If you haven’t caught up on your movies lately, you might want to check out The Good Nurse on Netflix starring Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne. The film depicts the real-life story of how a night nurse Amy Loughren, played by Chastain, suspects her colleague, Charles Cullen, might be a serial killer harming patients, and how she helped the authorities bring him to justice.
This video posted by Inside Edition shares Loughren’s account of everything that happened and how her acts of bravery helped to stop one of America’s most prolific serial killers.
Loughren worked alongside Cullen for a year and a half at a hospital in New Jersey and the two became close friends. She didn’t think her friend was doing anything out of the ordinary. It was only when investigators showed her evidence that Cullen was injecting patients with lethal substances that she knew she needed to help stop him.
"The medications he used were brutal medications," Loughren explains. "Medications … that are paralytics. You cannot speak. You cannot breathe. You cannot fight back. You cannot blink."
The investigators wanted Loughren to use her friendship with Cullen to get him to confess to his murderous acts while she wore a wire, and she did exactly that.
Investigators suspected that Cullen had started murdering people in the late 1980s.
Cullen pleaded guilty to murdering 29 people and is currently serving 11 consecutive life sentences. To find out how many people Loughren thinks Cullen actually murdered, watch the video from Inside Edition.
