Serial killer “60 minutes”: Convicted serial killer Charles Cullen, the “Angel of Death,” gave his first interview on Sunday night.
Speaking on CBS’s “60 Minutes,” Cullen said that if he was not caught over his murders in hospitals, he admitted that he likely would not have stopped.
Cullen, who worked as a hospital nurse, admitted to murdering between 30 and 40 victims on his confession tape, but some believe that he killed far more. He killed all of his victims via medication over a 16-year-span, poisoning them with the heart drug digoxen.
He worked at several hospitals in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
“Yes. But like I said, I don’t know if I would have stopped [killing],” he said on the show.
When asked if he considers himself a serial killer, he replied: “I mean, I guess it depends upon a person’s definition. If it’s more than one and it’s a pattern, I guess then yes.”
He said, “I worked on the burn unit. So, I mean, there was a lot of pain, a lot of suffering. And I didn’t cope with that as well as I thought I would,” adding that it was the first place he gave someone medication causing them to die.
Cullen said he believed he killed his victims, who ranged from teenagers to 91 years old, to end their suffering.
“No, I thought that people weren’t suffering anymore. So, in a sense, I thought I was helping,” he said.
But the evidence against him shows that his killings weren’t all that merciful. In one case, an asthma patient was recovering and in no pain when he gave her a fatal dose of digoxin. Another patient was suffering from autoimmune disease and went through a routine surgery when he was killed.
“You know, again, you know, I mean, my goal here isn’t to justify. You know what I did there is no justification. Um, I just think that the only thing I can say is that I felt overwhelmed at the time,” he said.
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