Run, Bambi, Run

By: Apple TV+ / Campside Media
  • Summary

  • 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.

    https://apple.co/RunBambiRun

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Episodes
  • Introducing Run, Bambi, Run
    Apr 11 2022

    It’s 1979 and a 21-year-old named Laurie Bembenek has signed up for the Milwaukee police academy, joining the first wave of female patrol officers in America. She’s able to quickly adjust to the job and the sexist treatment by her superiors, but her troubles are just beginning.


    Run Bambi Run is an Apple Original podcast, produced by Campside Media. Listen and follow on Apple Podcasts.

    https://apple.co/RunBambiRun

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    3 mins
  • String of Women
    Apr 11 2022

    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.


    Run Bambi Run is an Apple Original podcast, produced by Campside Media. Listen and follow on Apple Podcasts.

    https://apple.co/RunBambiRun

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    31 mins
  • Do You See Anyone Wearing Lipstick?
    Apr 11 2022

    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. 


    Run Bambi Run is an Apple Original podcast, produced by Campside Media. Listen and follow on Apple Podcasts.

    https://apple.co/RunBambiRun

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    31 mins

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