Doctor Death: The Russian Physician Who Killed His Patients
A polite knock at the door. A doctor with a medical bag. A routine check-up that ends in murder.
Between 1997 and 2000 in St. Petersburg, emergency physician Maxim Petrov exploited the trust of elderly patients, injecting them with lethal drugs before robbing their homes. Nicknamed “Doctor Death,” he carried out dozens of calculated attacks that left at least eleven dead.
In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, Alexander Lawson examines how a practicing doctor turned the white coat into a weapon—and how police finally stopped him.
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