264. The Murder Safari

Summary

Podcast Summary: Murder With My Husband – Episode 264: The Murder Safari

Host: OH NO MEDIA
Release Date: April 14, 2025
Title: The Murder Safari

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Introduction

In episode 264 of Murder With My Husband, hosts Peyton and Garrett Moreland delve into the mysterious and tragic case of Bianca Rudolph. This true crime story explores the seemingly perfect life of the Rudolph family, the dark undercurrents of infidelity and financial motives, and the ultimate unraveling leading to murder and conviction.

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Background of the Rudolph Family

Bianca Finizo Rudolf and her husband, Lawrence Patrick "Larry" Rudolph, present a picture-perfect marriage. Both passionate about adventure and big game hunting, their shared interests initially strengthened their bond.

• Peyton Moreland [07:26]: "Bianca is a student at the University of Pittsburgh who dreams of traveling the world one day."

Larry's success as a dental practitioner allowed the family to enjoy lavish lifestyles, including extensive global vacations. By the 2000s, their dental practice was flourishing, grossing over $200,000 monthly and enabling numerous hunting expeditions.

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Events Leading Up to Bianca's Death

Despite outward appearances, underlying issues plagued their marriage. Larry's extramarital affairs, particularly with Lori Milleron, a dental hygienist, created tension. In 2006, Larry survived a crocodile attack in Zambia, but the incident raised suspicions about his motives and subsequent insurance claims.

• Garrett Moreland [12:45]: "No way."

By 2016, tensions peaked when Larry and Bianca embarked on what was billed as a vacation to rekindle their marriage in Zambia. Bianca aimed to kill a leopard, her ultimate hunting goal, but only succeeded in hunting other animals.

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Bianca's Mysterious Death

On October 11, 2016, Bianca died from a gunshot wound in their Zambia cabin. Initial reports suggested suicide, but inconsistencies raised doubts:

• Garrett Moreland [23:11]: "And she knows a lot, considering how experienced she is, she would know how to pack a gun."

Larry reported the death as an accident, claiming Bianca accidentally discharged her shotgun while packing it. However, forensic evidence contradicted this narrative, indicating the shot originated three feet away, making accidental discharge implausible.

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Investigation and Emerging Suspicions

Larry's swift actions post-death, including insisting on cremation and delaying communication with his children, aroused suspicions. Additionally, his financial maneuvers, such as cashing in multiple life insurance policies worth nearly $5 million, despite no apparent financial need, pointed towards potential motives beyond grief.

• Peyton Moreland [27:32]: "Yeah, it's a lot of people who knew Bianca know that this, all of this has just been a little off and they begin to think Larry might be covering something up."

Further scrutiny revealed Larry's history of deceit, including fraudulent insurance claims from the crocodile incident. His ongoing affair with Lori, who later became an accessory to his crimes, solidified the case against him.

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Trial and Conviction

Key testimony from a bartender inadvertently overheard Larry confessing to his wife’s murder during a heated argument served as pivotal evidence. Coupled with affidavits from employees like Anna Grimley, who exposed Larry's infidelities and threats, the prosecution built a strong case based on circumstantial evidence.

• Peyton Moreland [45:02]: "Bianca didn't want this. This was suspicious."

Despite Larry and Lori's attempts to depict the death as accidental, the overwhelming evidence and witness testimonies led to their conviction.

• Peyton Moreland [46:27]: "Yeah, it's a lot of people who knew Bianca know that this, all of this has just been a little off and they begin to think Larry might be covering something up."

In July 2022, Larry was sentenced to life in prison for murder and an additional 20 years for insurance fraud. Lori received a 17-year sentence as an accessory.

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Aftermath and Family Impact

The Rudolph children, Julian and Anna Bianca, grappled with the loss and betrayal by their father. Legal battles ensued over the stolen insurance funds, with the U.S. government contesting their claims. The family's reputation was irrevocably tarnished, and their trust in Larry shattered.

• Garrett Moreland [48:14]: "I just think there's so many witnesses to the affair. Bianca's friends and family saying no."

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Conclusion

The Murder Safari episode highlights the complexities of seemingly perfect lives hiding dark secrets. The Rudolph case underscores how wealth, infidelity, and deceit can intertwine, leading to tragic outcomes. Peyton and Garrett Moreland effectively unravel the layers of this true crime story, offering listeners a comprehensive look into Bianca Rudolph's untimely death and the subsequent quest for justice.

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Notable Quotes:

• Peyton Moreland [05:03]: "We all need a little vacation every now and again."
• Garrett Moreland [14:27]: "Hunting animals in Africa. Not a big fan."
• Peyton Moreland [37:35]: "You can't accidentally fire a rifle into your heart from three feet away."

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For those intrigued by intricate true crime cases, Murder With My Husband continues to deliver compelling narratives that explore the depths of human behavior and the pursuit of truth.

Transcript

[Peyton Moreland]

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[Garrett Moreland]

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[Peyton Moreland]

You're listening to an Ono Media podcast. Hey everyone. Welcome back to the podcast. This is Murder with My Husband. I'm Peyton Moreland.

