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Virginia McCullough

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Roundthemoon · 13/10/2024 23:03

Is anyone watching the news story about Virginia McCullough, the woman who murdered both of her parents?

There is a video showing her arrest. The scary thing is that she looks so normal.

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GrazingSheepy · 13/10/2024 23:04

What do you expect her to look like? Lucy Letby looks normal.

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Roundthemoon · 13/10/2024 23:05

GrazingSheepy · 13/10/2024 23:04

What do you expect her to look like? Lucy Letby looks normal.

Yeah I know.

I'm just always consistently shocked at how normal these people look.

And she says "oh my dad's body is upstairs " like she's describing a bag of shopping

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Isittimeformynapyet · 13/10/2024 23:07

I think it's fairly normal for future murderers to look normal. Very few of them look like Freddy Kruger to tip off their victims in advance.

Wonkywinky · 13/10/2024 23:09

I know exactly what you mean.
I think it's the advent of bodycam footage that makes it so real

Isittimeformynapyet · 13/10/2024 23:10

I'm just always consistently shocked at how normal these people look.

Well, maybe you'll get it eventually.

MrsPositivity1 · 13/10/2024 23:10

Doesn't she. She was so matter of fact

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Roundthemoon · 13/10/2024 23:11

Isittimeformynapyet · 13/10/2024 23:07

I think it's fairly normal for future murderers to look normal. Very few of them look like Freddy Kruger to tip off their victims in advance.

It's not just that she looks normal.

It's the way she's talking that's so chilling.

She says, "oh yeah my dad's body is upstairs"

And the police officer says "and your mums body is in the cupboard " and she says "no the double wardrobe".

And then she laughs and says "cheer up! You've caught the bad guy."

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TobaccoFlower · 13/10/2024 23:11

I wonder what the defence case was.

Isittimeformynapyet · 13/10/2024 23:13

Roundthemoon · 13/10/2024 23:11

It's not just that she looks normal.

It's the way she's talking that's so chilling.

She says, "oh yeah my dad's body is upstairs"

And the police officer says "and your mums body is in the cupboard " and she says "no the double wardrobe".

And then she laughs and says "cheer up! You've caught the bad guy."

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Absolutely. Her lack of emotion was definitely shocking.

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Roundthemoon · 13/10/2024 23:16

Apparently she had a gambling problem and didnt work..

Her parents had good jobs. Her dad was a Uni lecturer.

She killed them for their money

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crumblingschools · 13/10/2024 23:17

It was her manner rather than her looks, like it was an every day occurrence that you tell the police where the bodies of the parents you murdered 3 years ago were hidden.

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Roundthemoon · 13/10/2024 23:18

I disagree though.

I think it's good to find it totally shocking to see that someone who looks just like one of my colleagues, could murder and keep the bodies of her parents in the house for four years.

Its shocking that anyone could do that.

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Roundthemoon · 13/10/2024 23:18

crumblingschools · 13/10/2024 23:17

It was her manner rather than her looks, like it was an every day occurrence that you tell the police where the bodies of the parents you murdered 3 years ago were hidden.

Yeah she was chilling.

She even said at one stage "I know I don't look evil"

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BESTAUNTB · 13/10/2024 23:20

I read the BBC story and was surprised that her parents had been renting a television. Seemed so anachronistic.

It’s not relevant to the case, just struck me as odd.

That poor couple. Terrible story.

Zonder · 13/10/2024 23:22

Yes it was her coolness about it all that was so shocking. So matter of fact.

AngryLikeHades · 13/10/2024 23:22

The smell must have been horrendous and were likely tortuous deaths. Awful.

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Roundthemoon · 13/10/2024 23:22

A lot of the cases of parents killed by adult children , are motivated by money.

They want their inheritance now and kill to get it. It's frightening.

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Roundthemoon · 13/10/2024 23:24

AngryLikeHades · 13/10/2024 23:22

The smell must have been horrendous and were likely tortuous deaths. Awful.

Yeah when I saw the video on YouTube, someone asked "does she live in a remote area? How did no one smell anything"

And someone replied "no I love five minutes away, it's a terraced house in a built up area"

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Rubyandscarlett · 13/10/2024 23:29

The smell must have been unbearable

Pigeonqueen · 13/10/2024 23:29

It’s an interesting case. I’ve read that she has said the mother was quite abusive to her - used to give her cold baths up till 13 and beat her etc. I wonder if that’s why she killed her Dad in a much more gentle way than her Mum (I know that sounds a wrong way of putting it) and made him a shrine; almost like a tomb in the house with pictures on it etc. And her Mum she killed in a very violent way- beat and then stabbed her to death, and then hid her body in bags in the back of a cupboard. The difference in the killings is very clear and strange.

Yes there was a monetary motive but I think there may be a lot more to it to come out yet.

WGACA · 13/10/2024 23:32

BESTAUNTB · 13/10/2024 23:20

I read the BBC story and was surprised that her parents had been renting a television. Seemed so anachronistic.

It’s not relevant to the case, just struck me as odd.

That poor couple. Terrible story.

I agree!

VerySadCase · 13/10/2024 23:38

I think we should also note that her siblings have described their parents as loving and caring, and they have described Virginia as a compulsive liar.

My father knew John McCullough well. The news coverage has been very distressing for him to watch. I understand that people are interested but I don't think idle speculation about Virginia's motives is particularly helpful.

User14March · 13/10/2024 23:41

@VerySadCase the siblings have said their parents were loving etc. Why weren’t they suspicious & didn’t visit for 4.5 years?

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Roundthemoon · 13/10/2024 23:42

User14March · 13/10/2024 23:41

@VerySadCase the siblings have said their parents were loving etc. Why weren’t they suspicious & didn’t visit for 4.5 years?

I don't know about the siblings.

But apparently when other local people asked about their whereabouts, Virginia told them that her parents had retired to a different part of Essex.

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Roundthemoon · 13/10/2024 23:43

Well done to the GP for raising a welfare check!

Yeah I can't understand how none of the other siblings noticed. In 4 years?

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