Found Deceased CO - Gannon Stauch, 11, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, 27 Jan 2020 **ARREST** #40

[SleuthBee]

Even if AS managed to control himself and not confront LS, the neighbor supposedly had asked LS if she wanted to review footage with him, before he even did it. She knew Gannon never came back. Once the neighbor explained his video shows their driveway, LS knew before anyone what that video would show, whenever anyone got around to looking at the earlier footage.

What date did RD make that offer to TS? My belief is that TS left on 1/28. In the span of this investigation, 6 days is a HUGE head start for TS.

@HaikuMommy , my reply is in no way a dispute to your reply. Please consider it a testament to the confusion, diversion tactics, manipulation, deception and gaslighting TS injected into this case. Not only do we need spreadsheets, I may need a diagramming application to keep everything straight, LOL

 

[HaikuMommy]

Exactly! A child disappears while in your care, you act squarely as hell and yet no one thinks it’s odd you have a moving van at your house?

A couple SM posts by LH said Tee went and took her stuff when nobody was home, and AS & LH only found out when they returned from being out searching or maybe at a vigil. Also, anything removed from the home was supposed to be logged out, and LS & family didn’t do so. PLUS Tee then went and did that interview right after, which pulled press away from an update on the search/vigil. I have screenshots, don’t think I am allowed to post them here, only to paraphrase, right?

 

[DTPeke]

This is probably dumb but please humor me.

Could LS have access to her old Nissan in Colorado? When she leased the new VW she references her Nissan on the review on the dealers Facebook page, which makes me think the car was in CO. I've lost my notes on this but I think the date of review was August 2019. It has been removed as it was posted by a minor but signed Tecia. It also really irks me she seems to use other peoples social media credentials.

She still has a Nissan registered in her name which likely is due to lack of completing paperwork?

I wonder because in the Spencer video of the IT interview there is a Nissan parked in front of the house (no front plates which is not requirement for South Carolina cars but is a requirement for vehicles in CO).

Why do the rentals though if you did have access to another vehicle?…..just musing from a junk food brain (eaten most of our quarantine goodies)….regardless I hope she is held accountable for the delinquent taxes in SC.

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ETA: I could not figure out the make and model of car from the tax site....just that it is a Nissan

 

[riolove77]

@riolove77 Your time, knowledge and willingness to answer our questions is appreciated far more than our words express.

Question 1: The complaints witness list includes the name of the defendant's daughter (HH). Is this an indication of her cooperating with the prosecution or could her name appear if she were reluctant, a hostile witness.

Question 2: Will you offer an opinion on whether this case would be attractive to a high profile defense attorney?

Question 3: Given the defendant's history of assaulting a deputy during extradition, will restrains be required during the trial?

Question 4: Will you offer your opinion on the probability of the DDA initiating a plea agreement?

I thank you for your time

I will do my best!

1. any witness will appear on a list; cooperative or hostile. Absolutely anyone who could possibly appear must be on the list, because they must all be discovered to the defense. If someone is not on the list, the defense could move to exclude that persons testimony.

2. a Jose Baez type may very well jump on this.

3. I would ask for her to be in restraints given her track record thus far. However, defense will fight this, because of the perception it gives off to a jury. If this does go to trial, it’s gonna be a long time, so it’ll also depend on her behavior between now and then.

4. I don’t know about a plea. They have the body now so there is nothing to bargain with her for. She can always plea to the sheet, meaning she just pleas open to the entirety of the criminal complaint or the indictment, and the judge will sentence her. I personally don’t see her pleading but who knows. She strikes me as the Casey Anthony type. I don’t think she will get up there and testify like Jodi. But I could be wrong.

 

[HaikuMommy]

What date did RD make that offer to TS? My belief is that TS left on 1/28. In the span of this investigation, 6 days is a HUGE head start for TS.

@HaikuMommy , my reply is in no way a dispute to your reply. Please consider it a testament to the confusion, diversion tactics, manipulation, deception and gaslighting TS injected into this case. Not only do we need spreadsheets, I may need a diagramming application to keep everything straight, LOL

I think by “leave” you mean leave for FL/SC? Or do you mean leave the house? Cuz Tee was still around on the 31st when she did that interview (same day she removed property from the home). And feel free to dispute anything!

ETA: I don’t know when he offered, or even IF he really did. I would assume if it did happen, it was around the 28th, 29th, when Tee was still at the home and it was supposedly a run-away case.

 

[Blue Ridge]

Personally, I don’t think LE would be asking for any sightings of LS by the public if family members were with her during that time. I think nobody they’ve questioned can account for her whereabouts. Therefore I assume the moving truck, family members, etc. from the Jan. 31 interview weren’t involved or even nearby when Gannon was moved. I think Tee went all by herself on the 3rd, picked up his body, drove him to his final resting place, left him there and returned before Feb. 5th. Maybe using stimulants to stay moving and get it done. JMO

That makes much sense to me....could be she dispatched the family members to head back home, saying she needed to tie up loose ends there (or whatever) before heading back herself later. Then she'd be free to do her thing, unencumbered by family she'd have to be secretive around or communicate with while driving.

