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

[HaikuMommy]

bbm

What?

Pure speculation, but how else could LS hear the conversations going on inside the house? It makes sense that could have happened. She could have called HH and then said, "Who's that I hear talking? Be quiet, I want to hear what they're saying." Seems possible, especially with the "...men were sent to a home with a minor female and she was forced to stay there not to leave even for food" text. JMO

 

[lilithblue]

Does The AA provide any tracking information of the Altima from the tracking device placed by LE after the 31st ?

No. There is also nothing from the 30th. They do say she had the car through the 1st, so I'm assuming she returned it before her trip.

 

[BitchieBlackmore]

I dunno about smell if packed away in bags and a suitcase in an unopened car. Dogs maybe could pick up a scent but not humans after 7 hours and the body packed away. I bet she needed the windows down on the drive out of short term parking though. And she probably started thinking about a full detail inside the car given that smell, but everything was closed at 10:30pm after the dumping. Instead of getting a gas station wash on the outside I bet she wanted a full service, because of the smell. And those were only open the next day, maybe not even till 10am...Makes me want to see where the car wash on the list was located in relation to the 10:30pm pickup spot, and what their hours were. Wonder if LE asked the employees about peculiar smells. He was dead for over 30 hours in that car if LE timeline is correct.

Also it was pretty darn cold, especially during the evening hours.

I'm wondering if it was one of those do-it-yourself car washes. The kind that has the pressure washer wand and brush. They often have interior shampoo machines. The ones I have been to take quarters, so a paper trail would not exist.

 

[ab01]

No. There is also nothing from the 30th. They do say she had the car through the 1st, so I'm assuming she returned it before her trip.

Its still chilling to me that she left the "cousin it" interview with Spencer and drove up to Palmer lake to the body dump site. Sheds light on what was going on in her mind at the time during that interview.

 

[MsBetsy]

Don't leave us hanging, then what?

Then she spent all her time online reading what people were saying about the case, trying to come up with an explanation for the evidence, and telling her husband fantasy stories about how both she and Gannon were victims of a horrible crime!

When and how she moved the body to Florida I have no idea.

 

[BitchieBlackmore]

I am horrible with google maps or any maps but I did find a crappy do it yourself car wash at the address listed below in the AA.

I believe the name was Power Wash. It looked sketchy unlike the nice new popular Big Wave car wash listed on the witness list.

I could not find a connection (if Big Wave owned the other car wash). Did she go to two car washes? - not sure but the Big Wave does have a camera pointed at the change machine, the other where she is on video may have had a camera or at least one captured her there.

67……… I submit that Letecia had to clean the vehicle, because there was likely visible blood on the rear end, based on the below luminol reactions. Indeed, video footage was recovered that shows a partial view of a car wash located at E Platte Ave/Bonfoy Ave in Colorado Springs, CO. This video captured a portion of a black SUV, consistent with the VW Tiguan, at or about 1139 hours on January 29, 2020 at the car wash. The time and location are consistent with raw data obtained from the Tiguan’s computer system, described in more detail below……

ETA: like another poster stated Big Wave is near Powers but the one she is videoed at is E Platte

Big Wave Address: 2865 New Center Pt, Colorado Springs, CO 80922

There is a place called Power Wash at 309 Bonfoy, near Platte

 

[Knox]

Trisha is live now. One of the things she shared from Leigh Egan. TS told Leigh she had baseball equipment in the truck that morning and was headed to Play it Again Sports. Was that TS covering for a missing bat? Could that be the cause of the blood splatter?

 

[GordianKnot]

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?

BBM:

Speaking only for myself, I am not at all dismissing LE's theory of when and where GS was killed.
I'll freely admit, I was caught completely off guard when I first saw and read the affidavit and saw they thought he returned home with her and was then murdered in his bedroom.

Having now read the affidavit, it's much easier to understand what evidence led them to develop that theory.
Blood in his bedroom, no blood in the truck, blood on the rear exterior of her vehicle.
Having said that, I'm not ready to marry myself to LE's theory of the crime yet…not by a long shot.

