German doctor given life in prison for 15 murders, suspected on 76 moreA German palliative care doctor has been sentenced to life imprisonment for killing 15 of his patients, with prosecutors investigating 76 other cases that could make it one of the worst serial murder cases in Germany's history.A court in Berlin found the 41-year-old man, named only as Johannes M. , guilty of murdering 12 women and three men aged between 25 and 94 between September 2021 and July 2024. Presiding judge Sylvia Busch described him as a "serial killer" at the centre of an "unfathomable" and "extraordinary" case.The court ruled that he had killed not out of compassion or a misguided sense of assisted dying, but by a "drive for power over his victims." Prosecutors described the killer as having "a lust for murd