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nineteen eleven, Balama, Washington.

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It's beautiful out here. You

1:14

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1:16

against the rocky shore from the porch

1:18

of this rustic home tucked neatly

1:20

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1:21

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1:27

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1:29

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1:31

name. starvation heights.

1:34

This property is advertised as a medical

1:36

facility where people from all over

1:38

the world who can't be carried by traditional

1:41

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1:43

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1:45

healing and relief they seek from their

1:48

new doctors?

1:49

The truth is so

1:51

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1:54

This place is more prison than

1:56

infirmary more gulag than hospital.

1:59

Patients here receive

2:02

a treatment course of beatings, torture,

2:05

and starvation.

2:07

Many have already died.

2:09

Well, today, it comes to

2:11

an end. Police enter the facility,

2:14

horrified,

2:14

shocked, and nauseated

2:17

by what they see. Patients

2:19

are gaunt and confused. Their

2:21

faces gazing with empty thousand

2:23

yard stares. Their skeletal

2:25

bodies are emaciated. and on

2:27

a brink of death. Cautiously,

2:30

the police walk through. They

2:31

are determined to fulfill their assigned mission

2:33

today before it's too late. Finally,

2:36

arrest and bring to justice, the deranged

2:39

doctor who's in charge.

2:40

What doctor would do something like this anyway?

2:43

What medical professional would endorse this

2:45

kind of extreme, dangerous, abusive

2:48

treatment. No one.

2:51

The woman at the center of this is not

2:53

a doctor. not even a real

2:55

medical professional of any kind.

2:57

She's a charlatan and a swindler. And

3:00

these well, These aren't

3:02

the last lives she'll take. At

3:04

the back of the compound, they see their

3:06

mark. Her name

3:08

is Linda hazard, and she

3:10

is nothing short of a

3:11

monster. Hazard's alternative

3:14

treatments include

3:16

beatings, psychological torture,

3:19

and most famously extreme

3:21

starvation. In total,

3:23

eighteen of her patients are confirmed

3:26

to have died during her reign of terror in

3:28

the Pacific Northwest. But experts

3:30

say that the true number could be as

3:32

high as forty.

3:33

forty people who were starved to death

3:36

by a woman they trusted to handle their medical

3:38

decisions. Forty people robbed

3:40

by that same woman. A woman who was

3:42

seen wearing the jewelry and clothes of her

3:44

deceased patients,

3:46

sometimes just hours after

3:48

their deaths. But

3:49

the strangest part of Linda Hazard's

3:51

story isn't her callessness. We've

3:54

seen plenty of so Osympath and mayhem

3:56

on the show. The strangest part

3:58

is how she

3:58

seemed to genuinely

3:59

believe her own lies. She

4:02

was a charlatan, a fraud who

4:04

never held an actual medical license. And

4:06

for some reason, people continued

4:08

seeking her out even after

4:10

her actions were bose to the public.

4:13

She continued for years just

4:15

as she had before until she eventually

4:17

treated her last patient

4:19

herself. Was she

4:21

simply misguided? Or was

4:23

she truly a cold blooded murderer?

4:25

We'll get to that. But right

4:27

now, all you need to know. is

4:29

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4:32

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Linda Laura Burfield is born in

5:02

Carver County, Minnesota in

5:03

eighteen sixty seven. one

5:06

of eight children in

5:07

a wealthy family headed by her father,

5:09

Montgomery Burfield. She

5:11

leads

5:11

an idyllic childhood, but

5:13

one marred by illness.

5:16

Linda has suffered from intestinal issues

5:18

and stomach related pain for most of her

5:20

childhood and willing to

5:22

adulthood.

5:23

Often for days at a time, Linda

5:25

is confined to her bed, unable

5:27

to stand and live like the rest of her family

5:30

because of these issues. And the worst

5:32

part is, there seems to be no cure.

5:34

The only thing that helps even a little

5:36

with her pain and symptoms is the

5:38

occasional enema. Her

5:40

father, Montgomery, cares deeply for

5:42

his children's health and well-being, and he

5:44

calls a doctor to the house for regular checkups.

5:47

Later on, Linda will think back to

5:49

this visiting doctor and the

5:51

odd blue pill he used to give all the

5:53

kids.

5:53

We don't know much about this blue

5:56

pill in its contents, but it

5:58

plays a significant part in young Linda's

5:59

life, especially in shaping

6:02

some problematic thought patterns.

6:04

You see, after taking the medicine,

6:06

she becomes convinced that the blue pill,

6:09

not the ailment it's meant to treat,

6:11

is the cause of her sickness and

6:13

suffering. and so begins the transformation.

6:16

Linda's transformation. The

6:18

wheels are set in motion and the events

6:20

and circumstances that follow are gonna

6:22

come together to create a

6:25

monster.

