CO - Gannon Stauch, 11, found deceased, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, 27 Jan 2020 *Arrest* #56

[Aloe]

Question: In the candle fire video shown in court, was Laina’s voice heard? Iirc there was audio/video posted of Laina saying “you hit him in the eye” or something similar. Thanks. MOO

 

[Kiranerys]

Do we know if there was life insurance on Gannon? Just wondered if it was one more motive.

I remember there being much speculation at the time as her sister was an insurance agent selling life insurance policies, but I don't believe we ever got conformation that one existed from any acceptable source. JMO

Regarding the Board and Blunt force trauma..
Where is everyone thinking that occurred?
I'm wondering if she pulled over and hit him during that Petco run.

I personally believe she hit him in the head the night of the candle video, and that he had a severe concussion the next day when we see him struggling to walk to the truck.
I also think this was the catalyst for the murder. She hit him too hard and she couldn't get out of it, so she had to get rid of him and make it look like he ran away.

Unfortunately for her she is completely incompetent and totally lacking in self awareness, and didn't realise she doesn't possess the intelligence needed to pull off such a hideous crime and get away with it. Even highly intelligent criminals would struggle.

All JMO

 

[Megnut]

I'd love to know exactly what she did at that Petco, and didn't she go there 2 times?

I think she left her phone there. To make it look like she was there the whole time.

Fortunately being an idiot and not thinking straight isn't the same as insane.

Jmo

 

[Megnut]

I continue to believe that she was going to abandon him initially at the area where the pond was searched.

And again, chaotic thinking isn't insanity.

This was a prolonged, sustained, wicked murder.

Jmo

 

[10ofRods]

I think she left her phone there. To make it look like she was there the whole time.

Fortunately being an idiot and not thinking straight isn't the same as insane.

Jmo

I think so too.

 

[Seattle1]

Do we know if there was life insurance on Gannon? Just wondered if it was one more motive.

Yes, confirming LS did take out life insurance on GS when she took out insurance on herself and opted for the child insurance riders.

This information recently became available pursuant to a lawsuit filed in federal court by the Life Insurance Company. See my post from Feb 2023 linked below.

Found Deceased - CO - Gannon Stauch, 11, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, 27 Jan 2020 *Arrest* #53

So glad to see this case finally going to trial next month! Gannon no longer gets a chance to have a meal. IMO. Hope judge will dismiss her lawsuit. Leticia Stauch has a pending federal lawsuit claiming her first and eighth amendment rights were violated in jail. Stauch names a medical...

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[Kiranerys]

Yes, confirming LS did take have life insurance on GS when she took out insurance on herself and opted for the child insurance riders.

This information became recently available pursuant to a lawsuit filed in federal court by the Life Insurance Company. See my post from Feb 2023 linked below.

Found Deceased - CO - Gannon Stauch, 11, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, 27 Jan 2020 *Arrest* #53

So glad to see this case finally going to trial next month! Gannon no longer gets a chance to have a meal. IMO. Hope judge will dismiss her lawsuit. Leticia Stauch has a pending federal lawsuit claiming her first and eighth amendment rights were violated in jail. Stauch names a medical...

www.websleuths.com

Thankyou! I hadn't seen this

 

[Curious Me]

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Spoiler: From the AA about the particle board found

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... Arrest Affidavit

https://www.fox21news.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/37/2020/04/Stauch-FINAL-redacted-040120.pdf

Warning-- hard subject matter to think about.

Thinking that the blood marks on the particle board must've indicated blood leaks, as in used to transport him, not blood marks or splatters as in used as a bashing weapon. AA says "for disposal".

I picture it propped up against the back end of the vehicle to get the weight in? Or... Maybe it could be used to drag the body to a hiding spot?

All the violence seemed to go down in Gannon's bedroom. But then again, I remember her detailed baloney about him hurting his foot in the garage taking out the garbage. I would think that board was still in the garage. Was it used as a tool for leverage or sliding?

