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The Parker–Hulme murder case was the murder of Honorah Mary Rieper (also known as Honorah Mary Parker) in Christchurch, New Zealand, on 22 June 1954. The perpetrators were Rieper's teenage daughter Pauline Parker and her friend Juliet Hulme. Parker was 16 at the time, while Hulme was 15.
Photos of Pauline Yvonne Parker. Parker, together with her friend Juliet Hulme, murdered her mother in New Zealand on June 22, 1954.
Seventy years after Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme were convicted of one of New Zealand’s most brutal and high-profile murders, senior journalist Anna Leask speaks exclusively to Juliet’s...
- Anna Leask
- The Start of A Fateful Friendship
- How Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme’s Fantasy Life Led to Murder
- ‘The Day of The Happy Event’ and The Murder of Honorah Rieper
- The Trial of Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme
- The Divergent Paths of The Murderous Best Friends
On paper, Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme could not have appeared to be more different. Parker — who went by the last name Rieper until the court determined that her parents were not married — had been born in New Zealand. Her father managed a fish shop and her mother ran a boarding house, according to the Huffington Post. Hulme, on the other hand,...
Both Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme had vivid imaginations. As they grew closer, they created a fantasy realm called “the Fourth World” and invented a religion in which they venerated certain celebrities like Mario Lanza as “saints,” according to an article that appeared in New Zealand Woman’s Weekly. Together, the teens wrote stories set in the F...
On June 22, 1954, the day Pauline Parker described as “The Day of the Happy Event” in her diary, she and Juliet Hulme invited Honorah Rieper out for a walk. The three of them went to Victoria Park, where they enjoyed afternoon tea and then set out to wander the park. Then, according to the New Zealand Herald, the girls led Rieper to a pink charm th...
As word of Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme’s crime spread, New Zealanders everywhere reacted with shock. The girls were young, the murder they’d perpetrated was brutal, and their trial was packed with sensational claims. The prosecution got their hands on Parker’s diary, which contained details about Parker and Hulme’s plans to kill Parker’s mother...
In the decades since their release from prison, Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme both established new — and totally separate — lives. Though it has been erroneously reported that they were forbidden from contacting each other, it seems that Parker and Hulme naturally drifted apart. Parker, who changed her name to Hilary Nathan, has lived a reclusive...
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...
- Anna Leask
Aug 28, 2011 · Pauline Parker, aged 16, and Juliet Hulme, 15, were convicted of the murder of Pauline's mother Honora at Christchurch on 22 June. Their story was later the subject of Peter Jackson's acclaimed film, Heavenly creatures.
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Interest in the sensational 1954 murder case was revived after the release of Peter Jackson's Academy Award-nominated film Heavenly creatures (1994). In 1997 a New Zealand journalist tracked Pauline Parker down in a small village in Kent, England.
