Found Deceased CO - Gannon Stauch, 11, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, 27 Jan 2020 **ARREST** #32

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Imo - At this point in the investigation wouldn’t it be more helpful to have all volunteers on foot looking for GS? (especially since the weather has been so nice and there has been snow melt) I think at one point they had 500 volunteers. I’m getting this nagging feeling LE knows what happened to GS and he is irretrievable for some reason. Where is he???

I live very close and am going out this weekend for a hike, in an area of interest to me. In between Colorado Springs and Castle Rock. Covid is hitting here in El Paso Co., so the fresh air will be welcomed. #prayersforgannon
 
I believe it is immediately, there is something that has to do with a hormonal chemical change in the body once it has been deceased. It gives off certain hormones. Even if something was only deceased for a couple of moments cadaver dogs will hit on the spot that it was in even if it has been moved. Obviously, it would hit on an area if the cadaver is there.

Imo

An interesting side note: There are animals that can warn before a seizure, when blood sugar is low, etc. There have been nursing home pets that have become known as 'bad omens' while I believe they know organs are beginning to fail. IMO
 
AS filed for divorce! One of the divorce demands is he is asking for the return of Sadie the french bulldog ASAP.
I thought there were two dogs.

It is possible she omitted something either at the licensure level or at the application level at her very last CO job and that's what tripped her up there. The letter to parents from her other CO teaching job did say she passed the CBI check.

The very good info in the above links shows only convictions are required to be disclosed by applicants. Many of the arrests mentioned for TS did not result in convictions including the somewhat recent DV ones from the East coast.

I know people are justifiably angry she was a teacher. But barring people from jobs for alleged criminal behavior that didn't result in convictions probably isn't the solution either. And as clogged as the courts and jails tend to be, I'm not sure plea bargaining involving dropped charges will go away either.
JMO
You know, I’m a bit confused. I’m not sure which State Board screwed up. South Carolina or Colorado. First let’s start with if Colorado credibly accepted her as an out of state teacher or did she apply for new certification in CO. Here are the requirements:

Important notes: Colorado issues licenses/endorsements in one of two ways:
  • If you hold a valid teacher license (not substitute, temporary, emergency, provisional or probationary) issued by another state that carries an identical endorsement (subject matter and grade level(s)) to one issued by Colorado, meet the degree and program requirement for that endorsement, including student teaching and field experience, AND have three years of full-time licensed teaching experience in that state within the past seven years, Colorado will issue a professional license with the identical endorsement requested.
  • If you do not meet these requirements completely, Colorado is required to issue licenses in the endorsement area of preparation, as verified on an approved program verification form. If upon evaluation it is determined that you need to first pass a content exam in order to qualify for this endorsement, we will issue an interim authorization, which will allow you to teach while you prepare for and fulfill the exam requirement. (Upon submission of an application with a copy of the official test score report, we will then issue either an initial or a professional license, based on your years of out-of-state, licensed teaching experience)
2. What is an Interim Authorization?

If you hold or are eligible to hold a license in another state, you may qualify for an interim authorization, which Colorado state statute allows to be issued in certain instances when a candidate meets the degree and program requirements, but still needs to fulfill additional requirements (usually a content exam or exams) for a full Colorado license. This authorization is issued for one year and is renewable once.
Teachers from Out-of-State/Out-of-Country | CDE

CDE eLicensing System

https://ed.sc.gov/state-board/state-board-of-education/minutes-orders/state-board-of-education-orders-of-disciplinary-action/2016-
state-board-of-education-orders-of-disciplinary-action/may-orders/stauch-letecia-h-pdf/


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**I’m trying to find the effective date of the Colorado teaching certificate. I really want the date of the CO application for credentialing.

The following does not make sense with the timeline:

On her Linked In profile, Letecia claims to have gone back to work after that suspension and worked as an Education Specialist for the state until 2018.

The Board of Education confirmed this, telling The Sun that Letecia took a job in Dorchester County in 2017, and the following year in Berkeley County.

She was certified to teach elementary school, special education and secondary social studies Colorado as of March 2019, but is unclear if she ever began at any schools in the area.
Gannon Stauch stepmom previously arrested for battery, domestic abuse and theft

Eta:
Letecia Stauch was employed with Horry County Schools from November 2010 until she resigned on June 29, 2015, according to Lisa Bourcier, spokesperson for the district. Letecia Stauch started her employment in the district as a para-professional and held this position until 2012. She then worked as a special education teacher until her resignation.
Woman charged with murder in case of missing 11-year-old boy used to be employee of Horry County Schools

Letecia Stauch has prior addresses in Myrtle Beach, Murrells Inlet and Mount Pleasant, S.C., and in Lumberton and Pembroke N.C., according to a public records search. She has also gone by the names Hardin and Hunt.
In South Carolina, Letecia Stauch was cited with domestic violence-first offense, a misdemeanor, in November 2010, but the case was dropped.
In North Carolina, she was placed on probation in 2001 and 2002, after being cited with communicating threats in February 2001, simple assault in April 2001 and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle in June 2001, according to North Carolina state prison records. Details of those crimes, including where they were committed, weren’t available.

