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True Crime News: The Podcast

The real ‘Good Nurse’: How a whistleblower stopped one of America’s most prolific serial killers

True Crime News: The Podcast

True Crime News

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

This Week on True Crime Daily The Podcast: The real story of Netflix’s “The Good Nurse,” how one nurse risked everything to stop one of America’s most notorious serial killers.

Amy Loughren joins host Ana Garcia.

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0:00.0

Award of Warning. This podcast explores graphic and disturbing stories and includes some strong language.

0:06.4

It therefore may not be suitable for our young listeners or other folks who may find it disturbing.

0:12.4

Hello and welcome to a special edition of True Crime Daily's The Podcast. I'm your host,

0:16.8

Anna Garcia. Everyone in the world of True Crime has a story to tell

0:21.2

about a case that they worked or that they'd lived through.

0:23.9

Summer high profile, some you have never heard of, but they are all fascinating.

0:28.1

Today's case is so unbelievable that Netflix has made it into a movie.

0:32.8

It's about what could be America's most prolific and notorious serial killers. A man who

0:39.8

confessed to killing up to 40 people, but the real number could be in the hundreds. We are

0:44.8

talking about Charles Cullen, the nurse who killed 29 patients in 10 hospitals in New Jersey and

0:51.1

Pennsylvania. He was ultimately stopped by another nurse, a good nurse named Amy Lugrin,

0:58.5

who is with us here today. The new Netflix movie is about how Amy stopped this madman.

1:05.8

Of course, it's called The Good Nurse and it stars Jessica Chastain as Amy and Eddie Redmayne

1:12.0

as the killer. Amy, thank you so much for joining us.

1:16.5

Thank you. I have been so excited about having you on the podcast to discuss this incredible case

1:25.7

and your role in helping to catch this madman. The movie is also great. I saw the movie,

1:34.3

but as we all know, there are liberties that are taken with the story a little bit.

1:40.8

Amy, where do I begin with you? How are you doing? Let me start with that. How are you doing

1:47.8

after all this? I'm doing fantastic. I've had 20 years to at least get myself ready and

1:58.7

Christy Wilson Karen, who wrote the screenplay we've been working together. I think it's about

2:05.9

nine years now. I've had a minute to prepare myself for questions and yet there's still no

2:19.9

preparation that can make you truly ready. Oh, absolutely, because what you witnessed,

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