Found Deceased CO - Gannon Stauch, 11, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, 27 Jan 2020 **ARREST** #35

[Kyte]

Jenna Middaugh
@JennaMiddaugh
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@JennaMiddaugh
If you’re in the courtroom,
@EPCSheriff
says people should turn off their cell phones, don’t bring in signs & do not try to talk to Letecia. The courtroom is expected to be full, so people might not be able to get inside. We’ll be there to let you know what happens
@KKTV11News

 

[SleuthBee]

I’ve looked at Petco online this morning. Petco has some good cleaning supplies & lots of doggie poop bags. I don’t believe dog coats was the only thing purchased. Bits of truth...

Enzyme cleaner and stain remover, choke chains and leashes.

 

[MtnMama]

The last known search site.. but I think now any ditch is possible along road from her home to CS and from CS to the castlerock.. I think if a ditch near the last search site was relevant that they would have already searched it... sorry Boxer, my mind is flying.. desperate to locate him.. the justice system can take care of itself, this feels to be far more urgent... Did she dispose of him befoe she reached Petco? It would fit her runaway narrative better..? @ImstillaGrandma has supplied us with a list of ditches... there's lots... but which are the most secluded.. Monday morning... not much traffic but there would have been some.. a by- road off the main road.. but it would need to be one she had seen before... then again the road to Castlerock, Douglas County must have thrown up something too..

@kittythehare to give you a better feel for the roads around the area, many of them have lots of traffic any time of day not just at the typical rush hour. She travelled along I-25 but you can definitely discount that as it has HEAVY traffic and construction work all the time. Also lots of highway cameras.

I'm working on what I think was her most likely travel route given what we know of travel time, searches done, and TS's tales. However, here are some suggested roads to check: Noe Road, South Spruce Mountain Road, South County Line Road which turns into W Palmer Divide Road. These branch off of I-25 from CO Springs heading toward Castle Rock, but I really don't think she actually went there just headed in that direction on the roads I mentioned. Traffic gets really bad the closer you get to Castle Rock. South County Line Road & Noe Road are the ones I lean toward as they have fewer houses and there's pine tree cover about 100-200 yards off the side of the road. Those are real possibilities for Monday.

If she returned & moved him in the rental car on Tues/Wed, who knows? I think heading toward Pueblo or Canyon City could have been possible. Lots of sparsely populated areas in those areas. Personally I don't think she travelled the 900 miles on the mileage report, but it's hard to know where she went at this point as she potentially had a longer window of time than on Monday. I'm sure LE is all over this as they have tracking pings & data that will help them to pin-point likely areas were sweet Gannon could be! MOO

Hope this helps! We all want Gannon found!

Edit: clarity

 

[reeseeva]

KOAA News5 has a camera in the courtroom today.

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[Frig]

DBM, ditto

 

[kkdj]

Enzyme cleaner and stain remover, choke chains and leashes.

Maybe the seats were still wet when she went to pick up AS at the airport, hence the reason for the rental car?

 

[Wishbone]

Not usually. I've not used dog coats where I live but have visited friends in colder climates who do use them. The leash would attach to whatever it does without a coat-- the dog's collar usually or if using a head halter it would attach to that. You don't want the leash attached to the coat-- the dog needs to be able to feel it if you need to control him/her and if attached to the coat, that could be a problem.
JMO

However, a few coats and vests either come with a built-in harness or feature a hole (typically called a portal) you can thread a leash through.

5 Best Dog Coats With Built-In Harness Holes [2020 Reviews]

 

[UnapologeticallyAspie]

Something that has really been bugging me since the beginning of Gannon’s disappearance is what was it about Gannon that T hated so much that would make her kill only him?

Everyone keeps saying that T was jealous & wanted to hurt Al & Landen, especially Landen it seems, but if that were 100% true then why didn’t Tee ALSO kill Gannon’s little sister LS? And/or abuse her as well.

The only thing that I can wrap my head around is that 11 year olds (tweens) can have an attitude & can be difficult at times. That coupled with T’s apparent anger management problem I guess I could see her snapping.

Did T also abuse G’s little sister? And did she hate her as much as it seems that she hated G?

Also, I’m hoping that today is the day that they find Gannon!

 

[Feistyomi]

My Response to several pages.GANNON is my hero! MOO the first thing Letecia did, was hide Gannon somewhere. This would be somewhere near home, possibly on one of the dog walks/path. Petco was a decoy, and she expected to toss any evidence, near Petco. So she COULD say she went to Petco , then got lost.Did not expect gps to be as precise..MOO, she expected Gannon to be found, not the evidence of her involvement. She knew gps would track her but did not really expect them to find evidence...she may also have left Apple watch there...I think she is very upset that evidence has been found, and her ruse did not work. Triggers her. The entire 4 hour trip, was Gannon caught on camera? He would have been top priority to be hidden. In her mind, Gannon should have been found already, ( not chasing her)and she thinks she has made it look like an accident/runaway... remove the noise, her 4 hr trip was wild goose chase... dog coats gave her a reason for shopping at Petco...Lorson Ranch, Nearby construction debris dumpster, too obvious, but somewhere close. she really has put this behind her, and will probably not get agitated, when they do get close to GANNON... Petco is not as important, less emotional defenses there. Gannon’s location will be hidden in her mind...MOO It is pure luck, he has not been found, not her cleverness.

 

[SleuthBee]

Maybe the seats were still wet when she went to pick up AS at the airport, hence the reason for the rental car?

... and so the theory develops. The seats would be wet and the truck would have an odor. @kkdj, very clever thinking!
"Pooping his pants", if Gannon died in that truck, then he released his bowels and TS had to clean it up. A second trip to Petco perhaps to buy more pet stain cleaner?

