article_snippet.sent: Marcia had declined to see the photos for several decades, and not even after Jerome Sydney Barrett was convicted 33 years later.
article_snippet.sent: Jerome Sidney Barrett, 68, was found guilty of second-degree murder six years ago and a Davidson County Criminal Court jury imposed a sentence of 44 years (pictured in 2009) '
article_snippet.sent: In 1979 police charged a Trimble neighbor with the slaying, but prosecutors dropped the charges about a year later because of lack of evidence.
article_snippet.sent: He was 15 at the time of the crime.
article_snippet.sent: Barrett, 68, was living in Memphis when He was arrested in 2006.
article_snippet.sent: He was brought in after police matched the DNA on the murdered child's clothing to that of He.
article_snippet.sent: The match happened after He was arrested for the 1975 murder of Vanderbilt University student Sarah Vannatta Des Prez.
article_snippet.sent: He had been in prison on sex charges between 1974 and 2002 except for about a year when Marcia disappeared.
article_snippet.sent: In 2009 He was found guilty of second-degree murder of Marcia and a Davidson County Criminal Court jury imposed a sentence of 44 years.