305: He Thought He Got Away With It: The Truth About Hulu’s ‘Trophy Wife: Murder on Safari’

In this bonus episode, uncover the dark truth behind what was supposed to be a luxury hunting trip in Zambia. Bianca Rudolph, a wealthy wife and avid traveler, was found dead from a gunshot wound. But was it really an accident, or a carefully calculated plan years in the making? Trophy Wife: Murder on Safari, now streaming on Hulu, peels back the layers of a case filled with betrayal, greed, and a husband who almost got away with murder. Annie takes you inside the twisted investigation, the shocking courtroom bombshells, and the red flags no one saw coming…🔎Join Our True Crime Club & Get Exclusive Content & Perks 🔎 Join The Club: https://www.patreon.com/annieelise🎧 Need More to Binge? Listen to EXTRA deep dive episodes every week on Apple!https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/serialously-with-annie-elise/id1519456164🚩Announcements🚩Want to Catch Annie LIVE on Tour? 🎤 🎟Grab your tickets now for a city near you: https://annieelise.com/pages/tour🌸 SPRING MERCH IS OFFICIALLY HERE! 🌸Shop now at https://annieelise.com/collections/shop-allDon't miss out before your faves sell out! 🛒🌷Follow Annie on Socials 📸 🩷Instagram: @ _annieelise, https://www.instagram.com/_annieelise/?hl=en💜TikTok: @_annieelise, https://www.tiktok.com/@_annieelise?lang=en🗞️ Substack: @annieelise, https://substack.com/@annieelise💙Facebook: @10tolife, https://www.facebook.com/10toLIFEShop Annie’s Closet & Must-Haves! 👗Poshmark: https://posh.mk/Tdbki6Ae0RbShopMY: https://shopmy.us/annieeliseAmazon: https://www.amazon.com/shop/10tolife?ref_=cm_sw_r_apin_aipsfshop_BKN1ZMCMEZHACVFQ2R75&language=en_USDisclaimer ‣ Some links may be affiliate links, they do not cost you anything, but I make a small percentage from the sale. Thank you so much for watching and supporting me.🎙️ Follow the podcast for FREE on all podcast platforms! Apple:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/serialously-with-annie-elise/id1519456164Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/6HdheEH8WeMTHoe5da34qUAll Other Platforms: https://audioboom.com/channels/5100770-serialously-with-annie-eliseGet Involved or Recommend the Case 💬 About Annie: https://annieelise.com/For Business Inquiries: [email protected] Sources 🔗Good Morning AmericaInside Edition*Sources used to collect this information include various public news sites, interviews, court documents, FB groups dedicated to the case, and various news channel segments. When quoting statements made by others, they are strictly alleged until confirmed otherwise. Please remember my videos are my independent opinion and to always do your own research. ••••••••••••••••••Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this video are personal and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of any other agency, organization, employer, or company. Assumptions made in the analysis are not reflective of the position of any entity other than the creator(s). These views are subject to change, revision, and rethinking at any time and are not to be held in perpetuity. We make no representations as to the accuracy, completeness, correctness, suitability, or validity of any information on this video and will not be liable for any errors, omissions, or delays in this information or any losses, injuries, or damages arising from its display or use. All information is provided on an as-is basis. It is the reader’s responsibility to verify their own facts.

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• 0:00Annie Elise?

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• 1:22Annie Elise?

  Hey, everybody. Welcome back to an all-new episode of Serialishly. With me, Annie E. Leif. Today's episode is a little bit different than what we normally do. As you can see, we're releasing it on a day that's not a Monday or Thursday, which are our typical days. And that's because it's a bonus episode. And the reason I wanted to put this episode out there is it's one that we covered quite a few years ago. But I recently was like perusing Hulu, trying to figure out what new documentaries were out, different docu-series. And there was one that came up, and it immediately looked familiar. I was like, wait, I've covered this case. And I'm noticing it's starting to kind of pick up traction and go viral, and a lot of people have questions about it. So I figured for those of you who either have seen the docu-series and documentary

