In the early 1900s, when medicine still couldn’t cure much and desperate people chased miracles, one woman found a terrifying business model: convince sick patients that food was poison, call their agony “healing,” and charge them for the privilege—until their bodies gave out. Her name was Linda Hazzard—and she wasn’t really a doctor in the way her patients assumed.

Sleeping pills, wine coolers and a typed suicide note from Kari Baker's nightstand *Content warning: domestic violence, sexual coercion, death investigation, and murder. If you or someone you know needs support, the U.S. National Domestic Violence Hotline is 1-800-799-SAFE (7233). In April 2006, a 31-year-old elementary school teacher and mother of two— Kari Baker —was found dead in the bedroom of her Hewitt, Texas home, just outside Waco. Her husband, Matt Baker , a Baptist