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Marcia Virginia Trimble was a nine-year-old girl who disappeared on February 25, 1975, while delivering Girl Scout Cookies in the affluent Green Hills area of Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Her body was discovered thirty-three days later on Easter Sunday, near the Trimble family home. She had been sexually assaulted. During the early years of their inquiry into the assault and murder, the police persisted in investigating one particular suspect, finally charging him in 1979, but he was released in 1980 for lack of evidence. In 2008, thirty-three years after the killing, Jerome Sydney Barrett – not the person police had pursued in the 1970s – was charged with Trimble's assault and murder after DNA evidence recovered from her remains linked him to the crime. Barrett had been arrested just days after Trimble's disappearance on suspicion of an unrelated sexual assault, and was still in jail when Trimble's body was found. Despite this and his convictions for attacks on other women and children, police had not investigated him in relation to the murder. On July 18, 2009, a jury convicted him for the killing, and he was sentenced to forty-four years in prison. Trimble's murder occurred soon after two other crimes linked to Barrett: * On February 2, 1975, Sarah Des Prez, a Vanderbilt University student, was murdered near the university, which is located close to Green Hills. Barrett was linked to this crime at the same time that his DNA was linked to Trimble's murder. * On February 17, 1975, a Belmont University student was raped in Nashville. Barrett was arrested in March 1975, in connection with this crime. He was convicted a year later. (en) |
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Marcia Virginia Trimble was a nine-year-old girl who disappeared on February 25, 1975, while delivering Girl Scout Cookies in the affluent Green Hills area of Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Her body was discovered thirty-three days later on Easter Sunday, near the Trimble family home. She had been sexually assaulted. During the early years of their inquiry into the assault and murder, the police persisted in investigating one particular suspect, finally charging him in 1979, but he was released in 1980 for lack of evidence. (en) |
