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

[kittythehare]

I took the original poster to mean his younger sister…?

Oh God, did I misread it? I'm sorry.

 

[Murphy1950]

My apologies for double posting-dropped phone in bathtub! It’s misbehaving.

The site has been double posting for days...probably not you.

 

[JuneRose]

It’s a reporter’s microphone.

why would he put his microphone down near the snow? I think its something they use to search undergrown with.

 

[crhedBngr]

@imstilla.grandma : I'm so sorry about your brother. I can't even begin to imagine this!

{{{HUGS}}}

 

[kittythehare]

Interesting thought. Something to think about.

Oh girl, you are breaking my heart. He is gorgeous. More than gorgeous. Wow. He’s gonna drive the girls crazy someday. I can hold on just a little bit longer.

Thank you all so much for your kind words and thoughts. It’s okay. He is still with me right now in my heart. He is absolutely my inspiration to help with missing person cases. The “unknown” produces such an incredibly lonely feeling for the family. Watching my parents and siblings fall apart. I watched this mother beg for people to please have hope with her. I listened and I heard her. I think she thinks she’s ready for the inevitable. She’s not.

You have my full support.
May your journey be fruitful and may Divine protection surround and protect you both.

 

[JTR1973]

Oh God, did I misread it? I'm sorry.

Well it gets confusing with the two sisters because one was sort of shoved into the limelight herself but the younger sister does raise questions in my mind regarding when she got home from school and what she thought/was told about where Gannon was. Valid questions, which I’m sure LE has asked and gotten information on. I think it’s great how they are keeping everything so close to the vest, but the selfish part of me wants to know everything!

 

[esmerelda]

why would he put his microphone down near the snow? I think its something they use to search undergrown with.

Thread #11? It was mentioned reporter getting "sound" for his story

 

[Ontario Mom]

Here again for Gannon! I Do have a question because i know we aren't allowed to discuss things on social media...

The mods have specifically said that topic is off limits. It came straight from TS's social media.

 

[PawneeDew]

It’s a reporter’s microphone.

I thought reporters were not allowed that close? Why would he be holding it close the ground like that?? Trying to pick something up from the ground?

 

[JTR1973]

I thought reporters were not allowed that close? Why would he be holding it close the ground like that?? Trying to pick something up from the ground?

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…

 

[Honey_West]

why would he put his microphone down near the snow? I think its something they use to search undergrown with.

This question has been asked before and it turned out that it in fact is a reporters microphone. They were setting up for a segment.

 

[kittythehare]

I hate to say this, @Bravo, but I’m thinking she might have brought Gannon to the most isolated area she could get to in the timeframe she had, (before HH and SS got home from school). She left him in the open rather than trying to bury him in frozen ground hoping he would be discovered by wild animals. The damage done could very well prevent them from determining COD. She’s off the hook and could attribute it to the fact that he ran away. MOO

I can understand why he may be unfindable and I could probably accept it, but there's no way the DA would have walked into that house with the crime scene people unless something extremely important had been discovered. Not enough? They took loads of objects from that house, there must have been something..? JMO

 

[10ofRods]

This one such an operator she is possibly quite certain that no blood at all exists in that area.
Did this story not emerge in response to her receiving news of CSI being at the house?
Did her untrue accusation against RD not emerge immediately in the wake of his release of the CCTV footage? The news station had to come out publicly and state they had not paid him for his interview or film.
If she said the blood was in the garage, would it not be wise to interpret it as there being absolutely zero blood in the garage but possibly lots somewhere else, or none at all?
Need to stay 20 steps ahead of her all the time.
JMO

This is entirely possible. I keep thinking about one person I knew well in my life (who was in fact Cluster B), my aunt (so I can write about her here, and she is no longer with us, so I feel it's okay). (Scroll if you're not interested in reading this long post on personality disorders!)

My aunt was, superficially, a wonderful, giving, often funny person (at least, she thought her antics were funny and her siblings sometimes agreed - although, in true borderline fashion, she had managed to split the entire family when she was a teen ager and her oldest brother had not spoken to her since she was 17 and would not be in the same space as her, so that I rarely saw that uncle - my aunt controlled when he could attend family reunions because he would not have his own family around her, I never got all the details of why, but I know enough to understand his decision). She would love-bomb people and my parents used to talk quietly about whether she would eventually turn on me (I was a baby when I first met her) the way she'd turned on every other kid in our family (including her own daughter) when they got to a certain age. My dad said "She likes dogs and babies, but when kids get a mind of their own, she can't stand them."

ANYWAY, that aunt repeatedly disciplined her own daughter (a lovely, sweet girl) by threats of or actual abandonment. For example, leaving her daughter by the side of the road (on the road to Vegas, in Colorado, in Los Angeles). The little girl would sit down and cry. Dad said Barb never moved from her spot. After some time, Aunt F. would come back and ask her if she was sorry and put her back in the car.

That's just one example. My cousin was born in 1938, so I suppose my aunt thought it was safe to do this, but truthfully, I don't think my aunt ever thought about that aspect of her tantrums and fits. She threw things, she ranted, she insulted, then she love-bombed the victim. She did this with both husbands. My dad blamed her for the death of her first husband (long story, I should do a blog). It was an "accidental" death caused, my dad says, by Uncle Ralph's emotional distress and distraction due to something my aunt did/was doing. She tormented her (very passive and submissive) second husband in my presence and when I went to spend a week with her (what were my parents thinking???), he was my ally and savior. She withheld food from her own child (and from me, when I visited) in order to get control. She deliberately made food that her daughter hated in order to mock the daughter or control and punish her. She did this to my dad, too, and to my mom, and to me. She did it constantly to her husband. She had to invent new crap to make in order to accomplish this. It's almost unbelievable.

