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<p>NEWARK, N.J. - A judge has agreed to allow New Jersey's worst serial killer to donate a kidney, but the donor and his doctors have to meet conditions.</p> <p>Superior Court Judge Paul W. Armstrong did not say when Charles Cullen might undergo the operation to remove one of his kidneys to be transplanted into the relative of a friend.</p>

N.J. Nurse Gets Consecutive Life Terms By GEOFF MULVIHILL, Associated Press Writer 3 minutes ago Killer Charles Cullen has been sentenced multiple consecutive life sentences in prison and will not be eligible for parole for 127 1/2 years. Relatives of the victims of New Jersey's worst serial killer lashed out at Cullen, a former nurse, during his sentencing hearing Thursday, calling him "the monster" and blaming him for wrecking their lives. "My heart, it aches for my son," said Mary Strenko, whose 21-year-old son was Cullen's youngest victim. "I walk around with a hole in my heart." Cullen, 46, was...

IRVINGTON, N.J. — If killer nurse Charles Cullen stops cooperating with a probe into his crimes, New Jersey authorities say, they'll withhold the one thing they have that he really wants: permission to donate a kidney to an ailing acquaintance. Cullen notified authorities earlier this week that he would no longer cooperate in identifying his victims because he is angry that his sentencing was postponed indefinitely while prosecutors in Essex and Morris counties try to decide whether to charge him with additional murders. In newspaper reports published Wednesday, his lawyer, Johnnie Mask, said Cullen would renew his efforts to avoid...

This could be the week that Marie Romero finally gets to look Charles Cullen straight in the eye and tell the former nurse and admitted serial killer how much pain he caused by killing her sister. ADVERTISEMENT Romero's sister, Catherine Dext, was killed with an injection in June 1996 at Hunterdon Medical Center, where she had been admitted with a ruptured spleen. "She's going to talk about how this deprived her of her sister and (how) it was a totally senseless, pointless death," said her lawyer, Anthony Macri. A sentencing hearing is scheduled to begin Thursday for Cullen, who pleaded...

NJ 'Angel of Death' Admits 5 More Murders * Cullen Now Has Confessed to 29 Murders Jun 27, 2005 10:36 am US/Eastern FLEMINGTON, N.J. (AP) Killer nurse Charles Cullen on Monday admitted murdering five patients while he was working at Hunterdon Medical Center, bringing to 29 the victims whom the state's worst serial killer has confessed to slaying in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Cullen pleaded guilty to the murders in state Superior Court. He also has acknowledged trying to kill five patients during more than a decade in hospitals and nursing facilities in the two states. He has told investigators...

OMERVILLE, N.J., Dec. 15 — A former nurse who told prosecutors he had killed 30 to 40 patients since 1987 was charged today with murdering a priest who had been in his care at a hospital here. Prosecutors also charged the suspect, Charles Cullen, with the attempted murder of another patient at the same hospital.Mr. Cullen, who was arrested last Friday, told prosecutors he had administered excessive doses of drugs to those two patients and to dozens of others to "alleviate patient pain and suffering," according to an affidavit released today.In an attempt to validate Mr. Cullen's stunning claims, investigators...