Virginia McCullough

[Roundthemoon]

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.

No mention about the smell!

She made up lies to friends and family in a similar chilling way to Fred and Rose West.

Yet her calmness on her arrest has Lucy Letby vibes about it.

The video was crazy. But I also want to know how she hid it from her siblings and her parents family too. They have all made statements about how much they will miss them yet they haven't actually had any face to face or telephone conversations for 4 years?

Yes I know she faked postcards, texts, cancelled events etc but for the rest of the family to not see or speak to them in 4 years and not have a suspicion is really really odd!

She pleaded guilty so no trial (and thus no defence). It went straight to sentencing.

I disagree wholeheartedly.

I can think of several things that a parent could do that would make me shake the hand of their child if they murdered them.

Some people do not deserve to live.

(Not saying that applies in this particular case as we dont have enough details).

Just watched the bodycam - very chilling how matter if fact she is.

I think this too. It speaks volumes about how close they really were as a family.

People are obviously going to speculate on a discussion thread like this, which you are contributing to with your ‘insider knowledge’. And it’s not exactly outrageous supposition from this PP

It is cold but if you’ve killed your parents what reaction would satisfy you? If she sobbed then no one would believe that was genuine. Surely any reaction is just coming from a psychopath so is chilling regardless.

Im sure if I was wrongly arrested for some horrible crime people would comment on how cold and evil I was as I’m just a person who hides their emotions. So I wouldn’t always presume guilt on how someone reacts. Obviously just talking in general not specific to this case.

Its not just those few seconds that they've filmed though. She went about her life for over four years. Did her shopping, saw their neighbours, the postman, used parents bank cards if I understand correctly, she LIVED with dead bodies in the house etc etc etc. And nothing seemed suspicious to anyone for this long. She could hide all these things so well from everyone.

This case reminds me of the young guy (forget his name) who pretended to be rich to his girlfriend by spending his parents money to impress her. He killed the parents before treating girlfriend to a luxury holiday in New York. She was oblivious. When they came back from holiday he popped in and out of parents house pretending everything was fine while they had dead in there for weeks. He was even able to move the bodies while in a horrendous state. Situation only uncovered when a neighbour noticed the house was swarming in flies.

Scary what some people are capable of.

There was a documentary about it.

Totally agree with this. I don’t understand how they accepted this without even a phone call from the parents in 4 years. Sounds like it was a dysfunctional family.

also, apparently it was the GP secretary who noticed and raised the concern to the gp. Fair play to them for noticing.

Very odd. I think they had 4 older daughters and grandkids. I'm surprised with a family of that size no one called to the home? Asked where they were ?

Some families are distant.

I once knew an elderly woman who had two adult sons. Both sons lived in a different country and neither of them spoke to her at all.

I asked why and apparently the two sons had fallen out, then when she spoke to one son, the other son stopped speaking to her. Then the second one stopped speaking to her for speaking to the first son.

It does happen

@Roundthemoon true but here the siblings have released statements that suggest caring closeness.

I haven't read anything about it. Was she their biological child?

Have just briefly read the article and watched the video clip.
She is completely off her head.

She's frightening.

This is the thing! They weren't estranged no one had fallen out. I can't imagine a situation where statements from the children are so loving yet they hadn't physically spoken to or seen them in at least 4 years?!

A text saying 'we can't come to [event] as we've gone to the seaside' isn't going to cut it after the umpteenth time. Did no one phone? Call round? Xmas? Birthdays? I can't get my head around it.

Not victim blaming at all but I surely one of them went 'we haven't seen granny for 3 years!'

That was my suspicion too: she definitely killed her father in a much more "gentle" way, and the details of the "burial" are quite fascinating. My first thought was that she must have hated her mother vehemently.
With parricides, there's often some dark family secret behind the more apparent motive. Look at the Menendez brothers...
Regarding her looking "normal", well from what I've read, she did come across as eccentric to many people who knew her (they even mentioned she faked a pregnancy, with fake bump and all)...
In any case, so much violence, awful situation...

The thing is, if you’re giving a statement to the press about your dead parents, of course you’re going to make it sound like you were a close happy family. No-one’s going to say “we were distant and barely spoke, so we didn’t notice they’d gone for 4 years”. But I don’t buy the happy family bit - I’m not that “close” to my family but I still see them every 2-3 months! If I just heard nothing from them for months I would drive to their house and check on them….

Yeah no one is going to say "Well I didn't bother to speak to my parents for four years, and didn't even notice them being dead".

The siblings are odd too

I've been reading about the case looking for something like this....

Someone with a loving relationship with their parents doesn't 'just' kill them for the money.

There's always a back story.

How do you know that?
Child abuse is the most abhorrent of crimes.
I think the death penalty if allowed would be quite a fitting punishment for it!
But as it isn't, sometimes people do feel the need to take matters into their own hands.

Hiding the bodies in the house was weird and gross though.....

I agree.
I’ve been listening to and watching documentaries about her. Everything that was said about her behaviour reminds me very much of a girl at school who was being abused by her dad.