Found Deceased CO - Gannon Stauch, 11, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, 27 Jan 2020 #28 **ARREST**

[kittythehare]

According to Colorado law, "a person commits tampering with a deceased human body if, believing that an official proceeding is pending, in progress, or about to be instituted and acting without legal right or authority, the person willfully destroys, mutilates, conceals, removes,or alters a human body,part of a human body,or human remains with intent to impair its or their appearance or availability in the official proceedings.
Letecia Stauch chooses not to fight extradition to Colorado on first-degree murder charges

So this charge doesn't necessarily mean she moved the body from the intial crime site.
But only that she's hidden the body...?

Hiding a body does not mean moving a body.
At this stage I'm beginning to believe his body is irretrievable.
It is possible he will never be found and that LE knows
this already.
If that was not the case, the public search parties would still be active.
Flashback to the first presser, LE confirmed , in response to a question from a journalist. that they had been in contact with landfill.

My biggest interest was in searching for him and finding him alive but if not alive, then dead and hopefully intact.

If he is in a landfill site he will not be coming home.
No body does not mean no prosecution or no conviction. Her internet searches, if her devices can be found will go a long way towards providing that necessary circumstantial evidence.

The rest will be a mere macabre spectacle of a cornered rat attacking all and sundry, a horror movie, in other words.
It is likely most of the evidence they have is that which they obtained from the family home, evidence of torture and abuse.
His little sister will be interviewed with the assistance of highly qualified personnel, play therapists and the like and they will present their findings and conclusions. It is likely that testimony will be about evidence of abuse in the family home.

Realistically an autopsy 5 or 6 weeks post mortem will be inconclusive.
even if his remains are located now, they are unlikely to tell a conclusive tale unless bones are recovered which can tell a story of gunshot splinters etc.

For the last several weeks I think it's more likely the searches were centered around finding evidence from a criminal than a body.

If she researched this in advance, her chief objective would have to have been finding a location or methodology that would disappear him forever.
In that she appears to have been successful.

 

[Rosiebones]

Apparentely TS has claimed it was her own car that she drove to the airport, she told this to Leigh Egan from crimeonline.Even if
It could be a lie? But a very easy one for LE to uncover.

Even if it was her own car, he must have asked her why is she leaving her own car, why don't I drive it home, and most importantly, WHY are you even renting a car? I wish I had been in the back seat of that rental to hear that conversation.

 

[Brit]

My question is this. Why did she go to the airport in the truck and leave it and pick up a rental AND her husband and take him home? Why didn't he drive the truck home? What could she have said to AS that made sense about leaving his truck?

This is what I am wondering too....did AS originally leave the pickup truck at the airport? Thus, he had no idea TS had been driving it around.... perhaps she decided to pick him up instead of him driving himself home because he was too distraught to drive? Maybe she wanted to leave the pickup truck at the airport knowing LE might be snooping around the truck if it was at the house? She might’ve been planning on picking the truck up when she dropped the rental off, and getting it cleaned up. Was the pickup truck seized at the airport by LE, or did TS pick up the truck? Or was the truck left there for LH to take upon her arrival?

 

[Kyte]

I do believe the rental car company posted on Twitter, that the 900 miles was a typo.
I will try to search that out when I get a chance to post in media links.

The rental car bothers me and I have a strong feeling it’s important to this case. She dropped the pickup truck at the airport and rented the car, and drove AS home from the airport. I believe she picked the car up at 8/9am and AS landed at 12/1pm. Now she had a 3 hour window to get things done.....but I wonder if that was a doable timeframe to get anything done.....depending on the distance between their home/wherever GS is located and the airport.

