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Pauline Yvonne Parker (also known as Pauline Rieper) was born on 26 May 1938. She met Juliet Hulme when they were both in their early teens. Parker came from a [[working class|working-class]] background. Her parents were part-time house staff and gardeners, employed by the University of Canterbury.{{clarify|reason=Which university?|date=December 2022}} Her father, Herbert Rieper, and her mother, Honorah Mary Parker, were living together but were not actually married (this was not public knowledge and was only revealed at the trial).{{citation needed|reason=no reference given|date=December 2022}}
Juliet Hulme was born in [[London]] in 1938 and emigrated to New Zealand in 1948 with her parents. She was the daughter of [[Henry Rainsford Hulme|Henry Hulme]], a [[physicist]] who became the [[Rector (academia)|rector]] of [[University of Canterbury]].<ref name="NZ History">{{cite web|title=Pauline Parker|url=http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/people/pauline-parker|publisher=[[Ministry for Culture and Heritage]]|access-date=20 May 2011|date=22 June 2010}}</ref> The university provided their accommodation and the family lived at Ilam Homestead. Both Hulme and Parker attended [[Christchurch Girls' High School]].<ref name="NZ History" /> The girls had both suffered illnesses as children – Parker [[osteomyelitis]] and Hulme [[tuberculosis]]<ref>{{cite book |last= Department of Justice |title= Crime in New Zealand: A Survey of New Zealand Criminal Behaviour |orig-year= 1968 |year= 1974 |publisher= A R Shearer Government Printer |location= Wellington |pages= 44, 45 }}</ref> – which formed the basis of an initial connection.
As their friendship developed, Parker and Hulme formed an elaborate [[fantasy (psychology)|fantasy life]] together. They wrote plays, books, and stories centred in this world. The girls had an intense friendship which caused concern in Parker's parents that they were engaged in a sexual relationship; [[homosexuality]] at the time was considered a [[mental illness]]. The Hulmes also had concerns, but both families continued to allow the girls to see one another, and Parker was accepted at the Hulme home in [[Ilam, New Zealand|Ilam]] for overnights and vacations.<ref>{{Cite web |title=History |url=https://www.ucc.org.nz/history/ |access-date=2022-05-16 |website=The University of Canterbury Club}}</ref> Hulme became withdrawn and ill when Parker would leave her home without her.
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The trial was a sensational affair, with speculation about the girls' possible [[lesbian]]ism and [[insanity]]. Parker and Hulme were convicted on 28 August 1954; and, as they were too young to be considered for the [[Capital punishment in New Zealand|death penalty]], each spent five years in prison. Juliet Hulme served her sentence at [[Mount Eden Prisons|Mount Eden prison]] in Auckland.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Carlson |first=Michael |date=2023-04-18 |title=Anne Perry obituary |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/apr/18/anne-perry-obituary |access-date=2023-05-05 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> Some sources say they were released on condition that they never contact each other again,<ref>{{cite news|title='Heavenly Creatures' found guilty of murder|url=http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/heavenly-creatures-pauline-parker-and-juliet-hulme-are-found-guilty-of-murder|work=New Zealand History Online|publisher=NZ Ministry for Culture & Heritage|access-date=29 July 2012|date=15 July 2011}}</ref> but [[Samuel Thompson Barnett|Sam Barnett]], then Secretary for Justice, told journalists there was no such condition.<ref>{{cite book|title=So Brilliantly Clever: Parker, Hulme & The Murder that Shocked the World|first=Peter|last=Graham|isbn=978-1-877551-12-3|year=2011|publisher=Awa Press|page=261}}</ref> Hulme's release was unconditional, and she immediately rejoined her father in Italy, while Parker was placed on six months' [[parole]] in New Zealand, after which she left the country.
Less than four months later, the murder was taken as strong evidence of moral decline by the Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents in what became known as the [[Mazengarb Report]], named after
==Release==
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After her release from prison, Hulme spent time in England and the United States, later settling in Scotland and becoming a successful historical detective novelist under her new name, [[Anne Perry]]. She had been a member of [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] since about 1968.<ref>{{cite web |first=Anne |last=Perry |author-link=Anne Perry |title=Biography |website=Anne Perry (anneperry.net) |url=http://www.anneperry.net/3.html |access-date=26 January 2008 |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071019040936/http://www.anneperry.net/3.html |archive-date=19 October 2007}}</ref> Until 1994, it was not well-known that Perry was Hulme. In March 2006, Hulme/Perry stated that, while her relationship with Parker was obsessive, they were not lesbians.<ref name=NZHerald-2006-03-05/>
Hulme/Perry died on 10 April 2023, at the age of 84.<ref name = Gates>{{cite news|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/12/books/anne-perry-dead.html|title = Anne Perry, Crime Writer With Her Own Dark Tale, Dies at 84|last = Gates|first = Anita|newspaper = [[The New York Times]]|date = 12 April 2023|access-date = 12 April 2023|url-access = limited|archive-date = 13 April 2023|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230413000108/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/12/books/anne-perry-dead.html|url-status = live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url = https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/apr/12/anne-perry-killer-turned-writer-dies-84|title = Anne Perry, killer turned crime writer, dies aged 84|newspaper = [[The Guardian]]|agency = [[Agence France-Presse]]|date = 12 April 2023|access-date = 12 April 2023|archive-date = 12 April 2023|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230412203356/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/apr/12/anne-perry-killer-turned-writer-dies-84|url-status = live}}</ref>
==Media portrayals==
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=== Film ===
* ''[[Mais ne nous délivrez pas du mal]]'' (
* ''[[Heavenly Creatures]]
* ''[[Reflections of the Past]]
=== Books ===
* ''[[Harriet Said...]]''
* ''[[All The Birds, Singing]]''.<ref>{{cite web |author=Guernica Magazine |date=August 2014 |title=Felt Not Known |url=https://www.guernicamag.com/interviews/felt-not-known/ |work=Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics}}</ref>▼
* "So Brilliantly Clever," (2011)
▲* ''The Evil Friendship'' (1958) by [[M. E. Kerr]]
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▲* ''[[All The Birds, Singing]] (''
* ''These Violent Delights'' by [[Micah Nemerever]] ''(''2020) <ref>{{Cite web |last=Greif |first=Quentin |title=These Violent Delights Interview – Aptly |url=https://www.aptlyjournal.org/these-violent-delights-interview/ |access-date=2022-03-01 |language=en-US}}</ref>
=== Theatre ===
* ''The Christchurch
* [[Mary Orr]] and [[Reginald Denham]]'s 1967 play ''Minor Murder'',
* [[Michelanne Forster]]'s 1992 New Zealand play ''[https://teara.govt.nz/en/document/43975/daughters-of-heaven-1992 Daughters of Heaven]''
* ''Folie à Deux'' (2010)
== See also ==
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