CO - Gannon Stauch, 11, found deceased, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, 27 Jan 2020 *Arrest* #57

[iamshadow21]

If she was raped in G's room with no bottom clothing, she would have had rug burns and rug fibers on her skin. It is so awful of her to tell this lie.

Also, there would have been sexual body fluids on the carpet in Gannon's room visible with ALS (semen, vaginal fluid).

 

[steeltowngirl]

Yes. And that's so weird.

There's something VERY wrong with this woman. Do not quote me, but I'm going out on a limb here to say she's, in fact, crazy. Like really mental but in no way that is diagnosable or constituting some kind of continuous mental defect. I don't think personality disorders count as "insanity" in cases where the disordered person harms people. It's just who they are. They aren't insane.

But boy is she absolutely cray-cray in so many ways from Sunday and I don't think it's an act, exactly (well, it partly is - there's a "Wizard" in there orchestrating this craziness). She thinks she has magical powers to talk her way out of everything.

IMO

That’s why I’m so uncomfortable with this whole business of a NGRI plea being brought forward to a jury trial. And especially with the burden being placed on the state to prove she’s not insane, by legal definition. I am just an average onlooker, but when I hear LS, I think she’s plain loco. Yet she was deemed competent to stand trial. Apparently, experts for defense and prosecution have differing opinions on her legal insanity. I hope the jury has enough instruction to be able to make the correct assessment of her mental state at the time of Gannon’s murder.

 

[iamshadow21]

Oh this is heart wrenching.

Gannon, crying for her to help him.

The gun behind the pillow so Gannon didn't see it.

Now THERE'S a stone cold truth I missed, didn't hear that one, must have missed it. Absolutely chilling. Implies that Gannon was conscious right to the end.

 

[Truth Prevails]

I just saw her take them out but couldn’t snap a pic quick enough .

This is her putting them in after lunch break:

The ones below are from the end of the day today. (4-12-23)


WATCH LIVE: Stepmom Murder Trial — CO v. Letecia Stauch — Day Seven

 

[kittythehare]

That’s why I’m so uncomfortable with this whole business of a NGRI plea being brought forward to a jury trial. And especially with the burden being placed on the state to prove she’s not insane, by legal definition. I am just an average onlooker, but when I hear LS, I think she’s plain loco. Yet she was deemed competent to stand trial. Apparently, experts for defense and prosecution have differing opinions on her legal insanity. I hope the jury has enough instruction to be able to make the correct assessment of her mental state at the time of Gannon’s murder.

This is the woman who wanted to represent herself because of her constitutional rights..
She's lazy by nature and work scares her, I think.
I'm wary of NGRI too.

Self preservation to this extent is so fat OTT that I think it eliminates incompetency if that is to form part of her diagnosis.

Her lack of empathy, sympathy or compassion is typical of many murderers.
Her disrespect for the court is contempt, I think.
Malice.

i'd like to know when she made the decision to kill him.
I don't for a moment believe she just lost her temper on that one occasion.
Pre meditation?

 

[Warwick7]

I know I missed some. But these are TRUTHS intertwined in all her lies. It helps us to understand what happened to Gannon.
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Used one of AS's tools to cut the carpet with. Box cutter didn't cut the carpet deep enough, so went and got a 'stronger object' to cut it properly. I feel like I'm going to throw up at the implication. I don't think she's talking about carpet at all.

She said she’s trying to block it out, and doesn’t want to be specific.

So, I let her stay up longer than she's supposed to as like, you know, I don't want to say bribery but, you know?

Woke up, I couldn't find Gannon, the guy was still in the house, nobody at the front door, couldn't find Gannon....

..... freaked, couldn't found Gannon, thought he was hiding. Ran up the stairs. She ran back down the stairs......Freaking out! Goes upstairs. Thought someone heard something. Need to be as cool as possibly.

I sent minor Laina on a mission. I didn't know what to do, I went back downstairs.

In my mind, I thought I could fix this.

"I was making an irrational decision in an emotional position."

"It was not that easy in the moment because my mind was in so many directions and I thought I could fix it."

"In my brain I thought I got to act soon and by 6, 6:30 I got to make decision because the girls are going to ask where Gannon was....

Yes. "It's not like he was overpowering me"...she remembering her struggle with Gannon. Her body felt tired. That's not someone describing rape. That's someone remembering killing a child.

She's real clear that A head hit Gannon's table

Now claiming like she would 'never do anything like grab a knife'.

She described the clothes she was wearing during the attack, and said she had washed the clothing.

He really got a little bit more burned than he should have...

Gannon, crying for her to help him.

The gun behind the pillow so Gannon didn't see it.

