Friday February 23 3:19 PM ET
Second Dartmouth Murder Suspect Waives Extradition
NEW CASTLE, Ind. (Reuters) - The second of two teenagers charged in the stabbing deaths of two Dartmouth College professors agreed on Friday to be sent back to New Hampshire to face prosecution.
James Parker, 16, agreed to waive extradition at a brief hearing in Superior Court and will be returned to New Hampshire shortly, said Kit Crane, the Henry County prosecutor.
Parker was captured at an Indiana truck stop this week with honor student Robert Tulloch, 17, who waived extradition and was returned to New Hampshire for a hearing on Wednesday.
A judge ordered Tulloch held without bail in the Jan. 27 stabbing deaths of Half and Susanne Zantop, professors at the Ivy League college.
The teenagers have been charged as adults with first-degree murder and face up to life in prison without parole if convicted.
The two apparently fled their Chelsea, Vermont, homes after being questioned about the deaths of the popular German-born couple 25 miles away in Hanover, New Hampshire.
Authorities have not commented on evidence or a motive linking the teenagers to the gruesome murders of Half Zantop, 62, who taught earth sciences, and his wife, Susanne, 55, chairwoman of
the German studies department.
The Zantops were found dead in pools of blood with multiple stab wounds to the head and chest.
ABC's ``Primetime Live,'' citing unidentified sources, reported that a search of Tulloch's bedroom uncovered literature espousing neo-Nazism and Holocaust revisionism, which usually features denials that the Nazis slaughtered millions of Jews and others during the Second World War.
Friends of the Zantops said the couple believed strongly in German acknowledgment of its Nazi past. The report noted the slayings occurred on Holocaust Remembrance Day in Germany.
The Boston Globe reported investigators did remove dozens of bags of items from Tulloch's house, but an anonymous source did not confirm the contents. The newspaper quoted friends of the boys saying neither appeared to be biased.
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