CO - Gannon Stauch, 11, found deceased, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, 27 Jan 2020 *Arrest* #63

[kittythehare]

Talk about cruel and unusual punishment. Is it even fair to ask Judge Werner to swear her in?

" Do you promise to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you God?"

Well, he will do the right thing and that's for sure.
She has been deemed competent to attend court.

Knowing Leticia she will probably insist upon swearing on a copy of Mein Kampf or some such publication because she will want to be seen to be disrespecting the court. She is doing it constantly but she'd like to do it on a grand scale..

Because Leticia has time, lots of time to create malice and she is also very very adept at it.
Remember the photograph she shared on facebook showing Gannon diving into water?
Remember her fake profiles targeting landen, her cruel words, her savage attacks, just a few days and weeks after murdering Landen's son?
She enjoys cruelty, she enjoys violence on every level.
She is darkness personified.

All IMO as usual..
(I'm really curious about the dynamic between her and her fellow inmates..)

 

[kittythehare]

Wanted to keep y'all informed, so letting you know I have a flight tomorrow and will not be back until next week. I won't be uploading any tweets. I already miss this wonderful team and I haven't even boarded my plane yet.

enjoy every moment.. have a ball and switch it off, this is dark stuff..
Thanks for all your great work.

 

[Seattle1]

Many people disagree with me, but I think it’s highly likely she put his body in a suitcase and checked it in on the flight.

They don’t usually examine checked luggage and with the right preparation she could have done it without detection.

I'm not sure who was supposed to take this phantom flight with GS in tow but if they flew out of DIA, the oversized bag was x-rayed/imaged!

I think the evidence is clear the suitcase with GS inside was in the van with LS and HH.

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[steeltowngirl]

Is it simply protocol for the judge in all criminal trials to address the defendant about possibly taking the stand?

I was thinking LS may have suggested she wants to testify, and defense alerted the judge.

 

[MsMarple]

BTW, the Prosecution cannot call her as a witness - so at the end of today, they were confirming the Prosecution's final witnesses and lining up the first witness for the Defense - on Monday (Dr. Lewis).

IMO.

RSBM for focus.

It seems like the prosecution should be able to call Letecia given that Colorado requires them to prove her sane. But I suppose doing so would somehow impair her right to a fair trial.

Anyway I’m looking forward to an off day tomorrow. This afternoon my husband invited me to have lunch downtown and my first thought was to ask him to wait until tomorrow but I didn’t have the heart. I’ve been a bit homebound lately due to a leg issue and he wanted to get me out into fresh air and help me regain a few pounds (even though I’m not underweight).

Lunch turned out to be just what I needed- hubby even indulged me to check posts between the app and main dish, lol.

My point is that it’s okay to come up for air during this trial in order to stay balanced. We have enough good people here supporting each other to make sure we don’t miss anything important. Hugs!

 

[Cindizzi]

Letecia Stauch told forensic psychologists that she "created" different personalities for herself, and that switching between these personalities helped her deal with the sexual abuse she says she suffered as a child, according to video clips prosecutors played for the jury on Wednesday during Stauch's murder trial.

"I've taken so many different personalities in life," Stauch says in one of the clips, conducted during a sanity evaluation. "So many different ways to cope."

The defense has argued throughout the trial that Stauch, who has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to charges of killing her 11-year-old stepson, Gannon, in El Paso County in 2020, suffers from dissociative identity disorder.

But Loandra Torres, a forensic psychologist with the state hospital in Pueblo, told jurors she was skeptical because Stauch "told us she created them (the different personalities) herself."

"We began to wonder if she was exaggerating," Torres added. "All of it seems a bit far fetched to me in terms of dissociative identity disorder."

[…]

While Grimmett and Torres said they believed Stauch was competent and did not have a severe mental illness, they both believed that Stauch showed several signs of narcissistic personality disorder during her interviews.

Torres' testimony will continue on Friday, when the prosecution is expected to play an hourlong clip of her interview with Stauch in which Stauch describes her version of what happened to Gannon.

District Attorney Michael Allen said there is only one prosecution witness left after Torres, and that the prosecution should rest its case on Monday at the latest.

Letecia Stauch trial: 'All of it seems a bit far fetched,' psychologist says of defendant's split personality claims

 

[Seattle1]

Is it simply protocol for the judge in all criminal trials to address the defendant about possibly taking the stand?

I was thinking LS may have suggested she wants to testify, and defense alerted the judge.

Yes, it's all part of a defendant's right to a fair trial and the Judge taking steps to safeguard the right.

