speaker 1: a problem with Bianca. She doesn't want Bianca around anymore.
- 16:15Speaker 1: She wants to be Bianca Anna Grimley. This is one
- 16:19Speaker 1: of the people that they interviewed that I actually I
- 16:20Speaker 1: felt really sorry for. I believe, yeah, I believe that
- 16:23Speaker 1: she worked for like twenty five years for him. She
- 16:26Speaker 1: was a manager at three Rivers Dental and claimed in
- 16:28Speaker 1: this Hulu docu series that Laurie wanted to have whatever
- 16:33Speaker 1: she wanted and be able to show it off. She
- 16:35Speaker 1: wanted Bianca's life. She said that she gave Larry an ultimatum,
- 16:39Speaker 1: and that ultimatum was to get rid of Bianca. She
- 16:42Speaker 1: gave him one year. Now, you have one year to play.
- 16:46Speaker 1: You have one year to get rid of your wife.
- 16:47Speaker 2: I am out of here.
- 16:49Speaker 1: Larry also had multiple life insurance policies on Bianca, totaling
- 16:54Speaker 1: between four point eight and five million dollars. So then
- 16:57Speaker 1: in October of twenty sixteen, he plans a hunting trip
- 17:02Speaker 1: in Zambia. So Larry and Bianca traveled to Zambia for
- 17:07Speaker 1: a big game hunting safari. Both Larry and Bianca are
- 17:11Speaker 1: very skilled hunters. I don't know how I feel about that. Again,
- 17:14Speaker 1: I don't know if they're skilled or they just have
- 17:16Speaker 1: a lot of money. So then the guides drive them
- 17:19Speaker 1: out to where the big beautiful African animals are and
- 17:22Speaker 1: they're like.
- 17:22Speaker 2: They're Basically, he went to a zoo, yes, and shot.
- 17:25Speaker 1: Some animals and then took photos of it.
- 17:27Speaker 2: And then he went to a barrel and he fished, and
- 17:29Speaker 2: he got a big swordfish out of a barrel. That
- 17:32Speaker 2: would be easy.
- 17:33Speaker 1: Actually, there's video in the documentary of catching a swordfish.
- 17:38Speaker 2: Serious.
- 17:38Speaker 1: Yes, but it wasn't. I don't know if where they were,
- 17:41Speaker 1: but it wasn't in a barrel. It was on a boat.
- 17:43Speaker 2: Yeah, it was that a fishing shop.
- 17:45Speaker 1: Yeah. Larry was also the president of the prestigious Safari
- 17:51Speaker 1: Club at one point. So we get to October eleventh
- 17:54Speaker 1: of twenty sixteen. This is the day of the killing. Remember,
- 17:57Speaker 1: he and Bianca traveled to Zambia for a big game
- 17:59Speaker 1: hunting afari. On the final day that they're there, he
- 18:03Speaker 1: wasted the final day, right, let's not do it. On
- 18:08Speaker 1: day one, Bianca is shot in the chest with a
- 18:12Speaker 1: shotgun inside of their cabin.
- 18:15Speaker 2: She and he claims she shot herself accidentally with a shotgun. Yes,
- 18:19Speaker 2: but how do you point a shotgun? Was it sawed off?
- 18:22Speaker 2: No it wasn't.
- 18:24Speaker 1: So he's claiming that she's like holding the shotgun like this, Yeah,
- 18:28Speaker 1: and then she.
- 18:29Speaker 2: Accidentally Okay, keep going, let's see.
- 18:32Speaker 1: Larry claims that he heard a gun shot while he
- 18:34Speaker 1: was in the shower and he always.
- 18:37Speaker 2: Was washing all the blood off of me.
- 18:39Speaker 1: He's in the shower and he rushed out to find
- 18:42Speaker 1: Bianca on the floor. He claims she accidentally shot herself
- 18:46Speaker 1: while packing her gun. What is packing her gun mean?
- 18:49Speaker 2: Does that mean probably loading it up into like loading,
- 18:52Speaker 2: probably disassembling it if it can be, and cleaning it,
- 18:55Speaker 2: locking it up.
