Virginia McCullough: Bodycam footage of arrest
Bodycam footage shows the arrest of Virginia McCullough, who murdered her parents and lived with their bodies.
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00:00Stay where you are, stay where you are, show me your hands, you there, Jenny, yep, Jenny,
00:30the time we spoke of the murder of John Maccollough, my home defence is
00:36Home Defence, who didn't mention, weren't questioned, so I just don't want anything to do with the evidence.
00:41Okay? Alright, the rest is necessary.
00:44Is there anything in the apartment that we should know about?
00:46Yes, there is. Can I take you to it?
00:47No, you can tell me.
00:49Er, can you go in there for a second, just so I can tell you something about what's in there?
00:54Yeah.
00:55The only reason I said, I need to tell you something about what's upstairs on the top floor as well.
01:00Yes, ma'am.
01:00Yeah, okay.
01:04Is he here?
01:05Yeah, yeah.
01:06Mind your feet.
01:07Honestly, I'm not that confident.
01:08No, it's fine.
01:09I know, but obviously I've got to be careful.
01:11Mm-hmm.
01:12Er, my dad's body's in there.
01:14Right, okay.
01:16Yep, okay.
01:17Erm, obviously I'll be saying...
01:19Where about are you, ma'am?
01:20Erm, a little bit more complicated.
01:23Okay.
01:24Erm, can I, that's why I said, can I go upstairs and show you...
01:27Right, can you explain it to us, please?
01:29Because we're trying to preserve, it's now going to be a scene, so we need to preserve this the best we can.
01:33So I don't want to have you walking up there, alright?
01:35Because that's for your well-being as well as ours.
01:38Oh, no, up, up, up.
01:39Okay.
01:40So where will we find your mum?
01:42Where will we find your mum?
01:44Okay, so upstairs there were about five wardrobes.
01:47Yep.
01:48Erm, it's behind the bed, but back next to the sink.
01:51That's the second one.
01:53Erm, I've slipped a pile of those into his drink.
01:57Erm, there were about two or three drinks that I brought downstairs.
02:03Erm, and, yeah, they were basically, he, he didn't drink all of them.
02:10He only drank probably about half of two.
02:13But, erm, yeah, when I went in, in the morning, this was before my mother,
02:18er, when I went in the morning, early hours, I got up about half an hour early,
02:22about, erm, six o'clock in the morning, came in and he was gone.
02:27He was gone.
02:28Oh, okay.
02:29It's, erm...
02:31It's up to you if you want to talk.
02:33The thing is, the purpose of your arrest, erm, the purpose of your arrest
02:37is for a prompt effective investigation, as well, by questioning you.
02:40We can't do that here. It needs to be done at the police station, all right?
02:47I did know that this would kind of come eventually.
02:51Erm, it's proper that I deserve my punishment.
02:55So, yeah.
02:59Okay.
03:05Okay, so, Virginia, I'm just going to ask you this.
03:07This is what I've written down based on the information you just told us,
03:10because what we regard as a significant comment,
03:12because you've made it under court from the heart of your arrest.
03:15They're my grandad's.
03:17Okay, right.
03:18So, I've written this based, erm,
03:20I, Virginia McCulloch, have informed police constable 77329 Brown
03:25and 79387 Bowers after entering my house on Friday 15th September 2023
03:30that I murdered my father, John McCulloch,
03:32who was stated was under a bed in the rear ground floor of the house
03:37and my mother upstairs in a cupboard next to the sink.
03:40Wardrobe. Wardrobe. It's a double wardrobe.
03:42Right, okay. I've written cupboard.
03:43It's like four wardrobes, but it's the one nearest the sink.
03:46Double wardrobe.
03:48Pick up, then.
03:49Yeah, yeah.
03:50What's significant, as I've written down here now, or I've just read out to you,
03:53are you happy to sign that to say that's a true account?
03:55Yeah, yeah.
03:56Yeah.
04:05Do you know, I thought they should call the bad guy.
04:08I've just woken up today and done my job.
04:10I know, I don't think it's 100% evil.
04:12No.
04:13I know, I don't think it's 100% evil.
04:14It's not a lie.
04:15But we all...
04:16I'm not going to comment on anything.
04:18It's not my job to comment on it, okay,
04:20because I've got to be impartial with everything, okay,
04:22so I'm not going to give any comments.
04:24No.
04:25No, well, I mean, I deserve to obviously get whatever's coming sentence-wise,
04:30because that's the right thing to do.
04:33And that might give me a bit of peace.
04:44Also in the handbag as well, there's...
04:48And again, because you're probably going to need to know about it,
04:51there's a card in there called One Money.
04:57And that's a bank card where there's a lot of transactions
05:04that have taken place over the last few years
05:07from money that pertains to my parents.
05:10So, murder weapon is upstairs in the winded room.
05:18Kitchen knife.
05:21It's in the middle of the brown carpet against the wall.
05:26Opposite shelves, so there are two long white shelves,
05:29so opposite where that wall is, that's where the knife is.
05:36So, next bit is very hard to talk about.
05:39That's probably the most grisly detail.
05:41So, on the ground floor, underneath the stairs,
05:47there's a few, like, storage boxes.
05:51And things.
05:53And in the middle, I think it's in one of the boxes
05:57or in a bag or something.
06:03If you want me to shush after this, it's fine.
06:07But every bit helps.
06:08You will find bread so please help.
06:10Oh, there's a hammer.
06:12I know, I know, I know.
06:14But I'm trying to help so you find everything.
06:17It's in the middle, underneath the stairs.
06:19It will still have blood on it.
06:21It's rusted, but it will still have blood traces on it.
06:28So, not cooperating is, it's futile.
06:31There's no point in not cooperating, there really isn't.
06:34And last, apart from it being my archipelago,
06:37that's the rest of it, I mean, I think, so, yeah.