![]() ![]() Upon her release, Pauline would go on to move to England, where she eventually settled in a small village near Kent teaching horseback riding lessons to children under a new name. Though both Pauline and Juliet were convicted of murder in August 1954, they only spent five years in prison since they were under the age of 18. Though the girls went in search of help, claiming Honora had fallen and been hurt, their story quickly unraveled and the two girls were charged with murder.ĭuring their trial, the girls testified that they considered themselves “Heavenly Creatures” because of their access to The Fourth World, and were thus exempt from normal rules of law. In total, it took 45 blows delivered by both girls to kill Honora. While walking a remote stretch of the path, Juliet dropped a pink stone-and when Honora, predictably, reached down to pick it up, Pauline to hit her mother with a crude weapon the girls had made with a brick and stocking. On the 22nd of that month, the two girls arranged to take a walk with Honora in Victoria Park. In the days leading up to the crime, the girls put on an act, pretending to have come to terms with their pending separation. By mid-June, Pauline had not only shared her idea with Juliet, but the two girls had formulated a plan to carry out the murder of Honora. While the girls, likely inaccurately, seemed to think Juliet’s parents could be convinced, both felt that Pauline’s parents-specifically, her mother Honora-would certainly stand in their way.īy April of that year, Pauline was writing about killing her mother and making it look like an accident or natural death in her diary. ![]() Juliet and Pauline, desperate to stay together, decided the only solution was for Pauline to move to South Africa, too. Juliet’s parents subsequently separated, and it was decided that Juliet would leave New Zealand with her father, who was to drop her with a relative in South Africa. At that time in history, homosexuality was still considered a mental illness, and homosexual acts were criminalized in New Zealand until 1986.Īround the same time in 1954, the two girls’ increasingly intense friendship was further threatened when Juliet discovered her mother in bed with a suitor. ![]() But their friendship continued both during and after Juliet’s hospital stay when she was released and the two girls picked up where they left off, Pauline’s parents brought her to see a psychiatrist who informed them he suspected that Pauline and Juliet were engaged in a homosexual relationship. When Juliet was once again hospitalized for tuberculosis, her parents hoped it’d do the girls some good to spend time apart. Pauline and Juliet became inseparable, spending hours writing stories, books, and plays, inventing fantasy lives, and developing their own personal religion, moral code, and version of heaven, which they called The Fourth World.īoth families eventually became concerned that the girls might be getting too close or spending too much time together. Though the girls initially bonded over their shared medical history, as Pauline had suffered from osteomyelitis, a bone marrow infection, as a child, and Hulme from tuberculosis, the girls ultimately became soldered together thanks to their shared creative interests. The two teenagers had met in the early 1950s at Christchurch Girls’ High School on the east coast of New Zealand, and quickly formed a deep and at times, obsessive, friendship. The movie was based on the Jmurder of Honora Parker (known as Honora Rieper) by her 16-year-old daughter Pauline and Pauline’s best friend, 15-year-old Juliet Hulme. Pauline and Juliet became inseparable, spending hours writing stories, books, and plays, inventing fantasy lives, and developing their own personal religion, moral code, and version of heaven… ![]()
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