AS SEEN ON TV: BAMBI BEMBENEK

Lawrencia Bembenek, a former Playboy bunny and Milwaukee police officer whose conviction for the murder of her husband’s ex-wife and audacious escape from prison became tabloid and TV-movie fodder and a cause célèbre for supporters who insisted on her innocence — as she always did — died Saturday in a hospice in Portland, Ore. She was 52.

Dennis Hevesi

New York Times

LAWRENCIA BEMBENEK

AS SEEN IN:
"Woman On The Run"

AS PLAYED BY:
Tatum O'Neal

From Wikipedia:
Lawrencia "Bambi" Bembenek (August 15, 1958 — November 20, 2010), known as Laurie Bembenek, was convicted of murdering her husband's ex-wife, Christine Schultz, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on May 28, 1981. Her story garnered national attention after she escaped from Taycheedah Correctional Institution and was recaptured in Canada, an episode which inspired a TV movie and the slogan "Run, Bambi, Run". Upon winning a new trial, she pled no contest to second-degree murder and was sentenced to time served and ten years probation. Since then, she had sought to have the sentence overturned.

Bembenek was a former Milwaukee police officer who had been fired 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.

LAWRENCIA BEMBENEK

AS SEEN IN:
"Heart Of The Lie"

AS PLAYED BY:
Lindsay Frost

Two for Tuesday.....

BCnU!