I still don't know exactly why my aunt was like that. Her father was Antisocial PD, possibly a narcissist. She grew up around him, the younger kids didn't. Her father was a violent man, but never actually hit her (he beat the boys). She was sort of abandoned (she was sent to be a maid for Grandma's cousin when she was 14 and everyone said that's what changed her, but I don't know about that). It's true that she was pretty much on her own from age 14.

My aunt did a long series of minor criminal acts, for which she was either excused or never caught. It's mostly minor stuff (although some of it would be major theft if the victim had filed a report - she took things from the homes of elderly friends and relatives, through a variety of ruses or just outright stealing, but always with an excuse). She constantly violated traffic rules.

She lied blatantly and constantly, usually to sew discord. She loved practical jokes and people who didn't know her well (like neighbors and members of her church) thought she was generous and funny. She loved to get me gifts (up until about age 9-10), usually getting the gifts at garage sales or thrift stores - but I loved them. I still remember the night she decided I was awful. I was doing homework (long division) and she didn't like how I was doing it (teacher taught me). BTW, my aunt liked to pretend she had been a teacher in Kansas, but now that I think about it, that had to be a lie. I don't think she even had a job after being a maid in her teens. So my uncle said we should have a competition. He'd dictate long division problems, my mom would solve them on a calculator and we'd see who was faster and more accurate. I won. She threw a hissy fit (and in fact, ended up leaving our house in the middle of the night, we didn't see her for months, my dad said it was great and my mom even agreed). After that, no gifts of course. In fact, about a year later, she took some of the gifts back (packed them in the middle of the night and took off).

That last example is a classic narcissist move. Unbelievably, she couldn't handle a "narcissistic injury" (any slight or perceived slight to her self/self-esteem) and was of course highly reactive and emotionally labile. The tantrums, throwing things, destruction of property (etc) are more borderline-ish.

When she was 90 years old, she was diagnosed with a brain tumor (that had probably been growing for 5-6 years) but my dad always wondered after that if she had had something organic wrong with her for years...I don't think she did. Sometimes I think maybe her poor brain just couldn't take it any more. Day to day, her life was so dramatic and full of turmoil. Her daughter and family eventually moved far, far away and ultimately, stopped giving her their address for fear she would just turn up (she would have).

 

[NuttMegg]

Thinking about if this happened to my son--because the car is something to sit or lean on so your foot is free and you don't want to track blood through the house? He's too big to easily carry, so rather than have him hop on one foot to the kitchen or bathroom, I'd bring the bandaid or whatever to him in the garage while he was sitting or leaning on the car...which would be the only place to really sit or lean in my garage other than against the wall. jmo

I also don't see anything particularly remarkable about sitting the boy on a car, (bumper, tailgate, "edge" of back seat with door open, whatever they were unloading from) and bandaging him there. Lots of savvy ppl have first aid kits in their cars, and in some situations it's required. Due to her own motor mouth vagueness, some have escalated this blood thing into chopping him up into pieces in the garage, saying that he was barefoot when she never said that, all sorts of imaginative even gruesome scenarios. It could have been his bumping against the lawn mower, or weed whacker.

So I don't see anything bizarre about her bandaging his foot in the garage, the suspicious aspect is that she mentioned it at all. And how it (what??) ties in with suddenly, after being bandaged, walks out to the side gate?

 

[OldCop]

I listened to the interview she did with her back to the camera. I read her "statement". I honestly don't think she's intellectually capable of being several steps ahead of anyone.

Neither do we, but she thinks she is smarter than everyone.

 

[MontereyMama]

Funny how our minds zero in on different points. Analytical tendencies are likely something all of us members have in common.

If Gannon (or traces of his presence) are indeed found in the current search area, one question I have is this : If she wanted people to think he ran away, isn't that an awfully long way for a slight young boy to walk? Very improbable, IMO.Even she should be able to reason that clearly.

So --- later she changes the story to a possible abduction / kidnapping. What changed? Did she go out in the dark of night and relocate something?

I don't know. I may be going crazy myself. If I feel like I'm obsessed, heartbroken and weary, I can't imagine the toll on family and searchers. She really should set up a lemonade stand this summer to help cover the cost of this incredibly draining search. Hopefully she won't be in a position to do so.

 

[Ontario Mom]

why would he put his microphone down near the snow? I think its something they use to search undergrown with.

Someone posted a link that mentioned he was just getting some audio for a news report he was working on.

 

[AgeofAquaruis]

This first poster that was released quickly and is here on WS (and looks more thrown together) states 315-330. Do we know when that window expanded by 30 minutes?

So vague, yet so descriptive. He's a 'runaway' yet didn't even take a backpack. Clothes, toothbrush, personal items, Sonic games. MOO

 

[PawneeDew]

Thread #11? It was mentioned reporter getting "sound" for his story

Someone on Twitter commented that. (not confirmed?)

 

[PawneeDew]

Someone posted a link that mentioned he was just getting some audio for a news report he was working on.

Anybody know who posted the link?