Moment eerily calm woman who slaughtered parents tells cops ‘cheer up, you got the bad guy’

A monster daughter who murdered her parents then lived with their remains for FOUR years has been jailed for life. Virginia McCullough stabbed her mum Lois, 71, multiple times and hit her with a hammer “like someone badly playing a xylophone“ at their home in Chelmsford, Essex. She also poisoned 70-year-old dad-of-five John using prescription medication after spiralling into debt. McCullough then hid her dad’s body in a “makeshift tomb“ in a ground floor bedroom before wrapping her mum in a sleeping bag and leaving her in an upstairs wardrobe. She lived with her parents’ decomposing bodies for four years before they were discovered in September 2023. All the while, the monster was using their bank cards to spend their hard-earned pensions - splurging £21,193 on gambling. Read more The Sun delivers breaking news, latest gossip and incredibl