Editorial Reviews. From Publishers Weekly. In this meandering yet irresistibly absorbing book, Lehr (co-author of the bestselling Black Mass, about a turncoat.
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On a cold night in January , the idyllic community of Dartmouth College was shattered by the discovery that two of its most beloved professors had been hacked to death in their own home. Investigators searched helplessly for clues linking the victims, Half and Susanne Zantop, to their murderer or murderers. A few weeks later, across the river, in the town of Chelsea, Vermont, police cars were spotted in front of the house of high school senior Robert Tulloch.
The police had come to question Tulloch and his best friend, Jim Parker. Soon , the town discovered the incomprehensible reality that Tulloch and Parker, two of Chelsea's brightest and most popular sons, were now fugitives, wanted for the murders of Half and Susanne Zantop. Authors Mitchell Zuckoff and Dick Lehr provide a vivid explication of a murder that captivated the nation, as well as dramatic revelations about the forces that turned two popular teenagers into killers.
Judgement Ridge conveys a deep appreciation for the lives and the devastating loss of Half and Susanne Zantop, while also providing a clear portrait of the killers, their families, and their community —and, perhaps, a warning to any parent about what evil may lurk in the hearts of boys. At times this book is extraordinary: The artistry is that I liked this book overall.
It was an interesting story with some interesting characters. It was, however, a little too long. As true crime books go, this one wasn't that thrilling. There was too much As a reporter for nearly two decades for the Boston Globe, Dick Lehr won numerous journalism awards and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He lives near Boston with his wife and four children. He lives outside Boston with his wife and four children.
In January , two teenage boys with inflated egos and juvenile notions of living as self-declared "badasses" in Australia shattered the peaceful community of Dartmouth College in Vermont by murdering two professors. Zuckoff and Lehr follow the mini-crime spree of the two youths--Robert Tulloch and Jim Parker--as they worked themselves into cold-blooded killers, hoping to finance their move to the land down under through robbery and other crimes.
Tulloch was the leader, with a psychopathic obsession with manipulating Jim and proving to others that he was a superior being. Zuckoff and Lehr trace the backgrounds of the victims and the killers, detailing their relationships with friends, family, and community, raising questions about how two bright adolescents could turn to such brutality--slaughtering their victims with hunting knives. The authors build tension through the brutal knifing and the flight and capture of the killers. In the tradition of In 0 Cold Blood, this is a chilling and revealing look at a crime that fueled concerns about adolescents and violence in a post-Columbine environment.
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In this meandering yet irresistibly absorbing book, Lehr co-author of the bestselling Black Mass, about a turncoat FBI agent and Zuckoff Choosing Naia, about a Down syndrome child recount the harrowing story of the murders of Half and Susanne Zantop, two beloved Dartmouth College professors who were savagely butchered in their home on January 27, The messy crime scene soon led investigators to James Parker and Robert Tulloch, a couple of popular teenagers from nearby Chelsea, Vt.
But after being interviewed by detectives, the two promptly fled, leading authorities on a three-day manhunt that ended abruptly at a truck stop in Illinois. While the stunned and bewildered residents of Chelsea muscled their way through choking crowds of reporters the already sensational story was made all the more lurid by the suspects' youth and the sleepy, idyllic setting and came to terms with the unimaginable two of their own townspeople were murderers , Parker and Tulloch were remanded to New Hampshire and arraigned on murder charges that were supported by an arsenal of incriminating evidence.
But the authors nicely expose the strange relationship between these two boys, their muddleheaded motivations for the crime, and Tulloch's arrogant and volatile personality, disregarded by his family and teachers as youthful exuberance when in fact it was the self-absorbed posturing of a burgeoning psychopath. The unusual pairing of authors could make an appeal to a broader possible readership. The most significant draw will be that the Zantop murders were such a sensational news story at the time.
