Sources from Episode 116

  1. “The Monks Who Spent Years Turning Themselves into Mummies—While Alive,” Atlas Obscura, October 2016, https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/sokushinbutsu.

  2. Adam Gabbatt, “Living on Light: Woman Attempts to Prove Humans Can Live without Food,” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 14 June 2013, www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/14/living-on-light-without-food.

  3. Bess Lovejoy, “The Doctor Who Starved Her Patients to Death,” Smithsonian.com, Smithsonian Institution, 28 Oct. 2014, www.smithsonianmag.com/history/doctor-who-starved-her-patients-death-180953158.

  4. Gregg Olsen, Starvation Heights: The True Story of an American Doctor and the Murder of a British Heiress (Warner Books 1997).

  5. James Ross Gardner, “Exquisite Corpses,” SeattleMet, 23 March 2012, https://www.seattlemet.com/articles/2012/3/23/butterworth-mortuarys-exquisite-corpses-april-2012.

  6. Juan Ignacio Blanco, “Linda Burfield Hazzard,” Murderpedia, the Encyclopedia of Murderers, www.murderpedia.org/female.H/h/hazzard-linda.htm.

  7. Kathrine Beck, “Hazzard, Linda Burfield (1867-1938): Hazzard, Linda Burfield (1867-1938): Fasting Proponent and Killer,” HistoryLink.org: The Free Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History, 26 Oct. 2006, www.historylink.org/File/7955.

  8. Katherine M. Ramsland, Inside the Minds of Healthcare Serial Killers: Why They Kill (Praeger 2007).

  9. Meg van Huygen, “Pike Place's Butterworth Building Has Pretty Much Been Creepy since Day One,” Curbed Seattle, 31 Oct. 2018, www.seattle.curbed.com/2018/10/31/18048486/pike-place-butterworth-haunted-history.

  10. Romeo Vitelli, “Investigating The Starvation Doctor,” Providentia, 7 Dec. 2018, drvitelli.typepad.com/providentia/2018/12/the-starvation-doctor-part-2-of-2.html.

  11. Sandro Contenta, “180 People Died on Serial Killer Elizabeth Wettlaufer's Shifts in One Nursing Home. Was That a Red Flag?” The Toronto Star, Toronto Star, 10 Nov. 2018, www.thestar.com/news/canada/2018/11/09/180-people-died-on-serial-killer-elizabeth-wettlaufers-shifts-in-one-nursing-home-was-that-a-red-flag.html.

  12. Teresa Nordheim, Murder and Mayhem in Seattle (The History Press 2016).

  13. Tristan Baurick, “Olalla's 'Starvation Heights' Still Causes Chills after a Century,” The Kitsap Sun, 30 Dec. 2014, archive.kitsapsun.com/news/local/olallas-starvation-heights-still-causes-chills-after-a-century-ep-418381772-357167181.html.

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