Laurie Dann

Quick Facts

Full Name	Laurie Dann
Occupation	Insurance Broker
Date Of Birth	Oct 18, 1957(1957-10-18)
Age	67
Date Of Death	1988-05-20
Birthplace	Chicago
Country	United States
Birth City	Illinois
Horoscope	Libra

Laurie Dann Biography

Laurie Dann is one of the most popular and richest Insurance Broker who was born on October 18, 1957 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Laurie Dann (nee Wasserman; October 18th 1957 – May 20th 1998) was an American murderer who killed and shot a boy named Nick Corwin and injured two girls and three boys at the Winnetka, Illinois elementary school. She later was a hostage for a family and then shot a second man not fatally, before killing herself.

Laurie as well as Russell Dann separated in October 1985, when they separated. The divorce talks were bitter and Laurie asserting that Russell was an abusive partner. In the months following the police were contacted to investigate a variety of incidents which included a series of abusive phone calls towards Russell along with his entire family. In April of 1986, Laurie Dann accused Russell of taking over and vandalizing her parents’ home, which she was at the time living. In the following days, she bought the Smith and Wesson .357 Magnum, telling the salesperson that she needed the gun to defend herself. Police were concerned about her gun purchase and unsuccessfully attempted to persuade Dann as well as her loved ones she should surrender the firearm.

In August 1986, she contacted her ex-boyfriend, who was by then a resident at a hospital, and claimed to have had his child. When he refused to believe her, Dann called the hospital where he worked and claimed he had raped her in the emergency room.

Dann purchased a .22 semi-automatic Beretta at the end of December 1987. In March 1988, she stopped attending her appointments with the psychiatrist and behavior therapist. At about the same time, she began to make preparations for the attacks. She stole books from the library on poisons, and she diluted arsenic and other chemicals from a lab. She also shoplifted clothes and wigs to disguise herself and was arrested for theft on one occasion. Both her psychiatrist and her father tried to persuade her to enter the hospital as an inpatient, but she refused.

She was married to Russell Dann, an executive of an insurance broker firm in September of 1982. However, the relationship quickly deteriorated as Russell’s family noticed symptoms of OCD and odd behavior, such as throwing trash in the home. She was seen by an psychiatrist for a short time, and was able to pinpoint her childhood and her family as the cause of her issues.

Laurie Dann Net Worth

Laurie Dann is one of the richest Insurance Broker from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Laurie Dann 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

People who knew Dann said she was shy and shy. Her graduation of New Trier High School Winnetka, Illinois, in 1975. Although she did not score well at high school, she could attend Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. After her grades improved, she was accepted to Drake University at the University of Arizona with the ambition of becoming a school teacher. She began to date an undergraduate student in the pre-med program, and the relationship quickly began to grow more serious, however she began to become extremely demanding and possessive. In the summer of 1977, she was a student at her first semester at University of Wisconsin in Madison where she took a course on home economics.

In 1980, after the relationship ending, Dann moved back to her parents’ house. She later moved into Northwestern University to complete her degree however she was dropped from all of her classes and did not graduate.

In September 1986, Russell Dann reported he had been stabbed in his sleep with an icepick. He accused Laurie of the crime, although he had not actually seen his attacker. The police decided not to press charges against Laurie based on a medical report which suggested that the injury might have been self- inflicted, as well as Russell’s abrasive attitude towards the police and his failed polygraph test. Russell and his family continued to receive harassing hang-up phone calls, and Laurie was arrested for calls made to Russell’s sister. The charges were dropped due to lack of evidence.

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Who is Laurie Dann Dating?

According to our records, Laurie Dann married to Russell Dann. As of December 1, 2023, Laurie Dann’s is not dating anyone.

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During the days before May 20, 1988, Laurie Dann prepared rice cereal snacks and juice boxes poisoned with the diluted arsenic she had stolen in Madison. She mailed them to a former acquaintance, ex-babysitting clients, her psychiatrist, Russell Dann, and others. In the early morning of May 20, she personally delivered snacks and juice “samples” to acquaintances, and families for whom she had babysat, some of whom had not seen her for years. Other snacks were delivered to Alpha Tau Omega, Psi Upsilon, and Kappa Sigma fraternity houses and Leverone Hall at Northwestern University in Evanston. Notes were attached to some of the deliveries. The drinks were often leaking and the squares unpleasant-tasting, so few were actually consumed. In addition, the arsenic was highly diluted so nobody became seriously ill.

Facts & Trivia

Laurie Ranked on the list of most popular Insurance Broker. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Laurie Dann celebrates birthday on October 18 of every year.

At about 9:00 a.m. on the 20th, Dann arrived at the home of the Rushe family, former babysitting clients in Winnetka, Illinois, to pick up their two youngest children. The family had just told Dann they were moving away. Instead of taking the children on the promised outing, she took them to Ravinia Elementary School in Highland Park, Illinois, where she erroneously believed that both of her former sister-in-law’s two sons were enrolled (in fact, one of Dann’s intended targets was not even a student at the school). She left the two children in the car while she entered the school and tried to detonate a fire bomb in one of the school’s hallways. After Dann’s departure, the small fire she set was subsequently discovered by students, and quickly extinguished by a teacher. She drove to a local daycare attended by her ex- sister-in-law’s daughter and tried to enter the building with a plastic can of gasoline, but was stopped by staff.