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Oct 11, 2024 · Virginia McCullough, 36, admitted fatally poisoning her father - and placing him in a "homemade mausoleum" - and stabbing her mother to death in June 2019. The defendant, who told police...
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Oct 14, 2024 · A woman who murdered both her parents and then hid their bodies in her house for years has been jailed for life. Virginia McCullough poisoned her father John and attacked her mother Lois with...
Oct 24, 2024 · Lyle and Erik, who were 21 and 18 years old when they committed the murders, are now 56 and 53, older than their parents ever were. After spending so many years in prison, the two have...
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Represented by lead defense lawyers, Leslie Abramson (for Erik) and Jill Lansing (for Lyle), the brothers stated that they killed their parents out of fear for their lives after a lifetime of abuse at the hands of their parents, especially sexual abuse at the hands of their father, who was described as a cruel perfectionist and pedophile.
Oct 11, 2024 · 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...
Oct 18, 2024 · "It was from the jump, one of the biggest cases in Los Angeles and in the country; no one could believe that these two young men had killed their parents this way," ABC's Terry Moran, who covered ...
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Oct 11, 2024 · Virginia McCullough, 36, killed her father John, 70, and mother Lois, 71 at their home in Great Baddow, Essex. Picture: EssexPolice McCullough "built a makeshift tomb" for her father, who had worked as a university lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University, Ms Wilding told Chelmsford Crown Court.