1 00:00:15,749 --> 00:00:16,816 TONIGHT ON "DATELINE" -- 2 00:00:16,816 --> 00:00:19,986 THEY WERE A GREAT COUPLE, THE POWER COUPLE 3 00:00:19,986 --> 00:00:23,123 SHE WAS A GOOD HUNTER, A GOOD SHOT 4 00:00:23,123 --> 00:00:26,292 SHE WOULD NEVER MISHANDLE A FIREARM THAT WAY, NEVER. 5 00:00:26,292 --> 00:00:27,861 THEY HAD JUST FINISHED THEIR SAFARI 6 00:00:27,861 --> 00:00:33,133 Reporter: YOU HEAR A GUNSHOT? WE HEAR A GUNSHOT 7 00:00:33,133 --> 00:00:37,871 THERE ARE PEOPLE IN THAT ROOM WITHIN SECONDS 8 00:00:37,871 --> 00:00:39,472 THEY SEE LARRY HYSTERICAL IN SHOCK. 9 00:00:39,472 --> 00:00:44,210 LARRY SAID THAT BIANCA WAS PACKING THE SHOTGUN AND IT 10 00:00:44,210 --> 00:00:45,845 DISCHARGED Reporter: THEY RULED IT AN 11 00:00:45,845 --> 00:00:46,846 ACCIDENT YES, THEY DID 12 00:00:46,846 --> 00:00:48,415 SOME OF BIANCA'S FRIENDS ARE SAYING, "THERE'S SOMETHING GOING 13 00:00:48,415 --> 00:00:50,016 ON HERE. LARRY'S BEEN HAVING AN AFFAIR. 14 00:00:50,016 --> 00:00:53,687 DID YOU DO THIS YOU KNOW, I JUST DIDN'T WANT IT 15 00:00:53,687 --> 00:00:55,889 TO BE TRUE MY HEART WAS TELLING ME THAT, 16 00:00:55,889 --> 00:01:01,594 "NO, THERE'S NO WAY THAT LARRY COULD DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS." 17 00:01:01,594 --> 00:01:03,763 Reporter: YOU HAPPENED TO OVERHEAR SOMETHING 18 00:01:03,763 --> 00:01:04,798 YEAH. IT WAS A SHOCKING MOMENT 19 00:01:04,798 --> 00:01:07,967 HE SAID, "LISTEN, WE GOT TO SHOW THEM THAT I'M INNOCENT. 20 00:01:07,967 --> 00:01:08,968 Reporter: YOU THINK THIS WAS PLANNED? 21 00:01:08,968 --> 00:01:15,842 I DO. Reporter: THE PERFECT PLACE 22 00:01:15,842 --> 00:01:16,910 FOR A MURDER ALMOST. 23 00:01:16,910 --> 00:01:17,977 A BIG GAME ADVENTURE IN AFRICA TURNS DEADLY. 24 00:01:17,977 --> 00:01:23,783 ACCIDENT OR MURDER IT MAY BE ONE OF THE WILDEST 25 00:01:23,783 --> 00:01:35,362 MYSTERIES YOU'LL EVER SEE. I'M LESTER HOLT, AND THIS IS 26 00:01:35,362 --> 00:01:45,405 "DATELINE. HERE'S ANDREA CANNING WITH 27 00:01:45,405 --> 00:01:48,641 "SAFARI STORY. Reporter: NO ONE COULD HAVE 28 00:01:48,641 --> 00:01:54,414 IMAGINED THAT IT WOULD HAPPEN HERE, HALFWAY AROUND THE WORLD 29 00:01:54,414 --> 00:02:01,221 WHERE THE ELEPHANTS ROAM, ZEBRAS RUN FREE, AND THE HIPPOS PATROL 30 00:02:01,221 --> 00:02:14,934 THE WATERS, IN THE WILD, UNTAMED HEART OF AFRICA. 31 00:02:14,934 --> 00:02:18,138 THAT IS ZAMBIA, A PLACE TEEMING WITH SOME OF THE WORLD'S MOST 32 00:02:18,138 --> 00:02:26,079 EXOTIC WILDLIFE. SOME PEOPLE COME HERE TO 33 00:02:26,079 --> 00:02:28,148 PHOTOGRAPH BIG GAME. OTHERS COME TO HUNT, ESPECIALLY 34 00:02:28,148 --> 00:02:33,920 HERE IN ZAMBIA'S MASSIVE KAFUE NATIONAL PARK. 35 00:02:33,920 --> 00:02:39,225 IT IS VERY SPECIAL. AFRICA, ON ITS OWN, IS A SPECIAL 36 00:02:39,225 --> 00:02:42,929 PLACE. Reporter: BETSY WANDTKE A IS 37 00:02:42,929 --> 00:02:46,599 WORLD TRAVELER AND HUNTER WHO HAS BEEN TO AFRICA ON SAFARI 38 00:02:46,599 --> 00:02:50,303 SEVERAL TIMES. WHEN YOU GO OUT TO ZAMBIA, 39 00:02:50,303 --> 00:02:55,575 NOT ONLY ARE THE THE ANIMALS PHENOMENAL, BUT IT'S JUST THE 40 00:02:55,575 --> 00:02:59,279 WHOLE ATMOSPHERE AFRICA IS ONE OF THOSE PLACES 41 00:02:59,279 --> 00:03:01,881 THAT DRAWS YOU BACK. Reporter: AMONG THOSE WHO 42 00:03:01,881 --> 00:03:05,819 KEPT COMING BACK, ESPECIALLY TO KAFUE NATIONAL PARK, WERE 43 00:03:05,819 --> 00:03:10,357 BETSY'S CLOSE FRIEND, BIANCA RUDOLPH, AND HER HUSBAND 44 00:03:10,357 --> 00:03:13,059 LARRY, A PROMINENT DENTIST AND BIG GAME HUNTER FROM PITTSBURGH. 45 00:03:13,059 --> 00:03:15,161 THEY LOVE THE PEOPLE THERE. THEY LOVE THE ANIMALS THERE. 46 00:03:15,161 --> 00:03:22,502 THE HUNTING WAS SECOND TO NONE SO IT DOESN'T SURPRISE ME THAT 47 00:03:22,502 --> 00:03:23,536 THEY WANTED TO GO BACK SO MANY TIMES. 48 00:03:23,536 --> 00:03:25,205 Reporter: THEY LOVED IT SO MUCH THEY HAD THEIR OWN CABIN 49 00:03:25,205 --> 00:03:33,546 BUILT AT THE HUNTING CAMP. THEY DID. 50 00:03:33,546 --> 00:03:34,714 THEY DID Reporter: RIGHT ON THE BANKS 51 00:03:34,714 --> 00:03:38,785 OF THE KAFUE RIVER BIANCA AND LARRY'S OWN PRIVATE 52 00:03:38,785 --> 00:03:41,421 LITTLE PARADISE IN THE MIDDLE OF PARADISE 53 00:03:41,421 --> 00:03:48,795 AND IT WAS HERE THAT THEY RETURNED IN 2016 FOR THE LAST 54 00:03:48,795 --> 00:03:54,100 TIME IT WAS SEPTEMBER, PRIME SEASON 55 00:03:54,100 --> 00:03:55,135 FOR HUNTING. THE RUDOLPHS GOT A HUNTING 56 00:03:55,135 --> 00:03:58,805 PERMIT, WHICH IS ONLY LEGAL IN CERTAIN SECTIONS OF KAFUE 57 00:03:58,805 --> 00:04:01,941 NATIONAL PARK. THE REST OF THE PARK IS SET 58 00:04:01,941 --> 00:04:04,044 ASIDE FOR WILDLIFE CONSERVATION. THEY HOPED TO BRING HOME A 59 00:04:04,044 --> 00:04:05,178 LEOPARD. BUT ON THIS SAFARI, ONLY BIANCA 60 00:04:05,178 --> 00:04:07,814 WOULD BE HUNTING LARRY WAS THERE TO ASSIST AND 61 00:04:07,814 --> 00:04:10,383 OBSERVE. OVER THE COURSE OF NEARLY TWO 62 00:04:10,383 --> 00:04:15,622 WEEKS, BIANCA AND LARRY SCOURED THE MASSIVE PARK IN SEARCH OF 63 00:04:15,622 --> 00:04:17,290 THAT ELUSIVE LEOPARD SPENCER KAKOMA IS AN EXPERIENCED 64 00:04:17,290 --> 00:04:20,894 GAME SCOUT WHO ACCOMPANIED THE RUDOLPHS 65 00:04:20,894 --> 00:04:24,130 HE KNOWS THE PARK WELL, ALONG WITH MANY OF ITS BEST HUNTING 66 00:04:24,130 --> 00:04:28,268 SPOTS. I THOUGHT MAYBE IT IS GOING 67 00:04:28,268 --> 00:04:29,302 TO BE A VERY GOOD HUNTING, A SUCCESSFUL HUNTING 68 00:04:29,302 --> 00:04:30,303 Reporter: HOW EXPERIENCED WAS BIANCA 69 00:04:30,303 --> 00:04:32,439 BIANCA, SHE WAS VERY EXPERIENCED. 70 00:04:32,439 --> 00:04:36,743 YOU KNOW, THERE IS A VERY FEW HUNTERS WHO CAN KILL MAYBE SOME 71 00:04:36,743 --> 00:04:38,278 ANIMALS WITH JUST A SINGLE SHOT. Reporter: WITH ONE SHOT 72 00:04:38,278 --> 00:04:43,717 YES Reporter: WERE YOU IMPRESSED? 73 00:04:43,717 --> 00:04:47,787 I WAS VERY IMPRESSED. SHE WAS A GOOD HUNTER 74 00:04:47,787 --> 00:04:48,988 SHE WAS A GOOD SHOT. SHE COULD HANDLE A GUN AS WELL, 75 00:04:48,988 --> 00:04:53,893 IF NOT BETTER, THAN MOST OF THE MEN I KNOW 76 00:04:53,893 --> 00:04:56,296 Reporter: LARRY WAS ALSO AN EXPERIENCED HUNTER AND BROUGHT 77 00:04:56,296 --> 00:05:01,034 BOTH A RIFLE AND A SHOTGUN ON THE TRIP 78 00:05:01,034 --> 00:05:03,903 BUT ON THIS SAFARI, HE WAS ALL ABOUT SUPPORTING BIANCA IN HER 79 00:05:03,903 --> 00:05:05,205 QUEST. GODFREY NeCUBE WAS THE CAMP 80 00:05:05,205 --> 00:05:08,375 MANAGER WHO MAINTAINED THE RUDOLPHS' CABIN AND GOT TO KNOW 81 00:05:08,375 --> 00:05:12,579 THEM THEY WERE A GOOD COUPLE, VERY 82 00:05:12,579 --> 00:05:14,347 HUMBLE, ESPECIALLY WITH BIANCA Reporter: DID SHE SEEM HAPPY 83 00:05:14,347 --> 00:05:22,622 TO BE OUT HERE IN THE WILDERNESS 84 00:05:22,622 --> 00:05:24,190 SHE LOOKED HAPPY, CHEERFUL. THEY SEEMED TO BE HAPPY 85 00:05:24,190 --> 00:05:28,428 BECAUSE EVERY TIME EARLY IN THE MORNING, WHEN YOU 86 00:05:28,428 --> 00:05:31,064 WANT TO START OFF GOING FOR A HUNT, THEY START HUGGING EACH 87 00:05:31,064 --> 00:05:38,972 OTHER, KISSING EACH OTHER. IT SEEMED AS IF IT'S A VERY GOOD 88 00:05:38,972 --> 00:05:41,875 MARRIAGE Reporter: BUT THE HUNTING 89 00:05:41,875 --> 00:05:42,776 WASN'T SO GOOD AS THE SAFARI STRETCHED INTO 90 00:05:42,776 --> 00:05:46,379 OCTOBER, BIANCA'S DREAM OF BAGGING HER PRIZED LEOPARD 91 00:05:46,379 --> 00:05:47,914 FADED. SO SHE NEVER GOT HER MALE 92 00:05:47,914 --> 00:05:49,649 LEOPARD? YEAH, SHE NEVER GOT HER MALE. 93 00:05:49,649 --> 00:05:50,984 Reporter: WAS SHE DISAPPOINTED 94 00:05:50,984 --> 00:05:56,923 YEAH, SHE WAS VERY DISAPPOINTED 95 00:05:56,923 --> 00:05:59,592 BUT SHE WASN'T ANNOYED Reporter: AFTER ALL, THE 96 00:05:59,592 --> 00:06:01,194 SAFARI WAS STILL EXCITING. BUT NOW AFTER ALMOST TWO WEEKS 97 00:06:01,194 --> 00:06:13,807 IN ZAMBIA, THE RUDOLPHS WERE EAGER TO RETURN TO THE STATES 98 00:06:13,807 --> 00:06:15,375 FOR THE WEDDING OF THEIR NEPHEW. JUST BEFORE DAWN ON A COOL, 99 00:06:15,375 --> 00:06:21,715 CLEAR OCTOBER MORNING, THE RUDOLPHS WERE UP EARLY PACKING 100 00:06:21,715 --> 00:06:22,782 FOR THE LONG FLIGHT HOME GODFREY WAS WAITING NEAR THE 101 00:06:22,782 --> 00:06:26,453 CABIN TO SAY GOOD-BYE WHEN SUDDENLY HE HEARD AN 102 00:06:26,453 --> 00:06:32,792 UNMISTAKABLE SOUND ECHO ACROSS THE CAMP 103 00:06:32,792 --> 00:06:35,362 WE HEARD THE GUN BANG AND A YELLING VOICE, "YAAAH. 104 00:06:35,362 --> 00:06:42,302 WE ARE VERY SURPRISED BECAUSE IT WAS VERY CLOSE 105 00:06:42,302 --> 00:06:43,336 Reporter: THE SHOT WAS NOT ONLY CLOSE 106 00:06:43,336 --> 00:06:46,072 IT CAME DIRECTLY FROM LARRY AND BIANCA'S CABIN 107 00:06:46,072 --> 00:06:49,142 I JUST DECIDED TO START OFF AND RUNNING TO THE DIRECTION 108 00:06:49,142 --> 00:06:50,744 WHERE THE GUNSHOT HAS BEEN HEARD. 109 00:06:50,744 --> 00:06:54,514 Reporter: YOU SHOULD NOT BE HEARING A GUNSHOT AT THIS HOUR 110 00:06:54,514 --> 00:06:58,118 I WAS NOT HOPING TO HEAR A GUNSHOT BECAUSE WE HAVE ALREADY 111 00:06:58,118 --> 00:07:00,186 FINISHED HUNTING Reporter: YES, THE HUNT WAS 112 00:07:00,186 --> 00:07:07,260 OVER, BUT THE MYSTERY WAS JUST BEGINNING. 113 00:07:07,260 --> 00:07:12,365 SOMETHING HORRIBLE HAD HAPPENED INSIDE BIANCA AND LARRY'S CABIN. 114 00:07:12,365 --> 00:07:15,035 SOMETHING SO TRAGIC, SO INEXPLICABLE THAT THE 115 00:07:15,035 --> 00:07:16,703 INVESTIGATION WOULD SPAN TWO CONTINENTS, THREE COUNTRIES, AND 116 00:07:16,703 --> 00:07:25,045 TAKE THE NEXT SIX YEARS TO SOLVE. 117 00:07:25,045 --> 00:07:28,715 WHEN WE COME BACK -- A SINGLE GUNSHOT AT DAWN 118 00:07:28,715 --> 00:07:30,283 WHAT HAD HAPPENED INSIDE THAT CABIN? 119 00:07:30,283 --> 00:07:31,518 Reporter: THAT MUST HAVE BEEN SUCH A SHOCK TO -- TO WALK IN 120 00:07:31,518 --> 00:07:32,352 HERE AND SEE THAT. EXACTLY, EXACTLY. 121 00:07:32,352 --> 00:07:35,055 I WAS VERY SHOCKED Reporter: A WIFE ON THE 122 00:07:35,055 --> 00:07:38,191 FLOOR. A HUSBAND IN AGONY 123 00:07:38,191 --> 00:07:40,527 HE WAS SAYING, "WHAT AM I GOING TO 124 00:07:40,527 --> 00:08:01,142 HE WAS SAYING, "WHAT AM I GOING TO 125 00:08:01,142 --> 00:08:02,277 Reporter: IT WAS DAWN IN ZAMBIA'S KAFUE NATIONAL PARK 126 00:08:02,277 --> 00:08:08,016 ITS SERENITY HAD SUDDENLY BEEN SHATTERED BY A SINGLE GUNSHOT 127 00:08:08,016 --> 00:08:12,187 AND A FRANTIC SCREAM COMING FROM LARRY AND BIANCA RUDOLPH'S 128 00:08:12,187 --> 00:08:17,459 CABIN. WITHIN SECONDS GAME SCOUT 129 00:08:17,459 --> 00:08:19,027 SPENCER KAKOMA RUSHED INSIDE WHEN I ENTERED THE CABIN, I 130 00:08:19,027 --> 00:08:20,595 SAW BIANCA RUDOLPH SHE WAS LYING HERE 131 00:08:20,595 --> 00:08:22,197 Reporter: THAT MUST HAVE BEEN SUCH A SHOCK - 132 00:08:22,197 --> 00:08:23,231 YES YEAH 133 00:08:23,231 --> 00:08:24,265 Reporter: -- TO WALK IN HERE AND SEE THAT 134 00:08:24,265 --> 00:08:33,241 EXACTLY, EXACTLY. I WAS VERY SHOCKED 135 00:08:33,241 --> 00:08:38,880 Reporter: BIANCA LAY IN A POOL OF BLOOD. 136 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:49,057 NEXT TO HER WAS A SHOTGUN, STILL IN ITS CASE, WHICH WAS PARTIALLY 137 00:08:49,057 --> 00:08:53,261 UNZIPPED THERE WAS A HOLE BLOWN OPEN AT 138 00:08:53,261 --> 00:08:54,462 END OF THE CASE FROM A SHOT THAT WENT THROUGH IT. 139 00:08:54,462 --> 00:08:56,464 MINUTES LATER, CAMP MANAGER GODFREY NeCUBE ALSO ARRIVED AT 140 00:08:56,464 --> 00:09:00,635 THE CABIN. DID YOU THINK THAT MAYBE SHE WAS 141 00:09:00,635 --> 00:09:02,003 ALIVE AT FIRST YEAH. 142 00:09:02,003 --> 00:09:02,704 I SAID, "MAYBE I CAN DO SOMETHING. 143 00:09:02,704 --> 00:09:04,406 BUT IMMEDIATELY I SAW THE WOUND. I KNEW THAT THERE IS NOTHING I 144 00:09:04,406 --> 00:09:05,240 CAN DO Reporter: SHE WAS -- SHE WAS 145 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:06,441 DEAD YEAH, SHE'S DEAD. 146 00:09:06,441 --> 00:09:07,475 SHE'S DEAD RUDOLPH WAS CRYING 147 00:09:07,475 --> 00:09:09,344 Reporter: LARRY RUDOLPH, ACCORDING TO HUNTING SCOUT 148 00:09:09,344 --> 00:09:10,111 SPENCER KAKOMA, WAS BESIDE HIMSELF. 149 00:09:10,111 --> 00:09:13,848 HE WAS SAYING, "WHAT AM I GOING TO TELL MY CHILDREN? 150 00:09:13,848 --> 00:09:15,417 WHAT AM I GOING TO TELL MY CHILDREN?" 151 00:09:15,417 --> 00:09:17,018 Reporter: AS THE MORNING WORE ON, SPENCER SAID LARRY CALMED 152 00:09:17,018 --> 00:09:18,553 DOWN AND DETAILED WHAT HAPPENED IN THE CABIN 153 00:09:18,553 --> 00:09:23,291 HE TOLD ME THAT HE -- "I WAS IN THE BATHROOM. 154 00:09:23,291 --> 00:09:24,325 Reporter: WHAT WAS HE DOING IN THE BATHROOM? 155 00:09:24,325 --> 00:09:29,664 DID HE SAY HE WAS BATHING. 156 00:09:29,664 --> 00:09:32,801 Reporter: HE WAS TAKING A SHOWER 157 00:09:32,801 --> 00:09:34,135 YEAH. "AND MY WIFE, SHE WAS VERY BUSY 158 00:09:34,135 --> 00:09:40,742 PACKING. SO SHE WAS TRYING TO FORCE THE 159 00:09:40,742 --> 00:09:54,956 GUN IN THE GUN CASE. THAT'S HOW IT FIRED. 160 00:09:54,956 --> 00:09:58,626 Reporter: AND THEN IT WENT OFF ACCIDENTALLY 161 00:09:58,626 --> 00:10:00,228 YES, THEN IT WENT OFF ACCIDENTAL 162 00:10:00,228 --> 00:10:01,329 Reporter: A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT, INSISTED LARRY, THAT 163 00:10:01,329 --> 00:10:02,397 SUDDENLY TOOK BIANCA AWAY AFTER 34 YEARS OF MARRIAGE 164 00:10:02,397 --> 00:10:03,598 THE TWO MET SOME 40 YEARS AGO AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH 165 00:10:03,598 --> 00:10:04,699 BIANCA WAS AN UNDERGRAD. LARRY WAS ATTENDING THE DENTAL 166 00:10:04,699 --> 00:10:05,600 SCHOOL THEY SOON FELL IN LOVE, GOT 167 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:06,668 MARRIED, AND STAYED IN PITTSBURGH WHERE THEY HAD TWO 168 00:10:06,668 --> 00:10:07,569 CHILDREN FOR BIANCA, WHO WAS DEEPLY 169 00:10:07,569 --> 00:10:11,539 RELIGIOUS, THIS WAS THE STABLE, LOVING LIFE SHE'D ALWAYS WANTED. 170 00:10:11,539 --> 00:10:12,874 BIANCA WAS A REALLY PROUD WOMAN. 171 00:10:12,874 --> 00:10:18,780 SHE WAS WONDERFUL AND CARING SHE WANTED THEIR MARRIAGE TO BE 172 00:10:18,780 --> 00:10:20,782 THE ONE THAT EVERYBODY LOOKS AT AND SAYS, "I WANT A RELATIONSHIP 173 00:10:20,782 --> 00:10:23,418 LIKE THAT. Reporter: MEANWHILE LARRY'S 174 00:10:23,418 --> 00:10:27,122 CAREER WAS TAKING OFF, ESPECIALLY AFTER HE STARTED HIS 175 00:10:27,122 --> 00:10:29,724 OWN DENTAL PRACTICE. HE EVENTUALLY OPENED FOUR 176 00:10:29,724 --> 00:10:33,395 CLINICS AROUND PITTSBURGH WHICH HE HEAVILY PROMOTED, AS SEEN 177 00:10:33,395 --> 00:10:35,797 THESE COMMERCIALS. I'M DR. LARRY RUDOLPH 178 00:10:35,797 --> 00:10:38,233 AT THREE RIVERS DENTAL GROUP, WE SPECIALIZE IN SMILE MAKEOVERS. 179 00:10:38,233 --> 00:10:42,937 Reporter: FROM THE BEGINNING THE BUSINESS WAS A SUCCESS SAYS 180 00:10:42,937 --> 00:10:44,539 FORMER EMPLOYEE SHERRY HOUCK WE DID SEDATION DENTISTRY 181 00:10:44,539 --> 00:10:49,744 SO YOU WOULD DO THE DENTISTRY ALL IN ONE VISIT FOR THE 182 00:10:49,744 --> 00:10:53,948 PATIENT. SO IT WOULD INCLUDE ROOT CANALS 183 00:10:53,948 --> 00:10:59,220 AND CROWNS AND EVERYTHING. IT WASN'T ODD TO DO A $10,000, 184 00:10:59,220 --> 00:11:01,856 $20,000, $40,000 CASE ON SOMEBODY 185 00:11:01,856 --> 00:11:05,060 THEY KNEW THREE RIVERS. THEY KNEW LARRY BECAUSE HE WAS 186 00:11:05,060 --> 00:11:07,128 COMMERCIALIZED Reporter: ANNA GRIMLEY WAS 187 00:11:07,128 --> 00:11:10,298 LARRY'S OFFICE MANAGER PEOPLE FELT LIKE THEY TRUST 188 00:11:10,298 --> 00:11:11,466 HIM. IF THEY SAW HIM, IT'S LIKE, "OH, 189 00:11:11,466 --> 00:11:14,502 IT'S DR. RUDOLPH." YOU KNOW, THEY -- THEY WOULD 190 00:11:14,502 --> 00:11:15,670 CONNECT WITH THE COMMERCIAL. Reporter: DID LARRY SEEM TO 191 00:11:15,670 --> 00:11:19,774 BE MAKING A LOT OF MONEY FROM THE BUSINESS 192 00:11:19,774 --> 00:11:24,546 ABSOLUTELY. Reporter: LARRY'S BUSINESS 193 00:11:24,546 --> 00:11:27,182 WAS SO SUCCESSFUL HE AND BIANCA BOUGHT A SECOND HOME IN A SWANKY 194 00:11:27,182 --> 00:11:29,517 PHOENIX SUBURB CALLED PARADISE VALLEY, WHERE HE CONTINUED TO 195 00:11:29,517 --> 00:11:31,920 OVERSEE HIS DENTAL BUSINESS REMOTELY 196 00:11:31,920 --> 00:11:36,725 WE DIDN'T SEE HIM A LOT SO YOU UNDERSTAND, HE LIVED IN 197 00:11:36,725 --> 00:11:38,226 ARIZONA AND CAME IN TO VISIT THE OFFICES TO SEE WHAT WAS GOING 198 00:11:38,226 --> 00:11:42,097 ON Reporter: THE RUDOLPHS' 199 00:11:42,097 --> 00:11:43,598 DAUGHTER ANABIANCA FOLLOWED HER FATHER INTO THE FAMILY DENTAL 200 00:11:43,598 --> 00:11:46,634 BUSINESS WHILE THEIR SON JULIAN BECAME A LAWYER. 