Name: 誰是醫院裡的隱形殺手？揭秘史上最駭人的護士謀殺案（The Nurse Who Murdered His Patients）
Uploaded: 2026-03-11T14:34:57.000Z
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What's worse, a nurse who is also a secret serial killer, or the hospital that tries to cover it all up.

比較慘的是，一個護士同時也是個連環殺手，還是醫院試圖掩蓋這一切。

This is the twisted, murderous story of Charles Cullen, New Jersey's own angel of death and the hospitals that thought nobody would notice.

這是查爾斯·卡倫，新澤西州的死亡天使，以及那些以為沒人會發現的醫院，所犯下的扭曲、殺戮故事。

基礎被動語態

Charles Cullen was born and raised in northern New Jersey, and

查爾斯·卡倫在新澤西州北部出生長大，

right off the bat, things didn't go well for him as a young child.

從一開始，他小時候的生活就不順遂。

He lost his father and then his mother before he was even out of high school.

他在高中畢業前就失去了父親和母親。

These traumas left deep psychological scars that only worsened because of bullying and isolation.

這些創傷留下了深刻的心理創傷，加上霸凌和孤立，情況更是雪上加霜。

Charles knew he needed structure in his life, so he enlisted in the Navy and spent years living under the ocean in a nuclear submarine.

查爾斯知道他的人生需要結構，所以他加入了海軍，在核子潛艦裡度過了數年在海底生活。

Unfortunately, the bullying did not stop.

He was depressed, socially awkward, and increasingly turned to alcohol, which only worsened his behavior in isolation.

他感到憂鬱、社交笨拙，並且越來越依賴酒精，這反而加劇了他孤立時的行為。

One time in the Navy, he went ashore and drank so much that he passed out under the hot sun, barefoot.

有一次在海軍，他上岸後喝得爛醉，結果在烈日下昏睡過去，光著腳。

When he woke up hours later, his feet were burnt to a crisp.

幾個小時後他醒來時，雙腳已經被晒得焦黑。

His superior showed him no sympathy either, forcing him to work in a pair of shoes too small for his feet and only giving him mild painkillers.

他的長官也沒有給予任何同情，強迫他穿著太小的鞋子工作，只給了他輕微的止痛藥。

Ultimately, he didn't fit in well with his bosses, who were always looking over his shoulder.

最終，他無法好好融入長官們，他們總是緊盯著他。

He needed a job with less oversight, like a night nurse in the icu.

他需要一份監督較少的工作，像是 icu 的夜班護士。

So Charles was discharged from the Navy and decided to enroll in nursing school.

於是查爾斯從海軍退役，決定進入護理學校就讀。

Despite his bizarre personality, he maintained steady work, got married, even had two children.

儘管他個性古怪，他仍維持穩定的工作，結婚生子，甚至有了兩個孩子。

And while on the surface things appeared normal, behind closed doors at the hospital, Charles was killing people left and right.

雖然表面上一切看似正常，但在醫院的密室裡，查爾斯卻一個接一個地殺人。

His murders weren't all exactly the same, but they usually followed a pattern.

他的殺人手法不盡相同，但通常會遵循一個模式。

He often worked night shifts in the intensive care unit, treating burn victims and other seriously ill patients.

他常在 icu 值大夜班，照顧燒燙傷和其他重症病患。

When they were short staffed and no visitors were present to begin, he would identify a victim, a 72 year old judge, a 21 year old college student.

當人力不足、沒有家屬在場時，他就會鎖定一名病患，像是七十二歲的法官、二十一歲的大學生。

Here, Charles did not discriminate and often killed randomly.

在這裡，查爾斯沒有偏好，常常隨機殺人。

So just by being his patient, your life was instantly in danger.

所以，只要是他的病患，生命就隨時處於危險之中。

Then Charles would head to the Pyxis machine, a computerized drug dispenser, to get a dose of a drug called digoxin.

接著查爾斯就會去 Pyxis machine，這是一臺電腦化的藥物分配機，來領取一種叫做 digoxin 的藥物。

In normal doses, it can help control the rhythm of the heart.

一般劑量下，它可以幫助控制心跳的節律。

In an overdose, it can trigger lethal heart arrhythmias.

