Rumors connecting instructor's business card unfounded
University of Arizona officials said there is no truth behind rumors that a UA professor has been implicated in the double homicide of two professors at Dartmouth College, an Ivy League school in Hanover, N.H.
Members of national and local media inundated the UA yesterday with phone calls regarding a rumor that places a business card of a UA geosciences faculty member in a rented automobile connected with the Dartmouth homicides.
"No one on the investigative team has looked at anybody at Arizona," said UA spokeswoman Sharon Kha, an associate vice president of communications. "There was never a connection. It was a rumor that was unfounded."
On Jan. 27, two longtime Dartmouth professors, Susanne and Half Zantop, were found dead, stabbed in their home four miles from campus. The Zantops were a popular couple at the college and known in the community for their charity. They have two grown daughters.
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