Laurie Bambi Bembenek Died Due To Liver Failing

A Milwaukee police officer and Playboy Bunny EX Club, who won national notoriety after he was convicted of murder and then escaped from prison has died in Oregon. Laurie Bembenek was 52.
Bembenek was convicted in 1982 of fatally shooting her police detective husband's ex-wife and sentenced to life imprisonment. He escaped in 1990 and fled to Canada.
Supporters applauded his flight, the sale of "Run Bambi Run" shirts and stickers.
Bembenek was captured but later released after pleading not guilty to second-degree murder. His story became a TV movie starring Tatum O'Neal.
Woehrer Maria Bembenek's lawyer says he died Saturday at a hospice in Portland, Oregon. Ms. Woehrer says the cause of death was liver failure.

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