201 00:11:46,634 --> 00:11:55,110 A SUCCESSFUL, HIGH ACHIEVING FAMILY 202 00:11:55,110 --> 00:12:03,051 BUSINESS KEPT BOOMING, ALLOWING LARRY TO FURTHER INDULGE IN HIS 203 00:12:03,051 --> 00:12:05,153 EXPENSIVE HOBBY -- BIG GAME HUNTING. 204 00:12:05,153 --> 00:12:06,721 HE TRAVELED THE WORLD ON SAFARIS, AND BIANCA OFTEN JOINED 205 00:12:06,721 --> 00:12:07,455 HIM. IT WAS A PASSION OF HERS. 206 00:12:07,455 --> 00:12:10,892 AND PART OF THAT CAME WHEN SHE MARRIED LARRY. 207 00:12:10,892 --> 00:12:12,961 AND SHE REALLY EMBRACED IT Reporter: THIS WAS SOMETHING 208 00:12:12,961 --> 00:12:17,232 THAT REALLY BONDED THOSE TWO, LARRY AND BIANCA, THE LOVE OF 209 00:12:17,232 --> 00:12:18,800 HUNTING. ABSOLUTELY. 210 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:24,139 THEY COULD DO IT TOGETHER AND HAVE THAT EXPERIENCE TOGETHER. 211 00:12:24,139 --> 00:12:25,640 Reporter: LARRY WAS SO PASSIONATE ABOUT THE SPORT, HE 212 00:12:25,640 --> 00:12:27,776 JOINED A HUNTING ADVOCACY GROUP CALLED SAFARI CLUB 213 00:12:27,776 --> 00:12:31,446 INTERNATIONAL, OR S.C.I. FOR SHORT. 214 00:12:31,446 --> 00:12:35,150 RON ARENDT WAS ON S.C.I.'S EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE WHEN HE MET 215 00:12:35,150 --> 00:12:36,284 LARRY. HE SEEMED LIKE A REAL NICE 216 00:12:36,284 --> 00:12:38,319 GUY. HE'S SOMEONE TO VISIT WITH 217 00:12:38,319 --> 00:12:40,855 Reporter: AND SOME PERSONALITY TRAITS THAT YOU 218 00:12:40,855 --> 00:12:44,125 NOTICED RIGHT AWAY VERY FRIENDLY, SMILING, 219 00:12:44,125 --> 00:12:49,364 JOKING, UH, VERY OPEN. HE WAS SOMEONE YOU'D LIKE TO BE 220 00:12:49,364 --> 00:12:50,532 AROUND Reporter: LARRY QUICKLY ROSE 221 00:12:50,532 --> 00:12:55,704 THROUGH THE RANKS, BECOMING THE PRESIDENT OF SAFARI CLUB 222 00:12:55,704 --> 00:12:58,873 INTERNATIONAL IN 2009. I'M PROUD TO BE SERVING 223 00:12:58,873 --> 00:13:00,041 S.C.I. WE'RE THE MOST POWERFUL HUNTING 224 00:13:00,041 --> 00:13:02,577 AND CONSERVATION GROUP IN THE WORLD. 225 00:13:02,577 --> 00:13:05,747 Reporter: LATER LARRY AND BIANCA JOINED ANOTHER HUNTER'S 226 00:13:05,747 --> 00:13:09,951 ADVOCACY GROUP CALLED THE WEATHERBY FOUNDATION 227 00:13:09,951 --> 00:13:11,519 BETSY WANDTKE WAS DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS 228 00:13:11,519 --> 00:13:15,156 HE LEFT SAFARI CLUB, AND THEN HE WAS WORKING WITH US 229 00:13:15,156 --> 00:13:19,461 Reporter: ALL THE WAY TO PRESIDENT? 230 00:13:19,461 --> 00:13:22,597 YES, LARRY CAME INTO THE ORGANIZATION AND WON OVER, YOU 231 00:13:22,597 --> 00:13:25,867 KNOW, THE HEARTS AND MINDS OF THE BOARD MEMBERS AND -- AND ME. 232 00:13:25,867 --> 00:13:31,573 HE WOULD MAKE YOU FEEL IMPORTANT. 233 00:13:31,573 --> 00:13:35,276 UH, THAT WAS LARRY'S GIFT. Reporter: AND BIANCA WAS 234 00:13:35,276 --> 00:13:36,478 RIGHT THERE WITH HIM, HELPING RAISE MONEY AND AWARENESS FOR 235 00:13:36,478 --> 00:13:41,583 THE FOUNDATION I THOUGHT THEY WERE A -- A 236 00:13:41,583 --> 00:13:42,617 GREAT COUPLE, THE POWER COUPLE THEY WORKED TOGETHER 237 00:13:42,617 --> 00:13:47,922 AND THEY WERE BOTH VERY WELL RESPECTED. 238 00:13:47,922 --> 00:13:49,557 BUT, OF COURSE, THAT CHANGED Reporter: CHANGED LITERALLY 239 00:13:49,557 --> 00:13:54,729 IN A FLASH FROM A SINGLE SHOTGUN BLAST. 240 00:13:54,729 --> 00:13:59,501 AND THE SHOCK WAVES WOULD ONLY KEEP SPREADING 241 00:13:59,501 --> 00:14:03,705 COMING UP -- THE RUDOLPHS' SON AND DAUGHTER 242 00:14:03,705 --> 00:14:07,942 LEARN THE AWFUL NEWS Reporter: SHE WAS UNSETTLED, 243 00:14:07,942 --> 00:14:09,110 LIKE SOMETHING WASN'T RIGHT? WELL, IT WAS JUST SHOCKING 244 00:14:09,110 --> 00:14:12,714 AND IT WASN'T CLEAR EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED 245 00:14:12,714 --> 00:14:13,048 SHE WAS REALLY UPS Reporter: THE MORNING AFTER, 246 00:14:13,053 --> 00:14:33,593 SHE WAS REALLY UPS Reporter: THE MORNING AFTER, 247 00:14:33,593 --> 00:14:42,636 IT WAS QUIET NOW AT THE RUDOLPHS' LITTLE HUNTING CABIN 248 00:14:42,636 --> 00:14:43,804 IN MID-OCTOBER 2016, ZAMBIAN POLICE HAD TAKEN BIANCA'S BODY 249 00:14:43,804 --> 00:14:48,742 TO LUSAKA, THE CAPITAL CITY, FOUR HOURS AWAY. 250 00:14:48,742 --> 00:14:55,549 IT'S A TEEMING, BUSTLING PLACE WHERE MOST OF ZAMBIA'S 251 00:14:55,549 --> 00:14:56,883 GOVERNMENT SERVICES ARE LOCATED. AND WHERE BIANCA'S BODY WOULD 252 00:14:56,883 --> 00:15:00,721 UNDERGO AN AUTOPSY IT DIDN'T TAKE LONG. 253 00:15:00,721 --> 00:15:07,294 CAUSE OF DEATH WAS A SHOTGUN BLAST DIRECTLY TO THE CHEST. 254 00:15:07,294 --> 00:15:12,899 ZAMBIAN POLICE INVESTIGATED THE CASE AND CONCLUDED BIANCA'S 255 00:15:12,899 --> 00:15:16,803 DEATH WAS SIMPLY AN ACCIDENT THOUSANDS OF MILES AWAY IN THE 256 00:15:16,803 --> 00:15:20,607 STATES, THE RUDOLPHS' CHILDREN ANABIANCA AND JULIAN HAD NO IDEA 257 00:15:20,607 --> 00:15:28,515 WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO THEIR MOM HOWEVER, LARRY HAD SENT AN EMAIL 258 00:15:28,515 --> 00:15:29,683 TO HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW SAYING HE AND BIANCA WOULD MISS THAT 259 00:15:29,683 --> 00:15:31,551 UPCOMING FAMILY WEDDING. BUT ACCORDING TO LARRY'S FORMER 260 00:15:31,551 --> 00:15:32,786 EMPLOYEE SHERRY HOUCK, WHO SAW ANABIANCA AROUND THIS TIME, THE 261 00:15:32,786 --> 00:15:38,859 RUDOLPH CHILDREN SENSED SOMETHING WAS WRONG. 262 00:15:38,859 --> 00:15:39,893 JULIAN AND ANA COULDN'T GET A HOLD OF THEIR MOM. 263 00:15:39,893 --> 00:15:44,965 AND THEY WERE GETTING REALLY NERVOUS AND UPSET. 264 00:15:44,965 --> 00:15:45,732 Reporter: AND NO COMMUNICATION? 265 00:15:45,732 --> 00:15:47,367 NO COMMUNICATION. WE JUST THOUGHT SOMETIMES YOU 266 00:15:47,367 --> 00:15:53,140 CAN'T GET A HOLD OF PEOPLE BUT IT WAS VERY BIZARRE. 267 00:15:53,140 --> 00:15:54,675 Reporter: BACK IN ZAMBIA, LARRY WAS MAKING FINAL 268 00:15:54,675 --> 00:16:00,013 ARRANGEMENTS AT THIS FUNERAL HOME 269 00:16:00,013 --> 00:16:01,214 GRACE MUSAZULWA, WHO WORKED THERE AT THE TIME, SHOWED US THE 270 00:16:01,214 --> 00:16:04,217 LOG BOOK THERE'S HER NAME 271 00:16:04,217 --> 00:16:06,319 YES, YES. YEAH 272 00:16:06,319 --> 00:16:07,454 BIANCA T. RUDOLPH. Reporter: GRACE WAS THERE 273 00:16:07,454 --> 00:16:11,058 WHEN LARRY CAME BY TO IDENTIFY BIANCA'S BODY. 274 00:16:11,058 --> 00:16:13,160 WHAT WAS HIS DEMEANOR LIKE HOW WAS HE HANDLING THE 275 00:16:13,160 --> 00:16:16,330 SITUATION? HE WAS MOURNING THE WIFE, OF 276 00:16:16,330 --> 00:16:17,364 COURSE HE WAS CRYING. 277 00:16:17,364 --> 00:16:21,601 Reporter: DID YOUR HEART GO OUT TO HIM AS YOU'RE WATCHING 278 00:16:21,601 --> 00:16:23,303 THIS I TOLD HIM, I SAID, "NO, JUST 279 00:16:23,303 --> 00:16:24,705 LEAVE EVERYTHING TO GOD. YOU KNOW, THESE THINGS 280 00:16:24,705 --> 00:16:31,111 HAPPENED." THAT'S HOW WE ENDED WITH HIM 281 00:16:31,111 --> 00:16:36,383 Reporter: LESS THAN A WEEK AFTER BIANCA'S DEATH, LARRY LEFT 282 00:16:36,383 --> 00:16:37,484 LUSAKA IT WAS A LONG JOURNEY BACK HOME 283 00:16:37,484 --> 00:16:39,052 TO ARIZONA DURING A STOPOVER IN 284 00:16:39,052 --> 00:16:44,858 JOHANNESBURG, LARRY CALLED HIS SON JULIAN AND FINALLY REVEALED 285 00:16:44,858 --> 00:16:45,892 THE AWFUL NEWS JULIAN THEN FLEW TO PITTSBURGH 286 00:16:45,892 --> 00:16:51,598 TO TELL HIS SISTER ANABIANCA IN PERSON 287 00:16:51,598 --> 00:16:55,836 ANABIANCA WASN'T HOME. SHERRY HOUCK WAS TAKING CARE OF 288 00:16:55,836 --> 00:16:57,070 HER DOGS I SAW HIM WALKING DOWN THE 289 00:16:57,070 --> 00:17:01,308 DRIVEWAY SO, YOU KNOW, I KNEW THAT IT WAS 290 00:17:01,308 --> 00:17:02,476 NOT GOOD NEWS IF HE FLEW IN. Reporter: ARE YOU THINKING 291 00:17:02,476 --> 00:17:03,176 BIANCA THIS IS ABOUT BIANCA 292 00:17:03,176 --> 00:17:04,244 YEAH. YEAH 293 00:17:04,244 --> 00:17:07,481 YEAH AND HE DIDN'T SAY THAT SHE WAS 294 00:17:07,481 --> 00:17:11,618 GONE HE JUST SAID THERE WAS AN 295 00:17:11,618 --> 00:17:13,820 ACCIDENT Reporter: LESS THAN TWO WEEKS 296 00:17:13,820 --> 00:17:16,390 AFTER BIANCA'S DEATH, HER FAMILY GATHERED AT THIS CATHOLIC 297 00:17:16,390 --> 00:17:21,595 RETREAT CENTER IN SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA, TO SAY GOOD-BYE 298 00:17:21,595 --> 00:17:26,500 I KNOW THAT SHE TOOK HER RELIGION VERY SERIOUSLY. 299 00:17:26,500 --> 00:17:33,273 Reporter: FOLLOWING THE FUNERAL, ANABIANCA RETURNED HOME 300 00:17:33,273 --> 00:17:34,274 TO PITTSBURGH. I STAYED WITH HER, JUST 301 00:17:34,274 --> 00:17:36,476 CONSOLED HER, YOU KNOW AND SHE TALKED TO ME, YOU KNOW, 302 00:17:36,476 --> 00:17:42,516 JUST ABOUT -- JUST HOW, LIKE, UNRESOLVED EVERYTHING WAS. 303 00:17:42,516 --> 00:17:43,684 Reporter: SHE WAS UNSETTLED LIKE SOMETHING WASN'T RIGHT? 304 00:17:43,684 --> 00:17:49,589 WELL, IT WAS JUST SHOCKING, AND SHE WAS JUST REALLY 305 00:17:49,589 --> 00:17:56,430 SURPRISED AND WASN'T CLEAR WITH EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED. 306 00:17:56,430 --> 00:17:58,865 SHE WAS REALLY UPSET Reporter: WITH THE FUNERAL 307 00:17:58,865 --> 00:18:00,100 OVER AND HIS CHILDREN NOW BACK IN THEIR HOMES, 308 00:18:00,100 --> 00:18:01,702 DR. LARRY RUDOLPH WAS NOW ALL ALONE. 309 00:18:01,702 --> 00:18:07,007 FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 34 YEARS, HE WAS WITHOUT BIANCA. 310 00:18:07,007 --> 00:18:08,041 HE SPENT THE NEXT FEW WEEKS HANDLING THE MUNDANE BUT 311 00:18:08,041 --> 00:18:10,544 NECESSARY TASK OF SORTING OUT HER ESTATE AND FILING CLAIMS ON 312 00:18:10,544 --> 00:18:17,017 BIANCA'S LIFE INSURANCE POLICIES 313 00:18:17,017 --> 00:18:21,254 SLOWLY HE STARTED PUTTING HIS LIFE BACK TOGETHER AND RESUMED 314 00:18:21,254 --> 00:18:24,024 OVERSEEING HIS BUSY PITTSBURGH DENTAL PRACTICE. 315 00:18:24,024 --> 00:18:27,027 WAS LARRY SPENDING A LOT OF TIME IN PITTSBURGH OR MOSTLY -- MOST 316 00:18:27,027 --> 00:18:30,664 OF HIS TIME IN ARIZONA WELL, WHEN HE WAS IN TOWN, WE 317 00:18:30,664 --> 00:18:33,867 WOULDN'T ALWAYS KNOW I ALWAYS THOUGHT, LIKE, HE KEPT 318 00:18:33,867 --> 00:18:35,068 IT A SECRET WHETHER HE WAS IN TOWN OR NOT BECAUSE HE DIDN'T 319 00:18:35,068 --> 00:18:41,742 WANT, LIKE, THE EMPLOYEES TO PLAY WHILE HE WAS AWAY 320 00:18:41,742 --> 00:18:46,480 Reporter: ONE OF HIS FORMER EMPLOYEES, ANNA GRIMLEY, HADN'T 321 00:18:46,480 --> 00:18:47,714 HEARD ANYTHING ABOUT LARRY OR WHAT HAD HAPPENED IN AFRICA. 322 00:18:47,714 --> 00:18:52,285 ANNA HAD LEFT THE PRACTICE MONTHS EARLIER BUT KEPT IN TOUCH 323 00:18:52,285 --> 00:18:55,956 WITH HER FORMER COLLEAGUES AND ONE DAY SEVERAL WEEKS AFTER 324 00:18:55,956 --> 00:19:00,694 BIANCA'S DEATH, SHE GOT A CALL FROM ONE OF THEM 325 00:19:00,694 --> 00:19:02,262 SHE SAID, "DID YOU HEAR ABOUT BIANCA RUDOLPH?" 326 00:19:02,262 --> 00:19:07,034 AND IT'S LIKE, "NO." I WAS LIKE, "WHAT HAPPENED?" 327 00:19:07,034 --> 00:19:11,705 AND SHE'S LIKE, "WELL, SHE WAS SHOT IN A SAFARI TRIP. 328 00:19:11,705 --> 00:19:14,508 Reporter: AND JUST LIKE THAT, THE MEMORIES CAME FLOODING BACK. 329 00:19:14,508 --> 00:19:21,748 ABOUT HER TIME AT THREE RIVERS DENTAL 330 00:19:21,748 --> 00:19:25,452 WHAT SHE SAW AND WHAT SHE KNEW COMING UP -- 331 00:19:25,452 --> 00:19:29,656 SECRETS IN THE OFFICE. THEY ALWAYS CAME TOGETHER, 332 00:19:29,656 --> 00:19:31,858 LEFT TOGETHER. OBVIOUSLY THEY'RE, LIKE, A THING 333 00:19:31,858 --> 00:19:34,394 BUT DON'T MENTION IT AND QUESTIONS FROM LARRY'S 334 00:19:34,394 --> 00:19:37,564 DAUGHTER SHE WAS CONSTANTLY, LIKE, 335 00:19:37,564 --> 00:19:38,598 ASKING, "WHO IS LORI WHY IS SHE ALWAYS WITH MY DAD? 336 00:19:54,748 --> 00:20:01,088 Reporter: AFTER THE DEATH OF BIANCA RUDOLPH THE STAFF AT 337 00:20:01,088 --> 00:20:02,289 THREE RIVERS DENTAL TRIED TO RESUME BUSINESS AS USUAL 338 00:20:02,289 --> 00:20:04,224 BUT DENTAL ASSISTANT SHERRY HOUCK SAYS IT WAS 339 00:20:04,224 --> 00:20:06,159 DIFFICULT. EVERYBODY WAS JUST IN SHOCK 340 00:20:06,159 --> 00:20:12,132 AND I THINK JUST SHELLSHOCKED THAT THIS COULD HAPPEN 341 00:20:12,132 --> 00:20:16,336 Reporter: DR. LARRY RUDOLPH MADE IT VERY CLEAR HIS WIFE'S 342 00:20:16,336 --> 00:20:18,805 DEATH WAS NOT TO BE MENTIONED. I NEVER DID TALK TO LARRY 343 00:20:18,805 --> 00:20:22,109 ABOUT IT, EVER OR SAY A WORD TO HIM. 344 00:20:22,109 --> 00:20:23,176 WE WERE TOLD NOT TO. Reporter: SO, YOU JUST HAD TO 345 00:20:23,176 --> 00:20:25,812 PRETEND ALMOST LIKE NOTHING HAPPENED 346 00:20:25,812 --> 00:20:28,115 YEAH. Reporter: IT WAS AWKWARD, BUT 347 00:20:28,115 --> 00:20:30,017 NOT UNHEARD OF THERE WERE OTHER SUBJECTS THAT 348 00:20:30,017 --> 00:20:32,119 WERE OFF LIMITS AT THREE RIVERS DENTAL 349 00:20:32,119 --> 00:20:35,789 LIKE THE ROLE OF AN EMPLOYEE NAMED LORI MILLIRON. 350 00:20:35,789 --> 00:20:40,560 I DON'T KNOW WHAT HER TITLE WAS. 351 00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:42,663 NEVER KNEW HER TITLE Reporter: ANNA GRIMLEY 352 00:20:42,663 --> 00:20:45,265 STARTED AT THREE RIVERS AS A MANAGER IN 2015, MORE THAN YEAR 353 00:20:45,265 --> 00:20:48,935 BEFORE BIANCA'S DEATH. THAT'S WHEN SHE MET LORI, A 354 00:20:48,935 --> 00:20:53,707 FORMER HYGIENIST WHO SEEMED TO HAVE TAKEN ON BIGGER 355 00:20:53,707 --> 00:20:55,475 RESPONSIBILITIES SHE DID SOME INSURANCE AS FAR 356 00:20:55,475 --> 00:20:58,979 AS SETTING THINGS UP ON -- ON OUR PROGRAMS -- UHM TO BILL. 357 00:20:58,979 --> 00:21:01,648 AND SHE DID SHOW ME HOW THE SYSTEM AND WHAT THE COMPUTER 358 00:21:01,648 --> 00:21:06,386 SYSTEM AND, HELPED ME WITH THAT SO I SPENT A LITTLE BIT OF TIME 359 00:21:06,386 --> 00:21:07,788 WITH HER IN THE BEGINNING. Reporter: LORI HAD THREE 360 00:21:07,788 --> 00:21:11,124 GROWN KIDS AND WAS HELPING TO RAISE HER GRANDSON IN 361 00:21:11,124 --> 00:21:14,094 PITTSBURGH SHE SEEMED FRIENDLY, HELPFUL, 362 00:21:14,094 --> 00:21:17,497 BUT THERE WAS TALK AROUND THE OFFICE ABOUT LORI AND LARRY. 363 00:21:17,497 --> 00:21:21,134 THEY ALWAYS CAME, LIKE, IN THE SAME CAR EVEN EARLY. 364 00:21:21,134 --> 00:21:26,406 AND LEFT TOGETHER, CAME TOGETHER, LEFT TOGETHER. 365 00:21:26,406 --> 00:21:28,508 AND UHM JUST FROM RUMORS IN THE OFFICE, OBVIOUSLY, THEY'RE LIKE, 366 00:21:28,508 --> 00:21:32,779 A THING, BUT DON'T MENTION IT. Reporter: ESPECIALLY AFTER 367 00:21:32,779 --> 00:21:36,950 THE RUDOLPHS' DAUGHTER, ANABIANCA, GRADUATED FROM DENTAL 368 00:21:36,950 --> 00:21:39,119 SCHOOL AND JOINED THE PRACTICE SHE BECAME A DENTIST BECAUSE OF 369 00:21:39,119 --> 00:21:42,189 HIM, RIGHT YEAH. 370 00:21:42,189 --> 00:21:46,727 SHE WANTED TO BE LIKE HER DAD. SHE LOOKED UP TO HIM A LOT 371 00:21:46,727 --> 00:21:47,861 SHE -- SHE LIKE ADORED HIM Reporter: BUT ANABIANCA DID 372 00:21:47,861 --> 00:21:52,666 NOTICE SOMETHING STRANGE ABOUT HER FATHER AND THIS 373 00:21:52,666 --> 00:21:54,835 LORI MILLIRON WOMAN. SHE WAS CONSTANTLY, LIKE, 374 00:21:54,835 --> 00:21:58,005 ASKING WHO IS LORI WHY IS SHE ALWAYS WITH MY DAD? 375 00:21:58,005 --> 00:22:05,379 WHAT'S SHE DO HERE DOES SHE HAVE A JOB HERE 376 00:22:05,379 --> 00:22:06,646 Reporter: ANNA GRIMLEY HEARD THE RUMORS, BUT SHE AND LORI GOT 377 00:22:06,646 --> 00:22:08,582 ALONG FINE BUT THEN ONE DAY, ANNA SAYS, 378 00:22:08,582 --> 00:22:12,853 LORI OVERSHARED. I NEEDED SOME HELP PUTTING A 379 00:22:12,853 --> 00:22:18,258 DRESSER TOGETHER AND I HAD NO TOOLS, SO LORI OFFERED TO COME 380 00:22:18,258 --> 00:22:19,426 TO MY HOUSE AND SHE HAD TOOLS FROM THE OFFICE AND SHE WAS 381 00:22:19,426 --> 00:22:20,460 GONNA HELP ME BUILD THIS DRESSER. 