CO - Gannon Stauch, 11, found deceased, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, 27 Jan 2020 *Arrest* #59

[Megnut]

While T eats her hair, it occurs to me -- can we be sure she's washed it since January, 2020? They might want to swab that petri mop.

Jmo

 

[arielilane]

https://twitter.com/FierroNicole

Next witness Tom Griffin

He's a private forensic consultant in blood stain pattern analysis, CSI and reconstruction

He's going through the pictures that the past witness went through. He too went in the house to review blood spatter patterns, etc.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1648416773119823872

 

[Curious Me]

Witness says there were 54 stains on two walls.

 

[arielilane]

Letecia Stauch trial live stream: Expert witness testifies on bloodstain patterns

Letecia Stauch is accused of killing her stepson Gannon Stauch in January 2020.

www.9news.com

 

[Spartygirl]

@iamshadow21 , You are multitasking and reporting for us and doing a great job of it. I rely on your posts to keep me caught up. I assigned myself the task of LS-watching throughout the trial cuz....well, someone has to do it.

Thank you and @iamshadow21 and everyone for the collaboration of the daily trial minutes, testimonies, and visual reports for those of us at work or otherwise and not able to catch everything that is going on in the courtroom.
it is Much appreciated and sending snacks your way for all to enjoy while we wait for #Justice4Gannon !!!

 

[iamshadow21]

Focussing on the wall that went down the long side of Gannon's bed, now.

Explaining first all the sources that go into him producing a report. Now explaining what the stickers are for.

Start as wide shots, then come in closer. At least a hundred photos, if not more.

My impressions of this witness. Particular, measured with his answers, specific. Spends a lot of time referring to the photos and his report to ensure he's giving accurate information. MOO

 

[cujenn81]

Colorado's standard is:

• The Irresistible Impulse Test - Defendant unable to control their impulses due to a mental disorder, leading to the commission of a criminal act.

I think many bipolar episodes would fall under that rubric (as opposed to the rules in other states). Doesn't require psychosis. Just an irresistible impulse. Here's more on their rule:

The Irresistible Impulse Test - FindLaw

The Irresistible Impulse Test gained acceptance in various states as an appendage to the M'Naghten Rule, under which right versus wrong was still considered a vital part of any definition of insanity. Learn more about topics like these at FindLaw's section on Criminal Procedure.

www.findlaw.com

Thing is, it just says "mental illness." And I see, all over the internet and in real life, people including personality disorders, fugue states, disassociative states, paraphilias, phobias, intellectual impairment, atypical neurological states along with the obvious (schizophrenia, bipolar, unipolar depression, schizoaffective). If we're claiming that T. has 4 to infinity personality disorders, I can't predict how the jury will see it. I sure hope she has no records of being psychiatrically hospitalized.

Those of you who have studied the witness list might be able to weigh in - I think her recent contact (perhaps virtual) with Dr. Lewis is basically the only psychiatric contact she's had. I'm hoping that, anyway.

IMO. I too had a close family member who was (severely) Bipolar II (doctor initially thought schizophrenia). This person did a lot of strange things when in a psychotic depression. Fortunately, Bipolar II's are not as likely as Bipolar I's to harm people or spend the entire family bank account (but my family member did cause others to have financial issues, specifically myself).

At any rate, CO's standard doesn't require psychosis (inability to discern right from wrong or anything like that - just an "irresistible impulse" to a "mental condition"). Coloradans probably have some sense of what this means, on the ground - would love to hear from some!

IMO

I try to comfort myself in the knowledge that a CO jury failed to find James Holmes NGRI. I know every jury is different and they can be unpredictable, but JH's verdict still gives me hope.

 

[arielilane]

https://twitter.com/AshleyPorteeyo

The murder trial for #LeteciaStauch has resumed. The next witness to be called to the stand is Tom Griffin. He’s specializes in crime scene investigation reconstruction and blood stain analysis.

In late February, Griffin went to the Stauch home to analyze the blood patterns in Gannon’s bedroom. He was asked to identify possible mechanisms which caused the blood on the scene, including the walls, baseboard and floor area.

Griffin said there were 54 stains on two walls in Gannon bedrooms. A few dozen of the stains were below the height of Gannon’s bed.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1648419066745589760

 

[10ofRods]

I try to comfort myself in the knowledge that a CO jury failed to find James Holmes NGRI. I know every jury is different and they can be unpredictable, but JH's verdict still gives me hope.

Thank you! That was just the kind of case I was hoping someone could guide me too.

Much obliged.

