irs of feet running up the track, slipping in the mud . . . desperate.

WIDE SHOT . . . reveals TWO GIRLS running up the track, distraught.

JULIET HULME: nearly 16 - tall, blond and willowy,

and

PAULINE RIEPER: 16 - dark-haired, shorter and stockier than Juliet.

It is 1954. Both girls are dressed in overcoats on a chilly winter day. They slip and stumble on the dirt track that winds up the steep Victoria Park hillside. Thick vegetation and overhanging trees give the path a tunnel-l