382 00:22:20,460 --> 00:22:23,263 AND AT THAT TIME IS WHEN SHE DISCLOSED THAT THEY WERE 383 00:22:23,263 --> 00:22:24,331 TOGETHER Reporter: SO SHE JUST 384 00:22:24,331 --> 00:22:25,899 VOLUNTEERED IT SHE VOLUNTEERED IT. 385 00:22:25,899 --> 00:22:27,801 Reporter: "OH, HERE'S A SCREW. 386 00:22:27,801 --> 00:22:29,069 LIKE, "YEAH. I'M HAVING AN AFFAIR 387 00:22:29,069 --> 00:22:31,204 YEP. WOW. 388 00:22:31,204 --> 00:22:32,272 THIS IS INTENSE. YEAH. 389 00:22:32,272 --> 00:22:35,909 YEAH IT WAS EXTREMELY INTENSE 390 00:22:35,909 --> 00:22:40,681 Reporter: INTENSE AND UNCOMFORTABLE. 391 00:22:40,681 --> 00:22:42,816 AFTER THAT CONVERSATION WITH LORI, ANNA SAYS SHE TRIED TO 392 00:22:42,816 --> 00:22:46,987 PROBE, DELICATELY, TO FIGURE OUT WHAT ANABIANCA KNEW OR DIDN'T 393 00:22:46,987 --> 00:22:50,691 KNOW AND I'M SAYING, "HEY, DO YOU 394 00:22:50,691 --> 00:22:52,793 THINK ANYTHING'S GOING ON WITH LORI AND YOUR DAD? 395 00:22:52,793 --> 00:22:53,860 AND SHE'S LIKE, "NO. NO 396 00:22:53,860 --> 00:22:57,564 NOTHING'S GOING ON I GO, "THEY SEEM PRETTY CLOSE 397 00:22:57,564 --> 00:22:59,800 TOGETHER." I GO, "YOU'RE NOT CATCHING THAT? 398 00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:02,302 OR DO YOU KNOW SOMETHING?" AND SHE'S LIKE, "NO. 399 00:23:02,302 --> 00:23:05,472 THEY'RE JUST WORKING NOTHING'S -- NOTHING'S 400 00:23:05,472 --> 00:23:06,873 HAPPENING. Reporter: SO DID YOU JUST 401 00:23:06,873 --> 00:23:09,142 DROP IT AFTER THAT I DROPPED IT. 402 00:23:09,142 --> 00:23:13,880 Reporter: IN THE HUNTING WORLD, LARRY HAD A REPUTATION OF 403 00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:15,182 BEING A WOMANIZER, GOING BACK SEVERAL YEARS, AND THIS WASN'T 404 00:23:15,182 --> 00:23:20,387 THE FIRST TIME HE MAY HAVE CROSSED THE LINE IN A 405 00:23:20,387 --> 00:23:21,455 PROFESSIONAL SETTING WHILE BETSY WANDTKE WAS WORKING 406 00:23:21,455 --> 00:23:23,357 FOR THE WEATHERBY FOUNDATION, SHE SAID SHE HAD AN AWKWARD 407 00:23:23,357 --> 00:23:25,459 INTERACTION WITH THEN-PRESIDENT, LARRY RUDOLPH, WHEN HE CALLED 408 00:23:25,459 --> 00:23:31,264 FOR AN AFTER HOURS "MEETING. I GOT A PHONE CALL AT 3:00 IN 409 00:23:31,264 --> 00:23:33,900 THE MORNING AT A BOARD MEETING FROM LARRY ASKING IF HE COULD 410 00:23:33,900 --> 00:23:38,638 COME UP AND TALK BUSINESS. AND I WAS NOT GOING TO TAKE THAT 411 00:23:38,638 --> 00:23:41,241 BAIT Reporter: YOU FEEL THAT HE 412 00:23:41,241 --> 00:23:44,978 WANTED TO COME UP TO YOUR ROOM FOR SEXUAL REASONS 413 00:23:44,978 --> 00:23:48,115 YOU CAN DRAW YOUR OWN CONCLUSIONS. 414 00:23:48,115 --> 00:23:53,453 I WASN'T IN THAT MAN'S HEAD, BUT I DO KNOW THAT 3:00 IN THE 415 00:23:53,453 --> 00:23:55,455 MORNING IS KIND OF AN ODD TIME TO DISCUSS BUSINESS. 416 00:23:55,455 --> 00:23:59,192 Reporter: WERE YOU AWARE OF HIS INFIDELITIES AT THIS TIME? 417 00:23:59,192 --> 00:24:00,794 I WAS Reporter: LARRY'S LOVE LIFE 418 00:24:00,794 --> 00:24:05,499 ALSO CAUSED RUMBLINGS AT SAFARI CLUB INTERNATIONAL 419 00:24:05,499 --> 00:24:09,202 ACCORDING TO RON ARENDT, HE AND OTHER MEMBERS TRIED TO CONFRONT 420 00:24:09,202 --> 00:24:10,303 LARRY AT A BOARD MEETING THERE WERE THREE OR FOUR OF 421 00:24:10,303 --> 00:24:13,407 US WHO WANTED TO TALK ABOUT IT AND SAY, "WHAT'S GOING ON? 422 00:24:13,407 --> 00:24:16,476 YOU'RE NOT PRESENTING A GOOD MORAL IMAGE OF SAFARI CLUB 423 00:24:16,476 --> 00:24:20,781 INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT OR PEOPLE ON THE EXECUTIVE 424 00:24:20,781 --> 00:24:21,915 COMMITTEE. AND LARRY AND HIS FOLKS DIDN'T 425 00:24:21,915 --> 00:24:24,751 WANT TO HEAR ABOUT IT. SO, LARRY SAID, "I DON'T WANT IT 426 00:24:24,751 --> 00:24:26,586 IN THERE WE'RE NOT GONNA PUT IT ON THE 427 00:24:26,586 --> 00:24:31,558 AGENDA AND THAT'S IT." SO IT WAS STOPPED. 428 00:24:31,558 --> 00:24:36,063 Reporter: BUT IN 2012, SAFARI CLUB INTERNATIONAL LEADERS TOOK 429 00:24:36,063 --> 00:24:37,664 A DRASTIC STEP THEY ACCUSED LARRY OF MISCONDUCT 430 00:24:37,664 --> 00:24:40,334 FOR COMMITTING ADULTERY. THEY EXPELLED HIM FROM THE CLUB 431 00:24:40,334 --> 00:24:41,868 AND STRIPPED HIM OF HIS HUNTING AWARDS 432 00:24:41,868 --> 00:24:45,072 LARRY FOUGHT BACK, FILING A DEFAMATION LAWSUIT AGAINST THE 433 00:24:45,072 --> 00:24:52,512 CLUB'S OFFICERS. THE CASE DRAGGED ON FOR YEARS 434 00:24:52,512 --> 00:24:54,548 AND IN MAY 2016, HE APPEARED FOR A VIDEO DEPOSITION 435 00:24:54,548 --> 00:25:04,524 AND THOSE RUMORS INCLUDED THAT I WAS HAVING A LONG-TERM 436 00:25:04,524 --> 00:25:05,692 AFFAIR WITH A WOMAN FROM ATLANTA, AND THAT MY WIFE WAS 437 00:25:05,692 --> 00:25:09,796 FULLY AWARE OF THIS. I WAS SURPRISED. 438 00:25:09,796 --> 00:25:14,634 Reporter: SURPRISED, BECAUSE HE CLAIMED IN THAT LAWSUIT THE 439 00:25:14,634 --> 00:25:18,238 RUMORS WERE FLAT OUT FALSE IN JULY 2016, JUST THREE MONTHS 440 00:25:18,238 --> 00:25:20,674 BEFORE HER DEATH, BIANCA WAS ALSO DEPOSED AND WAS ASKED IF 441 00:25:20,674 --> 00:25:26,646 SHE KNEW WHETHER HER HUSBAND WAS HAVING AN AFFAIR WITH LORI 442 00:25:26,646 --> 00:25:28,682 SHE ANSWERED, "NO! THE LAWSUIT EVENTUALLY SETTLED, 443 00:25:28,682 --> 00:25:33,453 AND SCI PAID LARRY AN UNDISCLOSED SUM. 444 00:25:33,453 --> 00:25:35,589 BUT BETSY BELIEVED BIANCA WAS AWARE OF LARRY'S AFFAIR WITH 445 00:25:35,589 --> 00:25:38,225 LORI I JUST ASKED HER IF THIS IS 446 00:25:38,225 --> 00:25:41,361 WHAT SHE WANTED AND HOW THINGS WERE GOING, AND SHE WAS GONNA 447 00:25:41,361 --> 00:25:44,531 HANG IN THERE. SHE WAS LOYAL. 448 00:25:44,531 --> 00:25:47,167 SHE WAS GONNA DO HER HER DAMNEDEST TO KEEP THINGS 449 00:25:47,167 --> 00:25:50,303 TOGETHER Reporter: DURING THIS TIME, 450 00:25:50,303 --> 00:25:54,875 YOU STARTED TO SEE A CHANGE IN BIANCA AS WELL 451 00:25:54,875 --> 00:25:58,779 I DID MEETING BIANCA FOR THE FIRST 452 00:25:58,779 --> 00:26:01,014 TIME WITH THOSE MISCHIEVOUS EYES AND THE LIFE THAT WAS BEHIND IT, 453 00:26:01,014 --> 00:26:04,051 UHM AS TIME WENT ON, I SAW THOSE EYES START TO DIM. 454 00:26:04,051 --> 00:26:05,085 Reporter: WHAT DID YOU FEEL WAS HAPPENING? 455 00:26:05,085 --> 00:26:07,721 I KNOW IT WAS LARRY HE HAD OTHER RELATIONSHIPS 456 00:26:07,721 --> 00:26:12,492 GOING. AND UNFORTUNATELY, BIANCA KNEW 457 00:26:12,492 --> 00:26:13,927 ABOUT SOME OF THAT SHE LOVED LARRY. 458 00:26:13,927 --> 00:26:20,867 YOU KNOW, SHE WANTED TO MAKE IT WORK 459 00:26:20,867 --> 00:26:24,071 Reporter: WHETHER OR NOT BIANCA KNEW ABOUT LORI, LORI 460 00:26:24,071 --> 00:26:32,045 DEFINITELY KNEW ABOUT BIANCA AND THAT LED TO AN ALLEGED 461 00:26:32,045 --> 00:26:33,046 ULTIMATUM. COMING UP -- 462 00:26:33,046 --> 00:26:36,483 SHE'S SAYING SHE WANTS TO BE WITH LARRY 463 00:26:36,483 --> 00:26:39,353 SO THE ULTIMATUM WAS TO, "LEAVE OR I'M LEAVING." 464 00:26:39,353 --> 00:26:43,557 LORI PUTS LARRY ON NOTICE AND QUESTIONS BEGIN TO GROW 465 00:26:43,557 --> 00:26:44,725 ABOUT BIANCA'S DEATH I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE FEELING 466 00:26:44,725 --> 00:26:46,727 THESE FEELINGS ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON 467 00:26:46,727 --> 00:26:50,350 SOMEBODY NEEDS TO LOOK INTO IT, YOU KNOW 468 00:26:50,361 --> 00:27:06,010 SOMEBODY NEEDS TO LOOK INTO IT, YOU KNOW 469 00:27:06,010 --> 00:27:13,917 Reporter: DR. LARRY RUDOLPH HAD BUILT A HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL 470 00:27:13,917 --> 00:27:15,085 AND LUCRATIVE DENTAL PRACTICE IN HIS HOMETOWN OF PITTSBURGH 471 00:27:15,085 --> 00:27:16,286 HE PROMOTED THE BUSINESS AS FAMILY FRIENDLY, EVEN FEATURING 472 00:27:16,286 --> 00:27:19,089 EMPLOYEE SHERRY HOUCK'S DAUGHTER IN A COMMERCIAL. 473 00:27:19,089 --> 00:27:21,191 I WENT TO THREE RIVERS DENTAL BECAUSE I NEEDED HELP WITH MY 474 00:27:21,191 --> 00:27:23,060 BRACES Reporter: BUT THE TRUTH WAS, 475 00:27:23,060 --> 00:27:29,633 ACCORDING TO SHERRY, LARRY WASN'T EASY TO WORK FOR. 476 00:27:29,633 --> 00:27:31,201 HE COULD BE SUPER NICE AT TIMES, AND THEN HE WOULD JUST 477 00:27:31,201 --> 00:27:32,369 SNAP AND WE'LL JUST SAY THAT IT WAS 478 00:27:32,369 --> 00:27:37,541 LIKE "GOING RUDOLPH. HE'D BE "GOING RUDOLPH," AND 479 00:27:37,541 --> 00:27:39,143 THAT HAPPENED OFTEN. EVERYBODY LIVED IN FEAR WITH 480 00:27:39,143 --> 00:27:40,277 HIM. I DON'T KNOW WHAT MANAGER DIDN'T 481 00:27:40,277 --> 00:27:44,415 LIVE IN FEAR, WHAT EMPLOYEE DIDN'T LIVE IN FEAR. 482 00:27:44,415 --> 00:27:46,517 Reporter: OFFICE MANAGER ANNA GRIMLEY REALIZED PRETTY 483 00:27:46,517 --> 00:27:51,255 QUICKLY AFTER SHE JOINED THE PRACTICE THAT LARRY'S ANGER WAS 484 00:27:51,255 --> 00:27:52,356 AN ISSUE WHEN YOU SAY HE WAS ANGRY, AT 485 00:27:52,356 --> 00:27:57,061 THE OFFICE, WHAT WOULD GET HIM FIRED UP 486 00:27:57,061 --> 00:28:00,197 IT WOULD BE SOMETHING AS SIMPLE AS AN EMPLOYEE WHO HAD AN 487 00:28:00,197 --> 00:28:01,432 INDEX CARD OF WHAT THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO SAY OR HOW TO ANSWER 488 00:28:01,432 --> 00:28:06,003 A PHONE. IF THEY DIDN'T HAVE THAT AND SAY 489 00:28:06,003 --> 00:28:10,774 EXACTLY WHAT HE WANTED THEM TO SAY, IT COULD TRIGGER HIM. 490 00:28:10,774 --> 00:28:13,310 AND THAT MOMENT OF THAT TRIGGER, YOU WOULD SEE ANGER. 491 00:28:13,310 --> 00:28:16,013 Reporter: AND SHE SAYS LARRY WOULD OFTEN GET PHYSICAL 492 00:28:16,013 --> 00:28:19,183 LIKE, POUNDING ON THE WALL. Reporter: WOW 493 00:28:19,183 --> 00:28:20,751 AND THROWING, LIKE, WHAT LIKE, TRAYS -- 494 00:28:20,751 --> 00:28:22,052 YEAH. Reporter: -- OF 495 00:28:22,052 --> 00:28:22,853 INSTRUMENTS -- KIND OF THING YEAH. 496 00:28:22,853 --> 00:28:23,887 Reporter: THIS PLACE IS LIKE A SOAP OPERA - 497 00:28:23,887 --> 00:28:25,489 YES Reporter: -- IN THE DENTAL 498 00:28:25,489 --> 00:28:26,557 OFFICE YEAH. 499 00:28:26,557 --> 00:28:28,659 YEAH YEAH 500 00:28:28,659 --> 00:28:31,862 Reporter: ANNA ONLY LASTED A YEAR AT THREE RIVERS DENTAL. 501 00:28:31,862 --> 00:28:36,066 SHE WAS LIVING IN LAS VEGAS IN DECEMBER 2016. 502 00:28:36,066 --> 00:28:37,234 THAT'S WHEN SHE GOT THE CALL FROM A FORMER CO-WORKER ABOUT 503 00:28:37,234 --> 00:28:39,269 BIANCA'S DEATH THAT CO-WORKER HAD NO DOUBT 504 00:28:39,269 --> 00:28:44,475 ABOUT WHO SHE THOUGHT WAS RESPONSIBLE. 505 00:28:44,475 --> 00:28:45,809 SHE GOES, "YOU KNOW HE DID IT." 506 00:28:45,809 --> 00:28:46,610 LIKE, "I KNOW. Reporter: LARRY 507 00:28:46,610 --> 00:28:47,644 YES Reporter: WOW 508 00:28:47,644 --> 00:28:50,848 YOU BOTH THOUGHT THAT? YEP, INSTANTLY. 509 00:28:50,848 --> 00:28:52,916 BECAUSE OF THE ANGER AND EVERYTHING WE SAW WITH HIM 510 00:28:52,916 --> 00:28:56,086 IT'S THE FIRST THING THAT COMES TO YOUR HEAD 511 00:28:56,086 --> 00:28:59,790 Reporter: TO ANNA, IT ALL MADE SENSE THAT HER FORMER BOSS 512 00:28:59,790 --> 00:29:01,625 JUST MIGHT BE CAPABLE OF MURDER. ESPECIALLY WHEN SHE REMEMBERED 513 00:29:01,625 --> 00:29:05,195 SOMETHING ELSE THE MONEY. 514 00:29:05,195 --> 00:29:08,332 FOR YEARS LARRY HAD ENCOURAGED PATIENTS TO PAY IN CASH AND GAVE 515 00:29:08,332 --> 00:29:11,902 THEM DISCOUNTS WHEN THEY DID ACCORDING TO ANNA AND SHERRY, A 516 00:29:11,902 --> 00:29:12,736 LOT OF CASH FLOWED THROUGH THE BUSINESS 517 00:29:12,736 --> 00:29:19,009 HOW MUCH CASH DO YOU THINK WAS COMING THROUGH THE OFFICE EVERY 518 00:29:19,009 --> 00:29:21,912 MONTH? OH, LIKE, EACH OFFICE BE 519 00:29:21,912 --> 00:29:24,548 CLOSE TO $200,000 OR PLUS. MAYBE EVEN MORE THAN THAT. 520 00:29:24,548 --> 00:29:28,185 Reporter: IN CASH ALONE IN FEES 521 00:29:28,185 --> 00:29:32,356 CASH I MEAN, A LOT OF CASH. 522 00:29:32,356 --> 00:29:37,528 THE CASH THAT WE DID RECEIVE, WE WOULD HAVE TO PUT THE CASH IN 523 00:29:37,528 --> 00:29:38,629 A SAFE, WHICH IS A HUGE SAFE Reporter: ANNA SAYS SHE 524 00:29:38,629 --> 00:29:43,901 DIDN'T JUST SEE CASH COME IN SHE SAW IT GO OUT TOO. 525 00:29:43,901 --> 00:29:48,706 LORI AND DR. RUDOLPH WOULD COME IN, TAKE THE CASH OUT 526 00:29:48,706 --> 00:29:50,274 AND EVERY OFFICE HAD A SAFE. SO THEY WOULD PUT IT IN AN 527 00:29:50,274 --> 00:29:57,781 ENVELOPE AND LEAVE TOGETHER WITH THIS -- THE CASH 528 00:29:57,781 --> 00:30:02,920 Reporter: ACCORDING TO ANNA, LORI AND LARRY PLANNED TO USE 529 00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:03,954 THAT CASH TO FUND A WHOLE NEW LIFE TOGETHER. 530 00:30:03,954 --> 00:30:06,056 HER SOURCE OF INFORMATION, SHE SAYS, WAS LORI HERSELF 531 00:30:06,056 --> 00:30:07,725 SHE WAS TELLING ME ABOUT THEM WANTING TO LEAVE AND TAKE ALL 532 00:30:07,725 --> 00:30:11,295 THE CASH AND NOT LET THE FAMILY KNOW WHERE THEY'RE AT. 533 00:30:11,295 --> 00:30:13,931 OUT OF THE COUNTRY I SAID SOMETHING 534 00:30:13,931 --> 00:30:15,032 "HOW COULD YOU JUST LEAVE YOUR KIDS 535 00:30:15,032 --> 00:30:19,236 HOW CAN YOU JUST PICK UP AND JUST, LIKE, NOT TELL THEM? 536 00:30:19,236 --> 00:30:23,440 AND HER COMMENT WAS TO ME, "WELL, THEY'RE WELL TAKEN CARE 537 00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:24,541 OF." Reporter: AS ANNA THOUGHT 538 00:30:24,541 --> 00:30:25,776 BACK ABOUT THIS CONVERSATION, SHE KNEW SHE HAD TO DO SOMETHING 539 00:30:25,776 --> 00:30:33,417 OR TELL SOMEONE. SHE THOUGHT LONG AND HARD, THEN 540 00:30:33,417 --> 00:30:40,257 MADE A BOLD MOVE AND CALLED THE FBI, TELLING THEM -- 541 00:30:40,257 --> 00:30:47,131 SOMEBODY NEEDS TO LOOK INTO IT 542 00:30:47,131 --> 00:30:51,869 YOU KNOW JUST TAKE A LOOK AT EVERYTHING 543 00:30:51,869 --> 00:30:54,471 THAT'S HAPPENED. Reporter: ANNA SAID THE AGENT 544 00:30:54,471 --> 00:30:55,806 SHE SPOKE WITH TOLD HER SOMETHING SURPRISING 545 00:30:55,806 --> 00:30:57,041 ANNA WASN'T THE FIRST PERSON TO SHARE HER SUSPICIONS WITH THE 546 00:30:57,041 --> 00:30:57,808 FBI. IN FACT, A FRIEND OF BIANCA'S 547 00:30:57,808 --> 00:30:59,176 HAD CALLED JUST DAYS AFTER THE FUNERAL TO SAY THAT BIANCA, A 548 00:30:59,176 --> 00:31:00,277 DEVOUT CATHOLIC, WOULD NEVER HAVE WANTED TO BE CREMATED 549 00:31:00,277 --> 00:31:05,582 THE FRIEND ASKED THE BUREAU TO INVESTIGATE BIANCA'S DEATH 550 00:31:05,582 --> 00:31:08,385 HEARING THAT, IT SORT OF GAVE ME, LIKE, "OKAY, THIS DEFINITELY 551 00:31:08,385 --> 00:31:10,220 WAS THE RIGHT THING TO DO BECAUSE I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE 552 00:31:10,220 --> 00:31:12,323 FEELING THESE FEELINGS ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON. 553 00:31:12,323 --> 00:31:13,891 Reporter: AFTER ANNA TIPPED OFF THE FBI, SHE SAID AGENTS 554 00:31:13,891 --> 00:31:18,128 CAME TO LAS VEGAS TO MEET WITH HER. 555 00:31:18,128 --> 00:31:19,229 WERE YOU AFRAID THAT LARRY MIGHT FIND OUT WHAT YOU DID? 556 00:31:19,229 --> 00:31:20,564 ABSOLUTELY. I'LL BE HONEST WITH YOU. 557 00:31:20,564 --> 00:31:21,432 THAT'S -- THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I FEARED 558 00:31:21,432 --> 00:31:30,207 I WAS NERVOUS. Reporter: NERVOUS MAYBE, BUT 559 00:31:30,207 --> 00:31:31,809 ANNA HAD TO TALK TO THE FBI ABOUT ONE MORE THING LORI HAD 560 00:31:31,809 --> 00:31:39,149 SHARED WITH HER DURING THAT INTENSE CONVERSATION THEY HAD 561 00:31:39,149 --> 00:31:43,287 WHILE ASSEMBLING THE DRESSER WHAT SHE SAID TO ME IS, "HE 562 00:31:43,287 --> 00:31:45,456 HAS A YEAR TO GET RID OF BIANCA," IS WHAT SHE GAVE HIM. 563 00:31:45,456 --> 00:31:48,092 ONE YEAR Reporter: A YEAR TO GET RID 564 00:31:48,092 --> 00:31:49,660 OF HER OR -- OR WHAT OR SHE'S LEAVING. 