The Story of Starvation Heights
Stuff You Should Know
iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 82.7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
There are quacks and then there is Linda Hazzard. Not only did she starve her patients to death, but she took their family fortunes as she did it. This is the story of Starvation Heights.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.5 | Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:15.5 | Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh and Chuck's here too, and Jerry's here too. And I'm here too. That's me, Josh. |
| 0:24.0 | And this is stuff you should know. The we're all three feeling weird edition. Yeah. Yeah. Isn't that strange? |
| 0:32.6 | So yeah, I said that I was just feeling kind of off today. And you said, me too. And Jerry said, me three. Yeah, what does that mean? I don't know. But, I mean, that is very, that's remarkable to me, that all three of us. I mean, we all have three different personalities. Yeah. We don't like, you know, we don't live together despite what most people think. not anymore no so i don't know what it is |
| 0:56.4 | maybe some things in retrograde and something's house or something like that that whole thing |
| 1:01.8 | stuff you should know is in retrograde whatever that means uh so yeah we'll we'll do our best with |
| 1:09.9 | this i'll do my best not to break out in tears. |
| 1:12.9 | No, I think it would be okay. And big thanks to Julia for helping us put together this episode on one of the quacks of all quacks. I feel like we have covered quite a few quacks over the years. |
| 1:24.2 | Yeah, this one isn't as bad as that one guy that we did, though, but she's up there for sure. |
| 1:29.5 | I mean, I think she still has her supporters. |
| 1:32.9 | Like, you can still buy her books online. |
| 1:35.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:36.4 | But most people who are familiar with their case are like, she was a serial killer. |
| 1:42.0 | Right. |
| 1:42.3 | She just had a strange, a strange method of murder. |
| 1:46.2 | Yeah, of bleeding people of their money. |
| 1:48.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:49.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:49.7 | For sure. |
| 1:50.2 | And their life force. |
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