How To Write A Research Paper On Laurie Duban School Shooting

Female School Shooter: Laurie Dann In the wake of the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, there has been one shooting which many have forgotten: the one reported case where a female was the offender in a school shooting. It has been reported that sixty percent of the shootings which have happened over the last three decades happened in small towns, and the perpetrator is almost always a young male (Calhoun). Laurie Dann is the exception to the rule. Born Laurie Wasserman on October 18, 1957 to Edith Joy, 27, and Norman Wasserman, 28, an accountant, she was a very, very quiet girl growing up (Papajohn and Kaplan). She had a brother, Mark, five years her senior. Laurie grew up near South Shore, a neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois. When she was seven her family moved to North Shore in Highland Park. Both in elementary and middle school, she was not known to have any close friends but always made good grades. In high school, after sophomore year, Laurie’s family moved to Glencoe where she attended New Trier High School. There Laurie did not seem to have many girlfriends but
His mother commented on Laurie’s idiosyncrasies. She remembers her constantly washing her hands, opening doors and picking things up with her sleeves, and not liking to be touched. That September, Russell Dann was stabbed in the chest with an ice pick as he slept. No charges were ever filed. She continued to make harassing phone calls, but was never charged because of insufficient evidence. Her former in-laws begged her parents to institutionalize their daughter, but the Wasserman’s resisted (Brower, Bell, Breo…). Laurie and Russell’s divorce was final in April of 1987. That summer she took an apartment at Northwestern in Evanston, which she sublet from a student. She became a suspect in several thefts and disruptive incidents at the building. At this time is when Laurie decided to take up