He wanted to.
Nobody knows for sure, but serial killer experts say it was a sociopathic compulsion. After he was captured, nurse Charles Cullen told detectives that he killed out of compassion, but his victims were not all terminal, he poisoned randomly sometimes, and he killed more when his life was going poorly, he was drinking, or he had other needs. Experts put his victim count at perhaps 400, and an upcoming book by author Charles Graeber details hundreds of murders, many at random, for which Charles Cullen was never charged. He also killed some people as a sort of sport, poisoning random saline IV bags and then waiting to see where they hit, then rushing in to save the victim of the code he had created. He was the most prolific serial killer in American history!
Cullen said he administered overdoses to patients to spare them from being "coded"―going into cardiac or respiratory arrest and being listed as a "Code Blue" emergency. Cullen has told detectives that he could not bear to witness or hear about attempts at saving a victim's life. Cullen also claims that he gave patients overdoses so that he could end their "suffering" and prevent hospital personnel from "de-humanizing" them.
Also he was ******* nuts.
he didn't like em
Was it because he thought they were suffering/dying or was it random?