6:25

Now, it's entirely possible

6:28

that she's right

6:28

about this doctor, that he's a

6:30

quack dolling out fake remedies to the

6:32

children of a rich man in order

6:34

to make a quick buck. But it's

6:36

also possible that this

6:39

blue pill really is doing

6:41

more harm than good for Linda and her

6:43

siblings. But whether her paranoia

6:45

is warranted or not, the result is

6:47

the same. Linda

6:48

develops an almost pathological mistrust

6:51

of doctors in mainstream medicine. She

6:53

decides that if she's going to find a cure,

6:56

It's going to come from someone other

6:58

than a doctor. In

7:00

that early cure, starvation,

7:02

of course, You may remember our episode

7:04

about Bernadore McFadden, the fitness

7:06

guru and magazine magnet who

7:08

became enamored with the idea of

7:10

fasting as a cure for disease. And

7:12

while that's a different episode and entirely

7:15

fascinating on its own, McFadden's

7:17

influence has somehow leaked outside of his

7:19

dedicated episode and into this

7:21

one. It's the teachings of the fitness

7:23

figures, an alternative medical practitioners

7:26

like him that get Linda's attention

7:28

here and convince her to try starvation

7:31

on herself.

7:32

And at least in Linda's recollection,

7:35

it works. Long bouts of

7:37

starvation combined with regular enemas

7:40

allegedly cures Linda of her intestinal

7:42

issues around eighteen eighty nine

7:44

by the time she's twenty two. From

7:46

that point on, she's convinced

7:49

She converts into a zealot for the cause

7:51

of starvation. She's obsessed,

7:54

but it's her thing and no

7:56

one realizes just yet how deadly

7:58

this conversion is

7:59

going to

7:59

be. With a new outlook on life,

8:02

Linda leaves home to make a career out

8:04

of sharing the benefits of starvation with

8:06

the rest of the world. The

8:08

only problem, Linda, in her

8:10

early twenties, is married

8:12

to a man named Edwin Perry and

8:14

they have two young children together,

8:17

Roland and Nina. It's a circumstance

8:19

that especially at that time at

8:21

the turn of the twentieth century, would

8:24

normally preclude her from pursuing a

8:26

career of her own. But in

8:28

eighteen ninety eight, after her thirty

8:30

second birthday, Linda leaves

8:32

her family behind, abandoning

8:34

them from Minneapolis to

8:36

make a name for herself as an osteopath

8:39

practitioner of alternative medicine.

8:41

This is an important mile marker for

8:43

Linda. You know, was she a

8:45

con woman or a true believer?

8:48

Imagine what it would take

8:48

to abandon your family, to leave two

8:50

young children behind. How could

8:53

she be okay with that? was

8:55

she really? The easy

8:57

explanation would be to say that Linda is simply

8:59

a cold, unfeeling sociopath

9:01

who doesn't believe in remorse.

9:03

But can it be that simple?

9:05

On

9:05

one hand, Linda's been through a lot

9:07

already. Childhood illness,

9:09

tons of doctors visits, taking

9:12

medication against her will than finding relief

9:14

in the unlikeliest of places.

9:16

Wouldn't you also feel

9:18

compelled to share that with the world? Maybe

9:20

this is more complicated than a greedy,

9:23

detached individual seeking

9:25

fame and fortune. Maybe this is

9:27

a woman who really wants to help others.

9:29

and who's willing to give up everything

9:31

to do it.

9:32

As Linda watches her two young children

9:34

sleep soundly in their beds

9:36

one last time, she takes

9:38

a deep breath. There are

9:40

diseases to be cured, people

9:42

to be saved, a career to

9:44

be had. And with that, She

9:47

picks up her suitcase and leaves

9:49

before the sun rises.

9:55

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9:55

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Linda opens her first clinic as an

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osteopathic nurse in Minneapolis going

12:58

by the name doctor Perry as

13:00

she brings her alternative treatments to

13:02

the masses and touts her fasting method as

13:04

a kind of panacea to cure

13:06

anything by, quote, reading the body of

13:08

toxins or eliminating imbalances.

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13:11

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13:13

you on a way to rid your body of

13:16

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13:18

talking about, Chances

13:20

are pretty high that the only thing they wanna rid

13:22

you of is your money. But

13:23

Linda or doctor

13:26

Perry is prolific with her proselytizing.

13:28

Over the course of her career, she will write

13:30

three separate books and create quite

13:32

a mythology around herself. She adds

13:35

to her origin store the false narrative that

13:37

her first husband died, that

13:39

she arrived in Minneapolis with a broken

13:41

heart and fifteen dollars to

13:43

her name. Nobody

13:44

ever questions it, and it bolsters

13:47

her reputation.

13:47

Not only that, she genuinely

13:50

seems to believe in her three pronged

13:52

treatment approach. which includes

13:54

fasting. Allowing

13:55

the digestive system to rest,

13:57

be cleansed, while removing impurities

13:59

from the body. enemas. Painful

14:02

daily enemas that sometimes go

14:04

on for hours and

14:06

involve at times more than

14:08

twelve quarts of water. And finally,

14:11

massage. As in a

14:13

violent massage that involves Linda

14:15

slamming her wrists into patients'

14:17

foreheads, backs, and other

14:19

areas. It

14:19

is certainly an extreme program, but

14:22

in truth, it's not that far

14:24

off from the kinds of things people like

14:26

Bernard McFadden were pushing. men who were

14:28

gaining sometimes international renowned

14:30

as experts on health and fitness.

