CO - Gannon Stauch, 11, found deceased, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, 27 Jan 2020 *Arrest* #61

[kaen]

For me, LS should be in prison for the rest of her life. I think she does lie and, if you watched the proceedings this past week, it is easy to see that she is a skilled manipulator. IF found NGRI, I have no doubt that she will be out as quickly as one might be let out.

Many criminals scare me but she does take the cake. She is:

an injustice collector,
a chameleon,
devoid of conscience,
and, thinks she is smarter than anyone she encounters.

In the interview with the FBI agent after she was arrested and after listening to the tapes with AS, she never seemed to care about anyone but herself and HH. I could understand that she was done with AS, because he "wouldn't help her" or lie for her. I kept thinking she would break because who could believe that the FBI would strike a deal based on your say-so and innuendo.

She is safer to society in prison....JMHO.

 

[Seattle1]

@Kiranerys -- can you please refresh my memory on the $75K (escape) fund. I faintly recall this but did LS's family come up with a defense fund for LS? Thanks.

Found Deceased - CO - Gannon Stauch, 11, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, 27 Jan 2020 *Arrest* #50

Letecia Stauch: Alleged killer stepmother gets access to 1K pages of discovery for murder trial of 11-year-old stepson

www.websleuths.com

 

[PhoneJockey]

I'm surprised LS never got pregnant during her marriage to AL. She seemed to be obsessed with AL and it would have attached herself to his life in a permanent way. I guess trying to trap him wasn't as important as having him all to herself. She really seems to hate kids so I don't know why she was always trying to teach.

She's a Trunchbull, maybe? Hates kids but chooses to work with them so she can be a bully.

 

[MyJoey]

Having worked with Washington's correction facility for women, in my experience, women's prisons across the country do not share the reputation of most penitentiaries housing male convicts.

Respectfully, I'm not understanding the reputation being assigned to LS. To my knowledge, with the exception of the filmed episode between LS and guards during transport from SC, I'm not aware of any disciplinary reports in the past 3 years of LS being violent while incarcerated or needing restraints.

Colorado provides two multi-custody level female facilities and I think LS will do just fine in either location. She's not special.

La Vista Correctional Facility (LVCF) was opened in July 2006, providing the Colorado Department of Corrections with a new multi-custody Level III facility for female inmates. In July 2020, legislation was passed reducing the bed capacity from 707 to 560 leaving 3 living units with a capacity of 78 beds, 2 living units with a capacity of 80 beds, and Unit 1 and Unit 4 Therapeutic Community consisting of 76 beds each. LVCF also has 14 general population beds in the Intake Diagnostic Orientation (IDO) unit and a 15 bed classification review unit. The facility has a mixed classification of female inmates ranging from minimum to close custody. Services provided by housing assignment include a Therapeutic Community, Re-entry services and an Incentive unit.

Warden Tom Werlich

La Vista Correctional Facility | Colorado Department of Corrections

cdoc.colorado.gov

Built in 1998, Denver Women’s Correctional Facility (DWCF) is one of two correctional facilities for women in CDOC. DWCF is the largest and houses female inmates at all custody levels. DWCF has several unique responsibilities and programs for women inmates to include: housing all pregnant inmates, inmates with high medical and mental health needs, an intake unit, incentive unit, management control unit, a therapeutic community, and a Residential Treatment Program (RTP) for inmates with severe mental health treatment needs. DWCF has a capacity of 984 beds. DWCF also houses 17 female parolees who are participating in the Alternative Stabilization Assistance Program (ASAP).

Warden Ryan Long

Denver Women's Correctional Facility | Colorado Department of Corrections

cdoc.colorado.gov

ETA: I compare LS to Betty Broderick -- no remorse and will forever be the victim -- blaming others for her actions. Having served 32 years of her 32 to life sentence, Broderick's twice been denied parole, and her next eligible date for consideration is not until 2032.

When Is Betty Broderick Getting Released From Prison? | Oxygen Official Site

It’s been 30 years since Betty Broderick was convicted of shooting her ex-husband and his younger new bride to death in their bedroom, but she won’t be getting out of prison any time soon. Betty was sentenced to 32 years to life in prison in 1991 for the slayings of ex-husband Dan Broderick, 44...

www.oxygen.com

I totally agree with you, although it would make me smile to think of LS in a state mental ward lol. As long as she never gets out…..it’s all good.

