Nicholas Trent

Nicholas Trent (b. 1944; d. Jan 2002) is a set decorator with a film studio in Burbank.

In the 1960s, he was an elementary school teacher, but in 1966, he was convicted of molesting a nine-year-old boy when he was caught in the school's bathroom holding the student's privates while he urinated. He subsequently served fifteen months of a two-year sentence at Wayside. In 1975, he began working as a set designer, and in 1984, he moved to Laurel Canyon, where he rented a house on Wonderland Avenue; in 1987, he bought the house from the landlord.

In January of 2002, he was questioned by LAPD detectives Harry Bosch and Jerry Edgar after the bones of a child were discovered on the wooded hillside near his house. Later that night, his conviction was leaked by a detective and broadcast on the Channel 4 news, leading Trent to commit suicide by hanging himself in his bathroom after writing a three-page note. He was found the next afternoon by detectives Bosch and Edgar.

Appearances

• City of Bones
• Bosch: "Lost Light"
• Bosch: "Blue Religion" (deceased)
• Bosch: "High Low" (voice)