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Amy Loughren
Amy Loughren
Nationality	American
Occupation	Nurse
Known for	assisting in the arrest and prosecution of serial murderer Charlie Cullen.

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Amy Loughren is an American reiki master^[1] and former registered nurse who is known for assisting in the arrest and prosecution of serial murderer Charlie Cullen.

Before his apprehension, Cullen and Loughren were friends who both worked the night shift in the intensive care unit at Somerset Medical Center in Somerville, New Jersey.^[1] Loughren was a single mother of two children and hiding her cardiomyopathy from her employers, with some help from Cullen, in whom she confided.^[1]^[2]

In 2003, Loughren was approached by detectives who suspected Cullen of poisoning hospital patients.^[3] The patient who triggered law enforcement interest was Florian Gall. As a patient at Somerset Medical, Gall had been improving, then he suddenly died of a massive heart attack. An autopsy showed that he had been administered digoxin. It was not on his prescription list. In small doses, digoxin can improve heart function, but the amount Gall had received was lethal.^[4] After consulting with her 11-year-old daughter, Loughren agreed to assist law enforcement.^[5]

Independent of the police investigation, Loughren noticed that Cullen's medical charting was irregular. It was at points muddled and hasty, and there were frequent misspellings. The hospital's tracking system also showed Loughren that Cullen spent unusual amounts of time on the files of other nurses' patients.^[6]

As part of the investigation into Cullen, Loughren met with him at a diner, wearing a wire. Because she had just had a pacemaker installed, police did not want her to wear the wire, but she insisted. “The truth is I didn’t know how this would affect my heart, but I knew I needed to go in there and get that confession,” she said in an interview with Vanity Fair. During Loughren's meeting with Cullen in the diner, he did not overtly admit to the murders, but he said that he would "go down fighting."^[6] The evidence from the meeting allowed police to then arrest Cullen.^[7] After he was arrested, Loughren encouraged him to make a full confession, which then supported his convictions for 29 murders.^[5]

Loughren struggled with the fact that her friend was a serial murderer and with her role in apprehending him: "And he wasn't a mercy killer. He was a cold-blooded murderer. And for me to not have seen that, I really did struggle."^[8]

Personal life

Loughren was a single mother of two daughters, and she is now a grandmother. While employed as a nurse, she developed cardiomyopathy which she hid from her employers, to protect her job and her health insurance,^[7] and kept working contrary to medical advice.^[8] In 2008, Loughren had an experimental heart surgery, and her health has improved.^[8]

In popular culture

The Netflix film The Good Nurse is a biopic about the apprehension of Charles Cullen, but it focuses on Loughren rather than the killer. It is based on the 2013 book The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder by Charles Graeber.^[9] Loughren is played by Jessica Chastain in the movie.^[5]^[2]

Loughren also was featured in the documentary film Capturing the Killer Nurse, which began streaming on Netflix on November 11, 2022.^[10]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Lutkin, Aimee (October 27, 2022). "Yes, 'The Good Nurse' Is a Real Person, and Her Name Is Amy Loughren". Elle. Archived from the original on 22 August 2023. Retrieved 30 October 2022.
^ ^a ^b Coyle, Jake (October 21, 2022). "In 'Good Nurse,' a serial killer exposes health care system". Associated Press. Archived from the original on 22 August 2023. Retrieved 1 November 2022.
^ Alexander, Ella (October 19, 2022). "'How I caught America's most prolific serial killer'". Glamour. Archived from the original on 22 August 2023. Retrieved 1 November 2022.
^ Miller, Korin. "Where Is Amy Loughren From 'The Good Nurse' Now? All About Her Life After Charles Cullen And Cardiomyopathy". Women's Health. Archived from the original on 22 August 2023. Retrieved 30 October 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c McNiece, Mia (October 19, 2022). "'The Good Nurse': How Amy Loughren Helped Put Her Serial Killer Colleague Behind Bars: 'Nurses Are Badass'". People. Archived from the original on 22 August 2023. Retrieved 1 November 2022.
^ ^a ^b Desta, Yohana. "The Wild True Story of The Good Nurse". Vanity Fair. Archived from the original on 22 August 2023. Retrieved 30 October 2022.
^ ^a ^b Smith, David (November 3, 2022). "'Did I notice a dark side?': the true story behind serial killer drama The Good Nurse". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 22 August 2023. Retrieved 4 November 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c Saunders, Emma. "The Good Nurse: 'I risked everything to make sure he was behind bars'". BBC.com. Great Britain. Archived from the original on 22 August 2023. Retrieved 30 October 2022.
^ Kuperinsky, Amy. "Meet the Good Nurse". NJ.com. Retrieved 30 October 2022.
^ Feeney, Mark (October 25, 2022). "In 'The Good Nurse,' on Netflix, the healer as murderer". Boston Globe. Archived from the original on 22 August 2023. Retrieved 1 November 2022.