 

[Seattle1]

Ahhhh, thank you! I do remember her saying that she was pregnant to Al - did she also tell LE that she was? This was the first I heard of the 3way thing, so I guess she's just throwing anything she can at them.

In one of the recorded phone calls, LS told AS she was 5 weeks and she repeats this claim during her interview with Grusing except I think she told Grusing she was 8 weeks pregnant. And glad I missed the 3-way claim.

CO - Gannon Stauch, 11, found deceased, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, 27 Jan 2020 *Arrest* #60

Just some things to consider, in light of what we now know about T and her sense of umbrage, entitlement, loyalty. Since Chance was T's ex, knowing what we know, what are the chances that T handled that maturely? I'd say, oh, about zero. Zero times zero. Zero to the fourth power. Assuming...

www.websleuths.com

 

[iamshadow21]

She's a Trunchbull, maybe? Hates kids but chooses to work with them so she can be a bully.

Kids are much easier to dominate and dazzle. Adults are always going to be hit or miss whether they're able to be manipulated the way she likes to. A teacher is in a position of authority and control. It's also a profession that is looked at as caring and benevolent in a way that has good optics, that will make people think she is a 'good person'. She also wasn't just a teacher, she was a teacher of young children. And she wasn't just a teacher of young children, she was for a considerable period of time (especially for her, with her moving around and sporadic employment) working in special education. I can't think of a more vulnerable population in our schools. Young, disabled, perhaps unable to report abuse because of their disability even if they wanted to. And if she tells people she's a special education teacher? That's like telling people you do rehabilitation on homeless puppies and give them training so that they can be emotional support animals for veterans. It is everything about her creating an image that people associate with virtue, and we know that is important to her.

I think she would have been better suited to be a lawyer personality-wise, especially the shark-in-a-suit kind, but to be honest, I doubt she got the grades or wanted to do the hard work and that's why she ended up getting a teaching qualification from a diploma mill university instead.

All very much my own speculation and opinion only.

 

[Megnut]

Kids are much easier to dominate and dazzle. Adults are always going to be hit or miss whether they're able to be manipulated the way she likes to. A teacher is in a position of authority and control. It's also a profession that is looked at as caring and benevolent in a way that has good optics, that will make people think she is a 'good person'. She also wasn't just a teacher, she was a teacher of young children. And she wasn't just a teacher of young children, she was for a considerable period of time (especially for her, with her moving around and sporadic employment) working in special education. I can't think of a more vulnerable population in our schools. Young, disabled, perhaps unable to report abuse because of their disability even if they wanted to. And if she tells people she's a special education teacher? That's like telling people you do rehabilitation on homeless puppies and give them training so that they can be emotional support animals for veterans. It is everything about her creating an image that people associate with virtue, and we know that is important to her.

I think she would have been better suited to be a lawyer personality-wise, especially the shark-in-a-suit kind, but to be honest, I doubt she got the grades or wanted to do the hard work and that's why she ended up getting a teaching qualification from a diploma mill university instead.

All very much my own speculation and opinion only.

This. ^^

Being a teacher, educator sounds good. Profession that engenders respect.

She wants something for nothing.

Throws her "Dr." out there to impress. To command respect she didn't earn.

Like flight attendant. She never was one, but you'd never know it from asking her.

And proud military mom? Because her daughter once walked past a flag?

The only part of step-parenthood she wanted, far as I can tell, was to look good. Not to be a good one, just to look the part.

Dumbnoxious.

Sidling up to Special Agent Grusing?! Ha! Like she was partnering with him. Give her the pinky-swear and she'd let him in on her inside info -- and by inside, I mean coming out of her arse. Oh, T. Tried to share her info with Al but he wouldn't partner with her, then tried with El Paso, same result, now giving Grusing a chance. Supersecret info she has, exonerates her but nope, she's not giving that over for free. Utterly ridiculous.

But T was reading the room, too. Applying her knowledge of how people operate. Grusing was relaxed, conversational, pandering (at first) and she thought she had an ally -- and by ally I mean someone whom she thought she could filibuster. I really think she thought she could finagle immunity which she could then use as her ticket to worm her way back into Al's bed. Akin to her fake polygraph. "Cleared".

Till Grusing turned on her.

It was my favorite moment of the whole week.

Jmo

 

[Kiranerys]

@Kiranerys -- can you please refresh my memory on the $75K (escape) fund. I faintly recall this but did LS's family come up with a defense fund for LS? Thanks.

