Records Describe Barrett's 1975 Rape Of Belmont Student Timeline Of Marcia Trimble Case
POSTED: 12:25 pm CST December 3,
2007
UPDATED: 10:59 pm CST December 3,
2007
- 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 - Jerome Barrett, 28, raped a Belmont student. According to police, Barrett was on parole for a sex offense when he was arrested and charged in the rape of the student.
- 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.
- 1976 - Jerome Barrett was sentenced to prison for the rape of the Belmont student. He was sentenced to 60 years but was released in 2002.
- 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.
- Nov. 20, 2007 - Jerome Sydney Barrett, 60, was charged with murder in the slaying of Des Prez.
- 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.
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