Dartmouth Murders
| Date | January 27, 2001 |
|---|---|
| Location | Etna, New Hampshire |
| Coordinates | 43°41′51″N 72°13′35″W / 43.6975°N 72.2264°WCoordinates: 43°41′51″N 72°13′35″W / 43.6975°N 72.2264°W |
| Type | Double Homicide |
| Deaths |
2
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| Arrest(s) | 2 |
| Convicted | James J. Parker Robert W. Tulloch |
| Verdict | Guilty |
| Convictions |
Parker: second-degree murder Tulloch: life |
The Dartmouth College murders were the double homicide of Dartmouth College professors Half Zantop (born April 24, 1938) and his wife Susanne Zantop (née Korsukewitz, born August 12, 1945), who were killed at their home in Etna, New Hampshire (a village near the town of Hanover), on January 27, 2001. Originally from Germany, each of them had been teaching at the Ivy League college since the 1970s. High school classmates James J. Parker, age 16, and 17-year-old Robert W. Tulloch were charged with their murders after investigators traced the sheaths of two SEAL 2000 knives found at the crime scene to Parker. The knives had been purchased online.
Half and Susanne met while studying at Stanford University in the mid-1960s. Fascinated with geology, Half had earned a bachelor's degree from Freiburg University, while Susanne was working on her master's degree in political science. After Half earned a geology Ph.D. in 1969 and worked as a field geologist, he and Susanne were married in 1970. They had two daughters, Veronika and Mariana. Susanne taught in the German department at Dartmouth College and was chair of that faculty. Half was popular among many of his students. They had begun contemplating retirement in the months leading up to their murders. The homicide investigation was led by the New Hampshire State Police Major Crime Unit and at times consisted of as many as 50 investigators from numerous police departments as well as the FBI.
Andrew Patti, a resident of Vershire, Vermont (a town a few miles east of Chelsea, Vermont), says that Tulloch and Parker attempted to murder him and his family in the summer of 2000. Patti's tale appeared in the 2003 book Judgment Ridge: The True Story Behind the Dartmouth Murders by Mitchell Zuckoff, and in 2004 Patti shared his story in more detail with Massad Ayoob of American Handgunner magazine.
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