The prison escape of former Playboy Club bunny and Milwaukee police officer Laurie "Bambi" Bembenek popularized the phrase "Run Bambi Run" and seemed tailor-made for the TV movie it inspired.

MILWAUKEE (CBS/AP) Playboy Club model Laurie Bembenek, who gained national notoriety after she was convicted of murder and then escaped from prison, has died in Oregon. Bembenek, who was also a ...

"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 ...

MADISON, Wis.MADISON, Wis. — The attorney for Laurie “Bambi” Bembenek, Wisconsin’s most famous runaway fugitive who insisted until her death in 2010 that she did not kill her husband’s ...

The prison escape of former Playboy Club bunny and Milwaukee, Wis., police officer Laurie "Bambi" Bembenek popularized the phrase "Run Bambi Run" and seemed tailor-made for the TV movie it inspired.

Laurie Bembenek was 52. Bembenek was convicted in 1982 of fatally shooting her police detective husband’s ex-wife and sentenced to life in prison. She escaped in 1990 and fled to Canada.

Little did she know, a two years later, she would be imprisoned for murder. The story of Laurie Bembenek is one of Milwaukee’s most infamous true crime tales. Forty years later, the Milwaukee ...

Laurie “Bambi” Bembenek, 52, a former Playboy Club bunny and police officer convicted of shooting her then-husband’s ex-wife, died Saturday of liver failure at a hospice care center in ...