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Marcia Trimble's case, coined the TN version of JonBenet Ramsey, may be getting some long overdue justice; some 30 years later, a DNA hit--

Girl Scout cold case gets underway
CNN: In Session
by Michael Christian

"In Session’s new live trial, starting this morning in Nashville, Tennessee is a case that has haunted the city. For over three decades, the murder of a 9-year-old Girl Scout went unsolved. Then, in 2008, the community was stunned to hear that someone had finally been charged with the killing. But after all those years, do police really have the right man?

...The Tennessean newspaper has referred to the death of Marcia Trimble as Tennessee’s version of the JonBenet Ramsey case. “It’s the biggest murder mystery in Nashville history,” said Capt. Mickey Miller, of the Metro Nashville P.D.’s homicide division. “With that crime, we lost our innocence.”

...Jerome Sidney Barrett, then 61, had recently been arrested for another cold case, the murder of 19-year-old Vanderbilt University student Sarah Des Prez – a crime which took place on February 2, 1975, only 23 days before Trimble disappeared. A DNA sample taken during the investigation of the Des Prez homicide subsequently linked Barrett to the Trimble murder...,"

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Update:


Suspicion Lifted For One-Time Suspect In Trimble Murder Case
July 20, 2009

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A jury found Jerome Barrett guilty of second degree murder for the death of 9-year-old Marcia Trimble. According to an attorney one man who lived for years under a cloud of suspicion deserves an apology...

Attorney John Hollins, Sr. read from a 1980 newspaper direct quotes from detectives on the Marcia Trimble murder case

"It's evident to me the case is solved," read Hollins. "There's no doubt in my mind the suspect is guilty."

Hollins was not reading about Jerome Barrett, but once suspect Jeffrey Womack. Hollins represented Womack for years.

"He deserves a complete apology


"He deserves a complete apology because he was not treated fairly," said Hollins..."