By Steve Huff

May 15, 2006

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Council Bluffs, Iowa (Crime Library) — As of May 15, 2006, 5'2", Tracy Tribble has been missing for almost two weeks. The last time anyone saw red-haired and green-eyed Tracy, age 35, of Council Bluffs, Iowa (IA) was early in the morning on May 3, 2006. Her husband, Stan Tribble, said he'd last seen Tracy between six and six-thirty that morning.

Internet domain registration records indicate two websites were created to promote finding Tracy Tribble on May 7^th, 2006: www.tracytribble.com and www.tracytribble.info. The pages were essentially mirrors of each other, and information pertinent to bringing Tracy home could be found on either page. Tracy's father, John Gostomski, was listed as the point of contact. A $75,000 reward was being offered for information leading to Tracy's whereabouts.

Speaking to Omaha, Nebraska television station KETV on May 8, 2006, a friend of Tribble's family, Bryon Batchelder, said that Tracy's cell phone, purse, and car had been left behind. On May 10^th it was reported that Batchelder was actually an ex-boyfriend of Tribble's, and that it was known that the night before Tracy Tribble vanished, she'd had an argument with her husband Stan, and was "distraught."

On May 12^th there was fear among some searching for Tribble that she'd been found. That day it was reported that human remains had been found in a barrel on May 6^th in a secluded part of Pottawattamie County, IA. However it was established that the corpse in the barrel, a female between 5'6" and 5'9" and somewhere between 24 and 32, had been deceased for some time, and didn't fit Tracy's overall description or even her ethnic heritage investigators believed the deceased could be biracial, Caucasian and African-American.

Though suspicion is often directed towards spouses in situations where one member of the couple goes missing, Council Bluffs authorities were being careful with statements made to local media. KCCI TV in Des Moines, IA reported on May 12^th that even though Stan and Tracy Tribble had fought often in their three years of marriage, Stan being arrested more than once on domestic violence charges, Council Bluffs police "had no reason to believe" that Stan Tribble had "done anything wrong."

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