Deadly teenage friendship

Juliet Hulme and Pauline Parker

Youth is a time when passion can run dangerously wild. The desires and fantasies of a person, especially a young person can take on an obsessional nature. Christchurch New Zealand, fifteen-year-old Juliet Hulme writes feverishly to her best friend across town. Pauline Parker, 16, desperately awaits her letter. These young girls are caught in a fatal obsession. This was a brutal murder. She didn't want her mother around. She hated her. It's the early 1950s, Juliet Hulme is overjoyed to see her closest friend, Pauline Parker. She found in Pauline, an intensely close friend and they did form a very close friendship. Almost straightaway she said to her mother, mother I have found someone who has got just as strong a will as I have. That's the start, the pair share a passion for art and literature, both ghosts were very lively. Julian in particular, very herbaceous. I think, in combination they were able to devise a make-believe world, a wonderful creative outlet for all of their talents and energies. They would pretend to be figures from medieval fantasy worlds and historical figures. It appears that in Juliet's case she had an excessive and extreme fantasy life and appear to be bad at assessing when to stop. So, that leads me to believe that her fantasy life did a whole lot more for her than reality did.

These girls were rather delusional. Grandiose ideas, there's nothing wrong with them but when taken to an extreme form and not controlled, and the person basically loses touch with reality regarding that delusion, that's when they can become dangerous. Obsessed with their fantasies, obsessed with each other. Pauline and Juliet's teenage friendship is about to become deadly. The fact that the girl’s fantasy life turned to writing murder mysteries and killing people, in violence. I think was an indicator of what was to happen. Apparently a fantasy they were willing to kill for. Christchurch New Zealand, teenagers Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme lose themselves in a rich fantasy world. Until their obsessive relationship is turned upside down. Juliet's parents announced they're getting divorced and leaving the country. The Hulme family was disintegrating and Pauline and Juliet could see that they were going to be separated. Juliet will be sent to live with relatives overseas. Of course, Juliet doesn't want to go and then when it is determined that she has to go, she says, Pauline could come with me. The only person who seems to be adamant this was not going to happen was Pauline's mother. She says no. When she says no, she means no.

They are emotionally bonded so tightly that facing separation becomes unthinkable. Faced with losing her best friend Pauline makes a chilling decision. It was her mother who became the target of her hatred. Pauline decided that she had to be removed. A diary had been kept, traces all these various thoughts that they have, that says what they're going to do, as they plot her downfall. I don't think Pauline had an attachment to her mother. This was a smart girl, part of her had to believe or certainly consider the fact that killing her mother wasn't going to result in her being able to live out her dream. She killed her mother because she wanted to and got her friend to go along with it. On a winter afternoon, the girls put their fatal plan into action. They invited Pauline's mother to Victoria Park. They took a leisurely stroll down a path and along that pathway, Juliet dropped a little Ruby. Juliet went on ahead, the web pooling came up walking along with her mother, Pauline - mother look at those lovely pig pebbles down there. Pauline pulled a half brick in a stocking, out of her bag and began to bludgeon on her, about the head.

They think it would be over in seconds, but it can take a lot of violence to kill. It would take repetitive blows. It would require that the outer bones of the skull be caved in .The brain would start to bleed and that the respiratory centers at the base of the brain would become altered. Pauline and Juliet reported that once they started the battering and the assault they couldn't stop. They were afraid to go on but they were more afraid to stop. Later on it was found there were 45 wounds. Juliet and Pauline have turned their darkest fantasy into reality. The children went screaming, covered in blood, saying mother has fallen down and banged her head. One of them even says she banged her head more than once. But their tale about a tragic accident isn't convincing. The real story is found in Pauline's diary. What marks this case out as distinctive is that the diary actually documented a murder plan. Pauline and Juliet are found guilty of murder. Too young for the death penalty, they spend five years in prison. Freedom comes with one condition, They must never contact each other again. Today Pauline Parker lives in England, Juliet Hulme is in Scotland living under a different name. She is now a successful author of murder mystery stories.