- 18:57Speaker 1: But so she has so he's claiming that she has
- 18:59Speaker 1: the on facing.
- 19:01Speaker 2: Did he say she dropped it? Maybe?
- 19:03Speaker 1: Yeah, I know she's passed and she's like yeah, packing
- 19:06Speaker 1: a loaded gun with it pointed right at her chest.
- 19:10Speaker 1: Local authorities and Zambia initially accept the story as an
- 19:13Speaker 1: accidental death. You know, they show this.
- 19:16Speaker 2: Is also well, we don't know the practices that were
- 19:18Speaker 2: taking place when when all the authorities came.
- 19:21Speaker 1: Well, I saw it in the documentary. You're talking about
- 19:24Speaker 1: Africa and you're talking about I mean they're out in
- 19:28Speaker 1: a remote village where they were Safari. It's not like
- 19:31Speaker 1: there's a police department with detectives and crime scene investigators.
- 19:36Speaker 1: They're away from the big city, right, So I'm saying, actually,
- 19:39Speaker 1: Larry Rudolph is probably pretty dang smart, because what's a
- 19:43Speaker 1: better way to get rid of your wife than to
- 19:46Speaker 1: travel to Africa to a remote village, to the on
- 19:50Speaker 1: a safari where you're using guns and you're in a
- 19:56Speaker 1: cabin in a remote area in a third world country.
- 19:59Speaker 2: And he's like, I need Ali. I'll be in the shower.
- 20:01Speaker 1: I'm in the shower. And then who's going to investigate it.
- 20:05Speaker 1: There's no crime scene investigator, there's no forensics.
- 20:08Speaker 2: There was one there was one crime that I was following,
- 20:11Speaker 2: like I was watching some video on it, and it
- 20:14Speaker 2: was the same thing. She claimed, I was in the
- 20:17Speaker 2: shower when he shot himself or whatever it was. But
- 20:20Speaker 2: then when the police arrived, they noticed that there was
- 20:22Speaker 2: not water anywhere, even though she claimed she jumped out
- 20:25Speaker 2: of the shower and ran to him and called the police,
- 20:27Speaker 2: nothing was wet. On the nine one one call, I
- 20:29Speaker 2: think she said, I was in the showers, in the shower,
- 20:31Speaker 2: you heard it, and I came and came and he's
- 20:33Speaker 2: shot and there's like no water anywhere. So in this case,
- 20:36Speaker 2: that would be that was my first thought. But I
- 20:38Speaker 2: don't know if the authorities it might have taken him
- 20:40Speaker 2: a long time to get out there too.
- 20:41Speaker 1: So apparently when they show up, he's fully clothed and
- 20:45Speaker 1: there is no water.
- 20:46Speaker 2: Right in the fact, they said he was in the shower.
- 20:48Speaker 1: Yes, And you know, every time we make a reference
- 20:50Speaker 1: to in the shower, I have to keep thinking about
- 20:53Speaker 1: legally blonde, because have you ever seen legally blonde Reese Witherspoon.
- 20:57Speaker 2: I've never seen legally blonde.
- 20:59Speaker 1: She said you were in the shower because she had
- 21:02Speaker 1: a perm and she claims she was in the shower.
- 21:05Speaker 2: That's like how she wash hair.
- 21:07Speaker 1: That was like the final ending to the movie. That's
- 21:09Speaker 1: how she debloked the case.
- 21:11Speaker 2: Andy couldn't say I had a shower cap.
- 21:13Speaker 1: Oh, I guess she didn't think of the shower cap.
- 21:15Speaker 1: But she was in the shower anyway, all right. So
- 21:19Speaker 1: apparently he says he was in the shower, but he's
- 21:20Speaker 1: not wet, there's no water, and he has jeens on.
- 21:23Speaker 1: He didn't think that part out thoroughly, and there was
- 21:26Speaker 1: no shower.
- 21:26Speaker 2: There's only a bathtub.
