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Hi, babe.

Hi, honey.

I just wanted to tell you I love you.

I love you too.

Look, I feel like we've made so many bad choices.

I'm trying to save your life. To save our life.

You know what? You're not helping me, Lori.

Right now, I cannot do this.

You just need to listen to me,

because I know what the fuck I'm talking about.

It's a story of betrayal.

Money, murder and sexual affairs.

His former office manager and alleged girlfriend, Lori Milliron.

Lori Milliron.

The girlfriend of Larry Rudolph.

Dr. Rudolph's former employees are reacting to the news.

There was, like, a little gossip about it at the office.

Stuff that you don't do with your colleague.

I thought, "Oh, my God, Dr. Rudolph has a wife and kids."

My mother brought out the best in him. And Lori Milliron brought out the worst.

He's well known in hunting circles

for bagging big game wild animals.

Also a successful dentist.

He had money to do whatever he wanted.

You never knew what would come next.

He did a lot of bad stuff.

He had everybody scared to death. He's just evil.

Larry Rudolph was a threat to the people in his life.

He thought he had gotten away with it for years.

Would you please state your full name for the record?

Dr. Larry Rudolph.

- Money. - Lori Milliron.

Living a lie.

This call is from a federal prison. This call is from...

Lawrence Rudolph.

I never thought this would happen in a million years.

I still can't believe it turned out the way it did.

Larry Rudolph has the gift of making you feel

like you're very important.

That's what Larry does best.

He can talk to you.

He can make you feel that he is gonna support you in whatever you want to do.

Larry was a very smooth talker.

Everybody liked him and his wife, Bianca.

He used it a lot.

Larry has the gift to win over a lot of people with his personality.

100,000 smiles agree. Going to the dentist has never been so easy.

Larry was very successful in his dental practice.

And he also had a great family.

And then he got into big game hunting and was working his way up.

Hi. Im Dr. Larry Rudolph, president of SCI.

If he wanted something, he was gonna do whatever he had to, to get it.

That's the kind of guy he was.

The United Nations has stated that economic stability...

He wants the limelight. He wants to be the big guy.

I don't believe that this award recognizes any one individual.

This bronze represents who we are and what we do.

But this is Larry's game.

Perception is reality.

Larry wanted everybody to know that he was this perfect guy

that had this wonderful wife and these two great kids,

and everybody should trust him. And everybody did, for a while.

Larry can take whatever money he wants. Larry can take whatever woman he wants.

It's Larry's world, and we're all living in it.

I'm just gonna bring this in front of your face and...

Snap the hell out of it. I wanna do it.

On TV, people are afraid of the dentist.

Some hate the injections.

Some hate someone else being in their mouth with sharp tools.

There's many reasons.

Are you scared of the dentist?

This story is not going to help.

Comfy?

Around 10% of adults in the United States

have a dental phobia so paralyzing it prevents regular dentist visits.

I just remember the taste. Just metal. And I hated it.

Here we are. We're gonna pull your tooth out.

Boy, this is gonna hurt.

Many people don't like the dentist.

And then Dr. Rudolph came along.

Here begins tape number one

in the video-taped deposition of Lawrence P. Rudolph, DDS.

Good morning, sir. Please raise your right hand, I'll swear you in.

Do you swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give in this deposition

is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?

- Yes, sir. I do. - Thank you.

What did you do professionally?

Got a job working in a dental clinic.

I saw early on, there is a profound fear of having dental care.

My goal was to do something quite unique at the time.

And I sort of initiated the idea of sedation to have dental work done.

Bring them in, sedate them, try to do all their treatment at one time,

wake them up, and they're happy.

I did my graduate program at the University of Pittsburgh Dental School.

I saw a very beautiful woman in the school cafeteria named Bianca.

She would meet with me there before we went to class,

because we could have breakfast for a dollar.

We'd start our day that way, and she would go off to school.

I'd go off to the dental school.

So, once I graduated, I just went out and started a practice.

And Bianca came with me.

When did you and your wife marry?

September 4th...

1982.

How many children do you have?

Two. My daughter is AnaBianca Rudolph.

My son is Julian Rudolph.

We had a pretty traditional east coast, middle-class upbringing.

We lived in the suburbs. My parents got along, seemed to love each other.

I had a good upbringing. Peaceful home.

I played sports my whole life. My mother loved to watch me play, whatever it was,

even if I wasn't very good.

She was my best friend. We spent a lot of time together.

Bianca Rudolph, she was an open book.

She was one of those people that you would trust immediately.

She was all... all heart.

She grew up in Pennsylvania.

She had people around her that cared about her, who she loved to death.

And she was doing the same thing with her family.

Her marriage was very important to her.

She was definitely hands-on with the kids.

