The brave nurse who stopped the maniac who may have been America’s most prolific serial killer is speaking about the actions she took to bring her former colleague to justice.
Charles Cullen worked for Amy Loughren at a New Jersey hospital for one year and a quarter. They became close friends.
She didn’t suspect anything until the police presented her with evidence that he was injecting lethal amounts of drugs to patients.
“He was using were brutal medications for instance that are paralytics, you cannot speak, you cannot fight back, you can blink, you can hear everything that is happening,”She said.
Loughren was asked by investigators to use her friendship to Cullen in order to force him to confess.
Loughren claims she felt betrayed by him and she decided to help the police.
“He murdered people right in front of me,” Loughren says.
Cullen confessed to her that she had worn a wire on her neck.
Investigators believe Cullen’s murderous crime spree began around the end of 1980.
Now Netflix has turned Loughren’s story into a movie, “The Good Nurse.”Loughren is played in the film by Jessica Chastain and Cullen is played by Eddie Redmayne. This shows how she convinced Cullen to confess his horrific crimes.
Cullen was convicted of murdering 29 victims, but Loughren says that does not reflect the total number of people he murdered.
“He attempted to murder who knows how many. And if you take the numbers from previous hospitals, it well into the 100s, the amount of people he tried to kill, but probably did murder around 400,”She said.
How could this creature escape justice for so many years?
Loughren said that Cullen would go from hospital to hospital while still claiming to be a caring male nurse. According to her, Cullen was doing horrible things and hospital administrators knew it but turned a blindeye.
“They are co-conspirators and I do not say that lightly,”She speaks out about the hospitals where Cullen was employed.