PA Dentist African Safari Homicide Case: Girlfriend Indicted

PITTSBURGH, PA — The girlfriend of a prominent Pittsburgh-area dentist charged with killing his wife in 2016 while on an African safari has been criminally charged in connection with the case.

Lori Milliron, who managed former Greensburg dentist Lawrence Rudolph's Three Rivers Dental, is accused of lying to a federal grand jury last month regarding various circumstances of her relationship with him.

Milliron is charged with nine counts of accessory after the fact, obstruction of a federal grand jury and perjury.

Rudolph, 67, is facing charges of one count of foreign murder and one count of mail fraud related to the death of his wife, Bianca Rudolph.

She died in October 2016 as she and her husband were packing to leave their hunting camp in Zambia, according to court documents. Bianca Rudolph was shot in the chest with a shotgun.

The criminal complaint states that Lawrence told police he was in the bathroom and Bianca was in the bedroom when the shooting occurred. Rudolph speculated that the gun was left loaded and accidentally discharged while Bianca was attempting to pack the gun into its case.

Rudolph had indicated "by means of false and fraudulent pretense, representation and promise that Bianca Rudolph had died as the accidental discharge of a firearm when, in fact, she had been murdered,"the indictment against him states. Rudolph had nearly $5 million in insurance policies on his wife.

The mail fraud charge is related to insurance documents being delivered via Federal Express.

Police in Zambia ruled the death an accident. But the insurance companies involved began investigating the shooting, as did the FBI at the request of one of Bianca Rudolph's friends.

The U.S. Attorney's Office in Colorado alleges in an 11-page indictment that Milliron, who began living with Rudolph shortly after Bianca's death, last month provided false and misleading testimony regarding substantial payments to her.

For example, Milliron had no explanation as to why Rudolph paid her $75,450 in cash in 2016 and $33,350 in 2017 other to say the dentist was "generous."

She also said she didn't recall making cash deposits of $20,000 in 2014 and $60,000 in 2015 into her PNC bank account.

Asked why Rudolph was so generous to her, Milliron said, "I don't know."

Asked if before the safari if she had ever given Rudolph an ultimatum to leave his wife, Milliron responded, "I don't believe so." She said she couldn't remember whether she ever threatened to break off their affair.

She also said she couldn't remember whether Rudolph discussed the merits of the probe into his wife's death. She was asked if Rudolph had proclaimed his innocence.

"He probably did," Milliron responded. "I don't really recall that."

"What do you recall?" she then was asked.

"I really don't recall," she said.

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