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Murder -- Investigation -- New Hampshire -- Hanover. Criminal investigation -- New Hampshire -- Hanover. Criminal investigation -- Vermont -- Chelsea. Summary On a cold night in January , the idyllic community of Dartmouth College was shattered by the discovery that two professors had been hacked to death in their own home.
Booklist Review In January , two teenage boys with inflated egos and juvenile notions of living as self-declared "badasses" in Australia shattered the peaceful community of Dartmouth College in Vermont by murdering two professors. Publisher's Weekly Review In this meandering yet irresistibly absorbing book, Lehr co-author of the bestselling Black Mass, about a turncoat FBI agent and Zuckoff Choosing Naia, about a Down syndrome child recount the harrowing story of the murders of Half and Susanne Zantop, two beloved Dartmouth College professors who were savagely butchered in their home on January 27, Library Journal Review Town-gown tensions writ large; from two investigative reporters.
Burning logs hissed and popped in the red-brick fireplace as Patti read aloud to Andy Jr. A staccato burst of pounding on the front door interrupted him in mid-sentence.
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Startled, Patti rose to his feet, silently motioning to Andy to stay put. It was too late for visitors, and the knocks were too sharp, too insistent to come from the hand of a friend. Someone must be in trouble or looking for trouble. As Patti stood, he reached under the untucked hem of his work shirt for the nine-millimeter Glock pistol he always wore on his right hip. With a quick flip of his thumb, he unsnapped the safety latch and slid the matte black gun from its leather holster.
Patti walked slowly to the door, holding the Glock out of sight, tucked close against the right rear pocket of his faded jeans. With his empty left hand he pushed aside the blind covering the nine small windows on the upper half of the door. On his front porch stood a young man Patti had never seen before.
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He was about six feet tall, lanky, dressed in a white T-shirt, black cargo pants, and black military boots. The young man -- maybe in his late teens, Patti thought -- leaned in close, his hot breath leaving vapor clouds on the glass. His hands were half-clenched like bear claws, his eyes wide and intense.
The weak rays of a bug-yellow porch light cast a sickly glare on his pale skin.
Can you help me out? They stood for a moment face to face, inches apart, separated by only a pane of glass, each waiting to see what the other would do. Andrew Patti was forty-seven, a trim, good-looking man of medium height, with thick, dark hair flecked with gray. He was a lifelong New Yorker with the accent and toothpick-chewing habit to prove it.
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Though raised in a cookie-cutter suburb of tract houses and strip malls, as a teenager Patti had grown enchanted by the mountains and forests of Vermont. As his only child and namesake approached manhood, Patti wanted Andy to know the embrace of untamed woods, the snap of a fish latching onto a hook, the smell of fresh-cut trees, the ping of a tin can pierced by a well-aimed bullet.
Patti and his wife, Diane, also forty-seven and a native New Yorker, lived and worked on Long Island, running an agency that provided services for infants and toddlers with special needs.
It was successful enough to allow them to purchase their getaway home in the town of Vershire, on the eastern side of Vermont, halfway between Massachusetts and Canada. Vershire's name was an amalgam of Vermont and New Hampshire, owing to the abundance of hills offering views from the former to the latter, some fifteen miles away across the Connecticut River. One of the hills was called Judgment Ridge, named for a defunct ski area once located there.
Judgment Ridge was less than a mile from the Pattis' house, just off the main road that connected the neighboring town of Chelsea to Interstate Once on the interstate, it was a short drive south to Hanover, New Hampshire, home of Dartmouth College, and from there to the world beyond.
Vershire was best known to outsiders as home to The Mountain School, a private school that doubled as a working farm, allowing high school students to combine traditional studies with lessons on sustainable rural living. Vershire also was a magnet for second-home owners like the Pattis, many of them New Yorkers searching for solitude, serenity, and bargain property. Locals called them "flatlanders" during civil, if occasionally dismissive, conversations. Some natives called the outsiders much worse in private.
The Pattis first saw the cedar-shingled house next to a postcard-perfect pond in September , and then spent eight months struggling to get clear title and overcome a maddening series of obstacles to their purchase.