The Nation - News from May 26, 1988
A Madison, Wis., psychiatrist who was treating Laurie Dann received a drink container this week from the woman who went on a shooting rampage at a Winnetka, Ill., school, and the liquid will be tested for poison, the FBI said. Dann is believed to have delivered arsenic-laced snacks to two fraternities and several families for whom she had worked as a baby sitter before the rampage Friday. An 8-year-old boy was killed in the shooting spree at Hubbard Woods Elementary School. Dann later killed herself. University of Wisconsin-Madison psychiatrist John Greist received the container at his office, FBI agent Kent Miller said. Greist, a specialist in phobias and depressions, did not drink the liquid.
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