14:33

But

14:33

then, she

14:34

kills her first patient. It's

14:37

nineteen o two, and Linda now

14:39

thirty five has just finalized her

14:41

divorce from Edwin. Though in court

14:43

proceedings and papers, she claims he

14:45

abandoned her nearly

14:47

everyone in their lives believes Edwin

14:49

Over Linda. It's

14:50

shortly after the official dissolution of

14:53

her marriage, that she finds a woman

14:55

named gertrude Young, in her

14:57

office in Minneapolis. Gertrude

14:59

suffered a stroke in nineteen hundred

15:01

that left one arm and one leg

15:03

limp in slack. And while

15:05

doctors have managed to treat the pain from her

15:07

paralysis,

15:07

they have had far less luck in

15:10

returning mobility to that side of Gertrude's

15:12

body. she's beside herself

15:14

and willing to try anything

15:16

and everything to get her body

15:18

back. Doctor Perry is

15:20

happy to oblige.

15:22

She starts gurtured on a course of forty

15:24

days without food and only small

15:26

amounts of approved liquids,

15:28

vegetable broth, strained juice,

15:30

and occasionally in water. About

15:32

a month then, a friend of gertrudes

15:34

who was staying with her while she undergoes

15:36

the treatment, finds her sweating,

15:39

shaking, and vomiting

15:41

and thick bile in her bed.

15:44

Doctor Perry is called immediately. She

15:46

orders the windows thrown open

15:48

despite freezing temperatures outside

15:51

and insists that gartrude continue with

15:53

the fasting treatment. but her

15:55

visit does nothing to improve the woman's

15:57

condition.

15:57

Gertrude's friend calls a different

15:59

nurse who

15:59

brings a physician named doctor

16:02

Williams, In fact, he's the one

16:04

who treated Gertrude before she went to see

16:06

doctor Perry. He insists

16:08

that Gertrude break her fast

16:10

immediately. and

16:10

that no amount of starvation will

16:13

cure her paralysis and that

16:15

continuing it will almost certainly

16:17

lead to death. but

16:18

Linda, doctor Perry,

16:20

disagrees. She tells

16:22

Gertrude she's almost there,

16:25

that she's so close to the end to relief

16:27

and to recovery, and it's

16:28

enough to convince Gertrude to continue

16:31

the fast.

16:31

six days later. Gertrude

16:34

dies of starvation on

16:36

the thirty ninth day of her

16:38

prescribed fast. Doctor

16:39

Williams, as it turns out, is

16:42

also the county coroner, and he opens

16:44

up an inquiry into Gertrude's death.

16:47

where it's determined that she died of

16:49

starvation and

16:49

was a victim of, as he calls

16:52

it, cruel and unnecessary quackery

16:54

at the hands of doctor Perry. Oh,

16:57

and then there's this kicker. As officials

16:59

are looking into what charges they might be

17:01

able to bring against doctor Perry,

17:03

They discover that she's also in possession of

17:06

all of Gertrude's expensive

17:09

jewelry. She claims Gertrude gifted it all to one

17:11

of her nurses, but

17:13

the nurse doctor Perry mentioned

17:15

cannot be found. And officials

17:17

wonder if this nurse even exists in

17:19

the first place.

17:20

Linda immediately goes on the offensive.

17:22

she claims that Gertrude didn't follow her instructions

17:24

closely enough and that she died at her

17:26

own hands. That Linda has eighteen

17:28

other patients who made it through the treatment

17:30

just fine and that any

17:32

physician questioning her methods is simply

17:35

jealous of her success. In the

17:37

end,

17:37

the inquest determines

17:40

that

17:40

doctor Perry can't

17:42

be charged with any crime.

17:45

But how how could that possibly be

17:47

when there's so much evidence to

17:50

the contrary?

17:50

As it turns it's all due to a loophole

17:52

in Minnesota law, and

17:54

the fact that doctor Perry

17:57

actually holds no legitimate medical

17:59

license.

17:59

Because she isn't licensed to practice

18:02

medicine, she can't be held to the same

18:04

standards of care

18:05

that a real doctor would be in

18:07

court. And

18:08

there's no law in Minnesota prohibiting her from

18:10

using her starvation methods without a

18:12

license as long as her patients came to

18:14

her willingly, which Gertrude Young

18:17

tragically did. Authorities

18:19

admit that Gertrude could have broken her

18:21

fast at any time and sought care

18:23

elsewhere prior to her

18:25

death. but she chose not

18:28

to. But it's hard not to see the other

18:30

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18:32

doctor Perry purposefully maintained your

18:34

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18:36

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18:38

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job fest. It's a

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win for Linda, and it's not

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her only one. In

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this period of her life, she

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also falls in love. With a

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man so different from her first

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husband, so different

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from any man she's

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ever been connected to, that

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she simply cannot take

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her mind off of him. This

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guy is Samuel

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Hassard, and he is the love

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of Linda's

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life. a tall, handsome West

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Point graduate with a cosmopolitan

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flair, Samuel Hazard is the type of man that would

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turn heads on the street. and

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he certainly catches the attention of

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doctor Perry. The two began

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courting after her scandal over

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Gertrude Young. And in nineteen o

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four, at the age of thirty

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seven, Linda and Samuel tie

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the knot.

