The country’s worst serial killer, Charles Cullen, murdered forty people, perhaps more. He did it as a nurse by injecting the victim with a lethal drug. He was from my home town; in fact his home was on my paper route. My father was a patient for several weeks in the hospital where Cullen, ten years later, would claim his first victim. I never knew the man, who was eight years younger than me, but I was a friend with a couple of his neighbors.
Charles Cullen’s story is most tragic. His father died when he was a baby and his mother died young in a car accident with his sister behind the wheel. His sordid tale can be read off the internet. The reason I bring him up is to point out that something similar may have happened to him during his sick spree as happened to Ted Bundy. Bundy testified that when he approached the room of the girl who would have been his final victim he was stopped by a “force.” The girl had just fallen asleep saying the Rosary with the beads still in her hands.
Cullen’s last victim before he was caught was a well beloved priest, Father Florian J. Gall. Being that he was only forty-three at the time, it is likely that the killer would have committed more murders. Spirit Daily website proposes that Father Gall may have interceded to put an end to Cullen’s rampage.
