Robert Tulloch Begins 3-Day Bid to Cut Zantop Murder Sentence After 25 Years
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Updated · VTDigger · Jul 11
Robert Tulloch Begins 3-Day Bid to Cut Zantop Murder Sentence After 25 Years
3 articles · Updated · VTDigger · Jul 11
Summary
Monday’s hearing in North Haverhill will decide whether Robert Tulloch, now 43, keeps two life-without-parole terms for the 2001 killings of Dartmouth professors Half and Susanne Zantop.
The resentencing was unlocked by the 2012 U.S. Supreme Court ruling against mandatory juvenile life-without-parole and a later New Hampshire finding that applying the state law to juveniles was cruel and unusual.
Defense lawyers say a 30- to 40-year minimum would fit comparable murder cases, citing Tulloch’s prison record—no major infractions since 2012—therapy, remorse and mental-health history.
The case remains one of New Hampshire’s last juvenile life-without-parole rewrites: Tulloch is the final one of five such defendants to be resentenced, while co-defendant James Parker was paroled in 2024 after a 25-years-to-life term.