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Vermont teen arraigned for profs killing
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ONE of two teenagers charged in the stabbing deaths of married Dartmouth College professors was arraigned on Wednesday on two counts of murder.
The Lebanon District Court ordered Robert Tulloch, a 17-year-old high school honor student, held without bail until at least next Wednesday when a probable cause hearing is set to be held.
Meanwhile, the second teenager, James Parker, 16, remained in an Indiana jail pending an extradition hearing next Tuesday.
The pair from Chelsea, Vermont, a small town some 25 miles (40 km) from the Dartmouth campus, are accused of the January 27 murders of Half and Susanne Zantop, professors at the prestigious Ivy League college.
The six-foot tall, 150-pound Tulloch, looking tired and disheveled as he towered above his two legal aid lawyers, did not enter a plea at his arraignment on first-degree murder charges. In New Hampshire, a plea is not usually entered at the arraignment.
Earlier in the day, a court ordered the pair's arrest warrant unsealed. But neither the documents nor the arraignment shed any light on a possible motive for the murders.
The Zantops, widely described as beloved professors and pillars of the Hanover community, were found dead with multiple stab wounds to the head and chest in their ranch-style home some four miles from the Dartmouth campus in Hanover, New Hampshire. (SD-Agencies)
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