Article: New Hampshire's top prosecutor still puzzled by teen killers of college professors

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Dateline: HAVERHILL, New Hampshire State Attorney General Philip McLaughlin says he's still struggling to make sense of last year's vicious stabbing deaths of two German- born college professors by a pair of Vermont teen-agers.

The motivation for the violence seems inexplicable, McLaughlin said Friday, recalling how James Parker, 17, gave prosecutors a stark and unemotional account of the Jan. 27, 2001, murders.

"How on earth could it be that the person who is describing this so unemotionally could have the emotional energy to go and do this?" McLaughlin asked. "I don't know."

On Thursday, Robert Tulloch, 18, was sentenced to life and Parker, who ...

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