I wonder if she left the home at all after bringing AS home from the airport? Did she leave for a few hours to grocery shop/run errands? Did she leave the home permanently that day? In her first interview with Spencer, she said she had been shopping for clothes and underwear because she had no clothes with her and couldn’t go back to her home to gather some belongings. That statement makes me believe that she left in a hurry or was never allowed back into the home. Why wouldn’t she grab a few days of clothes, or even go back into the home to grab some things? Did she have that rental car alone for hours by herself after AS returned home? Was that the day she left the home permanently? Because if so, she had hours and hours with a rental car by herself.

if she did in fact move GS body with that rental car, this indicates a huge misstep on LE part. If this case was not labeled as a runaway from the beginning, they very well could’ve found GS body in the first few days of his disappearance. Even if they find his body now, weeks and weeks of evidence will be lost. TS would not have had the freedom or ability to go back to move the body as she would be under scrutiny and suspicion by LE.

we will find this out if/when the arrest affidavit is unsealed. LE says that expect TS’ defense attorney to unseal that upon the first hearing. So when we ask, why seal it anyway, if that’s what their expectations are anyways.....might be to get a few extra days to come up with a way to explain that first misstep in investigation on their own part to the public. Guess we will have to wait and see.

MOO

I've not heard that the rental company have claimed it was a typo before so thank you for pointing that out.
It's good to know she didn't travel such a long distance as it means Gannon will be found nearer to home.

 

[kittythehare]

Has it been verified that she emptied the joint bank account?

No, not in the slightest

 

[Kyte]

Even if it was her own car, he must have asked her why is she leaving her own car, why don't I drive it home, and most importantly, WHY are you even renting a car? I wish I had been in the back seat of that rental to hear that conversation.

I know,it doesn't make any sense.
I'm guessing AS was so distraught and concerned that his son had been missing OVERNIGHT at this stage that he accepted her weird reasoning for the car rental....To look for Gannon in a car he wouldn't recognise!!
Yeah right

 

[Runswithscissorz]

Has it been verified that she emptied the joint bank account?

Sorry I thought it had, after skimming through posts to catch up.

Also, I made a typo and don’t know how to edit, should have been they won’t assign a Public defender UNLESS you’re unable to afford one. I think she can’t prove she’s unable to hire one herself. So much Lily Pulitzer to sell

 

[Kyte]

Hiding a body does not mean moving a body.
At this stage I'm beginning to believe his body is irretrievable.
It is possible he will never be found and that LE knows
this already.
If that was not the case, the public search parties would still be active.
Flashback to the first presser, LE confirmed , in response to a question from a journalist. that they had been in contact with landfill.

I do remember that and it has always stuck with me.
But if LE thought there was even a very small chance of him being in a landfill
Wouldn't LE have been searching there by now, surely..?
Sifting through the rubbish like they did with the snow.?

 

[Brit]

I've not heard that the rental company have claimed it was a typo before so thank you for pointing that out.
It's good to know she didn't travel such a long distance as it means Gannon will be found nearer to home.

i have looked and looked, I was so sure I saw this correction somewhere on Twitter, but now I can’t find it. So please take that info with a grain of salt until it can be confirmed as accurate information. At this point, go by what the receipt says until further confirmation shows otherwise.
Sorry, just wanted to correct myself so false info isn’t being discussed.

 

[sleuther0192837465]

Good morning all! Here for Gannon

 

[stattlich1]

In terms of finding Gannon, I see a couple possibilities.

His body is gone forever, being subjected to that which I will not describe herein.
Proof of his body having been subjected thusly possibly being obtained by LE, possibly not.

His body will be found intact, in some remote location, ravine, wooded area, hand dug well, rocky outcropping/crevice/cave.

His body will be found in several places.

I am not convinced the 2x4 was utilized as a weapon.

Speaking of 2x4's specifically, is there any definitive statement from LE/MSM that it was, in fact, a 2x4 that was found, as opposed to, say a 1x6, or some other dimensional lumber? Reason I ask is, a 2x4 in my part of the world is not called a board.

 

[doublejjays]

It was reported that they were using a rental because they were going to go "door to door" looking for G and didn't want him to see their own cars. The idea was that he would run/hide if he saw their cars, but wouldn't recognize a rental. I'm assuming this was all Tee's idea.

