Which female author supposedly helped kill someone as a teenager?
Which female author supposedly helped kill someone as a teenager?
#1Which female author supposedly helped kill someone as a teenager?
Posted: 11/12/09 at 8:59amI'm sure I remember reading something about this several years ago, and I'm not really sure who it was (though the author was successful). Anyone know who this is? Or was I hallucinating...
#2re: Which female author supposedly helped kill someone as a teenager?
Posted: 11/12/09 at 9:23amAnne Perry. Kate Winslet played her in the film Heavenly Creatures
#2re: Which female author supposedly helped kill someone as a teenager?
Posted: 11/12/09 at 9:30am
Eris, you beat me to it!
Extraordinary story, isn't it?
#3re: Which female author supposedly helped kill someone as a teenager?
Posted: 11/12/09 at 9:34amHer real name was Juliet Hulme. They put a brick in a sock or handkerchief and beat her best friend's mother to death.
#4re: Which female author supposedly helped kill someone as a teenager?
Posted: 11/12/09 at 10:57am
Heavenly Creatures was a disturbing movie. Kate Winslet was really good.
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#5re: Which female author supposedly helped kill someone as a teenager?
Posted: 11/12/09 at 10:58amA brilliant film, much under-rated.
#6re: Which female author supposedly helped kill someone as a teenager?
Posted: 11/12/09 at 11:03amThat film has perhaps the most brutal murder scene that shows absolutely nothing as far as gore goes. Every time I see that film that scene never ceases to make me cringe.
#7re: Which female author supposedly helped kill someone as a teenager?
Posted: 11/12/09 at 11:26amShe says that they weren't in a lesbian relationship and she's never seen and will not see the movie. I wonder if she knows it's considered a creepy lesbian movie. The gay bookstore in Nashville used to keep it on the shelf next to Sister, My Sister and Bargirls.
#8re: Which female author supposedly helped kill someone as a teenager?
Posted: 11/12/09 at 11:27amI was sure the answer was going to be Carrie Prejean.
StockardFan
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/08
#9re: Which female author supposedly helped kill someone as a teenager?
Posted: 11/12/09 at 12:08pmWHAT? I've never heard this story? WTF?
#10re: Which female author supposedly helped kill someone as a teenager?
Posted: 11/12/09 at 12:14pmIt is a very creepy but entertaining movie. It's on HBO or Showtime all the time.
StockardFan
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/08
#11re: Which female author supposedly helped kill someone as a teenager?
Posted: 11/12/09 at 12:15pmAnd it's a true story? Eegads!
#12re: Which female author supposedly helped kill someone as a teenager?
Posted: 11/12/09 at 12:23pm
According to wikipedia it seems our Ms Perry joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and is now absolved of her sins.
I don't think it really works that way. But whatever floats your boat.
Anne Perry
#13re: Which female author supposedly helped kill someone as a teenager?
Posted: 11/12/09 at 12:41pmThe other girl, Paulette, became a devout Catholic.
#14re: Which female author supposedly helped kill someone as a teenager?
Posted: 11/12/09 at 12:47pm
"I don't think it really works that way. But whatever floats your boat."
Eris, that really made me smile. :)
And if you haven't seen this film rent it today, it's one of her first and still holds up as one of Winslet's best.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#15re: Which female author supposedly helped kill someone as a teenager?
Posted: 11/12/09 at 12:49pmIt doesn't say anything about her sins on there, but isn't that how all religion works?
#16re: Which female author supposedly helped kill someone as a teenager?
Posted: 11/12/09 at 12:51pmA friend used to date a guy who prayed after sex to be forgiven. That relationship didn't last very long.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#17re: Which female author supposedly helped kill someone as a teenager?
Posted: 11/12/09 at 12:53pmNothing is sexier than a guy who starts praying and crying after he shoots.
#18re: Which female author supposedly helped kill someone as a teenager?
Posted: 11/12/09 at 1:02pm
It doesn't say anything about her sins on there, but isn't that how all religion works?
This is a quote from the end of the "New Life" section of the link I posted. I was paraphrasing.
"Although she admits regretting that the incident took place, Perry has been openly evasive of her accountability for her role in the murder and believes that through her faith she has successfully shed all responsibility for her crime."
Maybe it's because I'm not religious but I feel if you participate in someone's horrific murder you're responsible for the rest of your life. It just doesn't go away because you become a mormon.
And I've always found it amusing that she chose to become mormon after the fact that her parents thought she was a lesbian. She says they were not but you still have to wonder. It seems becoming a mormon might be the perfect way to "hide" from it.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#19re: Which female author supposedly helped kill someone as a teenager?
Posted: 11/12/09 at 1:05pm
I gotcha. I just skimmed the page.
Do lady Mormons get to wear the crazy underwear?
blueroses
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/18/04
#20re: Which female author supposedly helped kill someone as a teenager?
Posted: 11/12/09 at 1:52pmBarb and Nicky did in Big Love!
#21re: Which female author supposedly helped kill someone as a teenager?
Posted: 11/12/09 at 2:07pm
Nothing is sexier than a guy who starts praying and crying after he shoots.
I'd say it depends on why he's crying and praying. If he's saying, "Thank you, Lord! Please don't ever let me live without this!" Then yeah, I'd be ok with it.
#22re: Which female author supposedly helped kill someone as a teenager?
Posted: 11/12/09 at 3:14pmI have heard of several people who pray after sex to be forgiven. If you're sinning just because you know you can pray after and be forgiven, I don't think it should count. And as Callie said on Grey's Anatomy, "You can't pray away the gay!"
#23re: Which female author supposedly helped kill someone as a teenager?
Posted: 11/12/09 at 3:23pmThank you! It was driving me crazy! I saw an interview with Patricia Cornwell this morning on GMA, which reminded me of the incident---except I couldn't remember which author it was (and I know that doesn't say much for the vibes that Ms. Cornwell gives off!)
StockardFan
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/08
#24re: Which female author supposedly helped kill someone as a teenager?
Posted: 11/12/09 at 3:25pmI know, right? So we can do whatever we want, as long as we pray for forgiveness right after?
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