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Run, Bambi, Run: The Beautiful Ex-Cop and Convicted Murderer Who Escaped to Freedom and Won America's Heart
Now an eight-part Apple Podcast this is a story that continues to shock the nation.
Convicted killer Laurie “Bambi” Bembenek gained notoriety when she escaped prison and fled with her boyfriend to Canada. Then, as the details of her escape and life gained international headlines, millions learned what people in the Milwaukee area already knew.
But was this stunning ex-Playboy Club waitress, ex-cop, and unflinching feminist truly a killer-or was her arrest and conviction one of the most flagrant legal abuses in U.S. History?
Award-winning reporter Kris Radish spent years interviewing Bembenek and reveals intimate details about the case and Bembenek’s life. This is not just the story about a woman’s horrific murder but also the story about another woman who was judged by her looks, her intelligence, and who threatened the very foundation of a police department riddled with corruption, sexism, drugs, and sex.
The story is a tangle of abuse and inept police work including lost evidence, a defense lawyer who was later disbarred…and a conviction based on what the presiding judge called the most circumstantial evidence he had ever seen. Above all, it is the story of a woman who refused to surrender to a system she knew was corrupt.
About the Author
Kris Radish a former journalist, nationally syndicated columnist, magazine writer, university instructor, wine lounge owner, and about ten other things. She loves to tell stories about the time she picked nightcrawlers, served beer to cowboys, worked on a tomato farm and hung out of a fast moving helicopter.
Radish, who writes fiction and non-fiction, is the bestselling author of 17 books and has captured the hearts of legions of fans she considers friends with her heartwarming, real, passionate and often hilarious books. Her fiction focuses on the important bonds of female friendship and celebrates the heartaches, loves, and struggles all women share.
Run, Bambi, Run was her first book. She wrote it after interviewing Laurie Bembenek for a magazine story, became friends with Laurie, and she never imagined that she would still be involved with what she considers an unsolved murder decades later.
Radish lives in North Carolina where she continues to write, talk to her birds, hike and pray for a world that can heal itself with constant bursts of kindness. www.krisradish.com
Convicted killer Laurie “Bambi” Bembenek gained notoriety when she escaped prison and fled with her boyfriend to Canada. Then, as the details of her escape and life gained international headlines, millions learned what people in the Milwaukee area already knew.
But was this stunning ex-Playboy Club waitress, ex-cop, and unflinching feminist truly a killer-or was her arrest and conviction one of the most flagrant legal abuses in U.S. History?
Award-winning reporter Kris Radish spent years interviewing Bembenek and reveals intimate details about the case and Bembenek’s life. This is not just the story about a woman’s horrific murder but also the story about another woman who was judged by her looks, her intelligence, and who threatened the very foundation of a police department riddled with corruption, sexism, drugs, and sex.
The story is a tangle of abuse and inept police work including lost evidence, a defense lawyer who was later disbarred…and a conviction based on what the presiding judge called the most circumstantial evidence he had ever seen. Above all, it is the story of a woman who refused to surrender to a system she knew was corrupt.
About the Author
Kris Radish a former journalist, nationally syndicated columnist, magazine writer, university instructor, wine lounge owner, and about ten other things. She loves to tell stories about the time she picked nightcrawlers, served beer to cowboys, worked on a tomato farm and hung out of a fast moving helicopter.
Radish, who writes fiction and non-fiction, is the bestselling author of 17 books and has captured the hearts of legions of fans she considers friends with her heartwarming, real, passionate and often hilarious books. Her fiction focuses on the important bonds of female friendship and celebrates the heartaches, loves, and struggles all women share.
Run, Bambi, Run was her first book. She wrote it after interviewing Laurie Bembenek for a magazine story, became friends with Laurie, and she never imagined that she would still be involved with what she considers an unsolved murder decades later.
Radish lives in North Carolina where she continues to write, talk to her birds, hike and pray for a world that can heal itself with constant bursts of kindness. www.krisradish.com
392 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 11, 2022
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Kris Radish
25 books285 followersKris started writing the moment she could hold a pencil. She grew up in Wisconsin, graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a journalism degree and hit the ground running. Her father called her "the tornado". She worked as a newspaper reporter, bureau chief, nationally syndicated columnist, magazine writer, university lecturer, bartender, waitress, worm harvester, window washer....to name a few. Her first two books were non-fiction and then Radish became a full-time novelist. The Elegant Gathering of White Snows, Dancing Naked at the Edge of Dawn, The Sunday List of Dreams, Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral and Searching for Paradise in Parker, P.A., The Shortest Distance Between Two Women, Hearts on a String, Tuesday Night Miracles, A Grand Day to Get Lost and The Year of Necessary Lies have won her acclaim and a great following. Her eleventh novel, A Dangerous Woman From Nowhere is being released in 2017. She is also the author of three works of non-fiction, Gravel on the side of the Road-Stories From A Broad Who Has Been There, Run, Bambi Run-The Beautiful Ex-Cop and Convicted Murderer Who Escaped to Freedom and Won America's Heart and The Birth Order Effect: How to Better Understand Yourself and Others. She is working on a book poetry, two new novels, a book of non-fiction and a few bottles of wine.
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March 30, 2024
Being from Milwaukee, I grew up with this story and no one thought she was guilty. What a horrible, horrible framing job they did on her. She lost such precious time. I hope karma gets them all for what they did to her.
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