 

[arielilane]

https://twitter.com/FierroNicole

https://twitter.com/x/status/1648420105142046722

 

[Soulmagent]

Somebody really needs to play her back some of this footage, she will realise her poker face needs work

Maybe that is the face she makes without her teeth in? (it apears to me anyway)

 

[Curious Me]

Witness Tom Griffin, Forensic Consultant looks at the shapes of the blood stains. If there's no linear then he looks for a radiation of the blood stain. Using a pizza as an example, the radiating pattern going out towards the crust of a pizza. The blood stains sometimes show radiating patterns.

Some of the stains showed evidence of being wiped and signs of a clean up effort. Witness going through a binder to find one Exhibit #659 is now being used to show what he means.

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[arielilane]

https://twitter.com/AshleyPorteeyo

https://twitter.com/x/status/1648420480960036870

 

[10ofRods]

This is all really interesting, I certainly know what to do if I ever need to preserve a body

My question is, do any of us really believe that the esteemed Dr Stauch was smart enough to know how the ancient Egyptians embalmed bodies?, this is the same woman who has shown on numerous occasions that she thinks and makes decisions on the fly, she meets a bump in the road and she adapts and changes course, I think she even made the decision to take Gannon with her at the last minute because the opportunity presented itself.

Jmo

I think she's smart enough to google if and only if this crazy idea occurred to her (to attempt to use common household substances to slow down decomp). The info can be googled various ways and hopefully, she was too agitated (and, well, unintelligent) to use a private search engine or one that doesn't keep data. She probably used Google if she did it at all.

I do think she moved him out of the house into as cold an environment as she could find, though.

IMO.

 

[Soulmagent]

I think she's smart enough to google if and only if this crazy idea occurred to her (to attempt to use common household substances to slow down decomp). The info can be googled various ways and hopefully, she was too agitated (and, well, unintelligent) to use a private search engine or one that doesn't keep data. She probably used Google if she did it at all.

I do think she moved him out of the house into as cold an environment as she could find, though.

IMO.

She have a smart watch ? I would love to see her heartrate thoughout this whole process.
Anyone ever made a timeline of the movement of Gannons body? I think I am confused on when it was cold because all the windows were left open. That would make rigor set so ..I am kinda lost as to when he walked out to the truck ,where he was actually murdered at and all the cleaning and moving and packing she had to get done. All this ...NO WONDER the detectives couldn't reach her. She was busy as hell.

 

[Curious Me]

Fan shaped is a radiating blood stain. Blood that's coming out of some blood source, then the blood will come out in a cone, and the cone will have a distribution that shows the dispersion (the action or process of distributing things). ​

 

[Chelly]

LS-Watch:
two fingers up, index finger in hairline, middle finger prominently pressed straight against front of mouth, while flipping book pages with other hand. Very bold, she left finger in place a good amount of time. Checking first to see that Judge is watching exhibit on screen. I feel like a tattle tale. Will go back to lurking.
MOO

 

[iamshadow21]

Bloodstain pattern analysis isn't something I've delved very deep into. I may have to. I'm realising how little I know.

Diluted blood staining on the baseboards from cleanup efforts. Clearly visible. Along the top horizontal edge of the baseboard, and towards the bottom of the vertical surface.

Explaining what drip stains are now. (None were found on the wall.) Gravity acting on a blood source creates drip stains.

Cone of distribution, now. Radiating bloodstains. They start examination in two dimensions a fan shape or pizza slice. Blood actually travels in three dimensions from a blood source, comes out in a cone, that cone increasing the further from a source, megaphone shape. That three dimensional distribution is a cone of distribution.

A void is an absence of blood in an otherwise continuing bloodstain pattern. A little subjective, voids can be due to lack of blood. A shadow effect. One area of void, on the wall near the window. Would be looking for blood spatter on an 'intermediate object' which could be a person or an inanimate object.

FOUND NO BLOODSTAINS ON GANNON'S TABLE.

GANNON'S BED HAD TO HAVE BEEN MOVED AT SOME POINT THROUGH THE ATTACK TO CREATE THE SPATTER BELOW THE BEDFRAME. Blood drop travel was parallel to the floor at some point.

 

[cujenn81]

LS has two fingers up with the middle finger prominently on front of nose, while flipping book pages with other hand

I hope the judge rips her a new one at the end of the day.

 

[Curious Me]

No blood stains on that table. Huh?

Moving on-- The electrical outlet had the plate removed, and the outlet cover had blood on it. The blood stain there was Gannon's blood. He points to the area. ​