There are several sticking points for me w/ the idea that he came back with her that afternoon and was murdered in his bedroom, including, but not limited to, the following:

• GS's bed being repositioned/pulled away from the wall in the picture TS took on Monday morning, when his bed was usually up against the wall, points to the attack in his bedroom occurring on Sunday night, not Monday afternoon.
• If GS weren't severely injured on Sunday night, why have him stay home from school on Monday?
• The 4-hour drive "running errands" with him, with her phone turned off the entire time.
• GS not being seen or heard from since Monday morning.
• No video footage of him returning home with her that afternoon.
• No reports of cadaver dogs hitting inside the house.

Here's what I keep coming back to, and it's no small consideration:

That affidavit was written before Gannon's body was found.

We don't know how the autopsy/ME's report changed LE's understanding of the crime, but we do know this:

The additional First Degree Murder with Deliberation charge was added only after GS's body was found.
That charge was added after LE had filed this affidavit.
There's something that the DA learned from the autopsy that led them to add that charge.

I think what they learned was that he suffered multiple injuries caused by multiple weapons, and that these injuries did not occur concomitantly.

I continue to believe it's more probable than not that TS attacked GS in his bedroom on Sunday night.

JMO.

 

[Skillz]

I think several of her searches were looking for memes to add drama and air laundry on FB. And she said “we can sell the sofa”. The supposed burned sofa? I think a lot of her social media was a smear campaign to preempt any possible divorce stories about herself. Building a victim defense for being dumped or murder.

Excellent theory. That makes so much more sense than randomly texting google like it was her BFF. I wondered at one point of the google searches were prompts from Siri as well.

 

[Angels27]

I think she stewed over having to call off work (orientation) due to Gannon not able to go to school. She was googling stuff early early that morning and it looked like she wanted to go but found that under 12 is a no no by law to leave at home alone.

ETA: Or may be she really didn't want to go to work but googled that to show Al. But she definitely was googling that topic.

She googled “Police steps a runaway child.” “Police steps for a missing child” and “What is the process for a runaway child?” all at 4:15 am. She knew she was going to kill him by at least 4 am.

 

[LietKynes]

She googled “Police steps a runaway child.” “Police steps for a missing child” and “What is the process for a runaway child?” all at 4:15 am. She knew she was going to kill him by at least 4 am.

Good catch. ^^^

What a way to leave a clear trail for premeditation, TS !!
Let's take a moment to be grateful for her stupidity.

 

[MsBetsy]

Trisha is live now. One of the things she shared from Leigh Egan. TS told Leigh she had baseball equipment in the truck that morning and was headed to Play it Again Sports. Was that TS covering for a missing bat? Could that be the cause of the blood splatter?

I have considered a bat as a murder weapon, or at least one of them.
She could have caused significant trauma to his head.
If she really did use 3 different weapons, she may have had a hard time killing him. Maybe the attack actually started somewhere else in the house and he tried to run away and ended up cowering in his bed.

Imo

 

[DTPeke]

She googled “Police steps a runaway child.” “Police steps for a missing child” and “What is the process for a runaway child?” all at 4:15 am. She knew she was going to kill him by at least 4 am.

Those were on the 28th, Tuesday. He was already dead.

I do think she knew Sunday night what his fate would be.

 

[Cindizzi]

She googled “Police steps a runaway child.” “Police steps for a missing child” and “What is the process for a runaway child?” all at 4:15 am. She knew she was going to kill him by at least 4 am.

Those searches were on the 28th, morning after she reported him missing. Trying to stay one step ahead of LE so she could prepare more lies. JMO

 

[squareandrabbet]

Well, the AA is stamped as REDACTED, so maybe not everything is listed on there that we are privy to.
But I do agree with you, if dogs were there, they would have picked up scent according to what we have read. JMO

I thought that we could see the REDACTED part? That is to say, I remember a paragraph early on that had clearly been attacked by a chisel-tipped Sharpie. Something to do with phone details?

 

[MsBetsy]

She googled “Police steps a runaway child.” “Police steps for a missing child” and “What is the process for a runaway child?” all at 4:15 am. She knew she was going to kill him by at least 4 am.

I think those searches were done on the 28th. So it was the morning after the murder.

But she did Google the information about the switch on Monday, I think.

Imo

 

[ab01]

BBM:

Speaking only for myself, I am not at all dismissing LE's theory of when and where GS was killed.
I'll freely admit, I was caught completely off guard when I first saw and read the affidavit and saw they thought he returned home with her and was then murdered in his bedroom.

