Jerome Barrett Trial [CONVICTED] of 1975 death of 9-yr-old Girl Scout Marcia Trimble

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Jury Selected For Jerome Barrett Trial

Marcia Trimble's Mother Expected To Be First Witness To Take Stand
Reported By Dennis Ferrier

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POSTED: 12:16 pm CDT July 14, 2009
UPDATED: 6:49 pm CDT July 14, 2009

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- A Nashville court selected on Tuesday the 12-person jury who will hear the case against Jerome Barrett in the 1975 death of Marcia Trimble.

At the beginning of the day, there were 65 potential juror candidates after the pool was narrowed from 125 on Monday.

The jury consists of seven women and five men, setting the stage for the trial to begin Wednesday at 8:30 a.m.

Opening statements of the prosecution were expected to center around Barrett's DNA being found on Marcia's blouse.

The defense was expected to counter the argument by saying there are other DNA samples that are bad, and possibly setting up a position that all of the DNA must be discounted.

Another defense expected to be used by Barrett's team is the theory that teenage neighbor Jeffrey Womack is the real killer of the child. Womack was never charged, and this theory was discredited by police 20 years ago.

The first witness expected to take the stand was Marcia's mother, Virginia.

Barrett was arrested and charged with the child's death in early 2008. He was convicted earlier this year of murdering Vanderbilt University student Sarah Des Prez in 1975.

The jury was locally chosen residents from Davidson County, which was a request by Barrett. Attorneys are attempting to find people who have no opinion or have never heard about this high-profile case.

http://www.wsmv.com/news/20050852/detail.html

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Live trial at http://www.cnn.com/video/flashLive/live.html?stream=1

Jury just went to lunch.

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Previous Stories:
<LI itxtvisited="1">July 13, 2009: Jury Selection Begins For Trimble Case (http://www.wsmv.com/news/20039109/detail.html) <LI itxtvisited="1">July 12, 2009: Jail Confession Allowed In Trimble Case (http://www.wsmv.com/news/20016449/detail.html) <LI itxtvisited="1">July 9, 2009: Police Theory May Not Reach Barrett Jury (http://www.wsmv.com/news/20006838/detail.html) <LI itxtvisited="1">July 9, 2009: Judge Ridicules Barrett Trial Request (http://www.wsmv.com/news/19905282/detail.html) <LI itxtvisited="1">July 9, 2009: DNA From Trimble Case Won't Be Supressed (http://www.wsmv.com/news/19991577/detail.html) <LI itxtvisited="1">June 25, 2009: New Motions Filed In Jerome Barrett Case (http://www.wsmv.com/news/19849524/detail.html)
June 17, 2009: Barrett's DNA Allowed At Trial (http://www.wsmv.com/news/19779698/detail.html)

[Roamer]

Anna, is this the one on Court TV?

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Marcia_Trimble

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Anna, is this the one on Court TV?

I don't know, don't get court tv.

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Timeline Of Marcia Trimble Case

POSTED: 12:25 pm CST December 3, 2007
UPDATED: 3:49 pm CDT July 3, 2008

Dec. 30, 1972: Jerome Barrett accused of sexually assaulting woman in Memphis

Sept. 1973: Barrett was indicted for intent to commit rape (Unlawful carnal knowledge of a woman)

Feb. 4, 1974: Barrett is arrested on that charge, convicted and sentenced to three years

Aug. 14, 1974: Barrett was released on parole

Aug. 21: Vandy student is walking at 19th and Grand Avenue. Two men, raped her in the bushes near the Upper Room…took watch and ring

Dec. 2/22: Two rapes occur in one weekend. The Tudor Inn is robbed, and a woman is taken from there. Another is abducted at 20th and Terrace and taken to Granny White Pike and driven back to original area.

Dec. 16, 1974: Newspaper Printing Corp employee is raped in her car in Gulch area of downtown Nashville. Suspect told her he had knife and asked for money

Oct. 24, 1974: Woman, 67, raped in rental office on Church Street in Nashville, bound and gagged

Aug. 24, 1974: Two men broke in and assaulted a housewife. Threw a pillow over her head. No race or description given.

Feb. 2, 1975: Sarah Des Prez was killed at her apartment in Nashville. She was found by her father and brother. Her father was a well-known professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University.

Feb. 17, 1975: Audrey Judy Porter, a Belmont student is raped at her apartment.

Feb. 21, 1975: Pregnant girl in East Nashville is held at gunpoint and robbed getting into her car. She had another child in her car at Lischey Market. They stole tape player and tapes.

Feb. 25, 1975: Marcia Trimble, 9, was reported missing from her Green Hills home. Her body was later discovered. Evidence led police to believe that she had been sexually assaulted and strangled to death.

March 9, 1975: Couple held hostage/woman raped 121 Acklen Park

March 12, 1975: Barrett is charged with 2nd degree burglary, forced entry of Belmont rape on Feb. 17

Feb. 13, 1976: Barrett was convicted in Belmont case and sentenced to 60 years in prison

Aug. 28, 1979: Jeffrey Womack is arrested on murder charges and released on a $25,000 bond.

Aug. 28, 1990: DNA is submitted to FBI, semen is found on clothing, and samples were taken from six people... five of whom were teens at the time, and one of whom was an adult. (Jeffrey Womack, was one of the ones originally charged.)

1994 - According to information obtained by Channel 4, in 1994, evidence from the Trimble case was sent to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. There were at least two DNA samples from the scene, but there has never been any kind of match.

Aug. 11, 2002: Barrett was paroled

March, 2004: FBI took another look at the case. Blood, hair, clothing and other evidence was examined. More than 100 blood samples existed, but not all of those were sent to the FBI.