 

[steeltowngirl]

Now THERE'S a stone cold truth I missed, didn't hear that one, must have missed it. Absolutely chilling. Implies that Gannon was conscious right to the end.

I hope she hears his cries in her sleep for all time.
From prison.

LS is cold, calculating. The clincher for me is the amount of effort she put into hiding his body, and covering up his murder with lie after lie.

A special kind of crazy. Diabolical.

Defense hasn’t even presented yet, but I predict there will a quick deliberation by the jury, as seen in the Murdaugh trial.

Verdict:
Guilty

jmo

 

[MsMarple]

Rude. If we have to sit and listen to this torture then so should she.

PS. I know we don't have to, but we've started so now we have to finish.

Lol, I’m pretty sure tissue paper won’t block out 100% of ambient sound. It might attenuate noise a bit but that’s all so she can try and ignore her screechy voice but she can’t completely escape it.

(I’m a musician who often plays with pipers and have experimented with many earplugs over the years).

 

[Megnut]

Now THERE'S a stone cold truth I missed, didn't hear that one, must have missed it. Absolutely chilling. Implies that Gannon was conscious right to the end.

She actually got up from the interrogation room comfy couch to get a pillow to demonstrate ....

Dreadful.

JMO

 

[Cindizzi]

This is the first time I observed the Defendant plugging her ears with something. April 4, 2023. The day that Al testified. At morning break he’s been on the stand all morning and when the Jury is sent out, she removes something from her ears.

After break when Jury is coming back in, she reaches down inside her shirt and gets something, sits down and plugs her ears again.
She always does it when the Jury is either entering or exiting the Courtroom.

At 1:46:36

Letecia Stauch trial live stream: Gannon's father testifies

Letecia Stauch is accused of killing her stepson Gannon Stauch in January 2020. Gannon, 11, was reported missing from his Lorson Ranch neighborhood on Jan. 2...

www.youtube.com

 

[10ofRods]

It's a purchased doctorate. moo

Couldn't agree more. Taking a deep dive into Liberty University (as compared to even other mostly online schools with non-strenuous accreditation) is eye-opening.

Also, just a side note. It was not a Ph.D. that she received, it was an Ed.D. In the academic ranking system, the Ph.D. is the highest degree and the professional degrees come next. IMO.

A good Ed.D. from a real university is of course a great degree (for academic administrators in particular - that's what it's designed for). But it doesn't make her a researcher or whatnot.

IMO.

 

[Megnut]

If anyone is still searching for motive, T supplied it.

Had to fix it.

Her mind was in the mentality that....

She was going to get blamed.

To avoid that, she murdered a child.

And that made sense to her.

Gannon, you fought hard.... and you have protected your sister. T can't hurt her any further.

Stay close to her. Stay close to your mom. Stay close to your dad. They need you.

Hell can have T.

Jmo

 

[Cindizzi]

Page 2 and 3

https://www.courts.state.co.us/userfiles/file/Court_Probation/04th_Judicial_District/El_Paso/Stauch/Stauch%20FINAL%20redacted%20040120.pdf

 

[10ofRods]

That’s why I’m so uncomfortable with this whole business of a NGRI plea being brought forward to a jury trial. And especially with the burden being placed on the state to prove she’s not insane, by legal definition. I am just an average onlooker, but when I hear LS, I think she’s plain loco. Yet she was deemed competent to stand trial. Apparently, experts for defense and prosecution have differing opinions on her legal insanity. I hope the jury has enough instruction to be able to make the correct assessment of her mental state at the time of Gannon’s murder.

As I understand it, if she is found NGRI, she goes to a facility for the criminally insane (which is a lot like a prison, some say they are "nicer" but having spent time in jails as well as hospitals for the criminally insane, I have to say that being around so many other disordered people is not a great time). There are more activities and freedoms, to some extent (depends on the psychiatric assessment - some people in state hospitals for the criminally insane are in near solitary confinement).

I don't know CO law well enough to comment on what happens if she ever becomes "sane" again (she won't). In some ways, I think it might be the right placement for her, because there will be a few experts on hand to deal with her and make sure she doesn't get up to even more nonsense. She's going to be dangerous where ever she is, and the typical woman prisoner is *not* crazy - she'll use her crazy-skills to make everyone around her crazy. Maybe she does need to be deemed crazy - as long as it still means she's locked up forever.

IMO.

pS my time at those places was as a researcher, ha. And I actually spent more time in jails because, well, the facility in Atascadero was scarier to me at the time.

