Serial Killer Poses as Nurse

Podcast:
 http://www.npr.org/2013/04/15/177029738/pretending-to-be-a-good-nurse-serial-killer-targeted-patients

In New Jersey, an arrested hospital nurse named Charlie Cullen was suspected of injecting patients with lethal doses of a variety of medications.  Cullen turned out to be a serial killer, murdering possibly hundreds of people in nine different hospitals over a 16 year period.  A journalist by the name of Charles Graeber spent six years investigating the Cullen case.  Graeber wrote the book, The Good Nurse, where he pieces together the elements of Cullen's story.  During the podcast, the host has Charles Graeber as a guest on his show, and they talk about his book and all the different facts Graeber learned about Cullen.  They also talked about why he may have done the things he did by referencing his hard childhood. 

This podcast was very interesting.  I found it very enjoyable to listen too and it kept me engaged.  The information that is talked about really helps my project about why people kill and what is going on in killers heads.  They really get into the psychological part of Charlie Cullen and I think that is a good thing.  Even though he was a serial killer, they reference how good of a nurse he was because he was a serial killer.  He would take risks and do the things that others wouldn't because they were afraid of failure.  I read an article that I posted about how serial killers may be working right along side the rest of us and this real life event supports that claim. 

Graeber, Charles. "Pretending To Be A 'Good Nurse' Serial Killer Targeted Patients." Audio blog post. NPR. NPR, 15 Apr. 2013. Web. 19 Apr. 2013.