85: The Dartmouth Murders and an Evil Phlebotomist

Published: Sept. 4, 2019, 6:01 a.m.

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Dartmouth College professors Half Zantop and Susanne Zantop were hanging out at home, waiting for their friend to arrive for dinner, when two boys showed up at their door. The boys said they were working on a school project. Could they ask Half a few questions? Half obliged. He\\u2019d devoted his life to academics. Of course he would help 16 year old James Parker and 17 year old Robert Tulloch. But James and Rob weren\\u2019t there for a school project. In fact, there was no school project.
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\\nThen, Kristin talks about a phlebotomist named Bryan Stewart. When Bryan and Jennifer Jackson first got together, things were great. But Bryan quickly became abusive. When Jennifer left Bryan, his threats escalated. The thought of paying child support for their infant son enraged him. He promised Jennifer that their son, Brryan Jackson, wouldn\\u2019t live to the age of five. Around that same time, Bryan \\u201cjoked\\u201d with coworkers that as a phlebotomist, he could inject his enemies with disease-tainted blood, and they\\u2019d never know what hit them.\\xa0
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\\nAnd now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.
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\\nIn this episode, Kristin pulled from:
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\\u201cBrryan Jackson: My father injected me with HIV\\u201d by Lucy Hancock, for BBC News
\\n\\u201cA positive life: How a son survived being injected with HIV by his father,\\u201d by Justin Heckert for GQ Magazine
\\n\\u201cMan accused of injecting H.I.V. in son,\\u201d by Jo Thomas for the New York Times
\\n\\u201cMother testifies that defendant hinted at son\\u2019s death,\\u201d CNN
\\n\\u201cBrian Stewart (phlebotomist)\\u201d Wikipedia entry
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\\nIn this episode, Brandi pulled from:
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\\u201cThe Dartmouth Murders\\u201d by Denise Noe, The Crime Library
\\n\\u201cHearts of Darkness\\u201d by Alex Tresniowski, People Magazine
\\n\\u201cDartmouth professors\\u2019 murderer to get new sentence\\u201d by Peter Schworm and John R. Ellement, The Boston Globe
\\n\\u201cMan convicted in 2001 murders of professors asks for early release\\u201d by Elliot Zornitsky, The Dartmouth
\\n\\u201c2001 Dartmouth College murders\\u201d wikipedia.org\\n
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