Doc Zimmerly’s House of Horrors

This episode explores the disturbing true story of Harry Clifford Zimmerly, a disgraced doctor whose rural farmhouse in southern Lancaster County became known as a 1930s “house of horror.” Plagued by alcoholism and illegal medical practices, Zimmerly operated a makeshift hospital under filthy and dangerous conditions during the Great Depression. In 1935, the disappearance of Gladys Lawson exposed the full extent of his crimes. Investigators discovered that Zimmerly had dismembered and inciner...