Letecia Stauch received a Colorado license to teach elementary school, special education and secondary social studies in March 2019, according to the Colorado Department of Education

She accused Hiott of contributing to what she called “harassment and retaliation” when she worked for seven days as a middle school social studies teachers in Marion County School District in South Carolina.

The South Carolina Board of Education suspended her educator certification to teach in May 2016 for six months for “breach of contract in abandoning her teaching duties” with the district.https://www.outtherecolorado.com/stepmom-arrested-in-murder-of-missing-gannon-stauch/
 
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Albert Stauch has called off his marriage to Letecia...The filing also shows Albert ordered the family dog, a three to four-month-old Blue French Bulldog named Sadie, be returned to him immediately.

The dad also said he won't be giving Letecia spousal support.

Albert Stauch's divorce filing says Letecia must return his dog to him.

Too bad he can’t also demand his name back
 
3/17/20
8:15 AM 1H STAUCH, EUGENE Setting D212020DR30309 El Paso County DIV M
3/17/20
8:15 AM 1H STAUCH, LETECIA Setting D212020DR30309 El Paso County DIV M
Does she realize that if she is unable to afford one, a divorce attorney won't be appointed to her? I hope AS's attorney will appear for him.
 
100% percent not surprised that he wants a divorce. Very surprised it has come this quick.
Am wondering if he has been encouraged to file now so LS can't claim spousal privilege for what she told AS during the month from when Gannon went missing to now.

BBM

No. TS wouldn't hold the privilege, AS would as the testifying spouse. In other words, because of spousal privilege, AS cannot be compelled to testify against TS. But he can if he wants to. Divorce changes nothing in the sense that communication during the marriage is still protected. That is, if the testifying spouse wants it to be. Also @silly billy posted upthread there's an exception for harm to a child.

I doubt AS will have useful testimony anyway during the guilt phase. No one is going to call him to say he thought it was safe to leave his kids with TS but upon reflection there were red flags. Maybe he could be asked how/when he was notified GS was missing but that hardly seems critical.

I think he just wants a divorce ASAP and who can blame him.
 
We know that LE desperately want to find Gannon, if not for evidence but for Gannon's family. I think this is without saying really.

For those with a knowledge of LE procedure/interrogation, do you think LE would go to TS's attorney and ask for a sit down to try and get her to tell them where he is? Would they ask the attorney to try and talk to TS and find out where he is?

Would there be discussions back and forth between DA/LE and TS's attorney?

What's going on behind the scenes right now?

Anyone want to venture a guess?
I don't think so. From here, she will plea. If she pleas not guilty, there will be discovery from both sides that they will have to provide while preparing for trial. Beyond what is in the affidavit, I dont think there is much sharing at this point. IMO
 
Albert Stauch has called off his marriage to Letecia...The filing also shows Albert ordered the family dog, a three to four-month-old Blue French Bulldog named Sadie, be returned to him immediately.

The dad also said he won't be giving Letecia spousal support.

Albert Stauch's divorce filing says Letecia must return his dog to him.

Too bad he can’t also demand his name back


Too bad he can't demand his son back!

I've always said the dogs have something to do with this.

Given that AS arrived back to Gannon being a "runaway," wouldn't the dogs have been at the home. Then taking into consideration that LS was essentially booted from the house by AS, and wasn't welcome back, wouldn't he have kept the dog?

This makes me think that there is CCTV from RD that we haven't seen and maybe the dogs went with her on the Monday <modsnip: removed rumor>This strengthens my resolve even more that he will be found near a dog park.
 
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Albert Stauch has called off his marriage to Letecia...The filing also shows Albert ordered the family dog, a three to four-month-old Blue French Bulldog named Sadie, be returned to him immediately.

The dad also said he won't be giving Letecia spousal support.

Albert Stauch's divorce filing says Letecia must return his dog to him.

Too bad he can’t also demand his name back

It won't bother her, but maybe it's good for her to carry that name to prison. JMO
 
Too bad he can't demand his son back!

I've always said the dogs have something to do with this.

Given that AS arrived back to Gannon being a "runaway," wouldn't the dogs have been at the home. Then taking into consideration that LS was essentially booted from the house by AS, and wasn't welcome back, wouldn't he have kept the dog?

This makes me think that there is CCTV from RD that we haven't seen and maybe the dogs went with her on the Monday <modsnip: removed rumor>This strengthens my resolve even more that he will be found near a dog park.
I’m with you. I’ve been thinking there must be something going on with the dogs for awhile now. Too much has alluded to the suspicions. Her first interview when her closing remarks when he had to almost force her to mention Gannon. Her last words were about the dogs in the same paragraph as kids don’t alway do what you tell them to. You gotta remind them sometimes. Paraphrased.
 
