She called herself a doctor. She promised healing, renewal, and transformation.
Now, imagine checking into a health spa to recharge your spirit… only to find yourself slowly starving to death—while your “doctor” helps herself to your jewelry, your estate, and your last breath.
She sold suffering disguised as salvation—building her empire on desperation, fraud, and fatal fasting.
People trusted her. People died. And somehow… she kept getting away with it.
Until someone managed to escape…
Starved to Death — this is the chilling true story of Linda Hazzard.
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Washington State Archives Blog: "Pioneering Healer or Serial Killer?"
https://www.thestranger.com/features/2019/10/23/41755951/ivars-and-the-serial-killer
Hazzard,L. B. (1908) Fasting for the Cure of Disease. Seattle, Harrison publishing co. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress
https://www.loc.gov/item/09031446/
Murderous Roots: Summersode 4: The Diet Doctor of Death
https://murderousroots.com/episodes/minisode-4-death-by-starvation
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