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Thank you for joining me for today's episode of Once Upon a Crime. This is part two of a two-part

episode I began last week. So if you haven't listened to episode 100, you'll want to start there.

I left off last time with Pauline Parker and Juliet Hume, desperate to stay together, after they

discovered that Juliet would be sailing off to South Africa to attend boarding school in

just a few weeks' time. Pauline was convinced that the only thing standing in the way of her leaving

with Juliet was her mother Nora. Because of this, Pauline and Juliet began to conspire together

to get rid of the obstacle to their happiness. This is Chapter 4 of Written in Blood, The Case of Ann Perry,

Part 2. By June 19th, with only three weeks left before the hume sailed out of the country,

Pauline made plans for murder. In her irrational mind, with her mother dead, her father was likely to give her permission.

He'd be grief-stricken, and as her only surviving parent, she knew she could talk him into it,

but there was no time to lose.

Juliet, unsure at first, finally agreed to be part of the plan, and they decided they would

make it look like an accident.

They would take Juliet's mother for an outing to Victoria Park.

Once they found a secluded location, Juliet would drop a pink stone on the path that had come

loose from an old brooch she had. When Nora stooped to pick it up, Pauline would hit her in the

head. It would look like she'd fallen

and struck her head and died. They even talked about what would happen if they were found out.

They were minors, they reasoned. Even if they did get sent to prison, at least they'd still be

together. And wasn't that the only goal? They were in agreement. They decided on the day, Tuesday, June 22nd.

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