The Angel of Death: Charles Cullen and the Hospital Murders
He wore scrubs. He carried compassion. He chose who didn't wake up.
On night shifts across New Jersey and Pennsylvania, registered nurse Charles Cullen moved quietly from bed to bed while monitors blinked a steady lullaby. Patients who were stable slipped away. Charts showed "complications." Pharmacy logs showed "cancels." The system showed nothing-until a bedside nurse, a data analyst, and a handful of relentless investigators began to connect the dots.
The Angel of Death is a gripping, victim-first true-crime narrative that reconstructs how one caregiver exploited the blind spots of modern hospitals-tampering with IV fluids, abusing automated drug cabinets, and masking murder as medicine-and how a courageous colleague helped bring him down. Moving from ICU corridors to pharmacy audits, from interrogation rooms to courtrooms, Linda Davidson shows not only what happened, but why it was allowed to happen for so long.
Inside you'll find:
A pulse-by-pulse account of the night shift where patterns first emerged
The whistleblower whose "friendship" became the case's turning point
The digital trail: digoxin, insulin, and the telltale signature of cancelled pulls
Families' voices in court-and the reforms their grief helped ignite
Meticulously researched and deeply humane, this book refuses sensational shortcuts. It restores the victims to the center, honors the clinicians who refused to look away, and asks the urgent question every patient and professional must face: How do we build hospitals that can't be weaponized from within?
For readers of Ann Rule, Michelle McNamara, and The Good Nurse, this is true crime with a conscience-and a call to vigilance.
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