Hindenburg investigator's death unsolved

On a night usually marked for beginnings, South Trimble Jr. met an unlikely end on the way home from a New Year’s Eve service at a Catholic church on Dec. 31, 1974.

The 78-year-old dropped off his wife at the front of their Northwest apartment before parking the car in the basement garage. The couple lived on the 3000 block of Tilden Street NW. As soon as Trimble left the car, he was fatally shot once in the chest in what police say was an apartment robbery attempt.