• 2:06Annie Elise?

  and like want to get more information on it, or if you Are looking for just a little extra bonus case. That's perfect, too. So I figured we might as well just talk about it today. And let me just start by saying this, okay? I want you to close your eyes, not if you're driving, only if you're somewhere safe. And I want you to picture this. You're on a luxury safari with your wife of 30 years. You're hunting leopards of all things. You're really just living the high life. But then, out of nowhere, boom, your wife is dead from a shotgun blast. Tragic accident? Maybe. Until you realize that this so-called grieving husband has had a mistress for 15 years back at home. He's also taken out millions of dollars in life insurance policies.

• 2:51Annie Elise?

  And he even has a history of very sketchy animal attacks. Now, like I said, I've covered this one before, but now there's a whole lot more to dig into. And there's that three-part Hulu series called Trophy Wife: Murder on Safari. So buckle up, guys, because this is one that's got like crocodiles, cremation conspiracies, a dentist with a god complex, and so much more. So we're going to be talking all about Larry and Bianca Rudolph. Now Bianca was a truly beautiful woman. She had this long curly hair, kind of reddish brownish, these big blue eyes. And while we don't know much about her early years, we do know that she eventually went on to pursue education at the University of Pittsburgh. And that is where she met another student named Larry Rudolph,

• 3:36Annie Elise?

  and he was studying to become a dentist. They quickly fell in love and got married in 1982, right after he finished dental school. All was right in their world. And they raised two children, Anna and Julian, and were just living a fantastic love story. Their son Julian has said that his dad Larry was, quote, "a good father, generous, charismatic", while Bianca, he says, was an amazing mother, even his best friend. And Julian also said that his father worked quite a bit, actually, his direct quote was "worked a lot", in order to allow Bianca to stay at home with Julian and his sister. Larry opened up a dental practice called Three Rivers Dental in Pennsylvania. And his dental practice, quickly becoming successful, started out opening up- Multiple branches.

• 4:21Annie Elise?

  Well, in 2012, Larry and Bianca moved to Arizona. So Larry traveled back and forth from Pennsylvania to Arizona for work. But by then, he had other doctors working for him in the practice that could do most of the work. So he would kind of just go back and forth checking in. And by 2016, they had five branches and were worth an estimated $10 million. Everybody loved Dr. Rudolph. Well, the patients loved Dr. Rudolph at least. Because patient reviews painted a picture of a kind, genuine dentist who went above and beyond for his patients. However, employee reviews were a little bit different. Many employees said that their days were long with no breaks and constantly were being reprimanded and scrutinized.

• 5:03Annie Elise?

  But nonetheless, clients or prospective clients aren't really looking at how employees feel or employee reviews when finding a dentist. They're cruising on Yelp. They're not going on Glassdoor. They're mostly looking at the patient reviews, which by all accounts looked great and had amassed over 100,000 patients. But when he wasn't working, the two of them spent lots of time hunting for big game. Which big game means animals that are larger than rabbits and squirrels. You know, think like tigers, lions, elephants, things like that. And the two of them visited many countries and spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on these hunting trips. It was something that was very important to the two of them.

• 5:41Annie Elise?

  So as Larry and Bianca's shared love for hunting, the two of them decided to take a hunting trip from September 27, 2016 to October 11, 2016, to Zambia. Zambia was a place that they had gone many times prior, but this trip was different and this one was important. The sole focus of this trip was to let Bianca have the opportunity to hunt a leopard, which was a very big goal of hers. So Larry wasn't planning on hunting this trip, so he didn't get the license to hunt. Instead, his goal was to support Bianca and her efforts. So they headed to Zambia on September 27 with two guns in tow. The two guns were a Remington 375 rifle and a 12-gauge Browning shotgun.

• 6:21Annie Elise?