[Lutkin_2022-1] Lutkin, Aimee (October 27, 2022). "Yes, 'The Good Nurse' Is a Real Person, and Her Name Is Amy Loughren". Elle. Archived from the original on 22 August 2023. Retrieved 30 October 2022.

[Coyle_2022-2] Coyle, Jake (October 21, 2022). "In 'Good Nurse,' a serial killer exposes health care system". Associated Press. Archived from the original on 22 August 2023. Retrieved 1 November 2022.

[Alexander_2022-3] Alexander, Ella (October 19, 2022). "'How I caught America's most prolific serial killer'". Glamour. Archived from the original on 22 August 2023. Retrieved 1 November 2022.

[4] Miller, Korin. "Where Is Amy Loughren From 'The Good Nurse' Now? All About Her Life After Charles Cullen And Cardiomyopathy". Women's Health. Archived from the original on 22 August 2023. Retrieved 30 October 2022.

[McNiece_2022-5] McNiece, Mia (October 19, 2022). "'The Good Nurse': How Amy Loughren Helped Put Her Serial Killer Colleague Behind Bars: 'Nurses Are Badass'". People. Archived from the original on 22 August 2023. Retrieved 1 November 2022.

[Vanity_Fair-6] Desta, Yohana. "The Wild True Story of The Good Nurse". Vanity Fair. Archived from the original on 22 August 2023. Retrieved 30 October 2022.

[Smith_2022-7] Smith, David (November 3, 2022). "'Did I notice a dark side?': the true story behind serial killer drama The Good Nurse". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 22 August 2023. Retrieved 4 November 2022.

[BBC-8] Saunders, Emma. "The Good Nurse: 'I risked everything to make sure he was behind bars'". BBC.com. Great Britain. Archived from the original on 22 August 2023. Retrieved 30 October 2022.

[NJ-9] Kuperinsky, Amy. "Meet the Good Nurse". NJ.com. Retrieved 30 October 2022.

[Feeney_2022-10] Feeney, Mark (October 25, 2022). "In 'The Good Nurse,' on Netflix, the healer as murderer". Boston Globe. Archived from the original on 22 August 2023. Retrieved 1 November 2022.

