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

[GRT]

I would think that she would have used "my stepson is sick today " excuse instead of "my stepdad was killed in an accident" as an excuse to not go into work.
Just lies, lies and more lies from this monster.

Exactly. It's like she can't control herself -- she has to make up something totally off the wall. It's almost as if she's seeking sympathy at the same time she's making up an excuse. As if a simple excuse wouldn't be enough. She wants them to pity her and empathize with her as well. That's just nuts. JMO

 

[Boxer]

I don’t think we’ve heard anything about that. If they did, they must have done it very early on, as the media would have gotten wind of it.

All we know for sure is they were used in the search effort itself.

Dogs were brought to the house during the search of 105/Perry Park. It was a discussoon here because some speculated the dog/s were brought the house to recharge scent, but dog handlers here on WS said that would never be be necessary and if dog/s were brought to tbe house it was to search the house.

 

[Megnut]

In the AA, the LEO clearly says GS returned that day and that the murder took place afterward. I am curious why so many are so quick to disregard what the LEO believes happened. But also what is the narrative that fits with what we know in the AA because I tend to believe what is there?

I don't dispute the AW as written. I accept it as LE's best theory of events at the time it was written.

In it, they concede they don't have conclusive video showing him return. But they believe/d that the crime scene indicated a non-survivable injury, resulting in death. Therefore, they infer he had to be at home at the time of the injury....

I agree with that near 100%, only I shift the timeline. I think it was a violent assault, but from which he didn't die. Therefore, it remains POSSIBLE he defied the odds, enough so that he walked to the truck....

We may find that she did in fact medicate him, overmedicated, so that he would be half asleep when she did what she planned to do.

And I think she did THAT at a remote location.

I won't be surprised if the Prosecution revises their theory a time or two before trial.

There's no delicate way to say this but Patrick Frazee allegedly admitted that killing someone (with a baseball bat) was harder than he thought it would be. And he was hitting against a wood floor.

If we believe TS used blunt force, it would've been absorbed in some measure by the mattress, perhaps rendering it an ineffective method for murder.

But this gets me to all three. A severe cut Sunday night, blunt force Monday morning, after the creepy sleeping photo, and then finishing the horror she started, with a gun offsite.

I am not bound to this theory, it's just my best guess based on the current information as I see it.

We'll know a whole lot more when this goes to trial. Until then, we guess.

JMO

 

[H73]

Exactly. It's like she can't control herself -- she has to make up something totally off the wall. It's almost as if she's seeking sympathy at the same time she's making up an excuse. As if a simple excuse wouldn't be enough. She wants them to pity her and empathize with her as well. That's just nuts. JMO

Her excuse to work regarding a death in the family means she’s knew she was going to be out a while. It also covers her part truth mentality.

 

[Leve]

I found the layout of 6627 Mandan Dr. I don't know how to post it but.....

As you come up the basement steps right at the top you turn right into the laundry room that leads to the garage.

 

[catch_22]

Did LE bring dogs through the house? I don't recall...

For some reason I thought there was one report of a LE dog being brought to the home.

I was confused why they would do that because, of course, his scent would be all over the place around his home. Ha, I think I may have wondered if they were "testing" the dog.....to make sure it's nose wasn't broken. To make sure that the dog would hit on gannon's scent......

I was only thinking about scent dogs, but I now realize that a cadaver dog would make a lot more sense.

JMO

 

[pcrum12]

In the AA, the LEO clearly says GS returned that day and that the murder took place afterward. I am curious why so many are so quick to disregard what the LEO believes happened. But also what is the narrative that fits with what we know in the AA because I tend to believe what is there?

For me, it's that the AA does state that they can not definitively say Gannon came back with her and that their reasoning that the death occurred at the time is only based on the fact he was seen getting in the truck, the timing of her return, and due to the amount of blood in the room. Unless, they have evidence of death (scientific), it's just a gray area and I'm just not convinced. But what do I know, really. I could be totally wrong.