- 21:28Speaker 1: Right then, after the authorities come, Larry pushes for a
- 21:33Speaker 1: quick cremation of Beyonca's body. We later learned from Larry's
- 21:38Speaker 1: defense team that it was in Beyanca's will that she
- 21:41Speaker 1: be cremated. I don't know. I mean maybe you could, right,
- 21:46Speaker 1: I don't know. Again, I like your theory where you said,
- 21:50Speaker 1: why is it Why do we cremate bodies so quickly
- 21:53Speaker 1: when there's.
- 21:56Speaker 2: When it's questionable, whether it's today or next week, it
- 21:59Speaker 2: will be ashes right.
- 22:02Speaker 1: So Larry then returns to the to the US and
- 22:04Speaker 1: immediately begins filing life insurance claims because he's, well.
- 22:08Speaker 2: You don't want to make saying time on this, there's
- 22:09Speaker 2: money to be made, right.
- 22:11Speaker 1: So between twenty sixteen and twenty seventeen, after the trip,
- 22:15Speaker 1: after he returns home, Larry collects approximately four point eight
- 22:18Speaker 1: million insurance payouts within three months. Lori mill Iron, who
- 22:24Speaker 1: was the girlfriend, How.
- 22:25Speaker 2: These people just come They just fall into money because
- 22:30Speaker 2: he well, you know, I mean so easily. I mean yeah,
- 22:33Speaker 2: with the crime, but I mean like his thumb. And
- 22:35Speaker 2: then now this.
- 22:36Speaker 1: Because he's a he's a I know, he's a con man.
- 22:39Speaker 1: He's excited.
- 22:40Speaker 2: There's like a price adjustment at Costco's because you're my
- 22:43Speaker 2: man thirty bucks less? All right, Yeah, I just got
- 22:46Speaker 2: thirty bucks.
- 22:47Speaker 1: Yeah, because you're not the kind of man that's going
- 22:49Speaker 1: to remove your thumb and then say you can't practice
- 22:52Speaker 1: law anymore or something. What do you have to do
- 22:54Speaker 1: to not practice to get disability for practicing law?
- 22:57Speaker 2: I shot, you know, crocodile bit my brain off.
- 23:00Speaker 1: I got so. So within three months, Laurie mill Iron
- 23:04Speaker 1: moves into the Arizona home that he previously shared with Bianca.
- 23:09Speaker 1: I don't even It's like they're not even trying to
- 23:10Speaker 1: hide it. He like comes back from Africa and he's
- 23:12Speaker 1: like filing insurance claims and they probably and the girlfriend
- 23:17Speaker 1: moves out.
- 23:17Speaker 2: Celebrated, Yeah, because he did he meet his one year deadline.
- 23:21Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he. I think he got rid of
- 23:24Speaker 1: Bianca within his year timeline that he was given by Laurie. Yeah,
- 23:36Speaker 1: Larry and Laurie began living openly and spending heavily. They
- 23:39Speaker 1: buy luxury homes and cars. They have a lavish lifestyle
- 23:43Speaker 1: funded by the insurance money, and they're traveling all over
- 23:46Speaker 1: the place.
- 23:46Speaker 2: Together and he got sixty thousand.
- 23:49Speaker 1: Yeah. So there's growing doubts as to, you know, whether
- 23:54Speaker 1: this murder was you know, a murder or whether she
- 23:57Speaker 1: actually shot herself in the chest, So the FBI and
- 24:00Speaker 1: the US authorities began reviewing the case. Ballistics evidence shows
- 24:04Speaker 1: that the shooting could not have been self inflicted. The
- 24:08Speaker 1: size of the gunshot wound also indicated that Bianca had
- 24:11Speaker 1: been shot from a distance of six and a half
- 24:13Speaker 1: to eight feet away.
- 24:15Speaker 2: So there was a medical examiners report or something of
- 24:17Speaker 2: some kind before she was cremated. Yeah, there must, of
- 24:21Speaker 2: course it was that fart because then all the pellets
- 24:23Speaker 2: were spread out right, it was up against the chest.
- 24:26Speaker 1: It would have just been like a single It would.
- 24:28Speaker 2: Be less of an area that was plasted right, but
- 24:31Speaker 2: all the pellets or whatever a shot goes everywhere.
