Charles Cullen (above) claimed he killed his patients as an act of mercy, though many of the people he killed were neither terminally ill nor old, according to NBC News. His youngest victim was just 22. While he confessed to 29 murders, investigators believe he may have killed up to 400 people, according to Investigation Discovery.
The nurse dubbed The Angel of Death by the media didn’t attend much of his trial. He escaped the death penalty by offering to identify his victims, according to NBC News. When it came time for sentencing on March 2nd, 2006, Cullen threatened to sit it out, robbing his victim’s families of their last chance to face him in court. He agreed to appear on the condition he be allowed to donate the organ to an ex-girlfriend’s relative, according to The New York Times.
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At his sentencing, family members of Cullen’s victims lashed out, with one yelling, “My only consolation is that you will die a thousand deaths in the arms of Satan,” and another saying, “In prison, perhaps someone will choose to play God with Mr. Cullen, as he has played God with so many others,” according to New York Magazine. But when asked by the judge if he had anything to say, Cullen uttered nothing.
