Ivor Haglund

In the small, secluded community of Olalla, Washington, a series of unsettling deaths unfolded around 1912, casting a long shadow over the quiet landscape. These events were not the result of a singular, violent act, but rather a slow, methodical process overseen by a woman who presented herself as a healer. Dr. Linda Hazzard, a practitioner of therapeutic fasting, operated a sanitarium known to locals as "Starvation Heights." It was here that numerous individuals, seeking cures for their ailmen ...