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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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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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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It's honestly kind of surprising that Peter Jackson got away with making Heavenly Creatures as sympathetic to the girls as it was
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On the one hand, they clearly had a very special friendship filled with erotic (if not sexual) longing and were deeply creative and thoughtful and all that And the mom was a shitty homophobe On the other hand, they... Brutally bludgeoned her to death with a half brick in a sock
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
It kind of also gave a bad reputation to teenagers who reject Christianity in favor of creating their own neopagan mythology, unfortunately
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Yeah they kinda "invented" a whole lesbian-schoolgirl-killer genre for trashy Euro-Horror that lived for a few years after. Whole big thing.
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