 

[musicaljoke]

I hope they got lost on the way... I think water boarding might help get some answers

It hurts whenever I see someone casually advocate for the use of cruel, degrading and inhumane treatment within the justice system. We are readers who have come from all over the world, including places that don't have justice in their legal practices. TS would be no more likely to tell the truth with the illegal use of torture than she would if given a media interview. She simply cannot speak the truth.

But Gannon can and will. I pray that he will be found soon.

 

[Kyte]

It was reported that they were using a rental because they were going to go "door to door" looking for G and didn't want him to see their own cars. The idea was that he would run/hide if he saw their cars, but wouldn't recognize a rental. I'm assuming this was all Tee's idea.

Hi @doublejjays and welcome to WS

 

[Brit]

In terms of finding Gannon, I see a couple possibilities.

His body is gone forever, being subjected to that which I will not describe herein.
Proof of his body having been subjected thusly possibly being obtained by LE, possibly not.

His body will be found intact, in some remote location, ravine, wooded area, hand dug well, rocky outcropping/crevice/cave.

His body will be found in several places.

I am not convinced the 2x4 was utilized as a weapon.

Speaking of 2x4's specifically, is there any definitive statement from LE/MSM that it was, in fact, a 2x4 that was found, as opposed to, say a 1x6, or some other dimensional lumber? Reason I ask is, a 2x4 in my part of the world is not called a board.

I believe nothin has really been confirmed about the board other than TS interview regarding it. I assume it is a board from AS woodworking? But who knows really....she has come out with so many stories at this point.

 

[kittythehare]

I do remember that and it has always stuck with me.
But if LE thought there was even a very small chance of him being in a landfill
Wouldn't LE have been searching there by now, surely..?
Sifting through the rubbish like they did with the snow.?

what they usually do is to section off an area of it.
A search of it may not be public information.
Also remember the distance she allegedly traveled that day, that is two towns and the length of time it possibly took them to obtain information from her journey, bearing in mind she allegedly carried no phone and we do not know whether her alleged apple watch was even worn or functioning that day. It was information she gave to a journalist. Not necessarily factually correct.
Could be more than one landfill.
Costs of excavating landfills are extraordinarily cost prohibitive and time consuming, rubbish is compacted and the chances of finding an intact body are zero

 

[ChuckMaureen]

My question is this. Why did she go to the airport in the truck and leave it and pick up a rental AND her husband and take him home? Why didn't he drive the truck home? What could she have said to AS that made sense about leaving his truck?

LS drove her own car to the airport, rented a vehicle, did whatever for a few hours, picked up AS from that same airport and then they searched for Gannon.

 

[NCWatcher]

LS drove her own car to the airport, rented a vehicle, did whatever for a few hours, picked up AS from that same airport and then they searched for Gannon.

I have read "neighbors" said AS arrived around midday. But I've also read he flew into Denver not CS. Do we know for sure what his arrival time was and which airport he flew to?

 

[Kyte]

what they usually do is to section off an area of it.
A search of it may not be public information.
Also remember the distance she allegedly traveled that day, that is two towns and the length of time it possibly took them to obtain information from her journey, bearing in mind she allegedly carried no phone and we do not know whether her alleged apple watch was even worn or functioning that day. It was information she gave to a journalist. Not necessarily factually correct.
Could be more than one landfill.
Costs of excavating landfills are extraordinarily cost prohibitive and time consuming, rubbish is compacted and the chances of finding an intact body are zero

Oh dear
Not looking good is it!
Can't remember what it was I watching but some kind of true crime doc where they did search a landfull
They obviously had good info on where and when the rubbish was dumped to search through it though.
They did mentioned how much the compacted rubbish expanded
All they found was one bone of whomever it was they were searching for
Sorry, wish I could be more precise on what and who this was
You never know there might be something on one of the families computers alluding to what she did with the body?

 

[Yellow Rose]

Good morning WSrs! I'm here for darling Gannon and praying his family are reunited with him today!