Last Saturday, police found Dartmouth Professor Susanne Zantop, who chaired the German Department, and her husband, Earth Sciences Professor Half Zantop, lying dead in their Etna, N.H. home, just four miles from campus. Police were called to the scene by the Zantops' neighbor, Audrey McCollum, when French and Italian Languages Professor Roxana Verona, a dinner guest of the Zantops', showed up at their home. Verona knocked at the door and eventually entered since it was unlocked. Inside the house she found the body of Susanne Zantop, surrounded by blood, according to The Dartmouth. McCollum's husband, retired dean of the Dartmouth Medical School, determined that the couple had been dead for hours when their bodies were discovered.
"Based on his observations, Dr. McCollum is absolutely certain it was not an incident of domestic violence or a murder-suicide," McCollum told The Dartmouth.
Police have since announced that the deaths are being investigated as a homicide but have not announced any suspects.
Plane crashes in Colorado killing two Oklahoma State University basketball players and support staff
A plane carrying two Oklahoma State basketball players and six staffers and broadcasters associated with the team crashed last Saturday night, killing all 10 of its passengers. The plane crashed 40 miles east of Denver, after taking off from the Jefferson County airport in Bloomfield, Colo.
The team was returning from a game in Boulder, Colo. and chartered three planes for the flight back to Oklahoma. Of the three planes, the one which crashed was "less prone to get above the weather," according to information given to the Associated Press by Gary Johnson, airport manager for Stillwater, Okla. The other two planes were corporate jets, while the plane that went down was a 25-year-old twin-engine Beech King Air 200.
According to a CNN report, the plane lost contact with air traffic controllers before the crash. Weather may have also played a factor in the incident, according to officials who speculated that ice could have formed on the wings of the plane.
The players who died were freshman guard Nate Fleming and junior guard Dan Lawson.