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Charles Cullen Biography

Charles Cullen is one of the most popular and richest Criminal who was born on February 22, 1960 in West Orange, New Jersey, United States. The notorious serial killer is believed to have killed more than 400 people in his career as a nurse of 16 years.

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Charles Edmund Cullen (born February 22, 1960) is an American serial killer who confessed to murdering up to forty patients during the course of his sixteen-year career as a nurse in New Jersey. However, in subsequent interviews with police, psychiatrists, and journalists, it became apparent that he had killed many more, whom he could not specifically remember by name, though he could often remember details of their murders. Experts have estimated that Cullen may ultimately be responsible for 400 deaths, which would make him the most prolific serial killer in recorded history.

Cullen’s mother Florence was killed in a car accident on December 6, 1977, when he was in his junior year of high school. He recalled her death as being “devastating” and being upset that the hospital would not return her body, instead having it cremated. The following year, he dropped out of high school and enlisted in the U.S. Navy, where he served aboard the submarine USS Woodrow Wilson. Cullen successfully passed basic training and the rigorous psychological examinations required for submarine crews, who were expected to spend as long as two months at a time underwater in a cramped vessel.

The mother of his child was murdered in crash as he was just an adolescent His sibling was in the vehicle.

NameCharles Cullen
First NameCharles
Last NameCullen
OccupationCriminal
BirthdayFebruary 22
Birth Year1960
Place of BirthWest Orange
Home TownNew Jersey
Birth CountryUnited States
Birth SignAquarius
Full/Birth Name
ParentsMeme Cullen, Florence Cullen
SiblingsNot Available
SpouseAdrienne Taub
Children(s)Not Available

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Cullen’s first confessed murders occurred at St. Barnabas. On June 11, 1988, he administered a lethal overdose of intravenous medication to a patient. He admitted to killing several other patients at St. Barnabas, including an AIDS patient who died after being given an overdose of insulin. Cullen left St. Barnabas in January 1992 when hospital authorities began investigating who had contaminated IV bags; the investigation determined that Cullen was most likely responsible, resulting in dozens of patient deaths at the hospital.

Charles Cullen Net Worth

Charles Cullen is one of the richest Criminal from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Charles Cullen's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He quit high school and joined the U.S. Navy, but was discharged medically in 1984 for mental illness and numerous suicide attempts.

He went from hospital to and killed patients with drugs.

Charles Cullen was born in West Orange, New Jersey to a working-class Irish Catholic family, the last of eight children. His father Edmond, a bus driver, was 56 when he was born and died on September 17, 1960 when he was just seven months old. Cullen has described his childhood as “miserable” and being constantly bullied by his sisters’ boyfriends and his schoolmates. When he was 9, he made the first of many suicide attempts by drinking chemicals from a chemistry set. Later, while working as a nurse, Cullen claimed to have fantasized about stealing drugs from the hospital where he worked and using them to end his life.

Net Worth$5 Million
SalaryUnder Review
Source of IncomeCriminal
CarsNot Available
HouseLiving in own house.

In March 1993, Cullen broke into a co-worker’s home while she and her young son slept, but left without waking them. He then began stalking the woman, who filed a police report against him. Cullen subsequently pleaded guilty to trespassing and received one year of probation. The day after his arrest, Cullen attempted suicide again. He took two months off work and was treated for depression in two psychiatric facilities, but attempted suicide twice more before the end of 1993. That September, a 91 year old cancer patient reported that Cullen, who was not her assigned nurse, had come into her room and injected her with a needle. She died the next day. Her son protested that her death was non-natural and Warren Hospital administered lie detector tests to Cullen and several other nurses, which he passed. He continued to work at Warren until leaving the following spring.

One month after leaving St. Barnabas, Cullen took a job at Warren Hospital in Phillipsburg, where he murdered three elderly women by giving them overdoses of the heart medication digoxin. His final victim said that a “sneaky male nurse” had injected her as she slept, but family members and healthcare providers at the hospital dismissed her comments as unfounded. The following year, Cullen moved into a basement apartment in Phillipsburg following a contentious divorce from his wife; he shared custody of his daughters. He would later claim that he wanted to quit nursing in 1993, but the court-ordered child support payments forced him to continue working.

