Woman jailed for minimum of 36 years after murdering her parents and living with their bodies for four years

[Blackleaf]

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.

McCoullough has been sentenced to a minimum of 36 years with no possibility of parole before then.

 

[Retired_Can_Soldier]

With her British accent, she sounds so lovely.

 

[Blackleaf]

With her British accent, she sounds so lovely.

Oh, thank you. Her accent sounds weird even to me, because I'm in Manchester. We have lots of accents here. They sound a lot different just 10 miles away.

But that's the thing: You can walk down the street and say a friendly hello to a complete stranger without realising they are a multiple murderer who deserves to rot in a prison cell for 36 years.

 

[Retired_Can_Soldier]

Oh, thank you. Her accent sounds weird even to me, because I'm in Manchester. We have lots of accents here. They sound a lot different just 10 miles away.

But that's the thing: You can walk down the street and say a friendly hello to a complete stranger without realising they are a multiple murderer who deserves to rot in a prison cell for 36 years.

I was injecting some Blackleaf humor.

 

[Taxslave2]

She need a shrink, since it is illegal to execute the insane. Some enterprising shrink student could probably get his doctorate with that one. With a movie contract, of course.

 

[TheShadow]

With her British accent, she sounds so lovely.

The British accent is terrible, IMO.

I remember once watching Liz Hurly walk into a room in a movie looking as hot as the sun and the moment she opened her mouth and spoke I turned off the movie.

 

[Hoof Hearted]

lived alongside their bodies for four years

Am I the only one who smells a Febreze commercial here?

 

[petros]

Am I the only one who smells a Febreze commercial here?

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