Mother of girl killed in famous Nashville case honored
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – The mother of a little girl whose abduction and death became one of Nashville’s most notorious murder mysteries was honored Tuesday by Gov. Bill Haslam and victims’ rights group You Have the Power.
Virginia Trimble Ritter received the Powerhouse Award, which is given to individuals who dedicate themselves to the advocacy of victims’ rights.
Ritter’s daughter, Marcia Trimble, was 9 years old and was delivering Girl Scout cookies in her neighborhood when she disappeared on Feb. 25, 1975. Her body was found a month later in a nearby residential garage, but the case took decades to solve.
Jerome Barrett was convicted of Trimble’s murder in 2009. He is serving life plus 44 years in the murders of Trimble and a 19-year-old Vanderbilt University student who was found suffocated to death three weeks before Trimble’s body was found.
DNA evidence linked Barrett to both crimes.