 

[gsleuth]

So who is this person she was going to talk to about PIAS? Did she in fact meet him/her? It sort of makes me think it was a male if it happened. It bolsters my idea of passing off his body to be disposed of by somebody else.

Maybe she told Gannon they were going to talk to a person about a bike? So many lies..and disconnect in her wording - i just don't know what she meant. Lots of word waffling to distract..that's all i am sure of.

 

[Tealgrove]

My question would be, did she buy small dog coats or larger?

They had 2 small dogs. One is a puppy and a small breed to start with.

TBH, I originally questioned why she would buy 3. However, IIRC Petco had a special on dog coats. It would make sense to buy 3 in that one would fit the puppy now, but by next winter she would have grown out of it so buying 3 doesn't phase me anymore.

If she bought large dog coats I would wonder why and my hinky meter would be on overdrive.

I think the dog coat thing is not in play and not nefarious. If she bought other stuff, which I believe she did, then those items might be of interest.

Having said this, as many others have noted, there is something very fishy about the whole Petco visits and her hesitant behaviour whenever the subject of Petco comes up. Either Gannon is hidden somewhere in the vicinity or she met up with someone there.

ETA: Another question is why that Petco when there are others closer to home? This is what I find hinky and leads me down a different path.

I can't shake the feeling that she was meeting up with someone at Petco.

MOO

 

[NCWatcher]

Maybe the seats were still wet when she went to pick up AS at the airport, hence the reason for the rental car?

She said she drove her car to the airport to get the rental, not the truck. Of course, that might not be true but it seems more likely to me.
JMO

 

[Nik S]

The People v. Letecia Stauch is now listed as a case of interest on the judicial website.

 

[SuziQ]

The first visit to Petco was around 11 if she left the house at 10:15 that means she pretty much went straight to Petco. Maybe one small stop before hand. ( its 24 min to that Petco from her house) I'm not exactly sure how long she was in Petco but the second time she arrived was around 1 p.m.. from things I read in heard which I'm not sure if it's hearsay or not I believe that the attendant mentioned that she bought an item at each visit the first time she bought something from one attendant and a second time there was a different attendant that checked her out. I heard a theory that she probably bought something to cover her tracks but she actually also stole something maybe a murder weapon or something and then when she came back to Petco she put the item she stole back. I really hope police have searched the Petco and brought their dogs into the Petco to sniff or anything that had to do with Gannon.

And remember she arrived back at home at 2:15. So it seems the Petco plays a very large part in his disappearance because there's not much time in between Petco and whatever else she could have been doing and driving back and forth from her house.

The rental car have a 955 miles on it is quite discouraging on the other hand. If she did something to his body that day and hid it temporarily, and then rented the car the next morning after she got kicked out she could have gone pick up his body and then drove it about 300 to 400 hundred miles out before she came back home.( depending on how much driving she did around town before she went on her long trek.) I would like to know if the 955 miles was a typo or not and if it wasn't then the cops have a lot of places to search in a 300 400 mile radius outside of Colorado Springs. Hopefully whoever has info and is talking knows where she possibly could have gone. They obviously have not found his body by now. That is why they are still trying to locate it I believe it's a lot farther out but I'm sure jogs probably picked up on cadaver sent in the car and possibly other items that were found along the side of the road that might have had his scent on it that she threw out the window.

The 955 miles on the rental was debunked. A poster looked up a repair ticket for July by using the vin#. In July of 2019 it showed 900 miles. So it would have had more miles in it when T rented it. Or the rental company doesn't care about accurate miles. In any case we still have in question how much gas was used. A tank full would still be a lot of miles.

 

[oviedo]

The People v. Letecia Stauch is now listed as a case of interest on the judicial website.

Colorado Judicial Branch - El Paso - Cases of Interest - The People of the State of Colorado v. Letecia Stauch

 

[Spartygirl]

My question would be, did she buy small dog coats or larger?

They had 2 small dogs. One is a puppy and a small breed to start with.

TBH, I originally questioned why she would buy 3. However, IIRC Petco had a special on dog coats. It would make sense to buy 3 in that one would fit the puppy now, but by next winter she would have grown out of it so buying 3 doesn't phase me anymore.

If she bought large dog coats I would wonder why and my hinky meter would be on overdrive.

I think the dog coat thing is not in play and not nefarious. If she bought other stuff, which I believe she did, then those items might be of interest.

Having said this, as many others have noted, there is something very fishy about the whole Petco visits and her hesitant behaviour whenever the subject of Petco comes up. Either Gannon is hidden somewhere in the vicinity or she met up with someone there.

I can't shake the feeling that she was meeting up with someone at Petco.

MOO

And Why TWO trips to Petco ??
Ok--if we are dismissing the Petco and no big deal of buying dog sweaters, much less 3 of them, because they were on sale then I still don' t understand why TWO trips to the store.
And I wonder what she did and where she went In Between those TWO trips to the store.

 

[ChuckMaureen]

bbm

She’s charged with murdering him though, and not crimes involving “passing him off.”

If there were any other suspects, the DA would almost certainly be opposed to releasing the arrest affidavit. That isn’t the case.

it wouldn’t matter if she didn’t murder him directly. handing him off to someone else whom she knew would murder him would garner the same murder charge.

 

[Ultra Violet]

The People v. Letecia Stauch is now listed as a case of interest on the judicial website.

Awesome, I have been waiting for this to be added.

Nothing there yet, but here is the link to the page:

Colorado Judicial Branch - El Paso - Cases of Interest - The People of the State of Colorado v. Letecia Stauch

 

[Nik S]

Colorado Judicial Branch - El Paso - Cases of Interest - The People of the State of Colorado v. Letecia Stauch

Thank you. I posted real quick from work.