#008 The Disappearance of Marcia Trimble / Part I

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08/24/20 • 31 min

This is the first episode in a multi-part series about the disappearance of Marcia Trimble. Nashville, in 1975, was a much different place than it is today, and the disappearance of Marcia Trimble really changed the way parents and adults thought about the freedom they gave their kids. It is a true crime story worthy of a series, and I'll try to do it justice over the next few episodes.

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Boogie House is the first in the series, and you can get it on Amazon or at Parnassus Books in Nashville.

Check out the Rolson McKane series on Amazon!

Boogie House is the first in the series, and you can get it on Amazon or at Parnassus Books in Nashville.

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#007 Patreon Episode 2 The Manson Murders

The Manson Murders are captivating, not just because of the shocking nature of the crimes or the involvement of actual Hollywood celebrities.

They are also a metaphor about the end of the 60s, a bleak reminder that movements are as much about the people in them as they are about the ideas they espouse.

A dark undercurrent ran through the Sixties that goes completely against the narrative of “Free Love,” one that turned women into objects of a movement that was meant to liberate them.

The story of the Manson Murders is about the disaffected women of America during a time of social upheaval finding something they thought they could belong to.

They were Orphans, runaways, and rebels, teenage girls and young women living at the margins of society. This was a time of “dropping out,” literally leaving society to find a more personal, transcendentalist experience.

What that often meant was ignoring all traditional familial structures, and when that happens, people tend to fall through the cracks.

That’s true with Dianne “Snake” Lake—author of Member of the Family—and Squeaky Fromme and plenty of the other members of the family.

One of the ironies of the freedom associated with the late Sixties is that people still nevertheless fell victim to the need for an authoritarian figure, someone whom they thought they could trust and put all their faith in.

That is, ultimately, the story of Charles Manson and young women and men who made up his family.

This is just a slice of that story, and I hope I tell it well.

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#009 The Disappearance of Marcia Trimble / Part II / Jeffrey Womack

The murder of Marcia Trimble involves the saga of Jeffrey Womack, whose status as a suspect in the case led to decades of harassment, ostensibly ruining Womack's life.

The Metro Nashville Police Department suffered from a horrifying case of tunnel vision, and the resulting investigation allowed the real killer in the Marcia Trimble case to drag on for years longer than it needed to.

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