MOO

 

[Geneic]

I think the problem with all of the potential scenarios for what happened don’t make sense because we weren’t there, nor are we in the same mindset as she was at the time. When under duress, you do things that work for the moment. IMO only methodical serial killers are good at this sort of thing and they don’t have a connection to their victim. LS seems to be quick on her feet in playing the victim and coming up with lies. Likely has a long history of both, as well. I’ve seen some people blame AS for not knowing or picking up on her bs, but she was likely a very loving stepmother in front of him which would make it easier for him to not question anything or know something like this could happen. I feel she acted alone in all of this. Involving someone after the fact is too risky and we’d likely know by now. All we do know is something happened on Sunday, but he was still alive on Monday. I doubt if he was stabbed or severely wounded on Sun, she’d go to Petco while he was still alive if he that was the case. Idk. He doesn’t make it home alive. We don’t know if he was there deceased. If LE were looking at it as a runaway, they wouldn’t be looking for a body early on. Since she isn’t a person of interest in a crime, she isn’t going to be under surveillance. We know the police found a sock and bloody board that she says may have flown out of the truck. I can’t see a 2x4 flying out of the bed of a truck. Something probably happened there, but she puts herself in that location by saying it may have flown out. We don’t know when she got a moving van or how long she had it. She may have gotten it to gather her belongings but was not allowed. Hence, no undies. I bet she was not happy about GS mom staying at their house, bc unlike AS she wouldn’t be as easy to manipulate. So, she likely used that as an excuse to get a truck and move out. I imagine her behavior was very odd and upon seeing the video it confirmed to AS she really was lying. Can’t imagine how difficult that was for him. Her erratic drive from CO to SC may have been bc she didn’t have a good plan and was buying time. If she weren’t familiar with the FL area, she may have just been driving and passed the spot on the bridge and felt that was a good place to get rid of him. Regarding the smell. Insects play a part of a person decomposing faster, so the smell may not have been bad yet. Colder climates less insects. I don’t believe she dismembered him. No charge for that. I feel too that she was ready to bolt once LE confiscated their vehicles. Hopefully they have video from the airport. I feel like that may hold some answers. Doesn’t make sense to get a rental. If she really were afraid GS would be afraid if he seen their vehicle, I’m sure a friend or neighbor would have loaned her their vehicle. Also, if my son were missing I would not leave to go pick anyone up. I guess her daughter was there in case he came home? Anyways these are just some of my thoughts. Without knowing her whereabouts, all we can do it is speculate knowing our speculations are likely wrong.

 

[SleuthBee]

I agree she had to worry about hiding things from whoever she was traveling with, but seeing the way she spins and how her family continued defending her I have no doubt she could manipulate and handle them. I keep waiting to hear LH had ties to the area. I don't use SM so no idea if it has been confirmed/denied, but I just keep thinking that may have been a motive in where TS picked as well. I think once she realized the runaway story wasn't going to work, she jumped to the kidnapper story and started planting seeds that LH was involved in that. Would not at all be surprised if she didn't try to do more to make it look that way. However, the more she tried to "fix" what she did the bigger the hole she had dug for herself became. She really is an idiot.

OMG @Kismet7 , you are right! Like you, I don't use SM either, but I recall (from somewhere) TS stating that LH was behind Gannon's disappearance. What a wicked, wicked being.

 

[jillycat]

BBM:

That is a really great point about the whole moving van question.

What in the world could TS have removed from the house, aside from personal possessions, i.e., her own clothing, toiletries, etc., that would have warranted renting a moving truck?

I wonder how quickly LE was able to obtain warrants in the case…was February 3rd the first day they executed warrants at the house?

In the absence of warrants, I'm not sure there's anything LE could have done to prevent TS from retrieving/removing her own possessions.

Whether AS could or did prevent her from taking things out of their home is a separate question, though.

JMO.

This is what I’ve wondered after Spencer’s tweet. What could she have had that would require a moving truck?
Unless her need was a separate storage vehicle for the body she had to make disappear.

 

[MadTing]

Were there any moving truck companies on the witness list?

 

[SleuthBee]

I did listen to the first 30 minutes of the WS YT with Leigh and Tricia. I totally missed the suitcase reference, it does make sense, Gannon would have to be in some sort of container for transport.

I did catch the following:

Leigh was supposed to meet up with her at Starbucks to view the “lie detector” results.

Leigh had not heard back from LS for several days (I believe all Leigh’s calls were unreturned).

Radio silence on LS end, surprise, surprise! Most likely there was never an actual lie detector test and if she passed that machine surely malfunctioned and caused a fire.