Found Deceased - CO - Gannon Stauch, 11, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, 27 Jan 2020 *Arrest* #50

Letecia Stauch: Alleged killer stepmother gets access to 1K pages of discovery for murder trial of 11-year-old stepson

www.websleuths.com

Oh, now you're asking I can't seem to remember the details now, but I will try to find them!

 

[Curious Me]

I think the mental hospitals are better equipped to keep people like LS from harming others, personally. There's always at least one ward for the dangerous....

I don't see her as an especially dangerous, or more hard to control prisoner. (I did see her escape attempt, but I think that happens often. The news is full of people getting shot by LE, so there's a lot of people like her.)

There's so many people like her in prison and on the streets. Letecia hasn't really been on the streets or in a gang before, but there's plenty in prison who have. I would hope the prison system and her own cellies can keep her in line. I don't even see her as a gang leader in prison, but I guess she can get in with one.

We have a problem in my town with inmates in the jail and prison dying, but not from these kind of conditions. This man had Schizophrenia and it's outrageous the conditions were so inhumane. ​

Man with Mental Illness Died in Bedbug-Infested Jail Cell, Was 'Eaten Alive by Insects,' as Family Speaks Out

LaShawn Thompson, 35, died in September 2022 after being "eaten alive by insects" in his jail cell, his family's Georgia-based attorney says.

people.com

Spoiler: More Graphic Article

GRAPHIC: Schizophrenic Inmate Is Eaten Alive by Bugs in Filthy, Infested Jail Cell

On Thursday, Georgia police said there is an ongoing investigation into September’s death of a jail inmate whose family says he was essentially eaten alive by bedbugs and other insects. Lashawn Thompson, 35, died at Fulton County Jail after being housed there for three months for simple battery...

www.crimeonline.com

 

[Kiranerys]

Did anyone else notice that she was stuck in that box with Agent Grusing, yet she didn't once mention being claustrophobic (that we heard anyway) like she did in that nice big comfy room with a sofa and hot pockets when they wouldn't let her keep the door open?

 

[Bodhi]

Here's a link about LS's June 2020 escape plan. She promised another inmate part of the $75,000 she had in a checking account for obtaining a broom handle she could use to smash a window.

Gannon Stauch case: Stepmother faces new charge after plotting jail escape

Letecia Stauch faces new criminal charge after allegedly planning a jail escape.

www.denverpost.com

 

[Megnut]

Did anyone else notice that she was stuck in that box with Agent Grusing, yet she didn't once mention being claustrophobic (that we heard anyway) like she did in that nice big comfy room with a sofa and hot pockets when they wouldn't let her keep the door open?

Oooo, good observation!

Nor, too, in the transport van when she just needed some air, thought she'd get some by sucker-punching a LEO in the face with a loaded monster drink.

She's polite that way.

Jmo

 

[Curious Me]

...ETA: I compare LS to Betty Broderick -- no remorse and will forever be the victim -- blaming others for her actions. Having served 32 years of her 32 to life sentence, Broderick's twice been denied parole, and her next eligible date for consideration is not until 2032.

When Is Betty Broderick Getting Released From Prison? | Oxygen Official Site

It’s been 30 years since Betty Broderick was convicted of shooting her ex-husband and his younger new bride to death in their bedroom, but she won’t be getting out of prison any time soon. Betty was sentenced to 32 years to life in prison in 1991 for the slayings of ex-husband Dan Broderick, 44...

www.oxygen.com

I thought of Betty Broderick, in comparison, too. Just want to say, your whole post was very thought provoking. Thank You for backing up what you say with some of your own in-depth research and links.

I need to do more homework on the correctional facility vs what I'd call a prison, or penitentiary. It sure sounds La Vista would be geared for someone like Letecia. Is that where she'd go? Thank You.

La Vista Correctional Facility | Colorado Department of Corrections

cdoc.colorado.gov

​

 

[Seattle1]

She is safer to society in prison....JMHO.

Agree!

I totally agree with you, although it would make me smile to think of LS in a state mental ward lol. As long as she never gets out…..it’s all good.

A few years ago we had a young, very talented intern that was diagnosed with disabling schizophrenia. He'd been raised by his already elderly grandparents and shortly after his grandmother's death, their residence was lost to the state for Medicaid reimbursement. While this state lien concept was wildly foreign to me, our homeless, former intern bounced between the state mental hospital and group homes. On meds, he became physically unrecognizable to us. Visiting on a good day, we'd catch a glimpse of his quick wit and engaging smile.

