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German 'doctor death' goes on trial for 15 murders
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|July 15, 2025
A GERMAN doctor went on trial yesterday for killing 15 patients with lethal injections, in what investigators fear may just be the tip of a deadly iceberg.
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The 40-year-old palliative care specialist, named by German media as Johannes M, is accused of killing 12 women and three men between September 2021 and July 2024 while working in Berlin.
He allegedly injected the victims, aged between 25 and 94, with a deadly cocktail of sedatives and in some cases set fire to their homes in a bid to cover up his crimes.
A coworker first raised the alarm about Johannes M last July after becoming suspicious that so many of his patients had died in fires, according to Die Zeit newspaper.
This story is from the July 15, 2025 edition of Daily News.
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