@article{467409,
      recid = {467409},
      author = {Graeber, Charles.},
      title = {The good nurse : a true story of medicine, madness, and  murder /},
      pages = {307 pages ;},
      abstract = {After his December 2003 arrest, registered nurse Charlie  Cullen was quickly dubbed "The Angel of Death" by the  media. But Cullen was no mercy killer, nor was he a simple  monster. He was a favorite son, husband, beloved father,  best friend, and celebrated caregiver. Implicated in the  deaths of as many as 300 patients, he was also perhaps the  most prolific serial killer in American history. Cullen's  murderous career in the world's most trusted profession  spanned sixteen years and nine hospitals across New Jersey  and Pennsylvania. When, in March of 2006, Charles Cullen  was marched from his final sentencing in an Allentown,  Pennsylvania, courthouse into a waiting police van, it  seemed certain that the chilling secrets of his life,  career, and capture would disappear with him. Now, in this  piece of investigative journalism nearly ten years in the  making, the author, a journalist presents the whole story  for the first time. Based on hundreds of pages of  previously unseen police records, interviews, wire-tap  recordings and videotapes, as well as exclusive jailhouse  conversations with Cullen himself and the confidential  informant who helped bring him down, this book weaves an  urgent, terrifying tale of murder, friendship, and  betrayal. The author's portrait of Cullen depicts a  surprisingly intelligent and complicated young man whose  promising career was overwhelmed by his compulsion to kill,  and whose shy demeanor masked a twisted interior life  hidden even to his family and friends. Were it not for the  work of two former Newark homicide detectives racing to put  together the pieces of Cullen's professional past, and a  fellow nurse willing to put everything at risk, including  her job and the safety of her children, there's no telling  how many more lives could have been lost. This work does  more than chronicle Cullen's deadly career and the  breathless efforts to stop him; it paints an incredibly  vivid portrait of madness and offers a penetrating look  inside America's medical system. This book will make you  look at medicine, hospitals, and the people who work in  them, in an entirely different way.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/467409},
}