I couldn't live through LS challenging her right to a fair trial was violated!

 

[lonewanderer]

I'm not sure who was supposed to take this phantom flight with GS in tow but if they flew out of DIA, the oversized bag was x-rayed/imaged!

I think the evidence is clear the suitcase with GS inside was in the van with LS and HH.

TSA launches high-tech baggage handling system at Denver International Airport

Just before the busiest travel time of the year, TSA is rolling out an upgraded baggage handling system at Denver International Airport.

www.denver7.com

Radiation and Airport Security Scanning | US EPA

Some airport security systems use ionizing radiation to keep people safe while traveling. Some devices, such as metal detectors, use non-ionizing radiation to scan travelers and make sure there are not carrying hidden items.

www.epa.gov

I could be sorely mistaken, I haven’t brushed up on this case in a while.

But, I think someone like her would do something like that. Arrange for Gannons body to be transported through the air and tossed off in Florida, far far away from Colorado.

Somehow I missed the part where she checked in close to where he was found.

 

[10ofRods]

Many people disagree with me, but I think it’s highly likely she put his body in a suitcase and checked it in on the flight.

They don’t usually examine checked luggage and with the right preparation she could have done it without detection.

That's because she only used vans and other 4-wheeled, ground-based transport.

There's no evidence whatsoever that she got on a flight. And where I live, luggage is x-rayed at all our major airports.

At any rate, she didn't fly. There were a couple of days of testimony about her whereabouts (which she tried to conceal) and several WSers have kindly shown us the maps of her van driving across the US (to FLorida, where she left his body).

She never flew.

IMO.

 

[steeltowngirl]

RSBM for focus.

It seems like the prosecution should be able to call Letecia given that Colorado requires them to prove her sane. But I suppose doing so would somehow impair her right to a fair trial.

Anyway I’m looking forward to an off day tomorrow. This afternoon my husband invited me to have lunch downtown and my first thought was to ask him to wait until tomorrow but I didn’t have the heart. I’ve been a bit homebound lately due to a leg issue and he wanted to get me out into fresh air and help me regain a few pounds (even though I’m not underweight).

Lunch turned out to be just what I needed- hubby even indulged me to check posts between the app and main dish, lol.

My point is that it’s okay to come up for air during this trial in order to stay balanced. We have enough good people here supporting each other to make sure we don’t miss anything important. Hugs!

A hubby who encourages a couple of extra pounds - you have yourself a keeper there @MsMarple! Glad you got out and enjoyed the day with him. You didn’t miss much… except some vampires.

 

[10ofRods]

RSBM for focus.

It seems like the prosecution should be able to call Letecia given that Colorado requires them to prove her sane. But I suppose doing so would somehow impair her right to a fair trial.

Anyway I’m looking forward to an off day tomorrow. This afternoon my husband invited me to have lunch downtown and my first thought was to ask him to wait until tomorrow but I didn’t have the heart. I’ve been a bit homebound lately due to a leg issue and he wanted to get me out into fresh air and help me regain a few pounds (even though I’m not underweight).

Lunch turned out to be just what I needed- hubby even indulged me to check posts between the app and main dish, lol.

My point is that it’s okay to come up for air during this trial in order to stay balanced. We have enough good people here supporting each other to make sure we don’t miss anything important. Hugs!

No one can be compelled to testify against themselves.

When the State calls the defendant in a criminal trial against the defendant, they are being asked to testify against themselves. Is not going to happen. Even if she wanted it to happen, I imagine her lawyers would resign first. Unless they saw a separate reason to have her testify.

We have a Constitution that protects every person from being incriminated, and I can't think of any trials offhand where a criminal defendant testified on behalf of their own Prosecution. They are always put on by their own lawyers.

Calling Letecia to the stand is *not* going to prove her sane (only medical experts are allowed to opine on that) but might well convince a couple of jurors that she's the craziest person they've ever heard of.

At any rate, it isn't going to happen and the State already has passed the deadlines for trying to have her testify against herself (!)

IMO.

 

[kaen]

Vampires phone calls to checking account conversations, narcissism, malingering, and clocks......so now we know that she is sane.

I think she is buried in this one. And, with her personality disorder she will never accept responsibility for this crime. Unfortunately she will never apologize either.

 

[Megnut]

Maybe they are spending too much time together? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Defendant head down: WATCH LIVE: Stepmom Murder Trial — CO v. Letecia Stauch — Day 15
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Attorney yawning: WATCH LIVE: Stepmom Murder Trial — CO v. Letecia Stauch — Day 15

That's why you never, ever stare into the abyss.

