Where Is Charles Cullen From Netflix's The Good Nurse Now?
reports. Cullen worked as a nurse in New Jersey and Pennsylvania hospitals and nursing homes for 16 years, despite being fired from or forced out of at least six facilities.
He was arrested in December 2003, where he admitted to investigators that he killed patients by injecting lethal cocktails of heart and insulin medicines into iv fluid bags, turning off ventilators, and medicating patients without a doctor's permission, NJ.com reports. When Cullen was faced with the death penalty, he decided to accept a plea deal to avoid it and confessed to killing 29 people, 22 in New Jersey and seven in Pennsylvania.
Seven years after he was sentenced, Cullen appeared in his first televised interview in 2013 as the first serial killer to air onin 45 years. During his interview, Cullen said that the killings were "mercy killings" despite some of his victims not being terminally ill. He also revealed that he previously attempted suicide. "I tried to kill myself throughout my life because I never really liked being who I was," he said. "I didn't feel I was worthy of anything.
reports. According to the Department of Corrections, his earliest parole date in the state of New Jersey is June 10, 2388.