Murders of John and Lois McCullough

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John and Lois McCullough were a retired British couple from Great Baddow, Essex, who were murdered by their youngest daughter, Virginia McCullough, at the family home in June 2019. McCullough killed her parents after running up large debts in their name, and inventing stories to explain how the money had been lost. She attempted to poison them both with prescription medication, which resulted in John's death, but did not give Lois a sufficient amount to kill her, so she battered and stabbed her to death. McCullough then constructed a makeshift tomb for her father made from breezeblocks and sleeping bags, while she stored her mother's body in a wardrobe, also wrapped in a sleeping bag. McCullough then lived in her parents' house alongside the bodies for the next four years until she was arrested by Essex Police in September 2023. After pleading guilty to two counts of murder at her pre-trial hearing at Chelmsford Crown Court on 4 July 2024, McCullough was sentenced to life imprisonment with...

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