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Inside home where Virginia McCullough killed parents - from 'makeshift tomb' to coffin wardrobes
John and Lois McCullough were a normal family before their daughter murdered them and transformed the Essex property into a 'makeshift tomb' with her mum's body stuffed in a wardrobe
Virginia McCullough murdered her parents and kept them hidden in her home for four years before their bodies were found by police in a grim discovery.
Nobody was aware of the dark secrets hidden within the family home located in Great Baddow near Chelmsford, Essex. Family and friends were ordered to stay away on the notion that John and Lois McCullough had moved down to the sea in enjoy their retirement.
However, the family home had been converted into a “makeshift tomb” to cover up Virginia’s brutal crime. John was killed after his daughter laced his Guinness with a lethal "cocktail of prescription medication”. Lois was then attacked with a rusty hammer and stabbed eight times with a kitchen knife.
Police body cam footage showed the seemingly normal family home as Virginia was arrested. In the disturbing Essex Police footage, she is seen making a calm and collected confession on the day of her arrest.
The kitchen is presumably where she kept the knife she used to stab her mum. It is also known she collected prescription drugs to use against her father.
She tells police there is something hidden in the home. Without showing any emotion, she then proceeds to describe the location of her parents' bodies, stating, "My dad's body is in the house.”
When asked about her mother, she replies, "A little bit more complicated." She then provides a detailed account of where she has hidden their bodies, before signing a confession presented to her by the officers.
Virginia gave an in depth description of where her parents’ bodies were hidden for four years and the strange home set up she had made to conceal them. It is thought Virginia was living alongside them in a tomb-like situation.
She shared the location of the bodies in the footage: "So upstairs there are about five wardrobes, it's behind the bed, but back, next to a sink, it's the second one.” Prosecutor Lisa Wilding KC described the tombs.
They were structures built by Virginia, one in a ground-floor room which had been her father’s room and study. John was stashed there. Reports say it was "composed with masonry blocks stacked together", forming a "rectangular tomb" which was "covered with multiple blankets, and a number of pictures and paintings over the top.”
Lois was wrapped in a sleeping bag by her daughter and was then stashed in a wardrobe in a bedroom on the second floor of the property. While the body cam footage only showed a normal-looking kitchen, a neighbour of 20 years described their thoughts.
"The curtains were always drawn and you couldn't see if anybody was in the house," said Phil Sargeant. "They were just like shadows, they'd move very quickly from A to B."
"I find it quite difficult even to say that Virginia murdered her parents or killed her parents," he added. "She’d come across as quite pleasant; she was funny, she was irreverent as well. She had a dark sense of humour.”
Virginia faked her parents voices on phone calls, made phoney texts and covered up her parent’s absence all while she fritted away their money. In total, McCullough got £149,697 from murdering her parents, £21,000 of which she used on online gambling.
McCullough was jailed for life with a minimum term of 36 years after she was sentenced at Chelmsford Crown Court yesterday (Friday, October 11).
Daily Star Sunday
John and Lois McCullough were a normal family before their daughter murdered them and transformed the Essex property into a 'makeshift tomb' with her mum's body stuffed in a wardrobe
Virginia McCullough murdered her parents and kept them hidden in her home for four years before their bodies were found by police in a grim discovery.
Nobody was aware of the dark secrets hidden within the family home located in Great Baddow near Chelmsford, Essex. Family and friends were ordered to stay away on the notion that John and Lois McCullough had moved down to the sea in enjoy their retirement.
However, the family home had been converted into a “makeshift tomb” to cover up Virginia’s brutal crime. John was killed after his daughter laced his Guinness with a lethal "cocktail of prescription medication”. Lois was then attacked with a rusty hammer and stabbed eight times with a kitchen knife.
Police body cam footage showed the seemingly normal family home as Virginia was arrested. In the disturbing Essex Police footage, she is seen making a calm and collected confession on the day of her arrest.
The kitchen is presumably where she kept the knife she used to stab her mum. It is also known she collected prescription drugs to use against her father.
She tells police there is something hidden in the home. Without showing any emotion, she then proceeds to describe the location of her parents' bodies, stating, "My dad's body is in the house.”
When asked about her mother, she replies, "A little bit more complicated." She then provides a detailed account of where she has hidden their bodies, before signing a confession presented to her by the officers.
Virginia gave an in depth description of where her parents’ bodies were hidden for four years and the strange home set up she had made to conceal them. It is thought Virginia was living alongside them in a tomb-like situation.
She shared the location of the bodies in the footage: "So upstairs there are about five wardrobes, it's behind the bed, but back, next to a sink, it's the second one.” Prosecutor Lisa Wilding KC described the tombs.
They were structures built by Virginia, one in a ground-floor room which had been her father’s room and study. John was stashed there. Reports say it was "composed with masonry blocks stacked together", forming a "rectangular tomb" which was "covered with multiple blankets, and a number of pictures and paintings over the top.”
Lois was wrapped in a sleeping bag by her daughter and was then stashed in a wardrobe in a bedroom on the second floor of the property. While the body cam footage only showed a normal-looking kitchen, a neighbour of 20 years described their thoughts.
"The curtains were always drawn and you couldn't see if anybody was in the house," said Phil Sargeant. "They were just like shadows, they'd move very quickly from A to B."
"I find it quite difficult even to say that Virginia murdered her parents or killed her parents," he added. "She’d come across as quite pleasant; she was funny, she was irreverent as well. She had a dark sense of humour.”
Virginia faked her parents voices on phone calls, made phoney texts and covered up her parent’s absence all while she fritted away their money. In total, McCullough got £149,697 from murdering her parents, £21,000 of which she used on online gambling.
McCullough was jailed for life with a minimum term of 36 years after she was sentenced at Chelmsford Crown Court yesterday (Friday, October 11).
Daily Star Sunday