Honestly, I need to hear others thoughts on it. don't know how any of it went down, and I can't even imagine that much violence. He was such a sweet young boy. Why so many injuries, so much overkill? ​

 

[RaspberryMama]

I keep coming back to a question I had early on.... Why, when they were out doing whatever so long, did she finally kill him in his bedroom? What was going on during their time away from home??

Did she think he had died while they were out? Did she somehow put him back in bed thinking he was dead only to realize he wasn't, and then the knife (or some sharp object) and the gun entered the picture?

 

[Pianoturtle]

Did anyone else notice 1) she didn’t bother to give an accurate description of what he was wearing when he “went missing?” She said blue jeans, blue jacket, and tennis shoes. Det. Yoder said he was found in sweatpants, athletic shirt and socks. 2) Det. Brkrich (?) said he was called to the residence on February 29 to retrieve the Switch. Did he mean to say January? Or was it stashed somewhere in the house and AS happened to find it when he was packing to move out?

 

[kaen]

I keep coming back to a question I had early on.... Why, when they were out doing whatever so long, did she finally kill him in his bedroom? What was going on during their time away from home??

Did she think he had died while they were out? Did she somehow put him back in bed thinking he was dead only to realize he wasn't, and then the knife (or some sharp object) and the gun entered the picture?

I had always thought that she had done something to him like beat him then took him in the car because she was going to do the runaway thing. Then, she realized it was too hard to do. So, she took him home and time ticked away and his sister was due home. So, she shot him and put him in the trunk and cleaned like there was no tomorrow. And the report of him running away was then from the home rather than he ran away when they were out.

I think she has always been a marginal person. I also think that she was not so into having kids when the care was left to her. She had no control of where they lived. He worked long hours. Her bio daughter was close to graduating and she would have had an empty nest except for this marriage to A and caring for G and L. When they first got together A didn't have the custody and when he got custody they wound up with her while he served in Alaska. I don't think this is what she had in mind when she married him.

On the day he was murdered, A had left town and her MIL had left town. And.... here was G disobeying about the Switch and having stomach pains and not being well enough to go to school. It had always struck me that she had told police on that first night that A determined consequences and A had all of the parent/friend contacts. It seems that he had lots of power over the lives of his kids and she was there to do what was needed.

Don't get me wrong. I believe she is an evil person who abused the kids and killed G. She manipulated A and all the kids whenever she wanted something. A testified that she took 8k and spent it on something. She was trying to manipulate A with the idea that she was buying him a bike (shiny object) when his kid was missing. I do think there was mental health issues but nothing that takes her off the hook for what she did to G. I think red flags were there but not taken into account because she was needed in the house.

I watched to two days of testimony so far. It is so clear she is guilty. Too bad there has to be all of this time presenting more evidence but alas she is entitled to use the system.

 

[Seattle1]

I keep coming back to a question I had early on.... Why, when they were out doing whatever so long, did she finally kill him in his bedroom? What was going on during their time away from home??

Did she think he had died while they were out? Did she somehow put him back in bed thinking he was dead only to realize he wasn't, and then the knife (or some sharp object) and the gun entered the picture?

The surveillance at the link below isn't as clear as earlier videos but I remember thinking Gannon looked very lethargic walking out to his dad's truck. I feared he'd been drugged.

'A kid just doesn't disappear': Surveillance video may show missing 11-year-old getting into truck

 

[Megnut]

She's tranparent.

She knew Gannon's blood would be found in his bedroom, in the garage, on her bumper.
Probably in the storage room, also around from the slider to the trash area. All that nonsense about the gate and the key.

I think she used the board to protect the liner in her car.

She may have hid him in the storeroom initially, then moved him into her car.

I don't recall now when she made the trip out to Palmer Lake but she described it effectively. Driving around lost, looking for a spot... it wasn't the only time she'd be out that way.

It's just altogether awful that she murdered him, it's the prolonged torture that deflates me completely.

