Bembenek's attorney, Mary Woehrer, says she died Saturday night at a hospice care center in Portland, Ore. Woehrer says the cause of death was liver failure.
Bembenek, a former Playboy Club waitress, was convicted in 1982 of fatally shooting her police detective husband's ex-wife, Christine Schultz. She was sentenced to life in prison but always maintained her innocence, and in 1990 she escaped and fled to Canada, popularizing the catch phrase "Run Bambi Run." She was captured but later released after pleading no contest to second-degree murder.
Woehrer says Bembenek's family will continue to seek a criminal pardon.
Laurie Bambi Bembenek
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