All of the Story…35 Years Later
Review by Kim Cantrell
When Marcia Trimble was murdered in Nashville in February 1975, I wasn’t even out of diapers. But her murder would have resounding affects throughout my generation’s childhood years – especially to those of us living in the middle Tennessee area.
Nine year old Marcia was delivering Girl Scout cookies ordered by her neighbors when she suddenly disappeared. It would be 35 days before her body was found in a neighbor’s storage building.
Attorney Douglas Jones teams up with Nashville author Phyllis Gobbell in their recent book A Season of Darkness to bring readers Marcia’s story and the not-so-publicized stories behind it.
Readers of this book will get the answers to some questions that have never fully been disclosed before. Such as:
- How a 15-year-old boy’s life was changed forever after he was publicly named and arrested as a suspect .
- Why there were so many differing opinions on how long Marcia was in the Thorpe’s outbuilding.
- How cops missed the vital clues between a serial rapist, a Vanderbilt co-ed’s murder, and the missing Marcia Trimble.
- Which Nashville detective was on the verge of discovering the killer’s identity in 1976 and the Nashville investigator who pieced it all together three decades later.
A Season of Darkness is written with ”just the facts” style, yet in a flowing narrative that makes it easy and enjoyable to read.
True crime fans will be intrigued, outraged, and relieved as they read about the Middle Tennessee case that forever changed Girl Scout policies, shocked a sleepy state’s residents to the core, and proved that it’s never too late to find justice.
You’ve got to read it, so here’s where to buy it:
