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Criminal

The Fasting Cure

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.739.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In 1911, two sisters traveled to Seattle to meet a "doctor" named Linda Hazzard. The sisters didn’t seem very sick, but when they arrived, Dr. Hazzard told them they didn’t have a moment to lose – they needed to begin her treatment right away.  A few months later, one of the sisters wrote a letter to her old governess. “I am wonderfully better in fact,” she said, “getting stronger by leaps.” But her handwriting was messier than usual, and her sentences ran together and overlapped. You can find Gregg Olsen’s book, Starvation Heights, here. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. Listen back through our archives at youtube.com/criminalpodcast.  We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop.  Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. This episode contains descriptions of disordered eating and weight loss.

0:36.0

Please use discretion.

0:40.0

These two women in their mid 30s had been raised really in quite wealthy circumstances in the

0:47.6

UK.

0:48.6

They had money, they had diamonds, they had land holdings in Australia and they had a place in London.

0:56.0

In 1910, sisters Claire and Dorothea Williamson took a steamer across the Atlantic.

1:02.0

They didn't tell anyone why they were going to America.

1:05.4

There weren't any other siblings, neither had married, and they embarked along this trek across the world, really.

1:14.6

They had 13 trunks of stuff with them on this world tour they were on.

1:19.2

Their parents had died young.

1:21.8

The sisters had inherited a lot of money, more than a million dollars.

1:25.0

Dorothea, who went by Dora, was four years older than Claire.

1:31.0

When the Williamson sisters arrived in Canada, they went to Quebec first, then headed west towards Vancouver.

1:39.0

What were they seeking? Does it seem like they didn't even know what they wanted?

1:44.6

They were seeking perfect health.

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