Rachel Shannon

So, after making this gruesome discovery, police started investigating why this happened.

and pretty quickly, they had a good idea.

Upon her initial arrest and officers interviewing her, Virginia claimed that her mother, Lois, was a violent woman who screamed at her, abused her, and slapped her until she was around 13 years old.

Officers also spoke with siblings about these claims and how they were raised generally, and while the siblings do agree that they grew up in a strict household, they all denied these claims that Lois was ever physically abusive.

They said that they grew up in a loving home with very old-fashioned parents who raised them to the best of their ability, but they were never abused.

Of course, their childhoods weren't perfect.

Nobody's is.

But nothing in their lives was bad enough for any of them to want to lash out like Virginia did.

Now, like I said, Lois had a hobby of writing back and forth with pen pals, one of which she had been writing for years.

In one of these letters, she started telling a penpal that she was concerned over possible fraudulent bank transactions and scams.

Turns out, Lois's concerns were valid because someone was scamming her.

Like I said, Virginia told her parents that she was working as a web designer.

She was making money.

However, that was not true.

Virginia had been unemployed since 2017 and was continuously stealing from her parents to fund her lifestyle.

She lied to everyone around her, making up lie after lie.

tricking her parents and the rest of her family into thinking she was a completely different person from who she really was.

In total, Virginia had racked up about 60,000 pounds of debt during the two years she spent unemployed while they were still alive.

Officers have stated that they found evidence that showed Virginia was desperately trying to hide this debt from her parents while continuing to put them in more and more debt.

She maintained a quote, elaborate, extensive, and enduring web of deceit over the course of months and years while living with her parents.