1988 Winnetka attacks

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On May 20, 1988, 30-year-old Laurie Dann carried out a series of attacks in and around Winnetka, Illinois, United States, resulting in the death of 8-year-old Nick Corwin and injuries to six other people. In addition to the attacks in Winnetka, Dann mailed or personally delivered snacks poisoned with arsenic to several of her intended victims, however the doses were too diluted to cause harm. The attacks began with taking two of her former babysitting client's sons on a supposed trip to a fair, but instead she drove them to Ravinia Elementary School in Highland Park where she set off an incendiary device inside a hallway, but the fire was put out without causing serious damage. Dann then drove the two children to a Jewish daycare where her ex-sister-in-law's daughter attended where she attempted to enter with a jerry can of gasoline, but she was stopped by staff. Dann then returned the two boys to their home, where she first tried to poison them, then set their house on fire, but the two...

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