  They stayed in a one-bedroom cabin near the Caffew River, and it was a place they had stayed at before. And not only just stayed at, but also had an alleged crocodile attack at. Now, let's quickly talk about this attack and then we'll come back to this trip. So in 2006, Larry went to stay at the cabins in Caffio. Now allegedly, he decided to go fishing alone at sunrise. But he says that what happened next was something that made his career much harder for him and really life-changing. Larry says that he was bringing a fish in that he had caught. But when he reached for it, a crocodile grabbed him and pulled him in. He said that the crocodile bit his thumb, but that he was able to get to a rock and then fire his gun for help.

• 7:03Annie Elise?

  But the medic said that Larry appeared quite calm for a crocodile attack. And that his pants were just damp, which is odd considering he said that he was pulled all the way in by this crocodile. He had a few scrapes and cuts, but also nothing major. However, once he was back in the US, he reached out to an attorney about getting disability payments. He ended up making about $30,000 per month on disability. But was still working, making other money with his dental practice. Despite that legally, he was not supposed to be working if he was collecting this disability. He collected around $3.5 million of insurance money as well, claiming that it destroyed his career. Now, clearly it didn't, considering that he was still working.

• 7:47Annie Elise?

  But many people who know him also don't think that he was actually attacked by a crocodile. They think that he actually ripped his own thumb by himself in an effort to get money. Which to me seems like the first sign of a very financially greedy person willing to risk it all for money. So now let's go back to this 2016 trip to Zambia. The trip seemingly was going well. Witness said that Larry was very attentive to Bianca's needs throughout the entire trip. One night, apparently they even danced to Simply the Best by Tina Turner while they were outside just looking at each other glowing and in love. They looked like a happy and in love couple. On that trip, Bianca never was able to shoot that leopard as she had hoped for.

• 8:29Annie Elise?

  However, she did get a zebra, so apparently a little bit of a win. She was asked if she wanted to extend her trip, but she said no because her nephew was getting married four days after they were due back. She's a very close-knit Italian family and would never miss an event like that. But what she didn't know was that she would never make it back for that wedding regardless of if she wanted to stay or not. On the morning of the 11th, Larry and Bianca were packing up to head home when employees from the cabins heard a loud gunshot. When they rushed over to see what was going on, Larry was lying over Bianca's body. A witness said he was yelling "My wife has just taken her life" over and over again. Bianca was lying by a dresser and someone immediately went to get a medical kit.

• 9:13Annie Elise?

  There was a hole in her black t-shirt and her bra. The bullet had hit the left side of her heart. In a flash, her life was over, and it was too late to save her at this point. So Larry yelled "What am I going to tell my kids?" and even tried to throw himself into the river at one point but was stopped by an employee. So was this a display of dramatics? Or a genuinely distraught husband and father? What happened next is a very, very strange series of events, to put it mildly. As investigations continued, stories were just not adding up. Initially Larry had told the tour guide, who ran into the cabin, that he was taking a shower when this all went down. However, he had full clothes on, including shoes, and he wasn't wet at all.

• 9:57Annie Elise?

  Which seems very odd that within 30 seconds, snap of your fingers, he could dry off, get dressed, throw on his shoes, and be hovering over his wife's lifeless body. And Larry told another guide that he was in the bathroom with "the shits." I mean gross if you're gonna lie, at least like, lie about something that's not so gross. So, but two different stories. So which one was it? There are two very different scenarios, but coincidentally, or not so coincidentally, both scenarios were removing him from the actual scene of her death. In fact, that same guide Mark says that he and Larry were discussing theories on whether Bianca's death may have been accidental while they were on the way to alert police of her death.

• 10:39Annie Elise?

  Whereas, remember, his initial outcry was that she did this intentionally. Because now Larry's claim was that she was packing the gun and that's when she shot herself. Some of the theories included her long acrylic nails and could they have accidentally hit the trigger while packing the gun? Or that maybe the zipper got stuck and she possibly slammed the butt of the gun down and it was a misfire? In any event, 11 hours after Bianca died, Larry was already calling the US Embassy to figure out how he could cremate her body. He was wanting her cremated as soon as he possibly could. However, Bianca was actually very against being cremated. She was a practicing Catholic, and she believed that it was not right to have a cremation. She even had discussed that with her friends. But of course Larry didn't care about that.

