Juliet Hulme, shared an intense and imaginative friendship.1 They created their own elaborate fantasy world, a paradise they called "The Fourth World," complete with its own religion and moral code.2 But when their parents threatened to separate them, this fantasy world collided with reality in the most brutal way imaginable.

On June 22, 1954, the girls lured Pauline's mother, Honorah Rieper, to a secluded path in Victoria Park and bludgeoned her to death with a brick wrapped in a stocking. ...