Juliet Hulme - Is Anne Perry Minimizing Her Motive?
I've read just about everything I can find on the Juliet Hulme-Pauline Parker case.
When, in 1994, it was discovered that Juliet Hulme was now the crime fiction novelist Anne Perry, Ms. Perry gave an interview about the murder.
In her published interview, she stated that she participated in the murder of Pauline's mother because a) Pauline had been so loyal to her while she (Juliet) was in the sanitarium with tuberculosis, and; b) because she was afraid Pauline might kill herself were she not allowed to accompany Juliet and her father, Dr. Hulme, to South Africa.
I was astounded by Anne Perry's statements, as they ran counter to every published account of the mutual relationship of the girls, Juliet and Pauline, and her statements were most certainly self-serving, placing as they did all the motive on Pauline.
In every published report of the trial, as well as testimony of Juliet's own mother, and psychologists, Juliet's obsessive devotion to Pauline was equal to that held by Pauline for Juliet. Juliet was just as distraught over the prospect of being separated from Pauline as Pauline.
For Ms. Perry to make such statements defies credulity, and I cannot fathom how anyone even remotely knowledgeable of the case could take them seriously.
In fact, her statements are not only pitifully self-serving, but also rely upon the silence of Pauline, who has likewise changed her name and lives in obscurity in Britain.
One wishes Pauline would issue a statement of her own. It would surely contradict the ridiculous Perry statement and put the lie to it.
I think much, much less of Anne Perry for what is obviously a pack of lies regarding her role in the murder of Pauline Parker's mother.
I would welcome the opinions of others who find this case as profoundly interesting as I do.
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