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Lawrencia Ann “Bambi” Bembenek (August 15 1958 – 20 November 2010,) was better known by the name Laurie Bembenek, was an American former police officer, who was found guilty of murdering the wife of her ex-wife’s husband. Her story was the subject of national media attention when she escaped of Taycheedah Correctional Institution and was captured in Canada and was the subject of an incident that was the basis for books, films and the catchy slogan “Run, Bambi, Run”. When she was able to win a new trial, she pleaded not guilty contest to second-degree murder , and got sentenced for time served, as well as 10 years probation , in the month of December. After four years the conviction, she tried to get the sentence reversed.
Fred Schultz had previously been exonerated of the shooting death of an Glendale, Wisconsin police officer on the 23rd of July in 1975. He was the Glendale police officer George Robert Sassan, was arrested by a suspect in a bar during off-duty. Milwaukee police officers including Schultz were on the scene to investigate the incident in the suburbs of Glendale (outside their area of responsibility) and reportedly mistakenly interpreted Sassan for a suspect , and killed him when they saw him turn towards them with a gun. Schultz and his accomplice have been cleared by Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office for the shooting.
Around that time, she met Elfred O. “Fred” Schultz, then a 13-year veteran of the Milwaukee Police Department. Schultz had two sons and had obtained a divorce from his first wife, Christine, in November 1980. Bembenek and Schultz were married in January 1981 in Waukegan, Illinois. At the time of the marriage, Bembenek was working as a personal trainer at a health club and was living in an apartment with Schultz, her friend Judy Zess and Zess’ boyfriend Thomas D. Gaertner. Bembenek later got a job as a campus security officer at Marquette University.
