March 22, 2024 • 55 mins
Linda Hazzard billed herself as a "fasting specialist" despite no formal medical degree and little training. She believed that all diseases came from food, and starving was the only cure. She opened her “sanitarium” in Olalla, Washington in the early 1900s, calling it Wilderness Heights. But residents of the small town called it "Starvation Heights" because of the countless patients who went to see Hazzard... and vanished. Both figuratively and literally.
This is a story of murder.... but are y'all feeling some cultiness too?? "Paging Dr. Hazzard"! Did they only say that on Gray's Anatomy? Were they ever paging doctors? When did they stop?? That's not what this episode is about. AHDH!
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-Audio editing by River Innes.
-Research by Elizabeth Vandenbosch.
-Sources:
This is a story of murder.... but are y'all feeling some cultiness too?? "Paging Dr. Hazzard"! Did they only say that on Gray's Anatomy? Were they ever paging doctors? When did they stop?? That's not what this episode is about. AHDH!
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☕️Buy us a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/tsfuthepodcast
📲Subscribe to our podcast on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thats-so-fcked-up/id1508752329
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-Audio editing by River Innes.
-Research by Elizabeth Vandenbosch.
-Sources:
- The Doctor Who Starved Her Patients to Death | History| Smithsonian Magazine
- Linda Hazzard - Wikipedia
- The Starvation Doctor: Dr. Linda Hazzard’s Deadly Cure - Historic Mysteries
- Linda Hazzard: The Rise & Fall of Washington's first female serial killer | Brutal Nation | Medium
- Dr. Linda Burfield Hazzard was hungry for riches, so she starved her patients to death – New York Daily News (nydailynews.com)
- The 'doctor' who starved her patients... and then herself | History | News | Express.co.uk
- Patients Willingly Paid This Doctor to Starve Them To Death (historycollection.com)
- Things You Didn't Know About Serial Killer Linda Hazzard (grunge.com)
- Hazzard, Linda Burfield (1867-1938) - HistoryLink.org
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