5 h. ago What drove a daughter, 36, to kill her parents and then hide their bodies in the family home for FOUR years

Virginia McCullough, from Essex, was jailed in October 2024 for the murders of her parents. Now, a new series of the Mail's Trial+, starting today, will examine the case.

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8 d. ago Confessions of a Parent Killer review – a grisly tale of the murderer who lived with her mum and dad’s corpses

This look at Virginia McCullough tells a deeply strange story. Unfortunately, it also leaves the viewer in suspense about her motive for so long it feels horrifically manipulativeWell, what do you think a 90-minute documentary entitled Confessions of a Parent Killer is going to be about? That’s right, well done! It’s the story of a murder by an (adult) child of her parents. Virginia – Ginny – McCullough killed her mother, Lois, and father, John, and confessed immediately to police when they raided her home in 2023 that she had done so four years previously. The twist was that she had been living with their bodies ever since. “She was weird at school,” says a childhood friend. “But not ‘kill your parents and hide the bodies’ weird.”You can probably tell from such unimpeachably phlegmatic commentary that this case occurred in England. Great Baddow, Essex, to be exact, and the film paints a portrait of quintessential small-town, almost-rural life in these sceptred isles that has gone u...

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8 d. ago 'My little girl's body was desecrated by evil murderer – the law must change'

Honoured campaigner Marie McCourt is being backed by families of horrific murders all calling for a law change to go after killers who desecrate and hide bodies

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1 week ago Bill to keep child kidnap and murder plot trio in Scots jail hits £1m

They are still within the ­ Scottish prison after losing a last-ditch appeal against their extradition to the US, after the FBI identified them as being behind a twisted scheme to kidnap five ­children and kill their parents.

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1 week ago Joanna Dennehy's twisted henchmen: Female serial killer had two 'nodding dog' devoted followers plan murders, dump bodies and hide her in their homes but where are they now?

A tall but overweight man wearing scruffy clothes lifts up his shirt provocatively and stares gormlessly into the camera as he poses on the balcony of a suburban council block.

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2 w. ago Gang leaders who force children to conceal drugs to face 10 years in jail

Known as ‘plugging’, the practice sees people made to swallow or hide items inside their bodies

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2 w. ago 'Evil' gangsters who force kids to hide drugs inside their bodies face jail

New laws will see criminals face up to 10 years behind bars if they are found to have forced children and vulnerable adults to swallow or conceal items like drugs and SIM cards in their bodies

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