Because They Were Home: The Dartmouth Murders, Pt 2

True Crime Campfire

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 14 June 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Our homes are meant to be where we feel the safest, so it makes sense that there’s an entire horror movie subgenre dedicated to home invasions. The Strangers, Panic Room, Funny Games, When a Stranger Calls, even Jordan Peele’s Us. All those movies play on the innate fear we have that our most peaceful area would be disturbed by those that would do us harm. Unfortunately, there are people out there that would do us harm just for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Today, we’re finishing one of those stories. Join us for part 2 of the story of the Dartmouth Murders.

Sources:
Judgment Ridge by Lehr and Zuckoff

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0:00.0	Hello, campers. Grab your marshmallows and gather around the true crime campfire.
0:05.0	We're your camp counselors. I'm Katie and I'm Whitney.
0:08.0	And we're here to tell you a true story that is way stranger than fiction.
0:12.0	We're roasting murderers and marshmallows around the true crime campfire.
0:15.0	Our homes are meant to be where we feel the safest, so it makes sense that there's an entire horror movie sub-genre dedicated to home invasions.
0:29.0	The strangers, panic room, funny games, when a stranger calls, even Jordan Peel's us.
0:35.7	All those movies play on the innate fear we have that our most peaceful area would be disturbed
0:40.7	by those that would do us harm. Unfortunately there are people out there that would do
0:45.2	us harm just for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Today we're finishing one of those stories.
0:51.5	This is part two of because they Were Home, the story of two Dartmouth
1:14.2	professors, Hoff and Susanna Zantop, on January 27, 2001.
1:20.3	That evening, a friend of the Zantops, Roxanna Verona, drove up the darkening drive of the couple's home.
1:26.0	Earlier that morning, Susanna had invited her to share a meal with her in Hoff.
1:30.0	Susanna wanted to meet the previous night to go to the movies with them.
1:34.0	Roxanna found herself on their doorstep, holding a salad she'd brought with her and she rang the bell.
1:40.0	The Zantops were fastidious about locking the door, something their friends often teased them about.
1:45.0	Why would they lock their doors in a town like Hanover?
1:48.0	What were they afraid of?
1:50.0	Some of their friends didn't even know where their house keys were.
1:53.4	When they had dinner parties, they'd lock and unlock the door behind every guest,
1:57.2	brushing off the jokes.
1:59.1	Susano was born in Germany in August of 1945, days after the atomic bombs were dropped on Japan. I can't help
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