Found Deceased CO - Gannon Stauch, 11, Colorado Springs, Lorson Ranch, El Paso County, 27 Jan 2020 *endangered* #20

[MamaOV]

Just posted:
Gannon Stauch: Tracking the Investigation of Missing 11-Year-Old Colorado Boy

"Initially, the sheriff’s office responded to the stepmom’s statement by saying they have no reason to believe the boy was kidnapped. But since then, the sheriff’s office has asked the public to notify them if they’ve seen a strange car in the Lorson Ranch neighborhood."

bbm

They did? I don't remember hearing/seeing that.

 

[Love Never Fails]

“But for the family it’s important to make sure the killer pays.“

True words from someone who might also know how it feels. My first little brother ~ I lost him to a cocaine OD under suspicious circumstances. We’ll never know. It was after the service was about over and people were through the family line heading toward the church exit. My mama who held up throughout like the saint she is - screamed in such an agonizing deep echo bellowing from within the very depth of her being - slumping in her seat. “Someone’s going to pay!” I can hear her now as I type the words. It was a long time ago. As many you probably know, the bittersweet tender grieving moments remain no matter the length of time. She’s come to terms with grace in her life but she retains that deep wrath against the ones she holds responsible for the premature end of her oldest son’s young life. She stands beside the old ‘eye for an eye’ principle of retaliation. The apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree.

I’m genuinely sorry for your mom and you and your family. The pain never stops.

 

[ChuckMaureen]

I can fathom only one reason why LE would announce the location of a planned search...

 

[Love Never Fails]

Ice: When an individual dies in conditions where there is constant snow and ice, there is no way for bacteria to grow or insects to attack the dying remains. The cells are frozen in place and preventing from decaying. It literally arrests the process of decomposition. There are numerous ancient, historic and modern examples of bodies preserved in ice. The most famous of these is the ‘Ice Man’ Otzi found in Alps in 1991. It was thought at first he was a modern hiker who had died, but further investigation revealed he died in 3,300 BCE. The preservation was so good that we now have information about his tattoos, his two last meals, where he grew up, and his DNA has been completely sequenced.
Preservation: When bodies don’t decompose

Wow. But it’s getting warm soon. They may not locate him in time before warmth comes.

 

[lindaromas]

I don’t believe that TS would (if anything, she would throw someone under the bus, IMO), but if she had help, they might. MOO

I'm just sitting here blabbering to myself actually, Gannon needs to be found! I just want to shake TS and interrogate the heck out of her until she talks!

Thanks for noticing my blabbers

 

[jowens73]

Forget frustration with T. Their patience has worn thin and is showing with comments which read along the lines of "this is not a criminal investigation?....as you go to the house, once again, in the Metro Crime lab van."

I would appreciate any LE or attorneys insight here...
is there ANY advantage to NOT classify an investigation as a “criminal investigation”??

 

[MtnMama]

This is actually a very good point. There are traffic cams located extensively along I-25 between Denver to the north and Pueblo to the south. There are additional traffic cams at some traditional trouble spots. Even when I lived near that area, I never tried to spot the cams, so I don't know how they are oriented. I was too busy driving at 75MPH to play spot the traffic cam.

If (and I think she did) travelled I-25 she surely was picked up by several cameras, they are all over it. If CO-83 has a trouble spot, there is likely to be at least one camera, and she would surely be familiar with traveling to & around the AFA.

 

[10ofRods]

Weird to announce it. Hope no one goes out there to disturb the area, unless it is a guilty party trying to cover their tracks.

It seems to be a very large scale search (in terms of the request for volunteers). I wonder if they have trail cams to see if they can catch people who might decide to go out there a little early.

"Initially, the sheriff’s office responded to the stepmom’s statement by saying they have no reason to believe the boy was kidnapped. But since then, the sheriff’s office has asked the public to notify them if they’ve seen a strange car in the Lorson Ranch neighborhood."

bbm

They did? I don't remember hearing/seeing that.

I can't find it in their official communications. So if LE did that, they decided not to do much publicity around it. Which is very strange.

 

[Kyte]

I can fathom only one reason why LE would announce the location of a planned search...

Please tell

 

[Spartygirl]

I sat bolt upright in bed last night at about 2 AM. I kept wondering if exercise weights were missing from the house. (I actually didn't want to even write it but I need some sleep so I'm sharing)

 

[Uninformant]

I can fathom only one reason why LE would announce the location of a planned search...

Distraction?

 

[inmyhumbleopinion]

Gannon Stauch stepmom reveals where she went the day Colorado boy disappeared [EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW]
ETA:
by Leigh Egan
February 27, 2020
“It’s been one month since 11-year-old Gannon Stauch vanished from his Colorado home. As part of CrimeOnline’s investigation into the disappearance, we spoke exclusively with Tecia Stauch, the stepmother of Gannon and the last person to see him alive.

[SBM]

Stauch is aware that she is the centerpiece of speculation and rumors since Gannon’s trail appears to end with her. However, she maintains that she is worried about Gannon and has no idea where he could be. She stressed to CrimeOnline that she has never harmed Gannon and would never put him in harm’s way.

Neighbor’s Security Footage
Neighbor Roderick Drayton provided home security footage to FOX31 Denver that showed Gannon leaving home with his stepmother in a red Nissan Frontier truck at around 10:20 a.m. Drayton reportedly said the security footage was from January 27.

