Josh Clark

Claire's been killed and Dora was in big trouble.

She's about to die.

And these two hucksters have like all sorts of legal mumbo jumbo going on.

And John Herbert got involved.

He's like, I'm a man and this is the Edwardian era.

So everybody listen to me.

And that's when things started moving.

Right, exactly.

So, I mean, just that last line about if she dies, it was inevitable anyway, just so smacks of Linda Hazard's philosophy, right?

that you can't starve to death.

Yeah, it was just very clearly fake.

So John Herbert gets involved, thanks to Margaret Conway.

They find, get this, the vice consul of the British embassy in Tacoma,

Let all that sink in for a second.

Yeah.

They get them involved and they get the guardianship overturned.

Herbert gets the two thousand dollar unpaid bill negotiated down to one thousand dollars and essentially pays a ransom for door to be released.

And in the meantime, once he has Dora back, he starts looking into some of these other patients and finds like Dora and Claire were far from the only victims who essentially had been exploited financially while they were out of their minds from starvation.

Quite a burn.

Yes, we should say that it actually took a lot of leaning on the Kitsap County prosecutor where Wilderness Heights was located to actually prosecute this crime.