Girlfriend of Pennsylvania Dentist Who Killed Wife on Safari Breaks Her Silence from Jail in New Interview By Toria Sheffield 47

The girlfriend of Larry Rudolph, the Pennsylvania dentist convicted of killing his wife while they were on safari in Zambia, has broken her silence from prison.

Lori Milliron began an affair with Larry in 2002, and she was ultimately convicted for her involvement in the 2016 shooting death of his wife of 34 years, Bianca Rudolph. 

At the time, prosecutors argued that Milliron gave Larry an ultimatum that he needed to choose between her or his wife, and that she also knew about his crime while they continued to date after the murder. Millron is currently serving a 17-year sentence for perjury and being an accessory to a murder after the fact, as well as obstructing a grand jury.

Now, in Hulu’s new three-part docuseries about the case, Trophy Wife: Murder on Safari, Milliron maintains that she had no involvement in the crime.

“There was no ultimatum. Why would I wait 15 years to give him an ultimatum? It just didn’t make sense,” Milliron said over a prison phone, according to video shared by Inside Edition.

“The police did an investigation, and they said it was an accident. Everyone believed it was an accident. So I assumed it was an accident as well,” she added.

In another part of the series, Milliron said she never planned on becoming romantically involved with Larry when they first met as coworkers at his dental practice.

“I was reluctant, but after a little while, I slowly, slowly got to know him,” she said, explaining that she eventually became “the girlfriend” despite the fact that he was married. 

While Bianca’s death was initially declared an accident by Zambia law enforcement, federal authorities in the U.S. were not convinced and ultimately accused Larry of killing his wife so he could collect millions of dollars in life insurance benefits.

He was eventually sentenced to life in prison in 2023 on charges of foreign murder and mail fraud.

During his trial, which took place in July 2022, Larry told jurors, “I did not kill my wife. I could not murder my wife. I would not murder my wife.”

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However, a witness for the prosecution testified that he had overheard Larry making statements that indicated otherwise.

According to Brian Lovelace, a bartender at a Phoenix steakhouse that Larry and Milliron frequented, he heard the dentist confess to the crime during a heated argument.

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“Larry and Lori were having a drink,” federal prosecutor Bishop Grewell said during opening statements. “The music in the background made it difficult for Brian Lovelace to hear the conversation going on around him, but at some point, all of a sudden, the music stopped. And in that brief interlude, that brief silence between the songs, Larry Rudolph growled, ‘I killed my f—— wife for you!’ ”

Both Milliron and Larry continue to maintain their innocence and are currently appealing their convictions.

Trophy Wife: Murder on Safari premiered on July 21 and airs weekly.