Bambi was sentenced to life in prison in 1982 for the murder of her husband’s ex-wife.
The story of Laurie Bambi Bembenek It was very popular in the United States in the 1980s. Everyone knew the beautiful, pale-eyed, angelic-faced woman of hers that she chose to be a police officer. Laurie assured that the force was against him for information on corruption cases.
His life was flooded with drugs, corruption allegations and lies. Bambi was also a Playboy bunny and she ended up being accused of shooting the ex-wife of a police officer, who was her partner, and from there her life became a roller coaster.
In 1978 she was chosen to be Miss March on a trade calendar.
a movie life
Lawrence Ann Bembenek was born in 1958 a Milwaukee, Wisconsin, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. She was the youngest of three daughters. Her father was a carpenter who worked briefly as a policeman.
Bambi attended elementary school at St. Augistine College and then graduated from St. Mary’s High School in 1976. Subsequently, she enrolled in Fashion Merchandising. As soon as she finished her studies, taking advantage of her slim figure, she made several photographic productions as a model and worked as a saleswoman in clothing stores.
In 1978 she was chosen as Miss March in the calendar distributed by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. Laurie was intelligent and had an extraordinarily independent attitude. The young woman became an incredibly beautiful woman.
In 1980, Laurie Bembenek enrolled in the Milwaukee Police Academy.
Two years later, motivated by her father, Joseph Benbenek, enrolled at the Milwaukee Police Academy. Bambi had his first conflict with the law. An anonymous complaint accused her of smoking marijuana at a party, although the young woman denied the allegations and assured that this allegation came from the jealous wife of a police officer.
Laurie, after she started working for the Milwaukee police, insisted on this for the slightest fault she was punished more severely than men. Bambi ensured that these had a much more serious behavior and was able to verify it.
Bembenek released photos of some Milwaukee police officers dancing naked at a party. This event caused a scandal and almost the entire police department was against him.
In the next months, Bambi was separated from the force and started working as a bunny at Playboy. Club of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. At the same time, Laurie began dating Elfred Schultza detective from the Milwaukee Police Department.
Bambi Bembenek, Playboy Bunny at the Geneva Lake Club in Wisconsin.
Despite the fact that Schultz was in one of the incriminating photos he brought to justice, the couple fell passionately in love. A month later, in January 1981, they got married.
your big problem
On May 28, 1981, the possible move against him to expose the corruption of the police would come. Christine, the ex-wife of his partner, Elfred Shultz, was killed in his own bed.
In June 1981 Laurie was arrested for the crime Christine.
The attacker ran into Christine’s room and Sean (her son) heard a loud bang. According to court documents, when the intruder ran out the door, the boy ran to her mother and found her bound and gagged.
Christine had a bullet hole in her back that was shot so close to her that she had burns around the wound.
Sean claimed that the subject who assaulted his mother was a tall, burly man dressed in a green jacket and black police shoes. He also said he observed that the man’s hair was tied up and was blond in color. Curiously, it coincided with that of Bambi Bembenek, also 1.78 m tall.
The investigation determined that the bullets came from one of the weapons registered in Shultz. Immediately, suspicions were directed to his new partner, also a former officer Bambi Bembenek.
Elfred Schultz was the first suspect. His statement was that he was on duty that night and at that time. Shultz was later shown to lie: he later had to admit that he, in fact, he had been drinking in a bar and from that moment he began to collaborate with investigators.
imprisonment and freedom
On June 24, 1981, Laurie was arrested and Schultz cleared. Bambi Bembenek’s trial began in 1982 and prosecutors said she wanted Christine Shultz’s death so that her new husband wouldn’t have to pay $ 700 a month for her child support.
Bambi spent eight years in Taycheedah Prison in Wisconsin.
Elfred Shultz, while the trial was taking place, suddenly changed his mind and for him his wife was guilty, while she claimed that he was the culprit, to have hired a hitman.
Bambi was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison on March 9, 1982. A year later, the inmate asked Schultz for a divorce.
After eight years in prison and numerous rejected appeals, Bembenek fled the Taycheedah Correctional Institution of Wisconsin on July 15, 1990.
She escaped from the laundry room window, climbed over a barbed wire fence and ran to a waiting car driven by her new boyfriend, Dominic Guglietti.
Bembenek escaped from prison in 1990 and fled to Canada.
Unfortunately, Laurie’s freedom was short-lived. After hiding for three months, Bembenek and Guglietti were discovered in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.
After her arrest, Bembenek asked for “refugee” status: she claimed there was a conspiracy against her carried out by the police whom she had accused of corruption years earlier.
The Canadian authorities gave him a hand. Before bringing her back to her country, they obtained a commitment from the North American judicial system to re-examine the case, without much success. Although they found negligence occurred during the investigation of Christine Shultz’s crime.
Bambi got a chance to retrial. With this guarantee, on April 22, 1991, she returned to her country and was tried for second degree murder, not premeditated, and sentenced to 20 years. US justice found that she had already served enough and granted him his freedom.
a sad ending
Social reintegration was not easy for Bambi. She had trouble with the law again and was arrested for marijuana possession and multiple bank scams. Soon after, was diagnosed with hepatitis C and plunged into alcoholism.
Supporters celebrated his escape, selling “Run, Bambi, Run” t-shirts and bumper stickers.
Later, Laurie met Marty Carson, whom she married in 2005. He pushed her to go back to painting, which she had done since she was a child. Bambi once had thirty works exhibited in an art gallery, but the place caught fire with all of her works inside and she became discouraged.
His disease-ravaged body collapsed with kidney and liver failure. On November 20, 2010, Laurie Bambi Bembenek, 52, died alone in a palliative care facility for the poor.
Thomas Fernandez Cruzado
Source: Clarin
