An “intelligent manipulator” who murdered her parents then lived alongside their bodies for four years while spending their money has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 36 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.
