A British woman will spend at least the next 36 years behind bars after a jury found her guilty of murdering her parents “in cold blood” and then hiding the bodies in their family home for four years while she spent their money.
Virginia McCullough, 36, was sentenced to jail last Friday after admitting to hiding her mother’s body in a wardrobe and building a “makeshift tomb” for her father.
Her crimes date back to June 2019, when she used a cocktail of crushed-up prescription drugs, slipped into 70-year-old John McCullough’s drink, to poison her father to death. The next day she killed her mother, Lois McCulllough, 71, with a hammer and a kitchen knife.
During the trial, reports The Guardian, prosecutor Lisa Wilding detailed the hand-built tombshe built to hide her father’s body in his bedroom, describing it as “composed with masonry blocks stacked together” and “covered with multiple blankets, and a number …