Kiwi who killed mother with her friend, inspiring Heavenly Creatures, dies on Scottish island

Pauline Parker, a New Zealand woman who gained notoriety for murdering her mother alongside her friend Juliet Hulme in 1954, has died at the age of 88. Passing away this month under the assumed name Hilary Nathan, Parker spent her final years living on the Scottish island of Orkney.

The 1954 murder case, in which Parker and Hulme killed Parker's mother, Honora Parker, shocked the public and subsequently inspired the acclaimed 1994 Peter Jackson film Heavenly Creatures. Following their conviction and imprisonment as teenagers, both women were eventually released and assumed new identities.