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'Doctor Death': Devendra Sharma and the Highway Murders
He had a medical degree and the calm authority that comes with it. He used both to win trust, to move through the worlds of medicine and transport without suspicion, and, investigators say, to make his victims disappear so completely that some were never recovered at all. Devendra Sharma earned the nickname Doctor Death, and his case fuses several of modern India's deepest anxieties into a single figure: a trusted professional gone rogue, an illegal organ trade that preys on
Jun 35 min read
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