In a twist that would make you roll your eyes if it turned up in a movie, Valeri found himself on a very important case: hunting down a murderous traitor named Marcel Petiot. He investigated himself with the police for over seven months until someone thought he kind of resembled that Petiot guy if he, ya know, maybe sprouted some whiskers. Petiot, who had papers for a possible transfer to become a military doctor in Indochina, was arrested at a train station and stripped of his Resistance armband and status before being questioned for his crimes.
Maintaining that he was innocent and that all his 60-plus victims were wink-wink German, the man whom the press crowned with the Rob-Zombie-approved moniker "Doctor Satan" wasn't believed. How much was he not believed? Guillotine amounts.
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A War Criminal Became A New Age Sex Doctor While Being Hunted By The Hague
Radovan Karadzic was one of the worst people of the 20th century, and I'm telling you, that is not an easy list to get onto. During the Bosnian War, he served as "supreme commander" of the Bosnian Serb armed forces, and oversaw the displacement of 2 million people and the deaths of 100,000. The International Court of Justice wanted him badly for this, but Karadzic came up with a foolproof plan to evade capture: He lost 60 pounds and, just like Petoit, grew a beard.
Wanted in Serbia, Karadzic moved throughout the '90s and into the early '00s, eventually landing in faraway Belgrade (the, uh, capital city of Serbia). There he set himself up with the name of a dead soldier and became "Dr. Dragan David Dabic." He was a specialist in "bioenergy medicine," which of course consisted of him holding his hands over a patient's body to realign their juju before declaring them well and getting paid.The good doctor lived across the street from an officer of Interpol, regularly hung out in a local tavern, and even got a column in Healthy Life magazine. It was a periodical that apparently catered to the whims of man-bunned mass murderers who could spout New Age nonsense.