On January 19th of 2001, a man named Andrew Patti was relaxing in his vacation home in Vermont, just over the New Hampshire border, a little past 10 pm, with his son, Andy when he heard a knock on the door. Before him stood two teenage boys who asked if they could come inside and use the phone, since their car needed a jump. Sensing something was off, Andrew said no, but that he would call someone for them and shut the door. When he went upstairs, he grabbed the phone, and, smartly, his gun. It was then that he realized the boys had cut his phone lines. Not wanting to go back outside, he held his son and his gun until the wee morning hours when the boys finally left.

The boys were Robert Tulloch, 17, and Jim Parker, 16, from Chelsea, New Hampshire. The boys were misfits who decided to leave town and start careers as assasins in Australia. To do so, they needed $10,000. To get the money, they decided they needed to rob houses in which wealthy inhabitants lived. They also wanted to kill said inhabitants, simply for the thrill of it. Their plan failed with Andrew Patti, so they tried the house of well-liked and renowned German professors at Dartmouth, Half and Suzanne Zantop. And on the morning of Saturday, January 27t, 2001, they put their devastating and murderous plan into action.

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