[Garrett Moreland]

And I'm Garrett Moreland.

[Peyton Moreland]

And he's the husband.

[Garrett Moreland]

And I'm the husband. Hey everybody. We love you guys. Thank you for being here. Thank you for listening, thank you for downloading, thank you for subscribing, thank you for liking, thank you for commenting, thank you for reviewing. Thank you for everything. We have some of our basics merch currently up in the store. We will be doing another drop soon though, so stay tuned for that. But if you want to check out the basics, go and check it out in the store.

[Peyton Moreland]

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[Garrett Moreland]

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[Peyton Moreland]

No, okay.

[Garrett Moreland]

I'm not going to say it. It's a fall pains Instagram, I guess.

[Peyton Moreland]

Yeah, I think that's it. I think we're ready for your 10 seconds.

[Garrett Moreland]

Yeah, I think that's all the announcements we have. Just like always, if you're interested in bonus content, you can subscribe to Apple, Spotify, Patreon. You get bonus episodes and ad free content. Other than that, for my 10 seconds, I finally cut my hair, cut my head. It's starting to slowly grow back in. Like the front section. The back and everything else grew in anyway. So the front section starting to slowly grow back in. I don't know if you can tell on the camera. Getting there. Give me another like three months and I'll be good to go. But it feels good that I was able to at least cut my hair, trim it up a little bit. That's what I got for my 10 seconds. Let me think. Do I have anything else? I need to start golfing. Weather's getting warmer so I need to get back out there and pretend like I know how to golf. That all I got. Have I done anything? Oh, I just got one of those walking treadmills, you know, from TikTok. I fell for it. I never thought I'd be a tik tok shop person and I always was against it. I was like, I'll never buy anything on TikTok shop. I bought one of those walking treadmills so I can work and walk at the same time because I'm so sick of sitting in a chair anyways. Maybe I'll post a video on Instagram. I got a good setup going. I got my treadmill. I got, I don't know, my desk, I guess. And then I got a big tv, and I'll just be walking. Before we jump into today's episode, let's ask Peyton how she's doing today. Peyton, how are you doing today?

[Peyton Moreland]

Not good.

[Garrett Moreland]

Pain's not doing great, but guess what? That's okay.

[Peyton Moreland]

I'm okay. I just want to go to sleep.

[Garrett Moreland]

You're tired.

[Peyton Moreland]

Yeah, I know, y'all. I don't know. But watch this.

[Garrett Moreland]

We are going to jump into today's episode.

[Peyton Moreland]

Our sources for this episode are people.com abc7.com justice.gov new york times.com cbs news.com oxygen.com apnews.com cnn.com lawncrime.com rolling stone.com NBC news.com triblive.com happyscribe.com 2020 the Last Hunt okay, you guys, let's face it. We all need a little vacation every now and again.

[Garrett Moreland]

Oh, look at that.

[Peyton Moreland]

Whether that's lying on a beach in Tahiti or seeking out adventure in Africa, we all have different ideas of what a relaxing getaway means to us. But honestly, some of my happiest memories I have are from the trips we've taken together. I mean, I feel like Garrett and I, when we do take trips, just us, too. It's always so fun. And I think the best part of vacation is getting that time to disconnect from the world, from your stress, from your problems, and just focus on yourself and the person you're with. Plus, they're a great way to strengthen a bond with someone. They can turn an ordinary friendship into one that lasts a lifetime. Maybe it's a chance to get to know your parents on a level you never knew them before. Or maybe it's an opportunity to rekindle a flame. A time for a little bit of romance with your partner, especially when life has just gotten in the way. And while many of us dread that trip back home, back to reality, we all expect that life will resume as usual, inevitably. What we never expect is for that destination to be the very last place we ever visit and our vacation to be weaponized against us by our travel partner.

[Garrett Moreland]

Oh, man, I'd hate if we were vacationing in Idaho. And that was the last place and I had to die there. For anyone who lives in Idaho, I don't mind Idaho. I just said that because Peyton's parents are there, so they're probably listening to this. But for anyone who does live in Idaho, actually, I do enjoy Idaho. I like Idaho.

[Peyton Moreland]

Okay, so we're gonna turn the clock back to the 80s. The hair is big, the clothes are vibrant, which I feel like we're kind.

[Garrett Moreland]

Of coming back to. Not 80s, more like 90s. Baggy pants again, baggy shirt, frosted tips, you know?

