12 episodes
Run, Bambi, Run Apple TV+
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4.5 • 50 Ratings
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Laurie Bembenek was a Milwaukee police officer and Playboy Club bunny before being arrested for the murder of her husband’s ex-wife, a crime she insisted she did not commit. Nicknamed “Bambi Bembenek,” she became a tabloid fixation, a feminist cause célèbre and, after she escaped from prison, an American folk hero, though she was never exonerated. Journalist and Campside Media co-founder Vanessa Grigoriadis takes a fresh look at the case Diane Sawyer called the "most glamorous murder case of the 1980s.”
New episodes out every Monday.
Run Bambi Run is an Apple Original podcast, produced by Campside Media. Listen and follow on Apple Podcasts.
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String of Women
Convicted of the murder of her husband’s ex-wife, Laurie Bembenek escaped Wisconsin’s only womens’ prison in 1990. A nationwide manhunt ensued, but the truth about whether Laurie was guilty of the crime has never been revealed.
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Do You See Anyone Wearing Lipstick?
Laurie proudly graduates from the police academy and becomes one of Milwaukee’s first female officers. But her career as a cop is short-lived. While navigating what she believes to be discrimination due to her gender, she becomes a target of her superiors.
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Indecent Exposure
After being unceremoniously fired from the police department, Laurie fights to get her job back. But tackling the sexism embedded within the department has far-reaching consequences.
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Ramsey Avenue
The shocking murder of Christine Schultz, a mother of two, leads police to focus on a small circle of suspects. Laurie’s refusal to take a polygraph test turns out to be a critical misstep.
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Killers Don’t Play Flute
Laurie is tried for murder in the first gavel-to-gavel televised trial in the state of Wisconsin. As Laurie’s physical appearance and wardrobe choices are held against her, a surprise witness steps forward with potentially damning testimony.
Run Bambi Run is an Apple Original podcast, produced by Campside Media. Listen and follow on Apple Podcasts.
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Wigging Out
Sentenced to life for a murder she maintains she did not commit, Laurie begins digging into the police investigation. She also has her eye on a handsome man she meets in prison.
Run Bambi Run is an Apple Original podcast, produced by Campside Media. Listen and follow on Apple Podcasts.
https://apple.co/RunBambiRun
Customer Reviews
Unsolved mystery
Loved this podcast! We’ll researched and rally well told. I’m definitely on Bambi’s team, just don’t feel like she had anything to do with it. Honestly feel like it’s a case of police corruption at its finest.
Who dunnit?
This is extremely detailed and well researched. The woman at the centre of it had hardly started her life when she was convicted, falsely, it would seem, of her husband’s ex wife’s murder. The narrator places us thoughtfully back in the 80s and 90s at a time when women’s rights in the workplace were tenuous at best, particularly in male dominated fields such as policing.
In Bambi’s case, this would prove to be her undoing.
There are no winners, as the real killer has never been unmasked. The judicial system showed itself to be weak and open to manipulation. The collateral damage of her conviction was immense. :(.
If you could place this crime 40 years later, you would hope for a different outcome.
Amazing
Really well written, spoken well. Great story
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