• 11:24Annie Elise?

  He said it was apparently too difficult to take her body back to the States. So was it really too difficult? Or was it that he was trying to destroy evidence and avoid an autopsy being performed? Because remember those pictures of the big animals that they had shot and killed? He never had any problem getting those back to the United States, yet this time it was too difficult to take his wife home? The Consular Chief on the other end of the phone was beginning to get increasingly bad vibes over this. In Zambia, a body cannot be cremated before the funeral home receives the report from the forensic pathologist. Typically, this takes a few days or sometimes even longer. However, quickly after all of this, the funeral home alerted the chief, saying that they would be cremating her the very next day. The chief, taking all of the timing into account,

• 12:09Annie Elise?

  realized this was so incredibly fast and that there had to be something more going on here. So he tipped off the FBI, and thank goodness he did so. Not only did he tip off the FBI, but he and two other people decided to go to the funeral home to take photos and preserve evidence for any potential crimes that could have been committed. The chief had actually been a longtime Marine and knew from past experience that something here just was not lining up. The first thing that he noticed was that the gunshot was directly on the heart. Another thing was that there was no evidence of gas burn or tissue expansion. Now, those typically happen when a gun is directly on the body when fired. In other words, when you're taking your own life

• 12:50Annie Elise?

  or something happens in very close proximity, you're going to see that happen. There was also another wound from the waiting of the gun. So all of that led him to believe that the gun was not directly on Bianca and that this was a shot from close proximity, but not intentionally done on her own. From his experience, he believed that she was shot from about six to eight feet away, which wouldn't make sense if she had shot herself. So when Larry found out that the chief and others went to take photos and investigate, he went absolutely ballistic and actually called the chief. He was freaking out, saying that this was an invasion of privacy, and he wouldn't stop talking about the Privacy Act. Now, for someone who was so worried and so confused about what happened to his wife, he sure was freaking out over the wrong thing here.

• 13:35Annie Elise?

  The investigation would be to give him answers, but clearly, he didn't mean the answers from them. He probably knew the answers, and he didn't want them to find out the answers. So during that discussion with the chief, the chief asked Larry if he would like him to notify their children. And what Larry said next was very bizarre. He said no, and that he would notify them, but he also noted that the children were from a previous marriage. But here's the thing, those two kids were he and Bianca's kids. So what on earth could be the reason for him to lie about that? Didn't that if the investigators talked to his children, they would potentially try to pry into his life, and maybe he was potentially hiding more skeletons in his closet?

• 14:16Annie Elise?

  He also told them that he didn't know anything about the gun that took Bianca's life, but the gun was his gun. Again, very strange. Now, hours after that phone call, Anna, their daughter, who had started working at the dental practice, began freaking out at work because neither she nor her brother could get a hold of their mom Bianca, and this was highly unlike her, especially since she should have already been home by then. Now Larry didn't tell his children for a week about their mother's death, for a week, and he was very vague when he did in fact end up telling them. Anna was, of course, very confused about why her mom was cremated when she was Catholic, but she was just told by her father, "It's in the will." But was it?

• 15:00Annie Elise?

  Or was she just being told something by her father to shut her up and to satisfy her as she had been actually told to do so before? Two weeks after everyone was made aware of Bianca's deaths, one of Bianca's closest friends contacted the FBI. This is the same friend that Bianca had discussed not approving of cremation with. This friend told the FBI that Larry and Bianca had a very rough relationship. Allegedly, there was verbal altercations at times, fights about money, threats of divorce, and multiple affairs. And at the time of Bianca's murder, Larry was having an affair with none other than his former hygienist from his office. But this affair was weird, guys. It had been going on for 15 to 20 years.

• 15:42Annie Elise?

