Prosecutors said during the proceedings that the palliative care doctor was suspected of having killed more than 70 other people
2-MIN READ2-MIN ListenAgence France-PressePublished: 9:18pm, 8 Jul 2026A German palliative care doctor was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday for murdering 15 people with lethal doses of sedatives, and he remains under investigation for dozens more killings.
The court in Berlin convicted the 41-year-old of killing 12 women and three men during home visits between September 2021 and July 2024.
But presiding judge Sylvia Busch said the conviction for 15 murders may well be only a glimpse of his many crimes.
Prosecutors said during the proceedings that he was suspected of having killed more than 70 other people.
Detained in 2024, he is only partially identified in court records as Johannes M.
Busch described the man as a “serial killer” at the centre of an “unfathomable” and “extraordinary” case.
