The life and rampage of Laurie Dann
Already Gone Podcast
Nina Innsted
4.6 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
On May 20, 1988, Laurie Dann woke early, she delivered special packages to homes in her community. Then she stopped at the post office to mail some parcels. It was 9am when Laurie arrived to babysit two small boys. #Chicago #Murder #schoolshooter #fire #shooting #Illinois
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friends, Nina here. You might notice this is the second school attack episode this month. |
| 0:06.8 | Well, I decided that now, while the majority of schools are closed because of the pandemic, |
| 0:12.6 | now is a good time to cover a disturbing topic like school violence. And I've been curious about |
| 0:18.8 | our subject for a while. At the time of the incident back in the summer of 88, there was a big |
| 0:25.2 | flurry of coverage. There hasn't been much in the years since. When I decided I was going to cover |
| 0:32.3 | Laurie Dan, I reached out to friends in suburban Chicago because I wanted to see what if anything |
| 0:38.0 | they knew about her case. Turns out, I know someone who's family knew Laurie and knew the |
| 0:44.8 | Wassermons. The neighborhoods and the schools targeted by Laurie were the ones that my friend and |
| 0:50.8 | her family called home. Throughout the episode, I will interject the information I received about |
| 0:56.7 | Laurie and the Wasserman family via the Glencoe, Winnetka, Highland Park, Greatvine. |
| 1:03.5 | And before we get into the story, there are some graphic descriptions of sexual assault, |
| 1:09.1 | and of course the murder of a child. The SNR discretion is advised. |
| 1:14.8 | Laurie Dan is best known for the events that occurred on the last day of her life when she embarked |
| 1:22.0 | on a murderous spree through the well-heeled northern suburbs of Chicago. She was born Laurie |
| 1:28.2 | Wasserman on October 18, 1957, the daughter of parents Norman and Edith Wasserman. |
| 1:36.4 | Laurie joined a brother who was five years her senior, and we will not be discussing her brother |
| 1:41.8 | to protect his privacy. While she was born in the city of Chicago, Laurie grew up in the neighboring |
| 1:48.7 | communities of Highland Park and Glencoe, Illinois. If you aren't familiar with Highland Park or |
| 1:54.0 | Glencoe, they are located north of Chicago, right on Lake Michigan. They are among the wealthiest |
| 2:00.5 | communities not just in Illinois, but in the Midwest part of the United States. |
| 2:05.4 | To help you picture where she grew up, Glencoe was the setting of the 1983 Tom Cruise film, |
| 2:13.0 | Risky Business, and several scenes from Ferris Bueller's Day Off were shot in Glencoe. |
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