Mar 28, 2025
"Sadistic and greedy quack" Dr.
Linda Burfield Hazzard starved people to death at her makeshift
sanatorium, called "Starvation Heights" by the locals. Hazzard's
nonsensical, dangerously misguided book Fasting for the Cure of
Disease (1908) was a best seller. Among her victims was Daisey
Maud Haglund, the mother of Seattle restaurateur and king of
publicity stunts Ivar Haglund.