By  Steve Huff

May 22, 2006

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Council Bluffs, Iowa (Crime Library) —  Saturday, May 20, 2006, brought the worst possible news to the family and friends of Tracy Tribble, age 35, from Council Bluffs, Iowa. Using dental records and a distinctive tattoo found on a body pulled from the Missouri River on the Friday before, police were able to determine that the deceased was indeed Tracy Tribble.

This development in the mystery surrounding Tracy's disappearance early in the morning on May 3, 2006 was not the first of its kind in the Council Bluffs area in the month of May. On May 12, 2006, a body later identified as that of Amber Marie Harris, a 12-year-old girl who vanished on November 29, 2005, was found in a city park in Omaha, Nebraska. Prior to the finding of Amber's remains, a barrel containing the long-dead remains of an adult woman between the ages of 24 and 32 was found, sparking speculation that the bones in the barrel were either Tribble's, Harris's, or even those of Jodi Huisentruit, a Mason City, IA newscaster who vanished on June 27, 1995. The remains in the barrel have still not been identified.

In an article written by Lisa Rossi on May 19^th for the Des Moines Register, intended to report on Tracy's family, the Gostomskis, hiring a psychic, more background about the Tribble's turbulent marriage was revealed. Rossi not only related that Council Bluffs police saw Tracy's husband Stan as their only "person of interest," but also that the domestic problems between man and wife were not new. Rossi wrote, "In October 2003, Stan Tribble was arrested for aggravated domestic assault for redness on his wife's throat. Against the advice of the Pottawattamie County attorney's office, Tracy Tribble dropped the charges..."

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