Charles Cullen: Mission Oriented Serial Killer

Charles Cullen is known as the “Angel of Death” and “Satan’s Son” due to the murders of hundreds of patients in his 16 year career of nursing. These describe him accurately as he preyed on innocent sick people who were hospitalized. On February 22, 1960 in West Orange, New Jersey, Charles Cullen was born. His family consisted of his father, mother, five sisters and two brothers. He was the youngest of them all. His father was not present in his life because he passed away seven months after Charles was born. He claims that his childhood was “miserable” after many years of being bullied due to his strange behavior. At the age of only nine, he unsuccessfully attempted to commit suicide by drinking various chemicals from a chemical set. When Cullen was 17 years old, his mother passed away in a devastating car accident, This lead him to drop out of high school and enroll into the U.S. Navy, where he worked as a submarine/missile technician. After showing signs of mental instability, he was medically discharged. Soon after, he started his education in nursing at the “Mountainside Hospital School of Nursing” in Montclair, New Jersey. After graduating in 1987, the start of his …show more content…
He is a “disorganized” serial killer because he had no father figure, he returns to the same location of the crime scene, and was a high school dropout. In the span of 16 years, Cullen worked and murdered patients at ten different healthcare facilities. He murdered at different locations, and returned to his crime scene which means he can be described as a stable or transient mobility serial killer. Charles main target was ill patients (mission-oriented). The reasoning behind the deaths of many people was because Charles Cullen wanted to end their suffering, even though not all of the patients were in misery. In his twisted mind, he actually believed he was helping people by killing