[Peyton Moreland]

Yeah. Clothes are vibrant. And for Bianca Finizo, the world is a promising place to be in the 80s. Bianca is a student at the University of Pittsburgh who dreams of traveling the world one day. Specifically, this college student. Bianca wants to go to Italy. She loves the language and the culture, but more importantly, she just wants wants adventure and she wants to find someone who shares her thrill seeking nature. So when she meets a fellow student, Lawrence Patrick Rudolph, or Larry, as his friends call him, she actually falls for him quick. Larry may be a kid from a small town in Pennsylvania called Irwin, but he also has a knack for adrenaline fueled adventure. And not one I would personally consider a good time. Larry likes to hunt. Larry's dad taught him to hunt with everything from guns to bow and arrows when he was a kid. And for Larry, it was a hobby that turned into a real passion over the years, one that he would even rope Bianca into after they met, fell in love and got married in 1982. But Larry was the kind of guy who always had his eye on the prize. So after graduating from dental school, he quickly rose the ranks, opening up his own practice called Three Rivers Dental in the Pittsburgh area. And meanwhile, Bianca's job became stay at home mom after the birth of her two children, Julian in 1990, and then Anna Bianca after that. And at least according to Julian, this is her son. Life for the family was really happy. He loved growing up in Pittsburgh. He seemed to remember his parents getting along well. He said his mom was kind, nurturing and caring. Honestly, he said his mom was his best friend. And he said Larry was a good dad who was just as charismatic as he was generous to his family and to other people around him. A lot of people who knew the couple and family said that they had the kind of marriage that people aspire to have. Though Larry did work a lot, especially when his practice franchised, opening a few more locations around the Pittsburgh area. So by the 2000s, the business was doing really well for itself. According to some sources, they were bringing in over $200,000 a month.

[Garrett Moreland]

Sheesh. Dang.

[Peyton Moreland]

In 2000, that's good. And Larry spent a lot of that disposable income taking this family on nice vacations all over the world. Okay, so fast forward. This family had little kids and now they're growing up, they are making a lot of money.

[Garrett Moreland]

If you're going to spend your money on something. Family vacations. Kind of cool.

[Peyton Moreland]

Exactly.

[Garrett Moreland]

But family vacations is the place to spend your money. At least I think so.

[Peyton Moreland]

Larry has a very lucrative dental practice that has franchised. So by 2011, when Anna, Bianca, this is their youngest child, has chosen to go to school in Arizona, the family buys a piece of property there to be close to her. So, like, when they visit, they're with her. It's a 7,000 square foot mansion in Scottdale, Arizona, to be exact. And this is where Bianca spent most of her time. So the mom spent most of her time here, while Larry, the father, went back and forth between there and Pittsburgh to keep running his dental practices that are there. But the one thing that always seemed to keep Bianca and Larry connected, even after years of marriage and raising this family, was that passion that first brought them together. Adventure. Or in their case specifically, hunting. I have to say, the kind of hunting they were into was not just deer or quell. They have a lot of money. Larry and Bianca were in the big leagues.

[Garrett Moreland]

Humans.

[Peyton Moreland]

Exactly. No, if that's what you want to call it. They were big game hunters, which means going to Africa. They traveled the world hunting animals like zebra.

[Garrett Moreland]

Not sure how I feel about that one.

[Peyton Moreland]

So Bianca was so into this hobby that she actually became the president of the Pittsburgh chapter of the Safari Club International. This was a hunting club. She was actually really well respected in that community because of the game she'd killed. But Larry, while he had taught her a lot of what she knew, he actually didn't seem to be as sharp sensed as Bianca was in this hobby. In 2006, he got into a pretty wild accident while fishing that October. Larry was on a trip in Zambia, Africa, and one morning he grabbed his pole and went out fishing down on the banks, an area notoriously populated with crocodiles, mind you. Larry said he reached into the water when he thought something had caught his line, and that's when a crocodile leapt out, grabbed him and pulled him into the water.

[Garrett Moreland]

No way.

[Peyton Moreland]

Now, Larry escaped in Africa on this trip by climbing onto a rock, getting a grip on his gun, and firing it a few times for help. Now, luckily for Larry, the crocodile only managed to get a small chunk out of the tip of his thumb. Help eventually arrived.

[Garrett Moreland]

That's insane.

[Peyton Moreland]

In the form of a medevac chopper. But Larry refused to get on until his guide took a bunch of photos of his injury, like a prized battle wound. According to Larry, the injury was enough, though, to take a toll on his life. He said he lost all sensation in that thumb, which made it difficult for him to perform dental surgery. So he actually ended up going on disability and collecting insurance money to pay him out for the time that he couldn't work on his.

[Garrett Moreland]

That's interesting practices. Okay.

[Peyton Moreland]

But by 2016, it seems that Larry was back on his game, because that year, he and Bianca decided they were going to do the hunting trip of all hunting trips. They were going to return to Zambia for Bianca's ultimate prize. She wanted to hunt and kill the one animal she hadn't been able to find.

[Garrett Moreland]

I hope it's on an elephant.

[Peyton Moreland]

A leopard.

[Garrett Moreland]

Okay.

[Peyton Moreland]

I mean, sorry, Like I said, don't feel bad saying this. I'm just not a fan. I do. I think that this is unethical.

[Garrett Moreland]

And I mean, I would say that if you're wanting to know my opinion. Hunting animals in Africa. Not a big fan. Not a big fan of that. Like hunting deer and birds and other things. Sure.

[Peyton Moreland]

Cycle of life. Especially if you're eating. A lot of us eat meat.

[Garrett Moreland]

Yeah. Teach their own. Sure. But. But hunting, like leopards and elephants and lions in Africa. Nah, that's. That's kind of crazy.

