The Taxi Driver Poisoner: Aharon Galstyan
A late-night ride in St. Petersburg. A polite driver who never haggles. One condition: stop for coffee. Minutes later, the passenger is unconscious. Seven never woke up.
From 2005 to 2008, Aharon Garushovich Galstyan worked the streets of Russia’s second city as an unofficial taxi driver. He targeted people who’d been drinking, offered them a drink, and laced it with a powerful sedative. Then he robbed them, dumped them on the roadside or near water, and drove away.
For years the deaths looked like overdoses and accidents. Then a single phone call and a gas-station camera changed everything…
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