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Young Girls' Deaths Remain Unsolved

POSTED: 6:02 pm CST November 30, 2007
UPDATED: 1:50 pm CST December 1, 2007

No question, the murder of Marcia Trimble, 9, in 1975 is still this city's most talked about crime.

Video: Word On The Street (11/30/07)

But what about the other young victims, all girls, who were killed in years past. Two of the victims were a year after Marcia was slain.

We should not forget them, and so far, police claim they haven't.

In fact, it's claimed, they are among the cold cases still actively under investigation.

On an afternoon in July of 1965, the body of Kathy Jones, 12, was found three days after she disappeared.

It was discovered in a heavily weeded vacant lot on Thompson Lane across from a skating rink where she had where gone skating.

Kathy's hands were bound, she was gagged and had been sexually assaulted.

Police had a suspect but nothing ever came of it.

The following year, the victim was Reba Kay Green, a 14-year-old who was asleep with her twin sister in their North Nashville home.

That same year, Wanda June Anderson, 11, was raped and beaten to death with a pipe.

She was baby-sitting her nieces and nephews in a small apartment on 16th Avenue South, while her parents were out drinking beer, police said.

There's been many murders since then, including 18-year-old's Melissa Chilten and Tiffany Campbell, at a Church Street exotic tanning business. That 1996 case is also unsolved.

How can these coward-killers live with their crimes? They don't have a conscience.

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