The True Story Behind The Good Nurse Is Simply Terrifying

“She got here throughout as a strong-minded, clever particular person, so I rolled the cube and revealed a few of our findings to her,” since-retired Det. Daniel Baldwin (performed by Nnamdi Asomugha in The Good Nurse) advised Folks of enlisting Loughren of their investigation. After which they’d her put on a wire to a gathering with Cullen exterior the hospital. (They hesitated once they noticed her scar from having a pacemaker put in, however, she advised Glamour UK, she assured them, “I am a cardiac nurse, I do know I will be OK.”)

Confronting him with what she knew, Loughren provided to go together with her buddy to the police, to admit.

“He sat straight up,” she recalled to Folks. “The colour of his eyes modified. He put a smirk on his face and stated, ‘I’ll go down combating.'”

Cullen was fired Oct. 31, 2003, ostensibly whereas being investigated for altering the blood chemistry of six aged sufferers, together with 4 who had died. A hospital official advised authorities that 5 of the six incidents ended up having acceptable explanations.

As for the sixth: Cullen was arrested that December on suspicion of homicide within the June 28, 2003, digoxin overdose dying of the Very Rev. Florian J. Gall, a 68-year-old priest. He was additionally charged with tried homicide for making an attempt to manage a deadly quantity of digoxin to a 40-year-old girl, who obtained an antidote in time.