Prosecution calling up Det. Tim Ferrell to the stand.
Det. Ferrell responded to Stauch home on Jan 28th, night after Gannon was reported a runaway. When he arrived on scene he just remembers Harley Hunt being there. They went in and took pictures of the scene and looked for things out of the ordinary.
Det. Ferrell looking at pictures of the Stauch's laundry room from Jan 28th, 2020.
Detective talks about this pile of laundry. In the pile, they noticed a sneaker with pink substance/residue on the bottom of shoe. Detective said it stood out. They thought it may be bloody shoes that were soaked to try to clean them so they swabbed them.
Det. Ferrell: “It seemed out of place and very strange to us at that moment.”
Ferrell pointing to melted carpet area in the living room.
We are looking at pictures of the trash outside of the house. Melted part of the carpet and padding from under it are in the garbage bag/bin at their house.
2ft by 2ft part of square carpet with burn area and wax substance found in the garbage.
Candle found in a second trash can. Inside the candle, you can see some sort of fabric that didn't match the carpet or couch detective says.
Detective searched Gannon's room. He noticed on the inside handle of bedroom door, a brown smear. He noticed it was very clean.
They took blankets and sheets off of Gannon's bed and saw a discoloration in back corner of the mattress.
Detective took pictures of guns found in master bedroom closet. "Something seemed off, so anytime we run across firearms and we don't know what's going on we generally try to document them.”
Detective did not locate any handguns at the home on Jan 28th, 2020.
Detective says they had been trying to get her to come to the sheriff's office for an interview "for quite some time" and when she did show up, she came with a freshly washed car.
Had to quickly go track my story for tv. Back and they are talking about search warrant for Harley's phone.
Detective says they had different cars following Letecia and Harley. Saw them going into a Marshall's. Undercover officers followed them into the store to see where Harley's phone was. Warrants for Harley's car and phone were in the works as this was happening.
While in store, officers saw both Harley and Letecia using Harley's cell phone. Letecia left the store first. As she walked towards Harley's car, officers started to go approach her and detective says Letecia saw an officer coming towards her and "bolted" running away.
"At that point, we had believed something had happened to Gannon, we just didn't know what.”
Detective said she stopped "bolting" away in the parking lot when he drew his firearm while giving commands to stop.
He got her in cuffs, explained she wasn't under arrest, just being detained because they had search warrant for Harley's cell phone and car. Letecia acknowledged and detective recalls her yelling at Harley "Don't tell them anything.”
Waiting for my live hit but hearing Detective talking about searching a KIA rio.
Detective says Harley was detained as well.
Back from my live hit for 4 pm show. Jurors are taking a stretch and then they will call another witness