[Peyton Moreland]

Also. It's just like. I don't know. I don't know. People.

[Garrett Moreland]

Also cheetahs. Sorry, we're getting off topic, but cheetahs are my favorite animal.

[Peyton Moreland]

Oh, don't come at me. I love animals. And it's okay that anyone.

[Garrett Moreland]

If anyone try to hunt a cheetah with me around. Careful.

[Peyton Moreland]

It feels like, you know, a couple of times we've talked about how sometimes maybe it's been here, maybe it's been on Twitch Stream. I don't know. Really? Wealthy people get so wealthy that they get to do something.

[Garrett Moreland]

Yeah.

[Peyton Moreland]

So then they have to do something that the average people can't do, which is.

[Garrett Moreland]

Yeah. Which is.

[Peyton Moreland]

This is what that feels like.

[Garrett Moreland]

100.

[Peyton Moreland]

This is a hobby that's like. Well, not everyone.

[Garrett Moreland]

The reason I said humans is because. Remember in the purge?

[Peyton Moreland]

Yes. When they were wealthy, people would hunt humans.

[Garrett Moreland]

They would hunt humans. Like, they would set it up.

[Peyton Moreland]

It was like a game for them.

[Garrett Moreland]

Because they were so wealthy, they weren't going to be killed. And there was nothing else for them to do. Crazy.

[Peyton Moreland]

Yeah. I always have to do the next big thing. This is kind of what that feels like to me.

[Garrett Moreland]

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[Peyton Moreland]

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[Peyton Moreland]

So that September, the couple left the States, partly in celebration of their 34 years together. Zambia was a place they had many great memories together. And after some years of having grown apart, they figured this would be a great trip to kind of focus on their marriage and rekindle their flame. So after flying 20 hours from Arizona to Zambia, the Rudolphs were ready for two weeks of R and R, or as they define it, hunting beautiful animals. So they make their way to Kafua national park, which has a designated area where big game hunting is actually permitted. It's not illegal.

[Garrett Moreland]

Okay.

[Peyton Moreland]

There they also meet up with their longtime friend and hunting guide, Mark Swane Apple. And a local game scout named Spencer Kakoma. Now, for what seems like the entire trip, things are pretty awesome between Larry and Bianca. Their guides say they're affectionate towards one another. There's no fighting or bickering. They're just having fun. Everyone One's in high spirits. But by the end of their two weeks there, Bianca is disappointed because she hasn't been able to track or kill the one animal she came there for, and that was the leopard. Still, she chalks the trip up to a win because she had managed to kill a zebra, a warthog, and a hippo.

[Garrett Moreland]

I don't know why I find that kind of sad. Killing a zebra. What is.

[Peyton Moreland]

It's just not.

[Garrett Moreland]

Zebras ain't doing anything.

[Peyton Moreland]

It's not natural.

[Garrett Moreland]

Zebras are just living their life, hanging out anyways. I don't know. So I know this isn't about that. This is about. I almost forgot we were doing a true crime case for a second. All right, we can keep it going. Zebras. Have you guys seen Mad at Gascar? Zebras don't do anything.

[Peyton Moreland]

I'm sorry, you guys, if you can't tell. Garen and I are just very pro animals.

[Garrett Moreland]

Well, like, I mean, yes, but like, I've been. I've. I've been. I've been like dove hunting and stuff, but I know Peyton, I are kind of on opposite spectrums. She's not really for that, and I'm for some things, but don't touch anything in Africa.

[Peyton Moreland]

I just don't think hunting should be for sport. And I know that's going to come off like a very hot take. I don't care what you do. I'm not telling you you're a bad person.

[Garrett Moreland]

Peyton and I can disagree on stuff.

[Peyton Moreland]

And I'm saying that in my brain, in my human experience, I would never hunt for Sport.

[Garrett Moreland]

And in my human experience, it's a little bit different, but not in Africa.

[Peyton Moreland]

So by now her guides even say that she's really perfected her shot. She knows how to handle a gun better than most hunters. Plus, Bianca is excited to get back home because they actually have a nephew's wedding to attend in the next few days. So on the morning of October 11th, the Rudolphs are getting ready to say goodbye to their guides and leave their camp until their next trip to Zambia. Larry wakes up. He goes to take a shower as Bianca is packing her things, including their guns, her guns, when suddenly a single gunshot is heard from their cabin. Okay, here we go now. Spencer Kakoma, their local game scout, hears the gun go off and immediately runs toward the runoff's cabin to make sure everything's good and they're safe. But when he gets there, he sees 56 year old Bianca lying at the foot of the bathroom in a pool of her own blood. In the center of her chest is a gunshot wound, and Bianca's pulse has already stopped beating by the time Spencer gets there.

[Garrett Moreland]

Okay.

[Peyton Moreland]

And towering over Bianca's body is Larry, her husband. He's hysterical, frantic, inconsolable, and he's saying over and over and over again, she committed suicide. My wife committed suicide. What am I going to tell the children? As Spencer takes in the scene that he walks into.

[Garrett Moreland]

Oh, sorry. Red flags just boom, everywhere.

