RSSConvicted Murderer Lisa Michelle Lambert Paid $35K by State of PA in Lawsuit Rape Settlement
Only in America does a convicted for life murderer get awarded a $35K settlement. 34 
year old Lisa Michelle Lambert had accused administrators at the State Correctional Institution at Cambridge Springs of allegedly raping and assaulting her.
In a 1996 lawsuit, Lisa Michelle Lambert, 34, accused administrators at the State Correctional Institution at Cambridge Springs of doing nothing to prevent the assaults. She also alleged that she was videotaped during a strip search.
Lambert alleged that the assaults happened while she was serving her life sentence for the 1991 murder of 16-year-old Laurie Show, a Lancaster high school sophomore. (Philadelphia Daily News)
If the name “Lisa Michelle Lambert” sound familiar it should. It was her stalking case and the murder of 16 year old Laurie Show that gave rise to the anti-stalking laws in Pennsylvania and was portrayed in the TV show in 2000, ”The Stalking of Laurie Show”.
What makes this story more disturbing is that the $35K was nothing more than a nuisance payment to make all of this go away. Two wrongs never make a right. There was obvious wrong doing by guards; however, murder usually trumps assault. The jurors might be told of Lambert’s conviction. Might? What, that she stalked and murdered and innocent girl? As Lisa Michelle Lambert takes college classes offered by BU in Mass prison, Laurie Show is still dead.
Lambert’s lawyer, Angus Love of the Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project, called the settlement amount “low.” He said his client was concerned that jurors might be told about her conviction which “could have poisoned the minds for [her] plea for compassion for the sexual assaults she suffered.”
In addition, he said, Lambert did not want to “fan the flames” of the publicity that has surrounded her case for years. She is now taking college classes offered by Boston University in the Massachusetts prison and “wants to put all this behind her,” Love said. (Philly.com)
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So she wants to “put all this behind her.”
Does any faint sense of transgression at having murdered another girl impinge on her sensibilities? Or is responsibility for one’s actions limited to the elder generations?
Maybe she and Joran van der Sloot are destined for each other….
She killed someone, for which she’s serving life in prison.
Someone raped her, for which they will pay thirty-five thousand dollars.
Trial, conviction, and sentence does still mean something under our rule of law.
I’ve read the story of Laurie Show, how terribly sad for Laurie and how deranged Lisa is. Maybe she should take the 35K and start a college scholarhip in Laurie’s name. Hey Lisa, did you ever think what your boyfriend did to Laurie and how you ended her life, you sick, sick creature.
Those eyes looking pretty dead.
Lady justice is rightfully blind, thanks to some old dead guy for that. The guards are a poor model representation for the United states Penn. They bring shame and distrust to an already bankrupt system. Justice served twice.
A scholarship in Laurie’s name would be a great idea, better yet, give it to Laurie’s family. (Not that they would want her filthy money)
It should be a law that people in prison for murder should not be allowed to benefit financially in any way for any reason. They should be forced to give the money to charity and then see how many law suits they pursue. Bet they wouldn’t be near as interested.
Boy, that is on wicked lookin’ thing! She
looks like a cross between Leona Helmsley
and Elvira Mistress of the Dark. I’d have
to sleep with one eye open with that evil
chick in the house.
She’ll give ya a haircut,
Lorena Bobbitt style!
You all should educate yourself before commenting on a case you know nothing about.Laurie wrote her killer’s initials over and over with her own blood. No L or M but TB and BY several times. This case has been called “THE most prosicitorial misconduct in the English speaking world”.After Lisa’s release she was declared innocent but, that makes many high officials guilty.Anyway, I’m so tired of people’s ignorance it’s a shame. There was no hair,fiber,finger or footprint…no evidence placing her at the scene.She deserves not only that small amount of chumpchange but her freedom as well.Being kept in isolation and being repeatedly raped has nothing to do with Laurie’s death.Today one killer walks free,who had been charged with raping Laurie -it never went to court.He had raped several girls yet beat on Lisa. Tabitha the other killer schemes at new appeals.They were both booked all bruised and scratched because Laurie faught with all she had and managed to name her killers even in death with her blood. Lisa had not a single mark on her.Lisa studies and uses her time the best she can.For each of you who replied after just one year in prison your skin&look change.Prison pallor.After ten years she looks great.By the way the whole time she was out I was able to sleep and never once feared for my life. I feared for her.For the nuts that have to make a statement or do something crazy just for attention.Education. Didn’t you learn in kindergarden if you had nothing nice to say….and how important reading and education were?
Tricia, it is *you* who needs to re-read the facts of this case. I have indeed educated myself before making or reading any of the above comments. She was not raped. Her accused ‘rapist’ was out of town on his honeymoon, for God’s sake! (Proven by a Marriage Certificate.) It’s just like OJ…the whole world framed OJ, right? Everyone in the whole state of California framed him just for the hell of it. Apparently, that is what Ms. Lambert is trying to make everyone believe, as if she is so beautiful & desirable that those damn cops just couldn’t keep their pants on! Please give me a break! And aside from the mountain of evidence against her, her very *character* proves she is cold-blooded. Someone who can look you in the eye & lie, with no remorse whatsoever for an innocent girl’s life, does not a poor, innocent, persecuted girl make. Ms. Lambert is obviously a master manipulator. No doubt she has used her feminine wiles & scary make-up job to win the affections of Lawrence Yunkin, Tabitha Buck, that creepy judge Dalzell & her masculine attorney, Tina Rainville. I only hope her little girl does not follow in her murderer mother’s footsteps. (Oh, that’s right…perhaps she was indeed the child of one of the many so-called ‘rapists’ from Pennsylvania police precincts far & wide, even though the DNA test proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that Yunkin is the father.) Ya see, Lisa, the truth will always out! So please, Tricia, find a worthy cause to support instead of being so obviously manipulated just like all her other supporters. You are in the minority, & for good reason. She’s using you. You gotta know that she is laughing at you, all the way to the bank!
first thing first i think michelle should be locked up just as the rest of her gang,instead she was paid for “HER’ pain and suffering.what about laurie and her parents where is the justice.i mean none of us was there when she was murdered we could only know from what was found at the scene and what was told by michelle and her gang nobody is taking the blame for cutting laurie’s throat but somebody did it.and since they each pointing fingers she should have never been realesed my thing is the others had no reason to want laurie dead only michelle so why is she a free woman well i guess we will never know
She should not be allowed to take any courses. Why she is never going to get out perhaps a course in laundry would be more beneficial. She killed a girl over a biyfriend. She belongs in a cell with no tv radio and only a bible for the rest of her life. It is odd how her accomplice ZMiss buck took her punishment and never said a word .At least hr chld will never know her.
Being punished for ones crimes should not include rape. There are many facts that support both sides of the lisa lambert argument. what would she even do if she where released? i believe that lisa believes in her innocence. she wants to be absolved of this crime and has fought to do so to no avail. she came damn close though and when she was released she didn’t flee the country or hide from officials when they demanded her return to prison. only lisa, tabitha and lawrence know what really happened that day. it is unfortunate that the people we trust to see that justice is carried out in every facet of an investigation and sentencing are as untrustworthy as the bulk of you claim lisa is. a fair trial it was not, but that didn’t seem to matter.