- 24:34Speaker 1: It was actually a friend of Bianca's that informed the
- 24:37Speaker 1: FBI of his ongoing affair with mill Iron. I don't
- 24:40Speaker 1: know why the FBI has to be informed of that.
- 24:42Speaker 1: I mean, if they were so openly, they were together
- 24:44Speaker 1: over ten years, they were openly together, they went out
- 24:47Speaker 1: on dates together publicly.
- 24:49Speaker 2: Just because they're out on dates doesn't mean the FBI
- 24:51Speaker 2: is like, new, I saw you out with that one lady.
- 24:54Speaker 2: There's no documentation that.
- 24:55Speaker 1: So they had it now, But it seems like it's like,
- 24:57Speaker 1: wouldn't be difficult to find like you really have to.
- 25:00Speaker 2: That's why this person. They got this person to report
- 25:02Speaker 2: it so quickly.
- 25:03Speaker 1: All right, So a friend of Bianca's informed the FBI
- 25:05Speaker 1: of his ongoing affair with Lori mill Iron and claim
- 25:08Speaker 1: that Rudolph was never going to divorce her because he
- 25:10Speaker 1: doesn't want to lose his money and she's never going
- 25:12Speaker 1: to divorce him because of her Catholicism. So this was
- 25:16Speaker 1: a federal complaint.
- 25:17Speaker 2: Again, they have some.
- 25:18Speaker 1: Rules, yes they do. They have rules and guidelines. They
- 25:21Speaker 1: do not divorce because she's Catholic and he doesn't. Well,
- 25:24Speaker 1: his rule is he doesn't want to divorce because he
- 25:26Speaker 1: doesn't want to give her half of his empire.
- 25:29Speaker 2: So yeah, what was the king that wanted to divorce
- 25:33Speaker 2: his wife but he couldn't because she couldn't she couldn't
- 25:35Speaker 2: have children. It was one of the Henry's. I don't
- 25:38Speaker 2: know anyway he wanted to. He wanted to divorce his
- 25:41Speaker 2: wife because she couldn't have it. Okay, there you go.
- 25:44Speaker 1: I don't know. I just made that up, but I
- 25:45Speaker 1: think he did.
- 25:47Speaker 2: Was he had to go around to all the bishops
- 25:48Speaker 2: and everything and get permission. Yeah, and it's and again
- 25:51Speaker 2: it's it's like all you did was just change the
- 25:53Speaker 2: rules to fit your circumstances and justify your scenarios. So
- 25:57Speaker 2: here they are killing right anyway, Sir Thomas. That wouldn't
- 26:01Speaker 2: grant him permission, they executed him.
- 26:03Speaker 1: Oh that's my dad's name, Tom.
- 26:04Speaker 2: Oh you won't grant me a divorce excute.
- 26:08Speaker 1: So investigators suspect that it was a staged accident and
- 26:13Speaker 1: that there were financial and romantic motives.
- 26:16Speaker 2: So yeah, well the genius FBI. FBI figured out out
- 26:23Speaker 2: on this chair.
- 26:24Speaker 1: So in twenty twenty one, this is December of twenty
- 26:27Speaker 1: twenty one, Larry Rudolph is arrested in Cobo, Mexico while
- 26:30Speaker 1: vacationing with Louri.
- 26:31Speaker 2: How long after the murder.
- 26:34Speaker 1: The murder took place in twenty sixteen, oh five years,
- 26:37Speaker 1: so he doesn't get arrested till twenty twenty one.
- 26:41Speaker 2: Wow.
- 26:42Speaker 1: So he's arrested in Cobo, Mexico while vacationing with Lori
- 26:45Speaker 1: mill Iron, and he's charged with murder of a US
- 26:48Speaker 1: national abroad and mail fraud, which is the insurance scheme.