[Peyton Moreland]

He sees Bianca's shotgun. It's partially zipped up in its case, but there's a hole in one end which says the gun actually went off while in its case. So Spencer and the other guides call the local police, and when they get there, Larry says something a little different to them than what he was saying when Spencer first arrived to the crime scene. He's not mentioning suicide anymore. Now he's saying his wife must have actually been packing up her shotgun, didn't realize it was loaded, and accidentally fired it through her chest. Which, I mean, if you're thinking about this, if you have a long gun case and you're putting a gun in, you might actually bend over it to zip it up upright.

[Garrett Moreland]

You know what I mean? No, it makes sense.

[Peyton Moreland]

But I mean, that's obviously not protocol. Safety protocol.

[Garrett Moreland]

And she knows a lot, considering how experienced she is, she would know how to pack a gun, which way to face it when packing, what to do, though, it just seems highly unlikely. And also.

[Peyton Moreland]

But not impossible.

[Garrett Moreland]

Not impossible. But also females in general too can be more detail oriented. So it just seems very unlikely.

[Peyton Moreland]

So he's like, hey, maybe she was hacking the gun and it went off. But Spencer is sitting here and he's listening to Larry, who said she committed suicide and now say is now telling the police, oh, she was. She was packing the gun and it went off. And he is a bit suspicious of Larry because Larry claims he was in the shower when the gun went off. Remember, that's what he's telling everyone. But when Spencer got there very quickly after the gun went off, Larry was fully clothed, wearing his shoes, and his hair wasn't wet. And Spencer knows Bianca was the best shot of anyone there. She would never make a mistake. Like packing a loaded gun. Yeah. Into a bag. She was a professional, an expert. Don't really make those mistakes at that level. Still, the Zambia police seem to take Larry's word for it. They don't take any fingerprints at the scene. Instead, they take Bianca's body to the capital city of Lusaka for an autopsy. And they pretty quickly rule Bianca's death as an accident. But then Larry does something really weird. He contacts the American Embassy in Lusaka and tells them just 11 hours after she had died in Africa, he wants his wife cremated. So she died. She goes in for an autopsy. They say it's an accident, and immediately he's like, hey, cremate her.

[Garrett Moreland]

It's because he doesn't want to go back to the States, so they can obviously figure out a little bit more information is my guess.

[Peyton Moreland]

Well, also, this is despite the fact that it is apparently known to everyone who knows Bianca, she did not want to be cremated. This is going against her wishes. Even weirder, Larry does not call his kids and tell them what's happened. So when a diplomat offered to make the calls for him, Larry's like, no, I just don't want to call him. I don't want to tell him over the phone. I just want to tell him in person.

[Garrett Moreland]

For sure, he has a mistress.

[Peyton Moreland]

Okay. So, meanwhile, the two kids, Anna, Bianca, and Julian, were back in the States, actually panicking because for the last two days, their parents were supposed to have come home. And now neither of them have been answering their calls or texts. It actually wasn't until five days after Bianca's death that Larry finally decides to call Julian, the son, and tell him what happened. Just a few days after that, Larry is on a plane headed back to the US With Bianca's ashes in tow. And for the most part, the Rudolph family tries to move forward. They have a funeral for Bianca in Arizona on October 22, 2016. But there's no Catholic Mass, like many think the religious Bianca would have wanted. Afterwards, Julian returns home to Miami, where he was building his own personal injury practice at the time. And the daughter, Anna Bianca returns to work in the family's dental practice in Pittsburgh. So Larry's now alone in Arizona at the house for the next year or so. Julian and Anna and Anna. Bianca don't see much of Larry, their dad, and when they do, he's really adamant with them that he does not want to talk about what happened on that vacation. So these two kids are still just like, confused about what happened. Like, mom just died and now you're here and the dad is refusing to talk about it. Even his staff at the dental practices have been told, no flowers, no sympathy cards, no phone calls, do not mention this death at all. Act like it didn't happen. He claims he wants to put the past behind him and move on with his life. But a lot of people start to get suspicious.

[Garrett Moreland]

100 this is.

[Peyton Moreland]

Yeah, it's a lot of people who knew Bianca know that this, all of this has just been a little off and they begin to think Larry might be covering something up. So it starts with a few small things, like I said, the news that Larry rushed to have her body cremated when many knew Bianca didn't want that. But then Larry starts installing security cameras around his offices.

[Garrett Moreland]

Wow.

[Peyton Moreland]

He also starts getting on the phone with those insurance companies pretty quick to try and cash in on her life insurance policies, which are worth almost $5 million, mind you. Here's the thing. Larry is rich from his medical practice. From what I could tell in my research, this guy is nowhere. He's not hurting for money. He's not in the red. He doesn't exactly need this $5 million. So you have to ask, if there was something suspicious about Bianca's death, what reason did Larry have behind it? Because it's not necessarily.

[Garrett Moreland]

He has a mistress. He has to have a mistress. This has to be coming next.

[Peyton Moreland]

Money isn't necessarily a motive when you've got things going on on the side.

[Garrett Moreland]

Telling you, I just know the next most common motive.

