A macabre patricide generated a strong impact in England. A 36 year old woman He murdered his parents and lived with the corpses since June 2019until he broke down and admitted the horrendous crime.
Virginia McCullough killed her father John and her mother Lois, aged 70 and 71, and hid the remains in a type of homemade tomb that she set up in the family home, in a large closet.
To hide, after the crime, he answered messages and imitated his parents’ voices, as if nothing had happened.
The crime was discovered after the victims’ GP expressed concern about not hearing from them for some time. Given this, an investigation was opened into missing persons that led to the couple’s daughter, due to her constant excuses about the whereabouts of Louis and John.
When Essex Police raided the house, Virginia’s reaction was chilling. “I must show you what is upstairs. “There is my father’s body,” He told them, as soon as they entered, almost without showing any emotional reaction.
When asked where his mother was, he explained that it was “a little more complicated.”
The woman insisted on going up to the upper floor of the house, but the agents denied her the opportunity to preserve the integrity of the crime scene. After the confession they also put handcuffs on him for safety. “Where is your mother?” one of the agents asked him about the body. “Upstairs there are about five closets. “It’s behind the bed, at the back, next to the sink,” Indian.
The arrest of the parricide occurred in September 2023 and now the case went viral after completing the trial against her for the two charges of murder. She was sentenced to 36 years in prison before she can obtain any kind of benefit.
McCullough poisoned his father, John McCullough, with prescription drugs that he crushed and mixed into his alcoholic beverages. The next day, fearing that his mother, Lois McCullough, would discover the murder, he attacked her with a hammer and stabbed her to death.
McCullough herself described the moment of the crime to investigators in these words: “When he hit her it was like someone was playing an out-of-tune xylophone wrong.”
The judicial process also revealed that, after the murders, McCullough purchased plastic gloves and sleeping bags with his father’s credit card, items that he used to wrap the bodies. Finally, after four years of deception, McCullough told officers, “I always knew this would come, eventually,” showing fleeting remorse.