- 26:54Speaker 1: So he has those two charges. Then in February of
- 26:57Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, Laurie is arrested and she has charges
- 27:02Speaker 1: including accessory after the fact, obstruction, and perjury. July August
- 27:08Speaker 1: of twenty twenty two, there's the federal trial. The trial
- 27:11Speaker 1: takes place in Colorado. That's the insurance for all jurisdictions,
- 27:14Speaker 1: that's why it's in Colorado. And prosecutors present forensic evidence
- 27:19Speaker 1: disproving the accident and the financial motive which was the
- 27:22Speaker 1: insurance money, and then the evidence of a long term
- 27:25Speaker 1: affair now the most damaging evidence, and they interview the
- 27:28Speaker 1: guy in the in the documentary, his name is Brian Loveless,
- 27:32Speaker 1: and he was a bartender at a restaurant that Larry
- 27:34Speaker 1: and Laurie frequented together, and he testified that he overheard
- 27:39Speaker 1: Larry say, I guess they got in an argument at
- 27:42Speaker 1: dinner one night, and Larry said I killed my wife
- 27:46Speaker 1: for you, and he yelled that to Laurie.
- 27:48Speaker 2: I don't know, and the.
- 27:51Speaker 1: And the bartendent, well, I don't know.
- 27:53Speaker 2: They're pretty open. The guy's pretty brazy.
- 27:55Speaker 1: So he testifies that he overheard Larry's I killed my
- 28:00Speaker 1: wife for you. Larry testified at acknowledged that is I
- 28:05Speaker 1: opened up a practice across the street, even though my
- 28:07Speaker 1: thumb I'm claiming thirty thousand a month on it. And
- 28:10Speaker 1: it wasn't really the crocodile.
- 28:13Speaker 2: Jeez, it was an alligator.
- 28:16Speaker 1: Larry. This wouldn't surprise you at all because of Larry
- 28:18Speaker 1: and his personality. But Larry testified at his own trial,
- 28:22Speaker 1: which many.
- 28:23Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, that's telling right there. He's like, yeah, he
- 28:27Speaker 2: gets away everything right. He talks everyone into everything right.
- 28:32Speaker 1: And many jurors saw his testimony as the nail and
- 28:37Speaker 1: the coffin for him because they did not believe a
- 28:39Speaker 1: word that he said. So I don't know why his
- 28:43Speaker 1: defense attorney. He probably the defense attorney probably couln't talk
- 28:46Speaker 1: him out of it.
- 28:46Speaker 2: This guy was like, oh, it reminds me of that
- 28:48Speaker 2: movie from the Head with Judd Nelson where he knows
- 28:51Speaker 2: his client is guilty of first degree murder, like brutal murder,
- 28:55Speaker 2: but he can't say it, but he wants to expose him.
- 28:58Speaker 2: So and this guy is like a narcissist, like a
- 29:01Speaker 2: real cocky guy. So he messes with him and says,
- 29:04Speaker 2: you shouldn't testify. They won't believe you. You don't have
- 29:06Speaker 2: the charm to convince them. And so he's like, oh, yeah,
- 29:11Speaker 2: you better believe I'm going to testify, and then he
- 29:14Speaker 2: goes up on the stand and he exposes him that way.
- 29:17Speaker 1: So August first of twenty twenty two, the verdict comes
- 29:20Speaker 1: out and Larry Rudolph is found guilty of murder and
- 29:23Speaker 1: mail fraud, and Laurie mill Iron is found guilty of
- 29:27Speaker 1: accessory obstruction and perjury.
- 29:29Speaker 2: Which is a bunch of illegal jargon to say, you're involved.
- 29:33Speaker 2: He told your boyfriend to kill him, and you knew.
- 29:35Speaker 1: What was going on and you had no problem with it,
- 29:37Speaker 1: and you're a shitty person, right, So you're.
- 29:40Speaker 2: Going to jail to So do we have sentencing?
- 29:42Speaker 1: Yeah? So then in twenty twenty three, June twenty third
- 29:45Speaker 1: of twenty twenty three, Lauri mill Iron is sentenced to
- 29:48Speaker 1: seventeen years in federal prison. They did not like Lori
- 29:52Speaker 1: mill Iron.
- 29:53Speaker 2: I don't know, like, oh good, she had too good
- 29:55Speaker 2: of a life for so long. She should be locked
- 29:59Speaker 2: up getting away with all that.