[Peyton Moreland]

Larry, let's just say he's not a very faithful guy, okay? He fooled around a lot outside of his marriage in the 34 years that he and Bianca were together. For a long time, Larry claimed he just did this for thrill. It was just like an adrenaline seeking adventure for him, a little dangerous because he liked the possibility of getting caught. And he did get caught by the way, back in the early 2000s, because that's when Bianca confronted him, told him if you don't shape up and stop sleeping around, I'm going to file for divorce. And Larry did shape up. Or at least he told Bianca he did. Bianca even insisted on a post nup agreement to make sure if Larry did step out on her again, he would pay for it. And then 2002 rolled around and a woman named Lori Milleron came into Larry's life. But Laurie wasn't just a quick chase for Larry. Like all the other girls before, she was someone he had fallen in love with hard.

[Garrett Moreland]

Okay.

[Peyton Moreland]

Lori was a 44 year old divorcee with three kids who in May of 2002 needed a second job to support her family. So that's when she joined one of Larry's practices as a dental hygienist. And Larry seemed smitten with her from day one. Turns out Lori felt the same way because he quickly went from being her boss to being her secret boyfriend. I do want to say though, it seems like a pretty open secret around the office because they would arrive together in the same car for work and especially when Laurie was moved to another one of the practices locations and given a big promotion pretty fast. This is the perks of dating Larry. And they didn't end there. I don't know what Larry told Bianca when all of this was happening. I know he was back and forth between their house in Arizona and Pittsburgh, so he had a lot easier time hiding it. But apparently between 2003 and 2008, he actually took Laurie, his mistress, on several trips around the globe. I'm talking he took her to Paris.

[Garrett Moreland]

Had that has Africa, New Zealand. Did his wife know?

[Peyton Moreland]

I think she knows he's going on these trips. I don't think she knew that Bianca. I don't think she knew that Lori was with him. And during a lot of those vacations, Larry would tell Lori how he wanted to leave Bianca for her. Her. Meanwhile, he told other people who confronted him about the affair that he and Bianca just had an open marriage. She knew he was seeing other women, which everyone who knew Bianca knew this wasn't the case. But also, Bianca was a really intelligent woman. Chances are she probably did know something was going on with Larry, especially since he had a track record of cheating on her. In reality, many think Bianca just didn't want to file for divorce because of her Catholic upbringing. It went against everything she believed and she was alone a lot of the time in Arizona. For Larry, it went against everything he believed in too, because he didn't want to lose all of his money. And because of that, the two Stayed together for a lot longer than they probably should have. All the while, Larry keeps seeing Lori. But according to some sources, Lori starts to get a bit impatient with Larry around 2015. She apparently told him he had a year to get rid of Bianca or she would walk away from the relationship. Then what happens after Bianca dies in October of 2016? Within that year, I can tell you one thing. Larry and Laurie are still together. Not only that, he flies her out from Pittsburgh to Arizona on the day of Bianca's funeral. Within a month or two after that, Laurie moves into the Arizona house he shared with Bianca. So knowing all of this, like how quickly Lori becomes a part of the life that she he flew her out there to visit on the day of his wife's funeral. Friends and colleagues are now suspicious of Bianca's death. And one of them wastes no time offering this information up to the FBI. Her name is Anna Grimley. She's an employee at Three Rivers Dental, one of Larry's practices. To be honest, it feels like she doesn't owe this guy a thing because Larry is not very well liked around his practices. Probably for his notorious temper, his history of throwing things at his employees when he gets mad. So good for Anna for calling up the FBI and saying something. She tells them all about his affair, this known affair with Lori, and how Lori had given him that one year ultimatum to divorce or get rid of his wife. But as it turns out, this isn't the first time Larry Rudolph had landed on the FBI's radar. In fact, they've been sniffing him out ever since he asked to get his wife cremated in Africa at the American Embassy after her death. We are talking about Bombas. You guys know Bombas is our favorite pair of socks. And the best part about them is that when you buy one, they donate one to those in need, which is amazing. We want to support companies like this.

[Garrett Moreland]

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[Peyton Moreland]

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[Garrett Moreland]

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[Peyton Moreland]

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[Garrett Moreland]

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[Peyton Moreland]

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[Garrett Moreland]

Yeah.

[Peyton Moreland]

Because when he turns those photos over to the FBI, their ballistics team is like, hang on a second. This does not look like a self inflicted gunshot. There's no burns or what they call tissue expansion seen on Bianca, which would happen if she was leaning over and the barrel was that close to her chest. They claim this shot was fired at least three feet away from her chest.

[Garrett Moreland]

Okay.

[Peyton Moreland]

From what appears to be inside the gun bag, since that also has a gunshot through it remember they have two, they have a bullet hole in the gun bag to look at.

[Garrett Moreland]

Can you imagine being the kids and being like, yeah, my dad killed my mom.

[Peyton Moreland]

Right.

[Garrett Moreland]

That's horrible.

[Peyton Moreland]

So you can't accidentally fire a rifle into your heart from three feet away?

[Garrett Moreland]

No, not possible.

