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The Last Gasp Tour begins at The Grange in Olalla Washington with the first speaker being Gregg Olsen (New York Times bestselling author) who writes true crime novels. This book is Starvation Heights and it was really interesting, especially because it took place 100 years ago.

The top journaling reads:

Nonfiction crime writer Gregg Olsen, author of Starvation Height's spoke at the Last Gasp tour about one of Seattle's first serial killers; Linda Hazzard, the British sisters who fell victim to her, and about how he came across this hideous story that intrigued him to write about.

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The back cover of his book Starvation Heights reads:

In 1911 two wealthy British heiresses, Claire and Dora Williamson, came to a sanitarium in the forests of the Pacific Northwest to undergo the revolutionary “fasting treatment” of Dr. Linda Burfield Hazzard. It was supposed to be a holiday for the two sisters. But within a month of arriving at what the locals called Starvation Heights, the women were emaciated shadows of their former selves, waiting for death. They were not the first victims of Linda Hazzard, a quack doctor of extraordinary evil and greed who would stop at nothing short of murder to achieve her ambitions. As their jewelry disappeared and forged bank drafts began transferring their wealth to Hazzard's accounts, Dora Williamson sent a last desperate plea to a friend in Australia, begging her to save them from the brutal treatments and lonely isolation of Starvation Height's.

In this true story- a haunting saga of medical murder set in an era of steamships and gaslights- Gregg Olsen reveals one of the most unusual and disturbing criminal cases in American History.


I will go into more detail about some of the stories that took place when I start scrapping the house and burned down sanitarium, and some of the host experiences too. But believe me ghost or no ghost this gets pretty creepy!

TFL!


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