GUILTY CO - Gannon Stauch, 11, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, 27 Jan 2020 **ARREST** #39

[Pianoturtle]

Familytreenow.com lists a brother of someone named Letitia Hardin as living near where Gannon was found. Not sure if she ever used that variation...

But it also states that LH is 46 years old.

 

[Kittybunny]

How does it get clear under the bridge, then? Am I missing something? In that crime scene video, the people are having to go down under the bridge. I doubt she left it in plain sight in between the two roadways. Maybe.

If it was a suitcase or container, momentum from the drop bounced and rolled it under.

 

[Thugwaffle1]

@LietKynes sorry for the confusion with my post. I was trying to find a clever way to point y’all to twitter without saying twitter since social media is not allowed. So, I am sorry WS but i will just say it, take my punishment, and ask for forgiveness later...

There is (or I should say “may be” since it’s not MSM confirmed yet) surveillance video of LS bringing a suitcase that ‘appears’ to be the same one poor GS was found in into a hotel.

I am sorry I broke the rules....

 

[Amster]

Where was little sister while LS was doing her evil acts? Especially the Sunday night, Monday evilness.

 

[10ofRods]

So could it be possible that LS loaded the suitcase into her car, drove to airport to get AS, picked up AS and then rented the car so she could leave her car with his body at the airport and not at the house where LE was still searching in and around their house? I could just puke thinking that AS probably was likely just feet away from his son or may have even briefly ridden in the car where his little boy was

Yes, it's entirely possible and this is where my mind goes as well. We really don't know. What we do know is that she has a natural talent for conducting herself in the most gruesome and cruel manner possible. Of course she's completely immune to her own poison.

The number of people who are traumatized in her wake is large (LE, schoolmates of Gannon's, kids hearing snippets of this story on the news, the neighbors, all the people who tried to help find Gannon, lawyers who have to deal with her in any way, jailers, many others). Landen and Al get a fresh wave of grief and horror. A speedy trial may not even be possible in the current CV19 situation.

If Al was made to ride in a vehicle where his son's body was...that's just beyond beyond.

I really wish we knew which vehicle she took to the airport and whether she ever picked AS up in the first place (she could have left him a vehicle and rented the car for her own purposes - in which case she was able to avoid AS and his questions for quite some time, thereby cementing his suspicions).

She either took her own VW SUV or Al's truck. SM messaging around the time of Al's arrival revealed interesting details that we cannot discuss here.

 

[Bobbywoo]

Been there, one too many glasses of wine while in quarantine-sick and crabby. I’m sorry WS. I digress...you know I keep coming back to that “empty bench” held for LS friends and family
at arraignment. Reality check.

I'm so there with you. I don't even remember what I posted, just woke up the next morning with 9 posts deleted and on a week suspension. And apparently I'm a master at circumventing the profanity rules. I honestly don't remember. No more wine and angry posting for me.
I can not wait until this case goes to trial and all these puzzle pieces are laid out before us and assembled. It can't come soon enough.

 

[Aloe]

Wait a minute... she had a moving van, but whined about having to go shopping to get underwear?
How the heck does that make sense, that she had time to load things that needed a moving van, but forgot her gotchies?

Exactly this ^ And no media coverage of her with the U-Haul loading up from the house? Where was LE at the time? And did she have a storage rental anywhere?

 

[krinjee x]

It now makes sense if she did take her own car to the airport (still mind boggling).

If she did drive some 150-400 miles in that rental car on that Tuesday (places him somewhere), how odd it is that she returned. She had to have realized that her movements in that first car could be traced. I keep wondering how she did all this without a phone or internet access. It's possible. But it's also possible that someone close to her was helping.

If she has a weak grasp of geography (probably), then Florida may have seemed like the last place to drop him, before heading north/home.

Was there a vague plan in her mind to still try and implicate Landen? By moving the body closer to SC?

We are dealing with someone with severe cognitive issues here.

