Real-Life Ghostface: The "Scream" Murder On Carbon Street
True Crime with Elli Mac
10/30/24
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On March 25, 2024, at approximately 3:30 p.m., a call was received reporting an active assault in the 200 block of Carbon Street in Lehighton Borough, roughly 75 miles northwest of Philadelphia. When law enforcement arrived on the scene, they found 59-year-old Edward Whitehead suffering from a severe puncture wound on the side of his head, along with cuts to his head and arms, and defensive injuries to his hands. Edward Whitehead was promptly transported to St. Luke's Hospital - Carbon Campus; however, he tragically succumbed to his injuries and passed away. Upon reviewing surveillance footage from the area around the property, police observed an individual, dressed entirely in black and wearing a "Scream" mask, leaving through the back door of Edward's residence.
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On the 19th of June 2019, Virginia McCullough, poisoned her 70-year-old father, John McCullough, a retired business studies lecturer with prescription medication that she crushed and put into his drinks. She then hid his body in a makeshift tomb, covered with blankets and paintings. A day later on the 20th of June 2019, she beat her 71-year-old mother Lois McCullough with a hammer and fatally stabbed her. Virginia stashed her mother’s body behind sleeping bags and duvets in an upstairs wardrobe. Conveniently for her, the country was about to enter enforced lockdowns, so Virginia was easily able to conceal their bodies within the home at Pump Hill in Great Baddow. Over the next four years, she continued to live at the address, telling lie after lie to cover her tracks and avoid raising suspicion. But in 2023, her lies eventually caught up with her, and Virginia McCullough was arrested and charged with her parents' murder.
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On the 6th of June, 2023, security footage captured 31-year-old Kristel Candelario as she left her home on Lorain Avenue near West 97th Street in Cleveland. She loaded a suitcase into her car and then drove off.
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