NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The Channel 4 I team has uncovered another lesser-known report about the Marcia Trimble case.

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Trimble was found dead 33 days after she went missing while delivering Girl Scout cookies in a Green Hills neighborhood in 1975.

The I-Team reported that the first phone tip when Trimble disappeared in 1975 pointed police to a mosque that Jerome Barrett was regularly attending.

Barrett, who was already a convicted felon in 1975, is now charged in Trimble’s death and in the slaying of Vanderbilt student Sarah Des Pres.

Was Trimble held hostage at the mosque as the caller claimed, and was that why investigators never found a body in the garage that was searched time and again and where Trimble was later found?

The I-Team also asked why police were so quick to dismiss the tip.

The information comes from the pages of a January 1977 edition of Nashville magazine in an article called "Who Killed Marcia Trimble and other Unsolved Murders."

"It was the first and the most in depth that had ever come out, you know, on the Trimble case, and it was unusual for Nashville magazine," said freelance writer Jacque Srouji.

Srouji spent three months investigating the then-fresh Trimble mystery.

She said she had full access to the investigators and the case files and what she wrote now provides a tantalizing new clue that may be the strongest link -- outside of DNA -- to Barrett.

One of the article’s more poignant quotes was from Major George Currey, who was one of the lead investigators at the time who oversaw Youth Guidance, crimes against children.

Currey recalled the earliest moments of the frantic search for Trimble in the article: "Police received three calls, he said. The first caller assured the family that Marcia was alive and being held captive at a Batavia Street address in north Nashville. Police in unmarked and heavily armed cars immediately converged on the scene. They stopped short when they realized the address they had been given belonged to Mohammad's Temple of Islam-Black Muslims."

"It was a trick by some unknown party to provoke a shootout. We realized Marcia wasn't there and left immediately," Currey said in the article.

The mosque on Batavia Street was where Barrett regularly went to worship in 1975, and the mosque’s longtime leader said he remembers Barrett well.

"I know Jerome, knew Jerome. He had came to the temple and had visited on many occasions," said Ilyas Muhammad.

Muhammad, the mosque’s Imam, said he's been visited recently more than once by Metro police. He said he told police the same thing he told Channel 4 about the winter of 1975. He said the mosque would have been closed and essentially empty the week that Trimble disappeared.

"No, it wasn't open on that day, I’m sure," he said.

Muhammad and his family had gone to Chicago for a Muslim celebration held at the same time in late February every year.

Could Trimble have been held hostage, perhaps in that Mosque, for a day or more?

"At one time, I talked to a black Muslim. But I’m not saying it was Jerome, because I don’t know. But we did talk to someone. And at the time, we were focused on one or two people, and that was bad," said Currey.

"I think the investigators, too, back then, were thinking too, that she hadn't always been there, you know, wrapped in that wading pool because they had looked there before and they claim there was nothing there. She was not there," Srouji said.

Kalodimos called Currey to ask about the phone tip and whether police left the Mosque immediately as the article said.

He declined an interview and said he didn't want to hamper the investigation or confuse anyone. But he said that, "Everyone at the time was concerned that this was not credible information.”

"No, no. That's what he told me. In fact, I think I taped the whole thing," Srouji said.

Srouji said she's going to search for the interview tapes and promised to share them with the I-Team.

"It was there and it was written, and it's, you know, that laid out what was going on, and they can't change that. Once you put something, the beauty of the press, broadcast or print journalism, is once you put something in the public domain, it doesn't go away and you can't change it," she said.

The article also reports a second phone call that was made to the Trimble home that said their daughter had been abducted by black militants armed with machine guns.

Currey said police sent out a tactical squad on that lead but that it proved false. He called it another attempt to provoke a fight.