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Woman confesses to murdering her parents then living with corpses in Essex

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Watch chilling moment daughter confesses to murdering parents and living with corpses in Essex

This is the chilling moment a daughter confesses to murdering her parents and living with their corpses for four years.

Virginia McCullough poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with prescription medication that she crushed and put into his alcoholic drinks in June 2019.

A day later she also beat her 71-year-old mother Lois McCullough with a hammer and fatally stabbed her.

Newly released body-cam video captures McCullough’s chilling admission to killing her parents.

The footage shows the 36-year-old killer tell officers how she murdered and hid John and Lois McCullough’s bodies in their Chelmsford home.

McCullough has now been jailed for life and must serve a minimum term of 36 years.

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