Charles Cullen was born on February 22, 1960, in West Orange, New Jersey. He was raised in a working-class Catholic family as the youngest of eight children. His father, Edmond, a bus driver, died on September 17, … See more

The first murders to which Cullen later confessed occurred at Saint Barnabas. On June 11, 1988, he administered a lethal overdose of See more

Cullen stated that he had overdosed patients to spare them from being seen going into cardiac or respiratory arrest and being listed as a Code Blue emergency. He told detectives that he could not bear to witness or to hear about attempts at saving a victim's … See more

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Cullen was arrested at a restaurant on December 12, 2003, and charged with one count of murder and one count of attempted murder. … See more

Cullen moved from facility to facility undetected mainly because of the lack of requirements to report suspicious behavior by medical workers … See more

The 2008 direct-to-video film Killer Nurse, written and directed by Ulli Lommel, was loosely based on Cullen.
The CBS newsmagazine show 60 Minutes featured an … See more