Taycheedah Correctional Institution
Deceased- Lawrencia Bembenek ultra rare pink envelope from prison in Wisconsin from 1992
This case is just great! Mind boggling…cold hearted killer or was it evidence planted by cops. You decide!
Beautiful model and Calendar girl , to female police officer and then to cold blooded murderer? She was convicted of killing her husbands Ex-wife. Many to this day believe she was set up and others believe she was guilty! Sensational case from the early 80’s…she even escaped from prison and fled to Canada to be caught and brought back to the United States. She always maintained her innocence! She was just brought back from a Canadian prison after being on the run. She had escaped from the Taycheedah Corr. facility to Canada. Now she’s back at that facility.
This envelope from 1992 has her full signature Laurie Bembenek with numerous lines penned by her while in prison in Wisconsin. She was shortly released (few months) after sending this envelope.
Lawrencia Ann "Bambi" Bembenek (August 15, 1958 – November 20, 2010), known as Laurie Bembenek, was an American former police officer’s wife, convicted for the 1981 murder of her husband's ex-wife.
Her story garnered national attention in 1990 after Bembenek escaped from Taycheedah Correctional Institution in Wisconsin and was recaptured in Thunder bay Ontario Canada, an episode that inspired books, movies and the slogan "Run, Bambi, Run".
Upon winning a new trial, Bembenek pleaded no contest to second degree murder and was sentenced to time served and ten years' probation in December 1992. Four years after, she sought to have the sentence overturned.