 

[Megnut]

That's because she only used vans and other 4-wheeled, ground-based transport.

There's no evidence whatsoever that she got on a flight. And where I live, luggage is x-rayed at all our major airports.

At any rate, she didn't fly. There were a couple of days of testimony about her whereabouts (which she tried to conceal) and several WSers have kindly shown us the maps of her van driving across the US (to FLorida, where she left his body).

She never flew.

IMO.

However, Maria Sanchez may have flown. The coop.

 

[Cindizzi]

I could be sorely mistaken, I haven’t brushed up on this case in a while.

But, I think someone like her would do something like that. Arrange for Gannons body to be transported through the air and tossed off in Florida, far far away from Colorado.

Somehow I missed the part where she checked in close to where he was found.

It wasn’t just the fact that she had checked into a hotel close to the site where Gannon was found.

It was everything leading up to that.


Prosecutors laid out their case against Stauch in a preliminary hearing earlier this month, revealing details never before made public. Among these revelations: that law enforcement allegedly found blood-soaked furniture in the Stauch family home and a trail of blood leading from Gannon’s room to the garage; that a series of GPS signals from Stauch’s phone and vehicle allegedly showed how she was trying to find a spot to dump Gannon’s body, first in Colorado and then across the country; and findings from the autopsy which showed how Gannon was shot under the chin and beaten over the head, as well as stabbed multiple times and slashed in the arms.

Letecia Stauch will stand trial for murder of stepson Gannon

The moment has been nearly two years coming for family and friends of 11-year-old Gannon Stauch, who disappeared from his Fountain, Colorado home in January 2020.

www.kktv.com

 

[10ofRods]

It wasn’t just the fact that she had checked into a hotel close to the site where Gannon was found.

It was everything leading up to that.


Prosecutors laid out their case against Stauch in a preliminary hearing earlier this month, revealing details never before made public. Among these revelations: that law enforcement allegedly found blood-soaked furniture in the Stauch family home and a trail of blood leading from Gannon’s room to the garage; that a series of GPS signals from Stauch’s phone and vehicle allegedly showed how she was trying to find a spot to dump Gannon’s body, first in Colorado and then across the country; and findings from the autopsy which showed how Gannon was shot under the chin and beaten over the head, as well as stabbed multiple times and slashed in the arms.

Letecia Stauch will stand trial for murder of stepson Gannon

The moment has been nearly two years coming for family and friends of 11-year-old Gannon Stauch, who disappeared from his Fountain, Colorado home in January 2020.

www.kktv.com

And the van, in which she transported Gannon's little body, was tracked by GPS at 6 hour intervals from COSprings to near Pensacola Florida. And then she stayed in a hotel.

TONS of evidence.

IMO.

 

[Seattle1]

RSBM for focus.

It seems like the prosecution should be able to call Letecia given that Colorado requires them to prove her sane. But I suppose doing so would somehow impair her right to a fair trial.

Part of a defendant's right to a fair trial is for the Court to compel the defendant to attend, and advise them of their right to testify.

We know she received a warning from the Court that as much force as necessary would be used to get her to Court if she thought attending was optional.

Any person accused of any crime in this state, by indictment, information, or otherwise, may, in the examination or trial of the cause, offer himself, or herself, as a witness in his or her own behalf, and shall be allowed to testify as other witnesses in such case, and when accused shall so testify, he or she shall be subject to all the rules of law relating to cross-examination of other witnesses.

 

[lonewanderer]

That's because she only used vans and other 4-wheeled, ground-based transport.

There's no evidence whatsoever that she got on a flight. And where I live, luggage is x-rayed at all our major airports.

At any rate, she didn't fly. There were a couple of days of testimony about her whereabouts (which she tried to conceal) and several WSers have kindly shown us the maps of her van driving across the US (to FLorida, where she left his body).

She never flew.

IMO.

Ok, I think her checking into the hotel clears it up for me.

I’ve flown more miles than I care to remember and can only recall one place that scanned my checked luggage too, at least where I could see it.

I could see someone as crazy as he’s talking someone into flying the body for her, tossing it there, and if she was smart, would have stayed in Colorado and acted none the wiser.

My theory is blown though, my mistake.

 

[CHEL]

I came here to post about Bella Fontenelle because the situation reminds me so much of this case. So close to me and so sad.

There’s already a thread: LA - Bella Fontenelle, 6, dismembered, left on bio mom's lawn, Hannah Landon, 43, arrested, Harahan, 26 Apr 2023

 

[Cindizzi]

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