Having now read the affidavit, it's much easier to understand what evidence led them to develop that theory.
Blood in his bedroom, no blood in the truck, blood on the rear exterior of her vehicle.
Having said that, I'm not ready to marry myself to LE's theory of the crime yet…not by a long shot.

There are several sticking points for me w/ the idea that he came back with her that afternoon and was murdered in his bedroom, including, but not limited to, the following:

• GS's bed being repositioned/pulled away from the wall in the picture TS took on Monday morning, when his bed was usually up against the wall, points to the attack in his bedroom occurring on Sunday night, not Monday afternoon.
• If GS weren't severely injured on Sunday night, why have him stay home from school on Monday?
• The 4-hour drive "running errands" with him, with her phone turned off the entire time.
• GS not being seen or heard from since Monday morning.
• No video footage of him returning home with her that afternoon.
• No reports of cadaver dogs hitting inside the house.

Here's what I keep coming back to, and it's no small consideration:

That affidavit was written before Gannon's body was found.

We don't how the autopsy/ME's report changed LE's understanding of the crime, but we do know this:

The additional First Degree Murder with Deliberation charge was added only after GS's body was found.
That charge was added after LE had filed this affidavit.
There's something that the DA learned from the autopsy that led them to add that charge.

I think what they learned was that he suffered multiple injuries caused by multiple weapons, and that these injuries did not occur concomitantly.

I continue to believe it's more probable than not that TS attacked GS in his bedroom on Sunday night.

JMO.

I'm with you

It would be a lot simpler if she in fact just stopped along the road in Douglas county and followed him into some brush and shot him or bludgeoned him to death and left him there. But I keep coming back to the bloody particle bd that LE had believed he was transported on. I just can't see why that would be relevant if he was killed outside the home. Additionally I kept thinking that when the suitcase was missing may have clued them to what likely happened. But then it hit me that if T had taken the suitcase when she left the home to move to a hotel, well then we probably wouldn't know weather it was actually there or not when AS returned home. Unless AS had thought to look for missing things like luggage etc when they thought that GS may have run away. Obviously if LE knows that the suitcase was missing from day one then its highly likely that she used it to transport GS from the home. I still can't make up my mind. I was soo convinced that the most likely scenario was that she had evil intentions when they left home that morning for her back road excursion , but the AA tells me differently. Yet I'm still stuck with the insane idea that T knowing she was going to call LE and report her stepchild missing and start an investigation would have risked him being hidden in her car in her own home. For a very controlling person to leave such crucial evidence right under LE's nose is just unfathomable to me and goes against almost every case I have followed. I've seen cases where murderers hid evidence/body's in their own homes or property's, but those cases have always been bc someone else sent LE to their doorstep.

 

[DTPeke]

There is a place called Power Wash at 309 Bonfoy, near Platte

She should have sprung for full service. From memory I recall many full service ones on that major street.

She was caught on camera and left traces of blood. No time to be cheap LS. I guess that just comes naturally.

She picks the sketchy self service one that I would personally pass by but exactly why it was picked.

No worries about personal safety? Galavanting around alone. I guess what are the odds of being raped 3x in one week.

I would like to hear her answer regarding crime that was cut from Spencer's cousin IT interview. It was not relevant at the time but now knowing false rape claims, I would like to hear her response.

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Hey Laurie! That part is still very much in the interview, any edited portions of this were simply to get rid of me adjusting the camera or portions of the interview that didn't involve the case. For example, she talked about general crime when she misunderstood a question.

Edited to add Spencer part...

 

[LietKynes]

I thought that we could see the REDACTED part? That is to say, I remember a paragraph early on that had clearly been attacked by a chisel-tipped Sharpie. Something to do with phone details?

Maybe b/c it was HH's phone # ?
Since she's a minor until May , they'd redact her info.

 

[LietKynes]

I'd have to admit that if I were LE and someone called in a runaway and I happened to see a vehicle with one or more suitcases in a car packed and ready to go --- I might ask some questions, like : "Going somewhere ? "
Js.
After this case.
Less trusting of parents whose children run off esp. at 11 yrs.

There have been other runaways who were younger or older (teens) where I thought they weren't runaways.