The Story of Starvation Heights
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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