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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
Jul 8, 2019 · Known as the Parker-Hulme murder, the case shocked the nation because perpetrators Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme were teenage girls, and the victim was Pauline’s mother. It was June 1954 and this kind of thing just didn’t happen in New Zealand.
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
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.
- Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme
- Karen Severson and Laura Doyle
- Shelia Eddy and Rachel Shoaf
- ‘The Collie Killers’
- Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser
The 1994 movie Heavenly Creatures (starring Melanie Lynskey and Kate Winslet) was based on 16- and 15-year-old friends Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme, a New Zealand pair who had an elaborate fantasy life—and what their parents considered an unhealthy obsession with each other. (Both girls had been hospitalized for traumatic medical conditions and ...
In 1985, California girls Karen Severson and Laura Doyle drowned 17-year-old Michele “Missy” Avila, holding her head down in a shallow stream in Big Tujunga Canyon in Angeles National Forrest over her allegedly sleeping with Doyle’s boyfriend. The two friends attended Avila’s funeral, comforting her family, even suggesting suspects. They kept up th...
Shortly after midnight on July 6, 2012, West Virginia teen Skylar Neese snuck out of her parent’s home to meet her friends Shelia Eddy and Rachel Shoaf. The group drove to the woods, ostensibly to get high on marijuana; instead, the two killers counted to three and started stabbing Neese, said Shoaf. In the months after, Shoaf suffered a nervous br...
In 2006, after an amphetamine-fueled party, two Australian bestiesfrom the coal-mining town of Collie, garroted their friend, 15-year-old Eliza Jane Davis, with a speaker wire and buried her under the house. The pair had discussed killing someone before, and one even killed two kittens to prepare herself. Because they were 16 at the time of the cri...
In what became known as the Waukesha (Wisconsin) Slender Man stabbing, 12-year old Morgan Geyser stabbed her friend, Payton Leutner, also 12, in the woods. Anissa Weier, Geyser’s best friend, had handed her the knife, instructing her to “go ballistic, go crazy.” The sixth graders believed they were directed to kill by Slender Man, a fictional super...
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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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.
