How A Man’s Staged Alibi Was Caught On Camera And Became Key Evidence In His Pregnant Girlfriend’s Homicide Case

For six hours on December 18, 2022, Stephen McCullagh appeared to be exactly where he wanted everyone to believe he was. On YouTube, the gaming creator sat at home in a Santa hat, drinking, vaping and playing Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Robot Wars.

He referred to the time, joked with viewers and repeatedly explained that technical problems prevented him from responding to the live chat.

Seventeen miles away in Lurgan, his pregnant girlfriend, Natalie McNally, was being beaten, strangled and stabbed inside her home.

McCullagh knew. The “livestream” was nothing but a recording.