"Was there a vague plan in her mind to still try and implicate Landen? By moving the body closer to SC?"
Now this is ringing a bell @10ofRods because she did make statements insinuating LH was involved. Heinous. Anyway so what if the original runaway plan blown up by the neighbor's video was turned into let's blame it on LH which brings to mind a SC location. Hop on I-10 and go south about 400ish miles and leave a suitcase somewhere to be picked up later. Return rental car on the 29th. Make crazy news interview on the 31st. Leave town February 1st. Pick up suitcase along the way.
Following I-10 on maps shows a southward path until Pensacola and then turning north toward Myrtle Beach South Carolina. So if the new plan was to implicate someone else and SC was the destination....then what happened while traveling toward Pensacola that caused a change in plan.
How is it that she evaded LE during the first few days of February such that there was nobody tailing her during that drive from I-10 to I-95? A lot of sleuthers are questioning this. I think it may be common sense that once the suspicion focused on her because of the neighbor's video that investigating had to be done such as her vehicle and her activities during the last days of January and by the time all that gets compiled then she's already in South Carolina?

InHonorOf G-man

 

[Gardenkeep]

I just got back from driving over the hwy 90 in both directions. The little side roads that are showing up on the maps are gated for maintenance entry only. I don't think she went below the bridge via one of those roads; hard to see the roads and the gates would prevent entry. If she was out there on the westbound bridge at 2am or so on a Monday, Tues. ,Wed. she could have easily pulled to the side on the left lane and thrown him over the guardrail and no one would see her do it. Very light traffic in the early morning hours of weekdays. (My son used to leave for work at 3am on hwy 90 and he loved how empty it was at that hour. ) After seeing the area again I am feeling that this is what happened. It may be possible also that he was thrown into the water of the river and changing water levels left him where he was found. That could have happened at other locations along the river, but it seems like her intention was to throw him into the river and he didn't land where she thought; hitting the rocks instead. If it was at night, it would have been difficult to see exactly where the water's edge is from the vantage point of looking down from the bridge. If she had moved further up west on the bridge, she would have been more exposed to cars coming from the intersection just ahead. Stopping where it seems she did, the curve allowed her to remain hidden and all she had to do was wait for a lack of headlights signifying that a car was coming. I took some video, I'll try to upload later. JMO,moo

Thank you for this really well put together bit of sleuthing! I agree with your theory.

 

[Momof4RN]

I have no idea what social media is throwing out there. "If" somebody is trying to say Gannon was alive and held somewhere until the Florida trip I find that just what it is. Social media throwing stuff out there. I have faith in LE. Colorado charged her, stated he was no longer

@LietKynes i don’t want to be out in WS jail again...let’s just give it a little while
Longer and I’m sure it will hit MSM so we can discuss

oh ! I hope MSM takes note I lost my patience when Carona cancelled my kids school and stole masks at work.

 

[Bobbywoo]

RSBM

I've had to skim pages here but I do have google alerts and I have seen nothing in the MSM about him being found in a suitcase. I did see someone here mention this about the chat last night but I haven't had time to watch that.

Maybe @leighEg or @Tricia can pop in here and clear it up?

It was addressed in the Websleuths live webcast last night. If you view the webcast you can also view the comments. I don't remember when it was addressed, but I can probably nail it down to about 20 minutes to an hour in.

 

[GordianKnot]

I'm thinking someone needs to pitch a new reality show.

"Survivor: The Colorado Prison Edition "

They could throw TS and PF in a cell together, along w/ a baseball bat and a 2' X 4' board.

Winner gets to remain in prison for the rest of his/her life.

Loser gets to ride the pine…and by pine here, I mean pine box.

JMO.

 

[floridamomma]

This makes perfect sense. IMO the only other way it may have gone down is her passing off the remains to an accomplice on Tuesday 1/28 when she was putting those miles on the first rental.

Ok. Let's assume she did have a knowing accomplice....who would knowingly drive to florida, dump a child's body on the side of a road?

Ok. Let's assume she had an unknowing accomplice...who would drive to Florida to dump a suitcase on the side of the road and not question it?

I'm undecided on an accomplice. And I don't like indecision.

 

[MirandaElle]

We just drove to the bridge and unfortunately, there were no markers, stuffed animals, balloons, flowers, or anything else We were hoping to pay respects, but we weren’t sure of the exact location. I’m going to have to go through the videos again and see.

