http://www.nashvillescene.com/nashville/demetria-kalodimos-tells-the-story-of-jeffrey-womack-the-boy-who-didnt-kill-marcia-trimble/Content?oid=3080150 Comments On: Demetria Kalodimos tells the story of Jeffrey Womack, the boy who didn't kill Marcia Trimble by Jim Ridley en-us Copyright 2013 Nashville Scene. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Nashville Scene readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Nashville Scene. wil@desert.net (Nashville Scene Webmaster) Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Sun, 19 May 2013 12:00:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss >The whole "covered by a tarp" tale was manufactured, as it were, out of the whole cloth.<<

Yet I seem to recall that academy recruits searched the very garage that Trimble was found in. If no tarp was involved, how was she missed?
Posted by bobsguns]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2012 21:33:42 -0600 Nashville Scene Posted by Tom Wood]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2012 11:07:54 -0600 Nashville Scene
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McElroy remembers Womack saying, “I know who he is; he’s investigating me for a little girl who was murdered with a tarp covered over her.”

The mention of the word “tarp” piqued McElroy’s interest, in part because McElroy did not know there was a tarp at the crime scene. In fact, he’d always thought that Trimble had been covered with a swimming pool.
Posted by mr. pink]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2012 10:35:01 -0600 Nashville Scene >This tunnel vision and almost cultish belief in his guilt was the greatest botching of the investigation.<<

At the risk of repeating myself over & over again, WHY was Womack considered to be the prime suspect? Did he admit to some sexual shenninghans with Trimble or was there some sort of physical tie to the Trimble crime scene?

I have read many stories in the Tennessean & Scene but none asnwered the above question.
Posted by bobsguns]]> Tue, 20 Nov 2012 19:47:42 -0600 Nashville Scene >Polygraphs are not "worthless." They are routinely used by the police to eliminate suspects, in order to focus their narrow resources or to affirm that they are on the right trail.<<

Sorry, but they ARE worthless, perhaps less than so.
Posted by bobsguns]]> Tue, 20 Nov 2012 19:43:36 -0600 Nashville Scene Posted by JTD]]> Tue, 20 Nov 2012 07:26:50 -0600 Nashville Scene >How about the fact that Womack passed two lie detector tests and DNA excluded him?<<

First of all, my condolences to the family of your friend who was killed. Sad.

Secondly, lie detector tests are worthless in ascertaining the truth or not.
Posted by bobsguns]]> Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:17:03 -0600 Nashville Scene Posted by JTD]]> Mon, 19 Nov 2012 07:14:00 -0600 Nashville Scene Posted by Tom Wood]]> Sun, 18 Nov 2012 20:08:08 -0600 Nashville Scene >also of the days I spent poring over the 13 binders of the Trimble case file at the CJC<<

I keep reading of how the police "botched" the original investigation. Yet no one seems to want to provide SPECIFIC details of this "botching".
Posted by bobsguns]]> Sun, 18 Nov 2012 15:01:33 -0600 Nashville Scene
1) There is no mystery as to how Demetria happened to be the one to tell this story on film.
Posted by Tom Wood]]> Sun, 18 Nov 2012 10:37:18 -0600 Nashville Scene
I believe that most, if not all, of the original investigators acted in good faith though, I'm not sure they were totally immune from community pressure to convict somebody- anybody- of this horrendous and, to that point, unprecedented murder of a young Girl Scout. DNA evidence seems to point to the fact that the correct identification of Marcia Trimble's murderer was made following Jerome Barrett's arrest.

That said, please forgive my sweeps month cynicism arising partially from my lack of knowledge re: the circumstances of how Demetria Kalodimos came to "bond" with Jeff Womack.
Posted by Stacy Harris]]> Thu, 15 Nov 2012 21:16:03 -0600 Nashville Scene
I believe that most, if not all, of the original investigators acted in good faith though, I'm not sure they were totally immune from community pressure to convict somebody- anybody- of this horrendous and, to that point, unprecedented murder of a young Girl Scout. DNA evidence seems to point to the fact that the correct identification of Marcia Trimble's murderer was made following Jerome Barrett's arrest.

That said, please forgive my sweeps month cynicism arising partially from my lack of knowledge re: the circumstances of how Demetria Kalodimos came to "bond" with Jeff Womack.
Posted by Stacy Harris]]> Thu, 15 Nov 2012 21:14:37 -0600 Nashville Scene
I remember the Marcia Trimble cover piece well. Gripping and haunting at the same time, particularly the toll that the tragedy ultimately had on the family.
Posted by Conslor]]> Thu, 15 Nov 2012 06:25:14 -0600 Nashville Scene