At some point during Leigh’s phone calls with her, LS said she was suicidal.

Leigh contacted South Carolina authorities for a welfare check but without a current address little could be done.

Leigh took suicide reference seriously as another case ended in suicide for that stepmom (sorry forgot the case but I know seasoned WS will remember and some apparently participated in that search).

Long story short, eventually a minor family member of LS called Leigh and told her the reason LS had been out of touch and cancelled the meeting.

LS was Pregnant and in the Hospital.​

Shaking my head in disgust, she has played the suicidal (poor me) and pregnancy card all at once.

I take that as a direct dig at someone else in the case having a pregnancy that required hospitalization.

LS is good at turning that knife.

Absolute monstrosity of a person.

Assuming this call was at the bequest of LS.

Please go listen for yourselves Websleuths YouTube needs the views as Tricia is trying to reach a milestone for viewers that will allow her channel to do more. I know everyone does not have the time but please try and hit subscribe.

@DTPeke, thank you for this outstanding post! It just goes to show TS's ability to use Leigh as a puppet on her string.

 

[Fireflize]

I am trying to remember (I think I remember this)...did the neighbor tell her first that his ring camera allowed him to see her driveway and she was uninterested? If yes, she would definitely have been planning on getting out of there at that point.

IMHO, she may have had a moving truck on the interview day but that doesn't mean she was let in to move things out. She myight have been able to take things but I would guess that Al and the LE organizations would have frowned on it by that point.

Could it be the moving truck was for her daughter's belongings.

 

[DTPeke]

This is what I’ve wondered after Spencer’s tweet. What could she have had that would require a moving truck?
Unless her need was a separate storage vehicle for the body she had to make disappear.

With all media being at the vigil (I believe that Friday) with the exception of Spencer's crew at the house for the IT interview.

I hope he has video footage of her and the caravan of fools loading up that moving van.

or am I mistaken she actually sought him out (pulled him from the other news coverage)? She most likely had that van loaded up already but I do recall POLICE presence parked in front of the house after revisiting the IT video.

 

[Lori Cooper]

She also would've returned to his body within a few days, and he may have still been in rigor.

Typically rigor mortis is affected by the muscle mass of the individual. GS didn't appear to have much muscle mass, so I believe she could have moved his posture to fit into something, if she had to come back to place him in something like a suitcase.

 

[SleuthBee]

The word "conspiracy" is in the last charge laid.

@10ofRods ... another reason why I so enjoy your posts is that you don't miss a trick!!! TS is getting nothing over on you, LOL

 

[SleuthBee]

Typically rigor mortis is affected by the muscle mass of the individual. GS didn't appear to have much muscle mass, so I believe she could have moved his posture to fit into something, if she had to come back to place him in something like a suitcase.

Not sure how the cold temperature effects rigor.

 

[DTPeke]

@DTPeke, thank you for this outstanding post! It just goes to show TS's ability to use Leigh as a puppet on her string.

Thank you!

Her ability to manipulate a minor as well (making the phone call to Leigh).

I bet she was banking of the suicidal feelings and supposed pregnancy hospitalization to make it into one of the Crime Online articles to garner sympathy.

We know LS is the actual puppet though of the Pinocchio variety. Puppet master she is not.

People like her have a shelf life and hers is up.

 

[Moonracer]

I simply cannot believe she wasn’t watched 24/7! She was sketchy from the get go!

ABSOLUTELY. Big big ball drop IMO.

 

[MassGuy]

Oh my word, I need to watch this! I have missed most of the live talks with Tricia because it’s right when I put my babies to bed. Time to go back and watch this one.

I cannot believe she played the poor me martyr card, faked a pregnancy and admitted herself to a hospital. She was desperate for someone to care how all this was affecting HER. Poor LS, having to deal with such a mess. I can’t roll my eyes hard enough.

I cannot remember the words @MassGuy used to describe her in his post last thread, something like brazen and stupid? It was the perfect phrasing, but now I cannot recall the wording.

“Stupid and vile,” I think.

The hospital thing is interesting. It’s a pretty common move for a suspect to check themselves into a hospital in order to get themselves put in a mental facility.

I’m not saying she did that here, but it’s a good way to keep law enforcement off your back.

I think there was no hospital though, and this was an attempt at sympathy or keeping Leigh at bay.

The day I feel sorry for her is the day I give her that apology she wants, which is to say, when Hell freezes over.

 

[Stunned]

A couple SM posts by LH said Tee went and took her stuff when nobody was home, and AS & LH only found out when they returned from being out searching or maybe at a vigil. Also, anything removed from the home was supposed to be logged out, and LS & family didn’t do so. PLUS Tee then went and did that interview right after, which pulled press away from an update on the search/vigil. I have screenshots, don’t think I am allowed to post them here, only to paraphrase, right?

What a cluster!