After watching the tedious, The Good Nurse I was sufficiently interested in learning more about the case and specifically the muderer's motives. Unfortunately we don't learn very much more about this, Cullen makes a weak case that his murder streak was somehow mercy killings then goes onto say his killing was some kind of compulsion he had no power to resist. I believe the later not the former. However this documentary sets the record straight about several issues not dealt with or inaccurately shown in the dramatic version. Notably the body exhumed for a post mortem examination was of an elderly male priest not a young woman with a 6 month old baby girl. However although superior to the dramatic version I found author Charles Graeber's repeated assertion that Cullen's actions were facilitated by a "for profit private health care system" quite annoying. Obviously he has a political axe to grind here but I can inform Mr. Graeber that at least 3 similar cases of nurses and one case of a doctor killing patients have been found in UK which has a socialized healthcare system. Given the UK's population is only 20% of the USA I'd say patients are far safer in a private healthcare system than a socialized one and that's without talking about the far better health outcomes patients in USA enjoy over their far less fortunate cousins in UK.
Review of Capturing the Killer Nurse
