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— Griffin Daily News Monday, March 31,1975
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Police search the garage where the body of little Marcia Trimble was found Easter
morning. She disappeared Feb. 25 while going to a neighbors house to deliver Girl Scout
cookies. The garage was about a block from her house. (UPI)
Cookie girl, 10,
thought strangled
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UPI) —
Mrs. Virginia Trimble went to
church on a cold, blustery
Easter Sunday hoping that
“God will perform a miracle.”
She returned home to learn that
her 10-year-old daughter, miss
ing for more than a month, had
been murdered.
The body of pretty, freckle
faced Marcia Trimble, object of
one of the most intense
searches in Nashville history,
was found shortly after 11 a.m.
Sunday beneath a plastic
wading pool in the cluttered
garage of a neighbor’s home.
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Body found
Lying around the body were
four boxes of Girl Scout cookies
she was carrying when she
disappeared Feb. 25.
Metro Police Chief Joe Casey
said Marcia appeared to have
been strangled 10 to 15 days
ago. He said there was no
evidence she was sexually
assaulted.
“According to the doctors and
all,” the chief said, “They
figure she hasn’t been dead
over 10 days to 15 at the most.
“We are pretty sure that she
was strangled,” he said, “But
whether it was done there or
the body was taken there, we
don’t know.
“It’s hard to believe that the
body has been in that garage
all this time,” the police chief
said, “But it’s a possibility.”
Casey said Marcia’s body
was flown to Memphis Sunday
aboard the state’s Lear jet
loaned by Gov. Ray Blanton.
He said state medical examiner
Dr. Jerry Francisco will
perform an autopsy.
“We should know more after
the autopsy,” the chief said.
“Dr. Francisco is supposed to
be the number one pathologist
in the state of Tennessee.”
Casey said Marcia was
carrying $lO to sl2 when she
left home about 5:30 p.m. on
Feb. 25 to deliver the Girl Scout
cookies to a neighbor’s home.
No money was found on the
fully-clad body, he said.
“It looks like the motive was
robbery," the chief said.
“That’s what we’ve got to go on
at this time.
“We don’t know who did it,”
he said. “We are going to check
out everybody. We’ll be check
ing the fingerprints and other
evidence.”
Casey, who has devoted
countless hours to the investiga
tion, went to the Trimble home
to tell the parents of the grim
discovery.
“They were crushed,” the
chief said. “They are very
religious people. They are
people who turn to the Lord for
help. They turned to him this
time for strength to help them
through it.”
Earlier this week, Marcia’s
mother had told reporters that
her daughter would be 10 years
old on Good Friday. “It’s a
miracle time of year, and I feel
my daughter will be home by
Easter, that God will perform a
miracle,” the mother said.
But there was no miracle.
About the time the Trimbles
were returning home from
church, Harry Moffett, visiting
at the John A. Thorpe home
only about 200 yards east of the
Trimble residence, walked into
Thorpe’s doorless, two-car gar-
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Easter rains
bring floods
By United Press International
Easter rains touched off flash
floods in the Southland Sunday
and dampened the spirits of
Easter paraders and wor
shipers. High winds swept the
Rocky Mountains and one skier
was killed.
Acting Kentucky Gov. Wil
liam Sullivan called out 12 two
man National Guard jeep units
Sunday night and sent them
into the flood-stricken Paducah-
McCracken County, Ky., area
in the northwestern portion of
the state. The guardsmen were
ordered to relieve state police
and Civil Defense personnel
who had been working around
the clock in the evacuated flood
area.
Sullivan said 10 more units
would be placed on standby
status to prevent looting of
evacuated homes in northwest
McCracken County and the
Reidland, Ky., area.
Jail inmates at Smithland in
western Kentucky helped resi
dents fill sandbags to keep
rising flood waters from down
town streets. Weekend rains
pushed the Tug Fork River
over its banks in the eastern
portion of the state and spring
floods closed several Kentucky
roads.
Spot flooding also was report
ed in portions of Tennessee,
Virginia and West Virginia.
Flooding from the heavy rains
of the past week continued in
portions of the Ohio Valley and
middle Mississippi Valley.
Weekend downpours drenched
Chattanooga, Tenn., with more
age to look for a tire.
Pushing aside a small orange
wading pool in a back corner,
he found Marcia’s body under
neath.
Police and Thorpe, an insur
ance executive, were notified
immediately. Within minutes,
officers had cordoned off a
square block of the tree-shaded
rieighborhood of comfortable,
well-kept homes in Nashville’s
Green Hills area.
“This is almost more sense
less than a sexual assault,”
said one investigator as he
searched among the bicycles,
lawnmowers and other ac
cumulated junk on the earthen
garage floor. “Somebody’s sick
bad,” said another officer. “I
hope we get him.”
Casey said the garage was
only used for a storage area
and was seldom entered.
The chief confirmed that the
garage was one of the hundreds
of area buildings searched
previously but had no immedi
ate explanation of why the body
was not found in the earlier
search.
Police sources said that even
highly-trained dogs which were
used in the search for
newspaper heiress Patricia
Hearst had been in the vicinity
of the garage without detecting
any sign of the child.
George Currey, chief Metro
youth guidance officer, said
Marcia was laying on her back
and had on the same clothes
she was wearing when she
disappeared.
Casey had spearheaded for
the past five weeks a search
involving police, Civil Defense
and rescue workers and thou
sands of volunteers.
“It’s a real sad situation,”
said Casey. “Until we found
her, we had hoped she was still
alive.”
than three inches of rain.
Heavy rains also soaked
Richmond, Va., Salisbury, Md.,
and Marietta, Ga.
Rain-soaked Easter sunrise
service worshipers at Halo Hill
near Rindge, N.H., and on the
82nd-floor observation platform
at New York’s Empire State
Building Sunday.
Rain and raw weather also
put a damper on Easter
Parades on New York’s Fifth
Avenue and along the board
walk at Atlantic City, N.J.
High winds blew a skier over
a 400-foot ridge to his death
near Mt. Hood Meadow, Ore.,
Sunday. Two companions bur
rowed into the snow for
protection and were safely
rescued.
The body of Richard Selden,
of Portland, Ore., was recov
ered from Clark Creek Canyon,
where he tumbled after being
hit by winds of 60-70 miles per
hour on the 8,000-foot level of
Mt. Hood.
Sheriff Robert Lynch said
Dave Wilson and John Steva
son, both of Portland, were
rescued and in excellent condi
tion.
“It would have been impossi
ble to leave them there,” he
said.
Easter services were cut
short at Warren, Ark., scene of
a killer tornado Good Friday, to
allow survivors of the twister to
clean up debris left by the
twister. The tornado killed
seven persons and injured 64
others. It inflicted an estimated
$lO million damages in the
small western Arkansas farm
town.
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the first permanent capitol
building constructed in 1833,
was erected on what had been
the site of the state peniten
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Two killed in Easter traffic
By United Press International
Two persons were killed in
Easter weekend traffic acci
dents in Georgia, including a 4-
year-old Valdosta girl, the
Georgia State Patrol reported
Sunday.
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path of an oncoming car.
Michael Watkins, 24, of
Athens, was killed Sunday
morning about seven miles
west of Athens when he
rounded a curve on the wrong
side of the road and hit another
vehicle.
The UPI traffic count begins
at 6 p.m. Friday and ends at
midnight Sunday.