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we're going to get an early look at this week's 48 hours for you in 2016 lawrence
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rudolph and his wife bianca went on a safari in zambia sounds good but just before they returned home bianca died
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from a shotgun wound not good 48 hours contributor deborah powder shows us how her very mysterious death led to
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allegations of infidelity fraud and murder lawrence rudolph and his wife bianca were on an exciting vacation in africa
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until tragedy struck it was the end of the rudolf zambian hunting trip they were supposedly packing up and getting
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ready to fly home but then bianca rudolph suffered a fatal gunshot wound lauren said he was in the bathroom heard
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the shot and found his wife bleeding dead on the floor he said while bianca was packing the shotgun it must have
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accidentally fired once the hunting trip was ended the weapon should have been rendered safe lawrence's description
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raises questions says retired fbi special agent and cbs news consultant james galliano it boggles the mind that
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two experienced hunters for this to have been an accident game scout spencer cacoma says he also has questions he
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insists after the hunt the guns were emptied of ammunition and you saw bianca rudolph cleaning her gun of life i mean
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you're carried after two days of investigating police in zambia closed the case finding the
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shotgun accidentally fired meanwhile a friend of bianca's grew concerned when she learned lawrence had bianca's body
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cremated within three days of her dying the friend then contacted the fbi the friend suggests a number of troubling
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things miss rudolph was a devout catholic and it expressed to her explicitly that she would never consider
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being cremated the fbi's investigation would reveal among other details that lawrence rudolph was involved in an
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extramarital affair it all led to his december 2021 arrest for the murder of bianca lawrence rudolph's attorneys
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indicate bianca had a will saying she wanted to be cremated they say their client is innocent writing in a
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statement to 48 hours the feds brought charges without any real evidence no eyewitnesses no forensics no anything
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no anything deborah potter joins us now from johannesburg deborah always good to
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see you but listen it's hard to imagine a shotgun firing accidentally what else did the fbi investigation reveal
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good question indeed gail well according to the fbi there were a number of other
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troubling things there was nearly five million dollars in life insurance payouts also there are questions about
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how bianca would have been able to shoot herself even accidentally that it might have
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simply been physically impossible for a woman her size to point the gun at herself and receive the kind of wounds
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that she did gail