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Cullen received a medical discharge from the Navy in 1984, for reasons that have not been disclosed. Shortly after, he enrolled at the Mountainside Hospital School of Nursing in Montclair, New Jersey. Elected president of his nursing class, he graduated in 1986 and started work at the burn unit of St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston.

In March 1999, Cullen took a job at the burn unit of Allentown’s Lehigh Valley Hospital, where he murdered one patient and attempted to murder another. One month later, he voluntarily resigned from Lehigh Valley Hospital and took a job working in the cardiac care unit at St. Luke’s Hospital in Bethlehem. Within the next three years, Cullen murdered at least five patients and is known to have attempted to kill two more. On January 11, 2000, he once again attempted suicide by lighting a charcoal grill in his bath tub, hoping to succumb to carbon monoxide poisoning. Cullen’s neighbors smelled smoke and called the fire department and police. He was taken to a hospital and a psychiatric facility, but returned home the following day.

Who is Charles Cullen Dating?

According to our records, Charles Cullen married to Adrienne Taub . As of December 1, 2023, Charles Cullen’s is not dating anyone.

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In February 1998, Cullen was hired by the Liberty Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where he staffed a ward of respirator-dependent patients. There, Cullen was accused of giving patients drugs at unscheduled times and was fired after being seen entering a patient’s room with syringes in his hand. The patient ended up with a broken arm, but apparently received no injections. Cullen caused a patient’s death at Liberty Hospital, which was blamed on another nurse. After leaving Liberty, Cullen was employed at Easton Hospital in Easton, Pennsylvania, from November 1998 to March 1999. On December 30, 1998, he murdered yet another patient with digoxin. A coroner’s blood test showed lethal amounts of digoxin in the patient’s blood, but an internal investigation within Easton Hospital was inconclusive; nothing pointed definitively to Cullen as the murderer.

Facts & Trivia

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In some cases, individual workers took it upon themselves to informally try to prevent Cullen from being hired, or to have him terminated. Some contacted nearby hospitals in secret, or quietly spoke to their own superiors, to alert them that they should not hire Cullen. When Cullen took a job at Sacred Heart Hospital in Allentown in June 2001, a nurse who had heard rumors about him at Easton Hospital advised her co-workers. They threatened to quit en masse if Cullen was not immediately dismissed, which he was.

Where is Charles Cullen now?

Cullen was sentenced at the Somerset County Courthouse in Somerville to 11 consecutive life terms totaling 397 years in prison for the murders. In exchange for cooperating with authorities in identifying his victims, Cullen was spared the death penalty. He is incarcerated at New Jersey State Prison in Trenton.

Did Charles Cullen have kids?

While they were married, Charles and Adrienne had two daughters. Their mother went out of her way to keep them out of the media. The Morning Call said that she wouldn’t open her door from reporters and tried to keep them from her. “You can imagine what we are going through,” she said.

What was Charles Cullen childhood like?

Charles Edmund Cullen was born the youngest of eight children into a large New Jersey family. His childhood was largely an unhappy one, his father died when he was a few months old and Cullen was bullied throughout his schooling. Charles Edmund Cullen was still a young child when he made his first suicide attempt.

Why was Charles Cullen called The Good Nurse?

Charles Cullen was known to be a good nurse. The hospitals he worked at would give him shining recommendations as he moved on to other jobs throughout his career. Behind these nice words hid a terrible secret. Cullen had a compulsion to kill his patients, overdosing them with insulin, digoxin, or epinephrine.

How was Charles Edmund Cullen caught?

One of the two detectives who broke the case of serial killer nurse Charles Cullen tells Steve Kroft that Somerset Medical Center, where Cullen was finally caught after administering fatal doses of medication to at least 13 patients there, lied to him and failed to help his investigation.

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