Overview

• The evidence phase began on July 23 when the former medical director of a Berlin care service testified about four deaths and four fires she reported
• Prosecutors say the 40-year-old palliative care doctor administered lethal drug mixtures without medical indication or patient consent to twelve women and three men between September 2021 and July 2024
• Investigators allege the doctor set fires in several patient homes to conceal the killings
• So far authorities have exhumed fifteen bodies in Berlin and flagged seventy-one additional cases for forensic review
• In Kreis Pinneberg, prosecutors have conducted three exhumations at Barmstedt cemetery since June 30 and are examining a low double-digit number of suspected elder homicides