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Beyond Contempt True Crime

50 - The Zantops

Beyond Contempt True Crime

Renee Lynn

History, Murder, True Crime, Truecrime, Mystery

4.4737 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Two extraordinary Dartmouth professors lost their lives when two high school students believed that killing them would lead to their dream future. 

 

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0:00.0

This podcast contains adult themes and graphic violence.

0:04.6

Listener discretion is advised.

0:06.9

A commercial free version of this podcast is available on Patreon for $1 per month.

0:12.9

Patreon.com.

0:14.1

Ord slash Beyond Contempt Podcast.

0:16.8

Just some quick housekeeping.

0:18.9

The podcast will be on a tighter schedule for 2022,

0:22.2

with twice a month releases on the second and fourth Wednesday of every month.

0:26.7

I'm Renee, and this is cases of murderous professors. In this episode, we were turning the tables

0:53.4

and have a case of two professors who were really tremendous people that were murdered by high school students who harbored delusional fantasies about their future.

1:03.6

You're listening to Episode 50, The Xantops.

1:08.9

John Parker was from Poughkeepsie, New York, and his wife Joan was from San Diego, California.

1:15.3

The parkers wanted to move, and they randomly picked the town of Chelsea, Vermont, with the population of just over 1,000.

1:23.6

It was a 30-minute drive to the nearest highway.

1:27.3

Joan Parker was a racquetball instructor.

1:30.3

John attended Ohio Wesleyan University, where he learned carpentry.

1:35.4

He had a close connection to the Chelsea community.

1:38.7

John had a hand in building and renovating many homes in the small town.

1:43.1

He built one of Chelsea's picnic shelters

1:45.1

and was on the Chelsea Recreation Committee

1:47.7

where he manicured the lawn on the south side of town.

1:51.9

Their son, Jim, was 16 years old

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