James Parker was granted parole last week after serving nearly 25 years for the 2001 stabbing deaths of Dartmouth professors Susanne and Half Zantop.
A high school student who murdered two Dartmouth professors in their own home in a bizarre plot to rob them and move to Australia has been granted parole after spending his adult life behind bars. James Parker, now nearly 40, was 16 when he and Robert Tulloch convinced Half and Susanne Zantop they were conducting a survey on climate issues in 2001. After the Zantops invited the two teenagers into their New Hampshire home, Tulloch stabbed Half and allegedly instructed Parker to stab Susanne.
Although police initially suspected a crime of passion from a suspected affair, according to reporting later retracted by the Boston Globe, fingerprints on the sheaths and a bloody boot print led them to the two boys three weeks after the Jan. 29, 2001, killings. Nearly 25 years after he pleaded guilty to being an accomplice to second-degree murder, he told New Hampshire's state parole board his actions were 'unimaginably horrible.
know there's not an amount of time of things I can do to change it or alleviate any pain I've caused,' he told the board April 18. 'I'm just deeply sorry.' Those who knew the high school boys were shocked by the killings, telling the Cape Cod Times they were 'class clowns.' 'Jimmy is the class clown,' Casey Purcell, a senior who attended Chelsea High School with the two boys, told the outlet after their 2001 arrest. 'He's never really serious.
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