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I’m with you. I’ve been thinking there must be something going on with the dogs for awhile now. Too much has alluded to the suspicions. Her first interview when her closing remarks when he had to almost force her to mention Gannon. Her last words were about the dogs in the same paragraph as kids don’t alway do what you tell them to. You gotta remind them sometimes. Paraphrased.
Does anyone know where the dog/dogs are? I mean she is in jail how is she going to give him Sadie from there? Please please please do not let this be another runaway case. I can't take it. I can't!
 
I agree that LE needs professionals to do the current searching for GS, but as someone that desperately wants him to be found, I know it's frustrating. If nothing else, I hope that they would ask the homeowners that live along where they have tracked her, to search their own properties and notify them/not disturb anything that they may find. There is a current case in Missouri, where the husband drove for hours, during the overnight hours, before he reported his wife missing. They were able to track his route (even though they have only given us general locations), but they have charged him with murder, likely by strangulation. They have been searching an area with dive teams, because cadaver dogs hit in that area.

Also, when Mr. Allen was speaking yesterday about not revealing too much, in case another person was involved, got me thinking (which can be dangerous :eek:). I never really considered that there was anyone else that helped to murder GS and I still don't! It's TS all the way on that. However, knowing how LS is and her need to control the story of her life, I can't see her sitting idly by and let AS divorce her, without her own backup plan. I would think that she already would have been creating her next "life". I just hope that if this is the case, that they wouldn't be so dumb as to become an unwilling participant in hiding the evidence.
 
Does anyone know where the dog/dogs are? I mean she is in jail how is she going to give him Sadie from there? Please please please do not let this be another runaway case. I can't take it. I can't!
My hope Sadie is with Harley. My hope. But why else would Al demand that be written into formal documentation unless it’s the only way he can ever find out where the dog is? Yeah, I really hate to say it since this is a recent development. I say Sadie (with a leash still on her) lies with Gannon somewhere possibly ran off by a car or pushed off a cliff while walking together. Maybe even when she let them out to go pee somewhere, making Gannon feel safe with his dog. That’s when she made her move. Just like when she tried to go pee and attacked an officer. imo

Eta: I’m sorry for the instant negativity. I lost my rose colored glasses in the dark.
 
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Good catch!

I got chills thinking the same thing. And it would make more sense if she was cleaning up his room and moving it, annoyed at his mess. Then he knocks the candle over and makes more of a mess and she flips out because wax in a carpet is a pain to clean up. She snaps and smacks him over the head with it.

And her lies are saying it's a board or 2 x 4 to direct it towards AS and the garage instead of the bedroom. The bedroom is where the pool of blood was. She only said he stepped on something in the garage to explain that she bound his foot up while he was sitting on the edge of the truck, to explain why his blood was in the truck.

They probably have a ton of evidence against her. We just need to find Gannon.



MOO

Anything's possible. But I don't think it was a hockey stick. In her Crime Online Interview #1, LS talks about going to Play it Again to buy AS a new bike and to look for hockey equipment for Gannon as hockey was the only sport he showed any interest in (nice underhanded put down.) :mad: I didn't get the impression that he already played hockey or had a stick or any equipment yet.

"She also said she needed the room in the back of the truck to bring used sports equipment to “Play it Again Sports,” a sporting goods store that buys and sells new and used sporting goods. Stauch said she planned to shop for hockey equipment for Gannon since it was the only sport he had shown interest in. They later went to Castle Rock to find a new bicycle for Al Stauch, who was out of town working at the time, Stauch said."
Gannon Stauch stepmom reveals where she went the day Colorado boy disappeared [EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW]

My translation of all of this is she knew that LE knew she was in Douglas County on Monday (darn that pesky watch!) and needed an excuse to be in that area. She claims to have gone to one in Castle Rock which is in Douglas Co. That's the connection I make.

The other possibility is she "might" have been a softball player back in the day and had an old bat laying around the garage from her softball days ;) I just made a speculative connection between a bat (that maybe she was seen putting in the truck?) and having to go to Play It Again to trade in a bat she didn't want anymore.

ALL above is JMO MOO
 
Gannon is a hero!!! As much as watching this has gutted me, I also find it comforting to see his smiling face and know that in his short life he had many happy times, brought joy to others, and was/is loved!

Sharing to remember this amazing boy!
Have your tissue box handy:


Permission was given by a mod to post this!

#GannonStrong #GannonsGuardians #FindGannon

Still a bit behind, just saw this and watched it with tears streaming down my face. Thank you MtnMama for posting this sweet tribute.


My heart is so so so broken for Gannon and his family.

:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(
 
My hope Sadie is with Harley. My hope. But why else would Al demand that be written into formal documentation unless it’s the only way he can ever find out where the dog is? Yeah, I really hate to say it since this is a recent development. I say Sadie (with a leash still on her) lies with Gannon somewhere possibly ran off by a car or pushed off a cliff while walking together. Maybe even when she let them out to go pee somewhere, making Gannon feel safe with his dog. That’s when she made her move. Just like when she tried to go pee and attacked an officer. imo
Can’t even go there.

If he gave her the (likely expensive) puppy, and there are personal property matters in the divorce, it could be he wants his dog back because he wants her, and she might have meant a lot to Gannon, and still matters to his sister.
 
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