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Daughter admits murdering her parents in 2019
The Guardian
|July 05, 2024
A woman has pleaded guilty to murdering her parents after their bodies were found at the family home last year.
Virginia McCullough, 36, appeared by prison video link before Chelmsford crown court yesterday and pleaded guilty to murdering Lois, 71, and John McCullough, 70, between 17 and 20 June 2019.
She poisoned her father with prescription medication and stabbed her mother shortly afterwards, Essex police said.
McCullough, of Pump Hill, Great Baddow near Chelmsford, told Essex police she killed her parents at their home in Pump Hill at some stage in the summer of 2019. She then concealed their bodies within the property and continued to live at the address.
To cover her tracks, McCullough lied about their whereabouts, telling doctors and relatives her parents were unwell, on holiday or away on lengthy trips, police said.
This story is from the July 05, 2024 edition of The Guardian.
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