Charles Edmund Cullen, also known as the “Angel of Death” or “Killer Nurse”, was sentenced to eleven consecutive life terms on March 1, 2006 after confessing to murdering patients with poison and non prescribed medications at hospitals throughout New Jersey and Pennsylvania during his sixteen year course working as a nurse. The “Angel of Death” is still incarcerated today at Trenton State Prison and will be there for the rest of his life. From 1988-2002, Charles Cullen murdered at least forty elderly patients because he believed that he was doing them a favor and relieving the patients from suffering like an angel would do. This report will discuss Charles Edmund Cullen’s life, crimes, and his path to prison.
Charles Edmund Cullen was born
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A few years later, he quit working at St. Barnabas when hospital authorities began investigating who tampered with bags of intravenous fluid. At the age of 32, in the summer of 1992, Charles and Adrienne had their second daughter, but Adrienne filed for divorce a year later for domestic violence and risks towards their daughters. Cullen found another job at Warren Hospital in New Jersey in 1992. He committed three murders at Warren Hospital by the names of Lucy Mugavero, Mary Natoli, and Helen Dean all around the age of 90. In April of 1994, Cullen took a job a Hunter Medical Center and received his Pennsylvania nursing license in June. At Hunter Medical Center, Charles committed five more murders using digoxin in his first nine months of working there. Months after his killing spree, he quit at Hunter and found work at Morristown Memorial Hospital in New Jersey but less than a year later got fired for poor performance. About a year later he started working part-time at Easton Hospital ICU and also became a night nurse at Lehigh Valley Hospital in the burn unit and killed a patient also with digoxin at each location. After the murders, he quit at Lehigh Valley and joined St. Luke’s Hospital only to murder five more elderly patients with digoxin. Suspicions grew after all the murders happened once he got hired, so he quit and found work, his last job, at Somerset Medical Center. Cullen murdered twelve more elderly patients at Somerset all in the year of 2003 with different non prescribed medications. During this time, he was living with his pregnant girlfriend, but she was unaware of his