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It was a crisp Tuesday afternoon in June when teenagers Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme attacked Pauline’s mother Honorah on a secluded walkway at Victoria Park on Christchurch’s Port Hills....
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Sep 23, 2021 · In 1954, New Zealand was rocked by the slaying of Honorah Parker by her daughter Pauline and Pauline's friend Juliet Hulme. The two girls hit Honorah's head and were subsequently sent away for five years before disappearing into obscurity.
Sep 8, 2021 · Pauline quickly collapsed under police questioning and was arrested late that night. Juliet Hulme confessed the next day. Court testimony, as summed up in The Times London and other reports (via Heavenly Creatures), revealed that Honora had suffered a total of 45 wounds.
Unlike Picnic at Hanging Rock, Heavenly Creatures is based on a real-life case – one that would be very well known at least to viewers in New Zealand. (The case is generally known as the Parker-Hulme case, on the grounds that Pauline was prosecuted under her mother’s maiden name of Parker.)
In 1954, Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme were convicted of one of New Zealand’s most brutal and high-profile murders. It was a sunny, crisp Tuesday afternoon in June when the girls attacked...
Jun 27, 2023 · Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme seemed like perfectly ordinary teenage girls. But on June 22, 1954, a day that would be remembered in New Zealand for decades to come, they viciously murdered Parker’s mother, Honorah Rieper.
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Oct 12, 2020 · In one scene, Juliet has a panic attack after her parents announce that they are going away and plan to leave her behind, and she retreats into the Fourth World, their version of Heaven. This is her safe space, and it becomes visible to Pauline too, which acts as a confirmation for the pair that their world is the real one, the right one.
