Tennessee County Named For A Jurist Who Cofounded Memphis

Marcia Trimble lived with her parents in an affluent Green Hills neighborhood approximately 10 miles south of Nashville. On Easter Sunday, thirty-three days after her disappearance, a neighbor discovered her body in a shed only 150 yards behind her home. The body was covered with a plastic shower curtain and Girl Scout cookies where scattered around her body. There were lacerations on her head and abrasions around her neck. The left side of her face was bloody. Semen was present in the vagina and there was some question as to whether she had been raped because her hymen was still intact.

The police swore that the body was not there during the initial search. However the coroner stated, "Every indication forensically is that she was in the garage for 33 days." Her murder left Nashville traumatized from too many unanswered questions.

Effects of the Murder

Nashville had moved on past the tragedies of the 1960s and early 70s--the Viet Nam war, Civil Rights, the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and Robert Kennedy, as well as Watergate and the Nixon resignation. Although somewhat shaken, the residents took it in stride and moved on; after all, these things did not happen in Nashville. The events were always happening somewhere else.

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