  It was known in the office, and Larry knew that Bianca knew, but that she would never leave him due to her religious beliefs. Most of the staff also knew about it, but everyone just put up with it and shut up because they didn't want to risk losing their jobs. Lori Milliron is the name of the lady that Larry was having this affair with. The two of them went on many vacations together as well, spanning around 60 days per year between 2003 and 2008. They went to destinations including Cabo, Africa, Paris, New Zealand, and so many more. It's just absolutely disgusting. Exploiting your wife's religious beliefs and using them against her, knowing she won't

• 16:23Annie Elise?

  leave you, and then prancing around on vacations with your mistress for nearly two decades. Not only is that just cruel, but it's absolutely disgusting. So Lori had gone to many events with him, and many people knew that she was also part of the problem. But Bianca pushed back. It's clear that she was ashamed, as she was fighting and trying to say that she was in a happy marriage and that the affair was not happening, just in denial. But doing that only fueled the fire and allowed Larry to continue on his massive path of destruction. Fast forward to the summer of 2015. Larry asked his Hispanic contractor, "Hey, do you have any cousins or amigos in Mexico that can come up here and make somebody disappear?"

• 17:07Annie Elise?

  And guys, that is a direct quote, I am not putting those words in myself, this is what this creep ass said. So the contractor who goes by Amos said he didn't know of anybody. Larry then showed him $25,000 as a commission. Obviously, such a weird series of events, but why would he do that? Where did that come from? Who needed to disappear? Well, a former manager of Larry's dental practice can explain that one. Her name is Anna Grimley. She had just moved into town for the new position at the office during the summer of 2015. So Lori came over to Anna's with a bottle of wine to help her set up a dresser. But Anna got a whole lot more from that visit than just a dresser. Allegedly Lori proceeded to tell her about the affair and explained how Larry had been giving her tons of money.

• 17:52Annie Elise?

  They were supposed to use that money to up and leave together, but that never happened. And allegedly Lori told Anna that that's when she decided to give Larry an ultimatum. The ultimatum being that he had one year to get rid of Bianca. So then he reaches out to the contractor, asks him if he knows how to make anybody disappear, and he's trying to put his plan in motion. Then, in May of 2016, the time is almost up. And it happened to also be the same time when Bianca found another woman's hair in her bed. And that hair was none other than Lori's. Bianca told Larry's assistant that she was thinking about divorce finally, after all this time. And she confronted Larry about the divorce and about the affair, but he denied it. So she showed him the emails proving it.

• 18:37Annie Elise?

  He told her he would end things, he would end things with Lori and they would be okay. Two months later in July, Bianca said that understanding and forgiveness is required for a long-term marriage. And that's when they started to plan this Africa trip. So was this trip just one of their regular excursions? Or was this trip planned as a ruse to show Bianca that they were moving forward in a positive direction with their marriage? And that he was leaving all of his infidelities and indiscretions behind them? Well, regardless of the reasoning behind the trip together, there was one problem. Things never actually ended with Lori. In fact, just a day after Bianca's funeral, Larry bought Lori a ticket to visit him. Although he quickly canceled the reservation, probably realizing that he was going to look bad and get caught up and trip himself up.

• 19:23Annie Elise?

  But the very next day, Lori bought a ticket to Vegas and the two of them met there. They spent all of their time watching and tweeting about the 2016 election, having absolutely no idea that the FBI was starting to become very suspicious of the circumstances. Not only were they doing that, but Larry was filing life insurance claims left and right. By spring of 2017, he had filed under nine different policies for life insurance and accidental death claims. He even went so far as to FedEx documents for one of them. Now unfortunately, there wasn't enough information to not accept the claims and pay them, so that's what the companies did. And the FBI realized that less than six months prior to Bianca's death, they had actually

• 20:07Annie Elise?

  set up a survivor's trust. One more sign that this was premeditated and planned out. In total, Larry collected $4,877,000. In summer of 2017, Larry put some of that money to use by purchasing land for $3.5 million to build a custom home for Mistress Lori. The two's relationship continued, with them gallivanting around as if nothing ever had happened. Although, when out sometimes, Lori apparently would notice certain people looking at them, and was always worried that it was the FBI. Now, behind the scenes, the FBI were conducting insane amounts of testing to prove that Larry was responsible for the death of Bianca.