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From rural Minnesota to here,

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It's quite the transformation. And

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finally, Linda has a man who

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matches her grand designs for her

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own life. who seems willing

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and able to live out the luxurious

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and adventurous existence she

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wants. There's just one

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problem. He's already

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married.

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Almost as quickly as she escapes the

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gurtured

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young scandal. Doctor Linda

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Hassard, as she goes by finds

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herself back in the public eye. Samuel

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is arrested and charged with bigamy.

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There's a woman named Veeva

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claiming to be his second and very much

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still married wife. To top

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it all off, Veeva insists

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that there's also a first wife in New York that

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he never divorced either. It's

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through this trial

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that the rest of Samuel Hazard's

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dirty laundry sees the light of day.

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Apparently, he was kicked out of the military for

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embezzling money. He was a drunk

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and a gambler, a con man.

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Yet through it all, Linda remains at

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Samuel's side, and he does the same

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for her. Even when his second wife

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offers to drop the charges if he will

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simply return home, Samuel

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refuses. His marriage to

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Linda is what matters, and he's

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willing to go to jail for it.

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Samuel is sentenced

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sentence to two years

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in prison. And something like

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prison, it changes the person.

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From behind bars, Samuel

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reconnects with his

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second wife, Veeva.

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and initially for BIDS. Yeah.

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For BIDS, Linda from visiting him.

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He and Veeva make plans to reunite.

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to move

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to Nevada be closer to his parents, to fix

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things between them. With her

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help, he has his other

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marriages dissolved. and agrees to legally

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marry her upon his release. This

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doesn't sit well with Linda. So after

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months of petitioning, Linda

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finally receives the green light.

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At last, Siemel has agreed to let

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Linda visit him in prison. It

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is not known what happens in this

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meeting, but it changes things

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for everyone. and in

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October nineteen o five. Samuel

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is released from Stillwater prison

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and walks straight to doctor

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Linda Hassard's office. and

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into her arms.

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In nineteen o six, there isn't much

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left for Linda, now thirty nine in

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Samuel in Minnesota.

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Both have seen their share of personal

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scandals and are looking for a place to begin

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anew. Linda has ambitious

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dreams of opening a grand sanitorium to

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peddle her treatments but she needs to

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find a place with enough cheap land and

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somewhere far from

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her infamy. She settles on

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a property in quaint Alala,

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Washington. and names it Wilderness

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Heights. The west turns out to be the

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perfect place for Linda and Samuel to

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reinvigorate her business. People

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are coming in and droves, seeking

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new opportunities, avoiding old enemies,

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and looking for a new way of life.

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exactly the kind of patient Linda

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wants. Desperate people

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willing to try something new.

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Desperate. That word has real meaning in

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this story because it's

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desperation that leads people to Linda Hazard's

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door. Imagine how these

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people

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must feel. how much pain they must

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be in or how

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much fear they carry in the face of their own

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mortality. To seek out not just

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treatment that is obviously dangerous,

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but treatment from someone with a track record

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of killing people. It's a testament

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to

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the lengths people will go to for

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some semblance of trollover for

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the unpredictable nature of health in the human

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body. She publishes her first book

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in nineteen o eight.

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fasting for the cure of disease, as a way to

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promote her treatments, as a cure all for

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everything from headaches to cancer.

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The

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book, legitimize us, sir, washes away

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the stench of what happened in Minnesota

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and draws a whole new level

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of well healthy clientele, but it

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doesn't stop her from killing her

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patients. In nineteen o eight,

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doctor Hassard welcomes Daisy

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mod Haglund. to

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Wilderness heights to treat her

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advanced stomach cancer. She

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puts her on a classic three

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pronged treatment regimen of starvation, enemas,

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and

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massage.

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And Daisy dies shortly

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afterwards. No one suspects Linda,

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however, as her patient was already unable to

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eat due to her stomach cancer. And

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many say she likely would have starved to death

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anyway. Daisy leaves behind her

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son, IVar, who coincidentally

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goes on to open IVar's a

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well known seafood restaurant chain in the region. Then

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there's Idar

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Wilcox and Blanche Tyndall

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and Viola Heaton. and

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Ivan Flux, a rich Englishman

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who comes to the United

25:07

States to buy a ranch and winds up

25:09

in doctor hazards care. He

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fasts for fifty three days

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straight before died and

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strangely leaves all of his

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wealth and assets to doctor Hazard in

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his will. She tells his family back in

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England that he died alone with only

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seventy dollars to his name. And then

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there's L E Rater, a

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successful local politician who

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seeks out treatment for a rather

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benign stomach issue. Doctor

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Hazard puts him on a twenty nine day

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fast. A health inspector acts happens

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upon Raider at Wilderness Heights while Linda

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is out making a house call.

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The inspector implores Raider to leave

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at once. But upon returning, Linda

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whisks him away to his secret secondary

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location to finish his treatment. He

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dies shortly after nearly

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six feet tall. but

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somehow weighing less than

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one hundred pounds. These

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deaths don't go unnoticed.