And she helped Larry with the business.

She supported Larry,

and she worked very hard to make him successful, that's for sure.

As a young dentist, there was a job opportunity with The Dentistry.

And that's when I met Dr. Larry Rudolph and his wife, Bianca.

Larry Rudolph was a charming, smart, happy guy.

And Bianca was just a sweet person. I really liked her.

And I thought, well, this is a place I wanna... I wanna be.

People would love to come and see Dr. Rudolph.

He seemed like a nice guy, with a nice family.

They thought that he would really take care of them.

I grew up with very crooked teeth.

So I had braces three times, looking for perfection.

Working with Dr. Rudolph

allowed me to feel the gratification of actually helping a patient.

Larry Rudolph was a big personality.

Patients loved him.

Most loved him, but he also had another side.

The bad part just started to get too bad.

There was a Jekyll and a Hyde there.

Cut.

- Nicky. - Yeah, what's up?

You know who they're interviewing me about?

-Who? - Who do you think?

Uh, Larry.

Larry Rudolph. I met him years ago.

Larry and Bianca were very good at the building of the practice.

And the practice flourished.

Larry came to me for help with financial planning.

So I had insurance on him and insurance on her.

My clients were professionals.

People that led normal lives. He was a bit abnormal.

Larry produced an amazing amount of dentistry and cash.

So, uh, we wanted to keep that going, of course.

And so we... you know, we gave him a longer leash, so to speak.

He wanted to be that playboy with wealth, power and women.

From day one,

everyone knew that Dr. Rudolph always had someone on the side.

He would come on to everybody.

He used to tell me,

"It's like going to Kennywood and riding the Laser Loop."

It's a thrill for him.

We would get comments from patients all the time.

"Are you hiring by hair color?" 'Cause he had mostly blondes.

Did you have dinner and drinks with her?

Uh, light dinner, couple of cocktails, yes.

Did you kiss her?

Yes, sir.

On the mouth or on the cheek?

Recollection? On the mouth.

Was it a French kiss or of the general variety?

I don't recall.

He was a womanizer.

Maybe he needed, uh, horndog rehab.

A story that I don't know is true,

but one of his assistants had told me

he would go over to her apartment once in a while for a quickie.

Apparently she once gave him,

how can I say this?

Oral sex.

After that, she immediately went to her kitchen,

spit into a baggie, put it in her freezer and saved it.

Just in case. She could tell his wife.

I don't know. You want to test it?

It comes from Larry Rudolph.

That's a jizz bag from Larry.

Larry had several mistresses over the years.

And of course, the last one was Lori Milliron.

Lori started working at The Dentistry

somewhere in the early 2000s.

She was like the opposite of Bianca.

Bianca had auburn hair, and she was probably about 5'4.

But Lori was thin, tall and blonde.

A patient came in saying,

"I saw Dr. Rudolph at this restaurant the other day,

and he was with his wife I guess." And I said, "Oh, his wife."

She goes, "Yeah, it was a real pretty blonde."

Wasn't his wife. It was Lori.

They weren't shy about where they went and if people would see them.

He felt he could do anything 'cause this was his practice.

I used to say we were our own version of the soap opera, "As the Tooth Rotates."

Just business.

One day I get a phone call. It's his wife, Bianca.

And I was trying to explain to her, "There's something going on here."

And she said, "Larry would never do that to me, I treat him too good."

And the funny thing is, he said the same thing

when I said to him one time, "What would you do if Bianca ever did this?"

He goes, "She would never do this to me, I treat her too good."

At the end of the day, I think he loved Bianca.

But she didn't know he was cheating.

He treated her different than I ever saw him treat anyone.

It just seemed like it shifted toward

spending more money for things that they wanted.

I remember he made a reservation at a really nice restaurant,

had wine at the table.

They built houses all over the place.

They started taking vacations every six weeks. Trips to Africa frequently.

He was in Africa all the time to get some certain goat for his collection.

I knew that Larry was an expert hunter.

Bianca enjoyed going on these various trips with him.

She became an expert hunter, much like him. I think he enjoyed that.

Hunting became her passion. She got very good at it.

It was a bonding thing between them, which was important to her.

He was very successful.

And part of that was shown in the animals that he hunted.

Because you don't do that unless you've got the money to do it.

And he had money to do whatever he wanted.

But then he gets greedy and takes everything too far.

I was on a safari, in Zambia.

And I was fishing on the banks of the river.

And, um, it was early morning. Actually, I caught a fish.

I was bringing the fish in and when I reached for it,

the crocodile came out, grabbed me, pulled me in, rolled me over.

I received a call from Larry Rudolph in Zambia.

He said, "Bill, I just got my finger bit off by a crocodile."

