Anne Perry, the bestselling crime novelist and the subject of the film 'Heavenly Creatures,' has died at 84.
, depicting the infamous Christchurch, New Zealand murder case of 1954. As a teenager, Perry -- who was born with the name Juliet Hulme -- was tried and convicted for her part in the brutal killing of her friend's mother. Her friend, Pauline Parker, was played byA jury found the girls guilty of bludgeoning Honorah Parker, Pauline's mother, to death in a park after she apparently refused to allow her daughter to go with Hulme as she was moving to live with relatives in South Africa.
Perry served five years in prison for her role in the matricide. Because she was under the age of 18, she avoided the death penalty. She went on change her name, move to Scotland, and become a prolific writer who sold more than 26 million books worldwide. Perry never married and is survived by her brother, Jonathan Hulme.of London, Perry said she made a"profoundly wrong decision" to take part in the killing and that she feared her friend would take her own life if she didn't. The duo served their time separately and never spoke again.
"We really wanted to take it back to the human beings and to say, 'Well, they weren't evil,'" he said. "I mean, they were two 15-year-old girls. They did this extraordinarily tragic thing, but there had to have been some forces at work within their friendship or outside of their friendship that led them to this action. And we set out to try and discover what they were.
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