Two different footwear impressions found on papers on the floor of the Zantops' home do not match footwear worn by the police or the footwear recovered from 17-year-old Robert Tulloch, according to additional court documents that were released yesterday.
The documents said that the state lab has not yet compared the impression found on the floor with the footwear seized from James Parker, the other teen accused of stabbing Half and Susanne Zantop.
Evidence released earlier this week did confirm that the police have at least matched one set of other bloody footprints found in and outside the victims' home with Tulloch's left boot.
Earlier documents also stated that DNA from blood on two knives found in Tulloch's bedroom matched the DNA of Susanne Zantop. Fingerprints on one of the two knife sheaths found at the scene also matched Parker's prints.
Meanwhile, a lawyer for one of the two teenagers said the public should hold off from making judgements until the incriminating evidence released Monday is reviewed independently.
"It's incomprehensible and inconceivable that Jimmy Parker could have had anything to do with this crime," Doug Brown, a San Diego lawyer and friend of the family for 30 years told The Associated Press. "The nature of these documents does not undermine their confidence in the innocence of their son."
The authorities still appear to be searching for a motive explaining the killings or a possible connection between the German professors and the Chelsea suspects.
"There's no evidence that I am aware of that they knew each other," Brown said.
Meanwhile, despite court documents to the contrary, investigators did not find any neo-Nazi, Ku Klux Klan, or other white supremacist literature in Zantop murder suspect Robert Tulloch's bedroom, according to Assistant Attorney General William Delker.
The New Hampshire Attorney General's office, however, has not issued any formal statement concerning the misleading documents, but Delker yesterday told The Dartmouth that "it would be unfairly harmful to these defendants" for this information to be construed as true.
Delker did confirm that "Der Fuhrer" and other literature relating to the Holocaust and Germany were found in Tulloch's bedroom. He characterized the literature as "history books" and not racist or white supremacist in nature.
Other documents released show that the afternoon before the Zantops were killed, a Canaan, N.H. man saw a green station wagon -- which police say matches a Subaru owned by Parker's family -- speeding out of the Zantops' driveway at 115 Trescott Road in Etna.
"It made a pretty strong impression on me. It was leaving fast. That's very out of the ordinary for the neighborhood" Paul Newcity told The Valley News, about the car he saw around 2:30 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 26. "People there don't leave their yard at that rate of speed."
Newcity told the Hanover Police that the driver of the green station wagon appeared to be a thin, dark-haired, white male in his early 20s, with no facial hair.
Newcity and another man who was riding with him that day told the Valley News that they had to swerve to avoid the station wagon. Newcity said he only saw one person in the car, but that things happened so quickly he could not be sure whether there may have been a passenger or whether it was actually a Volvo.
Parker's parents own a green 1996 Subaru station wagon, which investigators said was "consistent" with Newcity's description.
Also, two knives not believed to be the ones used to kill the Zantops, were found in the silver Audi in which the two boys fled the Upper Valley. One knife described as "tactical" and another "hunting" knife were found in a toolbox in the trunk of the car.
