TSFU: Ep 149- Starvation Heights: Linda Hazzard aka "The Starvation Doctor"

from That's So Fcked Up · host Ashley Love Richards

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!✨If you wanna get your TSFU episodes ad free and on Tuesdays instead of Fridays, check out our Patreon! You get access to over 150 episodes that aren't on the regular feed, and you'd like them all ad free, join our Patreon for as little as $5 a month! There is actually now a new FREE version that you can try with no commitment!🕸️Visit That's So Fcked Up's Website: https://tsfuthepodcast.com/🎉Support our work and get all kinds of nifty perks: https://www.patreon.com/TSFU☕️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🎧or Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2zo86q0aYvNSg8prn1k73N?si=590fae149eb24218📸Follow TSFU on IG: https://www.instagram.com/tsfuthepodcast/🩷Follow Ash on IG: https://www.instagram.com/ashleyloverichards/👾Join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/c2HwBUDsUx-Audio editing by River Innes.-Research by Elizabeth Vandenbosch.-Sources:The Doctor Who Starved Her Patients to Death | History| Smithsonian MagazineLinda Hazzard - WikipediaThe Starvation Doctor: Dr. Linda Hazzard’s Deadly Cure - Historic MysteriesLinda Hazzard: The Rise & Fall of Washington's first female serial killer | Brutal Nation | MediumDr. 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.ukPatients 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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