Dartmouth College Murders Part 2-In 2001 James Parker and Robert Tullock committed one of New Hampshire's most diabolical double murders

Boston Confidential Beantown's True Crime Podcast

Barry J. Maguire

Drama, Whitey, Boston, Boston True Crime, True Crime, South Boston, Charlestown, Fiction, Roxbury, Dorchester

4.7 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Send us a text The murders of Half and Susanne Zantop were originally thought to be a murder-suicide, as the crime scene indicated a high level of anger and hate. The police also looked to a love triangle, both theories were proven false quickly. The murderers left two military style knife sheaths were found at the crime scene. The police also had a bloody foot print, that eventually lead to Robert Tullock. Fingerprints from the sheaths were traced to Jim Parker and the duo fled Vermont, but ...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Boston Confidential, Bean Towns True Crime Podcast.
0:11.6	Boston is a great city, but there's more to it than the Freedom Trail in Fenway Park.
0:16.8	There's a startling underbelly to the city, and Boston Confidential will take you on a guided tour
0:21.6	of the hub of the universe, Boston, Massachusetts.
0:26.4	Hey, everybody, welcome back to Boston Confidential.
0:29.3	My name's Barry McGuire, and I'm your host.
0:32.0	I'm a 20-year private investigator on the streets of Boston,
0:35.2	and I help run a company called Impact Due Diligence
0:38.5	Investigations. If you need anything in terms of investigative services, feel free to contact
0:44.6	me at Impact. If I can't help you personally, I'll certainly direct you to the right person
0:49.7	or agency. We had a good response from our first part in this series of the 2001 Dartmouth College
0:58.2	murders in Hanover, New Hampshire. These were the murders of Half and Suzanne Zantop, professors
1:07.0	at Dartmouth College. Suzanne was the head or the chair of the German department,
1:14.6	and Half was a geologist, but I think his actual title was environmental scientist.
1:21.3	And they were kind of like royalty at this place. They were really like rock stars, very well-loved.
1:29.0	Students loved them, faculty. They were really like rock stars, very well loved. Students loved them faculty.
1:38.5	They were just very highly regarded. And to have something happened to them was a big deal on this community. And I'm going to tell you all about it. I think I gave you enough background
1:43.1	on the Xantops coming over from Germany.
1:46.5	When they were young, both of them were collecting degrees like most people collect postage
1:51.8	stamps or used to collect postage stamps. That's how bright and driven these two were.
1:57.7	They had two children when they came over here here and they had met at Stanford College but had
2:03.9	done some traveling the years after they had two children I believe when the couple was living in
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