565 00:31:49,660 --> 00:31:51,695 Reporter: AND DID YOU SAY, "WHAT DO YOU MEAN GET RID OF 566 00:31:51,695 --> 00:31:54,498 HER? I DIDN'T QUESTION IT AT THE 567 00:31:54,498 --> 00:31:58,569 TIME, KNOWING SHE'S SAYING SHE WANTS TO BE WITH LARRY 568 00:31:58,569 --> 00:32:00,771 SHE WANTED BIANCA OUT OF THE PICTURE. 569 00:32:00,771 --> 00:32:06,043 SO THE ULTIMATUM WAS TO, "LEAVE OR I'M LEAVING." 570 00:32:06,043 --> 00:32:08,145 Reporter: IT SOUNDED SINISTER 571 00:32:08,145 --> 00:32:16,587 BUT IT WASN'T PROOF OF ANYTHING. TO GET PROOF THE FBI WOULD 572 00:32:16,587 --> 00:32:17,755 TRAVEL THOUSANDS OF MILES BACK TO A BLOOD-STAINED CABIN IN 573 00:32:17,755 --> 00:32:20,124 ZAMBIA COMING UP -- 574 00:32:20,124 --> 00:32:21,859 Reporter: LARRY IS AFRAID THAT HE'S GOING TO BE ARRESTED 575 00:32:21,859 --> 00:32:25,062 YES NEW DOUBTS ABOUT 576 00:32:25,062 --> 00:32:27,931 LARRY RUDOLPH'S STORY. Reporter: DID YOU BELIEVE 577 00:32:27,931 --> 00:32:28,732 WHAT LARRY WAS TELLING YOU NO. 578 00:32:28,732 --> 00:32:30,067 AT THAT MOMENT WE DIDN'T BELIEVE THE STORY. 579 00:32:53,565 --> 00:32:57,970 BIANCA RUDOLPH'S FUNERAL, HER HUSBAND LARRY WELCOMED A NEW 580 00:32:57,970 --> 00:33:06,412 WOMAN INTO HIS HOME, HIS LONGTIME LOVER LORI MILLIRON 581 00:33:06,412 --> 00:33:15,421 THE TWO LIVED TOGETHER IN LARRY'S MANSION IN PARADISE 582 00:33:15,421 --> 00:33:18,023 VALLEY, ARIZONA. MONTHS PASSED. 583 00:33:18,023 --> 00:33:23,862 THEN TWO YEARS BY ALL ACCOUNTS, THEY LIVED 584 00:33:23,862 --> 00:33:28,233 LARGE. ONE OF THEIR FAVORITE HANGOUTS 585 00:33:28,233 --> 00:33:29,601 WAS STEAK 44 IT'S A HIGH END RESTAURANT. 586 00:33:29,601 --> 00:33:30,803 YOU HAVE SOME GREAT CLIENTELE, A VERY AFFLUENT COMMUNITY AND 587 00:33:30,803 --> 00:33:31,804 GUESTS Reporter: BRIAN LOVELACE WAS 588 00:33:31,804 --> 00:33:36,909 A BARTENDER THERE, SOMEONE YOU MIGHT WANT TO REMEMBER 589 00:33:36,909 --> 00:33:38,177 LARRY WAS EXTREMELY FRIENDLY, VERY POLITE, RESPECTFUL, 590 00:33:38,177 --> 00:33:39,111 GENEROUS Reporter: BIG TIPPER? 591 00:33:39,111 --> 00:33:47,052 HE WAS A GENEROUS TIPPER, YES. 592 00:33:47,052 --> 00:33:48,354 HE WAS MY FAVORITE REGULAR Reporter: LARRY MAY NOT HAVE 593 00:33:48,354 --> 00:33:53,325 KNOWN IT, BUT A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT KIND OF TIP HAD CAUGHT 594 00:33:53,325 --> 00:33:54,426 THE ATTENTION OF THE FBI TIPS FROM BIANCA'S FRIENDS AND 595 00:33:54,426 --> 00:33:56,962 LARRY'S FORMER EMPLOYEE THAT SUGGESTED HE MIGHT'VE HAD 596 00:33:56,962 --> 00:34:01,533 SOMETHING TO DO WITH HER DEATH FBI AGENTS TOOK THEM SERIOUSLY 597 00:34:01,533 --> 00:34:04,370 AND WERE DIGGING FOR ANY POSSIBLE CLUES 598 00:34:04,370 --> 00:34:08,073 BUT THERE WAS NO SOLID EVIDENCE THAT LARRY KILLED HIS WIFE 599 00:34:08,073 --> 00:34:11,243 THEN, IN 2019, THE INVESTIGATION ENTERED A WHOLE NEW PHASE. 600 00:34:11,243 --> 00:34:12,478 THOUSANDS OF MILES FROM ARIZONA, LITTLE DID LARRY KNOW THAT THE 601 00:34:12,478 --> 00:34:13,779 FBI WAS HERE ON THE GROUND IN ZAMBIA INVESTIGATING BIANCA'S 602 00:34:13,779 --> 00:34:14,613 DEATH. THEY WERE INTERVIEWING WITNESSES 603 00:34:14,613 --> 00:34:27,059 FROM THE SCENE AND TALKING TO ANYONE WHO HAD INTERACTED WITH 604 00:34:27,059 --> 00:34:30,195 LARRY IN THE DAYS AFTER THE SHOOTING 605 00:34:30,195 --> 00:34:33,899 WE RETRACED THE FBI'S STEPS WHICH INCLUDED A VISIT TO THE 606 00:34:33,899 --> 00:34:34,867 RUDOLPHS' HUNTING CABIN WHERE BIANCA WAS SHOT. 607 00:34:34,867 --> 00:34:35,868 THEY LATER INTERVIEWED GAME SCOUT SPENCER KAKOMA 608 00:34:35,868 --> 00:34:40,205 REMEMBER HIM HE WAS WITH THE RUDOLPHS DURING 609 00:34:40,205 --> 00:34:42,841 THEIR SAFARI AND RUSHED INTO CABIN WHEN HE HEARD THAT FATAL 610 00:34:42,841 --> 00:34:44,043 SHOT SPENCER STILL VIVIDLY REMEMBERS 611 00:34:44,043 --> 00:34:45,277 THE SCENE AND HOW LARRY WAS BEHAVING 612 00:34:45,277 --> 00:34:46,512 HOW CHAOTIC WAS IT IN THE CABIN? IT WAS, LIKE, CRAZY BECAUSE 613 00:34:46,512 --> 00:34:52,351 HE WAS BUSY CRYING WHAT -- HE WAS, LIKE, CRAZED. 614 00:34:52,351 --> 00:34:54,453 Reporter: SHE'S DEAD. HE IS FREAKING OUT 615 00:34:54,453 --> 00:34:56,155 PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT HAPPENED. 616 00:34:56,155 --> 00:34:58,157 EXACTLY Reporter: DURING THE CHAOS IN 617 00:34:58,157 --> 00:35:01,260 THE CABIN, SPENCER ALSO HEARD LARRY SAY SOMETHING STUNNING 618 00:35:01,260 --> 00:35:05,531 HE SAID, "I WANT TO KILL MYSELF 'CAUSE MY WIFE HAS 619 00:35:05,531 --> 00:35:11,370 COMMITTED SUICIDE. Reporter: TO SPENCER, WHO HAD 620 00:35:11,370 --> 00:35:15,107 JUST SPENT SEVERAL DAYS WITH BIANCA ON SAFARI, SUICIDE SEEMED 621 00:35:15,107 --> 00:35:16,141 UNIMAGINABLE NO, NO, NO, NO. 622 00:35:16,141 --> 00:35:21,847 SHE WAS VERY HAPPY, ALWAYS LAUGHING AT ANY TIME, JOKING 623 00:35:21,847 --> 00:35:29,254 WITH PEOPLE. SO SHE WASN'T DEPRESSED. 624 00:35:29,254 --> 00:35:33,459 Reporter: THAT DIDN'T MAKE SENSE TO YOU THAT SHE WOULD KILL 625 00:35:33,459 --> 00:35:37,663 HERSELF ON THE LAST DAY OF THE TRIP 626 00:35:37,663 --> 00:35:38,731 NO, IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE TO ME 627 00:35:38,731 --> 00:35:41,300 AND I CANNOT BELIEVE THAT. Reporter: SPENCER SAID LARRY 628 00:35:41,300 --> 00:35:42,434 ALSO CHANGED HIS STORY AND SUGGESTED THAT BIANCA'S DEATH 629 00:35:42,434 --> 00:35:44,036 WAS AN ACCIDENT. HE TOLD ME THAT -- "MY WIFE, 630 00:35:44,036 --> 00:35:45,270 SHE WAS VERY BUSY PACKING. SO SHE WAS TRYING TO FORCE THE 631 00:35:45,270 --> 00:35:47,139 GUN IN THE GUN CASE. THAT'S HOW IT FIRED. 632 00:35:47,139 --> 00:35:48,841 Reporter: ONE PERSON THE FBI DIDN'T INTERVIEW IN ZAMBIA, THAT 633 00:35:48,841 --> 00:35:50,109 WE DID, WAS GODFREY NeCUBE, THE MANAGER OF THE RUDOLPHS' HUNTING 634 00:35:50,109 --> 00:35:52,945 CAMP HE TOO DESCENDED ON THE CABIN 635 00:35:52,945 --> 00:35:57,149 THAT MORNING I SAID, "WE NEED THE HELP OF 636 00:35:57,149 --> 00:36:05,391 THE POLICE." Reporter: YOU INSISTED THAT 637 00:36:05,391 --> 00:36:10,863 LARRY GO TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT 638 00:36:10,863 --> 00:36:11,997 YES YES. 639 00:36:11,997 --> 00:36:13,098 Reporter: WHY WAS IT SO IMPORTANT FOR YOU THAT LARRY GO 640 00:36:13,098 --> 00:36:14,233 TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT HE'S THE ONE WHO ACTUALLY SAW 641 00:36:14,233 --> 00:36:18,237 THE ACTIVITY Reporter: BUT THE WITNESSES 642 00:36:18,237 --> 00:36:21,907 TOLD US LARRY WASN'T EAGER TO GO TO THE POLICE. 643 00:36:21,907 --> 00:36:24,043 SPENCER REMEMBERS HIM SAYING THIS 644 00:36:24,043 --> 00:36:25,077 "ARE THEY GOING TO ARREST ME?" 645 00:36:25,077 --> 00:36:26,245 Reporter: LARRY IS AFRAID THAT HE'S GOING TO BE ARRESTED 646 00:36:26,245 --> 00:36:27,780 YES SO I ASKED HIM, "WHY ARE YOU 647 00:36:27,780 --> 00:36:32,418 GOING TO BE ARRESTED BECAUSE YOU SAID IT WAS AN 648 00:36:32,418 --> 00:36:36,622 ACCIDENT SO YOU ARE GOING TO EXPLAIN WHAT 649 00:36:36,622 --> 00:36:37,523 HAS HAPPENED." Reporter: LATER THAT DAY, 650 00:36:37,523 --> 00:36:38,590 LARRY AGREED TO GO MEET WITH ZAMBIAN POLICE 651 00:36:38,590 --> 00:36:39,825 SO HE AND SPENCER, ALONG WITH THE RUDOLPHS' HUNTING GUIDE, HIT 652 00:36:39,825 --> 00:36:47,199 THE ROAD, HEADING FOR THE TOWN OF MUMBWA 2 HOURS AWAY, HOME TO 653 00:36:47,199 --> 00:36:50,369 SOME 20,000 PEOPLE AND A SMALL POLICE STATION 654 00:36:50,369 --> 00:36:56,709 THERE LARRY WAS MET BY INVESTIGATORS AND POLICE 655 00:36:56,709 --> 00:37:00,346 COMMANDER ROSTEN YEYENGA, WHO LATER SPOKE TO THE FBI 656 00:37:00,346 --> 00:37:01,981 WHAT KIND OF STATE OF MIND WAS LARRY RUDOLPH IN AT THAT POINT 657 00:37:01,981 --> 00:37:06,151 HE SEEMED TO BE SORROWFUL AND THEN I COULD SEE SOME TEARS 658 00:37:06,151 --> 00:37:09,855 IN IN HIS EYES Reporter: COMMANDER YEYENGA 659 00:37:09,855 --> 00:37:11,023 TOLD THE FBI ABOUT LARRY'S ACCOUNT OF WHAT HAPPENED IN THE 660 00:37:11,023 --> 00:37:16,195 CABIN THAT HORRIBLE MORNING IN OCTOBER 2016 661 00:37:16,195 --> 00:37:20,399 AGENTS WERE ALSO PROVIDED A WRITTEN STATEMENT FROM LARRY 662 00:37:20,399 --> 00:37:22,001 TAKEN DURING HIS POLICE INTERVIEW. 663 00:37:22,001 --> 00:37:23,569 HE HAD LEFT THE WIFE PACKING THE LUGGAGES 664 00:37:23,569 --> 00:37:24,737 HE WAS TAKING A SHOWER, AND THEN HE JUST HEARD THE GUNSHOT. 665 00:37:24,737 --> 00:37:26,171 Reporter: SO HE SAYS HE RUSHED OUT OF THE BATHROOM 666 00:37:26,171 --> 00:37:32,011 YEAH. SO WHEN HE RUSHED THERE TO SEE 667 00:37:32,011 --> 00:37:40,919 WHAT HAD TRANSPIRED, HE JUST FOUND THE WIFE LAYING IN THE 668 00:37:40,919 --> 00:37:47,259 POOL OF BLOOD. Reporter: YEYENGA TOLD THE 669 00:37:47,259 --> 00:37:49,361 FBI THAT LARRY SAID BIANCA ACCIDENTALLY SHOT HERSELF. 670 00:37:49,361 --> 00:37:53,565 DID YOU BELIEVE WHAT LARRY WAS TELLING YOU? 671 00:37:53,565 --> 00:38:04,109 NO, AT THAT MOMENT, WE DIDN'T BELIEVE THE STORY. 672 00:38:04,109 --> 00:38:05,711 THERE'S A QUESTION MARK THERE. Reporter: YOU DIDN'T BELIEVE 673 00:38:05,711 --> 00:38:09,715 HIM? I HAD THE DOUBTS. 674 00:38:09,715 --> 00:38:13,085 Reporter: REALLY? YEAH. 675 00:38:13,085 --> 00:38:14,687 HE WOULD HAVE KILLED THE WIFE FOR REASONS KNOWN TO HIMSELF 676 00:38:14,687 --> 00:38:18,357 OR MAYBE HE WAS TELLING THE TRUTH. 677 00:38:18,357 --> 00:38:25,030 Reporter: YOU WANTED TO FIND THE TRUTH. 678 00:38:25,030 --> 00:38:29,435 YES SO THAT'S WHY OFFICERS WENT TO 679 00:38:29,435 --> 00:38:33,105 THE CAMP COMMANDER YEYENGA ALSO TOLD THE 680 00:38:33,105 --> 00:38:36,275 FBI THAT HE SENT A TEAM OF INVESTIGATORS DOWN THE RUGGED 681 00:38:36,275 --> 00:38:37,343 BACK ROADS TO THE RUDOLPHS' REMOTE CABIN 682 00:38:37,343 --> 00:38:38,577 LARRY RETURNED HERE TO THE CABIN THAT AFTERNOON WITH THE POLICE 683 00:38:38,577 --> 00:38:39,778 THE GUIDES SAID THAT HE HAD CALMED DOWN AT THAT POINT AND HE 684 00:38:39,778 --> 00:38:42,781 WALKED THE OFFICERS THROUGH WHAT HE SAID HAPPENED THAT MORNING. 685 00:38:42,781 --> 00:38:44,750 ONCE AGAIN, HE SAID HE HEARD A GUNSHOT. 686 00:38:44,750 --> 00:38:45,851 HE RACED OUT OF THE BATHROOM ONLY TO FIND HIS WIFE DEAD 687 00:38:45,851 --> 00:38:47,019 IN FACT, YOU CAN STILL SEE STAINS ON THE FLOOR LEFT OVER 688 00:38:47,019 --> 00:38:49,488 FROM HER BLOOD DETECTIVES COLLECTED SOME OF 689 00:38:49,488 --> 00:38:51,090 THAT BLOOD ALONG WITH THE SHOTGUN THAT KILLED BIANCA 690 00:38:51,090 --> 00:38:53,158 THEY WANTED TO FIND OUT IF THE GUN HADN'T BEEN PROPERLY 691 00:38:53,158 --> 00:38:54,760 UNLOADED AND ACCIDENTALLY WENT OFF OR IF BIANCA MISTAKENLY 692 00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:56,362 TOUCHED THE TRIGGER. COMMANDER YEYENGA SAID THAT 693 00:38:56,362 --> 00:39:04,770 BIANCA'S BODY WAS THEN TAKEN FROM THE CABIN TO THE CAPITAL OF 694 00:39:04,770 --> 00:39:06,372 ZAMBIA FOR A COMPLETE AUTOPSY. BUT THE FBI LEARNED 695 00:39:06,372 --> 00:39:12,711 LARRY RUDOLPH HAD OTHER IDEAS ABOUT HOW TO PROCEED THAT SEEMED 696 00:39:12,711 --> 00:39:14,279 TO CATCH EVERYBODY BY SURPRISE COMING UP -- 697 00:39:14,279 --> 00:39:15,314 SOMETHING CURIOUS AT THE FUNERAL HOME 698 00:39:15,314 --> 00:39:17,082 THEY START TO TAKE PICTURES OF BIANCA'S BODY 699 00:39:17,082 --> 00:39:20,653 HE SAYS, "THIS DOESN'T LOOK LIKE A SELF-INFLICTED WOUND TO 700 00:39:20,653 --> 00:39:21,387 ME." Reporter: AS FBI AGENTS MADE 701 00:39:21,391 --> 00:39:38,637 ME." Reporter: AS FBI AGENTS MADE 702 00:39:38,637 --> 00:39:42,741 THEIR WAY THROUGH ZAMBIA IN 2019 INVESTIGATING THE DEATH OF 703 00:39:42,741 --> 00:39:45,311 BIANCA RUDOLPH, THEY WANTED MORE INFORMATION ABOUT A PART OF THE 704 00:39:45,311 --> 00:39:47,546 STORY THEY FOUND ODD THE DAY AFTER BIANCA'S DEATH, 705 00:39:47,546 --> 00:39:53,252 HER BODY WAS TAKEN HERE TO LUSAKA, THE CAPITAL CITY OF 706 00:39:53,252 --> 00:39:54,520 ZAMBIA, WHERE IT WAS TO UNDERGO A POSTMORTEM EXAM, ALL STANDARD 707 00:39:54,520 --> 00:39:56,455 PROCEDURE, UNTIL LARRY CAUGHT EVERYBODY OFF GUARD WHEN HE 708 00:39:56,455 --> 00:40:04,296 INSISTED HIS WIFE'S BODY BE CREMATED 709 00:40:04,296 --> 00:40:12,171 THE AUTOPSY PROCEEDED, BUT WHEN ZAMBIAN POLICE WANTED TO CONDUCT 710 00:40:12,171 --> 00:40:14,039 THEIR OWN POST-MORTEM EXAM, LARRY INSISTED IT BE CANCELLED 711 00:40:14,039 --> 00:40:15,841 INSTEAD, AS THE FBI LEARNED, HE HAD OTHER, MORE URGENT 712 00:40:15,841 --> 00:40:17,209 PRIORITIES, WHICH HE MADE CLEAR WHEN HE CALLED THE US CONSULATE 713 00:40:17,209 --> 00:40:20,212 ABOUT BIANCA TO REPORT THE DEATH AND THEN 714 00:40:20,212 --> 00:40:23,282 JUST TO SAY, "I NEED HER BODY CREMATED BECAUSE I NEED TO TAKE 715 00:40:23,282 --> 00:40:28,554 IT BACK TO THE STATES. Reporter: PAM FLICK IS A 716 00:40:28,554 --> 00:40:40,132 FORMER FBI SPECIAL AGENT AND ANALYST FOR NBC NEWS 717 00:40:40,132 --> 00:40:50,943 SHE DIDN'T WORK ON THE RUDOLPH INVESTIGATION BUT REVIEWED THE 718 00:40:50,943 --> 00:40:58,584 CASE FOR US. SO THE CONSULATE GENERAL 719 00:40:58,584 --> 00:40:59,752 TALKS TO HIM A LITTLE BIT. AND LARRY KEEPS KINDA GOING BACK 720 00:40:59,752 --> 00:41:00,819 TO, "NO, YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND. I NEED THIS CREMATION 721 00:41:00,819 --> 00:41:01,787 EXPEDITED. AND LARRY JUST KEPT PUSHING, 722 00:41:01,787 --> 00:41:14,833 PUSHING, PUSHING THE CREMATION IT HAS TO BE DONE NOW. 723 00:41:14,833 --> 00:41:16,035 AND HE THINKS, "THIS IS KIND OF ODD. 724 00:41:16,035 --> 00:41:17,770 Reporter: THE CONSULAR CHIEF TOLD THE FBI THAT HE HEARD FROM 725 00:41:17,770 --> 00:41:19,638 THE FUNERAL HOME SOME 48 HOURS AFTER BIANCA'S DEATH, SAYING HER 726 00:41:19,638 --> 00:41:21,740 BODY WAS SCHEDULED FOR CREMATION THE VERY NEXT DAY AND HE HAD A 727 00:41:21,740 --> 00:41:22,908 "BAD FEELING ABOUT THE SITUATION," WHICH HE THOUGHT WAS 728 00:41:22,908 --> 00:41:23,909 MOVING "TOO QUICKLY. SO UNBEKNOWNST TO LARRY, HE 729 00:41:23,909 --> 00:41:25,110 RACED OVER TO THE FUNERAL HOME WHERE BIANCA'S BODY WAS BEING 730 00:41:25,110 --> 00:41:26,545 HELD AND BROUGHT ALONG TWO SECURITY AGENTS AND A CAMERA 731 00:41:26,545 --> 00:41:27,646 AND THEY START TO TAKE PICTURES OF BIANCA'S BODY TO 732 00:41:27,646 --> 00:41:30,049 MAKE THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE BODY 733 00:41:30,049 --> 00:41:31,150 Reporter: BUT WHEN THE CONSULAR CHIEF SAW BIANCA'S 734 00:41:31,150 --> 00:41:34,920 GAPING CHEST WOUND, HE WAS CONCERNED. 735 00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:38,090 HE'S A FORMER MARINE AND HAS SEEN GUNSHOT WOUNDS. 