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Chargement... The Dartmouth Murders (St. Martin's True Crime Library)par Eric Francis
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On January 27, 2002, popular Dartmouth College professors Half and Susanne Zantop were found slain in their home in the wooded outskirts of Hanover, New Hampshire. Both had been stabbed repeatedly in the head and torso with twelve-inch combat knives. The crime--unprecedented in the bucolic college town--sparked a nationwide manhunt. Then, weeks later, a CB-radio call aroused the suspicion of an Indiana cop, leading him to a truck stop east of Indianapolis--and the arrest of two suspects. Their identities would be as startling as the crime itself... James Parker and Robert Tulloch were two clean-cut, straight-A, Vermont high school students with impeccable reputations. But by the time they were apprehended, the boys were fugitives from the law. When confronted by authorities, the two gave no resistance, and investigators couldn't imagine any motive they might have had for the vicious killings. Could these boys have snuffed out the lives of perfect strangers with such intense, cold-blooded fury? Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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This book was rushed into print even before the conclusion of the trials in which spoiled adolescents Jimmy Parker and Robert Tulloch were convicted on overwhelming evidence. Even so, the core-story is a fascinating, albeit grisly one, and despite Francis's style which is always heavy-handed, repetitive, and occasionally unfactual (e.g., could both author AND editor not have known when World War Two began?). The author is at his best -- and I give him full credit for this -- when discussing the epidemic of denial which swept over the home-community of the killers. For years these kids had been on a collision-course with some sort of catastrophe, and the same people who'd looked right past those clear danger-signsbefore the crime couldn't accept the post-mortem evidence of fingerprints, footprints, and unique crime-scene evidence, plus self-incriminating testimony. Incidentally, there does exist at-least one more book on this crime, though I cannot speak to its accuracy or the journalistic competence of its author.
To end on a more-or-less positive note, let me quote a choice passage. Not necessarily relevant to the real story, and maybe even written for something else, but folded-in here because the occasion presented itself. Good though!
"From practically unknown to practically a cottage industry in a few short years, the [US Navy] SEALs seem to occupy a part of that sub-cultural imagination that also likes to delve into ninjas, poisonous snakes, and movies featuring beautiful Russian women who have been trained to operate complex nuclear weapons and wear short skirts and high heels while they do so." ( )