When Essex Police forced their way into the McCulloughs' home on September 15, they were met by a chilling confession. Their daughter, Virginia McCullough, was standing in the doorway. With her hands raised, ready to surrender, she calmly told officers, "I knew this would come eventually... It’s proper that I serve my punishment." But nothing could have prepared them for what lay behind that door.
As the investigation unfolded, disturbing bodycam footage captured her eerie, detached demeanour as she admitted to killing her parents. The horrors discovered inside the home would shock the world. This case, as one veteran detective put it, "horrified even the most experienced murder investigators."