She has a very DISTURBING secret - The Virginia McCullough story

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Who is Virginia McCullough and what is her disturbing secret?

Narrator 0:00

So this woman unalived her parents in her house and left the bodies there. And guess how long she lived in that house with their bodies. Guess. Now her name's Virginia and she's 32. She lives in Essex, England with her parents and they all get along really well. But one day Virginia starts taking advantage of them and she starts stealing their money. Like she'll take her dad's credit card and use it without his consent. Then she starts applying for loans in her parents name. And here's the other thing about Virginia though. She's addicted to gambling. I guess she does a lot of those online betting sites to the point where she's currently in around 21,000 pounds in debt or about 26,000 US dollars. And that's a lot of money.

Narrator 0:46

And despite the fact that she gets along with her parents really well, she knows that if they find out she's in all this debt from gambling and stealing money, they're going to be devastated and probably pretty mad. And so Virginia, she's about to be in a lot of trouble. Her gambling debt keeps growing and the clock is ticking. And it's just a matter of time before her parents catch on. Now, Virginia could go to them like an adult and confess that she has a problem and that she screwed up really big and that it'll never happen again, but that's not what she does. Instead, she comes up with this insane plan to make sure her parents never find out. And a few months later, she puts this plan into motion.

What led Virginia to commit such a horrific act?

Narrator 1:31

First, she gets a bunch of prescription meds, and she mixes them into her parents' drinks because she's trying to poison them. Then, she serves them those drinks, and I guess later, they go to bed. The next morning, Virginia goes into her dad's room, and she finds him there in his bed, and he's unfortunately unalived. Then she goes to check on her mom, who's sleeping in a different room, and mom is asleep because of the drugs, but she's still alive. And Virginia's like, oh, bollocks, it didn't work. And she immediately comes up with a plan B. And she grabs a hammer, and she goes to her mom, and bam, she hits her over the head. And bam, she hits her again and again. Now this hammer is hurting her mom, but it's not unaliving her as fast as Virginia would like. So she goes and grabs a kitchen knife and as her mom comes to, Virginia stabs her in the chest and then she stabs her again and again, seven or eight times. Then she wraps both of her parents' bodies in sleeping bags and she puts them to rest.

Narrator 2:37

For her dad, she builds like a makeshift mausoleum, covering it with a sheet and family photos. It seems like it's like kind of a weird shrine. But her mom, she just stuffs her body in the back of a wardrobe. Then, Virginia takes her mom's phone and she uses it to text her sisters, pretending to be her parents, like, your dad and I are at the seaside in Walton this week, so that the sisters think that they're on vacation instead of, you know, dead. And this seemed to work, and now that her parents are no longer alive, Virginia can do whatever she wants.

How did Virginia cover up her parents' deaths?

Narrator 3:11

So the next day, she opens a new credit card in her mom's name, and she goes on a little shopping spree. She buys herself some stuff that she previously couldn't afford. And the worst part is that Virginia keeps living in this house with her parents decomposing bodies, just chilling in the next room. And a whole year passes, and Virginia is still there, living rent-free, spending her parents' money. And to be honest, I don't think they had a lot of money. I don't think they were rich. I think Virginia just wanted to live off of what little they had. In fact, at this point, they're still receiving their pensions every month, and Virginia is just cashing them in and living off of them. And the whole time she's doing this, she's texting family members from her parents' phones, pretending to be them and claiming that they're like out of town or that they're too sick to come visit. So no one in the family has seen the parents in a long time. Then. Boom, COVID hits and much of the world slows down and everywhere is on lockdown. And this actually makes Virginia's life a lot easier.