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+'''Amy Loughren''' is an American [[reiki]] master<ref name="Lutkin 2022"/> and former [[registered nurse]] who is known for assisting in the arrest and prosecution of serial murderer [[Charles Cullen|Charlie Cullen]].
+Before his apprehension, Cullen and Loughren were friends who both worked the night shift in the [[intensive care unit]] at [[Somerset Medical Center]] in Somerville, New Jersey.<ref name="Lutkin 2022"/> Loughren was a single mother of two children and hiding her [[cardiomyopathy]] from her employers, with some help from Cullen, in whom she confided.<ref name="Lutkin 2022">{{cite web |last1=Lutkin |first1=Aimee |title=Yes, ‘The Good Nurse’ Is a Real Person, and Her Name Is Amy Loughren |url=https://www.elle.com/culture/movies-tv/a41783248/where-is-the-good-nurse-amy-loughren-now/ |website=[[Elle (magazine)|Elle]] |date=October 27, 2022 |access-date=30 October 2022 |archive-date=22 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230822205531/https://www.elle.com/culture/movies-tv/a41783248/where-is-the-good-nurse-amy-loughren-now/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Coyle 2022" />
-While she was working as a nurse at Somerset Medical Center in Somerville, New Jersey, Loughren was approached by detectives who suspected her fellow nurse, Charlie Cullen, of poisoning hospital patients. After consulting with her eleven-year-old daughter, Loughren accepted the mission and provided assistance that resulted in Cullen's arrest and eventual conviction. The patient who triggered law enforcement interest was Florian Gall. As a patient at Somerset Medical, Gall had been improving before he suddenly died of a massive heart attack. An autopsy showed that he had been administered [[digoxin]]. It was not on his prescription list. In small doses, digoxin can improve heart function, but the amount Gall had received was lethal.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Miller |first1=Korin |title=here Is Amy Loughren From ‘The Good Nurse’ Now? All About Her Life After Charles Cullen And Cardiomyopathy |url=https://www.womenshealthmag.com/life/a41791162/amy-loughren-now/ |website=Women's Health |access-date=30 October 2022}}</ref>
+In 2003, Loughren was approached by detectives who suspected Cullen of poisoning hospital patients.<ref name="Alexander 2022">{{cite news |last1=Alexander |first1=Ella |title=‘How I caught America’s most prolific serial killer’ |url=https://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/amy-loughren-the-good-nurse-interview |access-date=1 November 2022 |work=[[Glamour (magazine)|Glamour]] |date=October 19, 2022 |archive-date=22 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230822205548/https://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/amy-loughren-the-good-nurse-interview |url-status=live }}</ref> The patient who triggered law enforcement interest was Florian Gall. As a patient at Somerset Medical, Gall had been improving, then he suddenly died of a massive heart attack. An autopsy showed that he had been administered [[digoxin]]. It was not on his prescription list. In small doses, digoxin can improve heart function, but the amount Gall had received was lethal.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Miller |first1=Korin |title=Where Is Amy Loughren From ‘The Good Nurse’ Now? All About Her Life After Charles Cullen And Cardiomyopathy |url=https://www.womenshealthmag.com/life/a41791162/amy-loughren-now/ |website=[[Women's Health (magazine)|Women's Health]] |access-date=30 October 2022 |archive-date=22 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230822205639/https://www.womenshealthmag.com/life/a41791162/amy-loughren-now/ |url-status=live }}</ref> After consulting with her 11-year-old daughter, Loughren agreed to assist law enforcement.<ref name="McNiece 2022" />
-Independent of the police investigation, Loughren noticed that Cullen's medical charting was irregular. It was at points muddled and hasty, and there were frequent misspellings. The hospital's tracking system also showed Loughren that Cullen spent unusual amounts of time on the files of other nurses' patients.<ref name="Vanity Fair">{{cite web |last1=Desta |first1=Yohana |title=The Wild True Story of The Good Nurse |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/10/the-good-nurse-true-story-fact-v-fiction |website=Vanity Fair |access-date=30 October 2022}}</ref>
+Independent of the police investigation, Loughren noticed that Cullen's medical charting was irregular. It was at points muddled and hasty, and there were frequent misspellings. The hospital's tracking system also showed Loughren that Cullen spent unusual amounts of time on the files of other nurses' patients.<ref name="Vanity Fair">{{cite web |last1=Desta |first1=Yohana |title=The Wild True Story of The Good Nurse |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/10/the-good-nurse-true-story-fact-v-fiction |website=Vanity Fair |access-date=30 October 2022 |archive-date=22 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230822205546/https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/10/the-good-nurse-true-story-fact-v-fiction |url-status=live }}</ref>
-As part of the investigation into Cullen, Loughren met with him at a diner, wearing a wire. Because she had just had a [[pacemaker]] installed, police did not want her to wear the wire, but she insisted. “The truth is I didn’t know how this would affect my heart, but I knew I needed to go in there and get that confession,” she said in an interview with Vanity Fair. During Loughren's meeting with Cullen in the diner, he did not overtly admit to the murders, but he said that he would "go down fighting."<ref name="Vanity Fair" />
+As part of the investigation into Cullen, Loughren met with him at a diner, wearing a wire. Because she had just had a [[pacemaker]] installed, police did not want her to wear the wire, but she insisted. “The truth is I didn’t know how this would affect my heart, but I knew I needed to go in there and get that confession,” she said in an interview with ''Vanity Fair.'' During Loughren's meeting with Cullen in the diner, he did not overtly admit to the murders, but he said that he would "go down fighting."<ref name="Vanity Fair" /> The evidence from the meeting allowed police to then arrest Cullen.<ref name="Smith 2022" /> After he was arrested, Loughren encouraged him to make a full confession, which then supported his convictions for 29 murders.<ref name="McNiece 2022" />
