Judgment Ridge: The True Story Behind the Dartmouth Murders (58 page)

Bubriski, Mark, “Chelsea Close to Blows as Case Drags On,”
The Dartmouth,

March 24, 2001, p. 1.

Staff reports, “Home Searched for Hate Literature,”
Rutland Herald,
February 23, 2001, p. 1.

Delcore, David, “Chelsea High Cancels Play, Debate Match,”
Times Argus,

February 23, 2001.

Ring, Wilson, “Vt. Discusses Professor Slayings,” Associated Press, February 23, 2001.

Staff report, “Selectmen Reports,”
Behind the Times
(Bradford, Vt.), July 2001, p. 19.

Authors’ notes on Chelsea, Vermont, and Dartmouth College commencement exercises, June 8 and 10, 2001, respectively.

Behind the Times,
July 2001, p. 19 (for selectmen’s meeting on police presence).

Ayotte, Lori, “Zantop Case Proves Costly as AG Seeks $100K More,” Associated Press story published in the
Manchester Union Leader,
June 7, 2001.

Hookway, Bob, “New Zantop Search Startles Residents,”
Valley News,
June 29, 2001.

Weber, Harry, “Police Search Anew Outside Zantop Home,” Associated Press story published in the
Manchester Union Leader,
June 29, 2001.

Coleman, Toby, “Zantops’ Etna Home on the Market,”
Valley News,
July 23, 2001.

Interview with Deputy Chad Morris, September 18, 2002. Also, narrative reports filed by Morris and Sergeant Robert Bruno on June 26, 2001.

Transcript of June 29, 2001, interview of confidential informant “Ranger” by Sergeant Mark Mudgett and Trooper Todd Landry.

Statement of Glenn Libby to Trooper Todd Landry dated July 18, 2001, regarding informant’s claims about escape plans and the Zantop murders.

Copy of Robert Tulloch’s letter detailing his plans to plead guilty and write a book about the case.

Multiple interviews with Glenn Libby, Joseph Panarello, Jan Hale, and several guards who requested anonymity at Belknap County and Grafton County jails.

Interviews with DeRoss Kellogg, David Savidge, Coltere Savidge, and Kevin Ellis.

Investigation report of undercover officer placed in Robert Tulloch’s cell, dated February 22, 2001.

Non-redacted excerpts of letters Robert Tulloch wrote to Christiana Usenza, released by prosecutors.

Bombardieri, Marcella, “Age Matters, Dartmouth Suspects Find,”
Boston Globe,
March 18, 2001, p. B1.

Multiple interviews with Phil McLaughlin, Kelly Ayotte, Michael Delaney. Christiana Usenza subpoena service interview with Detective Lieutenant

Frank Moran, January 9, 2002.

“Life of Robert,” autobiographical school paper written by Robert Tulloch, “Jim: Male Subject 769 10010,” autobiographical school paper written by James Parker, along with other assorted school and journal writings of both.

Transcript of James Parker interrogation, pp. 14733–14739, 14743–14737, 14750, 14752–14758, 14760–14769, 14770–14781, 14784–14785,

14841–14842, 14845–14851, 14854, 14858–14863, 14866–14867,

14871–14872, 14887–14889.

Barre, Vermont, police department, trespassing and theft incident report 00BT00315, including interview with Robert Tulloch and his parents.

Hanover, New Hampshire, and Vermont State Police report of police interview on February 6, 2002, with Franklin D. Sanders of North Hollow Road, Rochester, Vermont.

Transcripts of police interviews on March 16, 2001, with Michael Tulloch, Diane Tulloch, Kienan Tulloch, John Parker, Joan Parker.

Report on theft of ATV from Barre Town Police, May 18, 2000.

Police interviews with Spaulding High School staff and students Dennis Hill, Arthur Zorn, Martha Morris, Sara Aja, Michael Wheeler, Jennifer Lucey, Daniel Bruce.

Interviews with John O’Brien and Donna Strange.

Police interview with Richard Steckler, February 21, 2001. Interviews with forensic psychiatrist Alison Fife, M.D.

Hare, Robert D., Ph.D.,
Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us
(New York: The Guilford Press, 1993).

Hare, Robert D., Ph.D.,
The Hare Psychopathy Checklist, Revised Manual

(Toronto: Multi-Health Systems, 1993).

Hare, Robert D., Ph.D., “Psychopathy: A Clinical Construct Whose Time Has Come,”
Criminal Justice and Behavior,
23 (1), pp. 25–54.

Hare, Robert D., Ph.D., “Psychopathy and Antisocial Personality Disorder: A Case of Diagnostic Confusion,”
Psychiatric Times,
February 1996, Vol. XIII, Issue 2.