Nov. 20, 2007: Jerome Sydney Barrett, 60, was charged with murder in the slaying of Des Prez in 1975.

Nov. 27, 2007: A Nashville woman said she was able to escape an attack by Barrett on March 11, 1975. The woman, who asked to be identified only as Judy, said her attack was a distant memory until she saw Barrett's face on the news again. When police came to the apartments the night of the attack looking for a man fitting Judy's description, they found Barrett at the laundry room trying to break in. They said he was armed with a loaded gun, knife and a change of clothes. Shortly after, they were able to link him to the rape of a Belmont student.

Nov. 28, 2007: An anonymous woman said Barrett attacked her on her front porch on Feb. 23, 1975. The date the woman described was two days before Marcia Trimble disappeared.

June 6, 2008: Jerome Barrett officially indicted and charged in death of Marcia Trimble.

July 2, 2008: Jerome Barrett pleads not guilty to the murder of Marcia Trimble and is appointed a public defender.

http://www.wsmv.com/news/14760190/detail.html

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I was channel surfing this morning, and it was Opening Statements about a Girl Scout Trial, so I'll bet it's the same one. I may watch it tomorrow and see.

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I was channel surfing this morning, and it was Opening Statements about a Girl Scout Trial, so I'll bet it's the same one. I may watch it tomorrow and see.


I bet it is. It may be back on this afternoon for an hour or so.

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trial back on live

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talking about the decomposition of the body, the flies, etc.

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trial is on

[packy]

It is the Girl Scout trial, thanks for bringing it here, Anna. I didn't realize it was the same case at first.

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May he rot in hell
http://www.tennessean.com/article/20090719/NEWS03/907190385/Mother+s+questions+still+linger+after+guilty+verdi ct+in+Trimble+case

"Mother's questions still linger after guilty verdict in Trimble case"

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May he rot in hell
http://www.tennessean.com/article/20090719/NEWS03/907190385/Mother+s+questions+still+linger+after+guilty+verdi ct+in+Trimble+case

"Mother's questions still linger after guilty verdict in Trimble case"

Could you post the article? I can't view it. thanx

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I tried, Anna. I have to have a name and password to log in. :girl_sad:

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Mother's questions still linger after guilty verdict in Trimble case
She thanks city, those who eased her anguish

Virginia Trimble Ritter now knows the truth about who killed her daughter — or at least, some of it.


She hopes someday she may be able to go to the prison and visit Jerome Barrett, the man convicted Saturday of murdering 9-year-old Marcia Trimble.

She needs the remaining pieces of the puzzle: why he killed her, what time it was and if he was strangling the child when her mother leaned out her front door to call Marcia home for dinner on Feb. 25, 1975.

But she now knows — after a jury convicted him — that he is the person Nashville spent 33 years trying to find.

"Today, the justice system says he's guilty," Ritter said. "Today, we can be satisfied it was him. When I saw his DNA, that pretty well nailed it for me."
Ritter spoke and answered questions after the verdict for more than a half hour, three decades of thoughts piled up that could finally be released. She thanked all the people who helped her, including family, friends, acquaintances and strangers who brought comfort and prayers to her family.

She apologized if she had forgotten to thank the people who dropped off fruit, snacks and suppers for the volunteers searching for Marcia during a 33-day span in 1975. She's not sure if she ever sent thank-you cards.
"Please know that I'm grateful for every strawberry that you gave me, everything. I'm grateful for the prayers from every church in this city,'' she said.

From day one, she has known she was not alone in her grief.
"The Nashville that experienced Marcia's death all these years have shared my pain. They really have,'' she said. "That has made my pain much softer.''
She reminded this city that she is not the only mother who's lost a child, specifically mentioning the families of victims with unsolved cases, a group she was in until today.

"There are lots of families who never ever see their child," she said.
She pointed to the continuing mystery of Tabitha Tuders, who went missing six years ago on her way to school. She was 13 years old. Her mother, Debra Tuders, still does not know what happened to her daughter or whether she is alive or dead.

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Ritter acknowledged she's always been glad to at least know Marcia's body was found, calling it a mixed blessing.


Since the day her daughter left her house to sell Girl Scout cookies and never returned, Ritter said, God has given her an incredible amount of peace. "I have a touch of it today, or else I'd be standing with tears,'' she said.
But the tears came when Ritter brought out a surprise gift for Capt. Mickey Miller.

Miller was the man who researched advances in DNA in 1990 and reopened the case, confident that modern technology could give the family some answers. He sent the blouse and jeans Marcia was found in to many labs trying to get a DNA profile.

It was that evidence that turned up a match when Barrett's DNA was entered into the national database, suddenly giving the police a likely suspect.

Gift brings tears Ritter lifted a picture she believes Marcia drew two weeks before she died, depicting the crucifixion of Jesus. The child had painted three crosses atop a hill. Marcia had just become a Christian, and asked Jesus to save her, before she died.

The painting was on construction paper, but Virginia and her late husband Charles had it framed. There was fingerprint dust at the bottom, where police had inspected the photo to lift a print after Marcia disappeared.
"This is my heart I am giving to Mickey Miller," Ritter said.
Miller, a devout Catholic, took off his glasses to wipe away the tears. He was asked what the gift meant to him.
"I don't have any words for that," Miller said.

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Thank you Steve. I was surprised to hear there was already a verdict. I thought the trial had just started. I only got to see one day of it online.

[SteveG]

your welcome Anna, I was watching Judge Sotomayor's questioning and it was an optional view and I had remembered seeing it on here, man your right, they were just then going over the DNA, goodness there couldn't of been much time taken for the defense, such unconscionable ugliness, I hope Tenn. has a special place for him.