Above: Google Street View of Copeland Drive, where the Trimble tragedy occurred. Street addresses are approximate. Click the white arrows to navigate.
*****“Alleged Marcia Trimble Killer Was a Leader in Prison” — Nashville’s NBC affiliate, WSMV
If you’ve read The True Crime Weblog at all, you know about my obsession, and to some degree connection with one of the most storied unsolved murders in the history of my hometown, Nashville, Tennessee.
If you haven’t read my main site, the case in question was the 1975 disappearance and murder of Girl Scout Marcia Trimble. An arrest was recently made in the case, the first solid suspect in almost 30 years — a convicted sex offender named Jerome Barrett. Barrett had already served decades in prison on a rape charge. He got out a few years ago and was living quietly in Memphis when Nashville authorities matched his DNA to the 1975 murder of a Vanderbilt student named Sarah DesPrez. DesPrez’s murder happened right around the same time as Marcia’s, and not all that far from Marcia’s neighborhood.
Since Barrett’s arrest I’ve become buddies to some degree with one of my hometown’s legendary news anchors, Demetria Kalodimos. Demetria has been, along with her (literally) towering on-air co-anchor Dan Miller, one of the most recognizable faces in Nashville television.
Funny thing — I’ve had my websites pimped by no less than Rolling Stone, been one of the subjects of a half-hour Court TV special about cybersleuths, been interviewed on Fox News, MSNBC and NBC, become friends with some of the greatest true crime writers working today — and I still went all fanboy on Demetria when we began exchanging e-mails.
You can take the boy out of Nashville, etc…
Anyway, the link in the title goes to a report Demetria filed on April 30 about Jerome Barrett’s jail time — he was an upstanding citizen behind bars.
That said, he did everything he could to avoid ever getting a child molester rap. Was he protesting too much?