Laurie Bembenek went on trial in March 1982 and was convicted of the first-degree murder of Christine Schultz, who was found dead in her bedroom on May 28, 1981.

Laurie Bembenek died of liver failure at the age of 52 on November 20, 2010. Discussing the case, the fourth episode of the Playboy Murders season 2 will air on ID on Monday, February 5, 2024, at ...

Milwaukee native Lawrencia Bembenek, who was convicted of murder in 1982, fought the verdict and protested her innocence until she died. Her life story, which included a dramatic escape from ...

Radish says that’s why Bembenek’s story has been told and retold so many times, in books, made-for-TV movies, a podcast, and now on the stage. 'Run Bambi Run' is showing at the Milwaukee Rep ...

The Rep's "Run Bambi Run" will take a "Brechtian" approach to telling the story, with a troupe of 10 to 12 performers playing all the characters, including Bembenek herself, Elfred and Christine ...

She was 52. Bembenek's attorney, Mary Woehrer, says she died Saturday, Nov. 20, 2010 at a hospice care center in Portland, Ore. Woehrer says the cause of death was liver failure.

Laurie Bembenek, the former Milwaukee police officer and Playboy hostess convicted of a decades-old murder, is near death in hospice care near her home in Vancouver, Wash., according to a ...

The true story of a woman who is sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering her husband's ex-wife. After being dismissed from the Milwaukee police, Laurie Bembenek is swept off her feet by ...

Oct. 3, 2002 -- Laurie "Bambi" Bembenek had been a pinup girl, a Milwaukee police officer and a whistle-blower. Then her husband's ex-wife was slain and she became known as a murderer.

MILWAUKEE - DNA tests conducted on murder scene evidence in the 20-year-old conviction of Laurie Bembenek found none of her DNA on any of the 15 items tested, which her attorney said shows ...

MILWAUKEE - Dozens of supporters gathered Sunday at a Milwaukee church to memorialize Laurie Bembenek, the former police officer who was convicted in 1982 of killing her husband's ex-wife.

Laurie Bembenek, the former Milwaukee police officer and Playboy hostess convicted of a decades-old murder, is near death in hospice care near her home in Vancouver, Wash., according to a friend.