Ivy League ' class clown' killer to be freed after nearly 25 years behind bars

A high school student who murdered two Dartmouth professors in their own home in a bizarre plot to rob them and move to Australia has been granted parole after spending his adult life behind bars.

James Parker, now nearly 40, was 16 when he and Robert Tulloch convinced Half and Susanne Zantop they were conducting a survey on climate issues in 2001. 

After the Zantops invited the two teenagers into their New Hampshire home, Tulloch stabbed Half and allegedly instructed Parker to stab Susanne.