saw this story linked on the page where the Joan Baez story was..

Bambi sounds like she was quite a character...wondered why
her story was not more well-known.

there are some details in this story that werenot in the
first account i read...this one is from the L.A.Times

LAURIE 'BAMBI' BEMBENEK

Convicted of killing husband's ex-wife, escaped from Wisconsin prison

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 Portland, Ore., said her longtime attorney, Mary Woehrer.

Bembenek worked briefly as a Playboy Club waitress before becoming a police officer in Milwaukee, where she married detective Fred Schultz. Bembenek was convicted in 1982 of fatally shooting his ex-wife, Christine Schultz.

Bembenek was sentenced to life in prison. In 1990, she escaped Taycheedah Correctional Institution in Wisconsin and fled to Canada with then-fiance Dominic Gugliatto, the brother of another inmate.

Bembenek and Gugliatto were captured about three months later. In a deal with prosecutors, she pleaded no contest to second-degree murder and served the remaining 10 years of that sentence on parole.

Her story was made into a book and TV movie starring Tatum O'Neal, "Woman on Trial: The Lawrencia Bembenek Story."

In 2002, after completing parole, Bembenek filed a motion seeking testing for genetic material in the case in the hope of clearing her name. Later that year, she seriously injured her foot falling out a hotel window before an appearance in Los Angeles on the " Dr. Phil" show, which had agreed to pay for some of the DNA testing. Bembenek's right foot was amputated a few weeks later.