The Serial Killer: Charles Cullen

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Charles Cullen murdered at least 45 patients between 1988 and 2003. Charles Cullen was one of those self-righteous, self-proclaimed "angels of mercy", a nurse with an eye for those who needed to die. Like a typical Angel of Death, Cullen targeted patients at hospitals at which he worked. Generally his victims were no younger than in their 60's. He killed them by poisoning their IV bags, usually with insulin, dioxin, a heart medicine, or epinephrine. Cullen said he administered overdoses to patients to spare them from being "coded" which meant going into cardiac or respiratory arrest and being listed as a Code Blue emergency. Cullen has told detectives that he could not bear to witness or hear about attempts at saving a victim's life. Cullen also claims that he gave patients overdoses so that he could end their "suffering" and prevent hospital personnel from dehumanizing them." He told detectives in December 2003 that he lived most of his life in a fog, and that he had ...

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