Anne Perry, the prolific crime writer who murdered her best friend's mother when she was a teenager, died in Los Angeles on Monday. She was 84.
Anne Perry, a prolific British crime writer with a murderous past that was brought to light in Peter Jackson’s 1994 film “Perry died in a Los Angeles hospital on Monday, her literary agent, Meg Davis, told theon Wednesday. “Ms. Perry’s health had declined since she had a heart attack in December,” Davis said.
At 15, Perry served five years in prison for her part in bludgeoning to death Honorah Mary Parker, her best friend Pauline Parker’s mother, in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1954. The two plotted her murder, using a brick stuffed inside a stocking, and wrote of the details and “anticipation” in journals found by the police.
She moved to Christchurch, New Zealand, as a teenager and attended Christchurch Girls’ High School, where she met Parker. The two bonded intensely and planned to move to the United States to become famous novelists. They became so enmeshed that Parker’s mother attempted to put an end to their friendship, a move that enraged the angsty and dangerous teenagers.
‘Creatures’ Protagonist Denies Criticizing Film : Movies: Author Anne Perry, who hasn’t seen the feature, says she doesn’t remember calling it ‘grotesque’ or calling the screenwriters ‘idiotic movie-makers.’Police found enough evidence to arrest Parker on the night of her mother’s death and Hulme the next day. The entry in Parker’s diary on the day of the grisly murder was titled, “The Day of the Happy Event.
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