Moment eerily calm woman who slaughtered parents tells cops ‘cheer up, you got the bad guy’

A monster daughter who murdered her parents then lived with their remains for FOUR years has been jailed for life.

Virginia McCullough stabbed her mum Lois, 71, multiple times and hit her with a hammer "like someone badly playing a xylophone" at their home in Chelmsford, Essex.

She also poisoned 70-year-old dad-of-five John using prescription medication after spiralling into debt.

McCullough then hid her dad's body in a "makeshift tomb" in a ground floor bedroom before wrapping her mum in a sleeping bag and leaving her in an upstairs wardrobe.

She lived with her parents' decomposing bodies for four years before they were discovered in September 2023.

All the while, the monster was using their bank cards to spend their hard-earned pensions - splurging £21,193 on gambling.

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[evas]

The other 4 daughters didn't see their parents for 4 years! And didn't do anything. Isn't it weird?!

[alexandrasteden]

She sounds like she's describing how to find a file in the HR department 😳

[Lin.J]

If the rest of the children never visited and just took her word for it that they were away and so on, it just makes you wonder what they were like as a family growing up, they haven't seen them, spoke to them for four years and raised no concern.. it's all very odd.

[marcandrew]

I’ve got a dead mouse or rat somewhere under my cabin at the moment and the stench is making me feel sick, how could she live with 2 rotting human corpses near her????

[LisaFerguson-lwil]

She appears to be totally at peace with spending many years in prison. I don't know why she killed them, but it does appear that their children didn't try hard to fond them. What a strange case.

[donnaehlers]

How did she live with the stench of decomp? Neighbors did not complain?? Weird

[Mamadukee]

The most frightening think about this is you would think she was talking about a parking fine, not the murder and the hiding of their bodies 😒

[PassiveAgressive]

More worrying is that no one checked up on them for 4 years! What about friends, family community? If they were that concerned this would have been discovered sooner?

[juliejoolzzz]

This is blood chilling. She is not wired right.

[Dw-kn]

This is insane at the very highest level !!

[jean_mollycutpurse_winchester]

Something doesn't add up here. The parents were killed in 2019. We've been told that the family, that is the daughter's brother or sister are devastated. Really? It's been five years and not once did they ever go round to their mother and father's house and demand to see how they are or where they were? Who treats their loving parents like that? That makes me wonder what sort of parents they were. Which makes me wonder why did this woman kill her parents? I would like answers to these questions.

[AM-mvro]

what have i just watched...? how is she casually telling the officers what she's done?!

[mykingofkings]

She's a stone cold psychopath, she is oblivious to the absolute horror of the situation.. she actually thinks she deserved some praise or something for being open about it.

The way she describes where her own parents bodies were was chilling.. she was so matter of fact, as if she was telling them where to locate drugs or stolen goods.

She even mistook the police man's utter shock and disgust as him just having a "bad" day at work and that he should be grateful to her for telling them
and making it easier on them as if she was doing them a favour or something, she's sick in the head.

[ElizabethRobb-tt]

This woman is terrifying. she was so nonplussed about murdering her patents. 🤔

[allanwilliams-gm]

She has just murdered her parents never seen anybody so calm she's a bad woman

[dar]

The logics of the police not letting her up there to "preserve the scene" when shes been living in the house FOUR YEARS after the murders.

[WLLCHRIS]

Imagine the conversation the police officers had with their families that night about the day at work they had
They must need counselling for this kind of thing.

[deebee.]

This is someone you would strike up a conversation with not knowing she is a killer.

[Handlebar-MustDash]

'Cheer these poor cops have to go into that bedroom and find two rotted corpses who were her victims. What a psycopathic woman.

[robbdrums]

'Can I grab some hair-bands?'...classic. My parents have been upstairs dead for 4 years, but my hair needs sorting out right now