Pauline Parker
Pauline Yvonne Parker (born 26 May 1938) is a woman from Christchurch, New Zealand, who, together with her friend Juliet Hulme (now known as acclaimed fiction author Anne Perry), murdered her mother, Honorah Rieper, on 22 June 1954. It is believed that the two girls killed Honorah because Hulme and her father were leaving shortly for South Africa and, though Parker wanted to accompany them, her mother forbade it. According to their own accounts, Parker and Hulme were devoted friends who collaborated on a series of adventure novels which they hoped would be bought by a Hollywood studio and made into epic films. The girls' friendship was documented in detail by Parker in a series of diaries during her teenage years.
Relationship with Juliet Hulme
The girls met in their early teens, when Hulme's family moved to Christchurch from England. They both attended Christchurch Girls' High School, then located in what became the Cranmer Centre. Both girls had suffered from debilitating illnesses as children – Parker from osteomyelitis, Hulme from tuberculosis – and they initially bonded over it. According to Parker's accounts, she and Hulme both romanticized the idea of being sick. During their friendship, the girls invented their own personal religion, with its own ideas on morality. They rejected Christianity and worshipped their own saints, envisioning a parallel dimension called The Fourth World, essentially their version of Heaven. The Fourth World was a place that they felt they were already able to enter occasionally, during moments of spiritual enlightenment. By Parker's account, they had achieved this spiritual enlightenment due to their friendship. Eventually, the girls formulated a plan to flee to Hollywood.
Podcasts:
Pauline Parker & Marilyn Kaye
ALBUMS
- Just Around Bakersfield released: 2009
Just Around Bakersfield
Released 2009- I Used To Love You
- Yer Fer Me
- Hold Still Baby
- Walkin' On Easy Street
- Walkin' Shoes
- Kathleen
- Drive Away Blues
- I Need You Baby
- Childhood Boogie
- I've Been Thinking It Over
- I Wanna Feel Good
- I Wouldn't Give A Nickel
- Stood Up Blues
- Loose My Mind
- Why Must I Be The One
- Bumble Rumble
- You're A Luxury
- Hot Dog
- Only Fools
- There Goes My Love
- Rhythm And Booze
- A Night For Love
- There Ain't Nothing Happening To Me
- Is You Is, Or Is You Ain't
- Mixed Up Rhythm & Blues
- Baby Baby Baby
- Where Ever You Are
- Give Some Love My Way
- Throw A Little Wood On The Fire
- Love Fever
- Puppy Dog Love
- Phone Me Baby
- Ask Me No Questions
- Truck Drivin' Man
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