I said, "Get out of here."

He said, "All of a sudden this crocodile comes up

and grabs both the fish and my finger,

gets me into the river, rolls me like crocodiles do."

I said I didn't even know crocodiles rolled people, but...

Yeah, we have our own theories about what happened there.

Which one's in-in Zambia, crocodiles or alligators?

Crocodiles.

Okay, croc. We'll say "croc."

Great.

When you're reaching down, what's there first?

Your fingers. How did it get just his thumb

and not his whole hand or all of his fingers?

- Or kill him. - Yeah!

A dentist requires the use of both of his hands.

The accident that I had resulted in nerve damage to my left hand.

Larry said, "Bill, this is alarming to me.

I don't know that I'll ever be able to perform dentistry again."

"Because he's a dentist, he needs all ten fingers."

Well, I can tell you, he doesn't.

Larry said, "I want to file a claim to get disability insurance

because I can no longer do dental work."

And then he sent me a picture of his finger.

It was pretty gruesome. Pretty gruesome.

I mean, he had lost a digit on his hand... ...to a crocodile.

So we filed a claim. They did a lot of inquiries.

He did qualify for the disability insurance.

He was getting $30,000 a month, tax-free, by the way.

He either cut it off or shot it off or... I don't know.

And was anybody with you when you experienced this crocodile attack?

With me when it happened? No, sir. No, sir.

Larry came back thinking, I won't do any dentistry.

I'll just look over everything and just be the seat, the chief operating officer.

But it seemed like it quickly turned.

He would see patients when we were closed for cash only.

Do all these crowns. Take a lot of cash.

Put it in his pocket.

Pay each girl who worked a few bucks, and that was it.

He was taking any cash that came into the office, despite our partnership.

And he did that after he was deemed completely disabled

and permanently disabled.

My partner and I said, "That is unacceptable.

That's stealing. That's thievery."

Stole from his partners.

I confronted him.

And I said, "You took a lot of money from us.

Here's your options.

There will be a lawsuit when we press charges for embezzlement,

or you just walk away and we won't say anything.

But you need to leave us alone, you're out."

And that's the option he took.

He said it never happened

because he was never charged with that crime.

Yeah.

And that's the last we saw of Larry Rudolph.

I thought it was great.

Until about a week after.

And then he opened a practice across the parking lot from our practice,

and it's still there.

Oh, yeah, he did that on purpose.

He was a very ballsy kind of guy.

"Yeah, look at me, look at all the cars in front of my place."

Yeah, I'm sure that that had everything to do with it.

Normal people aren't like that.

Something's going wrong up in the synapses up there.

He started billboards, commercials,

just getting in our face a lot.

It's batshit. Batshit crazy.

I had a bad dental experience long ago and it stuck with me all these years.

Man, that really hurt. I called Three Rivers Dental and they understood

and did all my dental work in one visit while I was asleep.

100,000 satisfied smiles.

Going to the dentist has never been so easy as Three Rivers Dental.

Works for your smile and your features and your favorite foods because...

Dr. Larry Rudolph of Three Rivers Dentistry.

In and around 2008,

I started a new dental group

called Three Rivers Dental.

It's a multi-office group dental practice.

At Three Rivers Dental, we understand your fears.

Now you can have all your dental work done in one visit while you sleep.

No sights, no sounds, and no fears.

Have you had any formal training in marketing or public relations?

I don't believe so.

What does a combat veteran,

a firemen, a police officer and a working mom all have in common?

They were all my patients and just like you,

they were afraid to visit the dentist.

I had a goal that I would like to have been a Fox News contributor.

Dr. Rudolph always had an... an ego.

Hi, I'm Dr. Larry Rudolph. You can't sleep because you're suffering from tooth pain.

Dr. Rudolph wanted to be the face of Three Rivers Dental.

He started putting his face on the TV a lot,

and they believed him and he was funny and charming.

I wanted to throw up in my mouth when I saw some of that.

They start becoming successful and it's like, well, I guess it's paying off.

Gradually they started opening practices in the mall.

That was never done. It was always in an office building.

One was right at the entrance to Kmart.

And it's like, "Oh my God, are you the guy on the TV?"

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I saw a lot of the commercials.

They were always, like, on in the morning when you watch the news.

He liked being on TV.

When I started at Three Rivers,

I met Larry and Bianca,

and their daughter, AnaBianca, who worked there.

They seemed like a really great family.

Ana and I got close.

We liked the same things. We just got along.

My name is Anna Grimley, and I was a manager at Three Rivers Dental.

When I first met Bianca and Larry,

she reminded me of somebody like Jacqueline Onassis type of a person.

Very well put together. Just classy.

We got along great, and they offered me a job.

I get there on my first day, and that's where I met Lori.

