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

That's So Fcked Up

Ashley Love Richards

Comedy, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.5 • 541 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0	During this, they discovered some, we'll call unique things about Linda.
0:07.9	She had been responsible for several deaths of wealthy individuals.
0:13.4	Weird.
0:14.2	Weird.
0:14.9	Yeah.
0:15.5	Not a lot of impoverished people were dying in her care.
0:20.3	Of course.
0:21.4	Oddly, several of them had signed over large portions, if not all of their estates to her.
0:27.9	Of course they had.
0:28.6	This is cult leadership.
0:30.0	Dude, she's a cult leader.
0:31.3	Yeah.
0:31.8	Right?
0:32.2	I agree.
0:32.7	I feel like we should play cult bingo, too.
0:34.6	This story has it all.
0:36.1	That is so fucked up. It's fucked up. Do so
0:41.3	fucked up. It is just so damn fucked up. That's fucked up. I was just singing the final countdown, you know, just because I was getting ready.
1:02.7	I got nothing.
1:03.7	Just getting hyped.
1:05.2	It was the final countdown.
1:06.8	We have a five-second countdown.
	...

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