 

[LietKynes]

I know. All the speculation sounds just horrible. I’m inclined to think the sharp instrument was Sunday night followed by a beating (OMG) and the gun lastly if it was in fact used and not just threatened. I think Gannon showed evidence of the blunt force trauma and maybe firearm as well. I think information on the sharp instrument came from a minor child who God forbid witnessed it. MOO IMO
ETA spelling

I'm thinking about the minor children in that house.
There are no words I'll use here.

 

[MassGuy]

Ok. Let's assume she did have a knowing accomplice....who would knowingly drive to florida, dump a child's body on the side of a road?

Ok. Let's assume she had an unknowing accomplice...who would drive to Florida to dump a suitcase on the side of the road and not question it?

I'm undecided on an accomplice. And I don't like indecision.

That’s part of my reasoning. The second part is the fact that additional charges have not been filed, and that Gannon wasn’t discovered earlier.

That’s ignoring the sloppiness that indicates to me that only one idiot was involved, as opposed to more.

ETA: I think if she did have company, they were somehow unaware of Gannon’s body being there.

 

[pepper 34]

I am just so baffled by Gannon being in Florida.

I really hope she did not involve her daughter in all of this. Already some horrible speculation going around in SM about her. HH is a MINOR who has lived with this crazy pants her entire life. HH is also a victim, AFAIK.

Although I don't think a plea would be entertained by the prosecution, I think that's not an issue anyway. I think TS will ride this all the way to the bitter end, shouting her innocence all the while. I think she'll have a hundred different stories, all in her favour, and will never admit anything.

I think LS has a connection to the area. Who would take such a chance of throwing a body over and between 2 bridges unless they had a fair idea of where it was going to land? If she didn't know the area, how could she not suppose it could land right on the roof of someone's boat (because she had just crossed a body of water) ... or in the middle of a street below? I'm going to assume she disposed of the body late at night-very early am. It would be very dark out there as I see no lighting anywhere near that area. I think she's very familiar with the area for those reasons.
ETA: typing corrections and clarity

 

[Gardenkeep]

I'm thinking someone needs to pitch a new reality show.

"Survivor: The Colorado Prison Edition "

They could throw TS and PF in a cell together, along w/ a baseball bat and a 2' X 4' board.

Winner gets to remain in prison for the rest of his/her life.

Loser gets to ride the pine…and by pine here, I mean pine box.

JMO.

LOL Right?

 

[Faebray]

You know, I understand as human we are/can be emotional beings. I understand the feelings of jealousy, resentment, anger, felling worthless, feeling like somebody is better than you, feeling you can't do anything right, feeling like your world as you know it is about to end. I understand these feelings can be overwhelming and hard to deal with.

BUT

What I don't understand is projecting these feelings and emotions on to an 11 year old child. Channeling those to a child to the point that you abuse and murder him. Seeing the pain and anguish on his parents face then getting in front of a camera telling them they owe YOU an apology. Moving the small body as far away from his family as possible so he can't be found and at least brought home to the ones that loved him so much. Posting videos of the child waving to the camera to taunt the parents of a child you murdered. Sitting so cocky in front of a judge acting like LEA have made a mistake and will be out before lunch.
Like there are some crimes I can read and follow and be like, "ok, I can kinda see what is going on here," this one, not even close. I can't for the life of me understand why she did this even though I know how hard emotions can be to handle.

I cannot wait until they start unsealing more documents in this case. Although, I know it is going to be hard to read, I'm hoping it will lend an insight to help me at least somewhat understand why she felt the need to take the life of a child that seemed to be so loved. Maybe that is the reason. Maybe she couldn't handle how much love Gannon got from his father, mother, sister, grandparents, everybody that knew him. Maybe she couldn't handle the light he projected and had to put it out.

Sorry, I'm kind of rambling. I've followed many cases over the years. None have punched me in my emotional gut they was this has.

 

[Aloe]

Ok. Let's assume she did have a knowing accomplice....who would knowingly drive to florida, dump a child's body on the side of a road?

Ok. Let's assume she had an unknowing accomplice...who would drive to Florida to dump a suitcase on the side of the road and not question it?

I'm undecided on an accomplice. And I don't like indecision.

If there was an accomplice, IMO, would be knowing.
IMO a knowing accomplice, could be:
someone she could blackmail?
someone who had been a partner in other crimes?
someone who fell for one of her lies (they believed it was all a horrible accident..)?
All speculation. All MOO