Charles Cullen

Between 1988 and 2003, nurse Charles Cullen murdered at least 29 patients in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, earning him the nickname the "Angel of Death."

The incident was reported, and Cullen was reassigned to another vessel. Over the next decade, Cullen jumped from hospital to hospital, killing patients wherever he went. He estimated that he’d killed around 40 patients, and detectives were able to officially tie him to 29 murders — but the true number may be more than ten times that. Read the story of He graduated from nursing school and married a computer programmer named Adrienne Taub — but the celebrations were overshadowed by the death of Cullen’s brother James. He was fired from Saint Barnabas in 1992 and subsequently took a job at Warren Hospital’s Coronary Care Unit. He also started to torture the family’s two Yorkshire terriers by regularly sticking them in trash bins. He was frequently taunted, ridiculed, and hazed by his fellow crew members, who dubbed him “Fish-Belly,” according to At age nine, Cullen attempted to kill himself by mixing together an assortment of chemicals from a chemistry set and drinking it. Around the same time, Cullen’s mother was killed in a car accident. Between 1988 and 2003, Cullen murdered at least 29 of his patients by injecting them with fatal doses of medication. Throughout his 16-year medical career, Charles Cullen bounced back and forth between various hospitals and nursing homes throughout New Jersey and Pennsylvania.