Lawrencia Bembenek Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Lawrencia Ann "Bambi" Bembenek (August 15, 1958 – November 20, 2010), known as Laurie Bembenek, was a former American police officer convicted of murdering her husband's ex-wife. Her story garnered national attention after she escaped from Taycheedah Correctional Institution and was recaptured in Canada, an episode which inspired books, movies and the slogan "Run, Bambi, Run". Upon winning a new trial, she pleaded no contest to second-degree murder and was sentenced to time served and ten years probation in December 1992. For years after, she sought to have the sentence overturned.Prior to her arrest, Bembenek was fired by the Milwaukee Police Department and had gone on to sue the department, claiming that it engaged in sexual discrimination and other illegal activities. She worked briefly as a waitress at a Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, Playboy Club. At the time of her arrest, she was working for Marquette University's Public Safety Department in downtown Milwaukee.On November 20, 2010, Bembenek died at a hospice facility in Portland, Oregon, at the age of 52.
August 15, 1958, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Died
November 20, 2010, Portland, Oregon, United States
Place Of Birth
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Profession
Writer
Star Sign
Leo
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Quote
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(1994) It's always a negative - if not a sexual - image they paint. I was a waitress at the Playboy Club for three weeks, but I'll always be known as the Playboy bunny.
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Fact
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Lives in Washington state, where she cares for her terminally ill father. [2000]
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Former Milwaukee, Wisconsin police officer convicted of shooting her then-husband's ex-wife. Her husband, also a police officer, had been exonerated in the 1975 fatal shooting of a Glendale, Wisconsin police officer. Elfred Schultz filed for divorced shortly after Bembenek was convicted.
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Convicted in 1982 of murdering her husband's ex-wife, she was sentenced to life in prison but escaped in 1990. She was captured three months later. Paroled in 2002.
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In December 2001, had her right foot amputated because of injuries suffered trying to jump from a Los Angeles hotel window.
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Former Playboy bunny.
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Kept her maiden name in marriage.
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Former police officer in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Woman on Trial: The Lawrencia Bembenek Story
1993
TV Movie book "Woman on Trial"
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
On the Case with Paula Zahn
2011
TV Series documentary
Herself
Used Innocence
1989
Documentary voice
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
City Confidential
2002
TV Series documentary
Herself
Headliners & Legends: Bambi Bembenek
2001
TV Movie documentary
Herself (as Bambi Bembenek)
American Justice
1992
TV Series documentary
Herself - as Bambi
Known for movies
Woman on Trial: The Lawrencia Bembenek Story (1993) as Writer
$12 Million