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they're

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reported and investigated.

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When authorities perform

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autopsies, they unilaterally find

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that every patient died

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from starvation. When

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Linda does the autopsies, her

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causes of death are, well,

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anything else she can conveniently blame

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it on. The spotlight leads to

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wilderness heights coming to be known by a

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nooning around town, starvation

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heights.

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But again, Linda saved by

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a

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loophole in the law. Despite

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having no medical degree, she's

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grandfathered into a medical

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license by a statute that special exceptions

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for those practicing alternative

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medicine. It's a stretch

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to consider what she does alternative

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medicine, but it holds up in court nonetheless.

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Between nineteen o eight, and nineteen

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twelve. Doctor Linda Hassard treats

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dozens if not hundreds of patients at

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Wilderness Heights. And while the

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exact number still isn't known,

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and likely cannot ever be known,

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at least thirteen deaths

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are attributed to her extreme

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starvation treatments. But

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the notable exception of one patient,

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Eugene Stanley

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Wakelin. He's found

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on Hazard's property with a single

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gunshot wound to the head.

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The death is quickly ruled as

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suicide, but some

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strange coincidences are

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discovered later. Like

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this, Shortly after

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signing on as one of doctor Hazard's

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patients, Wakelin transfers power of

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attorney over to

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her. She sends correspondence to Wakelin's

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lawyer requesting money But

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he replies with the news that despite

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his nobility, Wakelyn

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has no money to give.

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He's found shot

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to death not long after that.

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Many of Linda's victims

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are like Wakelin, wealthy individuals

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somehow distanced from their families for one

27:52

reason or another. whose belongings and fortunes always

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seemed to inexplicably land in the

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coffers of Linda and Samuel.

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It must be nice

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to have patients who so

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adore you as a medical professional that

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they leave you their entire estates

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even after they die in

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your care. Like British

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Arris, Claire Williamson. This

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one's different though, because

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Claire is where Linda's streak

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of outrunning her consequences will come

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to an end. Nineteen

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ten. Linda

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Hassard is now forty three years

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old. Dorothy

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and Claire Williamson are two

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wealthy heiresses from Australia, the orphan

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daughters of a well-to-do English

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officer in the Imperial Army

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Medical Services. visiting

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Vancouver, British Columbia, they

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happen upon Linda's

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book. Dorothy and

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Claire are known among family and friends for

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a predisposition toward hypochondria.

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while neither of them suffers from any

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life threatening illnesses, they both

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have mild indigestion issues.

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And Claire has a slightly

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drop uterus. They

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become fascinated by Linda

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Hazard's treatments and what it might do

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for their medley of minor ailments. Already

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vegetarians with a mistrust for modern

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medicine, the prospect of finding

29:07

well-being without traditional doctors

29:09

or drugs is intriguing. It's

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simple. The way doctor Linda Hassard

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describes it in her book. Over

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eating, she writes, is the vice

29:18

of the whole human race. They

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began corresponding with Linda and start some of

29:22

her treatments in their hotel in Vancouver.

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But as the letters arrive and cut to the

29:28

chase, The only way for

29:30

Linda to really be able to treat

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them is after an in

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person examination.

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So without telling

29:37

anyone, Dorothy and Claire travel from

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Vancouver to Seattle to seek

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the doctor's care. Official

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treatment begins in a Seattle hotel.

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It's the same three pronged approach we've seen time and time

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again already. starvation, animals,

29:51

violent massages. The treatment

29:54

affects them as we would expect. Dorthea

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and Claire lose weight rapidly, become

29:59

weak and

29:59

solid. And while none of it seems

30:02

to help their initial symptoms, they

30:05

remain dedicated to the

30:07

process and dedicated to

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Linda. After about twenty nine days, the two

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says users are transported from their Seattle

30:13

hotel to Wilderness Heights for

30:15

more intensive care. They're so weak

30:18

at

30:18

this point that they're moved by stretcher

30:20

and ambulance. Linda stores

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the women's jewelry and the deeds to their

30:24

real estate and her personal safe For safekeeping,

30:27

of course. She also has

30:28

them sign over a monthly stipend to pay

30:31

for their housing and treatment, as

30:33

well as instructions regarding what to do with

30:35

their remains should they not

30:37

survive. It's at this point

30:39

that Claire and Dorothy Williamson

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become more like prisoners than

30:43

patients. Too weak to protest

30:45

or object, they're barred from communicating with

30:47

their family as they continue to

30:49

undergo doctor hazards, starvation

30:52

treatments. It becomes clear at

30:54

this point to Dorothea, but unless they

30:56

do something

30:57

drastic, they will die

30:59

in this place. But even in her weakened state,

31:02

Claire is willing to do something drastic.

31:04

If it means saving herself

31:06

and her dear sister,

31:09

She manages to put together a cable

31:11

gram to be sent to the girl's old governess

31:13

in Australia, a woman

31:15

named Margaret Conway. The initial

31:17

cable gram is short. and troubling.

31:20

Come, s s Marama May

31:22

eighth first class, Claire.