過量時，則可能引發致命的心律不整。

It was also a drug that was not routinely tested for in autopsies, meaning that there was a good chance nobody would even notice it in a patient's system.

這也是一種驗屍時不會例行檢測的藥物，意味著病患體內若有此藥物，很有可能不會被發現。

Then, while patients slept in their beds and other night shift nurses were out of the room, Charles would either inject the medication into A patient directly or tamper with their IV saline bag.

然後，趁著病患在床上熟睡，其他大夜班護士外出時，查爾斯就會直接將藥物注射到病患體內，或是破壞他們的生理食鹽水點滴袋。

He murdered patients like this over a career that spanned 15 plus years.

他就這樣在長達十五年以上的職業生涯中殺害了病人。

But why did it take so long for him to get caught?

這就是事情變得非常黑暗的地方。

Because so many of Charles's victims were already in the icu, Their deaths weren't often very suspicious.

因為查爾斯的許多受害者本來就在 icu，他們的死亡通常沒有引起太多懷疑。

They were on the brink of death anyway, so nobody suspected any foul play.

他們反正都已奄奄一息，所以沒人懷疑有任何不法情事。

Also, Charles was clever in how he got hold of the digoxin.

此外，查爾斯在取得 digoxin 的方式也很聰明。

He took advantage of the flawed Pyxis machines, entering the code for Tylenol that happened to share the same drawer.

他利用有瑕疵的 Pyxis machine，輸入碰巧放在同一個抽屜的 Tylenol 代碼。

Or he would enter the code for digoxin, cancel the order immediately, and the drawer would open anyway.

或者他會輸入 digoxin 的代碼，立刻取消訂單，抽屜還是會打開。

These workarounds created a confusing paper trail.

這些變通方法造成了混亂的記錄。

Lots of canceled orders and odd Pyxis activity, But

大量取消的訂單和奇怪的 Pyxis 活動，但是

little direct proof that he'd actually given the drug to patients.

幾乎沒有直接證據顯示他真的給了病人藥物。

But more importantly, while it did take over a decade to put Charles behind bars, that's not because he never got caught.

但更重要的是，雖然查爾斯花了十幾年才被送進牢裡，這並不是因為他從沒被抓到。

In fact, he got caught over and over again.

On numerous occasions, a hospital where Charles worked would find the circumstances of a patient's death unusual, and

在許多情況下，查爾斯工作的醫院會覺得病人的死因很可疑，

Charles was repeatedly implicated in these investigations, but his bosses could never quite prove it.

查爾斯一再被牽扯進這些調查，但他的上司始終無法確切證明。

Well, they could call the police, begin a proper criminal investigation, and

嗯，他們可以報警，展開正式的刑事調查，然後

open themselves to a liability and PR nightmare.

讓自己面臨法律和公關的夢魘。

They'd hired a serial killer to care for patients.

他們僱用了一名連續殺人犯來照顧病人。

Not exactly a ringing endorsement to visit for your next checkup.

這聽起來不太像是下次健康檢查時會想去的地方。

So these hospitals did what now seems unthinkable.

所以這些醫院就做了現在看來難以想像的事。

If he resigned, they'd end their investigation and give him neutral references.

如果他辭職，他們就會終止調查並給他中立的推薦信。

This left Charles without a job, but with an active nursing license and a spotless record.

這讓查爾斯失業，但保留了有效的護士執照和清白的紀錄。

He ultimately worked at about 10 hospitals, leaving a trail of death behind him as he kept getting more and more work.

他最後在約十家醫院工作，留下一連串死亡的蹤跡，同時也持續獲得越來越多的工作。

One time, Charles even received a phone call offering him a nursing position while he himself was being held in a psychiatric facility while having a mental breakdown.

有一次，查爾斯在精神崩潰、被送進精神病院時，還接到一通電話，有人要提供他護士職位。

Charles happily worked grueling ICU night shifts.

查爾斯樂於在 icu 上艱苦的夜班。

And it wouldn't be right to deny him a job for simply seeking mental health support, would it?

而且，因為他尋求心理健康支持就拒絕他工作，這說不過去，對吧？

So Charles kept working and kept killing.

所以查爾斯繼續工作，繼續殺人。

Up and down the New Jersey Turnpike he went, injecting recovering patients with digoxin or insulin at whichever hospital would give him a look.

