The lover of a married dentist who gunned down his wife during an African safari in order to be with her has broken her silence from behind bars.
Lori Milliron, 67, was sentenced to 17 years in prison for her role as an accessory to the brutal murder of Bianca Rudolph, who was shot in the heart by her husband Lawrence ‘Larry’ Rudolph during a hunting trip in Zambia.
The shocking case has now been featured in the new Hulu docuseries Trophy Wife: Murder on Safari, which argues the Pennsylvania dentist’s own arrogance became his downfall.
But his lover, who was accused of being his ‘partner in crime‘ still insists she she’s not a killer.
Speaking from prison in the ABC News Studios production, Milliron vehemently denies she pressured Rudolph into killing his wife of 34 years to be with her.
‘There was no ultimatum. Why would I wait 15 years to give him an ultimatum? It just didn’t make sense,’ Milliron said over the prison phone in video obtained by Business Insider.
Milliron and her lover were ultimately nabbed after a bar worker claimed he overheard Rudolph yell: ‘I killed my f***ing wife for you’ during an argument.
‘I’m not violent. I didn’t kill anybody. I didn’t hurt anybody. But they really wanted to put me in jail,’ Milliron said from jail.
Lori Milliron, the lover of a married dentist who gunned down his wife during an African safari has spoken out from behind bars
Speaking from prison in the ABC News Studios production, Milliron (pictured left with lover Larry Rudolph) vehemently denies she pressured Rudolph into killing his wife of 34 years to be with her
Rudolph was charged in December 2021 for the murder.
The 68-year-old claimed his wife accidentally shot herself while she was packing to head back home.
He said he was in the bathroom when he heard his wife say, ‘come here and help me’ before hearing the shot and finding his wife on the floor bleeding.
‘The police did an investigation and they said it was an accident,’ Milliron said.
‘Everyone believed that it was an accident, so I assumed it was an accident as well.’
After Bianca’s death, her dentist husband fraudulently claimed $4.8 million in life insurance payouts.
During his trial, the prosecution told jurors that Rudolph was overheard blurting out: ‘I killed my f***ing wife for you!’ during an argument with Milliron at a Phoenix steakhouse in 2020, after he learned that the FBI was investigating his wife’s death.
Rudolph has denied confessing to his wife’s killing.
Rudolph claimed what he actually said was, ‘Now they’re saying I killed my f***ing wife for you.’
The shocking case has now been featured in the new Hulu docuseries Trophy Wife: Murder on Safari, which argues the Pennsylvania dentist’s own arrogance became his downfall. (Lawrence ‘Larry’ Rudolph and Bianca Rudolph pictured together)
He said he and Milliron were having an argument about their finances and how the COVID-19 pandemic would affect the Pennsylvania dental franchise that had made him a small fortune.
But he was irritated because he said his top concern was the FBI’s probe.
A jury of six men and six women sided with prosecutors – who believed the dentist pre-planned to kill his wife of 34 years in cold blood to begin a new life with Milliron.
Milliron was found guilty by the same jury of being an accessory after the fact to murder, obstruction of a grand jury.
She was also convicted of providing false and misleading testimony to a grand jury about the money and the nature of the relationship with Rudolph.
Milliron was found not guilty on three other counts of perjury.
During the hearing, she told the judge that she was innocent of the crimes, but the judge proclaimed that the lengthy sentence was deserved based on the evidence that Milliron encouraged the heinous act.
