CO - Gannon Stauch, 11, Colorado Springs, 27 Jan 2020 MEDIA MAPS TIMELINE *NO DISCUSSION*

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El Paso County Public Information Officer says 82 searchers are combing through 35 acres in southern Douglas County with hopes of finding 11-year-old Gannon Stauch alive 17 days after his disappearance. #9News



Nelson Garcia on Twitter

 

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Officials not using citizen volunteers to search for Gannon Stauch in Larkspur

 

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Anything I Can Do To Help’: Drone Pilot Helps Search For Missing 11-Year-Old Gannon Stauch

FOUNTAIN, Colo. (CBS4)– John Wilson never thought his personal drone would ever be used to search for a missing child. Yet that’s exactly what the certified drone pilot is using his device for following the disappearance of 11-year-old Gannon Stauch. “I put blue tape on here for Gannon,” Wilson said, showing CBS4 his drone and noting blue is Gannon’s favorite color.

“Anything I can do to help, helps,” he said. Wilson lives just a few doors down from the Stauch family. He said doesn’t know the family well, but his kids play with Gannon and other children in the neighborhood.

“I have two boys and, if one were missing, I can’t even imagine what those parents are going through,” Wilson told CBS4’s Kelly Werthmann.

Not long after Gannon disappeared last month, Wilson jumped into action to help. He coordinated with the FAA to fly his drone over the restricted airspace in his neighborhood in Fountain. Wilson and other volunteers thought the aerial approach would be useful to look for Gannon.

“We’re a good size neighborhood in the middle of nowhere. So everything around here is nothing but fields, ravines, huge creek, and there’s an abandoned golf course,” Wilson explained. “I can cover a significant amount of area. You don’t have to weave in and out of trees.”
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Wilson said to date he’s flown over more than six square miles of land looking for clues. “So far everything has been a piece of trash or a stick that looked weird,” he said.

Yet sharing his videos on YouTube, he added, allows more eyes to look for any sign of Gannon. “I’ve had comments from as far as the United Kingdom come in and say, ‘I saw something blue at three minutes of that third video,’” he said.

Even as the search for Gannon has moved to another county some 50 miles away from his home, Wilson’s drone footage is generating tips for investigators. “There’s been five or six tips from the video that I know have been called into police,” Wilson said.
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“Gannon is somewhere but he’s alive…and he’ll come home,” he said
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More at link:
‘Anything I Can Do To Help’: Drone Pilot Helps Search For Missing 11-Year-Old Gannon Stauch – CBS Denver

 

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We have received 540 tips to date. These tips include possible sightings, search suggestions, social media related information, suspicious activity, found property/possible evidence and video/photo/drone evidence. INFO: Call 719-520-6666. #FindGannonhttps://bit.ly/39E3D7a

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GANNON UPDATE: Sheriff’s office tells me more than 100 people are out here searching today. They are focusing on the same area as yesterday. Deputies recently pushed us back before search crews came back out to one spot and started digging up snow. @KDVR @channel2kwgn

Nicole Fierro on Twitter

 

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Ashley Franco
21 min ago

I know this is a bit hard to see, but search crews are continuing to sift through the snowy 35-acre area in Larkspur for anything related to the disappearance of 11-year-old Gannon Stauch. This is the 4th day they've searched the Larkspur area, and day 19 since Gannon was last seen.

Ashley Franco

 

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Neighbors in Douglas County willing to help in the search for missing Gannon Stauch
Another day of searching planned for today.

 

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Former FBI agent shares expertise on Gannon Stauch search in southern Douglas County - KRDO
By Zachary Aedo
February 16, 2020 11:12 pm
Published February 16, 2020 11:09 pm
Former FBI agent shares expertise on Gannon Stauch search in southern Douglas County
A former FBI agent is sharing his expert opinion as law enforcement searches near Larkspur for the missing boy from Lorson Ranch.

11-year-old Gannon Stauch has been missing since Jan. 27 and was last seen by his stepmother. Sunday marked the fifth day since deputies with El Paso County have been investigating in southern Douglas County.

"It's not just a random thing," said former agent Pete Klismet. "With some basis of knowledge from prior cases, somebody has told them something about the specific or general location up there where they may want to look and they may find something."

 

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Gannon Stauch case: Search continues for missing 11-year-old boy in Douglas County
Gannon Stauch case: Search continues for missing boy in Douglas County
El Paso County Sheriff’s Office: “Our hope is to find him alive and bring him to his family”

By Kirk Mitchell | [email protected] | The Denver Post
February 17, 2020 at 10:47 a.m.

The search for a missing 11-year-old Colorado Springs boy in southern Douglas County continues Monday as law enforcement agents scour a 35-acre area for clues about his disappearance, sheriff’s officials said.

National Center for Missing and Exploited Children via AP
Gannon Stauch
The search for Gannon Stauch, who has been missing from his home since Jan. 27, will continue
for the sixth straight day, said Jacqueline Kirby, spokeswoman for the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office.