他開車穿梭於紐澤西收費公路，在任何願意給他機會的醫院裡，為康復中的病人注射 digoxin 或胰島素。

At Somerset Medical Center, a cluster of patients started dying with bizarre lab results, including unexplained spikes in insulin and digoxin.

在 Somerset Medical Center，一群病人的死亡伴隨著離奇的實驗室結果，包括胰島素和 digoxin 不明原因的飆升。

And that final finally got someone's attention.

而這件事終於引起了某人的注意。

And after three months, during which time Charles killed five more people, the authorities were finally called.

三個月後，在這段期間查爾斯又殺了五個人，當局終於被通知。

With a mountain of circumstantial evidence before them, detectives picked up the phone and called around the state, learning that similar deaths had occurred at other hospitals where Charles had worked.

檢方掌握了大量間接證據，打電話給州內各處，得知查爾斯曾任職的其他醫院也發生了類似的死亡事件。

He had a police record, too, having been arrested years before for stalking a former co worker and breaking into her house.

他也有前科，幾年前曾因跟蹤前同事並闖入她家而被逮捕。

The detectives could tell Charles was their man, but they couldn't quite prove it.

偵探們知道查爾斯就是凶手，但就是無法確切證明。

There were no eyewitnesses, no late night security camera footage.

沒有目擊者，也沒有深夜的監視器畫面。

The hospitals that swept Charles murderers under the rug were panicking about legal ramifications.

那些將查爾斯殺人事件掩蓋起來的醫院，開始擔心法律後果。

So they stonewalled detectives and rarely gave up legit evidence.

所以他們阻撓偵探，很少提供合法證據。

Somerset Medical center, the scene of the crime, made it particularly hard to investigate the case.

案發現場的 Somerset Medical Center，讓調查工作變得特別困難。

They barred their staff from speaking to police unless their lawyer was present.

他們禁止員工在律師陪同下與警方談話。

They told police the Pyxis machines only kept records for 30 days.

他們告訴警方 Pyxis machine 只保留 30 天的紀錄。

It was only after detectives called the manufacturer that they learned this wasn't even true.

直到偵探聯繫製造商，才得知這根本不是真的。

Somerset either didn't know how the machines worked, or they flat out lied.

Somerset 不是不知道機器如何運作，就是乾脆在說謊。

There was only one they needed a confession.

Detectives enlisted nurse Amy, a co worker of Charles, to help bring him in.

偵探們找來了護士 Amy，她是 Charles 的同事，請她幫忙把 Charles 帶回來。

At first, Amy laughed off the idea that Charles was a murderer.

一開始，Amy 聽到 Charles 是個殺人犯時，覺得很好笑。

He took shifts nobody else wanted and was one of her closest friends.

他會接下別人不想做的班，而且是她最要好的朋友之一。

Then they walked her through the entire story, showing her all the evidence they'd gathered so far.

然後，他們把整個故事詳細地告訴她，給她看了所有到目前為止收集到的證據。

This made her nervous, so she contacted an old friend of hers that had worked with Charles years before.

這讓她很緊張，所以她聯絡了一位認識多年的老朋友，這位朋友以前和 Charles 一起工作過。

She corroborated the story, saying he was a creep and that she was surprised to learn that he was still nursing.

她證實了這個說法，說 Charles 是個怪胎，她很驚訝竟然聽說他還在當護士。

Amy thought back on previous patients who had died.

然後 Charles 接手，他們就死了。

Charles was a murderer, and it was up to her to bring him down.

Charles 是個殺手，而她必須將他繩之以法。

If Somerset found out she was secretly working with detectives, and

如果 Somerset 發現她偷偷和偵探合作，

Amy believed she could lose her job and her health insurance.

Amy 相信她可能會失去工作和健康保險。

So Amy invited Charles out to lunch at a diner.

所以 Amy 約 Charles 去一家餐館吃午餐。

Her heart was pounding through her chest as they sat down.

當他們坐下時，她的心臟怦怦直跳。

Charles was all smiles, a lunchtime cheeseburger with his friend Amy.

Charles 滿臉笑容，和他的朋友 Amy 一起享用午餐漢堡。