Pennsylvania nurse could have been 'budding serial killer' while working for a veterinarian euthanizing pets, according to the former detective on the Charles Cullen case.
A former Pennsylvania veterinary technician-turned-nurse and suspected serial killer who lost 17 patients and injured more, had a 'murderous rage' and could have been a 'budding serial killer' before she got her nursing license, according to a former detective and a criminal profiler who have followed the case and others like it.
The case has drawn comparisons to the murders committed by Charles Cullen, a New Jersey nurse-turned-serial killer whose insulin poisoning attacks led to the movie 'The Good Nurse' starring Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne, John Kelly said. Pressdee even caught the attention of the detective who worked that case, Tim Braun, played in the movie by Noah Emmerich, who offered outside assistance to the attorney general's office.
Forced insulin overdosing is a particularly painful way to die, Braun said, arguing that excuses raised by both Cullen and Pressdee involving 'mercy' were total fabrications. 'Insulin, I came to learn, is not a pleasant way to go,' he told Fox News Digital.
The question here is the why?' Kelly, told Fox News Digital. Many serial killers begin by torturing or abusing animals, he said, and become desensitized over time. That could have happened for Pressdee in a 'clinical setting,' the vet's office. 'Putting animals to sleep and then, you know, that helped her put bigger animals to sleep, like humans, just like with other serial killers,' he said. 'It gets easier.
The nurse is being held without bail at Butler County Prison. 'A couple of serial killers have told me there’s no higher high than playing God,' Kelly said. 'They have the choice over whether they live or die at that point in time, and that’s the gratification that could be soothing the anger in a way.' For them, he said, it's about power and control over helpless victims.
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