- 30:01Speaker 1: And then in August twenty first of twenty twenty three,
- 30:04Speaker 1: Larry Rudolph was sentenced to life in prison for murder,
- 30:07Speaker 1: twenty years concurrent for fraud, and then four point eight
- 30:11Speaker 1: million in restitution plus a two million dollar fine for
- 30:15Speaker 1: his insurance scams. So Larry and Beyonca's children initially believe
- 30:21Speaker 1: Larry's story, but later changed their stance after seeing the
- 30:24Speaker 1: trial evidence. You know, that is sad when like your children,
- 30:28Speaker 1: like his children stood behind him because he's probably such
- 30:31Speaker 1: a smooth talker that he can't They don't want to
- 30:34Speaker 1: believe that your dad murdered your mother, right, So you know,
- 30:38Speaker 1: they probably believe him and they want to stand by
- 30:40Speaker 1: their dad.
- 30:41Speaker 2: And you know, they probably didn't know anything about these
- 30:43Speaker 2: affairs or a lot of things, and everything just starts
- 30:46Speaker 2: piling up and they're just holy crap.
- 30:48Speaker 1: Laurie's daughter still fully supports her mother and believes her
- 30:51Speaker 1: to be innocent. But I do believe that Larry's kids
- 30:54Speaker 1: after the trial and after all the evidence that was presented,
- 30:57Speaker 1: I think that they're pretty aware that who their dad
- 31:01Speaker 1: actually is. So both Larry and Loriie maintain their innocence
- 31:06Speaker 1: and have pursued in prison for.
- 31:08Speaker 2: Life without possibility. Pearl.
- 31:10Speaker 1: I don't think he has a possibility for parole. Life
- 31:13Speaker 1: in prison.
- 31:16Speaker 2: I don't know how much life he has. I don't
- 31:18Speaker 2: know what he looked like to just to me, just
- 31:19Speaker 2: from forties maybe No, he.
- 31:21Speaker 1: Looked a little older fifties maybe, but I mean he's
- 31:25Speaker 1: going to spend the rest of his life.
- 31:26Speaker 2: Yeah, that the insurance like he got charged for the
- 31:29Speaker 2: insurance fraud.
- 31:30Speaker 1: Yeah, but the insurance fraud that he was charged for
- 31:32Speaker 1: was was the four point eight million he got from
- 31:34Speaker 1: his wife's life insurance policy that he had taken out any.
- 31:37Speaker 2: Money, still collecting the thirty thousand dollars.
- 31:39Speaker 1: But he's still collecting the thirty thousand insurance.
- 31:42Speaker 2: Let's get some of that insurance company that is, and
- 31:45Speaker 2: let's use them because apparently they pay out.
- 31:48Speaker 1: How How is that not on their radar? How are
- 31:51Speaker 1: they just continuing and he's in prison getting it? How
- 31:54Speaker 1: are they just continuing to send the thirty thousand dollars
- 31:57Speaker 1: a month and the disability insurance for the when this man.
- 32:03Speaker 2: He's in jail and he does he can't practice because
- 32:05Speaker 2: he's in jail. Well, maybe that's a reason why you
- 32:08Speaker 2: can't practice. Has nothing to do with the thumb any right,
- 32:11Speaker 2: Does anyone.
- 32:11Speaker 1: Out there listening know what insurance company this is? Because
- 32:14Speaker 1: Shane would like to write a letter, yes and make
- 32:16Speaker 1: my phone day. I did follow for my e bike.
- 32:21Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd be like she can't walk around and tell
- 32:23Speaker 2: me what to do anymore.
- 32:25Speaker 1: In I still tell you what today. It didn't affect
- 32:29Speaker 1: that at all. All right, guys, thank you so much
- 32:33Speaker 1: for listening Till Death Do Us Part again? Our what
- 32:37Speaker 1: is it? What is our? PSA public service announcement. Divorce
- 32:42Speaker 1: is always the better option. I don't care about your
- 32:46Speaker 1: religious convictions or your financial problems. Divorce is always the
- 32:51Speaker 1: better option. So choose divorce.
- 32:53Speaker 2: Magic accidents will just lead to imprisonment.
- 32:57Speaker 1: Right, So let's always choose divorce first. So thank you
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