Former Playboy Club bunny Laurie 'Bambi' Bembenek had been fighting to clear her name of murder charges for decades when she died in 2010 of liver failure at the age of 52
An attorney for a former Playboy Club bunny who gained notoriety after she was convicted of her murdering her husband's ex-wife and later escaped from prison is seeking a posthumous pardon for her.
Laurie 'Bambi' Bembenek had been fighting to clear her name for decades when she died in 2010 of liver failure at the age of 52.
Her attorney sent Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers a pardon request earlier this year in the hope of clearing Bembenek's name.
Evers, a Democrat, has said he will once again consider granting pardons after his predecessor, Republican Scott Walker, didn't issue a single one during his eight years in office.
'I am hoping (Evers) will do something about this,' Bembenek's attorney, Mary Woehrer, said on Tuesday.
'Granting Laurie Bembenek a pardon would be the right thing to do. It would be justice.'
New ballistics and DNA evidence can prove Bembenek's innocence, according to her lawyer.
Bembenek, who worked briefly as a Playboy Club waitress in Lake Geneva, became police officer in Milwaukee in 1980 and married Detective Fred Schultz.
Bembenek was eventually released on parole in 1992 (above) after initially being sentenced to life in prison for murdering her husband's ex-wife a decade earlier. She escaped from prison during her sentenced and fled to Canada before being captured three months later
Bembenek escaped from prison in 1990 and fled to Canada. She was captured about three months later (above in a Canada court) after the case was featured on 'America's Most Wanted'
She was convicted in 1982 of fatally shooting his ex-wife Christine Schultz after complaining about the alimony
