Secret Sex Life Revealed After Millionaire Dentist-Wife "Commits Suicide" on African Safari With Hubby
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 19 January 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
On a big game trip to Zambia, Bianca Rudolph is killed by a gunshot to the chest. It's ruled an accident, Or was it suicide? That's something that husband, Dr. Lawrence Rudolph says was a possibility. Now, US investigators say Rudolph killed his wife in order to collect on her life insurance. Dentist Lawrence Rudolph is charged with foreign murder and mail fraud. Rudolph reportedly told authorities that he believed his wife’s gun was accidentally discharged while she was putting it in a case. Bianca Rudolph is cremated in Africa — a move that investigators reportedly believe was part of the scheme. Lawrence Rudolph reportedly made claims on his wife’s life insurance policy totaling nearly $5 million. The policy was initially purchased in 1987 but was updated in 2016, the same year Bianca died.
Joining Nancy Grace Today:
- Nicole Deborde Hochglaube - Criminal Defense Lawyer (Houston TX), Former Prosecutor, Twitter: @debordelaw, HoustonCriminalDefense.com
- Dr. Jorey Krawczyn - Psychologist, Faculty Saint Leo University; Consultant Blue Wall Institute, Author: Operation S.O.S.
- Lisa M. Dadio - Former Police Lieutenant, New Haven Police Department, Senior Lecturer, Director of the "Center for Advanced Policing" at the University of New Haven's Forensic Science Department
- Dr. Tim Gallagher - Medical Examiner State of Florida www.pathcaremed.com, Lecturer: University of Florida Medical School Forensic Medicine. Founder/Host: International Forensic Medicine Death Investigation Conference
- Alexis Tereszcuk - CrimeOnline.com Investigative Reporter, Writer/Fact Checker, Lead Stories dot Com, Twitter: @swimmie2009
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| 0:00.0 | Cribe Stories with Nancy Grace |
| 0:14.0 | You know when I go into a home and I see wild animals stuffed and put up on the wall, feels |
| 0:23.8 | like their fake eyes are watching me everywhere I go. I can't help but wonder how people would |
| 0:31.3 | feel if animals killed them and put them on their walls. Safari's, I can't really connect with |
| 0:39.7 | Safari's A, they're incredibly expensive and B, whatever happened to a photo Safari, why do you |
| 0:48.3 | have to kill the animal that you're admiring and stuff it and stick it on your wall. I don't understand |
| 0:54.5 | that but hey, to each their own. A lot of people just take it as matter of fact, SOP standard operating |
| 1:03.1 | procedure that Safari's do happen just for the thrill of the kill and innocent animals are hunted |
| 1:09.8 | down with scopes and shot at distances where they have no idea what's happening, innocent animals. |
| 1:17.6 | But what about innocent wives that are shot dead on extravagant safaris. |
| 1:30.8 | I'm Nancy Grace, this is Cribe Stories. Thank you for being with us here at FoxNation and |
| 1:35.9 | Series XM1 11. You know you think of dentists being me, can mild mannered? Think again, listen to this. |
| 1:44.9 | 9 life insurance policies totaling more than $4.8 million could be a possible motive for murder. |
| 1:52.4 | Dr. Lawrence Rudolph ran three rivers dental for decades but he's now charged by federal agents |
| 1:57.5 | for allegedly scheming to defraud life insurance companies. After his wife was shot and killed on a |
| 2:02.4 | big game hunting trip in Zambia more than five years ago. In a detailed 23 page complaint, |
| 2:07.9 | the fed say they believe Lawrence murdered his wife Bianca with premeditation. In such a |
| 2:12.6 | manner that he could falsely claim the death was the result of an accident. The claims don't come |
| 2:17.3 | as shocking for Lisa Stanley who used to work for Dr. Rudolph in his green tree office. |
| 2:32.6 | Former employees we talked to didn't know Bianca personally but said Lawrence's behavior in the |
| 2:37.2 | office was alarming. I've never been afraid to go to a job and tell this one, you know, I just |
| 2:43.2 | was very uncomfortable, very uneasy around him. Wow, when people are afraid to go to work, |
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