Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast

This Teen Murder Influenced The Lord of The Rings Movies

22 Jun 2025

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Anne Perry—born Juliet Hulme—became infamous in 1954 at just 15 when, alongside her close friend Pauline Parker, she brutally murdered Parker’s mother, Honorah, in Christchurch, New Zealand, bludgeoning her with a brick wrapped in a stocking as part of a plan to avoid being separated from her friend. Convicted in August of that year, the teens each served five years in prison. After her release, Hulme reinvented herself as Anne Perry, moving to the UK and becoming a bestselling author of historical crime fiction under her new identity. Her secret past remained hidden until the 1994 release of Peter Jackson’s film Heavenly Creatures

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