736 00:41:38,090 --> 00:41:41,260 AND LOOKS AT THIS AND SAYS, "THIS DOESN'T LOOK LIKE A 737 00:41:41,260 --> 00:41:46,532 SELF-INFLICTED WOUND TO ME." MAYBE THIS ISN'T -- UHM AN 738 00:41:46,532 --> 00:41:47,800 ACCIDENT Reporter: SO, PICTURES OF THE 739 00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:49,068 WOUND WERE TAKEN AS THEY MIGHT BE NEEDED AS PART OF THE 740 00:41:49,068 --> 00:41:53,939 INVESTIGATION. MEANWHILE, TWO HOURS AWAY IN 741 00:41:53,939 --> 00:42:03,382 MUMBWA, ZAMBIAN DETECTIVES WERE TRYING TO DETERMINE HOW AND WHY 742 00:42:03,382 --> 00:42:04,483 BIANCA RUDOLPH WAS KILLED. THIS WAS A HIGH-PROFILE CASE 743 00:42:04,483 --> 00:42:09,154 INVOLVING A PROMINENT AMERICAN, SO ZAMBIAN POLICE MANAGEMENT AND 744 00:42:09,154 --> 00:42:17,096 THE US EMBASSY JOINTLY DECIDED TO MOVE THE INVESTIGATION TO THE 745 00:42:17,096 --> 00:42:18,230 HEADQUARTERS IN LUSAKA INVESTIGATORS IN THE CAPITAL 746 00:42:18,230 --> 00:42:21,467 CITY NOW TOOK OVER THE CASE AND REVIEWED THE EVIDENCE. 747 00:42:21,467 --> 00:42:24,436 THEY ALSO CONDUCTED A DROP TEST WITH THE GUN TO SEE IF IT WOULD 748 00:42:24,436 --> 00:42:28,340 FIRE WHEN IT HIT THE FLOOR IT DIDN'T. 749 00:42:28,340 --> 00:42:32,544 WHICH CONFLICTED WITH THE THEORY THAT BIANCA'S DEATH WAS 750 00:42:32,544 --> 00:42:35,047 ACCIDENTAL NEVERTHELESS JUST DAYS LATER -- 751 00:42:35,047 --> 00:42:42,888 THEY CAME TO THE CONCLUSION IT WAS AN ACCIDENT 752 00:42:42,888 --> 00:42:44,056 Reporter: THE REPORT FROM LUSAKA POLICE ALSO SAID, "THE 753 00:42:44,056 --> 00:42:46,659 FIREARM WAS LOADED FROM THE PREVIOUS HUNTING ACTIVITIES AND 754 00:42:46,659 --> 00:42:53,966 SAFETY PRECAUTIONS WERE NOT TAKEN CAUSING THE FIREARM TO 755 00:42:53,966 --> 00:42:59,238 ACCIDENTALLY FIRE. WHICH CAME AS A TOTAL SURPRISE 756 00:42:59,238 --> 00:43:07,112 TO THE RUDOLPHS' GAME SCOUT, SPENCER KAKOMA 757 00:43:07,112 --> 00:43:15,054 THAT GUN WOULD'VE BEEN CLEANED THE NIGHT BEFORE AND CHECKED 758 00:43:15,054 --> 00:43:16,088 YES, YES, TO ME I EVEN SAW BIANCA RUDOLPH 759 00:43:16,088 --> 00:43:20,826 CLEANING IT. Reporter: YOU SAW HER 760 00:43:20,826 --> 00:43:21,527 YOURSELF -- YES, I SAW HER. 761 00:43:21,527 --> 00:43:25,064 Reporter: -- CLEANING IT? I SAW HER MYSELF. 762 00:43:25,064 --> 00:43:26,699 Reporter: ASSUMING SPENCER KAKOMA'S ACCOUNT WAS 763 00:43:26,699 --> 00:43:27,800 TRUE, HOW COULD BIANCA HAVE ACCIDENTALLY SHOT HERSELF? 764 00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:29,802 SPENCER TOLD US THAT HE WAS CONVINCED THE GUN WAS BOTH CLEAN 765 00:43:29,802 --> 00:43:31,036 AND UNLOADED WHEN THE RUDOLPHS WENT TO BED THE NIGHT BEFORE HER 766 00:43:31,036 --> 00:43:36,141 DEATH. THAT WOULD MEAN THAT SOMEONE HAD 767 00:43:36,141 --> 00:43:46,552 TO HAVE PUT A SHOTGUN SHELL BACK INTO THE GUN AFTER SHE CLEANED 768 00:43:46,552 --> 00:43:51,390 IT EXACTLY 769 00:43:51,390 --> 00:43:53,058 BECAUSE SOMEONE WAS HANDLING THE SHOTGUN. 770 00:43:53,058 --> 00:43:59,798 Reporter: SOMEONE PURPOSELY PUT A SHELL IN THERE 771 00:43:59,798 --> 00:44:02,868 100%. Reporter: SPENCER WOULDN'T 772 00:44:02,868 --> 00:44:04,737 SPECULATE AS TO WHO THAT MIGHT BE, BUT HE DID SAY THERE WAS 773 00:44:04,737 --> 00:44:06,005 SOMETHING ELSE THAT BOTHERED HIM ABOUT BIANCA'S DEATH, LARRY'S 774 00:44:06,005 --> 00:44:07,172 STORY. REMEMBER, LARRY SAID HE WAS IN 775 00:44:07,172 --> 00:44:08,007 THE SHOWER WHEN THE SHOT WAS FIRED. 776 00:44:08,007 --> 00:44:09,074 BUT WHEN SPENCER HEARD THAT SHOT, HE RUSHED RIGHT TO THE 777 00:44:09,074 --> 00:44:12,478 CABIN AND ONLY TO FIND LARRY FULLY DRESSED! 778 00:44:12,478 --> 00:44:14,313 AS SEEN IN THIS PHOTO TAKEN SHORTLY AFTER THE SHOOTING 779 00:44:14,313 --> 00:44:15,047 JUST TOOK ME MAYBE 15 SECONDS 780 00:44:15,047 --> 00:44:21,453 HOW CAN HE MANAGE TO PUT ON EVERYTHING 781 00:44:21,453 --> 00:44:26,725 SHOES, T-SHIRT, A JEAN, A BELT SO, TO ME, IT WAS -- IT WAS LIKE 782 00:44:26,725 --> 00:44:31,497 A PUZZLE Reporter: A PUZZLE WITH LOTS 783 00:44:31,497 --> 00:44:32,631 OF PIECES. WE REACHED OUT TO ZAMBIAN POLICE 784 00:44:32,631 --> 00:44:33,699 FOR COMMENT ON THEIR INVESTIGATION BUT DID NOT GET A 785 00:44:33,699 --> 00:44:34,667 RESPONSE IN THE END, THEY CONCLUDED BIANCA HAD 786 00:44:34,667 --> 00:44:39,238 ACCIDENTALLY SHOT HERSELF AS LARRY HAD TOLD THEM. 787 00:44:39,238 --> 00:44:41,106 THEY TOOK HIS WORD FOR IT BECAUSE LARRY HAD GIVEN 788 00:44:41,106 --> 00:44:48,147 TESTIMONY TO THEM SAYING, "NO, THIS WAS AN ACCIDENT 789 00:44:48,147 --> 00:44:49,948 I WAS IN THE OTHER ROOM. Reporter: SO, ZAMBIAN POLICE 790 00:44:49,948 --> 00:45:01,727 CLEARED LARRY. NEAMA RAHMANI IS A FORMER 791 00:45:01,727 --> 00:45:02,561 FEDERAL PROSECUTOR WHO STUDIED THE CASE 792 00:45:02,561 --> 00:45:06,865 THERE WAS A LIMITED INVESTIGATION, BUT CERTAINLY 793 00:45:06,865 --> 00:45:13,405 NOWHERE WHAT NEEDED TO BE DONE UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE 794 00:45:13,405 --> 00:45:18,410 CASE Reporter: WHAT DIDN'T THEY 795 00:45:18,410 --> 00:45:21,680 DO THEY DIDN'T CONDUCT THE TESTS 796 00:45:21,680 --> 00:45:22,681 THAT WOULD'VE HAPPENED HERE IN THE UNITED STATES. 797 00:45:22,681 --> 00:45:24,216 LAW ENFORCEMENT IN OTHER COUNTRIES, THEY HAVE LIMITED 798 00:45:24,216 --> 00:45:25,117 RESOURCES. THEY DON'T HAVE THE TESTING THAT 799 00:45:25,117 --> 00:45:28,520 WE DO. THEY DON'T HAVE THE FINANCIAL 800 00:45:28,520 --> 00:45:36,862 RESOURCES. THAT'S REALLY WHAT HAPPENED 801 00:45:36,862 --> 00:45:38,030 HERE Reporter: WITH THE ZAMBIAN 802 00:45:38,030 --> 00:45:39,031 POLICE INVESTIGATION OVER, BIANCA'S CREMATION SOON 803 00:45:39,031 --> 00:45:40,532 FOLLOWED AS FAR AS THE ZAMBIAN POLICE 804 00:45:40,532 --> 00:45:41,500 WERE CONCERNED, THIS WAS CONSIDERED CASE CLOSED 805 00:45:41,500 --> 00:45:42,601 IT WAS. THEY SPENT A MATTER OF DAYS 806 00:45:42,601 --> 00:45:45,337 INVESTIGATING THIS CASE AND THEY CLOSED THEIR FILE. 807 00:45:45,337 --> 00:45:47,506 Reporter: BIANCA'S FRIEND BETSY WANDTKE, HERSELF AN EXPERT 808 00:45:47,506 --> 00:45:48,641 HUNTER, NEVER BELIEVED BIANCA SHOT HERSELF ACCIDENTALLY. 809 00:45:48,641 --> 00:45:49,875 SHE WAS WAY TOO COMFORTABLE WITH FIREARMS AND HOW TO HANDLE 810 00:45:49,875 --> 00:45:50,843 THEM, HOW TO CLEAN THEM, HOW TO PUT THEM AWAY. 811 00:45:50,843 --> 00:45:51,810 Reporter: THERE'S ONLY THREE SCENARIOS HERE 812 00:45:51,810 --> 00:45:54,046 I MEAN, ONE, IS THAT SHE KILLED HERSELF. 813 00:45:54,046 --> 00:45:56,882 TWO, SHE KILLED HERSELF BY ACCIDENT 814 00:45:56,882 --> 00:46:01,186 THREE, SHE WAS MURDERED. RIGHT 815 00:46:01,186 --> 00:46:02,354 AND FOR HER TO PUT A GUN AWAY AND GET SHOT BY ACCIDENT, I 816 00:46:02,354 --> 00:46:12,131 DON'T THINK THAT COULD EVER HAPPEN 817 00:46:12,131 --> 00:46:21,340 Reporter: THE FBI'S FINDINGS REGARDING LARRY'S ACTIVITIES IN 818 00:46:21,340 --> 00:46:22,474 AFRICA SEEMED TO CAST EVEN MORE DOUBT ON HIS STORY ABOUT 819 00:46:22,474 --> 00:46:23,609 BIANCA'S "ACCIDENTAL" DEATH. AND INVESTIGATORS WOULD ALSO 820 00:46:23,609 --> 00:46:24,643 LEARN ABOUT ONE MORE STRANGE SAFARI STORY INVOLVING 821 00:46:24,643 --> 00:46:27,212 DR. LARRY RUDOLPH THAT HAPPENED AT THE VERY SAME HUNTING CAMP 822 00:46:27,212 --> 00:46:28,113 WHERE HIS WIFE WAS KILLED. COMING UP -- 823 00:46:28,113 --> 00:46:30,082 FLASHBACK TO ONE DECADE AGO A DIFFERENT SAFARI 824 00:46:30,082 --> 00:46:35,354 A BIZARRE INJURY AND GUNSHOTS 825 00:46:35,354 --> 00:46:37,523 HE SHOT ALMOST THREE SHOTS. Reporter: LARRY DID 826 00:46:37,523 --> 00:46:40,626 THAT'S HOW THEY RUSHED THERE. AN OMEN OF THE TRAGEDY TO 827 00:47:07,987 --> 00:47:10,723 REVEALING. FROM THE SCENE AT THE CABIN TO 828 00:47:10,723 --> 00:47:11,824 LARRY RUDOLPH'S BEHAVIOR AFTER BIANCA'S DEATH, THEY HAD 829 00:47:11,824 --> 00:47:12,992 UNCOVERED A TREASURE TROVE OF CLUES, ALL CIRCUMSTANTIAL. 830 00:47:12,992 --> 00:47:21,166 BUT ONE KEY PIECE OF PHYSICAL EVIDENCE WAS MISSING 831 00:47:21,166 --> 00:47:24,870 ZAMBIAN POLICE CONDUCTED TESTS ON THE SHOTGUN THAT KILLED 832 00:47:24,870 --> 00:47:27,006 BIANCA, BUT THEY HADN'T KEPT IT. THE SHOTGUN WAS GIVEN BACK TO 833 00:47:27,006 --> 00:47:28,140 LARRY. Reporter: BUT THE FBI DIDN'T 834 00:47:28,140 --> 00:47:29,141 KNOW WHERE IT WAS. EVEN IF THEY COULDN'T FIND THE 835 00:47:29,141 --> 00:47:30,442 WEAPON, MAYBE THEY COULD FIND A MOTIVE 836 00:47:30,442 --> 00:47:36,015 THE FBI TOOK A DEEP DIVE INTO THE INSURANCE CLAIMS LARRY FILED 837 00:47:36,015 --> 00:47:38,083 AFTER BIANCA'S DEATH THEY FOUND OUT SHE HAD SEVERAL 838 00:47:38,083 --> 00:47:40,719 POLICIES THE INSURANCE COMPANIES HAD 839 00:47:40,719 --> 00:47:49,695 HIRED AN INVESTIGATIVE FIRM TO REVIEW THE CLAIMS. 840 00:47:49,695 --> 00:47:55,034 ITS FINAL REPORT SAID, "POLICE CONCLUDED THE DEATH WAS 841 00:47:55,034 --> 00:47:56,068 ACCIDENTAL, BUT THEY STILL HAVE UNRESOLVED QUESTIONS." 842 00:47:56,068 --> 00:47:57,202 DESPITE THOSE QUESTIONS, THE INSURANCE COMPANIES PAID UP. 843 00:47:57,202 --> 00:47:59,071 THE GRAND TOTAL -- $4.8 MILLION. AND THE FBI JUST WASN'T 844 00:47:59,071 --> 00:48:04,443 SATISFIED -- JUST WASN'T SATISFIED 845 00:48:04,443 --> 00:48:09,715 Reporter: -- WITH THE INVESTIGATIONS THAT HAD BEEN 846 00:48:09,715 --> 00:48:12,384 DONE NO. 847 00:48:12,384 --> 00:48:17,289 Reporter: THIS CASE WAS NOT CLOSED 848 00:48:17,289 --> 00:48:18,290 NO, IT WASN'T Reporter: NOT BY A LONG SHOT. 849 00:48:18,290 --> 00:48:19,091 NOPE. THERE IS A CITIZEN THAT WAS 850 00:48:19,091 --> 00:48:20,059 POSSIBLY MURDERED OVERSEAS AND THAT'S IMPORTANT 851 00:48:20,059 --> 00:48:21,860 Reporter: BUT REALLY, IT DIDN'T TAKE MUCH DETECTIVE WORK 852 00:48:21,860 --> 00:48:23,062 TO SEE THAT LARRY WAS SPENDING PLENTY OF CASH AFTER BIANCA'S 853 00:48:23,062 --> 00:48:29,435 DEATH. HE BOUGHT FANCY CARS, BEGAN 854 00:48:29,435 --> 00:48:30,636 CONSTRUCTION ON A BRAND-NEW HOME IN PARADISE VALLEY, AND TOOK 855 00:48:30,636 --> 00:48:36,108 HIGH END VACATIONS ALL WITH HIS LONG TIME MISTRESS, 856 00:48:36,108 --> 00:48:39,845 NOW PARTNER, LORI MILLIRON THREE RIVERS DENTAL EMPLOYEE 857 00:48:39,845 --> 00:48:49,822 SHERRY HOUCK COULDN'T IGNORE HER SUSPICIONS 858 00:48:49,822 --> 00:48:55,260 YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT MONEY. YEAH. 859 00:48:55,260 --> 00:48:56,428 Reporter: AND YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT THIS OTHER LIFE HE'S 860 00:48:56,428 --> 00:48:57,262 LIVING WITH LORI YEAH. 861 00:48:57,262 --> 00:48:58,464 Reporter: HE COULD HAVE BOTH. THAT'S THE KIND OF MAN HE 862 00:48:58,464 --> 00:48:59,431 WAS. Reporter: WAS THERE ANY PART 863 00:48:59,431 --> 00:49:07,806 OF YOU THAT THOUGHT, "WHAT IF HE DID THIS?" 864 00:49:07,806 --> 00:49:09,375 OF COURSE YEAH 865 00:49:09,375 --> 00:49:10,542 I'D ALWAYS BE, LIKE, THINKING IN MY MIND, "DID YOU DO THIS? 866 00:49:10,542 --> 00:49:12,411 DID YOU DO THIS? LIKE, ARE YOU REALLY THAT 867 00:49:12,411 --> 00:49:13,579 PERSON COULD YOU BE THAT CRUEL? 868 00:49:13,579 --> 00:49:14,847 Reporter: FBI AGENTS HAD THE SAME QUESTIONS, AND THEY HEARD A 869 00:49:14,847 --> 00:49:16,015 BIZARRE STORY THAT SEEMED TO THEM LIKE A POSSIBLE PRECURSOR 870 00:49:16,015 --> 00:49:17,149 OF WHAT HAPPENED TO BIANCA BIANCA'S DEATH WASN'T LARRY'S 871 00:49:17,149 --> 00:49:18,384 FIRST INCIDENT HERE IN ZAMBIA. TEN YEARS EARLIER, HE SAYS WHILE 872 00:49:18,384 --> 00:49:19,618 HE WAS OUT HERE FISHING IN THESE CROCODILE INFESTED WATERS, HE 873 00:49:19,618 --> 00:49:24,890 LEARNED FIRST HAND JUST HOW DANGEROUS THE WILDLIFE CAN BE. 874 00:49:24,890 --> 00:49:28,360 LARRY CLAIMED THAT HE WAS FISHING, AND WHEN HE WENT DOWN 875 00:49:28,360 --> 00:49:36,368 TO GRAB HIS FISH OUT OF THE WATER, A CROCODILE CAME AND BIT 876 00:49:36,368 --> 00:49:38,904 THE FISH AND INADVERTENTLY BIT HIS THUMB. 877 00:49:38,904 --> 00:49:43,142 AND THEN, PULLING HIM INTO THE WATER WHERE HE WRESTLED AROUND 878 00:49:43,142 --> 00:49:47,846 WITH THE CROCODILE, WAS ABLE TO GET HIMSELF FREE, SWIM TO SHORE, 879 00:49:47,846 --> 00:49:50,015 AND CALL FOR HELP. Reporter: ACCORDING TO LARRY, 880 00:49:50,015 --> 00:49:55,754 HE SOMEHOW MIRACULOUSLY ESCAPED WITH JUST THAT ONE INJURY, A 881 00:49:55,754 --> 00:49:58,023 PARTIALLY BITTEN-OFF THUMB BACK IN THE STATES, SOME PEOPLE 882 00:49:58,023 --> 00:50:02,594 WHO KNEW LARRY THOUGHT HIS BATTLE WITH THE CROCODILE WAS 883 00:50:02,594 --> 00:50:07,366 DOWNRIGHT FISHY, ESPECIALLY MEMBERS OF SAFARI CLUB 884 00:50:07,366 --> 00:50:09,969 INTERNATIONAL. I'VE SEEN CROCODILE ATTACKS, 885 00:50:09,969 --> 00:50:13,138 YOU KNOW, WHERE IT'S FILMED. I NEVER SAW ONE LIVE 886 00:50:13,138 --> 00:50:18,444 BUT A TEN-FOOT CROCODILE TAKIN' OFF THE TIP OF THE THUMB ONLY? 887 00:50:18,444 --> 00:50:20,112 Reporter: YOU CAN SEE WHAT'S LEFT OF THE THUMB IN THIS VIDEO 888 00:50:20,112 --> 00:50:27,920 THAT LARRY MADE AND POSTED ON YOUTUBE. 889 00:50:27,920 --> 00:50:29,555 SPENCER KAKOMA, THE GAME SCOUT AT KAFUE NATIONAL PARK, HEARD 890 00:50:29,555 --> 00:50:32,157 ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED, OR AT LEAST WHAT LARRY SAID HAPPENED, THAT 891 00:50:32,157 --> 00:50:34,059 DAY AT KAFUE RIVER HE ALSO HEARD THAT LARRY WAS NOT 892 00:50:34,059 --> 00:50:38,998 ONLY CARRYING A FISHING ROD THAT DAY. 893 00:50:38,998 --> 00:50:42,134 HE WAS CARRYING A RIFLE. I WAS TOLD THAT HE SHOT 894 00:50:42,134 --> 00:50:43,702 ALMOST THREE SHOTS Reporter: THREE SHOTS 895 00:50:43,702 --> 00:50:46,872 THE INTERNATIONAL DISTRESS SIGNAL 896 00:50:46,872 --> 00:50:50,576 THAT'S HOW THEY RUSHED THERE. THEY FIND HIM WITH THE -- THE 897 00:50:50,576 --> 00:50:51,443 HALF FINGER. Reporter: THEY FIND LARRY 898 00:50:51,443 --> 00:50:55,848 WITH A HALF THUMB. YES 899 00:50:55,848 --> 00:50:57,583 Reporter: BUT NO CROCODILE. THE HUNTING GUIDE AND CAMP STAFF 900 00:50:57,583 --> 00:51:03,689 TOLD THE FBI THEY DIDN'T BELIEVE THERE WAS A CROCODILE. 901 00:51:03,689 --> 00:51:05,357 THEY THOUGHT LARRY FIRED HIS GUN FOR AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT 902 00:51:05,357 --> 00:51:11,463 REASON THEY SURMISED THAT LARRY HAD 903 00:51:11,463 --> 00:51:15,367 SHOT HIS THUMB OFF Reporter: TO THE FBI, THE 904 00:51:15,367 --> 00:51:16,468 ENTIRE EPISODE SEEMED SUSPICIOUS, ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY 905 00:51:16,468 --> 00:51:19,638 LEARNED LARRY FILED AN INSURANCE CLAIM RIGHT AFTER THE INCIDENT 906 00:51:19,638 --> 00:51:24,877 HE WAS ABLE TO GET, I BELIEVE, A $30,000 A MONTH 907 00:51:24,877 --> 00:51:25,878 DISABILITY PAYMENT Reporter: WOW 908 00:51:25,878 --> 00:51:31,150 THAT'S -- I MEAN, PAINFUL BUT LUCRATIVE. 909 00:51:31,150 --> 00:51:35,888 YES, VERY LUCRATIVE Reporter: OVER THE NEXT 910 00:51:35,888 --> 00:51:38,057 15 YEARS, LARRY COLLECTED AT LEAST $3.5 MILLION IN DISABILITY 911 00:51:38,057 --> 00:51:39,358 INSURANCE. HE STILL HAD HIS BUSINESS 912 00:51:39,358 --> 00:51:40,626 HE JUST DIDN'T HAVE TO WORK IT ANYMORE, RIGHT 913 00:51:40,626 --> 00:51:43,796 SO HE CAN GO OUT AND DO HIS HUNTING. 914 00:51:43,796 --> 00:51:44,964 DIDN'T STOP HIM FROM HUNTING Reporter: FEDERAL 915 00:51:44,964 --> 00:51:49,068 INVESTIGATORS BELIEVED THE CROCODILE STORY MIGHT BE 916 00:51:49,068 --> 00:51:53,305 EVIDENCE OF PLANNING AND MOTIVE. IF LARRY WAS WILLING TO SHOOT 917 00:51:53,305 --> 00:52:00,045 HIMSELF TO COLLECT INSURANCE MONEY, WOULD HE SHOOT HIS WIFE 918 00:52:00,045 --> 00:52:01,013 TO COLLECT EVEN MORE THAT QUESTION, ALONG WITH 919 00:52:01,013 --> 00:52:03,515 LARRY'S RUSH TO CREMATE BIANCA'S BODY AND HIS AFFAIR WITH LORI, 920 00:52:03,515 --> 00:52:08,053 WERE ALL INTRIGUING. BUT IT WAS NOT ENOUGH TO CHARGE 921 00:52:08,053 --> 00:52:09,121 LARRY WITH MURDER. NOT YET. 922 00:52:09,121 --> 00:52:12,291 SOMETHING WAS ABOUT TO BOIL OVER 923 00:52:12,291 --> 00:52:13,826 YEAH. YEAH 924 00:52:13,826 --> 00:52:19,465 YEAH I DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS GOING TO BE 925 00:52:19,465 --> 00:52:20,733 AS BIG AS IT WAS COMING UP -- 926 00:52:20,733 --> 00:52:27,573 LARRY, LORI, AND A COUPLE OF COCKTAILS. 