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You Can’t Make This Up

Capturing the Killer Nurse

You Can’t Make This Up

Netflix

True Crime, Documentary, Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Film Interviews

4.21K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of You Can't Make This Up, we are talking about the Netflix documentary “Capturing the Killer Nurse" out now on Netflix. Host Rebecca Lavoie interviews director Tim Travers Hawkins and author Charles Graeber. Charlie Cullen was an experienced registered nurse, trusted and beloved by his colleagues at Somerset Medical Center in New Jersey. He was also one of history’s most prolific serial killers, with a body count potentially numbering in the hundreds across multiple medical facilities in the Northeast. Based on the best-selling book The Good Nurse and dramatized in the Netflix feature film starring Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne – “Capturing the Killer Nurse” reveals the twisted story behind Cullen’s hidden spree of murders and how Cullen’s horrific actions underscore an even bigger danger still lurking in our healthcare system. SPOILER ALERT! If you haven't watched “Capturing the Killer Nurse" yet, make sure to add it to your watch-list before listening on.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Rebecca Lervoy and this is You Can't make this up as the podcast where we uncover the true stories behind

0:19.3

your favorite Netflix documentaries and films.

0:22.8

On today's episode, we take a closer look

0:25.6

at the Netflix documentary,

0:27.6

capturing the killer nurse.

0:29.8

The detective said, what are you talking about? I said well we've been telling them

0:34.2

they have a murderer on their hands for a while now. Today we're talking to

0:38.7

director Tim Travers Hawkins and author Charles Graber.

0:42.8

Charlie Cullen was an experienced registered nurse,

0:46.1

trusted and beloved by his colleagues

0:48.6

at Somerset Medical Center in New Jersey.

0:51.6

He was also one of history's most prolific serial killers, with a body

0:56.6

count potentially numbering in the hundreds across multiple medical facilities in the

1:01.5

northeast. Based on the best-selling book, The Good Nurse,

1:05.0

and dramatized in the Netflix feature film

1:08.0

starring Jessica Chastane and Eddie Redmayne,

1:11.0

capturing the killer nurse reveals the twisted story behind Collins hidden spree of murders

1:16.6

and how his horrific actions underscore an even bigger danger still lurking in our health care system.

1:24.0

Without a confession, he was going to continue to murder.

1:27.6

He was going to continue to kill.

1:30.3

So they asked me if I would meet with him and wear a wire.

1:36.0

And I'm joined by Tim Travers Hawkins, the director of capturing the killer nurse, and Charles

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