Detective

I mean, that doesn't even border on the ridiculous.

That exceeds it by a margin that should be an embarrassment.

False confessions occur at a frequency that would alarm anybody.

Tom felt so manipulated, so pressured, so confused that he said things that he knew wasn't true.

Good afternoon.

Virginia McCulloch murdered her parents in cold blood.

Her actions were considered meticulous and carried out in such a way as to conceal what she had done for as long as possible.

These were the actions of someone who had taken time to plan and carry out the murder of her parents in the interests of self-preservation and personal gain before living within metres of the bodies of her two victims for a number of years.

Throughout the course of our investigation, we have built a picture of the vast levels of deceit, betrayal and fraud that she was engaged in.

It was on a shocking and monumental scale.

McCulloch lied about almost every aspect of her life, maintaining a charade to deceive everyone close to her and clearly taking advantage of her parents' goodwill.

She is an intelligent manipulator who chose to kill her parents callously without a thought for them or those who continue to suffer as a result of their loss.

The details of this case shock and horrify even the most experienced of murder detectives, let alone members of the public.

It therefore follows that the wider family of John and Lois understandably could never have guessed or anticipated that McCulloch would be capable of undertaking these murders before committing herself to this level of deceit.

They have been left utterly devastated by the circumstances of this case and they continue to feel the loss of John and Lois each and every day.

With this sentence and with all that we have uncovered throughout our investigation, we hope they can now start to find a way forward with their lives.

How can she be actually 18 years of age? And an even stranger story about her missing mother.

How can she be actually 18 years of age? And an even stranger story about her missing mother.

How can she be actually 18 years of age? And an even stranger story about her missing mother.

Something happened to her. She didn't just disappear on her own free will. So you knew something was really wrong? Pretty much.