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JUDGMENT RIDGE: THE TRUE STORY BEHIND THE DARTMOUTH MURDERS
Lehr, Dick
2003 9348 On a cold night in January 2001, the idyllic community of Dartmouth College was shattered by the discovery that two professors had been hacked to death in their own home. Investigators searched helplessly for clues linking the victims, Half and Susanne Zantop to their killers. Nearby, residents of Chelsea, Vermont, were shocked to see police car lights flashing outside the house of high school senior Robert Tulloch. The town soon discovered the incomprehensible reality that Tulloch and best friend Jim Parker -- two of Chelsea's brightest and most popular sons -- were now fugitives, wanted for the murders of Half and Susanne Zantop. Authors Dick Lehr and Mitchell Zuckoff offer a vivid explanation of the murders that captivated the nation as well as provide a clear portrait of the killers, their families, and their community -- and, perhaps, a warning to all parents about what evil may lurk in the hearts of boys. FROM THE CRITICS The New York Times In Judgment Ridge, Mitchell Zuckoff and Dick Lehr, two reporters at The Boston Globe, nicely reveal the claustrophobic desperation of the teenagers, who were smart but not smart enough, both before the murders and as the police drew closer. Lehr and Zuckoff convincingly explore those particular strands of teenage DNA that sometimes mutate into murder: the extreme self-possession, the feelings of invulnerability and the desire to defy authority. Judgment Ridge is a scary and depressing examination of what can happen when that mutation goes unchecked. - Douglas McCollam The New Yorker In January, 2001, Half and Susanne Zantop, popular professors at Dartmouth College, were murdered in their home in New Hampshire. Clever detective work linked knife sheaths found at the scene to a pair of teen-agers, Robert Tulloch and Jim Parker, who lived in an isolated Vermont town thirty miles away. Confronted by police, the boys fled; eventually, they were tracked down in Indiana. Parker, the sidekick, struck a plea bargain that may free him in sixteen years, but Tulloch pleaded guilty and received a sentence of life without parole. Zuckoff and Lehr, who covered the case for the Boston Globe, examine in fascinating detail the ordinariness of the boys' grudges—typical high-school controversies about the student council and the debate team ;and how, in Tulloch's twisted mind, the idea of random killing became an obsession. Published at Twenty Six Dollars. HarperCollins Publishers 006000844X / 9780060008444
Hardcover New New York
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15.09 USD
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