The Starvation Doctor of Wilderness Heights
The chilling true crime story of Dr. Linda Hazzard, who convinced wealthy patients to starve themselves to death for their health, only to meet the same fate.
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The chilling true crime story of Dr. Linda Hazzard, who convinced wealthy patients to starve themselves to death for their health, only to meet the same fate.
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In 1911, wealthy socialites willingly paid a doctor to starve them to death. Dr. Linda Hazzard claimed that digesting food was a slow, toxic suicide. Her cure for every illness? Total starvation. Desperate patients flocked to her remote Washington sanitarium, Wilderness Heights. Inside, the luxury turned into a living nightmare. Patients were fed nothing but two cups of thin tomato broth a day. Their bones protruded, their skin turned ash-gray, and their minds began to slip. While they withered away, Dr. Hazzard was busy signing their checks. She forced the delirious patients to sign over their entire estates to her. When the police finally raided the estate, they found walking skeletons. Over a dozen people had been systematically starved to death under her care. She was convicted, but released early, still believing in her deadly method. Years later, when she fell ill, she turned to her own famous cure. And starved herself to death.