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Hunch, CB radio lead to arrests in Dartmouth killings
Sgt. Bill Ward learned of the teen-agers' whereabouts while
monitoring CB radio traffic
Two teen-age suspects caught in Indiana
February 19, 2001
Web posted at: 12:44 p.m. EST (1744 GMT)
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'They appeared to be very surprised'
Victims taught 25 years at Dartmouth
NEW CASTLE, Indiana (CNN) -- An Indiana sheriff's deputy tricked two
teen-age murder suspects into stopping at an Indiana truck stop to hitch a
ride, authorities said Monday.
Robert Tulloch, 17, and James Parker, 16, were arrested about 4 a.m.
Monday at a truck stop outside New Castle, Indiana. They are each charged
as adults with two counts of first-degree murder in New Hampshire in the
stabbing deaths of Dartmouth College professors Half and Susanne Zantop.
Officials announce that two warrants have been issued
for the murders of two Dartmouth professors
Early Monday morning, Henry County Sheriff's Sgt. Bill Ward said that he
was monitoring citizens band radio traffic when a truck driver westbound
on Interstate 70 asked for someone to pick up two hitchhikers he could no
longer carry.
A nationwide FBI alert and reports on CNN indicated the suspects may have
been hitching a ride to California, Ward said. So he got on the radio and
encouraged the trucker to drop his riders off at a truck stop near New
Castle.
"I said, 'Hey, why don't you drop them off at the fuel desk and someone
will pick them up in a few minutes.' And he did," Ward said.
"I actually didn't expect it to be them, but I thought it would be worth
checking out," he added.
'They appeared to be very surprised'
Both suspects are from Chelsea, Vermont, which is about 30 miles northwest
of Hanover, New Hampshire, where Dartmouth College is located.
Authorities charged them Saturday with the Dartmouth professors' slayings.
Police warned that the teens may have been hitchhiking after a
Massachusetts state trooper found the car they had been driving abandoned
at a truck stop Sunday morning.
Ward said Henry County deputies found the two teen-agers at the truck stop
matched the descriptions of the suspects and arrested them.
"They appeared to be very surprised," Ward said. "They didn't expect us to
move in around them so quickly."
Friends and neighbors say the boys disappeared from Chelsea, Vermont,
shortly after the killings. New Hampshire authorities will seek their
extradition in the Zantop killings.
Victims taught 25 years at Dartmouth
A friend coming to dinner found the Zantops dead in their home in Etna,
New Hampshire, outside of Hanover, on January 27. Half Zantop was a field
and economic geologist who had taught at Dartmouth for 25 years. Susanne
Zantop, who headed the German Studies program and participated in the
Women's Studies and Comparative Literature programs, had also taught there
for 25 years.
The professors were German-born, naturalized U.S. citizens, popular among
students, and they often opened their home to students and community
members.
Casey Purcell, a friend of Tulloch's, said Saturday that Tulloch and
another boy left town in the days after the murders. They were gone for
two or three days, he said, and then they returned to Chelsea. A few days
later they disappeared again, said Purcell, who is a senior at Chelsea
High School.
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