NORTH HAVERHILL, N.H. – The man who killed two Dartmouth College Professors as a teen has been resentenced and as a result could one day become eligible for parole.
Appearing in Grafton Superior Court Monday a judge approved a resentencing of 45 years with credit for time served for Robert Tulloch, which according to officials means he’ll serve at least 20 years before any chance of being released.
Prior to the resentencing Veronica Zantop, the daughter of Half and Susanne Zantop spoke out against the idea of Tulloch being released. Telling the court, “I strongly believe that he needs to stay in prison and serve the longest possible sentence.”
Tulloch also addressed the court and said hearing Zantop’s statement changed what he had planned to say, but apologized for his 2001 crime;
“I’m sorry. You know, I can’t imagine after hearing you talk that you would care at all.”
Tulloch has been in jail since the age of 17 when he and his friend James Parker pled guilty to killing the Zantops inside their Hanover home.
Parker was paroled in in 2024, after severing close to the minimum of his 25 year- sentence, as a juvenile.
Tulloch’s resentencing request came out of a 2012 U.S. Supreme Court ruling which banned mandatory life-without-parole sentences for juvenile offenders, which led to several inmates in New Hampshire who were sentenced as juveniles to seek new hearings.
