Linda Hazzard: The Hunger Cure

In the early 1900s, self-proclaimed healer Linda Hazzard promised miraculous cures through one simple method: starvation. Branding herself as a medical authority, she convinced wealthy patients that extreme fasting could cleanse the body of disease—while quietly starving them to death under her care. In this episode, we unravel how pseudoscience, charisma, and blind trust turned a “wellness retreat” into a death sentence—and how Hazzard nearly got away with murder.