This story, about the death of two Dartmouth College professors - a random and senseless killing - turned out to be more of a tribute to Liberalism than anything else, which is no surprise to regular City Confidential viewers. Like many New England colleges, it's "a liberal island in a sea of conservatism," as narrator Paul Winfield points out, as he usually does in episodes involving left-wing places (Berkeley, Ca., Athens, Ga., Seattle, Wash. etc.).
The murdered couple, extreme Liberal professors, are pictured as the nicest, most admirable people in the U.S. You know, they probably were really nice people but City Confidential just can't stop gushing. They are quick to point out the couple's Left Wing causes.
Sadly, to be fair, the couple was so trusting of their fellow college kids and profs and Hanover area citizens, they invited into their home two ecology-minded kids. Who would have guessed they were murderers? They were high school kids from a small town in neighboring Vermont. They are smart kids, one of them "straight A and Junior Class President," but they were sickos. They already were bored with life and their town and planned on an exciting life of crime. They wanted to go to Australia but needed $10,000 cash. They came upon this couple in the woods outside Hanover and wound up brutally killing them.....all for $340.
At the trial, when police found out who did this shocking crime, one of the criminals was remorseful and the other could care less. "It was like looking at plain evil," said one person describing Robert Tellick, the one who showed no remorse.
For supposedly "smart" kids, they did some dumb things like leaving a telltale footprint and some knife sheaves, which were used to identify them as the culprits. When police closed in, the two fled and were caught in Indiana.
The victims Half and Susanne Zantop, both originally from Germany, were well-liked professors and their deaths (by stabbing) were random and senseless. It made Dartmouth change its policy about locking dorm doors and probably changed a lot of people's openness in this beautiful little town.
The murdered couple, extreme Liberal professors, are pictured as the nicest, most admirable people in the U.S. You know, they probably were really nice people but City Confidential just can't stop gushing. They are quick to point out the couple's Left Wing causes.
Sadly, to be fair, the couple was so trusting of their fellow college kids and profs and Hanover area citizens, they invited into their home two ecology-minded kids. Who would have guessed they were murderers? They were high school kids from a small town in neighboring Vermont. They are smart kids, one of them "straight A and Junior Class President," but they were sickos. They already were bored with life and their town and planned on an exciting life of crime. They wanted to go to Australia but needed $10,000 cash. They came upon this couple in the woods outside Hanover and wound up brutally killing them.....all for $340.
At the trial, when police found out who did this shocking crime, one of the criminals was remorseful and the other could care less. "It was like looking at plain evil," said one person describing Robert Tellick, the one who showed no remorse.
For supposedly "smart" kids, they did some dumb things like leaving a telltale footprint and some knife sheaves, which were used to identify them as the culprits. When police closed in, the two fled and were caught in Indiana.
The victims Half and Susanne Zantop, both originally from Germany, were well-liked professors and their deaths (by stabbing) were random and senseless. It made Dartmouth change its policy about locking dorm doors and probably changed a lot of people's openness in this beautiful little town.