Dentist’s Conviction for Murdering Wife on Zambian Safari Stands

A Pittsburgh-area dentist found guilty of shooting and killing his wife, Bianca Rudolph, while on a hunting trip in Zambia lost on Monday his Tenth Circuit appeal seeking to undo convictions for foreign murder and wire fraud.

Lawrence “Larry” Rudolph argued that he should have been tried separately from the woman with whom he’d been having an affair, claiming she would have taken the stand to contradict certain witness testimony. But the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit said there was a “low likelihood” she would have actually testified in a severed trial and that the exculpatory value ...