The Cabinet Records

On October 31, 2003, Somerset Medical Center fired nurse Charles Cullen. Within weeks, automated medication records would help investigators connect him to drugs his patients had never been prescribed. § CASE FILE ▪ Case: Charles Cullen ▪ Jurisdiction: New Jersey · Pennsylvania ▪ Period: 1987 — 2006 ▪ Disposition: Guilty pleas · 18 life sentences ──────────────────────────── THE CABINET RECORDS For sixteen years, Cullen moved through hospitals and nursing facilities while his licenses remained clean. There had been firings, resignations, internal reviews, and even a criminal inquiry. Then investigators examined the medication cabinets at Somerset. ▪ Nine hospitals and one nursing home ▪ Earlier suspicions that never produced criminal charges ▪ Automated withdrawal records that preserved every transaction ▪ A warning from a poison control center months before Cullen's arrest The records at Somerset identified the nurse. The larger question was how long the warning signs had already been there. § IN THE RECORD Court rulings · Prosecutors' records · Associated Press · The New York Times · 60 Minutes · Contemporary reporting Where the record ends, the episode says so. ──────────────────────────── ▪ This narration features AI-assisted voice production. ▪ No dialogue is invented. No thoughts are reconstructed. ▪ Claims are attributed to their source throughout. This is Material Fact. #CharlesCullen #TheGoodNurse #TrueCrime #MedicalCrime #SerialKiller #Healthcare #CrimeDocumentary #InvestigativePodcast #TrueCrimePodcast #CriminalInvestigation #CourtRecords #DocumentaryPodcast #CrimeHistory #MaterialFact