Saskia Cullen and Shauna Cullen

Charles Cullen is known not for a good reason but for a bad one. However, he was still accepted by his daughters and family somehow.

Charles is a nurse turned infamous murderer who stepped into the world of crime in 1988. Charles Edmund Cullen, popularly known as Charles Cullen, has been suspected of killing hundreds of patients during his sixteen-year career spanning several New Jersey medical centers until his arrest in 2003. 

He confessed to as many as forty murders, at least 29 of which have been confirmed. But interviews with police, psychiatrists, and journalists suggest he committed many more than that.

The murderer was born on February 22, 1960, in West Orange, New Jersey, United States of America. He was born and raised in a working-class Catholic family and was the youngest of eight children.

Charles was the son of Edmond, a bus driver, who unfortunately died on September 17, 1960, when he was seven months old. Once in an interrogation, he described his childhood as "miserable" and claimed to have been constantly bullied by his schoolmates and sisters' boyfriends. 

Before entering the world of murders, Charles married just a year before it. He got hitched to his wife, Adrienne Taud, on June 7, 1987, and had two adorable daughters, Saskia Cullen and Shauna Cullen, before divorcing in 1994. 

Saskia Cullen And Shauna Cullen - Where Are Charles Cullen Daughters Now?

Saskia Cullen and Shauna Cullen, the two daughters of Charles Cullen, live in New Jersey along with their mother.

The Cullen sisters were born after Charles married his ex-wife, Adrienne. Shauna was born in late 1987, while her sister Saskia was born in 1990. The siblings have turned 35 and 32 years old, respectively. Their custody was handed to their mother after she allegedly split with him. However, as they have hit adulthood, they might have also started living alone.

The family came apart in 1993, as said by the mother and her children in one of their interviews. However, Adrienne finally got her and her daughters out of the household after she divorced her husband in 1994.

After splitting with her husband, she and her daughters caught off all ties with him and didn't intrude into his life again. Even when Charles's crimes came to public attention in December 2003, Adrienne led a stable life in Roselle Park, New Jersey, with her daughters Shauna and Saskia. 

As Charles's crime got exposed, the media didn't waste a second and gathered around her house to get any other information. However, she managed to get her and her daughters away from the toxic media hubs. Addressing her misery, she also once said, "You can imagine what we are going through," during her sole statement. Lastly, she said, "Leave my family and children out of it. I have nothing to say," and swooned away at the media.

Charles's Wife Adrienne Taub

Charles had married his wife Adrienne Taub a long time ago in 1987 and divorced in 1994.

After getting married to Charles, his wife gradually felt disturbed by his unusual behavior and abuse towards their family dogs. Many details about her haven't been yet revealed; however,  in 1993, she finally filed a restraining order against him based on her fear that he might do something hideous to her and their two daughters, Shauna and Saskia.

She also claimed that Charles had already shown hints about killing them as he spiked people's drinks with lighter fluid, burned his daughter's books, and left his daughter with a babysitter for a week. Adrienne also insisted that Cullen was mentally ill. However, Charles denied all these claims and said his wife exaggerated. 

Alexander Ross

Alexander Ross

Gaming, Esports & Interactive Media Writer

Alexander Ross has covered the video game industry for a decade, writing deep dives on game design, esports tournaments, VR developments, and gaming culture.

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