 

[Cindizzi]

DBM

 

[Spartygirl]

And LS was concerned about someone tripping on the carpet so rolled it up and put it in the storage room. How very considerate of her. <i.e., isn't she so wonderful? - she is an educator after all> grrrrr

Can someone refresh my memory, please?
IIRC there was rolled carpet in the back storage room ...
was this something that was already in the house ??

I mean, we know the rapist was not really there and she said "he" brought the carpet to the house.

I'm sure if it was already in the house, that was easy to dispute

My brain is mush as I am trying to catch up and listen to this rambling idiot

Does she even take a breath??

These poor interviewers... I dont know how they lasted through all this BS

 

[flashy09]

I know I missed some. But these are TRUTHS intertwined in all her lies. It helps us to understand what happened to Gannon.
----------
Used one of AS's tools to cut the carpet with. Box cutter didn't cut the carpet deep enough, so went and got a 'stronger object' to cut it properly. I feel like I'm going to throw up at the implication. I don't think she's talking about carpet at all.

Remember in the early days when she also said Gannon cut his foot on Al's tools in the garage? I have no doubt a tool was used in some form during her attack.

One thing I also keep remembering is her attack on the deputy during her bus transport back to Colorado. She escaped her handcuffs and did enough damage he went to the hospital. Did any charges arise from that?

 

[10ofRods]

I hope this hasn't already been asked... what is the prosecution strategy for playing this entire video? It's boring, off-putting, and isn't really giving anything that they don't already know. Is this typical? Have I missed something?

To show that she's sane. She's functioning, making decisions, isn't amnesiac, hasn't got part of her brain missing.

The burden of proof in this trial is upon the prosecution only.

They have to prove to the jury that she is sane. Otherwise she's NGRI.

IMO. And it's fine that she's off-putting. She's a criminal defendant and it's great that she's making the jury dislike her. But will the jury find her sane or insane?

And yes, it is typical to provide as much evidence as possible, especially when it shows both 1) guilt and 2) lack of insanity.

I don't know the legal definition of insanity in CO. But I do know that this is a trial where the jury gets to decide whether she is, or isn't. So in the end, it's up to a jury of her peers to conclude that she's either sane or insane.

BTW, the interviews provided new information (quite a bit). The jury does *not* "already know" how Letecia Stauch was thinking and behaving during the time that Gannon was murdered and disappeared. That's the whole point of the trial and the trial is slated to be a very long one (Judge says they're ahead of schedule - he thought it would go until May 25). If this is boring to you and seems irrelevant, you're lucky that you're not locked into jury duty. Because, well, what else is the jury supposed to decide her sanity on? She's already conceded, basically, that she did it (and that was in the opening statements). Her defense is that she's insane. And as we've somewhat been discussing here, she does look Koo-Koo.

I have no clue how the jury instructions will read or what juries in CO have deemed "insane" in the past.

MOO.

 

[wyome]

She shifts so fast from pretending to be traumatised, confused, 'i don't know' to correcting and specifically telling the detective where people were and what they were doing and correcting sequence of her narrative.

Says the guy smelt like paint, or powdered drywall, or alcohol. And yet he can install carpet? I could be wrong, but I thought carpet and floors was a more specific skill. Generally the guy who puts in your drywall doesn't lay your carpet. they're completely different stages of a new build.

Changed her story mid sentence. First the guy had Gannon after she came back from shooing Laina away, now he had him before. Now there were two ring camera triggers and she went up both times. Knew the second one was Laina because she knew the timing for her to get home was exactly right. Saying she dialogued for at least thirty seconds with Laina.

Doesn't remember being hit anywhere but head, no injures but that and back pain. Saying her nails were bleeding because she bites them.

Was demanding that LS not say anything, implied there would be 'consequences'. 'I had common sense enough to know if he had Gannon and had a gun...' Now they're in a 'commotion again'. Demanded brown suitcase. Talking about dimensions of suitcase forever. Now they were yelling at each other. He wanted a box. Says she thought he was going to steal things, disguised in the box and suitcase.

Talking about putting her pants on multiple times, couldn't walk to the door in her 'short shorts' and greet Little Sis. 'This is my daughter.' Have never heard her refer to Gannon in the same casually intimate way as her son.

This right here is utter nonsense. Thanks for recapping all of it.

 

[10ofRods]

Remember in the early days when she also said Gannon cut his foot on Al's tools in the garage? I have no doubt a tool was used in some form during her attack.

One thing I also keep remembering is her attack on the deputy during her bus transport back to Colorado. She escaped her handcuffs and did enough damage he went to the hospital. Did any charges arise from that?

Yes - and they were mentioned in the first week of this trial (I think the judge had some hearing regarding them). Depending on what happens with this trial, she will still be accountable for that attack (and could face a second trial).

IMO.