31:25

At first, Margaret assumes Claire is alerting

31:27

her that she and Dortheo will be arriving

31:29

back in Australia on May eighth,

31:31

but something nags at her

31:33

about the cable gram. Claire

31:35

has

31:35

never been the type to flaunt her

31:38

wealth, mentioning

31:39

first class in the cable craeme

31:41

is so unlike her. So,

31:43

Margaret calls the steamship company when she

31:45

learns of another strange twist.

31:48

The SS Marama isn't

31:50

sailing to Sydney on May eighth.

31:53

It's sailing from Sydney to British

31:56

Columbia. Claire wants

31:57

Margaret to come to them,

31:59

but why?

32:01

When the Marama reaches Honolulu, Margaret receives

32:03

a letter from Clare, and the care of

32:05

a woman named Linda

32:06

Burfield Hazard in Seattle that

32:09

explains more. and

32:11

troubles her more. In

32:13

the letter, Claire writes profusely

32:16

about doctor Hassard and her

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husband Samuel and their miraculous

32:20

treatments. But something

32:22

is unnerving about it.

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Her

32:24

handwriting is ragged.

32:27

sloppy, far from

32:28

the practiced perfect

32:30

handwriting Claire has been taught.

32:32

She

32:32

mentions that Dorothea is suffering

32:34

from a serious mental

32:36

breakdown. but

32:36

the doctor Hazard has taken wonderful

32:39

care of them both. She

32:40

alludes that there is

32:41

more to the story, but

32:42

that she must tell the rest of it when

32:44

she arrives in person. Margaret is

32:46

beside herself with worry.

32:48

Dorothea

32:48

was always nervous, but

32:51

never had any real mental health

32:53

issues. and

32:53

this only increases her anxiety over getting

32:56

to the girls as quickly as

32:58

possible. The only relief she

33:00

has is the fifteen day span between the

33:02

letter and the cable gram follows it,

33:04

mentioning that both sisters are quite

33:06

well. Perhaps Dorthea has

33:07

taken a turn for the better. When market

33:09

arrives

33:09

in Vancouver, however, She

33:12

learns the tragic truth.

33:14

Samuel Hassard is waiting for her, and

33:16

he brings devastating news.

33:18

he sets

33:19

Margaret down and tells her.

33:21

Miss

33:21

Claire has died, and miss

33:23

Dora is helplessly

33:26

insane. I am sorry.

33:28

I'm

33:28

sorry. That's

33:30

all Samuel has to say.

33:32

And all Margaret can do is sit and

33:34

cry for the girls who were not her blood.

33:37

who she raised and loved all the same. All

33:39

this time, she was coming to save them

33:42

when Claire had already died.

33:44

And Orthea

33:44

had already lost her mind. Margaret

33:47

accompanied

33:47

Samuel to Wilderness Heights, where

33:50

she finally meets doctor

33:52

Linda Hassard. There is

33:54

little sympathy in her voice as she

33:56

commands the space in her office. She

33:58

explains away all the reasons for

33:59

Claire's untimely death. Her

34:01

liver was cirrhotic. too tough

34:03

to even penetrate with a knife, she says. Her blood was

34:06

dry enough to turn the dust in her fingers. Her

34:08

intestines were too small to fit a pencil

34:10

through. It's

34:12

a lot for Margaret to bear, and she reaches for a

34:14

pad to write it all down. The family

34:17

will certainly ask for details. That's

34:20

when Margaret notices. The pad on

34:23

doctor hazards desk is a blue

34:25

journal that once belonged to

34:28

Claire.

34:29

Then, Linda asks if she'd like

34:31

to see Claire's body and

34:33

Margaret blanches. How does

34:34

she still have

34:37

the body? Linda turns to her. Almost

34:40

smiling and says, yes,

34:42

I have her beautifully embalmed.

34:46

Embalming is still

34:46

a new process in nineteen eleven, and it's

34:49

not something that Claire had

34:51

ever expressed interest in. which

34:53

leaves Margaret all the more suspicious of

34:55

this

34:55

woman behind the desk. The

34:57

body she's shown looks

35:00

nothing like Claire, This figure

35:02

was less than fifty pounds when she died,

35:04

a ghost even before she left.

35:06

And there it is. That nagging

35:08

feeling that she's had ever since that

35:10

initial cable gram arrived comes to

35:12

a head as she finally sees Dorthea

35:15

in her cabin on the

35:18

The cabin is no bigger than a chicken coop with

35:20

one paneless window and

35:23

roughly fashioned plank door. Markard

35:26

enters and finds Dorothea little

35:28

more than a living skeleton. She

35:31

scoops her into her arms as

35:33

the woman acknowledges her presence. It was

35:36

ghastly. Just

35:36

ghastly. Market

35:37

will later explain about

35:39

that first encounter. I

35:42

was looking at a death's head. A skull was skin drawn

35:45

tightly over the bones. Over

35:47

it all was a

35:50

bluish tint.

35:51

and then a raspy weak voice,

35:54

Dorothea utters the same phrase

35:56

over and

35:58

over, desperate You have the power to take me away.

