‘The Good Nurse’ on Netflix: Why Did Charles Cullen Kill Patients?

A brand new true crime drama is out on Netflix — and no, I am not speaking about The Watcher or Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.

The Good Nurse is a gripping movie that follows Amy Loughren (Jessica Chastain), a nurse who befriends fellow nurse Charles Cullen (Eddie Redmayne) when he begins on her unit. Little does Loughren know, Cullen is a assassin behind the deaths of a number of sufferers.

The Good Nurse relies on journalist Charles Graeber’s 2013 ebook of the identical title. Let’s run by means of a few of the main takeaways about the actual Cullen and Loughren.

Who’s Charles Cullen?

Charles Cullen pleaded responsible to killing 29 individuals whereas working as a nurse in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, in response to NJ.com. However the true variety of victims could also be a lot increased.

Graeber, the creator of the ebook on which the film relies, instructed CBS Information in 2013 that he would “be very shocked, as would just about everybody I’ve spoken to with any information of this case, if it was not within the tons of, a number of tons of.”

“We’ll by no means understand how many individuals Charlie Cullen in the end killed,” Graeber instructed NPR.

How did Cullen kill hospital sufferers?

Cullen killed victims with medicines akin to the center drug digoxin, in response to CBS Information.

Victims ranged in age and well being, with some “able to be discharged when Cullen injected them with medication that will kill them,” in response to the information web site.

Who’s Amy Loughren?

Loughren labored with Cullen at New Jersey’s Somerset Medical Heart and helped police examine him, in response to NJ.com. 

She was a single mom working evening shifts when police instructed her he was a serial killer, in response to Glamour. Cullen had been Loughren’s shut buddy and had helped her conceal a coronary heart situation at work. The information shocked her, in response to the journal.

What elements of the The Good Nurse are fictionalized?

The film does fictionalize points and alter particulars, in response to the Los Angeles Occasions. Nonetheless, Graeber instructed the newspaper he “felt that it was correct in its essence.”

“[The real story here is] about establishments, the banality of evil and people and the alternatives they make,” Graeber mentioned. “I really feel that this movie nails that.”

Not one of the deaths within the film are primarily based on actual victims, director Tobias Lindholm instructed the Occasions. Nonetheless, “the methodology of the murders” stays the identical, he mentioned.

Why did Cullen do it?

CBS Information correspondent Steve Kroft requested Cullen about his motivation in 2013. “I assumed that individuals weren’t struggling anymore,” Cullen mentioned. “So, in a way, I assumed I used to be serving to.”

After Kroft identified that Cullen murdered individuals “who weren’t close to dying, and never struggling that a lot,” Cullen mentioned “there isn’t any justification” and “the one factor I can say is that I felt overwhelmed on the time.”

The place is Cullen now?

Cullen is serving a number of life phrases on the New Jersey State Jail in Trenton. In accordance with NJ.com, he is at the moment 62.