Rudolph initially told the consular chief that his wife may have died by suicide, but an investigation by Zambian law enforcement ruled it an accidental discharge. When Rudolph found out the embassy officials had taken photos of his wife’s body, he was “livid,” Peterson wrote. After he reported her death to the US Embassy in the Zambian capital of Lusaka, the consular chief “told the FBI he had a bad feeling about the situation, which he thought was moving too quickly,” FBI special agent Donald Peterson wrote in the criminal affidavit.Īs a result, the consular chief and two other embassy officials went to the funeral home where the body was being held to take photographs and preserve any potential evidence. Rudolph scheduled a cremation three days after her death, according to court documents. In court documents, investigators alleged Rudolph raised suspicions when he sought to quickly cremate his wife’s body in Zambia. “Lori Milliron is innocent and we will continue to fight to exonerate her.”Īn embassy official expressed suspicion after the shooting, the FBI said “We are disappointed in the jury’s verdict, but that is our system,” Dill said. Milliron and Rudolph lived together from 2017 until his arrest last year, her attorney, John Dill, told CNN. Milliron, who was tried alongside Rudolph, said the couple had been in an open relationship, according to court documents.
The jury also found Milliron, Rudolph’s girlfriend, guilty of being an accessory after the fact to murder, obstruction of justice and two counts of perjury based on her testimony before a grand jury, according to the Department of Justice. “There are lots of really strong appellate issues, which we will be pursuing after we have had a chance to regroup.” We believe in Larry and his children,” Markus and fellow defense attorneys Margot Moss and Lauren Doyle told CNN in a statement after Monday’s verdict. “We are obviously extremely disappointed. In court documents, he noted that Rudolph owns a dental practice near Pittsburgh valued at $10 million. Prosecutors argued Rudolph killed his wife of 30 years for insurance money and to be with his girlfriend, Lori Milliron.ĭefense attorney David Markus had argued that Larry Rudolph had no financial motive to kill his wife.
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David Zalubowski/APīut federal prosecutors at Rudolph’s trial in Denver, where the insurance companies are based, described it as a premeditated crime. Lawrence Rudolph's defense investigator, left, heads into federal court in Denver along with the dentist's children. He told investigators he found her bleeding on the floor. Rudolph told investigators he heard the shot at dawn while he was in the bathroom and believed the shotgun accidentally went off as she was putting it in its case, court documents said. Two weeks later, as Bianca Rudolph was packing for the couple’s return home, she suffered a fatal blast from the Browning shotgun in their hunting cabin at Kafue National Park.
375 rifle and a Browning 12-gauge shotgun. They carried two guns for the hunt: a Remington. The Phoenix couple shared a passion for big-game hunting, and had traveled to the southern African nation of Zambia in September 2016 so Bianca Rudolph could add a leopard to her collection of animal trophies. I would not murder my wife,” Rudolph told jurors when he took the stand in his own defense at a federal trial in Denver last week. Rudolph has maintained his innocence and said he believes the gun fired accidentally. Rudolph cashed in more than $4.8 million in life insurance payments after her death almost six years ago. Lawrence Rudolph, 67, killed his wife, Bianca Rudolph, with a shotgun and defrauded multiple insurance companies, a federal jury found Monday. An American dentist and big-game hunter was found guilty of murder in the shooting death of his wife on an African safari.
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