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After his December 2003 arrest, registered nurse Charlie Cullen was quickly dubbed the Angel of Death by the media.

But Cullen was no mercy killer, nor was he a simple monster.

He was a favorite son, husband, beloved father, best friend and celebrated caregiver.

Implicated in the deaths of as many as 300 patients, he was also perhaps the most prolific serial killer in American history.

Cullen's murderous career in the world's most trusted profession spanned 16 years and nine hospitals across New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

When in March of 2006, Charles Cullen was marched from his final sentencing in an Allentown, Pennsylvania courthouse, into a waiting police van.

It seemed certain that the chilling secrets of his life, career and capture would disappear with him.

Now in a riveting piece of investigative journalism, nearly 10 years in the making, journalist Charles Graber presents the whole story for the first time.

Based on hundreds of pages of previously unseen police records, interviews, wiretap recordings and videotapes, as well as exclusive jail house conversations with Cullen, himself and the confidential informant who helped bring him down, the good nurse weaves an urgent terrifying tale of murder, friendship and betrayal.

We're not for the hard boiled unrelenting work of two former Newark homicide detectives, racing to put together the pieces of Cullen's professional past, and a fellow nurse willing to put everything at risk, including her job and the safety of her children.

There's no telling how many more lives could have been lost.

The book that we're featuring this evening is The Good Nurse, a true story of medicine, madness and murder.

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