Found Deceased CO - Gannon Stauch, 11, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, 27 Jan 2020 **ARREST** #43

[Love Never Fails]

I feel the same way -- AS has to be smothering under a cloud of guilt and regret. He's likely beating himself up over not recognizing the extent Tee would go to -- to protect herself and to get her way.

I also agree about HH. There could have been some dynamic in the home that pitted Tee and HH against GS. JMO. MOO. HH sure does show up assisting Tee a whole lot in the AA. I've known two blended families with wicked in-fighting between step-siblings.

Based on the AA, to me it is apparent that HH is in Tee's corner, and we are not privy to what went on in that house, so it's very difficult to judge it fairly.

What we do know is that Tee did something so horrible that she ought not see the light of day outside prison walls again. The trajectory of HH's life has been changed forever, and how she chooses to handle this situation will determine what kind of woman she eventually becomes.

I still want to know what a 17 year old was doing working on a school day -- the day GS likely perished.

It’s likely HH graduated early, like December. A lot of kids can do that now. Or maybe she graduated the year before, maybe began school a year early. I never gave a thought to her missing school.

All your points are good. There were a lot of dynamics taking place in that house. A lot of evil from LS.
I feel bad for AS and his daughter and the guilt. I feel tremendous sorrow for Gannons mother also.

 

[MsBetsy]

Sorry if this has been mentioned already, but if GS did return to the house after the shopping trip on Monday as LE has concluded & he got out of the truck on the other side, then it appears he exited the truck independently & quickly. Therefore, it appears the assumption that he was sluggish, drugged, or injured when entering the truck at 10am is incorrect. Has this been discussed here at all?

Well, the camera was several homes away and investigators said they couldn't positively identify Gannon.
I couldn't tell if he was drugged or even walking slowly but some think he was. A few also said they thought he was walking at normal speed.

Technology is not always perfect. There may have been a glitch or a pause when Gannon exited the truck and that's why it wasn't captured.

So at this point I think it's just speculation
and assumptions.
Imo

 

[Knox]

Yeah, I wondered about that too. I thought maybe she didn't want AS to know she had lost her job.

Maybe she was going to blame Gannon for losing her job? But she sent that text, if she already knew she lost her job why do that?

 

[Love Never Fails]

I agree as well. There was a personality conflict between the two -- the likes of which is extremely rare -- but deadly when it occurs.

That does not excuse what Tee did -- nothing can excuse that -- but it was likely a factor in her plan to off her stepson. The question for me now is what did HH know and when did she know it?

I always come back to the same question. If it was so bad, why didn’t LS just leave? Her life wasn’t invested in this man. They were only married five years. She already had plans to leave, and was actively searching for a new job and apartment.

Think about this though. As she is looking for work in Florida and Denver as an airline stewardess, she is in orientation for a local teaching job. Sounds like her mind was all over the place. She is demented and Gannon paid for it.

She will never admit the truth.

Saw last night that Patrick Frazee wrote to CBS news stating he was innocent! People like Frazee and LS will go to their graves lying to your face.

 

[oviedo]

Now wait a minute @oviedo, your post gives me a little hope! So if they had additional key footage, they don't have to disclose it? It would definitely be part of discovery though, right? I'm assuming something like that can't just be a bombshell at the trial.

I do believe there is more video (similar to what happened in PF trial) that will nail down her timeline. IMO

 

[MsBetsy]

Duplicate

 

[Knox]

They don't have to disclose it in the arrest affidavit, no.

But the whole purpose of that document was probable cause to arrest Letecia. Their theory was that he went in that house, she killed him, and he never came back out alive again.

At the time, it was a no body case. They needed to prove he died. In order to prove that, they needed him to have died in that room where blood was found. Video evidence of him coming back and entering that house would have made this whole thing a whole lot easier. There was simply no reason to not include it, if it existed.

I'm not saying he didn't get out of that truck. I just don't see a reason they would not have included something that important to back up their theory.

What's interesting to me regarding RD's video. Couldn't the FBI have performed some sort of work to clear up the video? Was that even attempted?

 

[Megnut]

I think Dan May was at the house twice to confirm for himself that they had a strong case for murder, no body. That they could make a case for where the murder occurred and how the murder occurred.

But I think they concede there's no PROOF he returned, it's just that, if the crime scene was in fact a murder scene, he would have had to.

Again, I want to highlight TS's insistence he returned with her. Because polygraph tests, becauses heat technology. Oh, how she loves her becauses. The fact that she tries to gaslight us into believing he came home all but confirms for me he did not.

Something to consider, highly unlikely but then, she's BSC -- what if she DID return with someone? Eguardo. Hopping out fast, activity upstairs and down. Carpet repair ...

Picked him up a block away from Petco.... hustled him out of the house later that day, in her car.

Unknown male DNA...

No rape, just a hired hand.

