Episode 58: Dr. Starvation The Serial Killer (Linda Hazzard & Belle Gunness)
A massive 3 story sanatorium in the isolated woods of Washington. The whispers about what goes on in there - I heard she buries another patient every single day. If you walk past it the scary doctor might snatch you, lock you in a room, and starve you to death.
Sounds like campfire scary stories? But what if it’s not. What if this is one of America’s worst female serial killers?
Source notes:
Book - “Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder & Malice” - Greg Olsen
Book - “Hell’s Princess: The Mystery Of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men” - Harold Schechter
https://www.visitkitsap.com/olalla
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/doctor-who-starved-her-patients-death-180953158/
https://www.historylink.org/File/7955
https://murderpedia.org/female.H/h/hazzard-linda.htm
http://www.murderpedia.org/female.G/g/gunness-belle.htm
https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/belle-gunness
https://www.legendsofamerica.com/belle-gunness/
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