• 20:52Annie Elise?

  Remember, Bianca was cremated, so they were unable to measure her arms next to the gun to see if that was actually plausible. But they had that same friend, who tipped them off, help them. They took a photo that she had of she and Bianca and used that. They had the friend wear that same dress and took measurements, and then compared it with the photo. They were able to get approximate arm sizes by using that. Then, they had a study with a bunch of women with the same size arms. They had the women hold the gun a certain way, try to zip up the bag a certain way, and almost all of the things you could possibly think of. And most of the things that they asked these women to do, they were unable to do. They even recreated it 100 times, that exact gun bag that Bianca was allegedly loading when the gun went off.

• 21:36Annie Elise?

  During that study, they could not find a possible way where Bianca would have been the one discharging the gun. Also, the way Larry claims her death happened would mean that she went directly against all gun safety rules. Given that she was an avid hunter, that just would not make sense. They also conducted interviews with all of the witnesses. They found a witness that directly saw him empty the gun the night before at the end of their hunting session. So why would the gun be reloaded if they weren't planning on using it and they were just packing up to go home? And if all of that wasn't enough, there was another witness, a bartender who says that he overheard a conversation between Larry and Lori. And what he heard will absolutely shock you.

• 22:20Speaker 03

  He pointed his finger at Lori's face and said, "I'd kill my [bleep] wife for you."

• 22:27Annie Elise?

  So finally, the FBI had enough information to piece it all together. On December 21st, 2021, while en route on a flight to Cabo, the feds hopped aboard. They sat quietly during the whole flight, and after landing, they arrested Larry, yelling, "We got him." Later Lori said that they were betrayed by their own government and that it was a witch hunt, somehow making herself the victim in all of this, as though they are the ones who were betrayed in this entire scenario. I mean, it's just the most narcissistic and absolute soulless response you could have in that moment. Larry was charged with foreign murder and mail fraud of seven life insurers. He pled not guilty. A month later, which would be January, the feds showed up at Lori's house.

• 23:11Annie Elise?

  They wanted to know all about those deposits Larry put in her account and that bar argument, as well as the alleged ultimatum. Lori said that the payments were because he was generous, not because of their relationship. She also lied about the bar argument. Ultimately, they arrested her and charged her with five counts of lying under oath, one for obstructing justice and another for accessory to murder. She too pled not guilty. Then, the Wonder Couple, Larry and Lori, had a joint trial in July of 2022, and a whole bunch more details were about to come to light. And spoiler alert, they did not make Larry look very good.

• 23:48Speaker 04

  Court documents are shining more light on what was reportedly happening behind closed doors. According to the paperwork, Larry Rudolph called a personal friend and told him he was afraid of divorce because he couldn't afford to live with what he would have left. The paperwork also says Larry reported his net worth of $27 million. According to statements in the documents from Bianca's friend, Bianca told her friend she was afraid of divorcing Larry because she could not take care of herself and was afraid of losing the kids, that she gave Larry an ultimatum about his affair, and that she knew Larry might try to kill her during the first hunting trip of 2016, but went anyway to try and save her marriage.

• 24:30Speaker 04

  According to the documents, Larry argues these statements are hearsay. The paperwork also points to something else odd: propofol. The court documents show a witness who worked with Larry and his alleged mistress, who was a dental hygienist at his practice, was given unusual and particular instructions for an upcoming special delivery of a vial of propofol, which is a heavy sedation medication. The witness was told to open the package, put the propofol in the back office, and give it to Larry. Their dental practice used outside anesthesiologists at the time and did not keep sedation drugs in its office. Larry came in and picked up the drug, saying he needed it in case there was an accident on the upcoming October hunt.

• 25:15Speaker 04

  Prosecutors say that shows premeditation for murder, even though Bianca ended up dying by gunshot.