35:59

Haven't you? Tudi,

36:02

and a

36:02

name for Margaret. You can

36:05

take me away. Please. In

36:08

that moment, it's decided

36:10

Margaret could not

36:11

save Clare, but she

36:13

will

36:13

save Dorothea.

36:16

Permitted

36:16

to visit Dorthea often, Margaret sneaks food in

36:18

its tomato broth, she's being served, and manages

36:21

to send word to Claire and

36:23

Dorthea's uncle in Portland, Oregon. John

36:26

Herbert, who had already grown suspicious of the

36:28

hazards after learning of Claire's

36:30

death. They confer on

36:31

how and when to

36:34

rescue Dorthea. When

36:35

suddenly, Dorothea changes

36:37

her mind. Perhaps

36:38

it's Linda's influence or

36:41

her already weakened state. but she

36:43

adamantly refuses to leave, stating that she wants to

36:45

finish her treatment. But the more Margaret

36:47

learns about Linda

36:48

Hazard and

36:50

her sanitorium, the less she believes that

36:52

Dorothea is acting of her own free will

36:54

and a sound mind.

36:56

The sourest note

36:57

of all, comes when Margaret

37:00

notices Linda Hazard wearing

37:02

the Lake Claire's clothes and

37:04

hats around the premises without

37:06

a care in the world. yet

37:09

another patient who nobody left

37:11

their worldly possessions to the doctor

37:13

who tried so hard to

37:15

save them or as Margaret sees it,

37:17

a charlatan and murderer wearing her victim's

37:20

clothes. As Margaret and

37:22

John Herbert

37:22

worked to formulate

37:23

a plan, They

37:26

learned that Dorothea has already given the hazards power

37:28

of attorney and that they had been

37:30

quietly stealing her money throughout her

37:33

stay at Wilderness Heights. Even

37:35

more troubling is the revelation that

37:37

Linda and Samuel have

37:39

obtained legal guardianship over

37:41

Dorothea, citing her mental and

37:43

capability and they refuse to let her

37:45

leave with John and Margaret. At least not without

37:48

payment. In what can only be seen as

37:50

a ransom,

37:52

Linda Hazard and Samuel Hazard allowed John and Marlbert to

37:54

take custody of Dorthea for the

37:56

price of two thousand dollars.

37:59

just around sixty thousand in today's

38:02

money. The two of them are

38:04

appalled. What doctor goes to these lengths

38:06

to keep

38:08

a patient? only to sell them off to the highest bidder.

38:10

After intense

38:11

negotiations, John Herbert pays

38:13

an amount. The exact number

38:15

is not known. and Dorothea

38:18

is free. John Herbert,

38:20

Margaret, and Dorothea immediately go

38:22

to the authorities into Comma County. to

38:24

tell them about the atrocities being committed over at

38:27

Wilderness Heights. And it isn't that the police

38:29

don't know about it. Remember,

38:32

the deaths of Linda Hazard's patients have

38:34

already been widely reported

38:36

on, but the county simply

38:38

doesn't have the money to investigate all

38:40

the allegations. Until

38:42

Dorothea recovers.

38:44

When she

38:44

does, Dorothea is charged by

38:47

a sense of injustice for

38:49

her sister, for herself, and

38:51

she offers not only to testify on

38:53

the prosecution's behalf as a star

38:56

witness, but to fund

38:57

the investigation herself. She

38:59

barely escapes Linda Hazard. She will not let others face

39:01

the same fate. And in August

39:03

nineteen eleven, Linda Hazard

39:06

finally faced

39:08

justice. Police arrive at wilderness heights.

39:11

They find several patients

39:13

also near death. a

39:16

side. They take Linda Hazard

39:18

into custody, and the county prepares to go

39:20

to trial, charging her with

39:22

manslaughter and the death of

39:24

Claire Williamson. In

39:26

court,

39:26

Linda shows no remorse

39:28

and no shortage of excuses at

39:30

Theatrix. She claims she's being

39:32

persecuted because she's a woman.

39:35

because she's better than

39:36

all her male colleagues. She claims

39:38

that Margaret Conway and John Herbert's

39:41

claims are false. Just the

39:42

ramblings of grieved family members who can't deal with

39:45

the reality that their loved one

39:47

is dead and that Claire chose to

39:49

go to her instead of them.

