New Hampshire resentencing gives Dartmouth killer Robert Tulloch a parole path after Supreme Court ruling

Robert Tulloch, who antecedently received a condemnation of beingness without parole for the murders of 2 Dartmouth University professors successful 2001 erstwhile helium was a juvenile, is present eligible to beryllium released by the clip helium is 62 years old.

Tulloch was automatically sentenced to beingness without parole aft pleading blameworthy to first-degree execution successful the 2001 stabbing deaths of Half and Susanne Zantop.

A resentencing proceeding for Tulloch, who was a 17-year-old astatine the clip of the murders, was required pursuing a determination by the U.S. Supreme Court successful 2012, ruling that mandatory beingness sentences without parole imposed connected juvenile offenders are unconstitutional nether the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition of cruel and antithetic punishment.

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Tulloch was 1 of the fewer individuals successful New Hampshire serving specified a condemnation astatine the clip of the Supreme Court’s decision.

Flanked by his lawyer, Richard Guerriero, right, Robert Tulloch, center, listens arsenic Judge Lawrence MacLeod reads retired his caller condemnation for murdering 2 Dartmouth College professors arsenic a teen during a proceeding Monday successful Grafton Superior Court successful North Haverhill, New Hampshire. (Jennifer Hauck/Valley News/Pool/AP)

Initially slated for 3 days, Tulloch’s resentencing proceeding lasted astir an hr successful Grafton Superior Court successful North Haverhill, New Hampshire, connected Monday greeting arsenic some the authorities and defence reached a associated condemnation proposal of 2 concurrent sentences of 45 years to beingness for the murders, with recognition for clip served since his apprehension implicit 20 years ago.

As further requirements of resentencing, Tulloch whitethorn person nary interaction with immoderate members of the Zantop family, including Half and Susanne Zantop’s daughters Veronika and Mariana Zantop, and whitethorn not nett "in immoderate way" from the murders "through the merchantability of his communicative oregon immoderate different commercialized exploitation."

During the resentencing, Veronika Zantop talked astir however she and her household were affected by the decease of her parents. Veronika, a psychiatrist, urged the justice to not let Tulloch the accidental for freedom.

"This wasn’t a transgression of passionateness oregon retribution," she said. "He wasn’t utilizing substances, helium wasn’t psychotic. There was conscionable sheer depravity." She urged that helium enactment successful situation "for the longest imaginable sentence."

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Robert Tulloch is led into Henry County Court House by members of the Henry County Sherrif's Department, wherever helium waived extradition. (MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images)

Under the presumption of the recommendation, Tulloch, 43, is besides present eligible for parole astatine property 62.

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"The murders of Half and Susanne Zantop were horrific crimes that caused immeasurable symptom to their family, friends, students, and the Dartmouth and Upper Valley communities," New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella said successful a statement.

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"While this resentencing was required by tribunal decisions and a changed ineligible landscape, the State worked to guarantee that the condemnation imposed reflects the seriousness of these crimes, promotes accountability, protects the public, and provides meaningful protections for the Zantop family," Formella said. "Our hearts spell retired to the Zantop household and each of those who knew and loved Half and Susanne Zantop."

Robert Tulloch is placed into a Grafton County Sheriff's Department cruiser to beryllium taken to situation aft pleading blameworthy to execution charges successful New Hampshire's Grafton County Superior Court successful North Haverhill. (MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images)

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According to Tulloch’s person James Parker, the teens were bored with their lives successful Chelsea, Vermont, erstwhile they concocted a program to termination strangers, bargain their wealth and determination to Australia.

For respective months, Tulloch and Parker knocked connected doors successful New Hampshire and Vermont pretending to beryllium conducting a survey connected the situation earlier being fto successful by the Zantops. Susanne Zantop, 55, was caput of Dartmouth’s German studies section and her husband, Half Zantop , 62, taught Earth sciences.

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Parker, who was 16 astatine the time, told prosecutors Tulloch stabbed Half Zantop and past directed Parker to onslaught Susanne Zantop. Tulloch besides stabbed her.

Fingerprints connected a weapon sheath and a bloody footwear people linked the teens to the crime, but aft being questioned by police, they fled Vermont and hitchhiked west. They were arrested astatine a motortruck halt successful New Castle, Indiana. Investigators said that the brace were attempting to fly to California.

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Robert Tulloch wipes distant a teardrop during his resentencing proceeding connected Monday, July 13, 2026, successful Grafton Superior Court successful North Haverhill, New Hampshire. (Jennifer Hauck/Valley News via AP/Pool)

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On April 5, 2022, Tulloch pleaded blameworthy to first-degree execution and received a then-mandatory beingness successful situation without the anticipation of parole.

Tulloch's codefendant Parker was sentenced to 25 years to beingness connected second-degree execution charges aft pleading blameworthy to being Tulloch's accomplice successful Half Zantop's execution and agreeing to attest against Tulloch. In June 2024, Park is released connected parole.

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"I deliberation it’s unimaginably horrible," Parker said during his parole proceeding erstwhile asked by a committee subordinate what helium thought of what helium did. "I cognize there’s not an magnitude of clip oregon things that I tin bash to alteration it, oregon alleviate immoderate symptom that I’ve caused."

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Fox News Digital has reached retired to Tulloch's attorneys, Richard Guerriero and Oliver Bloom, and the New Hampshire Attorney General's bureau for comment.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.