• 25:22Annie Elise?

  Now, despite all of this evidence against him, Larry actually took the stand in his own defense, which is not something that we see happen every day.

• 25:30Speaker 05

  And today Larry Rudolph told the jury that he did not murder his wife and could not murder his wife. His testimony lasted over two hours. Rudolph going into specific details about the inner workings of his open marriage with his wife Bianca, as well as his personal accounts of what he allegedly witnessed in that Zambian cabin where the shooting occurred back in October 2016. Rudolph claiming that he was in the bathroom when he heard a gunshot go off and came out to find his wife bleeding on the floor. Now Rudolph is charged with murder and mail fraud in his case because prosecutors think that he killed his wife to get about $5 million in insurance money. Prosecutors also believe that Rudolph wanted to take the money and run off with his girlfriend,

• 26:12Speaker 05

  Lori Milliron, who's being charged with lying to a grand jury and being an accessory. Well, the defense maintains that there was no financial motive because Rudolph is already rich and that Bianca's death happened accidentally with the gun going off while she was packing. Zambian officials and insurance investigators also deemed the death to be accidental. But then it gets sticky, you guys, because prosecutors argue that the gun was fired from at least three and a half feet away.

• 26:37Annie Elise?

  I always think it's so interesting when people take the stand in their own defense in a murder trial, because a lot of the time, I mean, not always, but a lot of the time, it's because they think that they're smarter than everybody else. They think that they can outsmart the jury. And so often it ends up backfiring, which I gotta say, we love to see. What was his downfall on the stand? You hear one of the jurors say, oh, which I think is the best line, Larry was Larry's downfall. So the testimony really changed everything and ultimately resulted in, in the conviction. Ultimately, the trial ended with both of them being found guilty. Larry was found guilty of murdering Bianca and of defrauding of multiple life insurance companies. Lori was found guilty of being an accessory after the fact to the murder, obstruction

• 27:20Annie Elise?

  of justice, and two counts of perjury before the grand jury. Lori was sentenced to 17 years in prison. And good old Larry, he got life in prison. A statement from FBI Denver Special Agent in Charge, Michael Schneider, said, "The murder of Bianca Rudolph was not an easy case to investigate and prosecute, but it was the right thing to do to seek justice for this victim, her family, and her friends." Lawrence Rudolph thought he could murder his wife overseas and get away with it. His actions raised red flags and the FBI was ready to step in to investigate this murder of a US citizen by another US citizen in a foreign country. Now, let's talk about Larry and Bianca's kids again, just for a minute here.

• 28:01Annie Elise?

  Because at the time of the trial in 2022, both Julian and Anna totally stood behind their father. We have seen similar situations, regardless what you believe, in the Barry Morpheu and Suzanne Morpheu case, where their two daughters have sat in Barry's corner with his defense advocating for his innocence. Many people believe it's because children are so desperate to still have one parent in their life that their mind can't actually even acknowledge the idea of their parent being involved in such a crime, while there are, of course, other circumstances in which children and siblings truly do believe that their parent is innocent. But in the years since, it seems like they've started to consider that their dad could be guilty. I mean, at least their son Julian has.

• 28:43Speaker 06

  Our father was telling us, "I'm innocent. This was a terrible accident." What you have to understand about the trial is that it was just a horrifying ordeal. The visuals, the sounds, the sights in that courtroom over three weeks.

• 29:05Speaker 06

  It's tattooed on my mind. Do you still believe your dad is innocent? No, I can't stand by that original statement because that was before we saw the evidence in the trial. So do you believe your dad killed your mom?

• 29:21Speaker 06

  It's incomprehensible to me.

• 29:24Annie Elise?

  I will say, it's not totally clear where their daughter Anna stands at this point because she hasn't made a public statement since the trial. She does still run her dad's dental practice, though, so I don't know if that means that she thinks he's innocent. It could. Either way, one thing that Anna and Julian do have in common is that they are not happy with what happened to all of that insurance money. Remember, Larry cashed in on nearly $5 million in life insurance after Bianca's death. But the Department of Justice has said that that money belongs to the life insurance company, since they were technically the victims of insurance fraud. Julian and Anna, however, say that the money should be theirs.