In 2017, we learned he died while in the state mental ward. Rumors were he died of aspiration pneumonia but I'll always wonder about this. What I know for certain is I'd never want LS (or somebody like her) anywhere near somebody truly mentally ill.

While in the mental ward, there was no privacy or single rooms. And if housed with LS and that mouth 24/7, I know I'd either have to throw her out the window or jump myself. Just sayin...

 

[Cindizzi]

Oh, now you're asking I can't seem to remember the details now, but I will try to find them!

You mean the 75k that “ G-pa “ set her up with?
And she tried to bribe a fellow inmate with.

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https://www.courts.state.co.us/Media/Opinion_Docs/20CR3170.pdf

 

[Seattle1]

Oh, now you're asking I can't seem to remember the details now, but I will try to find them!

No worries! I was thinking of the defense witnesses when I came across your dated post.

 

[Seattle1]

You mean the 75k that “ G-pa “ set her up with?
And she tried to bribe a fellow inmate with.

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View attachment 416485

https://www.courts.state.co.us/Media/Opinion_Docs/20CR3170.pdf

Of course, by our very own historian with archives on speed dial!

I recall LS had a special mention in an Uncle's obit and wondered if there was any truth to the $75K defense fund.

Thanks again @Cindizzi for the refresher and for providing this was allegedly from G-pa. Sounds to me more like LS was trying to buy a friend and/or comrade while behind bars. MOO

 

[Megnut]

When Al wouldn't get his FBI friends to give T immunity, I'm surprised she didn't try to buy an immunity necklace off eBay.

No, T, that's not how immunity works.

Jmo

 

[Cindizzi]

Have been listening to the Grusing interview today. I have to take it in small bits at a time because she drives me mad.

When he asked her about bath salts, she says well that all came about because at Gannon’s school they had some people come in and talk to the class. Said they were all dressed “ in their little outfits “- then says “ well, they were professionals- showed the kids CPR. “

Said Albert had to sign a permission slip or an email or something.
Then she said they talked to the kids about things like “ this is your life on crack”

She thought it was very in depth for fifth graders.

Grusing asked Did Gannon tell you about it? How did you know all this?

She said actually they did it at the school she was teaching at first. Then the other teachers in the District saw pictures and requested it for their classrooms.

Interesting.

Some truth ? Any truth?

 

[iamshadow21]

This. ^^

Being a teacher, educator sounds good. Profession that engenders respect.

She wants something for nothing.

Throws her "Dr." out there to impress. To command respect she didn't earn.

Like flight attendant. She never was one, but you'd never know it from asking her.

And proud military mom? Because her daughter once walked past a flag?

The only part of step-parenthood she wanted, far as I can tell, was to look good. Not to be a good one, just to look the part.

Dumbnoxious.

Sidling up to Special Agent Grusing?! Ha! Like she was partnering with him. Give her the pinky-swear and she'd let him in on her inside info -- and by inside, I mean coming out of her arse. Oh, T. Tried to share her info with Al but he wouldn't partner with her, then tried with El Paso, same result, now giving Grusing a chance. Supersecret info she has, exonerates her but nope, she's not giving that over for free. Utterly ridiculous.

But T was reading the room, too. Applying her knowledge of how people operate. Grusing was relaxed, conversational, pandering (at first) and she thought she had an ally -- and by ally I mean someone whom she thought she could filibuster. I really think she thought she could finagle immunity which she could then use as her ticket to worm her way back into Al's bed. Akin to her fake polygraph. "Cleared".

Till Grusing turned on her.

It was my favorite moment of the whole week.

Jmo

It's like all the stuff she throws in AS's face. She demands unconditional loyalty, companionship, and acceptance of her version/s of events from him simply because she's his wife. She never seems to comprehend that a marriage is a PARTNERSHIP, and that absolutely nothing she is doing towards him shows loyalty, concern, understanding of his pain, or trust, not to mention the understanding that they are EQUALS. Everything is shoved way up her end of the scale, around her wants, around her demands. She's throwing her exceptional privilege and status in his face and expecting to be treated with respect unquestioningly, completely failing to read the room or the reality of marriage - that she has a responsibility to him as well. In LS's world, everything flows towards her. There is no concept of free and balanced exchange. And there is certainly nothing freely given without the expectation of payment of some kind.

Very much my opinion only.