Anne Perry, Teen Murderer Turned Crime Writer, Passes Away at 84

Anne Perry, a prolific British crime novelist who served five years in prison for a murder she helped commit as a teenager, has died in Los Angeles at the age of 84. Perry, who sold more than 26 million books worldwide, had already become well established as a novelist when her sinister past was exposed in 1994, just before the release of Peter Jackson’s film “Heavenly Creatures.” The movie, based on a chilling matricide in New Zealand some four decades earlier in which a Christchurch woman was bludgeoned to death in a park by her daughter and Perry, then 15 years old and known as Juliet Hulme, rekindled media interest in the case.