 

[Boxer]

For me, it's that the AA does state that they can not definitively say Gannon came back with her and that their reasoning that the death occurred at the time is only based on the fact he was seen getting in the truck, the timing of her return, and due to the amount of blood in the room. Unless, they have evidence of death (scientific), it's just a gray area and I'm just not convinced. But what do I know, really. I could be totally wrong.

MOO also much of their Gannon returned timeline has to do with the ADT alerts.

 

[Megnut]

Crazyspeak:

I can't get TS's voices out of MY head.

I hear her saying, "I would never ever hurt this child..."

We know she's already put the whole thing behind her, not unlike CW who is certain his pregnant wife was pre-forgiving him for four heartless murders.

In TS's head, I'm near certain she believes she didn't hurt Gannon. She helped him. So mow, the landlady who be mad at him won't be so mad.

I can imagine a 1000 ways she thinks this isn't her fault.

And she's a 1000 times wrong.

JMO

 

[RaspberryMama]

I would think that she would have used "my stepson is sick today " excuse instead of "my stepdad was killed in an accident" as an excuse to not go into work.
Just lies, lies and more lies from this monster.

maybe there was a stipulation in the contract about childcare not being a valid reason for missing work. So she went all out. Also, she loves to lie. Why tell the truth when there are so many great lies just waiting to be told?!?

 

[Love Never Fails]

In the AA, the LEO clearly says GS returned that day and that the murder took place afterward. I am curious why so many are so quick to disregard what the LEO believes happened. But also what is the narrative that fits with what we know in the AA because I tend to believe what is there?

In order for investigators to come up with the theory that Gannon was murdered at home, they had to believe he came back home that day.

Now that they have completed the autopsy and maybe if another witness speaks to them, that could change. We aren’t saying the AA is wrong. We just have questions. Nothing wrong with that.

Just like you having your own “opinion”. Nothing wrong with that. Just please don’t attack ours.

in any case, she murdered Gannon.

 

[RaspberryMama]

I'm surprised there's no mention of a dog picking up the scent of a cadaver.

Or, I should say, if a dog did pick up a cadaver scent, why wouldn't it be in the AA? It would go a long way toward convincing me/us/a jury that he died at home.

 

[DTPeke]

I found the layout of 6627 Mandan Dr. I don't know how to post it but.....

As you come up the basement steps right at the top you turn right into the laundry room that leads to the garage.

In my early sleuthing, I found this VIRTUAL TOUR of the Lowell model floorplan which was posted/marketed with the listing of 6627 Mandan Drive.

I believe from online videos the Stauch residence did not have a wrought iron banister but this provides the layout of the house. i.e. the amount of stair steps from basement, the sliding glass door, bedroom placement etc. I was hesitant to post earlier but now that the AA says the crime scene took place inside the house, I feel it is relevant.

Again, I am not saying this is Stauch house but you can virtually walk through this to get a real feeling of the floorplan layout.

Explore The Lowell - Saint Aubyn Homes in 3D
in case the above link does not work use this link, under pictures choose virtual tour
6627 Mandan Dr , Colorado Springs, CO 80925 - Listing #2443582 by Shorewood Real Estate

 

[HaikuMommy]

Per the AA, this looks like the timeline regarding where Gannon's body was. Let me know if you think I got anything wrong!

Monday, January 27:
LS killed Gannon in his bed after 2:15pm. Put the particleboard into the trunk of the Tiguan to protect it. Loaded his body into a suitcase, wheeled it up the basement stairs to the garage, and then into the back of the Tiguan (atop the particleboard). A few drops of blood fell on the garage floor here. Gannon's body likely remained in the Tiguan until the 28th.

Tuesday, January 28:
At 8:30am LS rents a Kia in Colorado Springs, leaving Tiguan. 8:48 am Letecia texts and asks HH to move her car into the garage (parking over where a blood stain was). 8:50am Letecia picks up Al at airport. Tracking data shows the Tiguan later leave the Colorado Springs Airport at 7pm on the evening of the 28th. Then tracking shows between 9:15pm and 9:30pm, LS takes the Tiguan containing Gannon's body to the initial dump site where the particleboard was later found. This is likely when she first dropped off the suitcase with Gannon's body, along with the bloody particleboard.