Me, I don't see anyone exiting the trucking the far side....

But it's not the CRAZIEST story ever told.

Think about TS's ever-changing storylines: sge changed them to accommodate items of discovery, often before they were discovered!

Maybe someone else WAS in the house that day. Smuggled in, smuggled out, paid in cash --

I wonder how much joint monies disappeared in and around these busy BSC days...

JMO JMO JMO

 

[wyome]

I'm curious about this fake polygraph site. If they refused to hand over her positive poly because of the "nature of the questions", I wonder what fake questions they deem acceptable. Wouldn't everybody ordering up these fake polys be suspect and involve some type of crime?

 

[pcrum12]

What a mess TS made of her "American Dream."

In her own words, "A normal person doesn't do that."

Just like she uses words to create confusion, in this case, she also used cars, locations, bits of truths and mountains of deception.

Let's don't forget that, as of that Sunday night, she had the first mess to clean up. Carpet, couch, smoke, blood. That may have been BEFORE a second incident and possibly a third.

It's seemingly impossible to pin her down because her stories and her words are amped up.

Me personally, I think up to a point on that Sunday/Monday, she was still operating on damage control, clean up, cover up, call in sick and it wasn't until morning that she switched to premeditation for murder.

I think what's most confusing is how confused SHE was.

Leave her phone home to prevent tracking. But bring Gannon's. Use Gannon's phone to set up his fake text but then also use Gannon's phone (the text to HH) to presplain leaving hers (purposefully) at home.

Needing the appearance of Gannon being at home at 3:15, TO leave (to fit her runaway story).

She never intended for anyone to know they were gone from 10 to 2 IMO. Except for HH. That ONE TEXT stands out to me sharply. Why? Why did she need HH to be able to reach her?????

And leaving her phone at home? WAS it meant to show she'd been home all day? Surely she would have known her (lack of) movements would be recorded by ADT...

It remains, she was up to no good between 10 and 2, specifically 11 and 1.

He never came home with her. That's the one thing she fought hard to make us believe otherwise.

JMO JMO JMO

THIS^^^^^

 

[BeachSky]

Well, the camera was several homes away and investigators said they couldn't positively identify Gannon.
I couldn't tell if he was drugged or even walking slowly but some think he was. A few also said they thought he was walking at normal speed.

Technology is not always perfect. There may have been a glitch or a pause when Gannon exited the truck and that's why it wasn't captured.

So at this point I think it's just speculation
and assumptions.
Imo

I watched the series Exhibit A...the episode on -video forensics- was fascinating. Highly recommend it.
I don’t have the actual quote but IMO the expert described surveillance “video ” as a series of “still photos” strung together in rapid succession.

IOW as I understood him, it’s not like being there...it’s not an EXACT replay of what happened. He said a frame could be missing because of a glitch in the camera or glitch in the motion detector...or simply because what you are -looking for - was a millisecond between captured data.

MOO

 

[pcrum12]

Another thi

**for clarification , below I'm pondering her initial report and there for initial idea/plan. not the revolving adaptable fluid follow ons.**

wondering why LS chose the after 3.15 time slot to establish the run away narrative.
what did she tell LE she was doing all day till that point?(she didn't know about RD video then)
why not have utilized that 4hours she was out and about in that theory??
if she left gannon at home because he was unwell at 11 years old isn't really that diabolical in my books. especially when we all have phones to check in constantly.
she had to be up to something nefarious to leave her phone behind.
the intention and time allowed for it.

that damn RD VIDEO makes everything not gel.
the candle video another layer of complication/implication.
the photo of gannon in his bed that morning bizzaar.

if gannon had of died through the night or before 10am Monday I think she would have utilized the time in the runaway theory.
so....her not including the middle of the day into the run away theory supports he was indeed with her as the video suggests.

hope that makes sense.
I wonder if there was the possibility she snuck home in that duration and cleaned or worse made the mess to clean

moo

Another thing: If she first told LE that he left to go to friends at 3:15, Laina was home at 3:11? Wouldn't she have seen him leave since she sent her out to ride her bike?

 

[catch_22]

I'm curious about this fake polygraph site. If they refused to hand over her positive poly because of the "nature of the questions", I wonder what fake questions they deem acceptable. Wouldn't everybody ordering up these fake polys be suspect and involve some type of crime?

My guess is that most of their business deals with couples and infidelity.

JMO

 

[Knox]

I'm curious about this fake polygraph site. If they refused to hand over her positive poly because of the "nature of the questions", I wonder what fake questions they deem acceptable. Wouldn't everybody ordering up these fake polys be suspect and involve some type of crime?

Not a stretch to conclude Mr. Devlin either reads the news or even Googled her name. Nope, not touching that one with a ten foot pole. The phone calls took place on February 18th.

Q- "What do you do now just delete it, go on about life and keep the money"?
A- "Yes, we do indeed".