Pitchford, Ian, Ph.D., “The Origins of Violence: Is Psychopathy an Adaptation?”
Human Nature Review,
2001, Vol. 1, pp. 28–36.

Forth, A.E., S.D Hart, and R.D. Hare, “Assessment of Psychopathy in Male Young Offenders,”
Psychological Assessment,
1990, 2, 342–344.

Forth, A.E., and H.C. Burke, “Psychopathy in Adolescence: Assessment, Violence, and Developmental Precursors,” in
Psychopathy: Theory, Research and Implications for Society
(Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998), pp. 205–229.

Salekin, Randall, Randall Rogers, and Dayli Machin, “Psychopathy in Youth: Pursuing Diagnostic Clarity,”
Journal of Youth and Adolescence,
April 1, 2001, pp. 173–195.

American Psychiatric Association,
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
(Washington, D.C.: APA, 4th Edition, 1994).

Audiotapes of New Hampshire State Police and prosecutor interviews with James Parker, at the Belknap County Sheriff’s Department.

Police reports and diagrams of Zantop home, January 27, 2001.

Transcript of New Hampshire State Police interview with “Ranger,” June 29, 2001.

Interviews in September 2002 with Kelly Ayotte and Michael Delaney. Kurkjian, Stephen, “Plea Deal Seen Set in N.H. Killings,”
Boston Globe,

December 3, 2001, p. 13.

Bombardieri, Marcella, “Plea Deal Irks Zantop Friends,”
Boston Globe,

December 6, 2001, p. B16.

Richardson, Franci, “He’s ‘Demonic’; Dartmouth Profs’ Friend Rips Plea Deal for Teen Killer,”
Boston Herald,
December 5, 2001, p. A1.

Zuckoff, Mitchell, and Marcella Bombardieri, “Youth Admits Role in Slayings,”
Boston Globe,
December 8, 2001, p. B1.

Editorials on the Zantop case in the
Union Leader,
December 9 and December 17, 2001.

Videotaped court proceedings and authors’ notes of proceedings at the sentencing hearing for James Parker and the plea hearing for Robert Tulloch on April 4, 2002.

Interviews with Glenn Libby, superintendent, Grafton County Jail; Joseph Panarello, superintendent, Belknap County Jail; Jan Hale, corrections officer, Belknap County Jail.

Interviews with Kelly Ayotte, New Hampshire senior assistant attorney general; Michael Delaney, New Hampshire assistant attorney general; Philip McLaughlin, New Hampshire attorney general; Richard Guerriero, New Hampshire public defender; DeRoss Kellogg; attorney Daniel Sedon; Robert Muh, clerk of Haverhill Superior Court; Pat Davenport.

Audiotapes and transcripts of the confessions of Jim Parker to New Hampshire prosecutors and investigators, December 18, 2001,
et al.

Scherr, Sonia, “A Chaotic Scene, Unusual for Haverhill Court,”
Valley News,

April 5, 2002.

Hookway, Bob, “Tulloch: Life Without Parole,”
Valley News,
April 5, 2002. Kurkjian, Stephen, and Doug Belkin, “Zantop Case Defendant to Cite

Insanity,”
Boston Globe,
December 1, 2001, p. 1.

Bombardieri, Marcella, and Doug Belkin, “A Silent Tulloch Gets Life in Prison, Parker 25 Years,”
Boston Globe,
April 5, 2002, p. 1.

Richardson, Franci, “Teens Defense Eyes Family Mental Woes,”
Boston Herald,
March 7, 2002.

Sullivan, Jack, and Franci Richardson, “Pair Show Different Faces in Court,”

Boston Herald,
April 5, 2002, p. 1.

Osterman, Rachel, “Tulloch Pleads Guilty to Zantop Murders,”
The Dartmouth,
April 5, 2002, p. 1.

Mehren, Elizabeth, “Teen Killers Sentenced,”
Los Angeles Times,
April 5, 2002, p. A26.

McGrane, Victoria, “Attorney General Talks About Zantop Case,”
The Dartmouth,
May 1, 2002.

Coen, Jeff, “Defendant in Murder Trial Insane, Doctor Says,”
Chicago Tribune,
May 4, 2002, Southwest Final, p. 16.

New Hampshire Criminal Statutes, Chapter 628: Responsibility.

Reid, John Phillip,
Chief Justice: The Judicial World of Charles Doe (
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1967).

McNamara, Richard B.,
New Hampshire Criminal Practice and Procedure,
chapter 34, sections 1091, 1092, 1093; chapter 29, sections 834, 835, Lexis Law Publishing, 3rd Edition, 1997.

Caplan, Lincoln, “Annals of Law: The Insanity Defense,”
The New Yorker,

July 2, 1984, p. 45.