• 30:00Speaker 06

  It's a matter of right and wrong. My mother put us as the beneficiaries on those insurance policies.

• 30:07Speaker 06

  So she wanted us to receive those proceeds if something ever happened to her. And...

• 30:13Speaker 06

  The insurance companies themselves have indicated, and we don't want these proceeds. And still, the government is hell bent on fighting us in court to give it back to the insurance companies instead of us.

• 30:28Annie Elise?

  And you might be wondering, okay, well, how about Lori? How has she fared in the three years since she was found guilty? Well, in an interview from just last month, she still insisted on her innocence, not just for herself, but also for that loser douchebag, Larry.

• 30:43Speaker 07

  The police did an investigation and

• 30:48Speaker 07

  they said it was an accident. Everyone believed that it was an accident. So I assumed it was an accident as well.

• 30:56Annie Elise?

  There was no ultimatum. Why would I wait 15 years to give him an ultimatum? Now, even after all of that, like I said, this case has now been back in the headlines recently because of that docu-series on Hulu that is called Trophy Wife Murder on Safari. And guys, the director of the series has dropped some serious bombshells. It turns out that what happened to Bianca wasn't even the first time that someone close to Larry had a brush with death. Allegedly, sometime after his whole, you know, an alligator bit my thumb off stunt, his dental partner confronted him for secretly working under the table while racking in all of that disability money. And as for that partner, well, he was allegedly the victim of an assassination attempt. No charges ever came of it, though, because

• 31:38Annie Elise?

  of lack of evidence. But let's just say a lot of people are side eyeing Larry pretty hard. Oh, and also, by the way, according to the Hulu team, Larry's wandering eye did not stop at Lori, not at all. They said that they got thousands, not hundreds, thousands of stories about Larry hooking up with different women. There were, in fact, so many cheating stories that they literally could not fit all of them into the series. The director even said, and this is a direct quote, "I don't think I realized that dentists had this much sex all the time." And honestly, same. I mean, do you, but don't be a cheater. Don't be a scumbag. I don't even know, like, what's going on at these dental conventions? Is there, like, something, like, in the fluoride? What the heck is going on?

• 32:22Annie Elise?

  But you know what? That's not even what shocked me the most. The part in this series that completely just floored me was at the very end when we learned it's at Larry. While he is still in prison, to this day, he's still receiving massive disability checks for his thumb injury. So even behind bars, this guy is still cashing in on his lies. I mean, you cannot even make this stuff up. I don't know, guys. It is just ridiculous. But at least in this case, loser Larry and his chomped off thumb are like in jail for the rest of his sorry life. And as for dirtbag Lori, she's going to be behind bars for some serious time, too. And Bianca's family finally got some justice for her. So if you guys want

• 33:04Annie Elise?

  even more details, I feel like I summed it up pretty well for you. But again, you can check out that Hulu docu-series. And I promise it's not sponsored or in any way, but I know I've mentioned it quite a few times. But I just found it interesting and I thought I would rehash this case with you guys. So thank you for tuning into Another Case. I feel like I might be doing this more frequently. So if you're not following the podcast yet, take a quick sec on whatever podcast app you are listening on. It is totally, totally free. Just go to either the podcast icon or maybe the top corner and press follow where you can follow the show. So if I drop any additional bonus episodes like this, you'll see them in your feed. Or when I drop my regular Monday and Thursday episodes, you won't miss any of those. And it's just a way to, you know, keep track of everything we're doing over

• 33:48Annie Elise?

  here. All right. Other than that, I will talk with you again very, very soon. But thank you for tuning into a bonus case with me over here. And until the next one, be nice, don't kill people, maybe don't go on safari. And like I will say, just get a divorce. All right. Bye, guys.

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