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

[iamshadow21]

Gannon's room. Explaining where the furniture would have rested, as it is stacked all to one side.

Large stain south east on floor. Marks on the wall indicate blood. Explaining the stickers are evidence markings for recording blood spatter evidence.

Showing stain on the floor, explaining the red sharpie line delineates the size of the stain, and explains that the blood soaked through all the layers of bed, carpet, and underlay before reaching the concrete.

Outside. Gate to the yard only locks from the front, by a padlock on the exterior of the fence.

 

[arielilane]

Sgt Rosario Hubbell - El Paso County PD returns to the stand

 

[arielilane]

Cross-examination

 

[Curious Me]

Markers, lots of markers, to denote the blood stain spatters on the wall. More lower on the wall, but some go quite high up on the wall. There's so many though. Feel sad thinking about what happened there. Gannon had defensive wounds. Gannon is what this is all about.​

 

[arielilane]

Date of video: Late Feb 2020

 

[arielilane]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1645908176456372232

Rosario said on February 3, 2020, investigators found blood evidence on the walls in Gannon’s bedroom, on an electrical socket, etc.

Some evidence was visible, and some evidence was not easily visible to the human eye. He said the carpet where Gannon’s bed was, was saturated, and there was a stain on the concrete when he pulled the carpet up.

 

[arielilane]

https://twitter.com/AshleyPorteeyo

Sergeant Rosario Hubbell is the next witness to testify. In January 2020, he was assigned to the major crimes unit with the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office.

Rosario described how the investigation evolved throughout the days, saying it began as a missing persons’s and runaway case.

He testified saying investigators “started to get a lack of cooperation from Mrs. Stauch who was the reporting party.” He said all the detectives who were available began working on this case.

Rosario said on February 3, 2020, investigators found blood evidence on the walls in Gannon’s bedroom, on an electrical socket, etc.

Some evidence was visible, and some evidence was not easily visible to the human eye. He said the carpet where Gannon’s bed was, was saturated, and there was a stain on the concrete when he pulled the carpet up.

Rosario said it appeared that the blood had been heavily cleaned up. Rosario said they then used a chemical to detect for iron and blood around the Stauch home and in Gannon’s room.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1645909352224550912

 

[10ofRods]

That's true. But how could a family from NC/SC even start to search for anyone in Colorado Springs? I'm from NC and can't imagine trying to look for someone in an unfamiliar state unless I had help from someone living there. And obviously LS wasn't even going to pretend to help.
JMO

There were active search parties they could have joined, and known areas that were being searched, which they could have visited. They could have re-canvassed the neighborhood around the school - sometimes people aren't home during a first canvas and sometimes people are more forthcoming to non-LE.

Lots of things a stranger to the area can do to help, IMO. A family member could have spent time with Gannon's best friend to see if there were any tiny bits of information that were useful. No one knew where Gannon was. I would have visited that convenience store, even if LE had told me that Gannon hadn't gone there - I would still want to talk to staff there. Because the need to do something would be so strong; the need to look for Gannon would not have me sitting on a couch just because I was in new territory.

IMO

 

[arielilane]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1645909629317308421

Investigators found iron/blood droplets in many areas of the home, including the garage floor, living room floor, laundry room, on a door handle, steps leading to the downstairs, the storage room floor, floor leading to Gannon’s room, etc.

 

[10ofRods]

Did we ever find out where AS met this wacko?
Seriously...she seems scary from her older photos even.

Wasn't it in a softball league or something?

IMO.

 

[arielilane]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1645909883370491904

In Gannon’s bedroom, dozens of blood evidence hits were found. They were found on the walls, on the carpet where his bed was located, on the concrete under the carpet, etc.

 

[heartandsoul]

The video was very hard to watch. Gannon is telling his story.

 

[iamshadow21]

Next witness, Amanda Van Nest. Forensic Nurse Examiner. I imagine this is the SANE nurse.

Sounds nervous. Her voice sounds stressed and she's fumbling her words a little.

 

[arielilane]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1645910977852981248

We also saw video taken from Sergeant Hubbell on February 25, 2020. He walks around the home and talks about where positive blood hits were found.

 

[10ofRods]

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

The fact that she threw her keys in one direction and sprinted immediately in the other direction, at Marshall's shows not only a guilty mind, but a mind that is putting a lot of mental effort into evading capture and arrest. She has assessed her skills (she thinks she runs fast) and her strategies (throwing the thing the officer needs to impound the car). She thought it all through many times, all the angles. And, given her own goal (remaining free), she was quite rational.

IMO.

 

[Ontario Mom]

Gannon's clothes in the closet.

 

[arielilane]

Witness: Amanda Van Nest, FNE - UC Health Memorial Hospital

 

[MsMarple]

Bluestar reactions in the garage and laundry. Still visible blood on the laundry/garage door and door handle.

Reactions in living room and stairs down to basement. Stairs reaction was slow, indicated it had been cleaned. Baseboards on landing, lower stairs, illuminated, significant cleaning. Large significant cleaning stain at the bottom. Small stain at the base of a table.

Ugh, sounds more like an abattoir than someone’s home. How could she, I’m nauseous just reading about all the blood! She’s inhuman IMO.

 

[heartandsoul]

Gannon's clothes in the closet.

That struck me particularly hard. Others had returned to collect their clothes, but Gannon didn’t. And Gannon wouldn’t.

 

[iamshadow21]

LS arrived in ambulance, complaining of chest pains, sexual assault.

When alone with the paramedics, she would talk, when police were present she was silent or feigned sleep.

Signed the HIPAA form with no apparent difficulty understanding it, signed with her own name.

Witness explained her job role and what she can offer, a patient is under no obligation to accept anything. LS opted to keep talking with her. Gave the nurse a version of the kidnapper/contruction worker/rapist story. Expressed that she did want the examinations. Gave her a psychosocial history - a picture of her home life, if there was any domestic violence, drug and alcohol abuse, etc. That history is selfreported. Letecia reported a diagnosis of GAD - Generalised Anxiety Disorder, for which she took Lorazepam or Ativan as needed. (According to Google Lorazepam and Ativan are the same drug, it's just branding.)