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The Story of Starvation Heights

May 26, 2026·46 min·6-min readconversationalculture
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Linda Hazzard, a self-proclaimed fasting specialist with no medical license, ran a deadly wellness retreat in early 20th-century Washington called Wilderness Heights, where she starved patients under the guise of healing them, pocketed their estates, and claimed they died of preexisting con

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People

Linda HazzardClaire WilliamsonDora WilliamsonMargaret ConwayJohn HerbertGreg OlsenEdward Dewey

Books

Fasting for the Cure of Diseaseby Linda HazzardStarvation Heightsby Greg Olsen

Topics

American HistoryCold CasesCultsHistorical FiguresSerial KillersTrue Crime

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