Daughter's chilling 15-word confession to murdering parents captured on haunting bodycam footage

This is the moment an artist makes a chilling confession to killing her parents and stashing their bodies, telling cops: "I know I don't seem 100 per cent evil... my parents' bodies are in the house."

Virginia McCullogh, 36, is seen on a body-worn camera detailing how she frail John, 70, and Lois, 71, and constructed makeshift tombs to stash their remains in different parts of the end-of-terraced three-storey home. For more than four years she plundered their bank accounts, using the cover of Covid to conceal their murders from family and cash in their as their bodies decomposed.

Now, as she was jailed for at Chelmsford , police have released a haunting seven-minute clip of McCullough's arrest. She calmly raises her hands as detectives point a taser at her as they break down her door and storm the family home in September last year. As she is told she is under arrest for murder, she simply responds: "I knew this would come. I deserve my punishment."

In haunting footage released as McCullough was jailed for life, she details how she poisoned her dad by slipping drugs into his drink before stabbing her mum to death and bludgeoning her with a rusty hammer. Showing no emotion, the twisted monster then smirks as she tells the officer: "Cheer up, at least you caught the bad guy. I know I don't seem 100 per cent evil... But I deserve to get whatever is coming, sentence-wise, because that's the right thing to do. That might give me a bit of peace."

McCullough was arrested at the elderly couple's rubbish-strewn home in Pump Hill, Great Baddow, Essex, after a GP raised concerns for John and Lois, sparking a murder probe. After discovering the bodies, experts said they believed the couple had been murdered at some stage in the summer of 2019. Police raided the home on September 15 last year and arrested McCullough.

As she is placed in handcuffs, she responds: "I'll co-operate, I'll co-operate." Asked if there was anything in the property detectives should know about, McCullough nods and says: "Yes, there is." And as she is questioned at a police station, she reveals how she hid the murder weapon - a kitchen knife - in an upstairs room. Wiping tears from her face, she reveals where she stashed a rust hammer she used to rain blows down on her mother.

She said: "The next bit is probably the hardest to talk about, it's probably the most grizzly detail. On the ground floor, underneath the stairs, there's a few storage boxes and things. In the middle, I think it's in one of the boxes or a bag or something, there's a hammer. It will still have blood on it. It's rusted, but it will still have blood traces on it... Not co-operating is futile, there's no point in not co-operating, I should pay for what I've done."

John's body was found under a bed in a ground-floor bedroom of the house in a makeshift tomb made from breezeblocks. Lois' remains were discovered in a double wardrobe in an upstairs room, wrapped in material to stop the stench escaping. McCullough gave a full confession when she was arrested but answered no comment during a police interview. But it was too late. She had already told how she had drugged her father and stuffed his body in a wardrobe. After she is handcuffed, McCullough tells officers: "Can we go in there so I can tell you something? I need to tell you something about what's upstairs on the top floor."

She then says: "My dad's body is in the house." Asked her about her mum, she says: "A little bit more complicated." Without a flicker of emotion, she then details where she has hidden their bodies, before signing a confession given to her by officers. She told officers: "So upstairs there are about five wardrobes, it's behind the bed, but back, next to a sink, it's the second one." She added: "I slipped some [prescription medication] into his drink. There were about two or three drinks that I brought downstairs. They were, basically, he didn't drink all of them, he drunk probably about half of two. But yeah, when I went in in the morning, this is before my mother, when went in the morning, early hours, I got up about half an hour early, about 6am, I came in, he was gone, he was gone."

She added: I know that this would kind of come, eventually. It's proper that I serve my punishment, so yeah." McCullogh then told how there was a bank card in a handbag in the home. She said: "In the handbag there is, and again because you're probably going to need to know about it, there's a card in there. That's a bank card where there's a lot of transactions that have taken place over the last few years from money that pertains to my parents." McCullough entered guilty pleas to two counts of murder and was jailed for life today at Chelmsford Crown Court.