That's not human.

Jmo

 

[Megnut]

The surveillance at the link below isn't as clear as earlier videos but I remember thinking Gannon looked very lethargic walking out to his dad's truck. I feared he'd been drugged.

'A kid just doesn't disappear': Surveillance video may show missing 11-year-old getting into truck

Drugged or concussed.

I suspect he already had a severe head injury (skull fracture).

She is utterly devoid.

JMO

 

[kaen]

Listening to the taped conversations at the trial, I kept thinking that she really seemed to believe him every time he said he would work with her or cared for her even though he would be frustrated and have a raised voice. Somehow I do think she believed that he could be swayed by her AND that he would be powerful enough with LE to get them to stop looking at her. Somethings are just mind boggling to me.

 

[Kiranerys]

She's tranparent.

She knew Gannon's blood would be found in his bedroom, in the garage, on her bumper.
Probably in the storage room, also around from the slider to the trash area. All that nonsense about the gate and the key.

I think she used the board to protect the liner in her car.

She may have hid him in the storeroom initially, then moved him into her car.

I don't recall now when she made the trip out to Palmer Lake but she described it effectively. Driving around lost, looking for a spot... it wasn't the only time she'd be out that way.

It's just altogether awful that she murdered him, it's the prolonged torture that deflates me completely.

That's not human.

Jmo

Right? Remember early on she was explaining the blood on the floor in the garage and on the boot of her car by saying she popped him up on the back of the car to bandage up his foot that he supposedly cut on a tool that Al hadn't put away properly, and Gannon knew he wasn't supposed to be barefoot in the garage? (Paraphrasing because it from memory)

 

[Kiranerys]

Did anyone catch if the judge asked the DA who they would be calling tomorrow?

 

[mpnola]

She always has a way of blame, even in her lies! Al said on the recording that he could hear the way she was talking to Gannon, the same thing she does to him. And he knew she was getting at him having to sell his Switch--- after she said sell the sofa. I KNEW that's where she was going. But he was so hurt that he probably didn't care about the Switch, in that moment.

She likes to torture and blame. Even in her last lie about the bike, she attempted to make Al feel like it was his fault. She was out getting a bike for HIM and it killed Gannon. She is beyond disgusting. This isn't new behavior. It is the way she operates. No one should have willingly had that gaslighting monster around. I wouldn't let her take care of my plants. And I don't even take care of them well!

 

[10ofRods]

Interesting. I never saw a statement about size of the board, so imagined it as a small board.

Particle board is typically sold in two sizes: 8X4 and 4X4. Many people have an 8X4 segment where they park their car, so as not to leak oil or fluids onto the garage floor.

One thing particle board always is: it's flat. It's not a beam or 2X4 or anything else easily converted into a smashing weapon.

IMO. I imagined it as the way Tecia protected her vehicle from the body fluids and then dragged Gannon to where ever it was she put him first. A makeshift sled.

IMO.

 

[Cindizzi]

Did anyone else notice 1) she didn’t bother to give an accurate description of what he was wearing when he “went missing?” She said blue jeans, blue jacket, and tennis shoes. Det. Yoder said he was found in sweatpants, athletic shirt and socks. 2) Det. Brkrich (?) said he was called to the residence on February 29 to retrieve the Switch. Did he mean to say January? Or was it stashed somewhere in the house and AS happened to find it when he was packing to move out?

Yes I immediately caught the part of the Detective describing the clothing. When he said athletic type pants and DA Allen asked him if they had a stripe down the side and Detective said yes.

Isn’t that what G was wearing in the neighbors surveillance footage when he gets in the truck with her?

I’m real curious about the Switch too! The AA was written on February 28, 2020 and says LE hadn’t found it at that time.

https://www.courts.state.co.us/userfiles/file/Court_Probation/04th_Judicial_District/El_Paso/Stauch/Stauch%20FINAL%20redacted%20040120.pdf