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 ...

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 ...

"The Playboy Murders," in its second season on true-crime cable channel Investigation Discovery, will turn its lens on the story of Milwaukee's Laurie Bembenek in a new episode airing at 9 p.m ...

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 ...

Bembenek was convicted in 1982 of killing Christine Schultz, the ex-wife of her husband, Fred Schultz. Bembenek escaped from prison, was recaptured and later entered a no contest plea to a reduced ...

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 ...

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 - Backers of Laurie Bembenek and curious visitors turned out at a fund-raiser and rally Sunday for the former police officer who was convicted more than 20 years ago of a murder she ...

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.