39:50

She's fiery. She's

39:52

passionate in her defense of herself

39:55

and her methods. Her staff

39:56

and personal circle close ranks around

39:58

her. defending her, testifying to

40:00

her character, and saying anything

40:03

they can't make her appear

40:05

innocent. But

40:05

the prosecution's case

40:07

is better. And Dorothea is their star witness. The

40:10

jury finds her guilty of

40:12

manslaughter and the death of

40:13

Claire Williamson. But even as

40:16

she awaits her sentence, Linda

40:18

Hassard doesn't stop working

40:20

and people don't stop

40:21

coming to her for treatment. In

40:23

the time it takes the judge to decide on the length of

40:25

Linda's sentence, two more of her

40:28

patients will

40:30

die. Eventually, she

40:32

receives twenty years in prison in

40:34

Wallowala. Well,

40:36

one to twenty

40:38

years. She's released after just two in nineteen fifteen at

40:40

the age of forty eight. As she and Samuel

40:42

strike a deal with the governor of Washington,

40:44

she's given a full pardon

40:48

if she agrees to leave the United States. They

40:50

decide that New Zealand is

40:51

the place for them. So just

40:54

as they had when they

40:56

left Minnesota, they take off

40:58

for new lands

40:59

and new opportunities. But it's the

41:01

same old stuff from doctor

41:03

Linda Burfield Hassard. She publishes another book on

41:05

fasting, opens yet another clinic in New Zealand as a

41:08

dietitian and osteopath, and

41:10

continuous treating patients with the

41:12

same deadly

41:14

program she used in Washington. She also becomes

41:16

incredibly wealthy

41:16

during her time in New Zealand, and it

41:18

seems like she's yet again going

41:21

to skirt the consequences. until

41:24

nineteen seventeen. When a newspaper

41:26

in Mongia New England finds out

41:28

that doctor Hazard is practicing medicine

41:31

without a license. and

41:34

unlike Minnesota and Washington,

41:36

there's no loophole here that protects

41:38

her from the law. She's charged

41:40

in Auckland under the medical

41:42

practitioners act for, quote,

41:44

practicing medicine while not registered to

41:46

do so and quickly found guilty.

41:48

Unfortunately for

41:49

her victims, the sentence for this crime in New

41:51

Zealand at the time is a fine

41:53

of just five pounds. about

41:55

four hundred sixty two dollars and

41:57

thirteen cents in US dollars.

41:59

It's

41:59

nothing for a published and

42:02

working osteopath. but Linda

42:04

sees a riding on the wall. Her

42:06

opportunities are drying up, and she needs

42:08

to

42:08

find greener pastures. Plus,

42:11

Her heart is calling her back to

42:13

where she really feels she belongs.

42:16

She returns

42:18

to Alala. There, she opens up a new

42:20

sanitorium, immediately called a,

42:22

quote, school of health.

42:24

Since technically,

42:26

Linda's medical license was canceled by the state of Washington after

42:29

her manslaughter conviction. It doesn't slow

42:31

her down at all, though.

42:34

she continues to treat patients and oversee their fasting regimens. The

42:36

new buildings equipped with treatment

42:39

rooms as well as an

42:41

autopsy room in the basement because

42:43

of course, what school of health doesn't

42:46

mean its own room for

42:48

autopsy. All in all, twelve more

42:50

people will die

42:50

at this new school of

42:52

health. from Linda Hazard's starvation

42:56

tactics. It seems nothing will

42:57

stop her. Except

43:00

fate. in nineteen thirty

43:02

five, the School of Health runs to

43:04

the ground. Linda, now sixty

43:06

seven, does

43:07

not have the funds to

43:09

recoup her and the school is never

43:11

rebuilt. Then in nineteen thirty

43:14

eight, seventy year old Linda Burfield

43:16

Hazard Falls

43:18

ill. complaining of a series of maladies for several months.

43:20

And this is perhaps the strangest

43:22

part of her sordid story.

43:25

Linda. This

43:26

woman who so clearly played the role

43:29

of conwoman and hugs her entire

43:32

life, decides to undergo one of

43:34

her own fasting treatments to cure

43:36

herself. Even though she knows what the treatment

43:37

will do, she's seen at

43:40

least eighteen

43:40

of her patients die from this

43:43

and likely high as forty. So why do

43:46

it? Is it to prove a

43:48

point, stubbornness,

43:50

arrogance, Does she need to stick to her story so adamantly

43:52

that she'll die over it? Maybe she wanted

43:54

so badly to stick it to traditional medicine

43:56

that she refused to let

43:59

them in. even when they likely

44:02

would have

44:02

saved her life. Or is she truly a

44:03

martyr for her own

44:06

twisted cause? does

44:08

she really believe that her methods work and that her victims were merely

44:11

too weak willed to use them

44:13

properly? As is often the case, we

44:15

don't get a clear

44:17

answer. Linda Burfield Hassard

44:18

dies at the age of seventy as

44:20

a result of starvation and

44:24

exhaustion. What do

44:24

we take from the story? What

44:27

lesson can we learn from such a complicated, despicable

44:30

woman? We find this one

44:32

particularly difficult to make sense of because

44:34

in truth,

44:36

Linda Hazard's behavior betrays split motivation.

44:38

She was callous and efficacious,

44:40

swindling dying patients out

44:42

of their fortunes, their estates, out

44:45

of the literal clothes off

44:47

their backs. And she was a true

44:49

believer. A woman who put her faith

44:51

so deeply into her own methods that she was

44:53

willing to die for them.

44:55

Did she

44:55

see her victims as she wasted away herself in

44:58

those final moments? Was there

45:00

ever a shred of remorse, a

45:02

realization of just how many lives

45:04

she ruined? Or

45:06

did Linda believe until the very

45:08

end that she knew better than

45:10

all of them? Who

45:13

knows? but perhaps things might

45:15

have unfolded differently if only

45:17

as a child. She had

45:19

never been given that

45:22

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