Gladwell, Malcolm, “Crime and Science: Damaged,”
The New Yorker,

February 24, 1997.

Interviews with Andrew and Diane Patti, Dr. Bruce H. Price, Kelly Ayotte, Chuck West, Frank Moran, Andy Pomerantz, David Savidge.

November 13, 2002, tour and interviews at the New Hampshire State Prison in Concord.

Powers, Ron, “The Apocalypse of Adolescence,”
The Atlantic Monthly,
March 2002, Vol. 289, No. 3, pp. 58–74.

Ziedenberg, Jason,
The Atlantic Monthly,
June 2002, letters to the editor, Vol.

289, No. 6, p. 6.

Marchocki, Kathryn, “Tulloch Gets Two Black Eyes in Prison Scrap,”
Union Leader,
July 6, 2002.

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Books

A History of Chelsea, Vermont: 1784–1984,
authorized by the town in March 1980 and compiled by a committee from the Chelsea Historical Society, Inc.

American Psychiatric Association,
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
(APA, Washington, D.C.: 4th Edition, 1994).

Blackwell, Jeannine, and Susanne Zantop, eds.
Bitter Healing: German Women Writers, from 1700 to 1830, An Anthology
(University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska: 1990).

Bohjalian, Chris,
Midwives
(Harmony Books: 1997).

Bradbury, Ray,
Something Wicked This Way Comes
(Simon and Schuster, 1962).

Brown, Rosellen,
Before and After
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 1992).

Capote, Truman,
In Cold Blood
(Random House: 1965). Carrere, Emmanuel,
The Adversary
(Metropolitan Books: 2000). Duane, Daniel,
El Capitan
(Chronicle Books: 2002).

Fine, Gary Alan,
Gifted Tongues: High School Debate and Adolescent Culture

(Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey: 2001).

Francis, Eric,
The Dartmouth Murders (
St. Martin’s Paperbacks: 2001). Gourevitch, Philip,
A Cold Case (
Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 2001).

Grossman, Dave, Lieutenant Colonel,
On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
(Little Brown and Co.: 1995).

Hare, Robert D., Ph.D.,
Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us
(The Guilford Press: 1993).

Jamison, Kay Redfield,
An Unquiet Mind
(Knopf: 1995). Lefkowitz, Bernard,
Our Guys
(Random House: 1997).

Lewis, Dorothy Otnow,
Guilty by Reason of Insanity
(Ballantine Books: 1998).

McNamara, Richard B.,
New Hampshire Criminal Practice and Procedure

(Lexis Publishing: 3rd Edition, 1997).

Mondimore, Francis Mark, M.D.,
Bipolar Disorder: A Guide for Patients and Families
(Johns Hopkins University Press: 1997).

Papolos, Demitri F., M.D., and Janice Papolos,
The Bipolar Child
(Broadway Books: 1999).

Pollack, William S., Ph.D., with Todd Shuster,
Real Boys’ Voices
(Random House: 2000).

Quint, Wilder D.,
The Story of Dartmouth
(Little Brown and Co.: 1914). Reid, John Phillip,
Chief Justice: The Judicial World of Charles Doe
(Harvard

University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts: 1967).

Thompson, Michael, Ph.D., and Catherine O’Neill Grace, with Lawrence J. Cohen, Ph.D.,
Best Friends, Worst Enemies
(Ballantine Books: 2001).

Thompson, Michael, Ph.D., with Teresa Barker,
Speaking of Boys
(Ballantine Books: 2000).

Trilling, Calvin,
Killings
(Ticknor & Fields: 1984).

Zantop, Susanne,
Colonial Fantasies: Conquest, Family, and Nation in Precolonial Germany, 1770–1870
(Duke University Press, Durham and London: 1997).

Articles

Barrett, Greg, “Scientists Search for the Seat of Evil,”
USA Today
, May 5, 2001.

Bertscher, Robert A., “Our Town,”
New England Monthly,
April 1985. Brower, M.C., and Bruce H. Price, “Neuropsychiatry of Frontal Lobe

Dysfunction in Violent and Criminal Behavior: A Critical Review,”
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry,
December 2001, Vol. 71, No. 6.

Caplan, Lincoln, “Annals of Law: The Insanity Defense,”
The New Yorker,

July 2, 1984.

Edwards, Tamala M., “Lights, Camera . . . Fred!”
Time
, September 28, 1998.

Filley, Christopher M., M.D., Bruce H. Price, M.D., et al., “Toward an Understanding of Violence: Neurobiological Aspects of Unwarranted Physical Aggression: Aspen Neurobehavioral Conference Consensus Statement,”
Neuropsychiatry, Neurophsychology, and Behavioral Neurology,
Vol. 14, No. 1.