Cops are probing a blogger after film was posted online inside a home where a twisted artist slaughtered her parents and stashed their bodies in “makeshift tombs”.
Footage posted on social media is said to have shown where John, 71, and Lois McCullough’s bodies were hidden. The couple’s daughter Virginia McCullough, 36, admitted in court poisoning her father with prescription medication before bludgeoning her mother, 71, with a hammer and “repeatedly stabbing” her in the neck.
She was jailed for at least 36 years last year after admitting murdering the pensioners in Great Baddow, Essex, in June 2019. Now cops say they are aware that an intruder has posted sickening video online of John and Lois’ final resting spots.
Lois and John McCullough’s badly decomposed bodies were found in their property in Essex – four years after they were killed
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An Essex Police spokesman said: “We are aware of footage, taken from within a private property, circulating on social media.” He added: “Whilst our inquiries into this footage and how it was obtained are ongoing, we ask people not to share it any further out of respect for the grieving family at the heart of this matter.”
Both murder scenes were shown by the blogger in footage and pictures published online. The bodies were not present in the images. The property, which is still in police possession, has been forensically cleaned since the images were taken, it is understood.
Former Essex Police officer Paul Maleary said the content was “invasive, gratuitous, unacceptable”. “It is repugnant, inexcusable – what this person has done is absolutely disgusting,” he told BBC News. “I get the morbid curiosity of true crime, but to cross the threshold of a murder scene that is secure is just beyond the pale.”
The unremarkable three-bedroom property in Pump Hill, Chelmsford, became a house of horrors after McCullough’s awful crimes
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Last year prosecutors said McCullough, 36, had stuffed her father’s body in a “mausoleum” under a bed in his study. She wrapped Lois’s corpse in plastic sheeting, put her in a sleeping bag and sealed it in a cupboard in an upstairs bedroom.
For four years she carefully crafted a “deception” that her parents were fit and well, posing as the couple for GP phone calls and sending messages to her siblings. Cops launched a probe and arrested McCullough at the unremarkable three-bed end-terrace property in September last year.
Their “deeply decomposed” remains were found by detectives and recovered. At McCullough’s sentencing at Chelmsford Crown Court, prosecutors said McCullough had killed them four years earlier in 2019 and used her credit cards and pensions, cashing in to the tune of nearly £170,000.
McCullough, from Chelmsford, Essex, was told she’d serve a minimum of 36 years behind bars after admitting the murders
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In a chilling confession to officers after her arrest, McCullough said she poisoned her father with a “cocktail of prescription drugs” in his Guinness, red wine and brandy.
McCullough, from Chelmsford, Essex, admitted killing the pair between June 17, 2019 and June 20, 2019. She was told she’d serve a minimum of 36 years behind bars.