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Victim's Mother Says She Never Really Knew Son-In-Law
Prosecution's Case Under Way In Murder Case
POSTED: 9:16 am CDT June 28, 2007
UPDATED: 5:14 pm CDT June 28, 2007
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OMAHA, Neb. -- The murder trial for Stan Tribble continued Thursday as jurors heard from the victim's mother.
Tribble is on trial for first-degree murder in the death of his wife, Tracy Gostomski-Tribble.
The victim's mother took the stand before lunch. Mary Gostomski said her daughter was gregarious, outgoing, intelligent, fun-loving and loved animals. Gostomski said her 35-year-old daughter had been married once before.
She said her daughter married Tribble on July 6, 2003, but she never really got to know her new son-in-law. She testified that she wasn't invited to the wedding and didn't know about the wedding that happened in Las Vegas. She said she didn't find out about the wedding until her daughter's birthday in August, when her daughter finally told her.
"Tracy and I were close, but she kept some things away from her mother," Gostomski testified. "She seemed to be happy when she moved in with Stan."
During the fall of 2003, Gostomski said her daughter called her to ask her to pick her up at a gas station in Yutan, Neb. -- about 30 miles west of Omaha. Gostomski-Tribble told her mother she had hitchhiked there after her husband took her cell phone and threw it into a cornfield.
Gostomski said her daughter confided in her about several fights she had with Tribble over the years. In January 2006, Gostomski said her daughter arrived at her house with dried pizza on her face. She said Gostomski-Tribble was angry and upset. The prosecutor asked Gostomski if she knew how her daughter got pizza on her face.
"Stan had her down on the floor, holding her down. He chewed the pizza and spit at her," Gostomski said.
Her daughter stayed at her house that night, she testified, and Tribble called throughout the night.
Gostomski said the last time she spoke to her daughter was on May 1, 2006.
"I was expecting her the following day -- May 2. She never showed up. I never spoke to her," she said.
No one remembers seeing Gostomski-Tribble after May 2, 2006.
She said she got a call from Tribble on May 3 asking whether she'd seen Gostomski-Tribble. She said it was the first call she'd ever received from her son-in-law.
"He said when he got home her car was there, purse was there, cell phone was there, (the) dog, Derby, was running the streets. I said, 'Stan, this is terrible. Where could she be?' He hadn't called the police. I told him to call the police," she testified.
There is speculation that Melissa Harkin, who knew Gostomski-Tribble from her job at Metro Community College, was the last person to see the victim alive. She said Gostomski-Tribble was basically a fun-loving woman who didn't talk much about her husband.
On May 2, 2006, Harkin said, she got a call from Gostomski-Tribble and she was upset.
"She was frantic because she'd had a bad night with her husband and she was worried she was going to lose her job," Harkin testified.
Harkin said Gostomski-Tribble picked her up from work that day and had her dog, Derby, with her. She said she gave her friend the keys to her apartment so she could have a safe place to stay. She said the women made a date to get their nails done the next day, but Gostomski-Tribble never showed up for the appointment.
Gaylen Barret, with Council Bluffs Animal Control, testified that Tribble reported the dog missing on May 3. The dog was found at the Omni Center that morning.
Joan Marion, Tribble's sister, testified that her brother and his wife had a troubled marriage, and that both abused alcohol. Marion said she tried to mediate the disputes and fights the couple had. She said that shortly before Gostomski-Tribble's disappearance, she urged Tribble to move out before he got in trouble again for domestic violence.
Marion also said she had talked to her sister-in-law about marriage counseling, but Gostomski-Tribble said her husband did not want to go.
Marion said she spoke to her brother on May 3. He told her he was thinking about divorce, she testified.
"(I) told him he needed to slow down on the drinking ... it wasn't going to solve his problems," she said. "(He) said he had to drink to pass out ... just to tolerate being around Tracy."
Marion said her brother was sad and in shock when his wife's body was found in the river.
Lisa Parish, the Tribbles' upstair neighbor, said she heard them fighting sometimes, and that those fights included yelling and banging noises. She said Gostomski-Tribble came to her apartment once to use the phone and call police.
Brian Elder knew Tribble from a band to which they belonged, and he said he knew the defendant before he met his wife. Elder said he saw the couple fight three or four times, and once, Gostomski-Tribble ended up on the ground.
Elder said Tribble called him on May 4, 2006, to ask if he'd seen Gostomski-Tribble.
Elaine Krisinger said she knew Tribble through the Mitsubishi dealership where he worked. She said she took her car in for service on May 3 and Tribble told her he was tired because he had been up all night arguing with his wife.
She said Tribble told her after his wife disappeared that he was worried.
"(He said) he had a bad feeling ... that Tracy had purchased drugs from people and wondered if it might be those people," Krisinger testified.
Thursday afternoon, an expert testified about the autopsy, saying Gostomski-Tribble died from asphyxiation. She also suffered a serious blow to the head, which could have been caused by a punch or hit, testimony showed. The expert testified that this was not the cause of death, but it was a serious injury and could have led to Gostomski-Tribble's death had the asphyxiation not occurred.
Jurors were shown graphic photos of the body.
Wednesday's Testimony Includes Landlord
In opening arguments, prosecutors said Tribble smashed his wife's head and dumped her body in the Missouri River. Prosecutors said the search for Gostomski-Tribble went nationwide, but the prime suspect was always the same.
"Ladies and gentlemen, no matter which path they took, which road they followed, it always came back to Stan Tribble," prosecutor Jon Jacobmeier told the jury.
Defense lawyers said Tribble was concerned after his wife disappeared, and that investigators never found evidence connecting him to her murder. The defense said that investigators never found a murder weapon, and that Gostomski-Tribble had recently talked of suicide.
"There is not one piece of physical evidence -- not one -- that definitively connects, or even speculatively connects, Stan Tribble to the death and disappearance of Tracy Tribble," said Tribble's attorney, Patrick Eppler.
The prosecution said it may call as many as 46 people to testify. Mary Gostomski may testify later this week against her daughter's husband.
One of the first witnesses to take the stand was the Tribbles' landlord, Chris Bryson. Investigators and 911 dispatchers testified that Council Bluffs police had responded several times since 2003 to calls about loud arguments at the Tribble's home. Bryson testified that he was there during an argument two nights before Gostomski-Tribble disappeared.
"She said that she didn't want to be here anymore, and i asked her, 'Here at this house?' and she said, 'No, I don't want to be here in this life,'" Bryson said.
Bryson also said that after Gostomski-Tribble disappeared, Tribble told him about a dream he'd had.
"He did have a dream that Tracy was by water, and by garbage," Bryson said.
The body was found soon after in the Missouri River.
Six witnesses took the stand on Wednesday and prosecutors said they will call domestic violence experts and crime scene investigators among others.
Tribble showed little emotion throughout the whole proceeding.
