Dartmouth Professors Called Robbery Victims
Robbery was the motive in the slaying of two Dartmouth College professors who were stabbed in their home, prosecutors said.
The indictment is the first statement from prosecutors alleging a motive for the Jan. 27 deaths of Half and Susanne Zantop in their Hanover home. But the jury for Robert Tulloch will be asked to consider two theories of first-degree murder: that it was “purposeful,” with no motive specified, and that it was committed during a robbery, Atty. Gen. Philip McLaughlin said.
Tulloch, 18, and his friend James Parker, 17, both of Chelsea, Vt., were charged in February. Parker has admitted to being an accomplice.
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