Half Zantop, 62, and Susanne Zantop, 55, were stabbed to death after Half opened their door in Etna to two Vermont teens pretending to be working on a homework assignment.
What the Dartmouth professors didn’t understand was the real objective was quick cash to fund a ridiculous plan to escape Vermont.
When Half criticized Robert Tulloch, then 17, for being unprepared to ask a proper question, Tulloch sprang and plunged a dagger into Half’s chest and face.
Tulloch’s partner in crime (and eventual witness for the prosecution) was then 16-year-old James Parker. When Susanne came running to her husband’s aid, Parker stabbed her first, before Tulloch brutally finished her murder
That was Jan 27, 2001. Parker, for testifying against Tulloch at trial, would be convicted of second-degree murder and given a minimum of 25 years to life in prison while his partner got life without parole.
Parker, now 39, is now up for parole (a couple years shy of 25) on April 18 and likely already largely free in one of our communities. He’s listed under “community corrections,” which means a transitional housing unit or a work center, according to the Department of Corrections.
We’re told Parker has been a model prisoner and he’s very sorry. We expect he’ll be sorrier still in the years to come. He did enough to serve every single day of his sentence behind bars.
Jeb Bradley is a class act. New Hampshire has been very fortunate to have had his service, experience, and devotion to our state and nation for as long as he has been willing to serve.
It is Mother’s Day and we will remain forever grateful to the individual who, having been “assigned at birth” as female, gave us life, love, and lessons in dealing with challenges great and small.
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