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'I know I don't seem 100% evil': Woman murdered her parents and stashed their bodies inside 'makeshift tombs' in the family home for years while living on their pensions

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A woman who murdered her parents and then feasted on their finances for 
several years after hiding them in “makeshift tombs” at their own house 
will spend the next several decades in prison.

On Friday, Virginia McCullough, 36, was sentenced to spend at least 36 
years behind bars before she is eligible for parole, according to a press 
release issued by the Essex Police Department in east England.

By the time the killer was apprehended, however, her guilt was never in 
doubt. She readily admitted to the crime — and seemingly relished the 
latest of several unfortunate turns when finally caught.

“Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy,” the murderess told 
arresting officers in September 2023. “I know I don’t seem 100% evil.”

In June 2019, the since-condemned woman poisoned her father, John 
McCullough, 70, with a fatal cocktail of prescription medication, 
according to police. The pills, accumulated the months before, were 
crushed or cut up and then secreted into alcoholic beverages.

The day after her father died, Virginia McCullough decided it was time for 
her mother to go as well — in a far less surreptitious fashion. She beat 
Lois McCullough, 71, with a hammer, then stabbed her to death.

For the next four-plus years, the woman lived alongside her dead parents.

After the highly considered murder of her father, Virginia McCullough 
placed his body into a tomb “composed with masonry blocks stacked 
together,” according to Prosecutor Lisa Wilding, in comments reported by 
London-based cable news channel Sky News. On top of the tomb — constructed 
in her father’s former study — the killer placed “multiple blankets, and a 
number of pictures and paintings.”

The older woman’s body was wrapped in a sleeping bag and then placed 
inside a wardrobe in an upstairs room of the family home, according to the 
prosecutor.

“McCullough callously and viciously killed both of her parents before 
concealing their bodies in makeshift tombs within their home address,” 
Specialist Prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service Nicola Rice said. 
“She spent the next four years manipulating and lying to family members, 
medical staff, financial institutions, and the police, spending her 
parent’s money and accruing large debts in their name.”

In September 2023, the couple’s doctor finally raised concerns — prompting 
a law enforcement investigation that led to their daughter’s arrest. She 
pleaded guilty to two counts of murder in July.

In the years following the murders but before the arrests, the killer 
“told persistent lies” about her parents’ whereabouts, according to 
police. She repeatedly canceled family plans — telling doctors and 
relatives the pair were not well, on holiday, or other long trips.

Police said the two murders and their concomitant coverups involved “vast 
levels of deceit, betrayal and fraud” and were carried out “on a shocking 
and monumental scale.”

Finally, after John McCullough failed to pick up several medications and 
make several appointments, his doctor sounded the alarm.

A missing persons investigation ensued.

When contacted by police, Virginia McCullough initially said her parents 
would return the next month. Police decided not to wait — using their 
“powers” to enter the residence in the Pump Hill neighborhood of 
Chelmsford where the family lived and died.

“McCullough was the sole occupant and instantly confessed to officers that 
her parents’ bodies were in the house and that she had killed them,” 
police wrote in the press release. “Documents found at the property showed 
she had run up large debts on credit cards in her parents’ names. After 
their deaths, she continued to spend their pensions.”

During her sentencing, the judge said a life sentence was the only 
possible option for the admitted, convicted killer, according to a 
courtroom report by United Kingdom public broadcaster BBC.

“There is a single sentence that can be passed upon you in these 
circumstances,” Judge Christopher Morgan intoned.

Law enforcement savaged the killer and remarked upon the pain her actions 
had caused the victims’ families.

In a statement, Detective Superintendent Rob Kirby said:

McCullough lied about almost every aspect of her life, maintaining a 
charade to deceive everyone close to her and clearly taking advantage of 
her parents’ good will. She is an intelligent manipulator who chose to 
kill her parents callously, without a thought for them or those who 
continue to suffer as a result of their loss. The details of this case 
shock and horrify even the most experienced of murder detectives, let 
alone any right-thinking member of the public. It therefore follows that 
the wider family of John and Lois, understandably, could never have 
guessed or anticipated that McCullough would be capable of undertaking 
these murders before committing herself to this level of deceit. They have 
been left utterly devastated by the circumstances of this case and they 
continue to feel the loss of John and Lois each and every day.

The killer’s siblings also released a statement — fondly remembering their 
parents as individuals and as the loving couple they were.

“Our Dad was caring and hardworking and he had a passion for education and 
writing,” the statement reads. “He worked tirelessly in his career in 
university education, which spanned many years. “Dad enjoyed lots of 
hobbies, with particular favorites being golf and snooker. As we think of 
Dad, we remember the numerous jokes he used to tell us and the laughs he 
gave us. Our Mum was kind, caring and thoughtful. Mum delighted in her 
grandchildren. She had friends from around the world through her penfriend 
hobby, many of whom she had written to for several decades. Mum had a 
passion for history, and maintained a keen interest in the royal family. 
Mum and Dad loved their trips to the seaside together, where they enjoyed 
many walks and visited lots of different attractions. Their love for the 
seaside was so great, they were hoping to move to the coast in their 
retirement years.”


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