“Our hope is to find him alive and bring him to his family and we’re going to keep searching until we find otherwise,” Kirby said Monday morning.

Since the sheriff’s office received a tip, scores of people have searched 35 acres on private and public land in southern Douglas County beginning on Wednesday and continuing every day since then, she said.


Kirby declined to discuss the nature of the tip leading to the Douglas County search.
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Nicole Fierro
@FierroNicole
THREE WEEKS WITHOUT GANNON: We are seeing a huge Law enforcement presence sifting through dirt, putting up yellow flags and focusing on the same spot they were digging into Saturday in South Douglas County. I am speaking with someone close to Gannon’s family tonight at 4 and 5pm

Nicole Fierro is on the Fox 31 KDVR Colorado Springs news at 5:00 or 5:30 (Colorado time MST) . The time there is now 1:38 p.m.

The livestream plays previously airs news until it begins live at 5:00 p.m.
The station she reports on:

FOX31 Live Stream

 

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Spencer Wilson‏Verified account @Spencer_WNews 1h1 hour ago
Media not allowed further up right now, but right behind this car crews are putting buckets of snow through a sifter as a part of the search for #GannonStauch. Looks like they are trying to find smaller pieces of evidence that could be clumped in the snow.pic.twitter.com/EEwZAWWuk3

 

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We have made it to Douglas Country. I’ll keep you up to date on what we see on @FOX21News.
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CMoore News® (Carly Moore) on Twitter

 

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Sheriff Twitter
EPCSheriff (@EPCSheriff) | Twitter

 

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CMoore News® (Carly Moore) on Twitter

Traffic is down to one lane on Highway 105 so that crews have room near the road to search. It appears that crews and shovels and buckets.
@FOX21News
#FindGannon

 

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video of the sifting of the snow

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1053035305061713

"EPCSheriff confirmed they’ve been sifting snow since Wednesday, but couldn’t say how they choose which snow they to search."



Spencer Wilson on Twitter

 

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Spencer Wilson‏Verified account @Spencer_WNews [VIDEO]
So, cars are allowed past. Here’s a shot from my phone in a car holster driving by the operation. You can scrub through to see easier. @EPCSheriff confirmed they’ve been sifting snow since Wednesday, but couldn’t say how they choose which snow they to search. #GannonStauch https://twitter.com/spencer_wnews/status/1229477901759696899 …

11:26 AM - 17 Feb 2020 from Spruce Mountain Ranch

 

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.CMoore News® (Carly Moore)
@EPCSheriff wildland fire crews also on scene
@FOX21News

CMoore News® (Carly Moore) on Twitter

 

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Snow Sifters Used In Search For Missing 11-Year-Old Gannon Stauch

February 17, 2020 at 3:52 pm MST

DOUGLAS COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4)– The search for 11-year-old Gannon Stauch has reached three weeks, and still no sign of him. The search for the missing boy continued in Douglas County on Monday.

(credit: CBS)

Searchers returned to the same spot near Larkspur where they began searching last week when the search area was expanded from El Paso County to Douglas County. This is the sixth day in the same area.

Crews collected buckets of snow and put the snow through sifters on Monday. The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office has followed up on 500 tips.

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If you see him, please call the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office right away at 719-390-5555 or 911.

If you have any information that can help in this case, call EPSO’s tipline at 719-520-6666 or email [email protected].

 

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CMoore News® (Carly Moore)‏Verified account @CMoore_News [VIDEO]
Traffic is down to one lane on Highway 105 so that crews have room near the road to search. It appears that crews and shovels and buckets. @FOX21News #FindGannon
3:19 PM - 17 Feb 2020

CMoore News® (Carly Moore)‏Verified account @CMoore_News
.@EPCSheriff wildland fire crews also on scene. @FOX21News #findgannon

3:35 PM - 17 Feb 2020

 

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KKTV Reporter Spencer Wilson response to viewer questions:

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Replying to @Spencer_WNews @EPCSheriff
kind of sucks if they don't find something quick because it's all about to be covered back up

11:50 AM - 17 Feb 2020

Spencer Wilson‏Verified account @Spencer_WNews
Replying to @*******@EPCSheriff
I was thinking about this too, but it’s snowed several days since Gannon disappeared, so this wouldn’t be the first round of snow they’ve dug through. Puts a new damper on their progress for sure though

12:03 PM - 17 Feb 2020 from Colorado, USA

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Replying to @Spencer_WNews
Hi Spencer! Are the searchers placing those yellow flags, or where they there previously? Thank you!

12:43 PM - 17 Feb 2020

Spencer Wilson‏Verified account @Spencer_WNews
Replying to @*********** Hey Sallie, that’s not something sheriff’s officers can share with us, but I’ll let you know what one neighbors told me. There’s a few yellow ribbon style ties that are just from a property evaluation. She was not familiar with the flags, said they were new.

3:22 PM - 17 Feb 2020 from Colorado, USA