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Maxim Petrov

1965

Nationality
Russia
Occupation
physician

Maxim Vladimirovich Petrov (Russian: Максим Владимирович Петров, born 1965) is a Russian serial killer, convicted for the killing of 11 people in St Petersburg between 1999 and 2000.

Incarceration history

Facilities

  1. White Swan
    Dates unknown

Biography

Maxim Vladimirovich Petrov (Russian: Максим Владимирович Петров, born 1965) is a Russian serial killer, convicted for the killing of 11 people in St Petersburg between 1999 and 2000. Petrov, nicknamed Doctor Death by the Russian media, was a practicing doctor who targeted patients from a local health center, killing them by lethal injection at their homes then robbing them. Petrov was sentenced to life imprisonment and is suspected to have killed up to 19 people until his arrest.

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