Capturing the Killer Nurse

About Capturing the Killer Nurse

Charlie Cullen was an experienced registered nurse, trusted and beloved by his colleagues at Somerset Medical Center in New Jersey. He is also one of history’s most prolific serial killers, with a body count potentially numbering in the hundreds across multiple medical facilities in the Northeast.

Capturing the Killer Nurse (2022) is a crime documentary film directed by Tim Travers Hawkins. It runs 95 minutes and was released in November 2022.

Its themes are true crime, nurse, new jersey, and intensive care. The film began as a novel.

Charles Cullen appears as Self (archive footage), Amy Loughren as Self - Nurse, Somerset Medical Center, 2001-2004, Donna Hargreaves as Self - Nurse, Somerset Medical Center, 2000-2014, and Dr. Bruce Ruck as Self - Toxicologist. The screenplay is by Robin Ockleford and Tim Travers Hawkins. It streams on Netflix and Netflix Standard with Ads in the United States.

The Good Nurse, Zodiac, and Killers of the Flower Moon make useful companions to Capturing the Killer Nurse, all filed under hospital and murder. TMDB voters put it at 6.5 out of 10 across 88 votes and it carries a PG-13 rating.