-Prior to his apprehension, Cullen and Loughren were friends who both worked the night shift. Loughren was hiding her [[cardiomyopathy]] from her employers. Cullen helped her through episodes of debilitation, even covering for her when she was unable to work a shift.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Lutkin |first1=Aimee |title=Yes, ‘The Good Nurse’ Is a Real Person, and Her Name Is Amy Loughren |url=https://www.elle.com/culture/movies-tv/a41783248/where-is-the-good-nurse-amy-loughren-now/ |website=Elle |access-date=30 October 2022}}</ref> Loughren struggled with the fact that her friend was a serial murderer and with her role in apprehending him: "And he wasn't a mercy killer. He was a cold-blooded murderer. And for me to not have seen that, I really did struggle."<ref name="BBC" />
+Loughren struggled with the fact that her friend was a serial murderer and with her role in apprehending him: "And he wasn't a mercy killer. He was a cold-blooded murderer. And for me to not have seen that, I really did struggle."<ref name="BBC" />
-==Personal Life==
+==Personal life==
-Loughen was a single mother of two daughters, and she is now a grandmother. While employed as a nurse, she developed cardiomyopathy which she hid from her employers, at least in part because she was not eligible for medical insurance until she had worked at the same job for an entire year. She was, at one point, advised that her only hope of recovery would be a heart transplant.<ref name="BBC">{{cite web |last1=Saunders |first1=Emma |title=The Good Nurse: 'I risked everything to make sure he was behind bars' |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-63207881 |website=BBC.com |publisher=Great Britain |access-date=30 October 2022}}</ref> Loughren eventually had an experimental heart surgery that made a transplant unnecessary.<ref name="NJ">{{cite web |last1=Kuperinsky |first1=Amy |title=Meet the Good Nurse |url=https://www.nj.com/entertainment/2022/10/meet-the-good-nurse-hero-who-helped-put-nj-serial-killer-charles-cullen-behind-bars.html |website=NJ.com |access-date=30 October 2022}}</ref>
+Loughren was a single mother of two daughters, and she is now a grandmother. While employed as a nurse, she developed cardiomyopathy which she hid from her employers, to protect her job and her health insurance,<ref name="Smith 2022">{{cite news |last1=Smith |first1=David |title=‘Did I notice a dark side?’: the true story behind serial killer drama The Good Nurse |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/nov/03/the-good-nurse-true-story-netflix-serial-killer |access-date=4 November 2022 |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=November 3, 2022 |archive-date=22 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230822205531/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/nov/03/the-good-nurse-true-story-netflix-serial-killer |url-status=live }}</ref> and kept working contrary to medical advice.<ref name="BBC">{{cite web |last1=Saunders |first1=Emma |title=The Good Nurse: 'I risked everything to make sure he was behind bars' |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-63207881 |website=BBC.com |publisher=Great Britain |access-date=30 October 2022 |archive-date=22 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230822205610/https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-63207881 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2008, Loughren  had an experimental heart surgery, and her health has improved.<ref name="BBC"/>
 ==In popular culture==
+The Netflix film ''[[The Good Nurse]]'' is a biopic about the apprehension of Charles Cullen, but it focuses on Loughren rather than the killer. It is based on the 2013 book ''[[The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder]]'' by [[Charles Graeber]].<ref name="NJ">{{cite web |last1=Kuperinsky |first1=Amy |title=Meet the Good Nurse |url=https://www.nj.com/entertainment/2022/10/meet-the-good-nurse-hero-who-helped-put-nj-serial-killer-charles-cullen-behind-bars.html |website=NJ.com |access-date=30 October 2022}}</ref> Loughren is played by [[Jessica Chastain]] in the movie.<ref name="McNiece 2022">{{cite news |last1=McNiece |first1=Mia |title='The Good Nurse': How Amy Loughren Helped Put Her Serial Killer Colleague Behind Bars: 'Nurses Are Badass' |url=https://people.com/crime/the-good-nurse-amy-loughren-put-serial-killer-colleague-prison/ |access-date=1 November 2022 |work=[[People (magazine)|People]] |date=October 19, 2022 |archive-date=22 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230822210051/https://people.com/crime/the-good-nurse-amy-loughren-put-serial-killer-colleague-prison/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Coyle 2022">{{cite news |last1=Coyle |first1=Jake |title=In ‘Good Nurse,’ a serial killer exposes health care system |url=https://apnews.com/article/good-nurse-movie-jessica-chastain-eddie-redmayne-crime-ad591231a28632f13f9c6601e55199b4 |access-date=1 November 2022 |work=[[Associated Press]] |date=October 21, 2022 |archive-date=22 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230822210144/https://apnews.com/article/good-nurse-movie-jessica-chastain-eddie-redmayne-crime-ad591231a28632f13f9c6601e55199b4 |url-status=live }}</ref>
+Loughren also was featured in the documentary film ''[[Capturing the Killer Nurse]]'', which began streaming on Netflix on November 11, 2022.<ref name="Feeney 2022">{{cite news |last1=Feeney |first1=Mark |title=In ‘The Good Nurse,’ on Netflix, the healer as murderer |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/10/25/arts/good-nurse-netflix-healer-murderer/ |access-date=1 November 2022 |work=[[Boston Globe]] |date=October 25, 2022 |archive-date=22 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230822210053/https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/10/25/arts/good-nurse-netflix-healer-murderer/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
-The Netflix movie, [[The Good Nurse]], is a biopic about the apprehension of Charles Cullen, but it focuses on Loughren, rather than the killer.
 ==References==
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