927 00:52:27,573 --> 00:52:28,574 A BARTENDER OVERHEARS AN OVERHEATED CONVERSATION. 928 00:52:28,574 --> 00:52:34,413 YOU COULD HEAR A PIN DROP AT THAT MOMENT. 929 00:52:34,413 --> 00:52:38,083 Reporter: ARE YOU 100% SURE YOU HEARD WHAT YOU HEARD 930 00:52:38,083 --> 00:52:39,184 IT WAS CRYSTAL CLEAR. A COUPLE OF PEOPLE SAID, "HEY, 931 00:52:39,184 --> 00:52:42,018 YOU NEED TO GO TO THE POLICE ABOUT THIS." 932 00:52:42,019 --> 00:52:58,131 YOU NEED TO GO TO THE POLICE ABOUT THIS." 933 00:52:58,131 --> 00:53:07,073 Reporter: IT WAS EARLY 2020, MORE THAN 3 YEARS SINCE 934 00:53:07,073 --> 00:53:08,374 BIANCA RUDOLPH'S TRAGIC DEATH. LIFE IN PARADISE -- VALLEY, THAT 935 00:53:08,374 --> 00:53:11,311 IS -- WAS GOOD FOR DR. LARRY RUDOLPH AND 936 00:53:11,311 --> 00:53:18,718 LORI MILLIRON. THEY WERE BUILDING A NEW MANSION 937 00:53:18,718 --> 00:53:20,820 AND HAD PLENTY OF MONEY TOO. WHEN THEY WEREN'T TRAVELING THE 938 00:53:20,820 --> 00:53:28,194 WORLD, LARRY AND LORI WERE OFTEN AT THEIR REGULAR SPOT, STEAK 44. 939 00:53:28,194 --> 00:53:31,864 BARTENDER BRIAN LOVELACE WAS ALWAYS HAPPY TO SEE THEM 940 00:53:31,864 --> 00:53:32,932 THEY CAME IN OFTEN, PROBABLY TWICE A MONTH. 941 00:53:32,932 --> 00:53:34,033 AND, YOU KNOW, THEY SPENT A LOT OF MONEY 942 00:53:34,033 --> 00:53:40,306 Reporter: LORI AND LARRY USUALLY SAT RIGHT AT THE BAR, 943 00:53:40,306 --> 00:53:42,909 WHERE BRIAN SERVED THEM MARTINIS, FOLLOWED BY BIG 944 00:53:42,909 --> 00:53:44,510 STEAKS THEY WERE ALWAYS TOGETHER AND 945 00:53:44,510 --> 00:53:45,578 VERY KIND AND NICE TO EACH OTHER. 946 00:53:45,578 --> 00:53:54,053 Reporter: ONE NIGHT LARRY AND LORI WERE AT THEIR USUAL PLACE 947 00:53:54,053 --> 00:53:55,088 AT THE BAR IT WAS BUSY. 948 00:53:55,088 --> 00:53:58,758 DRINKS FLOWING THEN, ALL OF A SUDDEN, BRIAN 949 00:53:58,758 --> 00:54:01,995 SAID, SOMETHING HAPPENED BETWEEN THEM 950 00:54:01,995 --> 00:54:03,096 IT WAS AN UNCOMFORTABLE CONVERSATION THAT YOU COULD TELL 951 00:54:03,096 --> 00:54:06,666 THAT THEY WERE HAVING. AND THERE WAS A MOMENT OF 952 00:54:06,666 --> 00:54:10,870 SILENCE WHERE THE MUSIC HAD CHANGED FROM SONG TO SONG. 953 00:54:10,870 --> 00:54:12,105 Reporter: THAT'S WHEN BRIAN HEARD SOMETHING HE'LL NEVER 954 00:54:12,105 --> 00:54:13,106 FORGET HE SAID TO LORI, "I KILLED MY 955 00:54:13,106 --> 00:54:14,540 EFFING WIFE FOR YOU. Reporter: MY GOSH 956 00:54:14,540 --> 00:54:16,142 AND YOU COULD HEAR A PIN DROP AT THAT MOMENT 957 00:54:16,142 --> 00:54:18,277 Reporter: WHAT ARE YOU THINKING WHEN YOU HEAR THAT? 958 00:54:18,277 --> 00:54:23,783 I MEAN, THERE'S A LOT TO PROCESS IN THAT MOMENT 959 00:54:23,783 --> 00:54:26,686 YEAH. IT'S A LOT TO PROCESS. 960 00:54:26,686 --> 00:54:28,087 AND THE VERY FIRST THING I WAS THINKING IS "WELL, I KILLED MY 961 00:54:28,087 --> 00:54:33,026 WIFE FOR YOU." WELL, WHO'S LORI 962 00:54:33,026 --> 00:54:42,035 I THOUGHT LORI WAS HIS WIFE. Reporter: BRIAN SAYS LORI 963 00:54:42,035 --> 00:54:49,342 STORMED OUT, UPSET, RED FACED. LARRY QUICKLY PAID THE BILL AND 964 00:54:49,342 --> 00:54:54,614 ALSO RUSHED OUT. ARE YOU 100% SURE YOU HEARD WHAT 965 00:54:54,614 --> 00:54:57,250 YOU HEARD? YES 966 00:54:57,250 --> 00:55:02,622 I'M 100% SURE. THERE'S DEFINITELY NO DOUBT. 967 00:55:02,622 --> 00:55:07,794 IT WAS CRYSTAL CLEAR Reporter: LATER THAT NIGHT, 968 00:55:07,794 --> 00:55:08,828 BRIAN TOLD HIS WIFE AMBER ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED. 969 00:55:08,828 --> 00:55:10,229 WORD OF THE INCIDENT ALSO SPREAD FAST AMONG THE OTHER BARTENDERS 970 00:55:10,229 --> 00:55:11,164 VIA A GROUP TEXT SO THERE WAS A COUPLE OF 971 00:55:11,164 --> 00:55:15,001 PEOPLE IN THE GROUP CHAT THAT SAID, "HEY, YOU NEED TO GO TO 972 00:55:15,001 --> 00:55:18,338 THE POLICE ABOUT THIS. AND I SAID, "NO, THERE'S NOT 973 00:55:18,338 --> 00:55:21,007 ENOUGH INFORMATION WHAT AM I GONNA SAY TO THE 974 00:55:21,007 --> 00:55:22,008 POLICE?" Reporter: AMBER AGREED. 975 00:55:22,008 --> 00:55:25,111 REMEMBER, AT THIS POINT, SHE AND BRIAN DIDN'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT 976 00:55:25,111 --> 00:55:38,891 BIANCA'S DEATH I'M LIKE, "I DON'T THINK YOU 977 00:55:38,891 --> 00:55:42,128 SHOULD DO ANYTHING ABOUT THIS. Reporter: SO THEY LET IT GO 978 00:55:42,128 --> 00:55:49,736 WEEKS WENT BY. THE LARRY-LORI BAR BLOW-UP 979 00:55:49,736 --> 00:55:50,503 SEEMED TO FADE AWAY. UNTIL -- 980 00:55:50,503 --> 00:55:51,537 ONE OF THE BARTENDERS SENT A LINK TO ALL OF US. 981 00:55:51,537 --> 00:55:52,805 AND THAT LINK HAD SHOWN DR. LARRY RUDOLPH'S WIFE WAS 982 00:55:52,805 --> 00:55:53,640 KILLED BY ACCIDENT ON SAFARI IN AFRICA 983 00:55:53,640 --> 00:55:55,208 EXTREMELY SHOCKING TO SAY THE LEAST. 984 00:55:55,208 --> 00:55:59,212 AND SO, OF COURSE, READ THE ARTICLE AND SAW, "WOW, OKAY, 985 00:55:59,212 --> 00:56:01,581 LORI IS NOT HIS WIFE HE DID HAVE A WIFE 986 00:56:01,581 --> 00:56:04,217 AND SHE DID DIE. Reporter: BRIAN WAS 987 00:56:04,217 --> 00:56:07,387 CONFLICTED CALL THE POLICE OR JUST CLAM UP? 988 00:56:07,387 --> 00:56:09,989 SO I WAS HUNG ON THAT AND THINKING, "WELL, IT WAS 989 00:56:09,989 --> 00:56:16,329 INVESTIGATED AND IT WAS DEEMED AN ACCIDENT. 990 00:56:16,329 --> 00:56:17,430 I DIDN'T WANT BRIAN SAYING ANYTHING ABOUT THIS GUY. 991 00:56:17,430 --> 00:56:19,499 LIKE, I DON'T KNOW WHAT HE'S CAPABLE OF 992 00:56:19,499 --> 00:56:20,566 I HAVE TWO CHILDREN. IF HE WERE TO GET HIM IN 993 00:56:20,566 --> 00:56:24,370 TROUBLE, I DON'T KNOW WHAT KIND OF POWER HE HAS TO MAYBE AFFECT 994 00:56:24,370 --> 00:56:25,371 OUR LIVES. Reporter: DID YOU LEAVE IT 995 00:56:25,371 --> 00:56:30,643 THERE THEN I FELT THAT I SHOULD LEAVE IT 996 00:56:30,643 --> 00:56:31,678 ALONE. Reporter: NEARLY TWO YEARS 997 00:56:31,678 --> 00:56:42,121 PASSED IT WAS DECEMBER 2021 998 00:56:42,121 --> 00:56:45,825 FIVE YEARS SINCE BIANCA'S DEATH. THE FBI KNEW NOTHING ABOUT 999 00:56:45,825 --> 00:56:46,826 BRIAN LOVELACE AND THE BAR INCIDENT 1000 00:56:46,826 --> 00:56:49,495 BUT THEY KEPT INVESTIGATING BIANCA'S DEATH 1001 00:56:49,495 --> 00:56:52,165 THE AGENCY STARTED CONDUCTING A SERIES OF BALLISTICS TESTS IN 1002 00:56:52,165 --> 00:56:55,401 THEIR LAB WHERE SHOTS WERE FIRED AT A TARGET RANGING FROM HALF AN 1003 00:56:55,401 --> 00:57:00,273 INCH TO A LITTLE OVER NINE FEET AWAY 1004 00:57:00,273 --> 00:57:06,980 THE SHOTGUN PELLETS LEFT A UNIQUE PATTERN 1005 00:57:06,980 --> 00:57:09,015 THE FBI THEN COMPARED THAT PATTERN TO PHOTOS OF BIANCA'S 1006 00:57:09,015 --> 00:57:10,183 WOUND. REMEMBER, THOSE WERE THE PHOTOS 1007 00:57:10,183 --> 00:57:14,287 TAKEN BY THE CONSULAR CHIEF IN ZAMBIA JUST DAYS AFTER BIANCA 1008 00:57:14,287 --> 00:57:20,593 DIED THE SHOT PATTERN WAS 1009 00:57:20,593 --> 00:57:21,794 CONSISTENT WITH A SHOT THAT WAS FIRED FROM ONE TO THREE FEET 1010 00:57:21,794 --> 00:57:22,729 Reporter: NOT RIGHT UP AGAINST HER CHEST. 1011 00:57:22,729 --> 00:57:23,763 NOT RIGHT UP AGAINST HER CHEST. 1012 00:57:23,763 --> 00:57:30,637 AND THEY WERE ABLE TO FIGURE OUT THAT THERE'S NO WAY ON EARTH SHE 1013 00:57:30,637 --> 00:57:37,010 WAS ABLE TO SHOOT THAT GUN Reporter: SO WHO DID? 1014 00:57:37,010 --> 00:57:43,783 THE FBI HAD A PRIME SUSPECT. NOT IN AFRICA OR ARIZONA, BUT 1015 00:57:43,783 --> 00:57:44,784 MEXICO COMING UP -- 1016 00:57:44,784 --> 00:57:47,453 MEXICAN POLICE CAME IN, STARTED ASKING FOR PEOPLE'S 1017 00:57:47,453 --> 00:57:50,089 PASSPORTS. AN ARREST IN THE CASE AT 1018 00:57:50,089 --> 00:57:51,691 LAST I WAS JUST IN SHOCK 1019 00:57:51,691 --> 00:57:52,158 I WAS JUST IN SHOCK THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE. 1020 00:58:21,354 --> 00:58:22,422 A SPECIAL PLACE FOR LARRY RUDOLPH AND LORI MILLIRON. 1021 00:58:22,422 --> 00:58:23,623 THEY VISITED OFTEN, BROUGHT LORI'S KIDS, EVEN BOUGHT A CONDO 1022 00:58:23,623 --> 00:58:24,991 THERE. BUT EVERYTHING CHANGED IN 1023 00:58:24,991 --> 00:58:28,127 DECEMBER 2021, ACCORDING TO ATTORNEY JOHN DILL 1024 00:58:28,127 --> 00:58:32,865 THEY WERE FLYING DOWN THERE FOR THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS 1025 00:58:32,865 --> 00:58:34,734 WHEN THEY LANDED, LORI SEES MEXICAN POLICE LINING UP ON THE 1026 00:58:34,734 --> 00:58:35,468 TARMAC THEY CAME IN 1027 00:58:35,468 --> 00:58:38,671 THEY STARTED ASKING FOR PEOPLE'S PASSPORTS. 1028 00:58:38,671 --> 00:58:49,182 Reporter: WOW AND THAT'S WHEN HE WAS PUT IN 1029 00:58:49,182 --> 00:58:51,284 JAIL AND DETAINED. Reporter: THE NEXT DAY, 1030 00:58:51,284 --> 00:58:52,885 U.S. MARSHALS ESCORTED LARRY BACK TO THE STATES 1031 00:58:52,885 --> 00:58:55,021 MORE THAN FIVE YEARS AFTER BIANCA'S DEATH, 1032 00:58:55,021 --> 00:58:58,691 DR. LARRY RUDOLPH WAS ARRESTED FOR MURDER AND FOR DEFRAUDING 1033 00:58:58,691 --> 00:59:01,027 THE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES THAT PAID HIM MILLIONS OF 1034 00:59:01,027 --> 00:59:01,861 DOLLARS. FACING LIFE IN PRISON, HE WAS 1035 00:59:01,861 --> 00:59:02,962 BEING HELD IN DENVER, HOME TO ONE OF THOSE INSURANCE 1036 00:59:02,962 --> 00:59:13,006 COMPANIES. HE SPOKE WITH LORI BY PHONE FROM 1037 00:59:13,006 --> 00:59:13,973 JAIL THE RECORDINGS HAVE NEVER BEEN 1038 00:59:13,973 --> 00:59:15,141 HEARD ON TELEVISION UNTIL NOW. I'M JUST MORE DEPRESSED NOW 1039 00:59:15,141 --> 00:59:17,644 THAN I THOUGHT I COULD EVER BE OH, I'M SO SORRY, BABY. 1040 00:59:17,644 --> 00:59:20,813 IT'S A BAD PLACE, LORI. YEAH. 1041 00:59:20,813 --> 00:59:30,056 YEAH, IT'S A REALLY BAD PLACE. YOU'RE LOCKED IN A CELL 1042 00:59:30,056 --> 00:59:34,494 23 HOURS A DAY NOT GOOD, MAN. 1043 00:59:34,494 --> 00:59:35,628 Reporter: TWO WEEKS AFTER LARRY'S ARREST, LORI FLEW TO 1044 00:59:35,628 --> 00:59:36,729 DENVER TO SUPPORT HIM AT A DETENTION HEARING IN FEDERAL 1045 00:59:36,729 --> 00:59:39,232 COURT. THIS WAS A KEY HEARING ACCORDING 1046 00:59:39,232 --> 00:59:42,902 TO FORMER FEDERAL PROSECUTOR NEAMA RAHMANI. 1047 00:59:42,902 --> 00:59:48,174 THE PROSECUTORS BELIEVED THAT LARRY RUDOLPH WAS A FLIGHT RISK 1048 00:59:48,174 --> 00:59:49,676 AND A DANGER AND ARGUED FOR NO BOND 1049 00:59:49,676 --> 00:59:54,080 THE DEFENSE TRIED TO CONVINCE THE JUDGE TO ALLOW HIM TO REMAIN 1050 00:59:54,080 --> 00:59:55,648 ON HOUSE ARREST. BUT THE JUDGE SAID, "ABSOLUTELY 1051 00:59:55,648 --> 01:00:00,920 NOT -- I'M NOT GONNA TREAT LARRY RUDOLPH DIFFERENTLY JUST 1052 01:00:00,920 --> 01:00:02,121 BECAUSE HE HAS A LOTTA MONEY." Reporter: THE JUDGE DENIED 1053 01:00:02,121 --> 01:00:08,695 BAIL LARRY WOULD STAY IN JAIL 1054 01:00:08,695 --> 01:00:12,365 AS FOR LORI, SHE'D RECEIVED A SUBPOENA TO APPEAR BEFORE THE 1055 01:00:12,365 --> 01:00:15,134 GRAND JURY SHE TALKED TO LARRY ABOUT IT IN 1056 01:00:15,134 --> 01:00:17,603 THAT PHONE CALL. I WILL BE THERE 1057 01:00:17,603 --> 01:00:20,273 AND I'M GONNA BE HONEST. YOU KNOW 1058 01:00:20,273 --> 01:00:21,274 WELL -- WELL, DON'T TALK ABOUT IT 1059 01:00:21,274 --> 01:00:23,543 DON'T TALK ABOUT IT. NO, I'M NOT GONNA TALK ABOUT 1060 01:00:23,543 --> 01:00:24,544 IT DON'T -- DON'T -- JUST, UH, 1061 01:00:24,544 --> 01:00:27,814 DON'T SAY ANYTHING IT'S OKAY. 1062 01:00:27,814 --> 01:00:28,715 IT'S ALL GOOD. IT'S ALL GOOD. 1063 01:00:28,715 --> 01:00:31,884 SO SHE GOES IN FRONT OF THE GRAND JURY 1064 01:00:31,884 --> 01:00:38,191 AND NOW THEY'RE PULLING OUT FINANCIAL RECORDS AND THEY'RE 1065 01:00:38,191 --> 01:00:40,293 PUTTING EVERYTHING IN FRONT OF HER. 1066 01:00:40,293 --> 01:00:42,495 Reporter: THAT VERY SAME DAY, THE GRAND JURY INDICTED LARRY 1067 01:00:42,495 --> 01:00:47,100 FOR MURDER, WHICH WAS BIG NEWS, ESPECIALLY FOR HIS HOMETOWN OF 1068 01:00:47,100 --> 01:00:48,635 PITTSBURGH AND NBC STATION WPXI. DR. LAWRENCE RUDOLPH STARTED 1069 01:00:48,635 --> 01:00:50,870 THREE RIVER'S DENTAL, BUT NOW HE'S ACCUSED BY THE FEDS OF 1070 01:00:50,870 --> 01:00:58,511 ACTUALLY MURDERING HIS WIFE, AND ALL TO COLLECT MILLIONS IN LIFE 1071 01:00:58,511 --> 01:01:01,914 INSURANCE. Reporter: DR. RUDOLPH ENTERED 1072 01:01:01,914 --> 01:01:03,049 A NOT GUILTY PLEA. I WAS JUST IN SHOCK, YOU 1073 01:01:03,049 --> 01:01:07,153 KNOW, LIKE, WOW. AFTER ALL THIS TIME, THIS IS 1074 01:01:07,153 --> 01:01:09,756 REALLY HAPPENING NOW Reporter: SHERRY'S FORMER 1075 01:01:09,756 --> 01:01:13,493 CO-WORKER ANNA GRIMLEY FELT A SENSE OF RELIEF. 1076 01:01:13,493 --> 01:01:16,629 I FELT LIKE MAYBE JUSTICE WAS GONNA DO SOMETHING CORRECT, 1077 01:01:16,629 --> 01:01:20,700 ESPECIALLY FOR BIANCA. SHE DIDN'T HAVE A VOICE. 1078 01:01:20,700 --> 01:01:24,037 SO TO HEAR THAT HE WAS ARRESTED, IT FELT GOOD THAT THE FBI 1079 01:01:24,037 --> 01:01:26,639 ACTUALLY PUT ALL THE PIECES TOGETHER COMPLETELY WITH 1080 01:01:26,639 --> 01:01:30,943 EVERYBODY. Reporter: BUT NOT EVERYBODY 1081 01:01:30,943 --> 01:01:31,944 FELT THAT WAY. SHERRY HOUCK SAID THAT LARRY'S 1082 01:01:31,944 --> 01:01:35,081 DAUGHTER ANABIANCA NEVER WAVERED IN HER SUPPORT FOR HIM 1083 01:01:35,081 --> 01:01:38,785 HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH IT, EVER 1084 01:01:38,785 --> 01:01:43,556 Reporter: DID SHE EVER EXPRESS THAT THIS IS UNFAIR? 1085 01:01:43,556 --> 01:01:50,363 WELL, SHE DIDN'T EVER WANT TO BELIEVE HER FATHER DID THIS. 1086 01:01:50,363 --> 01:01:52,565 Reporter: SHOCKWAVES FROM LARRY'S ARREST REACHED ALL THE 1087 01:01:52,565 --> 01:01:55,101 WAY TO PHOENIX AND NBC STATION KPNX 1088 01:01:55,101 --> 01:01:57,337 HE TOLD INVESTIGATORS THAT SHE ACCIDENTALLY SHOT HERSELF. 1089 01:01:57,337 --> 01:01:58,805 NOW HE IS UNDER ARREST ACCUSED OF MURDER. 1090 01:01:58,805 --> 01:02:03,176 Reporter: WHICH WAS STUNNING NEWS TO BARTENDER 1091 01:02:03,176 --> 01:02:05,645 BRIAN LOVELACE THAT REALLY CHANGED THINGS. 1092 01:02:05,645 --> 01:02:09,248 TO ACTUALLY READ THAT HE WAS INDICTED FOR MURDER -- 1093 01:02:09,248 --> 01:02:17,090 THE FBI DOESN'T REOPEN CASES, YOU KNOW, TO LOSE THEM 1094 01:02:17,090 --> 01:02:18,358 THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE Reporter: BRIAN STILL DIDN'T 1095 01:02:18,358 --> 01:02:21,027 KNOW WHAT TO DO ABOUT THE CONVERSATION HE'D OVERHEARD 1096 01:02:21,027 --> 01:02:23,663 BETWEEN LARRY AND LORI BUT ONE OF HIS CO-WORKERS AT 1097 01:02:23,663 --> 01:02:29,335 STEAK 44 APPARENTLY THOUGHT SHE KNEW WHAT TO DO. 1098 01:02:29,335 --> 01:02:31,437 THE CO-WORKER HAD A NICKNAME -- NANCY DREW 1099 01:02:31,437 --> 01:02:34,607 NANCY DREW LOVES TO INVESTIGATE PRETTY MUCH ANY AND 1100 01:02:34,607 --> 01:02:38,811 ALL SITUATIONS THAT -- THAT SEEM SUSPICIOUS 1101 01:02:38,811 --> 01:02:42,148 AND SHE TOOK IT UPON HERSELF TO CONTACT THE FBI. 1102 01:02:42,148 --> 01:02:43,182 Reporter: OH, MY. SO SHE GAVE ME A HEADS-UP, 1103 01:02:43,182 --> 01:02:48,354 SAID, "YOU KNOW, SORRY, BUT THE FBI IS GONNA BE CALLING YOU. 1104 01:02:48,354 --> 01:02:52,058 Reporter: WHAT'D YOU SAY? I SAID, "ARE YOU CRAZY? 1105 01:02:52,058 --> 01:02:53,092 DON'T YOU THINK THIS IS SOMETHING YOU SHOULD'VE TALKED 1106 01:02:53,092 --> 01:02:58,431 TO ME ABOUT FIRST? Reporter: AS FBI AGENTS MADE 1107 01:02:58,431 --> 01:02:59,766 THEIR WAY TO PHOENIX TO TALK TO BRIAN, THERE WAS SOMEONE ELSE 1108 01:02:59,766 --> 01:03:04,170 THE GOVERNMENT WAS KEEPING AN EYE ON 1109 01:03:04,170 --> 01:03:05,705 LORI MILLIRON. LORI AND LARRY'S AFFAIR WAS A 1110 01:03:05,705 --> 01:03:13,212 HUGE PIECE OF THE CIRCUMSTANTIAL PUZZLE AND THE REASON THAT LARRY 1111 01:03:13,212 --> 01:03:17,317 HAD A MOTIVE TO KILL BIANCA. Reporter: LORI WAS BACK IN 1112 01:03:17,317 --> 01:03:18,284 PHOENIX MANAGING THE DENTAL PRACTICE REMOTELY. 