# The last ‘Heavenly Creature’ takes her secrets to the grave

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/the-last-heavenly-creature-takes-her-secrets-to-the-grave/
- Published: 2026-10-26T23:00:49+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-26T23:13:02+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Mail (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16240741/last-Heavenly-Creature-takes-secrets-grave.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
- Topics: World

## Key points

- Pauline Parker, later known as Hilary Nathan, has died aged 88.
- She and Juliet Hulme were convicted of killing Parker’s mother in 1954.
- Parker chose a private life after the case returned to public attention.

## Summary

Hilary Nathan has died aged 88 on South Ronaldsay in Orkney, ending the life of Pauline Parker, who was convicted of murdering her mother in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1954. Her quiet death contrasts with the intense attention the case drew and the later public fascination with Parker and her accomplice, Juliet Hulme.

Parker and Hulme, then 16 and 15, killed Honorah Parker with a half-brick wrapped in a stocking and were each jailed for five-and-a-half years. After their release, both moved to Britain and changed their names: Hulme became crime writer Anne Perry, while Parker lived privately as Nathan, eventually settling in Orkney after journalists identified her. The case later inspired Peter Jackson’s 1994 film *Heavenly Creatures*.

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