At the time, did not know what her position was.

I knew she came from The Dentistry with him

and that they started Three Rivers together essentially.

And there was, like, a little gossip about it at the office.

Come to find out they're together and this is all a secret.

The staff sort of feared her, I would say. Some people did.

She was just cold. I mean, there was not really any time she was really nice.

And Larry would really just lose his temper.

We're all just trying to like get through the day without him screaming at us.

Staffing was most challenging.

Particularly young people, very fragile in a workplace.

For them it was, "Well, I've been here six, eight months, I'm not going anywhere.

I'm gonna get another job." Boom, they quit.

There was one girl I felt really bad for.

Dr. Rudolph thought she rolled her eyes during a meeting

and threw a fit and told her to get her stuff and get the fuck out.

You'd be threatened with your job if you didn't do what he wanted.

Dr. Rudolph had such a temper.

His day became all about making money.

And he couldn't make the money if he didn't produce,

and if he wasn't producing, he was just mad.

We started doing every tooth a root canal even when they didn't need it.

So now he's making $1000 for a root canal that maybe takes him a half hour to do.

So that's a lot of money.

I would call it a root canal factory, yes.

We had one patient and all she needed was her tooth smoothed.

He went in, lopped off more of the tooth, took an X-ray,

and we proceeded to do a root canal and a crown on her.

He was mixing the material and putting it into a syringe device

to place it into the tooth.

It was a wisdom tooth, so it was hard to see.

Placement was tough.

He threw the syringe and I was standing right at a patient's head

and he hit me right here in the shoulder.

I turned around and left and went to the bathroom.

I was so upset. And he never said a word.

A lot of times I took the brunt of his tirades,

which is part of the reason why I left.

I worked for Dr. Rudolph for 23 years.

But when I quit, I lost my 401(k).

I'd have a nice retirement fund, which I don't... ...so let's stop.

I'm-I'm good.

It sucks. It just... It just sucks.

He built up bad karma for sure.

What about Lori?

I do believe that Lori truly was part of the problem.

At first I thought maybe he was more powerful over her,

but after a while I realized she had as much power over him,

that they were pretty much equal.

He depended on her.

She was making a ton of money for the practice.

They both wanted the power and the money.

He was funding her vacations, paying the bills.

But he would always say I'm not divorcing Bianca.

No one's getting half of my money. This is just what I do on the side.

At some point, Lori was so tired of being an affair.

She wanted what Bianca had.

It was all about the money. She's completely evil.

My name is Steph and my mom is Lori Milliron.

Larry pursued her for, I don't know, a year plus.

He was trying to get her to go out with him

and she was like, "No, no thanks, like, I'm too busy for this."

There's such a wrong impression of who my mom is

and the values that she has and maintains.

She's an awesome mom.

She's also my best friend and I love her dearly.

My mom always tried to make sure that we had the best childhood

that we possibly could have.

She taught me that you try to give back and you be kind to people.

She spent a lot of time with the elderly.

She would mend their clothes, hem them. So that was always really nice.

After the divorce, she was forced to have multiple jobs.

When she started full-time at Three Rivers,

we definitely saw the progression.

Six, seven, eight, nine...

She absolutely had a hand in the business,

which is so different than just showing up as an employee.

You actually have a vested interest in wanting it to be successful.

She was spending most of her time at work.

And then, I probably didn't help her social life

with as many activities that I was in.

Um...

I wanna say I was, like, 15 when they went on their first trip.

It looks like you got a bend, Lori.

Wanna try to get, when you get him close,

I'm gonna try to get a picture of him in the water.

I think the biggest thing

that really attracted her to him was just how kind he was.

- I got video. Yeah. Got them. - Got it? Okay.

- Well done. - Thank you.

- Good job, Lori. - Thank you.

- Say, hi, Lori. - Hi, Lori.

Larry did a lot of charity work for veterans

where he would pay for them to have,

like, full restoration of all of the teeth in their mouth.

So she saw how generous he was.

I needed a new cheerleading bag and shoes, so he would, you know, give her money.

It makes me smile thinking that, you know,

all the times that she did ask, it went to us kids.

They looked really, really happy. She deserves it.

Sorry, my face is actually shaking.

- Can I have a tissue, please? - Of course.

Saying that and realizing

that I might never get to introduce her to anybody again.

Hi, this is Lori Milliron.

I relive this every day in my mind.

I kind of feel like I've lost my identity.

Like, I can't believe what's happened to my life.

Hey, can we stop for one second? I wanna get a Kleenex, and I will be right back.

Okay.

Okay, well, that's good.

I got that out of my system in the beginning, I should be okay now.

It's just kind of emotional at first talking about it every time.

This call is from a federal prison.