Nurse Serial Killer Interviewed on 60 Minutes

Last night, 60 Minutes re-aired a segment titled “Angel of Death,” the story of Charles Cullen.  Cullen was a critical care nurse who has admitted killing up to forty people.  

Here is a description of the story: 

Tonight you’re going to come face-to-face with a serial killer, one of the most prolific in U.S. history. Serial killers don’t usually talk to reporters. In fact this story, which first ran in April, was the first time in the 45 years of 60 Minutes that we ever interviewed one.

 

Charles Cullen was a critical care nurse who admits to killing up to 40 people. Some suspect it was a lot more. The murders took place over 16 years in seven different hospitals. There were suspicions at nearly all of them that Cullen was harming patients, yet none of them passed that information on to subsequent employers. Newspaper headlines called him “The Angel of Death,” but as you will see, Charles Cullen was no mercy killer. Until we interviewed him four months ago, he had never spoken publicly about his crimes, never tried to explain why he did it, or even express remorse to the families of victims when he finally faced them in court.