1113 01:03:18,284 --> 01:03:23,723 MEANWHILE, THE U.S. ATTORNEY'S OFFICE WAS TAKING A CLOSER LOOK 1114 01:03:23,723 --> 01:03:24,724 AT THE TRANSCRIPT OF HER GRAND JURY TESTIMONY 1115 01:03:24,724 --> 01:03:30,496 FORMER PROSECUTOR RAHMANI READ THE TRANSCRIPT TOO 1116 01:03:30,496 --> 01:03:33,733 LORI WAS VERY EVASIVE DURING THE GRAND JURY TESTIMONY 1117 01:03:33,733 --> 01:03:40,039 THERE WERE A LOT OF "I DON'T RECALLS," "I DON'T REMEMBER. 1118 01:03:40,039 --> 01:03:43,476 AND HER STORY SHIFTED OVER TIME. Reporter: SIX WEEKS AFTER SHE 1119 01:03:43,476 --> 01:03:46,279 TESTIFIED, LORI'S ATTORNEY JOHN DILL GOT A SURPRISE CALL 1120 01:03:46,279 --> 01:03:47,313 FROM THE FBI SAYING, "HEY, DO YOU 1121 01:03:47,313 --> 01:03:50,049 REPRESENT LORI MILLIRON? I WAS LIKE, "LORI -- YEAH, I 1122 01:03:50,049 --> 01:03:55,221 REPRESENT LORI." "WELL, WE'RE OUTSIDE HER HOUSE 1123 01:03:55,221 --> 01:03:59,993 AND WE'RE GOING TO ARREST HER. Reporter: FEDERAL AGENTS HAD 1124 01:03:59,993 --> 01:04:01,628 A WARRANT FOR LORI'S ARREST. THEY SEARCHED HER, PUT HER IN 1125 01:04:01,628 --> 01:04:02,595 SHACKLES TO APPEAR IN FRONT OF THE COURT. 1126 01:04:02,595 --> 01:04:08,368 Reporter: WHAT EXACTLY ARE THEY ALLEGING SHE DID? 1127 01:04:08,368 --> 01:04:09,802 THEY'RE ALLEGING THAT LORI WENT IN FRONT OF THE GRAND JURY 1128 01:04:09,802 --> 01:04:14,741 AND GAVE MISLEADING ANSWERS TO CERTAIN QUESTIONS, SPECIFICALLY 1129 01:04:14,741 --> 01:04:20,046 ABOUT HER RELATIONSHIP WITH DR. RUDOLPH AND ABOUT THE WAY 1130 01:04:20,046 --> 01:04:22,081 THAT HE WAS SUPPORTING HER ESSENTIALLY. 1131 01:04:22,081 --> 01:04:26,819 Reporter: LORI WAS INDICTED FOR OBSTRUCTION, PERJURY, AND 1132 01:04:26,819 --> 01:04:29,088 ACCESSORY AFTER THE FACT SHE APPEARED IN COURT IN DENVER 1133 01:04:29,088 --> 01:04:30,290 TO PLEAD NOT GUILTY, BUT THE JUDGE ALLOWED HER TO GO HOME TO 1134 01:04:30,290 --> 01:04:34,761 PHOENIX WHERE SHE WOULD BE UNDER HOUSE ARREST 1135 01:04:34,761 --> 01:04:39,465 AS A CONDITION OF HER BOND, THE JUDGE ORDERED LORI NOT TO HAVE 1136 01:04:39,465 --> 01:04:42,635 ANY CONTACT WITH LARRY AS LORI'S ATTORNEY TOLD US AT 1137 01:04:42,635 --> 01:04:43,803 THE TIME - THERE'S BEEN NO COMMUNICATION 1138 01:04:43,803 --> 01:04:46,306 BETWEEN THE TWO OF THEM. Reporter: BUT THEY STILL SAY 1139 01:04:46,306 --> 01:04:47,907 THEY'RE TOGETHER THEY'RE STILL TOGETHER. 1140 01:04:47,907 --> 01:04:54,747 I MEAN, I BELIEVE THEY'RE BOTH IN A HORRIBLE SITUATION. 1141 01:04:54,747 --> 01:04:57,383 Reporter: FORMER PROSECUTOR RAHMANI BELIEVED THE WHOLE 1142 01:04:57,383 --> 01:04:59,419 SITUATION WAS PART OF THE GOVERNMENT'S STRATEGY. 1143 01:04:59,419 --> 01:05:03,222 PROSECUTORS WANTED TO TRAP LORI AND GET HER TO FLIP ON 1144 01:05:03,222 --> 01:05:06,893 LARRY. THAT WAS THEIR ENTIRE STRATEGY 1145 01:05:06,893 --> 01:05:10,596 HERE Reporter: MAYBE PROSECUTORS 1146 01:05:10,596 --> 01:05:11,898 FELT THEY NEEDED LORI'S HELP LARRY HAD HIRED A HIGH POWERED 1147 01:05:11,898 --> 01:05:16,402 DEFENSE ATTORNEY WHO WAS CONFIDENT HE COULD TAKE THE 1148 01:05:16,402 --> 01:05:20,073 GOVERNMENT'S CASE APART. THIS IS ALL THEATER 1149 01:05:20,073 --> 01:05:22,742 THIS IS ALL TRYING TO SAY, "LOOK AT ALL THIS SMOKE," WHEN THEY 1150 01:05:22,742 --> 01:05:24,444 DON'T HAVE ANY PROOF OF FIRE CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS ARE ABOUT, 1151 01:05:24,444 --> 01:05:27,480 "DO YOU HAVE THE GOODS DO YOU HAVE THE PROOF? 1152 01:05:27,480 --> 01:05:34,320 AND THEY DON'T HAVE IT COMING UP -- 1153 01:05:34,320 --> 01:05:35,388 THE DEFENSE QUESTIONS EVERYTHING 1154 01:05:35,388 --> 01:05:37,490 THE GUN. THERE'S NO PROOF THAT LARRY 1155 01:05:37,490 --> 01:05:39,592 RUDOLPH PULLED THE TRIGGER THE CREMATION 1156 01:05:39,592 --> 01:05:43,796 HER WILL SHOWED THAT SHE IN FACT WANTED TO BE CREMATED 1157 01:05:43,796 --> 01:05:45,398 HE LOVED HER VERY MUCH, AND HE DID NOT DO THIS 1158 01:05:45,398 --> 01:05:45,932 HE DID NOT DO THIS WHEN "DATELINE" CONTINUES 1159 01:06:04,183 --> 01:06:05,985 YEARS HAD PASSED SINCE BIANCA RUDOLPH'S DEATH AND HER 1160 01:06:05,985 --> 01:06:16,229 HUSBAND, LARRY, WAS NOW BEHIND BARS AT A DENVER JAIL. 1161 01:06:16,229 --> 01:06:17,363 THOUSANDS OF MILES AWAY FROM ZAMBIA'S KAFUE NATIONAL PARK 1162 01:06:17,363 --> 01:06:19,198 WHERE BIANCA HAD BEEN SHOT PROSECUTORS THOUGHT LARRY 1163 01:06:19,198 --> 01:06:24,137 MURDERED HER AND THAT THEY COULD GET LARRY'S LONGTIME LOVER, 1164 01:06:24,137 --> 01:06:25,505 LORI MILLIRON, TO FLIP AND TESTIFY AGAINST HIM. 1165 01:06:25,505 --> 01:06:32,011 SO SAID LORI'S ATTORNEY, JOHN DILL, WHO ALSO SAID THIS. 1166 01:06:32,011 --> 01:06:33,212 IF LORI KNEW SOMETHING AND -- AND HAD SOMETHING TO GIVE THEM, 1167 01:06:33,212 --> 01:06:35,181 THEN I COULD UNDERSTAND WHY THEY WOULD HOPE THAT. 1168 01:06:35,181 --> 01:06:38,318 THE PROBLEM IS THEY -- THEY'VE GOT THE FACTS WRONG AND SO SHE 1169 01:06:38,318 --> 01:06:41,621 CAN'T BE THE STAR WITNESS FOR A THEORY OF THE TRUTH THAT DOESN'T 1170 01:06:41,621 --> 01:06:45,124 EXIST. Reporter: DID SHE HAVE ANY 1171 01:06:45,124 --> 01:06:47,894 INVOLVEMENT IN BIANCA'S DEATH WHETHER IT WAS BEFORE? AFTER 1172 01:06:47,894 --> 01:06:53,099 ABSOLUTELY NOT. LORI MILLIRON HAD NOTHING TO DO 1173 01:06:53,099 --> 01:06:54,167 WITH LYING BEFORE THE GRAND JURY 1174 01:06:54,167 --> 01:07:02,041 SHE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS DEATH, THAT SHE HASN'T TRIED TO 1175 01:07:02,041 --> 01:07:03,276 COVER ANYTHING UP. Reporter: LORI DENIED EVER 1176 01:07:03,276 --> 01:07:04,477 GIVING LARRY AN "ULTIMATUM" TO GET RID OF BIANCA AND LORI DID 1177 01:07:04,477 --> 01:07:08,348 NOT FLIP ON HIM. INSTEAD, SHE WOULD TAKE HER 1178 01:07:08,348 --> 01:07:09,482 CHANCES AT TRIAL SO NOW, WITHOUT LORI'S TESTIMONY 1179 01:07:09,482 --> 01:07:13,987 PROSECUTORS LOOKED TO BOLSTER THEIR CASE 1180 01:07:13,987 --> 01:07:18,992 THAT LED THEM TO, OF ALL PLACES, THE TINY TOWN OF 1181 01:07:18,992 --> 01:07:23,663 YELLOW SPRINGS, OHIO, AND THIS UNASSUMING HOUSE HEADQUARTERS OF 1182 01:07:23,663 --> 01:07:27,867 A COMPANY CALLED ANTHROTECH. Reporter: 1183 01:07:27,867 --> 01:07:29,102 DR. BRUCE BRADTMILLER IS ONE OF THE WORLD'S LEADING EXPERTS ON 1184 01:07:29,102 --> 01:07:30,003 THE STUDY OF PEOPLE'S PERSONAL MEASUREMENTS 1185 01:07:30,003 --> 01:07:32,739 WHETHER IT'S THEIR ARM LENGTH, LEG LENGTH OR OVERALL 1186 01:07:32,739 --> 01:07:33,906 HEIGHT OR WHATEVER Reporter: NOT SOMETHING THAT 1187 01:07:33,906 --> 01:07:40,546 YOU WOULD USUALLY APPLY TO A CRIME, A POTENTIAL CRIME 1188 01:07:40,546 --> 01:07:45,318 DEFINITELY NOT. Reporter: THAT IS, UNTIL 1189 01:07:45,318 --> 01:07:46,419 DR. BRADTMILLER GOT A CALL FROM AN FBI AGENT ABOUT THE 1190 01:07:46,419 --> 01:07:47,920 BIANCA RUDOLPH INVESTIGATION HE GAVE ME THE BROAD OUTLINES 1191 01:07:47,920 --> 01:07:52,225 OF THE CASE. Reporter: SO, SOMETHING THAT 1192 01:07:52,225 --> 01:07:53,459 HAPPENED ALL THE WAY IN ZAMBIA IN AFRICA HAS NOW LANDED HERE IN 1193 01:07:53,459 --> 01:07:57,397 YOUR LAP IN YELLOW SPRINGS, OHIO 1194 01:07:57,397 --> 01:08:02,101 IT DID. Reporter: CRAZY 1195 01:08:02,101 --> 01:08:03,202 TOTALLY CRAZY Reporter: THE FBI WANTED 1196 01:08:03,202 --> 01:08:05,505 DR. BRADTMILLER TO LEND HIS EXPERTISE AND CONFIRM THEIR 1197 01:08:05,505 --> 01:08:11,010 FINDINGS, THAT BIANCA RUDOLPH COULD NOT HAVE ACCIDENTALLY SHOT 1198 01:08:11,010 --> 01:08:16,683 HERSELF. WE'RE GOING TO HAND YOU A 1199 01:08:16,683 --> 01:08:17,984 SHOTGUN AND A SHOTGUN BAG. Reporter: SO, HE RECRUITED 1200 01:08:17,984 --> 01:08:19,085 36 ADDITIONAL WOMEN AND CONDUCTED AN EVEN MORE EXTENSIVE 1201 01:08:19,085 --> 01:08:24,257 EXPERIMENT, BEGINNING WITH A SIMPLE BEHAVIORAL STUDY. 1202 01:08:24,257 --> 01:08:25,325 PLEASE PLACE THE SHOTGUN IN THE BAG. 1203 01:08:25,325 --> 01:08:27,593 WE GAVE THE WOMEN, HERE'S THE GUN, HERE'S THE BAG, PUT IT IN 1204 01:08:27,593 --> 01:08:37,403 AND ZIP IT UP NOBODY POINTED IT AT THEMSELVES. 1205 01:08:37,403 --> 01:08:38,471 THIS PART POINT IT AT YOUR HEART. 1206 01:08:38,471 --> 01:08:39,906 Reporter: BUT IF LARRY'S STORY WAS TRUE, BIANCA MUST HAVE 1207 01:08:39,906 --> 01:08:44,811 SOMEHOW POINTED THE GUN AT HERSELF. 1208 01:08:44,811 --> 01:08:46,045 DR. BRADTMILLER TRIED TO FIGURE OUT IF THAT WAS EVEN POSSIBLE. 1209 01:08:46,045 --> 01:08:48,047 I CAN'T -- I CAN'T RAISE IT IT WOULD BE SO DIFFICULT TO 1210 01:08:48,047 --> 01:08:50,583 POSITION THE GUN AT 90 DEGREES AND HAVE IT GO OFF ACCIDENTALLY. 1211 01:08:50,583 --> 01:08:52,685 I MEAN YOU HAVE TO BE REALLY TRYING TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN AND, 1212 01:08:52,685 --> 01:08:59,626 YOU KNOW, WHO WOULD DO THAT? Reporter: WE WANTED A FIRST 1213 01:08:59,626 --> 01:09:01,160 HAD LOOK AT WHAT THE TEST ENTAILED, SO DR. BRADTMILLER 1214 01:09:01,160 --> 01:09:03,196 CONDUCTED IT ONE MORE TIME BRUCE MEASURES ANDREA. 1215 01:09:03,196 --> 01:09:04,263 "STRAIGHTEN YOUR FINGERS PERFECT. 1216 01:09:04,263 --> 01:09:09,969 YOU WOULD BE CERTAINLY WITHIN THE RANGE OF PEOPLE WE WOULD 1217 01:09:09,969 --> 01:09:11,070 HAVE BEEN MEASURING. HERE'S THE SHOTGUN AND NOTICE 1218 01:09:11,070 --> 01:09:12,238 THAT IT'S UNLOADED Reporter: THIS PART OF THE 1219 01:09:12,238 --> 01:09:17,443 TEST WAS MORE COMPLICATED AND CUMBERSOME 1220 01:09:17,443 --> 01:09:18,544 THIS IS REALLY HEAVY IT IS HEAVY 1221 01:09:18,544 --> 01:09:19,779 AND THE WEIGHT IS NOT DISTRIBUTED EVENLY THROUGHOUT 1222 01:09:19,779 --> 01:09:28,521 THE THING. Reporter: WE WANT TO 1223 01:09:28,521 --> 01:09:29,589 EMPHASIZE AGAIN, THAT THE GUN WAS NOT LOADED 1224 01:09:29,589 --> 01:09:30,857 I WANT YOU TO ZIP THE BAG, WHILE HOLDING THE MUZZLE AT 1225 01:09:30,857 --> 01:09:31,991 90 DEGREES TO YOUR CHEST Reporter: AND I'M TRYING TO 1226 01:09:31,991 --> 01:09:33,293 ZIP IT AND THEN PULLING THE TRIGGER? 1227 01:09:33,293 --> 01:09:35,361 RIGHT BUT YOU'RE NOT AT 90 DEGREES 1228 01:09:35,361 --> 01:09:38,031 Reporter: OKAY, 'CAUSE I CAN'T. 1229 01:09:38,031 --> 01:09:43,303 I'M NOT STRONG ENOUGH, AND THIS GUN IS TOO LONG AND TOO HEAVY. 1230 01:09:43,303 --> 01:09:46,339 YEAH. Reporter: IT'S IMPOSSIBLE 1231 01:09:46,339 --> 01:09:52,779 IF THAT WASN'T HARD ENOUGH, THE LAST PART OF THE TEST REQUIRED 1232 01:09:52,779 --> 01:09:54,013 REACHING INSIDE THE CASE AND TOUCHING THE TRIGGER TO SEE IF 1233 01:09:54,013 --> 01:09:55,014 BIANCA COULD HAVE ACCIDENTALLY CAUSED THE GUN TO FIRE 1234 01:09:55,014 --> 01:09:57,517 THIS IS NOT HAPPENING. THERE'S NO WAY I COULD EVER GET TO THAT 1235 01:09:57,517 --> 01:10:02,288 TRIGGER. I CAN'T EVEN TOUCH IT. 1236 01:10:02,288 --> 01:10:04,390 WITH THE EXCEPTION OF ONE PARTICIPANT, YOUR EXPERIENCE WAS 1237 01:10:04,390 --> 01:10:06,492 EXACTLY THE SAME AS EVERYBODY ELSE AND YOU CAN'T POSSIBLY GET 1238 01:10:06,492 --> 01:10:08,561 THERE. Reporter: THAT ONE PERSON OUT 1239 01:10:08,561 --> 01:10:11,764 OF THE ENTIRE TEST GROUP HE TOLD US, HAD UNUSUALLY FLEXIBLE 1240 01:10:11,764 --> 01:10:16,469 SHOULDERS, WHICH ALLOWED HER TO BARELY TOUCH THE TRIGGER 1241 01:10:16,469 --> 01:10:19,138 DID THAT GIVE YOU PAUSE THAT MAYBE BIANCA WAS ABLE TO REACH 1242 01:10:19,138 --> 01:10:27,046 THE TRIGGER? UH, IT CERTAINLY INTRODUCES A 1243 01:10:27,046 --> 01:10:28,247 TINY BIT OF DOUBT BUT THE FACT THAT NOBODY POINTED THE GUN AT 1244 01:10:28,247 --> 01:10:34,921 THEMSELVES GAVE ME PRETTY GOOD CONFIDENCE THAT THIS PROPOSED 1245 01:10:34,921 --> 01:10:36,055 SCENARIO WAS HIGHLY UNLIKELY Reporter: DR. BRADTMILLER 1246 01:10:36,055 --> 01:10:37,323 REPORTED HIS FINDINGS TO THE FBI. 1247 01:10:37,323 --> 01:10:39,258 WE FOUND IT EXTREMELY UNLIKELY THAT BIANCA HAD SOMEHOW 1248 01:10:39,258 --> 01:11:03,182 POSITIONED THE GUN AT HER CHEST AND THEN PULLED THE TRIGGER. 1249 01:11:03,182 --> 01:11:06,586 Reporter: COMPELLING? MAYBE, BUT WOULD IT BE 1250 01:11:06,586 --> 01:11:11,858 CONVINCING TO A JURY FINALLY, IN JULY 2022, ALMOST 1251 01:11:11,858 --> 01:11:13,393 6 YEARS AFTER BIANCA'S DEATH, THE CASE WENT TO COURT 1252 01:11:13,393 --> 01:11:19,232 LARRY AND LORI WOULD STAND TRIAL TOGETHER, IN THE SAME COURTROOM, 1253 01:11:19,232 --> 01:11:20,300 WITH THE SAME JURY DECIDING THEIR FATES. 1254 01:11:20,300 --> 01:11:22,402 SINCE THIS WAS A FEDERAL CASE, THERE WERE NO CAMERAS ALLOWED. 1255 01:11:22,402 --> 01:11:28,708 LARRY'S ATTORNEY, DAVID MARKUS, WAS CONFIDENT AS THE TRIAL 1256 01:11:28,708 --> 01:11:30,076 BEGAN. THEY SHOULD NOT HAVE CHARGED 1257 01:11:30,076 --> 01:11:31,878 THIS CASE. ZAMBIANS, THE INSURANCE COMPANY 1258 01:11:31,878 --> 01:11:32,945 FOUND AN ACCIDENT. AND THERE'S NO PROOF THAT 1259 01:11:32,945 --> 01:11:34,047 LARRY RUDOLPH PULLED THE TRIGGER. 1260 01:11:34,047 --> 01:11:35,515 Reporter: NEW EVEN THOUGH DR. BRANDTMILLER'S STUDY 1261 01:11:35,515 --> 01:11:36,716 INDICATED BIANCA COULDN'T HAVE PULLED TRIGGER EITHER, LARRY'S 1262 01:11:36,716 --> 01:11:37,850 DEFENSE HAD AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT THEORY ON HOW SHE WAS 1263 01:11:37,850 --> 01:11:39,252 SHOT OUR POSITION IS THAT IT WAS 1264 01:11:39,252 --> 01:11:40,820 AN ACCIDENT THAT THE GUN DROPPED. 1265 01:11:40,820 --> 01:11:43,423 Reporter: ZAMBIA POLICE DID BALLISTIC TESTS AND THEY DID A 1266 01:11:43,423 --> 01:11:46,626 DROP TEST. YES 1267 01:11:46,626 --> 01:11:50,830 Reporter: AND THEY SAID THAT THE GUN DID NOT MISFIRE. 1268 01:11:50,830 --> 01:11:51,864 YEAH, IT'S INTERESTING. THE ZAMBIAN TEST WASN'T 1269 01:11:51,864 --> 01:11:52,899 VIDEOTAPED IT WASN'T DOCUMENTED 1270 01:11:52,899 --> 01:11:55,969 SO, WE DON'T REALLY KNOW HOW THAT DROP TEST WAS CONDUCTED 1271 01:11:55,969 --> 01:11:57,170 Reporter: AND THERE WAS NO WAY FOR THE DEFENSE OR ANYONE 1272 01:11:57,170 --> 01:11:58,171 ELSE TO TEST THE GUN AGAIN, BECAUSE IT WAS GONE. 1273 01:11:58,171 --> 01:12:02,675 LARRY GOT RID OF IT IN THE YEARS AFTER BIANCA'S DEATH 1274 01:12:02,675 --> 01:12:06,145 BUT, MARKUS POINTED OUT THAT EVEN THE OWNER'S MANUAL WARNS OF 1275 01:12:06,145 --> 01:12:09,816 ACCIDENTAL DISCHARGE AS FOR THE OTHER EVIDENCE 1276 01:12:09,816 --> 01:12:12,018 AGAINST LARRY, THE DEFENSE SAID IT WAS MISLEADING OR FLAT OUT 1277 01:12:12,018 --> 01:12:19,425 WRONG. FOR EXAMPLE, BIANCA'S CREMATION. 1278 01:12:19,425 --> 01:12:20,660 Reporter: DID LARRY RUDOLPH HAVE HER CREMATED SO QUICKLY TO 1279 01:12:20,660 --> 01:12:21,928 DISPOSE OF EVIDENCE? NO. 1280 01:12:21,928 --> 01:12:26,165 AND THIS IS A CRAZY CLAIM MADE BY THE PROSECUTOR. 1281 01:12:26,165 --> 01:12:27,333 THEY BELIEVED THAT BIANCA RUDOLPH DID NOT WANT TO 1282 01:12:27,333 --> 01:12:31,938 BE CREMATED AND THAT GAVE THEM SOME SUSPICIONS. 1283 01:12:31,938 --> 01:12:38,344 AND HER WILL SHOWED THAT SHE, IN FACT, WANTED TO BE CREMATED. 1284 01:12:38,344 --> 01:12:45,652 Reporter: THERE IT WAS, SIGNED ON APRIL 25th, 2016, 1285 01:12:45,652 --> 01:12:46,719 ALMOST 6 MONTHS BEFORE HER DEATH. 1286 01:12:46,719 --> 01:12:47,754 AT THE CORE OF THIS, DID LARRY RUDOLPH LOVE BIANCA? 1287 01:12:47,754 --> 01:12:51,457 HE LOVED HER VERY MUCH AND HE DID NOT DO THIS. 1288 01:12:51,457 --> 01:12:54,060 Reporter: HOW ARE LARRY'S CHILDREN HANDLING THIS 1289 01:12:54,060 --> 01:12:56,763 ARE THEY SUPPORTING HIM? LET ME TELL YOU 1290 01:12:56,763 --> 01:12:58,865 THEY BOTH LOVE THEIR FATHER. THEY SUPPORT THEIR FATHER. 