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| Pauline Parker |
By April 28, Pauline had apparently decided to act. "Suddenly a means of ridding myself of the obstacle occurred to me," she wrote. Ever the fantasist, Pauline at first kept her decision to kill her mother to herself, and entertained film-noir type scenarios in which the death would look like an accident.
"I am trying to think up some way...I do not want to go to too much trouble but I want it to appear either a natural or an accidental death," she wrote on April 29th of that year.
By June 19, according to published reports citing her diaries, Pauline had shared her plot with Juliet and the two had hammered out the details. "We practically finished our books today and our main like for the day was to moider mother," Pauline had written, using the self-consciously Brooklynese version of the word "murder".
"This notion is not a new one, but his time it is a definite plan which we intend to carry out," she wrote. "We have worked it all out and are both thrilled with the idea. Naturally we feel a trifle nervous but the anticipation is great."
"I feel very keyed up as if I was planning a surprise party," Pauline wrote the night before the murder. "So the next time I write in the diary mother will be dead."
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