Sentenced to life for a murder she maintains she did not commit, Laurie begins digging into the police investigation. She also has her eye on a handsome man she meets in prison. 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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First it just looks like a building.
You get closer, and then all of a sudden, you realize, you say, oh, shit, it's a prison.
Chris Radish is talking about Ticcita women's prison.
That's where Lori Bembenek was taken after she was convicted for murder.
As soon as she got through the doors, she was booked, strip searched, and shown to herself.
The speed of it all was mind boggling.
Days before, shed been sitting at her parents kitchen table playing scrabble, and now all the noise had died away, the flash pulps, the shouting, and she was an inmate for life.
At only 23 years old.
In her cell, Lori had hour after hour to sit and obsess about how she got here.
None of the evidence made sense.
The killer was a man in a brown wig, which Lori didnt own, in a green jogging suit, which Lori never had.
But it wasnt evidence that she was convicted on.
Ultimately, she believed that shed been convicted because jurors believed she was a mean, materialistic woman, a woman who fit into all sorts of dangerous tropes.
If I wore something a little on the conservative side, they would say I was trying to look like little house on the prairie.
If I wore something, you know, that was a little more form fitting than, you know, I was the femme fatale, you know, trying to persuade the male jurors or something.
In prison, Lori lost her core characteristics, her confidence and her swagger, her deep sense of morality, her fierce love of independence.
Here's something she wrote long ago.
I'll let Chris Radash read it.