Hazel killed Dr. Julius. Took his head clean off! Or did she? Hazel was a category 4 hurricane that hit the Carolinas and Virginia in the fall of 1954. In its wake, scores of people lay maimed and dead. In the harried days of recovery, Virginia's Fluvanna County coroner ruled Dr. Julius' death an "act of God." But some in his family didn't hold the Almighty culpable. They thought it was murder. "Hazel didn't do it! Someone killed him!" the doctor's daughter insisted in her plea to Harry to investigate the matter, one the police considered closed. He was skeptical, but how could he refuse her? She was just 9 years old.