A prolific healthcare "angel of mercy" serial killer was male nurse Charles Cullen, who between 1988 and his arrest in 2003, used drug overdoses to kill 40-45 patients.
Cullen's reported motive was, in his mind, at least, humanitarian. He said he was putting the terminally ill out of their misery. He also said the killings gave him a sense of power.
Cullen's life was marked by depression, many suicide attempts, and general unhappiness. His "mercy killings" were done in 10-16 hospitals in New Jersey and Pennsylvania as he moved from one job to another.
Cullen pled guilty in order to avoid the death penalty. He was sentenced to 127 years.
At that, Cullen was a piker compared to a British doctor, Harold Shipman, who put 218 of his patients to death.
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