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Cullen: A Serial Killer

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Wuornos’ 6th victim was 50-year old delivery driver named Eugene Burress. A few days after being pronounced missing, his work truck along with his body was found by a family picnicking. He had been shot twice with a .22-calibre pistol. A month later, former police chief Dick Humphrey was reported missing by his wife. A week later his body was found in Marion County. He had been shot seven times with a .22 pistol. After two months, the Wuornos’ eighth victim, a 60-year-old truck driver named Walter Antonio body was found in Dixie Count, naked on the side of the road. Examiners concluded he was, shot three times in the back and once in the head, also with a .22 firearm and has been dead less than 24 hours (Reynolds, 2004).
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Barnabas Hospital, he injected a lethal overdose medication to an elderly patient. In an interview, later Cullen admits to taking the lives of 11 other patients at St. Barnabas. After a short stay, Cullen left his job at St. Barnabas in 1992 and took a nursing job at Warren Hospital in Phillipsburg, where he continued his career as a serial killer. Cullen was an organized serial killer because he was very intelligent and well organized to the point of being perfect. Every detail of his crimes was planned well in advance, he also was very careful and made sure he didn’t leave behind any evidence. Has admitted to killing 3 elderly women there by giving them overdoses of digoxin. One victim he took the life of was 90-year-old Lucy Megaera who is thought to be his first victim He injected her with Digoxin, which is used to treat symptoms of congestive heart failure. Digoxin is dangerous for elderly patients, proving an easy way to commit murder for Cullen (Webb & Sun, 2015) After Cullen and his wife’s divorce, Cullen quit his position at Warren Hospital and took a job at Hunter Medical Center in Raritan Township, New Jersey. There he worked in the ICU and withheld himself from committing murder for the first two years. Later after his arrest, an investigation was conducted about suspicious deaths at Hunter Medical Center, but by the time of Cullen’s arrest those records were destroyed, but he admits in an interview that he killed

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