45 years to life replaced Robert Tulloch’s original no-parole sentence, making the 43-year-old eligible for parole at 62 under a deal accepted Monday in New Hampshire court.
Juvenile-sentencing rulings drove the change: Tulloch was 17 in 2001, and the U.S. and New Hampshire supreme courts have barred life-without-parole terms for juveniles.
Veronica Zantop, the victims’ daughter, told the court Tulloch had planned the killings in a cold-blooded, predatory way and said she believes he remains dangerous.
Tulloch offered brief remorse but rejected being labeled a psychopath; his co-defendant James J. Parker, who was 16 and pleaded to second-degree murder, was paroled in 2024.
The case stems from a 2001 home invasion in Hanover in which the teenagers posed as students conducting an environmental survey before killing Half and Susanne Zantop.