[Peyton Moreland]

So to them this means she did not pull that trigger. Like this is actually now impossible. So ever since that day, the FBI had definitely had their suspicions of Larry, but nothing much more to work off of because they didn't have a ton of evidence. Though it does explain his paranoia and the adding of video cameras in all of his practices because he seems to know someone's looking into him. Now hearing about the girlfriend, though, the FBI has motive. Meanwhile, they're sifting through Larry's financial history as well, because usually when someone kills their spouse, they are quick to collect the cash, wealthy or not. And Larry has seemingly made a full time job out of it practically since the moment he returned from that trip. Turns out Larry went around collecting that nearly 5 million in insurance policies from not one company, but nine different insurance companies. And six months before Bianca died, they had set up a survivor's trust, which gave Larry full control over the assets that they had together. This is, I mean, you might think this is common, but this is basically just an easier way after someone dies in a marriage for someone to get control of it. Which is very telling because while Larry was not rolling in dough and injecting large deposits of cash into Lori's accounts, Julian and Anna Bianca are not given any money. So their mother dies, he is completely funding Lori's life and the kids aren't seeing anything. Authorities also learn this wasn't Larry's first time dealing with insurance companies like this. Remember that incident in Zambia with the crocodile? He got his thumb bit off. Yeah. When he came back, he said he had to go on disability, remember, because he said he had lost all sensation and he couldn't work as a dentist. Well, when all was said and done, Larry had actually collected $3.5 million from multiple insurance companies. Depending on who you ask, though, that crocodile bite never happened. So after hearing what occurred in October 2016 with Bianca, many of Larry's friends and colleagues think that wound might have been self inflicted, that Larry might have shot off the tip of his thumb to collect insurance money. And since the insurance companies knew it would be too expensive to send their appraisers to Zambia and assess the claim, they just gave him the money.

[Garrett Moreland]

I'm just confused because if this guy was, was he in financial trouble? And we just don't know.

[Peyton Moreland]

No, from all accounts that I've read.

[Garrett Moreland]

Just would like to collect more and more money.

[Peyton Moreland]

Yeah, like, he wasn't in the red. He just liked money. Which might explain why he didn't just divorce, because he knew that he would lose money, which he seems to love. So we're seeing a pattern here. Larry would head to Zambia, lie about what happened there, come back and get a lot of money. Problem was, this still isn't quite enough to charge Larry with murder. Which is why, for the next three years after Bianca's death, he and Lori get to live out the life they hoped for. But in 2020, they make a really stupid mistake. So Lori and Larry are out to dinner at this Phoenix steakhouse sometime earlier that year, 2020. Apparently, it's a place they visit often because the bartender, a guy named Brian Lovelace, seems to recognize them. And he notices that halfway through their dinner, Larry and Laurie start fighting. Now, the music's a little loud, so from halfway across the room, he can't really make out what they're saying. But at one point, the music stops. And Brian, who is the bartender that's just eavesdropping on this couple, because who wouldn't like a couple's fighting next to you? You're gonna eavesdrop and try to figure out the drama. The music stops, and Brian hears one sentence very clearly. Larry looks at her, and right as the music stops, he says, I killed my effing wife for you.

[Garrett Moreland]

Oh.

[Peyton Moreland]

I mean, the timing.

[Garrett Moreland]

Wow.

[Peyton Moreland]

Awful timing. Awful timing because he had to say it that loud because the music was too loud. But then the music stopped, and so it was just a little too loud.

[Garrett Moreland]

I've been in a restaurant where that happens before, and it is pretty awkward.

[Peyton Moreland]

But you're not saying you killed your effing wife.

[Garrett Moreland]

Not yet.

[Peyton Moreland]

You're probably just saying, oh, I have to fart. Right?

[Garrett Moreland]

That was. That was wild.

[Peyton Moreland]

So, I mean, the timing couldn't have been worse. And Lori and Larry knew it, too, because as soon as it happens, they know they said that too loud. They kind of look around, they grab their stuff. Lori storms out. Larry stands up, he apologizes to Brian, he. He pays the bill and leaves. Even a woman sitting near them asks Brian, hey, did you hear what that guy just said?

[Garrett Moreland]

Was he saying it that loud?

[Peyton Moreland]

Yeah. So it wasn't just the bartender who was eavesdropping. Someone sitting next to them.

[Garrett Moreland]

That's his fault.

[Peyton Moreland]

Larry just confessed to a dining room full of people in Arizona in 2020 that he murdered his wife. And once the FBI gets wind of this, it is added to the pile. So over the next year, the FBI is getting ready to move in on Larry. And he and Lori know it. They start getting even more paranoid. The FBI agents are following them. And then in May of 2021, Larry sets off to Ethiopia for another hunting trip. And while he's gone, agents knocked on Lori's door in Pittsburgh looking for her. She hid inside and then bought a flight to Phoenix that same day to go hide there instead. Remember, they're still back and forth between Phoenix and Pittsburgh. But by December of that year, agents finally have all of their ducks in a row. Lori and Larry set off for Cabo for the holidays. But before they could get out of the airport, police arrested Larry for mail fraud and murder. He was considered a flight risk, obviously, and denied bond. Lori made it back home to the states to celebrate a very unmerry Christmas. But By January of 2022, she also received a knock on her door. And that's when she's arrested for obstruction to justice and being an accessory to murder. Because they now have witnesses that say that is what was said. While Larry is forced to await his trial behind bars, Lori is given an ankle bracelet and placed on house arrest. And In July of 2022, the two are put on trial together.

