Hi there, the same rules apply here as the True crime from around the world book, if I couldn't find a true crime case, it was replaced by a plane crash.
This case takes us to the state of Pennsylvania, which is located next to the following states: New York, Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland, Ohio and West Virginia.
WARNINGS OF MURDER AND NEEDLES
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Pictured above is Charles Cullen
Charles Edmund Cullen, born on the 22nd of February 1960, he is 63 years old, was an American serial killer who confessed to murdering up to 40 patients during the course of his 16 year career as a nurse in New Jersey, however in subsequent interviews it became apparent that he had killed many more people. Whom he couldn't remember by name though he could remember details of their murders, experts estimated he could have been responsible for 400 murders, which would make him the most prolific serial killer in recorded history, he had 29 confirmed victims.
The first murder Cullen confessed to was on the 11th of June 1988, he administered a lethal overdose of intravenous mediation to a patient, he also admitted to killing several other patients at Saint Barnabas Hospital, Pennsylvania (This was his first workplace, he left in January 1992), a month after he left Saint Barnabas Hospital, he took a job a Warren General Hospital, Pennsylvania, where he killed three elderly women with overdoses of the heart medication digoxin.
In March 1993, he broke into a co-workers home while she slept with her young son, in September of 1993 a 91 year old cancer patient reported Cullen (Who was not the lady's nurse) came into her room and injected her with a needle, she passed away the next day, he continued to work there until next Spring, then he began a three year stint in the intensive care/cardiac care unit of Hunterdon Medical Centre, Pennsylvania, there he admitted to killing five patients between January and September 1996, again he murdered them with overdoses of digoxin.
In February 1998, he was hired as staff on the respirator-dependent ward where he was giving patients drugs at unscheduled times and from November 1998 to March 1999, he was employed at the St. Luke's Hospital-Easton Campus, Pennsylvania and on the 30th of December 1998, he murdered another patient with digoxin, during his time at St. Luke's hospital he murdered five patients when he stayed there for three years, he killed thirteen by mid 2003 using digoxin, insulin and epinephrine.
He was eventually arrested on the 12th of December 2003 and on the 2nd of March 2006, he was sentenced to 11 consecutive life sentences and he is not eligible for parole until 2388.
