Found Deceased CO - Gannon Stauch, 11, Colorado Springs, Lorson Ranch, El Paso County, 27 Jan 2020 *endangered* #12

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  • #161
I don’t think for even a second that the complete radio silence from LS since the second they started searching this area is coincidental. IMO, walls are closing in, and I hope we have progress today or tomorrow, before another storm hits.

IMO JMO MOO and such
 
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Yes. They are not always reliable. Gary Ridgeway (Green River Killer) passed not one,but two polygraph exams,and there have been cases where innocent people have failed a polygraph.

They are 50/50 reliable. And people who are innocent and nervous fail, as do people with anxiety disorders, speech issues, and the more introverted. Habitual liars are often uncaught.
 
  • #164
Can someone tell me how to edit a previous post?

If it's within a certain time period, you can click edit button. If past that point, you can't. (You could report it and ask a mod to delete, though.)

MOO

Edited due to silly autocorrect on phone
 
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  • #165
I felt the same way. They are literally shoulder to shoulder in their search. Is that how you search for a body?

I think one of the reasons this search methodology is being used is due to the snow cover on the ground.

With the snow blanketing everything, searchers could easily miss a child's buried body, even if they were standing at arm's length away from one another.

JMO.
 
  • #166
Yes, we don’t have enough info at this point to say without a doubt. And I’m sure this will be what a defense team will look into. I just keep going back to an amber alert...if he was abducted why then isn’t there one? LE says it’s because certain criteria wasn’t met, and we can’t know that criteria because “it’s part of the investigation.” But I guess anything is possible. MOO

In a new statement released Tuesday to Fox31, Gannon’s stepmother, Letecia “Tecia” Stauch, appeared to imply that the boy may have been abducted.

“I encourage you to think of any suspicious cars that may have been in the area watching a few days prior and keep praying for G,” she said in the statement.

However, in response to Stauch’s statement, the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office says authorities currently have no reason to believe the boy was kidnapped.

“Right now there is no threat to the community as far as this case goes,” El Paso County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Sgt. Deborah Mynatt tells PEOPLE. “We don’t have those specifics to put out there [yet], and we haven’t done so. There’s reasons for that and we just can’t go into those details.”
Police Responds to Claims of Missing Colo. Boy's Stepmother: 'There Is No Threat to the Community'

I believe Sgt. Mynatt, there's no threat to the community and LE has no evidence of a kidnapping.

Of course anything is possible but as a parent I'd be awfully pissed to later learn that there is/was a predator out there stalking children. JMOO.
 
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Until I see a link, in my unprofessional opinion that does not seem like a reporter or microphone...Sorry, a little confused.
I would like to see the “microphone” in question again. If anyone has the link would you please repost. I don’t know much of anything about devices like this but after a quick google search they do make handheld metal detectors that look similar to a microphone. In my opinion it would be painstaking work to use something this small so it could very well just be a microphone. Would they even allow news crews to get this close to searchers?
 

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  • #168
It's largely based on every statement TS has made in regard to Gannon's disappearance.

Although there is no evidence of any type of diagnosis, I think it's pretty clear that she has narcissistic tendencies. At the very least she appears to be self-centered and more concerned about defending her character and actions rather than showing concern for her missing stepson.

She also seems to be inconsistent in her story and purposely leaves out important details which has led to a lot of confusion. If she does have a reasonable explanation for what happened then it's a mystery why she just hasn't come right out and said it.

It leads people to believe she is taking attention off herself and attempting to steer the narrative. It's manipulative behavior. She knows talking about the case is a huge hindrance to the investigation and will not help to find Gannon so why can't she just keep quiet?

If this isn't narcissistic behavior then I don't know what it is.

Imo
I agree. If anything she just lost it
Sure it is. In one scenario, where Gannon "goes to a friend's house" sometime after 3:15, and she says she has no idea which friend it is, he could have been abducted or gotten into the car of someone he knew. Too bad she has no clue at all which friend it was or which house.

But in the last scenario she gives, there's now a POI (according to her) that LE knows about (LE denies it) that she says Gannon met up with or walked with. Apparently, neither parent had enough of an idea about what friend is involved or which person may have met up with Gannon that afternoon (when AS is notified that Gannon is missing, around 6:30 pm, he apparently does not immediately get on his phone and call that house of the friend, and he doesn't call police himself to give them that friend's name or else LE would have gone to that house, more than once). Neither parent knew where he was.

Perhaps she's just trying to cover up neglect, entirely possible (some people can't handle being perceived as negligent, they may even become frantic in an attempt to avoid criticism of any kind). I'm sure Albert's later conversations with LE have helped them sort some of that out.

