- Former police officer in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
- Kept her maiden name in marriage.
- Former Playboy bunny.
- In December 2001, had her right foot amputated because of injuries suffered trying to jump from a Los Angeles hotel window.
- Convicted in 1982 of murdering her husband's ex-wife, she was sentenced to life in prison but escaped in 1990. She was captured three months later. Paroled in 2002.
- Former Milwaukee, Wisconsin police officer convicted of shooting her then-husband's ex-wife. Her husband, also a police officer, had been exonerated in the 1975 fatal shooting of a Glendale, Wisconsin police officer. Elfred Schultz filed for divorced shortly after Bembenek was convicted.
- Lives in Washington state, where she cares for her terminally ill father. (2000)
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