A murder case that haunted Nashville for three decades is the subject of a book that comes out Tuesday. A lawyer and English professor co-wrote a factual account of the Marcia Trimble case called “A Season of Darkness.”
Doug Jones is a full-time attorney and first-time author who says the 1975 Marcia Trimble murder shook everyone.
“This one was just different. This was a little Girl Scout in a nice neighborhood. And it just resonated throughout the city. The mayor, the governor were all involved in this.”
Police found the nine year old in a garage Easter morning, strangled to death, more than a month after she first disappeared. The case went cold for three decades before a man named Jerome Barrett was convicted in the killing.
The other author behind the book is Phyllis Gobbell, who teaches English at Nashville State Community College. This isn’t her first Nashville murder mystery to publish. She also co-wrote the story of Janet March, which came out in 2007.
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