1291 01:12:58,865 --> 01:13:01,901 THEY LOVE THEIR MOTHER TOO THEY KNOW THEIR FATHER BETTER 1292 01:13:01,901 --> 01:13:07,307 THAN ANYONE AND THEY SUPPORT HIM. 1293 01:13:07,307 --> 01:13:08,875 Reporter: ANABIANCA AND JULIAN SHOWED THAT SUPPORT BY 1294 01:13:08,875 --> 01:13:12,111 ATTENDING THE TRIAL, SITTING BEHIND THEIR FATHER. 1295 01:13:12,111 --> 01:13:13,279 THEY LISTENED AS THE PROSECUTION METHODICALLY OUTLINED THE 1296 01:13:13,279 --> 01:13:16,249 DETAILS SURROUNDING THEIR MOTHER'S DEATH 1297 01:13:16,249 --> 01:13:18,051 THIS WASN'T A SMOKING GUN CASE 1298 01:13:18,051 --> 01:13:21,020 THIS WAS A CASE ABOUT INDIVIDUAL PIECES OF CIRCUMSTANTIAL 1299 01:13:21,020 --> 01:13:25,825 EVIDENCE Reporter: THAT CIRCUMSTANTIAL 1300 01:13:25,825 --> 01:13:27,360 EVIDENCE INCLUDED FBI BALLISTICS TESTS, GUN TEST HERE 1301 01:13:27,360 --> 01:13:32,165 WHICH, ALONG WITH THOSE PHOTOS OF BIANCA'S WOUND, INDICATED 1302 01:13:32,165 --> 01:13:37,337 THAT THE GUN WOULD HAVE BEEN ONE TO THREE FEET AWAY FROM BIANCA'S 1303 01:13:37,337 --> 01:13:39,038 CHEST WHEN IT WENT OFF PROSECUTORS DETAILED THOSE 1304 01:13:39,038 --> 01:13:43,176 INSURANCE CLAIMS TOO, WHICH LARRY FILED WITHIN WEEKS OF 1305 01:13:43,176 --> 01:13:44,777 BIANCA'S DEATH, TOTALING $4.8 MILLION DOLLARS 1306 01:13:44,777 --> 01:13:50,049 A CLEAR MOTIVE, THEY SAID, TO CASH IN AND MOVE ON WITH 1307 01:13:50,049 --> 01:13:55,855 LORI MILLIRON. BUT IT WAS THAT CONVERSATION 1308 01:13:55,855 --> 01:13:57,123 BETWEEN LORI AND LARRY THAT THE PROSECUTION SAVED FOR LAST, THE 1309 01:13:57,123 --> 01:14:00,059 ONE BARTENDER BRIAN LOVELACE OVERHEARD THAT NIGHT AT STEAK 1310 01:14:00,059 --> 01:14:04,831 HE SAID TO LORI, "I KILLED MY 1311 01:14:04,831 --> 01:14:07,467 [ BLEEP ] WIFE FOR YOU." Reporter: BUT DURING CROSS 1312 01:14:07,467 --> 01:14:08,668 EXAMINATION, LARRY'S ATTORNEY ASSERTED LOVELACE DIDN'T HEAR 1313 01:14:08,668 --> 01:14:13,773 THE ENTIRE CONVERSATION IN CONTEXT. 1314 01:14:13,773 --> 01:14:19,579 ACCORDING TO THE DEFENSE, WHAT LARRY REALLY SAID WAS, "THEY 1315 01:14:19,579 --> 01:14:22,749 THINK I KILLED MY WIFE FOR YOU." THEY BEING THE FBI 1316 01:14:22,749 --> 01:14:24,851 LARRY NEVER CONFESSED TO KILLING HIS WIFE 1317 01:14:24,851 --> 01:14:30,590 LET ME BE VERY CLEAR ABOUT THAT. IT JUST DID NOT HAPPEN 1318 01:14:30,590 --> 01:14:33,926 Reporter: WHAT DID YOU MAKE OF THAT ARGUMENT 1319 01:14:33,926 --> 01:14:37,497 DID IT MAKE SENSE? IT DIDN'T MAKE SENSE. 1320 01:14:37,497 --> 01:14:44,103 THAT ONE PHRASE WAS BY ITSELF. I'M POSITIVE OF WHAT I HEARD 1321 01:14:44,103 --> 01:14:45,238 Reporter: IN THE END, THE WHOLE TRIAL CAME DOWN TO ONE 1322 01:14:45,238 --> 01:14:52,312 WITNESS, DR. LARRY RUDOLPH HIMSELF. 1323 01:14:52,312 --> 01:14:56,049 COMING UP -- A FATHER-DAUGHTER CONVERSATION 1324 01:14:56,049 --> 01:15:00,219 THAT'S A HEARTBREAKER. WHY DID YOU LOVE LORI MORE 1325 01:15:00,219 --> 01:15:05,491 THAN YOU LOVED ME AND MOM AND JULIAN 1326 01:15:05,491 --> 01:15:06,526 AND LARRY RUDOLPH ON THE STAND. 1327 01:15:06,526 --> 01:15:08,127 IF HE WERE ABLE TO CONVINCE THOSE JURORS THAT THIS WAS AN 1328 01:15:08,127 --> 01:15:09,562 ACCIDENT, HE WOULD WALK. WHAT WOULD THE VERDICT BE? 1329 01:15:29,146 --> 01:15:30,381 Reporter: FOR TWO WEEKS, THE LEGAL DRAMA PLAYED OUT IN THIS 1330 01:15:30,381 --> 01:15:31,782 FEDERAL COURTHOUSE IN DOWNTOWN DENVER 1331 01:15:31,782 --> 01:15:37,054 THEN CAME THE WITNESS EVERYONE WAS WAITING FOR. 1332 01:15:37,054 --> 01:15:39,624 SOMEONE THE DEFENSE HAD SAVED FOR LAST, AND BELIEVED WOULD 1333 01:15:39,624 --> 01:15:40,758 SEAL ITS CASE. THE DEFENDANT HIMSELF 1334 01:15:40,758 --> 01:15:47,131 DR. LARRY RUDOLPH. IT'S A HUGE RISK TO HAVE 1335 01:15:47,131 --> 01:15:48,399 LARRY TAKE THE STAND, OR IN THE CASE OF A CLIENT LIKE LARRY, HE 1336 01:15:48,399 --> 01:15:55,039 MAY HAVE INSISTED ON TAKING THE STAND. 1337 01:15:55,039 --> 01:16:01,812 Reporter: OVER THE COURSE OF TWO DAYS, LARRY ANSWERED 1338 01:16:01,812 --> 01:16:02,980 QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED INSIDE THAT CABIN IN ZAMBIA. 1339 01:16:02,980 --> 01:16:04,181 LARRY TESTIFIED THAT WHEN HE HEARD THE SHOT THAT MORNING, HE 1340 01:16:04,181 --> 01:16:05,449 WAS IN THE BATHROOM, BUT NOT IN THE SHOWER AS THE GAME SCOUT HAD 1341 01:16:05,449 --> 01:16:06,684 SAID THAT'S WHY HE WAS FULLY DRESSED 1342 01:16:06,684 --> 01:16:18,362 IN THAT PHOTO FROM THE SCENE HE SAID HE'D RUSHED OUT, ONLY TO 1343 01:16:18,362 --> 01:16:19,196 SEE BIANCA LYING DEAD ON THE FLOOR. 1344 01:16:19,196 --> 01:16:26,570 A TEARFUL LARRY WAS EMPHATIC HE LOVED HIS WIFE 1345 01:16:26,570 --> 01:16:27,805 WOULD NEVER HARM HER BIANCA'S DEATH WAS SIMPLY A 1346 01:16:27,805 --> 01:16:29,206 TRAGIC ACCIDENT, HE SAID IF HE WERE ABLE TO CONVINCE 1347 01:16:29,206 --> 01:16:30,308 THOSE JURORS THAT THIS WAS AN ACCIDENT, HE WOULD WALK. 1348 01:16:30,308 --> 01:16:31,475 AND IF NOT, HE WOULD BE CONVICTED. 1349 01:16:31,475 --> 01:16:32,677 Reporter: LORI DIDN'T TAKE THE STAND, BUT HER DEFENSE 1350 01:16:32,677 --> 01:16:38,149 INSISTED SHE HAD NO PART IN BIANCA'S DEATH 1351 01:16:38,149 --> 01:16:41,852 ON A FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JURORS GOT THE CASE WITH LARRY AND 1352 01:16:41,852 --> 01:16:47,658 LORI'S FATES IN THEIR HANDS. DAY ONE ENDED WITHOUT A VERDICT. 1353 01:16:47,658 --> 01:16:48,659 LARRY'S DEVOTED DAUGHTER, ANABIANCA, RETURNED TO 1354 01:16:48,659 --> 01:16:50,394 PITTSBURGH HER FATHER CALLED HER FROM JAIL. 1355 01:16:50,394 --> 01:16:51,796 HI, HONEY HOW YOU DOING? 1356 01:16:51,796 --> 01:16:55,032 Reporter: AND TALKED ABOUT TESTIFYING 1357 01:16:55,032 --> 01:16:57,702 THAT WAS HARD I'LL BET THAT WAS SCARY IN 1358 01:16:57,702 --> 01:17:01,205 FRONT OF ALL THOSE PEOPLE. NO, THAT DIDN'T SCARE ME. 1359 01:17:01,205 --> 01:17:02,306 IT WAS JUST HAVING TO RELIVE EVERYTHING, AND TALK ABOUT 1360 01:17:02,306 --> 01:17:08,279 EVERYTHING IT'S BEEN TOO MUCH, TOO LONG 1361 01:17:08,279 --> 01:17:19,557 Reporter: ANABIANCA WAS FEELING CONFIDENT IN THE JURY'S 1362 01:17:19,557 --> 01:17:20,691 MAYBE ACQUITTING HER FATHER. ANABIANCA FELT CONFIDENT THE 1363 01:17:20,691 --> 01:17:21,859 JURY WOULD ACQUIT HER FATHER GOD WILLING, YOU GET OUT OF 1364 01:17:21,859 --> 01:17:25,529 THERE SOON WE WANT YOU TO BE ABLE TO GET 1365 01:17:25,529 --> 01:17:26,430 HOME AND FLY STRAIGHT TO PITTSBURGH 1366 01:17:26,430 --> 01:17:27,431 YEAH, THAT'S WHAT I'M THINKING 1367 01:17:27,431 --> 01:17:28,499 UM, I'D LIKE TO COME TO PITTSBURGH 1368 01:17:28,499 --> 01:17:29,567 UH, STAY WITH YOU GUYS FOR A FEW DAYS 1369 01:17:29,567 --> 01:17:31,168 YOU CAN STAY HERE WITH ME AS LONG AS YOU WANT 1370 01:17:31,168 --> 01:17:33,771 Reporter: DAY TWO -- MONDAY HOURS PASSED, STILL NO WORD FROM 1371 01:17:33,771 --> 01:17:35,640 THE JURY THEN JUST MINUTES BEFORE COURT 1372 01:17:35,640 --> 01:17:38,609 ADJOURNED FOR THE DAY, A DECISION THAT MADE BIG NEWS IN 1373 01:17:38,609 --> 01:17:44,882 DENVER, WHERE THE TRIAL TOOK PLACE. 1374 01:17:44,882 --> 01:17:46,150 GUILTY VERDICT FOR A DENTIST ACCUSED OF SHOOTING AND KILLING 1375 01:17:46,150 --> 01:17:49,153 HIS WIFE Reporter: LARRY WAS CONVICTED 1376 01:17:49,153 --> 01:17:51,722 OF ALL COUNTS. PREMEDITATED MURDER AND MAIL 1377 01:17:51,722 --> 01:17:54,025 FRAUD. LORI WAS CONVICTED OF BEING AN 1378 01:17:54,025 --> 01:17:57,528 ACCESSORY AFTER THE FACT TO MURDER 1379 01:17:57,528 --> 01:17:58,729 SHE WAS CONVICTED OF OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE, AND CONVICTED OF 1380 01:17:58,729 --> 01:18:03,301 SOME, BUT NOT ALL OF THE PERJURY CHARGES. 1381 01:18:03,301 --> 01:18:09,106 BUT THAT WASN'T THE END OF THE STORY -- FAR FROM IT 1382 01:18:09,106 --> 01:18:14,378 AFTER THE VERDICT, LARRY MADE A CALL TO HIS DAUGHTER ANABIANCA 1383 01:18:14,378 --> 01:18:15,379 HONEY, DON'T CRY. I DIDN'T CALL TO UPSET YOU, 1384 01:18:15,379 --> 01:18:18,582 SWEETHEART I JUST CALLED TO TELL YOU I LOVE 1385 01:18:18,582 --> 01:18:21,752 YOU. HOW CAN THEY TAKE YOU AWAY 1386 01:18:21,752 --> 01:18:24,889 FROM ME? I NEVER EVEN GOT TO GIVE YOU 1387 01:18:24,889 --> 01:18:30,194 A -- A HUG I KNOW, HONEY 1388 01:18:30,194 --> 01:18:31,362 I DON'T WANT TO LOSE YOU EITHER. Reporter: ANABIANCA WAS 1389 01:18:31,362 --> 01:18:35,433 ANGRY, AND NOT JUST AT THE PROSECUTORS. 1390 01:18:35,433 --> 01:18:37,601 I DON'T UNDERSTAND. WHY DID YOU LOVE LORI -- LORI 1391 01:18:37,601 --> 01:18:40,171 MORE THAN YOU LOVED ME, AND MOM, AND JULIAN 1392 01:18:40,171 --> 01:18:44,375 I DIDN'T, HONEY I DIDN'T 1393 01:18:44,375 --> 01:18:47,545 IT SURE FELT THAT WAY SHE WAS JUST MY FRIEND. 1394 01:18:47,545 --> 01:18:49,647 I NEEDED A FRIEND TO HAVE SEX WITH, THAT'S ALL 1395 01:18:49,647 --> 01:18:51,749 I'M YOUR FRIEND I'M YOUR FRIEND. 1396 01:18:51,749 --> 01:18:54,919 I WOULD DO ANYTHING FOR YOU. I DEDICATED MY WHOLE LIFE TO 1397 01:18:54,919 --> 01:18:58,589 YOU. BECOMING A DENTIST TO FOLLOW IN 1398 01:18:58,589 --> 01:19:01,192 YOUR FOOTSTEPS I'M SO SORRY, HONEY 1399 01:19:01,192 --> 01:19:03,361 I NEVER WANTED ANY OF THIS TO HAPPEN, BABY 1400 01:19:03,361 --> 01:19:05,529 EVER, EVER, EVER Reporter: IN ANOTHER CALL, 1401 01:19:05,529 --> 01:19:10,201 ANABIANCA PLACED THE BLAME SQUARELY ON LORI 1402 01:19:10,201 --> 01:19:14,438 STUPID LORI RUINED OUR FAMILY 1403 01:19:14,438 --> 01:19:19,210 SHE MADE ME LOSE MY DAD. REMEMBER, HONEY WE CAN'T SAY 1404 01:19:19,210 --> 01:19:22,980 TOO MUCH ON THESE PHONES, OKAY I'M JUST SO BROKENHEARTED 1405 01:19:22,980 --> 01:19:25,049 Reporter: THE JUDGE ALLOWED LORI TO RETURN TO PHOENIX UNDER 1406 01:19:25,049 --> 01:19:29,186 HOUSE ARREST TO AWAIT SENTENCING 1407 01:19:29,186 --> 01:19:30,755 HELLO HEY, LARRY. 1408 01:19:30,755 --> 01:19:35,559 Reporter: FIVE DAYS AFTER THE VERDICT, LARRY CALLED LORI FROM 1409 01:19:35,559 --> 01:19:36,560 JAIL I DIDN'T EVEN GET TO SAY 1410 01:19:36,560 --> 01:19:38,095 GOODBYE TO YOU, SO I WANTED TO GIVE YOU A CALL. 1411 01:19:38,095 --> 01:19:40,231 I KNOW. I KNOW 1412 01:19:40,231 --> 01:19:43,401 I DIDN'T SPEAK TO YOU OR ANYTHING 1413 01:19:43,401 --> 01:19:48,239 TERRIBLE THE WORST THING IN THE WORLD. 1414 01:19:48,239 --> 01:19:53,177 Reporter: BOTH SEEMED STUNNED BY THE JURY'S DECISION 1415 01:19:53,177 --> 01:19:55,613 I TESTIFIED FOR FIVE HOURS. IT DIDN'T DO A DAMN BIT OF GOOD. 1416 01:19:55,613 --> 01:19:57,181 I KNOW. I KNEW WHEN THAT JURY CAME IN 1417 01:19:57,181 --> 01:19:59,650 AND THEY WOULDN'T EVEN LOOK AT US THAT WE WERE IN TROUBLE 1418 01:19:59,650 --> 01:20:01,786 EXACTLY IF THEY DON'T LOOK AT YOU, 1419 01:20:01,786 --> 01:20:03,921 YOU'RE DONE. UH-HUH. 1420 01:20:03,921 --> 01:20:10,094 Reporter: LARRY SEEMED TO HAVE HIS OWN THEORY ABOUT WHY 1421 01:20:10,094 --> 01:20:11,195 THE JURY CONVICTED HIM I THINK IT ALL HAD TO DO WITH 1422 01:20:11,195 --> 01:20:12,863 HAVING GIRL -- GIRLFRIENDS, AFFAIRS, AND MONEY 1423 01:20:12,863 --> 01:20:16,567 'CAUSE YOU -- TO YOUR POINT, THERE'S NO -- THERE'S NO PROOF 1424 01:20:16,567 --> 01:20:19,203 OF ANYTHING. NO SOLID PROOF TO PUT ME AWAY. 1425 01:20:19,203 --> 01:20:20,338 RIGHT Reporter: BUT LORI HAD HER 1426 01:20:20,338 --> 01:20:24,442 OWN CONCERNS BIG ONES 1427 01:20:24,442 --> 01:20:27,611 REMEMBER -- SHE'D TURNED DOWN THE CHANCE TO TAKE A PLEA DEAL 1428 01:20:27,611 --> 01:20:30,815 AND TESTIFY AGAINST LARRY. EVEN THOUGH SHE'D BEEN FOUND 1429 01:20:30,815 --> 01:20:37,622 GUILTY, LORI HAD PLANNED TO RUN THREE RIVERS DENTAL UNTIL SHE 1430 01:20:37,622 --> 01:20:38,756 HAD TO REPORT TO PRISON. LORI ALSO THOUGHT SHE WOULD MOVE 1431 01:20:38,756 --> 01:20:40,791 INTO THE NEARLY FINISHED PARADISE VALLEY MANSION. 1432 01:20:40,791 --> 01:20:46,597 HERE SHE IS CHECKING ON THE CONSTRUCTION 1433 01:20:46,597 --> 01:20:49,166 THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN TO HER APPARENT SURPRISE, LORI 1434 01:20:49,166 --> 01:20:50,267 WAS FIRED -- BY LARRY'S SON -- AND CUT OFF FROM ALL THE 1435 01:20:50,267 --> 01:20:53,437 RUDOLPHS' BANK ACCOUNTS AND PROPERTIES 1436 01:20:53,437 --> 01:20:58,175 SHE VENTED ABOUT IT IN THAT JAIL CALL WITH LARRY. 1437 01:20:58,175 --> 01:21:00,277 PLEASE PROVIDE ME A WAY TO EARN A LIVING. 1438 01:21:00,277 --> 01:21:02,913 PLEASE I -- I'M WORKING ON IT. 1439 01:21:02,913 --> 01:21:05,016 I AM OKAY, PLEASE BECAUSE -- YOU 1440 01:21:05,016 --> 01:21:08,185 KNOW WHAT? THESE KIDS DON'T DESERVE 1441 01:21:08,185 --> 01:21:11,355 ANYTHING THEY REALLY DON'T. 1442 01:21:11,355 --> 01:21:14,025 THEY NEVER WORKED FOR ANY OF THIS LIKE YOU AND I HAVE 1443 01:21:14,025 --> 01:21:18,029 I'M WATCHING OUR BUSINESS CRUMBLE. 1444 01:21:18,029 --> 01:21:19,764 THEY'RE SUCH IDIOTS, 'CAUSE THEY'VE SHUT ALL THE CREDIT 1445 01:21:19,764 --> 01:21:23,668 CARDS OFF -- OH, BOY 1446 01:21:23,668 --> 01:21:27,071 TO SPITE ME Reporter: BESIDES HER LOSS OF 1447 01:21:27,071 --> 01:21:29,473 INCOME AND A PLACE TO LIVE, LORI HAD ANOTHER, VERY BIG PROBLEM. 1448 01:21:29,473 --> 01:21:35,546 BY TALKING TO LARRY, SHE WAS VIOLATING A COURT ORDER. 1449 01:21:35,546 --> 01:21:37,615 REMEMBER, LORI AND LARRY WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO HAVE CONTACT 1450 01:21:37,615 --> 01:21:38,749 WHILE SHE WAS ON HOUSE ARREST. IT'S A MESS 1451 01:21:38,749 --> 01:21:41,252 I'M NOT SUPPOSED TO BE TALKING TO YOU 1452 01:21:41,252 --> 01:21:42,119 IT'S GONNA GET ME IN TROUBLE WITH MY BOND 1453 01:21:42,119 --> 01:21:44,755 ALL RIGHT I'LL LET YOU GO. 1454 01:21:44,755 --> 01:21:46,757 I'M SORRY. Reporter: THE U.S. ATTORNEYS 1455 01:21:46,757 --> 01:21:50,861 OFFICE POUNCED AND HAD LORI ARRESTED AGAIN. 1456 01:21:50,861 --> 01:21:56,067 SHE WAS BROUGHT BACK TO COLORADO, AND TO JAIL. 1457 01:21:56,067 --> 01:21:58,369 SHE WILL REMAIN THERE UNTIL SHE IS SENTENCED IN FEBRUARY 2023. 1458 01:21:58,369 --> 01:22:03,507 PROSECUTORS HAVE RECOMMENDED 15 YEARS IN PRISON 1459 01:22:03,507 --> 01:22:08,245 AS FOR LARRY RUDOLPH, HE FACES LIFE BEHIND BARS 1460 01:22:08,245 --> 01:22:13,517 LARRY DECLINED OUR INTERVIEW REQUEST. 1461 01:22:13,517 --> 01:22:18,255 HE NOW AWAITS HIS SENTENCING IN THIS FEDERAL LOCKUP IN PAHRUMP, 1462 01:22:18,255 --> 01:22:21,525 NEVADA THOUSANDS OF MILES AWAY FROM THE 1463 01:22:21,525 --> 01:22:26,764 CABIN IN KAFUE NATIONAL PARK WHERE A FATAL SHOT ENDED THE 1464 01:22:26,764 --> 01:22:31,902 LIFE OF BIANCA, THE HUNTER, THE MOTHER, THE FRIEND 1465 01:22:31,902 --> 01:22:38,342 BIANCA WAS A BEAUTIFUL VIBRANT WOMAN. 1466 01:22:38,342 --> 01:22:44,081 Reporter: BETSY WANDTKE HOPES THE FOCUS CAN ONCE AGAIN BE ON 1467 01:22:44,081 --> 01:22:46,217 BIANCA'S MEMORY. SHE WAS THIS JUST WONDERFUL 1468 01:22:46,217 --> 01:22:53,057 WOMAN WHO MADE A DIFFERENCE IN THIS WORLD 1469 01:22:53,057 --> 01:22:56,761 WITHOUT PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT BIANCA, AND WHAT A GREAT WOMAN 1470 01:22:56,761 --> 01:23:02,533 SHE WAS, LARRY WINS. AND I'M NOT GONNA LET THAT 1471 01:23:02,533 --> 01:23:05,202 HAPPEN Lester: THAT'S ALL FOR THIS 1472 01:23:05,202 --> 01:23:08,005 EDITION OF "DATELINE." WE'LL SEE YOU AGAIN NEXT FRIDAY 1473 01:23:08,005 --> 01:23:10,007 AT 9:00, 8:00 CENTRAL. AND, OF COURSE, I'LL SEE YOU 1474 01:23:10,007 --> 01:23:14,145 EACH WEEKNIGHT FOR "NBC NIGHTLY NEWS." 1475 01:23:14,145 --> 01:23:15,746 I'M LESTER HOLT. FOR ALL OF US AT NBC NEWS, GOOD