A Serial Killer

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This paper outlines the life and times of Dr. Linda Hazzard. Hazzard was a serial killer, circa the early 19th century, working in the Seattle, Washington are during which time she published a work on fasting as a method to cure sicknesses. The author points out Hazzard's modus operandi was that she "caused" her patient's deaths through what she termed fasting therapy. The paper relates her eventual capture and presents information on the manner of death this killer chose and reflecting upon her potential choice of victims.

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"There are many methods of murder and, throughout the centuries, there have been many instances of serial killing; from Jack the Ripper through modern day killers such as Jeffrey Dahmer. Linda Burfield Hazzard was a serial killer; however, she was also a licensed physician whose modus operandi was such that she "caused" her patient's deaths through what she termed fasting therapy. Hazzard set up her operation in 1907 in Seattle, Washington, and offered several versions of a published manual of her special method. One of the few female doctors in the country (trained as an osteopath), she presented herself as the only licensed fasting therapist in the country, and her final domain was a sanitarium, Wilderness heights, in the small town of Olalla, across the Puget Sound from Seattle. It was an isolated place, with no way to communicate with the outside world."

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