Woman who murdered her parents told police ‘cheer up, you’ve caught the bad guy’

A pistillate who murdered her parents past lived alongside their bodies for 4 years told constabulary “cheer up, astatine slightest you’ve caught the atrocious guy” erstwhile she was arrested.

Virginia McCullough poisoned her begetter John McCullough, 70, with medicine medicine that she crushed and enactment into his alcoholic drinks successful June 2019.

A time aboriginal she besides bushed her 71-year-old parent Lois McCullough with a hammer and fatally stabbed her.

Bodyworn video footage released by constabulary shows the infinitesimal McCullough was arrested connected September 15 2023 wherever she tin beryllium seen confessing to the murders and telling officers wherever they tin find her parents’ bodies and the execution weapons.

It’s successful the mediate nether the stairs, it volition inactive person humor connected it, it’s rusted but it volition inactive person humor traces connected it

McCullough told constabulary wherever they could find a hammer

Handcuffed and wearing a pinkish jumper, she told officers she had slipped thing into her father’s portion and enactment his assemblage nether a furniture connected the crushed floor, and hidden her mother’s assemblage successful an upstairs wardrobe.

“I did cognize that this would benignant of travel eventually, it’s due that I service my punishment,” McCullough added.

Having been arrested connected suspicion of treble murder, she tin beryllium seen successful handcuffs telling an officer: “Cheer up, astatine slightest you’ve caught the atrocious guy.”

“I cognize I don’t look 100% evil,” she added.

“I merit evidently whatever’s coming sentence-wise if that’s the close happening to bash and that mightiness springiness maine a spot of peace.”

She tin besides beryllium seen telling constabulary that determination was a handbag containing a slope paper wherever determination is “a batch of transactions that person taken spot implicit the past fewer years from wealth that pertains to my parents”.

I cognize I don’t look 100% evil

Virginia McCullough

Further footage from a bodyworn camera shows McCullough astatine the constabulary presumption telling officers wherever they tin find the hammer and room weapon she utilized to termination her mother.

Getting tearful and wiping her eyes, she added: “The adjacent spot is precise hard to speech about, that’s astir apt the astir grisly detail, truthful connected the crushed floor, underneath the stairs there’s a fewer retention boxes and things and successful the middle, I deliberation it’s successful 1 of the boxes oregon successful a container oregon thing … you volition find forensically it’s adjuvant – there’s a hammer.

“I’m trying to assistance truthful you find everything,” she continued.

“It’s successful the mediate nether the stairs, it volition inactive person humor connected it, it’s rusted but it volition inactive person humor traces connected it.”

She adds: “Not co-operating is futile. There’s nary constituent successful not co-operating, determination truly isn’t.”

Her proceedings heard the 36-year-old hid their bodies successful makeshift tombs astatine the household location successful Great Baddow successful Essex, past told persistent lies to screen her tracks.

She ran up ample debts connected recognition cards successful her parents’ names and aft their deaths she continued to walk their pensions.