Posted on 01/11/2022 4:52:38 PM PST by Trillian
A Pennsylvania dentist has been charged with murdering his wife during a 2016 African hunting safari as part of an insurance scam and to get out of his marriage to be with his long-term mistress.
Dr. Lawrence Rudolph, 67, was charged in Colorado on charges of foreign murder and wire fraud, for allegedly shooting dead his wife Bianca during a trip to Zambia.
In the criminal complaint filed against him that was unsealed last week, an FBI agent describes how he had been having an affair for years beforehand, and had seven life insurance policies against his wife which were adjusted in the months before her death.
The pair were avid hunters and had flown to Zambia in October 2016 so that Bianca could kill a leopard. At around 5am on October 11, gamekeepers and scouts heard a gunshot coming from their cabin.
When they got there, they found Bianca lying on the ground with a gunshot wound to the chest.
Her husband claimed he was in the bathroom at the time and that she had accidentally shot with a Browning 12 gauge shot gun herself while packing up her gun for a day's hunting.
Zambian Police believed him, ruling the death an accident and allowing him to travel back to America, where the FBI agent says he quickly resumed his relations with an unnamed 'girlfriend', who he'd been having an affair with for years.
The FBI was notified of the case in 2016 after one of Bianca's friends called them to say she was suspicious about Bianca's death.
Bianca and Lawrence, or Larry, had been married since 1982 and while they enjoyed hunting together, the friend said he was prone to affairs.
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Glad it’s not my dentist.
I absolutely hate it every time that happens.
Don't you?
The makings of a Columbo episode.
Isn’t that what happens to people who have evidence on the Clintons?
Uh oh, the FIB got involved so the evidence must be real. Just ask Sean “Bombshell” Hannity.
Was she wearing a black and white striped shirt?
IIRC there are rules about insurance and over-insuring an individual. Each of the agents who wrote the policies should lose their licenses as well
Or Forensic Files. One of the main motives for the murders featured on that show is life insurance money.
I don’t see how the charges can stick.
They don’t have her body, it was cremated in Africa. They probably don’t have the gun either.
Sure the insurance claims seem suspicious, but besides that, they have a claim from her friend - 3 years later.
“The makings of a Columbo episode”
Naw, they already had one with a dentist.
5 1/2 years for the FBI to get on the stick. They’ve been so busy going after President Trump and his supporters during that time, y’know.
A story to set your teeth on edge!
Why would anyone want to kill a leopard? They're not bothering you. Just leave them be.
He figured the Zambian police were chumps and easy marks.
I guess he figured right. It’s pretty hard to shoot yourself in the chest with a shotgun unless you’re somehow committing suicide by using the big toe on the trigger, which no one claimed in this case.
The Zambian police said “Yassah, Massa.”
And what’s up with shooting leopards with shotguns? What?
No truly solid evidence of murder. The evidence seems to be her was having a long term affair, carried life insurance, and supposedly you can’t shoot yourself with a shotgun. I lost a friend that exact way, he was handling a shotgun in his safe. It snagged on something and hit him in the upper chest. I’ll never understand why it was loaded and chambered in his safe, but it happened. So they are very incorrect about it being impossible. I see evidence that he was a bad husband, or stuck in an unhappy marriage. But I would need something more than this to convict.
I know what you did last summer...
Exactly. No one in their right mind would trust testimony of an FBI agent anymore.
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