Capturing The Killer Nurse

Charles Cullen appeared to be the perfect nurse. Well-spoken, conscientious and hugely supportive of his fellow nurses, Cullen found it easy to find employment in a string of hospitals and nursing homes in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. But when mysterious lab results were linked to patient deaths in a hospital in in which he worked, suspicions started to be raised about a medical professional who seemed born to work at the bedside of ill patients.

Capturing The Killer Nurse tells the story of how two small-town detectives and Cullen’s best friend and fellow nurse joined forces to try and catch him. Despite spotty evidence and uncooperative hospital administrators, the three managed to ensnare the man who is perhaps America’s most prolific serial killer. Undercover work and a last-minute confession would finally put him behind bars. But the film is more than a thrilling cat and mouse game; it’s a searing critique of a for-profit healthcare system which allowed Cullen to kill and kill again.