From my point of view, the area of the search focus speaks volumes as to whether LS is involved. We shall see. LS is certainly not saying or doing all she can to find Gannon, if she actually knows about this other person and didn't say so immediately (and until the video came out, she did not mention that she had taken a sick child out for a 4 hour tour of Colorado Springs and environs).
I’ll be brief-personal experience with Stepson (age 11) with a one track mind-SOFL has water everywhere so it’s normal to see people fishing in neighborhoods, ponds, canals, side of road, it’s everywhere. My point SS leaves house to fish and states he’s going to favorite few near house. Phone with him all times, he’s a bit of a rebellious child, so he turns off phone, jumps in car with 2 teens never met before to go up the road 45 minutes to fish at new hot spot they’ve heard about. It’s dusk and we have same “street light rule” time to come home. We’re searching for him now over an hour it’s dark, we’re now calling 911 and phone rings at house-a grandmother calls and says she’s got our son and they don’t know what to do with him. So, anything is possible. Thanks for reading my diatribe. He’s 14 now and a mess, I digress.
 
  • #169
I don’t think for even a second that the complete radio silence from LS since the second they started searching this area is coincidental. IMO, walls are closing in, and I hope we have progress today or tomorrow, before another storm hits.

IMO JMO MOO and such
I truly pray for his safe return!!!
 
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FWIW, I just checked NOAA history for the weather in Palmer Lake in January. There was NO snowfall in January until 1/28, when Palmer Lake got 1-1/2” of snow. Since then, they’ve received about 2’ of snow. So if GS was left on 1/27, it would’ve been on bare ground, but beginning the following day, there would’ve been at least partial snow cover.
 
  • #171
I assumed it was something like him wanting to get the sound of snow crunching to go along with video footage of the searchers? You know how News shows like to sort of sensationalize and dramatize the stories…

You think that having good sound on a search story is sensational?

(Are we sure that's a microphone in any case?)
 
  • #172
TS's original report was that he left the house sometime between 3:15 and 4pm.
She never did give an exact time, but left the window open for him to have rather conveniently left before his little sister got home from school that day, thereby... not seeing him.

If you go back and read the very first thread and compare the info to what we know now, it's quite the eye opener.
CO - CO - Gannon Stauch, 11, Colorado Springs, Lorson Ranch, El Paso County, 27 Jan 2020 *endangered*

He was in 5th grade, so I'd assume same school as his sister and any friend. If he left before his sister got home, was he just going to hang out with his friends parents and wait for his buddy to get home?

"Hey LS, do you mind if I go to my friend-who-has-no-name's house an hour before he gets home and play?"

"Sure, whatever GS, let's just take a quick selfie before you leave."
 
  • #173
Oh Gannon ... where are you. Jesse girl ... be the hero ... bring him home.
 
  • #174
FWIW, I just checked NOAA history for the weather in Palmer Lake in January. There was NO snowfall in January until 1/28, when Palmer Lake got 1-1/2” of snow. Since then, they’ve received about 2’ of snow. So if GS was left on 1/27, it would’ve been on bare ground, but beginning the following day, there would’ve been at least partial snow cover.
Interesting. I tend to think this whole mess is based on covering up an accident, but IF that isn't the case and some or all of it was premeditated, I wonder if whoever knows where Gannon is was checking the weather and knew about the impending snowfall.
 
  • #175
Until I see a link, in my unprofessional opinion that does not seem like a reporter or microphone...Sorry, a little confused.

Agree. I thought it was a search device too, void finder etc. But here is the link to the Brandon Thompson twitter.
It looks to me after looking at the video that it is a microphone being used by a young man doing work for news, intern age.
Behind him up the fence line a man in a white shirt is filming the crew from his phone.
The searcher on the end by the microphone looks a little startled by the microphone, and not that happy to have him there but keep on pace.
One thing I did notice, is the search line is in step, two kicks, a probe and then move forward. Just like a fire crew keeps pace with their tools.

Brandon Thompson (@BThompsonNews) | Twitter

Its 5 or 6 videos down.
 
  • #176
I would like to see the “microphone” in question again. If anyone has the link would you please repost. I don’t know much of anything about devices like this but after a quick google search they do make handheld metal detectors that look similar to a microphone. In my opinion it would be painstaking work to use something this small so it could very well just be a microphone. Would they even allow news crews to get this close to searchers?

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Brandon Thompson on Twitter
 

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My heart goes out to ALL of you who dealt with (or are still dealing with) those who have toxic personality disorders.
 
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The microphone tweet pic was from Brandon Thompson, Fox 21.
After the question "what is..." he said it was a reporter getting sound for a story.
 
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I would like to see the “microphone” in question again. If anyone has the link would you please repost. I don’t know much of anything about devices like this but after a quick google search they do make handheld metal detectors that look similar to a microphone. In my opinion it would be painstaking work to use something this small so it could very well just be a microphone. Would they even allow news crews to get this close to searchers?
Brandon Thompson (@BThompsonNews) | Twitter
 
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