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Rachel Shannon

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
6979 total appearances

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True Crime with Rachel Shannon
DISTURBING: She Murdered Her Parents Then Lived With Their Dead bodies for YEARS

she then decided to beat her mother with a hammer over and over and over again.

True Crime with Rachel Shannon
DISTURBING: She Murdered Her Parents Then Lived With Their Dead bodies for YEARS

Then to finish her off, she stabbed her multiple more times in the chest with a kitchen knife.

True Crime with Rachel Shannon
DISTURBING: She Murdered Her Parents Then Lived With Their Dead bodies for YEARS

She said that she didn't originally plan to kill both parents, but ended up killing her mom as well because she was afraid she would find out what she did to her dad.

True Crime with Rachel Shannon
DISTURBING: She Murdered Her Parents Then Lived With Their Dead bodies for YEARS

When speaking with police,

True Crime with Rachel Shannon
DISTURBING: She Murdered Her Parents Then Lived With Their Dead bodies for YEARS

She said that when she was hitting her mother with the hammer, it felt like someone badly playing the xylophone all willy-nilly.

True Crime with Rachel Shannon
DISTURBING: She Murdered Her Parents Then Lived With Their Dead bodies for YEARS

This is her mother she's talking about.

True Crime with Rachel Shannon
DISTURBING: She Murdered Her Parents Then Lived With Their Dead bodies for YEARS

Then, after the murders, Virginia went to the local Chelmsford City Center where she purchased plastic gloves and those sleeping bags using her dad's bank card.

True Crime with Rachel Shannon
DISTURBING: She Murdered Her Parents Then Lived With Their Dead bodies for YEARS

As she was explaining all of this, she was talking in a very matter-of-fact, calm manner.

True Crime with Rachel Shannon
DISTURBING: She Murdered Her Parents Then Lived With Their Dead bodies for YEARS

She didn't seem too upset or remorseful for what she did, though she did say that she knew this was coming, meaning her arrest.

True Crime with Rachel Shannon
DISTURBING: She Murdered Her Parents Then Lived With Their Dead bodies for YEARS

She said that she deserves whatever time she gets.

True Crime with Rachel Shannon
DISTURBING: She Murdered Her Parents Then Lived With Their Dead bodies for YEARS

Then she joked to the officers, who were obviously in a very somber mood after making this heinous discovery.

True Crime with Rachel Shannon
DISTURBING: She Murdered Her Parents Then Lived With Their Dead bodies for YEARS

She said, With a very subtle grin on her face.

True Crime with Rachel Shannon
DISTURBING: She Murdered Her Parents Then Lived With Their Dead bodies for YEARS

She clearly isn't too torn up about what she did to her own parents.

True Crime with Rachel Shannon
DISTURBING: She Murdered Her Parents Then Lived With Their Dead bodies for YEARS

Of course, at this point, Virginia is taken into the station and charged with the murders of her mother and father.

True Crime with Rachel Shannon
DISTURBING: She Murdered Her Parents Then Lived With Their Dead bodies for YEARS

She admitted to it and their bodies were discovered right where Virginia said they would be.

True Crime with Rachel Shannon
DISTURBING: She Murdered Her Parents Then Lived With Their Dead bodies for YEARS

By that point, their bodies were so decomposed that they could only be identified via dental records.

True Crime with Rachel Shannon
DISTURBING: She Murdered Her Parents Then Lived With Their Dead bodies for YEARS

Virginia killed her parents, then lived with their bodies in that home for over four years.

True Crime with Rachel Shannon
DISTURBING: She Murdered Her Parents Then Lived With Their Dead bodies for YEARS

It's just horrific.

True Crime with Rachel Shannon
DISTURBING: She Murdered Her Parents Then Lived With Their Dead bodies for YEARS

We know that she killed her parents.

True Crime with Rachel Shannon
DISTURBING: She Murdered Her Parents Then Lived With Their Dead bodies for YEARS

But we still don't know why.