She had a very close female best friend in New Zealand, Pauline Parker Parker's mom was a homophobe who was afraid they were lesbians and wanted them separated, when it seemed like this was inevitably going to happen they lost their shit and murdered her
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
This case got sensationalized as the result of lesbian desires turning teenage girls insane and violent and started a homophobic moral panic in New Zealand that lasted through the 50s and 60s
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
So, you know, I don't know if you'd previously heard of this case but I figured you'd probably reflexively side with the defendants
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Actually I think I have heard this one on MFM like two years ago, I just didn't know one of them became a writer
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Yup, after they served their time they both changed their names and had their records sealed It was a BIG deal when, thanks to the movie coming out, the press dug up the fact that successful mystery novelist Anne Perry was the same person as teen murderer Juliet Hulme
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
She did give a brief interview addressing it, saying she regretted her actions, that she found it hard to think about those times and agreed that she might have experienced temporary psychosis due to meds they gave her as a child for tuberculosis
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
And that, contrary to the movie's implications, she and Pauline weren't actually lesbians and never had sex, and were both basically ignorant about sex at the time of the murder
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
At the time they said the cops grilled them about whether the two of them were lovers and Pauline's reaction was this confused "What are you talking about? We're both women"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
Anyway Hulme was the one from a wealthier family - which plays a big role in their story in the movie, Parker seeing the Hulme household as a refuge from her terrible domestic life Parker had far fewer resources to fall back on after prison, and became a nun
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The media says that although she didn't deny it when asked, Parker prefers not to talk about her past and is known by the other nuns for being very quiet and very devout Parker and Hulme have had no contact with each other since their release
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So, you know Bittersweet ending, mixed outcome
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I guess the truth of who was wrong here, is somewhere in the middle
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I mean you and your friend beating your mother to death with half-bricks in a sock can't ever really be said to be a *good* thing to do
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