[Monterrosa-24]

One of Nashville's most infamous murder cases was the February, 1975 disappearance of nine year old girl scout Marcia Trimble. Her body was discovered on the following Easter Sunday. The case went unsolved for over three decades while police stayed focused on local neighborhood boys as suspects.

DNA finally linked Jerome Barrett to the murder of Trimble and the murder of Vanderbilt student Sarah Des Prez. Barrett is a Black Muslim career criminal. He gained early parole in 1974 for sex crimes he committed in Memphis and was released into Nashville by the parole board. In mid-February, before Marcia Trimble's disappearance he was arrested for an attempted break-in at a Vanderbilt girl's dormitory. He was soon back on the streets instead of back serving the rest of his original sentence.

[babble-on]

Bumbling cops immediately decided it was a neighborhood kid, because he had a bad word written on his Converse All-Stars.

The cops spent three decades literally hounding this poor fellow before DNA testing showed who the real murderer was.

[RedMonqey]

I remember this case very well. Was in my early teens when this happened.

It shook me a bit that a child near my age could be selling cookies door to door then... disappeared and later found murdered. and it was in a town nearby. Not like New York or Los Angeles where one expected unusual things happened.

Any thoughts that the world was like “Leave it to Beaver’ evaporated

[PGalt]

Thanks for posting. BUMP.

(many criminals never stop unless incarcerated or eliminated)

Belated condolences to families and friends of Marcia Trimble, Sarah Dez and any other victims of Jerome Barrett.

[PGalt]

Thanks. Part 1 the buildup to that event was very informative in setting the scene of Nashville.