CO - Gannon Stauch, 11, found deceased, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, 27 Jan 2020 *Arrest* #57

[arielilane]

On March 26, 2020, RI Officer John Grassel was searching the van. Van is being shown on the monitor. moo

 

[arielilane]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1645882083611426826

The rental van then ends up in Rhode Island at another rental store location.

John Grassel is the next witness to be called to the stand. He’s a retired detective lieutenant from Rhode Island. He testified saying he was informed about a search warrant on the rental van after learning it was used to transport a body.

 

[iamshadow21]

Oh gosh, there is access from the front cab to the back, doors with vent holes.

There's no way both HH and LS couldn't detect the odour during the drive.

MOO

 

[arielilane]

The vehicle ended up in Rhode Island! That's where RI comes into things!

You can't make this stuff up. Wow! Now we know how RI ties into all of this.

 

[iamshadow21]

Stains throughout the back of the van. Used hemasticks and Bluestar. (We saw Bluestar used at the Moscow/Idaho College scene, for fellow Moscow thread followers.)

FYI, Google tells me that hemasticks are those little litmus strip things you would have seen your doctor dip in a urine sample if you've ever had a UTI! I've had many. Good times. They detect hemoglobin.

 

[girlhasnoname]

Here for Gannon.

Lots of tidbits of info we've obsessed over for the past couple of years coming out. There is no way this defendant pulled off this kind of cunning and planning if she were insane. It just proves to me how stupidly smart she was in covering her tracks. Interesting (in a good way) her half brother threw her under the bus.

I wonder where HH will land in all of this when she testifies?

MOO

 

[arielilane]

This tweet was over a year ago though it still matters, here for Gannon <3

https://twitter.com/x/status/1486773565466853379

 

[arielilane]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1645885629950222336

So far in the afternoon portion of the trial we've heard from a representative of Avis Rental Cars, who testified as to the whereabouts of Stauch's rental van after she left Colorado on Feb. 1, 2020.

The Avis representative testified the van went through Texas, Louisiana, Alabama and Florida before being returned to South Carolina over a week later.

 

[iamshadow21]

Catherine/Katherine Buckle/Beckle on the stand.(Didn't spell it for us, sorry.) Dispatcher for 911 calls.

 

[arielilane]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1645885945147965440

Grassel said they applied a chemical to test for blood on the mat. There was a colored reaction indicating there was blood or iron on several areas of the mat.

 

[Chelly]

The floor of the cargo area of van LS drove across country tested positive for blood, tested by BlueStar

 

[MyJoey]

Gezz if I ever get called for jury duty, I’m going to request double ADD medication. Plus pay my fellow jurors to take notes lol.

 

[Bbgiraffe]

Hey guys I missed a bit of the end of yesterday's and haven't yet started watching today's so I was wondering since yesterday when showing the surveillance of their house the prosecutors mentioned a few times "surveillance from across the street at 6626 Mandan drive" but at the time they were showing the footage from down the street. Did they ever show the footage from across the street?

 

[arielilane]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1645886121568772098

The prosecution also spoke with former Rhode Island police officer John Grassel, who testified to finding blood in the back of the van that Stauch rented, but clarified during cross that he does not know whose blood was discovered. The sample was sent to CO for further testing.

 

[Kiranerys]

Oh gosh, there is access from the front cab to the back, doors with vent holes.

There's no way both HH and LS couldn't detect the odour during the drive.

MOO

I think his body was frozen due to being hidden out in the snow until she retrieved him, and then wrapped in all the blankets and then inside the sealed case, so I'm thinking he wouldn't have started to smell very strongly on the main part of the journey, and maybe not at all.
JMO

 

[kittythehare]

Here for Gannon.

Lots of tidbits of info we've obsessed over for the past couple of years coming out. There is no way this defendant pulled off this kind of cunning and planning if she were insane. It just proves to me how stupidly smart she was in covering her tracks. Interesting (in a good way) her half brother threw her under the bus.

I wonder where HH will land in all of this when she testifies?

MOO

we do not actually know that she will testify.

 

[iamshadow21]

Asking how calls are categorised, how they decide whether things are emergencies or not.

Identifies both the original 911 and nonemergency call. Witness took the nonemergency call, not the 911 call.

We are going to get to hear the audio.

 

[arielilane]

Witness: Kathryn Beckel - 911 dispatcher
(witness 33)

 

[iamshadow21]

Call one is almost unintelligible to me, loud soft and muffled all at once and LS is talking a mile a minute. I can only catch a word here and there. It's like listening to those bug tapes of the Mafia in that Netflix special, Fear City.

 

[Ontario Mom]

Oh gosh, there is access from the front cab to the back, doors with vent holes.

There's no way both HH and LS couldn't detect the odour during the drive.

MOO

I can only imagine literally everyone connected to this case is thinking the exact same thing.
So the 64k question is, how did LS explain it away, to HH?
No doubt this will come up when she testifies.