They condemn a woman who calmly confessed to killing her parents and living with the bodies for 4 years

The sentence was announced against Virginia McCullough, a woman who confessed on the day of her capture that she had murdered her parents and buried them in the house they shared in the city of Chelmsford, in the United Kingdom. He lived with the corpses for 4 years.

“At least they caught the bad guy,” the woman told Essex Police at the time of being arrested at her home in September 2023.

According to the investigation, the murders of John and Lois McCullough, ages 70 and 71, took place sometime in the summer of 2019.

Postmortem examinations revealed that Virginia McCullough poisoned them both with prescription medications.

John died from this cause, but Lois was beaten with a hammer and stabbed. fatally, the police indicated.

Virginia McCullough went to great lengths to hide her parents’ bodies and kept family and friends away from the property during the pandemic and in the years after.

He persistently lied about his whereabouts, canceled family gatherings and frequently told doctors and relatives that his parents were sick, on vacation or on extended trips.

“The investigation began in September 2023, after the couple’s GP raised concerns,” police reported.

The doctor said that John had not picked up his medications or attended scheduled appointments.. Furthermore, her daughter frequently canceled appointments.

In a first contact, Virginia McCullough told the officers that her parents were traveling and would return in October 2023.

However, when her house was raided, the woman stated without hesitation that she had taken the lives of her parents and told the uniformed officers where in the house they could find the bodies, with which she lived for four years.

Detective Superintendent Rob Kirby said after Virginia McCullough’s trial that “her actions were thoughtful, meticulous and carried out in such a way as to conceal what she had done for as long as possible.”

“McCullough lied about almost every aspect of his life, maintaining a charade to deceive everyone close to him and clearly taking advantage of his parents’ good will. She is an intelligent manipulator who decided to kill her parents without mercy, without thinking about them or those who continue to suffer as a result of their loss.“, held.

Nicola Rice, a specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, revealed that the woman “cruelly killed both of her parents before hiding their bodies in makeshift graves inside her home.”

“He spent the next four years manipulating and lying to family members, medical personnel, financial institutions and the Police, spending his parents’ money and accumulating large debts in their names,” he detailed.

Virginia McCullough was sentenced to life in prison and will spend at least 36 years in prison before she can be considered for parole.

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