Murder of Innocence by Joel Kaplan, George Papajohn, & Eric Zorn

Murder of Innocence by Joel Kaplan, George Papajohn, & Eric Zorn

The tragic life and final rampage of Laurie Dann, "The Schoolhouse Killer"

On an early May morning in 1988, thirty-year-old Laurie Dann, a profoundly unhappy product of Chicago's North Shore suburbs, loaded her father's car with handguns, incendiary chemicals, and arsenic-laced food. Before the end of the day, Dann had blazed a trail of fire, poison, and bullets through the area, murdering an eight-year-old boy and critically wounding five other children in an elementary school, until a massed force of armed police ended the killing. Why did she do it? Could she have been stopped? the nationwide headlines left a a host of agonizing questions unanswered - until now. Murder of Innocence is the searing portrayal of a young woman of beauty and privilege allowed to go slowly berserk, and of the fatally complacent community that became an unwitting accomplice to the final rampage of Laurie Dann.