Tecia Stauch returned home in the truck the same day at around 2:20 p.m, Drayton said. He added that Tecia Stauch returned home alone, without Gannon.

Stauch denied the allegation.

Stauch told CrimeOnline that Gannon was with her when she arrived back home and that as he exited the truck, he was holding a white bag in his hand.

Stach theorized that Drayton may have provided the incorrect date of the surveillance footage, since her teen daughter arrived home on January 27 at around 4:18 p.m., and parked in the same spot her truck was spotted in on security footage.

‘We both couldn’t have parked there,’ Stauch said. ‘Something is not right. I even helped [my stepdaughter] get the bike out of the garage, and then her and [my teen daughter] went to Dollar Tree. Truck was on the road then.’

Stauch added that she clearly remembered giving Gannon a white bag to hold on January 27, ‘in case he puked.’ She said the little boy had ‘pooped in his pants’ the day prior and had been having issues with his stomach.

Another security footage clip aired on FOX31 Denver showed the red truck parked on the curb in front of the Stauch house. A boy who appeared to be Gannon exited the truck wearing a backpack.

It’s unclear what day that particular footage was captured, but Stauch said it showed her arriving home with Gannon on January 27.

‘This is definitely Monday when we got back,’ Stauch said, referring to the clip. ‘Same clothes and he had a bag in his hand…Something’s not right. I have said from day one that I never backed in [the driveway] when he and I returned.’

[Um, no, she hasn’t, IMO: “Fast forward, we did ... and shopping on Monday ( cleared as well for him getting out of the other side). Please don’t think for a second that there isn’t enough of technology to determine shadows and movement around the truck. There was also proof from my phone that we had taken a selfie in the truck in our driveway that was time stamped.”]

CrimeOnline reached out to Drayton for comment, but he was not immediately available.

Stauch admitted the footage that captured her leaving on the morning of January 27 was likely correct. She said she did back the truck in the driveway that morning while she let it ‘warm-up.’ She added that Gannon dropped one of his electronics as he was getting into the truck, and she picked it up for him.

Authorities have not confirmed or denied the accuracy of the surveillance footage. There was no date listed on the footage that Drayton provided to local media.

[SBM]” (BBM)
More in a separate post.

 

[Kyte]

duplicate

 

[DocStetson]

I simply don’t believe she had enough time to get all that creative. She had 4 hours in broad daylight to drive to her destination, do what she did, hide his body, then drive back.

That’s not even factoring in any potential stops she made along the way.

She’s benefited in the form of vast open spaces, and snow cover. They have to be searching these areas for a reason, and I don’t think that reason is “this place is as good as any.”

This occurred in broad daylight, in a fairly conspicuous vehicle. Cameras, witnesses, GPS, or phone records; something is guiding them.

Sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good, but luck has a way of running out.

Yep. There’s too many loose ends for this to be carefully pre-planned. I think something went south fast without warning. Whether it was by her hand or she was a bystander, if she felt it necessary to explain that AS’ tool may possibly have blood on it, I don’t think the boy is coming home. Once he was seriously injured, there was no explaining it and no going back. I think TS became part of a fast and sloppy coverup. The only questions I have are where were they when things went down and whether our timeline is right or whether LE might be keeping a few details close to the vest.

 

[cluciano63]

If Gannon is deceased, and stepmother is the suspect...I can’t see what kind of deals could be made until maybe after a conviction and then, only as to which prison, etc...no chance of her saying anything before then, imo.

 

[MassGuy]

The worst that could happen is the perp moving him.

If she tries, she’s done. She’s almost certainly subject to surveillance at this point.

I remember Stephen Grant doing that back in 2007. He murdered his wife, dismembered her body, and dumped it in a wooded area.

He learned that there was going to be a search in that location, and he returned to remove what remains he could find.

When law enforcement searched his home for a second time, they found body parts in a plastic container in his garage.

 

[MtnMama]

I'm still a page or so behind so forgive me if this has been discussed. I don't know drive times in that area, so for those in the know: could you drive from the Stauch house, make a shopping stop, drive to this new search area, do something terrible to an innocent 11 yr old, dispose of a body, then drive to the other 2 sifting search areas, return briefly to the first shopping stop you made to say "hi" to the cashier (because she was so nice when you stopped in before), and make it back home in 4 hours?

Sorry for my crazy run-on sentence!

Yes.

Thanks @Angelo I thought so, especially that time of day. Although I-25 can have back-ups any time of day

 

[lonetraveler]

The key and gate story is a head-scratcher for me too. I suppose when this case proceeds to an arrest, trial, etc., we will learn about the key and the gate. I hope LE is getting closer.

Yeah, I want to know if the gate was locked when LE arrived.

 

[cluciano63]

If she tries, she’s done. She’s almost certainly subject to surveillance at this point.

I remember Stephen Grant doing that back in 2007. He murdered his wife, dismembered her body, and dumped it in a wooded area.

He learned that there was going to be a search in that location, and he returned to remove what remains he could find.

When law enforcement searched his home for a second time, they found body parts in a plastic container in his garage.

Who was the woman in Tx who was caught trying to fish a rifle from a pond where she had thrown it, before pond was drained? LE made sure she knew when it would be drained...sure enough, she was on video out there. She had killed her husband and said gun was stolen by his killers.

 

[ZhaZhaHa]

My guess is that the searchers will meet at that address (there's not actually anything on the google map so maybe it's a new home built since the map was done?), and they'll depart from that spot to wherever they're searching.