Damn, she's an idiot!!

 

[MsBetsy]

One thing I haven't seen discussed, but I've had to skip a lot of pages so perhaps it was discussed, is whether she shot him in the house. The AA seems to suggest he died there if I'm reading it right, and her charges include use of a firearm, so did she shoot him while he lay in bed? That would explain the blood splatters on the wall, but she would have risked someone hearing the shot. Being in a basement, however, might have muffled the sound.

Yes, it has been discussed and I think it's a possible scenario.
She may have used the pillow to muffle the sound, since apparently there is one missing. I'm not sure how that would explain the blood splatter on the walls but it's possible that she used different weapons. She may have bludgeoned him on the head with a heavy object and then shot him.

Either way, it would appear that he suffered massive head trauma and possibly other injuries.

Imo

 

[MerryB]

I'm curious about this fake polygraph site. If they refused to hand over her positive poly because of the "nature of the questions", I wonder what fake questions they deem acceptable. Wouldn't everybody ordering up these fake polys be suspect and involve some type of crime?

Probably geared towards cheaters.

 

[MsBetsy]

What's interesting to me regarding RD's video. Couldn't the FBI have performed some sort of work to clear up the video? Was that even attempted?

Well, if we are to believe TS, they have special technology to analyze shadows and can detect body heat from the video.

Of course a normal person would know that is not true, but I do think they have technology to make the image more clear, and it's likely that they used the best that they have.

Imo

 

[Megnut]

Not a stretch to conclude Mr. Devlin either reads the news or even Googled her name. Nope, not touching that one with a ten foot pole. The phone calls took place on February 18th.

Q- "What do you do now just delete it, go on about life and keep the money"?
A- "Yes, we do indeed".

Damn, she's an idiot!!

Perhaps the BEST part of that is that he DIDN'T delete it! He saved it! Which is how we know the questions she wanted asked!

JMO

 

[MerryB]

I thought from the start that LS killed him in a fit of rage and then spent the rest of the time covering up the crime. I was absolutely stunned when the charges of premeditation were released, the whole thing is just too messy.

That said, there are a couple of things that seem to lend themselves to deliberate premeditation like the search for whether Nintendo can locate a switch or whether a ‘parent can track my phone’. Supposedly he was alive in the truck when this search was made. Either the event had already happened or she was staging for a future attack.

The ‘can my parent track my phone’ search, iirc, took place while she was at PetCo. Within minutes of Gannon texting AS and asking if he could play Zelda, there’s a search that sets up a potential runaway situation. He ran away because he wasn’t allowed to play his switch, for example.

The whole sequence of events seem like a set up to stage a runaway situation, which makes me think that whatever happened, it took place Sunday night.

Having seen the AA and the google searches for whether LS is allowed to leave a child unattended might be because she was planning on making it look like he a) runaway at an undetermined time because she was out when it happened, or b) there was a home invasion and an intruder killed him.

The photo of him in bed at 8 that morning is odd, unless it’s part of the staging and she has made sure there is no blood visible in the picture. But then it would have been stupid to then change the bedding before reporting him missing because it messes with her staging!

I can’t reconcile the fact that he was not only alive and walking but that he also supposedly dropped the switch in the RD Video of him leaving with her at 10ish. Wasn’t he banned from playing it as punishment?

So much of it is nonsensical. I can’t get over the amount of evidence they have against her to believe it was premeditated. But then, there is the video of him leaving in the truck, clearly walking and alive at 10am...

It’s chilling!

Great post!
What if she sedated him & drove around in the car, waiting for him to fall asleep. It took longer than she anticipated.
Once he was asleep, she returned home and backed the car into the driveway so she could carry him out more easily. We obviously don’t see this on video.
She carries him to his bed & attacks him. In this scenario, she’d likely not use a gun, but something she’d want to assure he couldn’t escape from, like a blunt object.

 

[Hatfield]

I always come back to the same question. If it was so bad, why didn’t LS just leave? Her life wasn’t invested in this man. They were only married five years. She already had plans to leave, and was actively searching for a new job and apartment.

I keep coming back to that too. If there was some incident where she hurt him because of her rage with the carpet and couch being ruined then even at that point you would think she would just cut her losses and take off with her daughter or just face the consequences. But no, not with this twisted person. She takes it a step further and ends up killing Gannon to avoid any responsibility for anything.

Which really makes me seriously wonder if she had always wanted to kill him to get back at the bio parents. And when the carpet incident happened it was easy for her to take it to the limit because she had always wanted to kill him anyway.

Someone shared a few pages back that she had mentioned something like "some day the bio parents will be sorry for how they treated me" or something like that. I dont have the reference so not sure when that was said or the exact words. If that is true then that really shows she wanted some sort of serious revenge on the bio parents and it really shows premeditation into what eventually happened.