After his December 2003 arrest, registered nurse Charlie
Cullen was quickly dubbed "The Angel of Death" by the media.
But Cullen was no mercy killer, nor was he a simple monster.
He was a favorite son, husband, beloved father, best friend,
and celebrated caregiver. Implicated in the deaths of as
many as 300 patients, he was also perhaps the most prolific
serial killer in American history.
Cullen's
murderous career in the world's most trusted profession
spanned sixteen years and nine hospitals across New Jersey
and Pennsylvania. When, in March of 2006, Charles Cullen was
marched from his final sentencing in an Allentown,
Pennsylvania, courthouse into a waiting police van, it
seemed certain that the chilling secrets of his life,
career, and capture would disappear with him. Now, in a
riveting piece of investigative journalism nearly ten years
in the making, journalist Charles Graeber presents the whole
story for the first time. Based on hundreds of pages of
previously unseen police records, interviews, wire-tap
recordings and videotapes, as well as exclusive jailhouse
conversations with Cullen himself and the confidential
informant who helped bring him down, THE GOOD NURSE weaves
an urgent, terrifying tale of murder, friendship, and
betrayal.
Graeber's portrait of Cullen depicts a
surprisingly intelligent and complicated young man whose
promising career was overwhelmed by his compulsion to kill,
and whose shy demeanor masked a twisted interior life hidden
even to his family and friends. Were it not for the
hardboiled, unrelenting work of two former Newark homicide
detectives racing to put together the pieces of Cullen's
professional past, and a fellow nurse willing to put
everything at risk, including her job and the safety of her
children, there's no telling how many more lives could have
been lost.
In the tradition of In Cold Blood,
THE GOOD NURSE does more than chronicle Cullen's deadly
career and the breathless efforts to stop him; it paints an
incredibly vivid portrait of madness and offers a
penetrating look inside America's medical system. Harrowing
and irresistibly paced, this book will make you look at
medicine, hospitals, and the people who work in them, in an
entirely different way.
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