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Morning testimony up until Noon lunch recess.
Judge Werner said he knows Letecia Stauch is not feeling well, and may need to be taken out of the room at any point today. “If it feels like you’re going to throw up or something like that, you need to let your attorneys know,” said Judge Werner.
Dr. Loandra Torres, a forensic psychologist, is resuming the witness stand. She conducted a competency evaluation and sanity evaluation on Letecia Stauch.
“At this part of the evaluation, what we’re trying to do is get out the defendant’s story, their perception of everything that happened to them, what they were thinking or feeling, and what actions they took. This is important of evaluations of insanity,” said Dr. Torres.
Jurors are now listening to part of the forensic interview with Letecia Stauch. It’s more than an hour long.
Forensic psychologist: “Talk to us about what happened on the day of the event. There may be things leading up to it.”
Stauch: “Where do you want me to start at?”
Forensic psychologist: “Where do you think it begins?”
Letecia Stauch described an accidental shooting, when she shot someone who was wearing a cape, who she later learned was Gannon. Letecia said, “I would never purposely hurt Gannon… I never knew once that it was Gannon.”
She said the noise woke Laina up, Gannon’s younger sister. She mentioned a report where Laina, “she said on there, Gannon’s body was not moving… she helped me carry Gannon’s body to the car.”
Stauch said, “I didn’t even know it was Gannon at that time until I moved the cover.” She said Gannon was barely talking but was still alive. Stauch said she was in complete and utter shock, and began throwing up.
Stauch said when she “woke back up,” she heard a howling noise. She said she went to the garage and heard a noise. “That must have been when Gannon took his last breath,” she said.
Stauch said Laina was asking what was going on. Stauch also said Laina and Harley had an expression like they had just seen a ghost. Stauch said she couldn’t believe what just happened. “I never would have purposely hurt Gannon,” Stauch said.
“To know that he was speaking to me and Laina as we were trying to take him up the stairwell…. I started going into different personalities of what’s going on… We have to find him,” said Stauch.
Stauch said her mind was in protective mode, because she thought someone was in the house and trying to hurt them. She said her personality named 'Maria' thought it was her step dad. “I gain absolutely nothing out of hurting a child,” said Stauch.
“They painted me as this monster,” said Letecia Stauch during her insanity evaluation. Stauch said she believed she was not okay and was going crazy. She said she had never been through hallucinations, but she believes she was in a psychosis and was going to wake up eventually.
Stauch at one point believed she could bring Gannon back from the dead. “I told my mom I completely lost it… They told me, ‘You had lost it, you can’t bring somebody back from the dead... You are crazy, and you need to go to a hospital.’”
Dr. Leondra Torres has resumed the witness stand. Prosecutors asked about Letecia Stauch reviewing Gannon’s autopsy. “I believe she said she had obsessed over it,” said Dr. Torres during her testimony.
Dr. Torres testified saying, “There were concerns about Mrs. Stauch’s credibility.”
During the forensic interview, Stauch said Gannon wasn’t killed on the afternoon of January 27. Instead, she said Gannon was killed after midnight that night, which was the 28th.
Dr. Torres talked about Stauch’s comments of seeing someone in the home who was wearing a cape, and her personality 'Maria' shooting them.
“It seems as though that’s what she’s trying to imply, because she talks about going into protection mode. Often times she references 'Maria' as the protector," said Dr. Torres who testified about Stauch claiming she switched personalities when the crime was committed.
Dr. Torres said if Stauch had dissociative identity disorder, she believes Stauch would have had a lack of understanding, awareness and memory of that point in time, and would have expected her to report more loss of memory, and not the small details.
Dr. Torres also said she reviewed the interview with Laina, Gannon’s younger sister. Dr. Torres said Laina did not mention being present or helping carry a body upstairs. At one point during the forensic interview, Stauch said about Laina, “it was very traumatic for her too.”
During the forensic interview, Stauch also alluded to how she wanted to take Gannon’s body from one place to another, so someone could bring him back to life.
Dr. Torres testified saying when Stauch reviewed Gannon’s autopsy, Stauch said they were not stab wounds on Gannon’s body, and instead, they were burns.
