On a cold night in January 2001, the idyllic community of Dartmouth College was shattered by the discovery that two professors had been hacked to death in their own home. Investigators searched helplessly for clues linking the victims, Half and Susanne Zantop, to their killers.Nearby, residents of Chelsea, Vermont, were shocked to see police car lights flashing outside the house of high school senior Robert Tulloch. The town soon discovered the incomprehensible reality that Tulloch and best friend Jim Parker — two of Chelsea’s brightest and most popular sons — were now fugitives, wanted for the murders of Half and Susanne Zantop.Authors Dick Lehr and Mitchell Zuckoff offer a vivid explanation of the murders that captivated the nation as well as provide a clear portrait of the killers, their families, and their community — and, perhaps, a warning to all parents about what evil may lurk in the hearts of boys.

Dick Lehr is a professor of journalism at Boston University. He is the author of six previous works of nonfiction and a novel for young adults. Lehr coauthored the New York Times bestseller and Edgar Award Winning Black Mass: Whitey Bulger, the FBI and a Devil’s Deal, which became the basis of a Warner Bros. film of the same name. His most recent nonfiction book, The Birth of a Movement: How Birth of a Nation Ignited The Battle for Civil Rights, became the basis for a PBS/Independent Lens documentary. Two other books were Edgar Award finalists: The Fence: A Police Cover-up Along Boston’s Racial Divide, and Judgment Ridge: The True Story Behind The Dartmouth Murders. Lehr previously wrote for the Boston Globe, where he was a member of the Spotlight Team, a special projects reporter and a magazine writer. While at the Globe he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in investigative reporting and won numerous national and local journalism awards. Lehr lives near Boston.