Frightening.
A new crime drama movie titled The Good Nurse has dropped on Netflix this week and is inspired by true events.
Starring Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne, the film tells the story of the crimes that were committed by Charles Cullen across New Jersey and Pennsylvania over a 16-year period.
Based on Charles Graeber’s 2014 book The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder, the movie follows Amy (Chastain), a single mum and nurse struggling with a life-threatening heart condition.
Amy finds comfort in Charlie (Redmayne) who is another nurse on the night shifts in the ICU ward and the two become close friends.
It is only when patients begin to mysteriously die, an investigation is launched and Charlie becomes the prime suspect, so Amy risks her own life to ensure the truth is exposed.
The real Amy Loughren was a nurse in the ICU of Somerset Hospital, New Jersey, and in 2003 she found herself being approached by two detectives who questioned her about her colleague Charles Cullen, writes Ellen Fitzpatrick
Cullen was suspected of killing patients by injecting lethal doses of insulin and heart medications into their IV bags.
He had worked at several different hospitals across New Jersey and Pennsylvania prior to this incident.
In an effort to get him to confess to his crimes, Loughren wore a wire to record a conversation with him, putting her own life at risk to help the police with their investigation.
Cullen was then arrested in December 2003 and eventually pleaded guilty to the murders of 29 people.
Currently serving a life sentence, he has since admitted to killing more victims but can’t recall their names.
It is now estimated that he is responsible for 400 deaths.
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