[Garrett Moreland]

Which is interesting because you don't really have any physical evidence, right? The body's gone, you have those pictures. I think you could easily argue. Oh, what I actually said was, I don't know, you know, you know, there's things you could argue. It's, you know what I'm saying.

[Peyton Moreland]

It's gonna be a trial of witness testimony. For what? It's gonna be a lot of witness testimony. Bianca didn't want this. This was suspicious. Maybe this didn't happen. Now what's interesting is that Larry's kids, 33 year old Julian and 29 year old Anna. Bianca, when all of this comes to light, are adamant that their father did not do this.

[Garrett Moreland]

Wow.

[Peyton Moreland]

They're claim no, it was an accident. They even send in sworn affidavits insisting their father is innocent and the judge should grant him bell doesn't work. But shockingly enough, they are in for the surprise of their lives when it comes time for their dad's day in court. Because for the first time ever, they are hearing and seeing all of the circumstantial evidence the FBI has been compiling against him. I mean, keep in mind, they don't know everything.

[Garrett Moreland]

That would be absolutely earth shattering, Julian.

[Peyton Moreland]

The sun would Actually go on to tell the press, quote, every day going into that courtroom, I saw something new that just broke my heart.

[Garrett Moreland]

Yeah.

[Peyton Moreland]

But for the defense, let's say the Zambia police did them a lot of favors because for whatever reason, like I said, nothing was fingerprinted or taken as evidence at the crime scene. The murder weapon was turned back over to Larry shortly after the crime. Most of the case is circumstantial. Like I said, aside from the pretty convincing results from the ballistics team that say there's just no possible way Bianca pulled that trigger. That's the only physical evidence they have that proves this story isn't true. Now Larry takes the stand at their trial, and of course, he denies all the allegations. Says that argument the bartender overheard was about COVID 19. He was like, it would affect his practices and his finances. He says what Garrett just said he would do. He gets up and says, quote, now they're saying, I killed my effing wife for you, not I killed my effing wife for you. He also maintains that he and Bianca had an open marriage. He's like, no, I wasn't cheating on her. I've told everyone it was an open marriage. She knew. Let's just say his testimony didn't help him or Lori, because after nearly two weeks, more than 50 witnesses took the stand.

[Garrett Moreland]

Oh, man.

[Peyton Moreland]

And after just a few days of deliberating, the jury couldn't come to an agreement. But eventually, they had their verdict. Larry Rudolph was found guilty on all charges and sentenced to life in prison for murder. He was also given 20 years to serve consecutively for defrauding multiple insurance companies. And for her part, Lori was also found guilty and sentenced 17 years in prison for being an accessory to murder.

[Garrett Moreland]

Okay.

[Peyton Moreland]

Now Julian says his relationship with his father will never be the same. He doesn't really pick up the phone when his dad calls him from prison, not after that trial. So not only did Larry deceive everyone around him, he deceived his own children. And he left them with a pretty big mess to clean up. On top of that, as of 2023, 34 year old Julian and his sister were trying to recover the funds their father had stolen from them after Bianca's murder. Problem is, the US Government thinks that the insurance companies deserve the money back because it was murder, not Larry's kids. And what money did belong to the family was mostly spent by Larry prior to his arrest. I mean, like I said, he was still living lavish and he had legal fees. Unfortunately, the Rudolph kids might be fighting for what's rightfully theirs for a long time to come. And as for Larry, it looks like the only lavish vacation he'll ever have again is to the prison yard, get a little fresh air. And that is the story of Bianca Rudolph.

[Garrett Moreland]

I mean, I'm surprised they convicted him, and obviously I'm glad because I think he did it.

[Peyton Moreland]

I'm actually not surprised.

[Garrett Moreland]

No.

[Peyton Moreland]

And normally you don't hear me say that on a heavy circle.

[Garrett Moreland]

I just feel like something that happened out of the country would be pretty hard to convince.

[Peyton Moreland]

I just think there's so many witnesses to the affair. Bianca's friends and family saying no. She had given him a year. I just think there was too much. That's like. He clearly was obsessed with money. He couldn't just divorce her.

[Garrett Moreland]

Yeah.

[Peyton Moreland]

So he killed her.

[Garrett Moreland]

That's. That's horrible.

[Peyton Moreland]

It's actually awful.

[Garrett Moreland]

Oh, yeah, it's horrible. She was, like, living her.

[Peyton Moreland]

She thought they were just on a good vacation, trying to focus on their marriage.

[Garrett Moreland]

That's so sad.

[Peyton Moreland]

All right, you guys, that is our case for this week, and we will see you next time with another one. I love it and I hate it. Goodbye.