Moment Virginia McCullough admits killing her parents



Moment Virginia McCullough admits killing her parents

A woman who murdered her parents and then lived alongside their bodies for four years told police who arrested her: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy.”

Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with a “cocktail of prescription drugs” and fatally stabbed her mother Lois McCullough, 71, with a kitchen knife in the summer of 2019.

At a sentencing hearing on Friday, the court heard how McCullough had built a “makeshift tomb” for her father in a ground floor room of the family home, which had been his bedroom and study.

She is then said to have put her mother’s body in a sleeping bag in a bedroom wardrobe on the top floor of their home in Pump Hill in Great Baddow, Essex.

Read more: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10/11/how-virginia-mccullough-who-killed-parents-was-caught/

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50 comments
  1. Was she given the job of care giver to her parents without help from her siblings. Did she suffer mental abuse and felt abandoned by her family. This is totally insane. It's impossible to look after both your parents without help. There is more to this horrible story.RIP to the elderly couple. Why did she not go to the police or her parents Dr.😢

  2. Looks like she was left to care for her parents alone whilst the others did not help. The stress and mental strain took it’s toll, she lost the plot. Sad situation and I feel awful they failed their parents. Their parents deserved better, such evil.

  3. I lived about 30 seconds away from where this happened. There were police and forensics at the house for several days. Today it’s still boarded up and I’m not sure what will happen to it as it’s a terraced house, albeit the first in the row. Usually these houses will be demolished. Would be nice to have a memorial to her parents. Before that I had just moved from another house where 10 seconds from my house a man was shot and killed at a gas station. I’ve grown up in Great Baddow my whole life and to see the number of murders, other than these, still shocks me. It’s always been a peaceful and safe area up until the last few years. Such a shame. RIP to these lost souls who didn’t deserve this ❤

  4. Psychedelics are just an exceptional mental health breakthrough. It's quite fascinating how effective they are against depression and anxiety. Saved my life.

  5. I’m 58 and I take care of my 83 year old mom and I know what it’s like to not have siblings care about their mother’s wellbeing. I have a younger brother and an older stepbrother (same mom different dad) and neither check on our mom. My younger brother stole her house and made her homeless back in 2016 and now she’s with me. And my stepbrother did the same thing to our grandma back when I was in my 20’s and he took her house which was supposed to go to me. He hadn’t spoke to my mom from then until I was in the hospital for 3 months in 2018 and he had to drive her to see me. Since I got out there’s been no contact. There’s been times where I could have used their help. Even reached out to get some and nothing. So I know about siblings abandoning their parents. It’s heartbreaking, but my mom always has me.

  6. I wouldn't be surprised to find out the other siblings hated their parents as much as she did. They're could be a reason for it; something stinks that is just a wee bit beyond the obvious

  7. Someone else is involved. She said she was evil and referred to herself as ‘we’ then got interrupted before finishing the sentence.

    She has clearly practiced for this moment. She is cold so it surprises me she didn’t go through the effort to cover her tracks.

    At least 1 other person knew.

  8. The aggressive officer needed to realise quicker that she was ready to surrender and confess fully in detail to her crimes. It took him way too long to calm down. He could cause unnecessary harm to himself or other officers on the scene by behaving like that, just let her speak for heavens sake!

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