Friday, January 31st:
Between 4 and 5:15pm according to the tracking device (AFTER the Spencer interview?*), Letecia returns to the dump site in her rented Nissan Altima. In the AA, it is supposed by LE she went back to the dump site to see if LE were there, survey how well hidden the body was. But this was before they found him 1400 miles away; now it seems obvious she RETRIEVED his body around 5pm on the 31st, leaving behind the bloody particleboard and a sock, which were found later on Feb. 15 when LE searched the area (after obtaining tacking data from the Tiguan and the Nissan Altima).

Sometime thereafter began the trip to the final dump site in Florida.

*This link shows the Spencer interview was posted at 2:41pm PST on the 31st (3:41pm in Colorado): VIDEO: Letecia Stauch, stepmom of Gannon Stauch, spoke to 11 News on Jan. 31. She was arrested March 2

 

[Leve]

I think he returned Monday because of the suitcase he was found in. We didn't see her take the suitcase that morning and Rigor would have set in by the next evening so she couldn't have gotten him in the suitcase at that point.

I'm sorry to be so graphic.

 

[ab01]

There are many thing that people tend to look at in the AA and say that can't be accurate that doesn't make sense etc. I would counter with there are many things that T has done that were irrational and bizarre. She's not normal, she doesn't think rationally and we will probably never understand why she did many of the things she did. Just bc they don't make sense to us doesn't mean they didn't happen the way that investigators have said they did. They had a boatload of evidence even before GS body was recovered IMO

 

[RaspberryMama]

In my early sleuthing, I found this VIRTUAL TOUR of the Lowell model floorplan which was posted/marketed with the listing of 6627 Mandan Drive.

I believe from online videos the Stauch residence did not have a wrought iron banister but this provides the layout of the house. i.e. the amount of stair steps from basement, the sliding glass door, bedroom placement etc. I was hesitant to post earlier but now that the AA says the crime scene took place inside the house, I feel it is relevant.

Again, I am not saying this is Stauch house but you can virtually walk through this to get a real feeling of the floorplan layout.

Explore The Lowell - Saint Aubyn Homes in 3D
in case the above link does not work use this link, under pictures choose virtual tour
6627 Mandan Dr , Colorado Springs, CO 80925 - Listing #2443582 by Shorewood Real Estate

Thank you for this!

I have a much better grasp of where everything happened after viewing this.

 

[Lori Cooper]

I'm surprised there's no mention of a dog picking up the scent of a cadaver.

Or, I should say, if a dog did pick up a cadaver scent, why wouldn't it be in the AA? It would go a long way toward convincing me/us/a jury that he died at home.

The AA is just a document to show that they have enough evidence for an arrest warrant, which they did. It by no means, includes all of the evidence that they have.

 

[Love Never Fails]

There are many thing that people tend to look at in the AA and say that can't be accurate that doesn't make sense etc. I would counter with there are many things that T has done that were irrational and bizarre. She's not normal, she doesn't think rationally and we will probably never understand why she did many of the things she did. Just bc they don't make sense to us doesn't mean they didn't happen the way that investigators have said they did. They had a boatload of evidence even before GS body was recovered IMO

That’s a good assessment and however it did happen and whatever timeline LE decides to go with at trial, I am behind them one hundred percent.

Just because I have questions, it means nothing.

What matters is the conviction. They will get that.

 

[RaspberryMama]

When the AA states "back door" is it referring to the sliding glass doors on the back of the house?

I find it interesting that what I assume is the laundry room on the main floor is closer to the stairs coming up from the basement than those sliding glass doors off of the dining area. Wouldn't there be a big laundry sink in the area off the garage?

Earlier there was a discussion about going out the back to dump water during the clean up. If the laundry area / mud room was closer, wouldn't you use that instead of going outside 10 times?