Episode 40

Sword and Scale

Incongruity

History, Society & Culture, True Crime, Documentary

4.0 • 63.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2015

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

When asked to imagine the perfect place to perform serial murder most imagine something dark and creepy, but the truth of the matter is that the perfect place to kill is actually the same place in which most of us are born and die: a hospital. This is a place where death is not only common, but expected. Many of the victims are already incapacited and there's a steady stream of them coming in each day. Not to mention the fact that the tools for killing are readily available in the form of various dangerous drugs. Combine that with a hospital's reluctance to report any activity which may cost them a lawsuit and it's no wonder that Charles Cullen was able to get away with killing more than 40 patients over the course of 16 years at nine different institutions. In this episode we speak with Charles Graeber, author of The Good Nurse, and recount the terrifying story of a serial killer nurse and the broken system around him which facilitated and possibly covered up his killing spree.

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0:00.0	Sword and Scale contains adult themes and violence.
0:03.0	It is not intended for all audiences.
0:05.2	Listener discretion is advised.
0:10.7	If you like to kill people, if that is your goal and desire, this is the only place to do it aside from war.
0:31.4	Hello and welcome to episode 40 of Sword and Scale,
0:36.7	a show that reveals that the worst monsters are real.
1:00.6	In this episode, a serial killer you most likely have never heard of, but one who truly terrifies, not because he resembles a monster, but because he doesn't.
1:05.1	And you'll never suspect someone like this could possibly exist.
1:08.7	You'll never see him coming.
1:26.3	Yeah. this could possibly exist, you'll never see him coming. The experience of living burden that every one of us will eventually face.
1:32.9	For many of us, we have seen it all too clear in the form of a loved one passing away.
1:39.1	For some, it's a grandfather or a grandmother, maybe a mom or dad.
1:44.3	And for those of us who've been dealt a particularly crappy hand, it may be a spouse, son, or daughter.
1:51.4	But we all know that death is inevitable.
1:54.7	And when the call comes and we drag our feet to the hospital, we know there won't be much happiness ahead of us, because we know
2:02.2	death is looming, and it's just a matter of time. But the story I'm about to tell you isn't about a
2:09.2	graceful passage into the unknown. The story I'm about to tell you is about people like you and me,
2:17.1	like your grandparents, or your mom or dad,
2:21.6	or spouse, her son, or daughter, being violently ripped away from this world for absolutely
2:28.7	no justifiable reason by a man named Charles Cullen.
2:47.0	I can't tell you how many people Charles Cullenumn killed, I can tell you what I learned,
2:52.6	that the people who knew him best, that he interviewed him most, that worked with him on the confession
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