Lawrencia Bembenek case is the focus of new Investigation Discovery episode

Laurie Bembenek is back in prime time. 

Milwaukee's most famous runaway convict is the subject of Investigation Discovery's series "Vanity Fair Confidential" Monday night. The installment, titled "Was Bambi Framed?", airs at 8 p.m. Central Time on the cable channel. 

(Investigation Discovery is available on Channel 139 on Spectrum cable in the Milwaukee area.) 

As one of the investigators says in the promo above, the show's conclusion is "yes." Among the people interviewed in the clip is former Milwaukee police detective Bill Vogl, who disagrees with that conclusion. 

In 1981, Lawrencia Bembenek was charged in the killing of Christine Schultz, the ex-wife of her husband, Fred Schultz. Fred Schultz was a Milwaukee police officer; Bembenek, who had been in the Milwaukee Police Academy and also worked briefly as a waitress at the Playboy Club in Lake Geneva, was working as a security guard at Marquette University at the time. 

In March 1982, Bembenek — often called "Bambi" in the news media — was convicted of first-degree murder in the case. Claiming her innocence, she filed several unsuccessful appeals, helping the story gain national attention. 

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The case, and Bembenek's, profile exploded in 1990, when she escaped from Taycheedah Correctional Institution and fled to Canada. She returned a year later and agreed to plead guilty to second-degree murder, with her sentence being commuted to time served. 

Her story spawned two made-for-TV movies, several books and loads of tabloid fodder. Bembenek — who later changed her name to Laurie and spent the rest of her life in and out of the spotlight while protesting her innocence — died in 2010 at age 52.