CO - Gannon Stauch, 11, found deceased, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, 27 Jan 2020 *Arrest* #55

[GRT]

20 minute recess.

 

[Megnut]

I swear I could hear pages being turned during the call

Yup. She just lost her page.

She wrote it all down. Priceless.

 

[jgarris]

If this doesn't show planning pre and post murder by a competent (not intelligent) individual - I'm not sure what else will.

JMO

 

[arielilane]

Recess until 3:20 pm MT

 

[steeltowngirl]

I swear I could hear pages being turned during the call

You are right! She just stopped, turned a page or something, and said “let me go back to Monday”. She had made NOTES of her timeLIE !!

 

[GRT]

I've been checking my Apple watch and my BPM keeps rising.

What mom or stepmom uses that term to describe bleeding from the rectum??

Maybe a stepmom who became so enraged Gannon was having constipation problems that she shoved an enema tube up there so hard it tore the rectal lining.

I'm just guessing.

 

[SuziQ]

I feel as though she burned him badly and that was the start of everything.

Did she hold his arms over the candle flame?

Imo, she did something like that, threw the candle at him or something. Imo, this was child abuse taken too far and she was backed into a corner. She knew she would go to jail and loose her husband. So she started on the path of saving herself. Which meant getting rid of Gannon. Imo.

 

[GRT]

He did a grand job. She didn’t suspect a thing.

I thought so, too. He knew just how to play her to keep her talking.

 

[Curious Me]

Yada, Yada, Yada says the demon.

Recess now.

 

[arielilane]

https://twitter.com/FierroNicole

Judge is sending jury on lunch break early. At 1:20 pm, he says that we will be hearing the recorded phone calls between #LeteciaStauch and Al, one after another.

STAUCH DAY TWO AFTER LUNCH: We're back from lunch. Prepared to hear recorded calls between Al Stauch and Letecia that the FBI guided Al through.

Going through texts between Letecia and Al. On, Jan 27th 2:48 am Letecia texts Al about Gannon having stomach issues and bleeding out of his butt. She brings up how he is upset about dropping a candle on the carpet.

Text from 8:10 am Jan 27th. Al talks about how text from Letecia says Gannon lit a candle to mask smell from his bowel movements. Al said he doesn't remember Gannon ever lighting a candle on his own accord and didn't usually do that.

Al said Letecia didn't like to deal with cleaning up after Gannon when he had accidents.

On January 28th, 2020 Al and Letecia went to Starbucks and met detectives. Al says Letecia told detectives that Gannon ran away, went to a friends and didn't come home.

On January 28th, Al went to the Sheriff's Office twice to talk to detectives. Letecia did not go with him.

Left first interview, went home to check on the girls. Then he went to go search around and went to French Elementary School to check on the car. When he didn't see the car at the school he called Sheriff's office and said he kind of "freaked out" and they told him to come back.

He said it was the first realization that "she lied" and then she thought that maybe Gannon was in that car.

Letecia texted Al to go talk to her. "I gave in to her request to talk and that's when she told me the first rape story." He said Letecia told him someone came in and raped her and beat up Gannon in Gannon's room. "That was the brunt of the first version of the story.”

Al said she seemed frantic and rushed in speaking but did not cry when telling him this "first rape story.”

Al said after hearing this story, he realized Gannon's room could be a crime scene. His mom and sister were staying in the room so he rushed in and told them to get out of there. He said he alerted authorities and gathered the weapons in his house.

Al said he felt he needed to lock up the firearms in the vehicle because "my first impression was that it was a bulls**** story" He said his military instinct was that if something was going on to make it safer for everyone, he wanted to lock up the guns in the truck.

Once Letecia moved her belongings on January 31st, Al said he doesn't believe he ever saw her in person again. From Jan 31 to the time where pretext phone calls started, they would text and talk on the phone. He said her stories would change during this time frame.

Al said Letecia brought up a story involving a man named Edguardo and said she had given him a code to get in the house to fix the carpet and that he raped her. Al said he didn't know anyone named Edguardo who was in the neighborhood.

We're listening to the first recorded phone call.

First recorded phone call is going to play out. Believe it could be over an hour and a half. It starts with Al asking Letecia "what's up." She talks about how she's hungry because "they took everything" and she doesn't have money to buy food.

She talks about how "they" took her passport and car. She said she called the evidence department several times asking to get her bag to get stuff back. Police asked her why she needed her passport. She said she needs it to do airline job and get on flight.

In first phone call, an automated voice comes on and Letecia's line hangs up. She calls back and says she has to use some random mans' phone because police have everything and is calling on wifi too.

Letecia saying she called CBI to see if they could get involved in the case because she thinks the sheriff's office case "is becoming a witch hunt for one person they are barking up the wrong tree and not following credible tips I told them."

Al asked Letecia specifically what credible things she told police. Letecia breaks up a little bit and goes on tangent about how she's having to use random people's phones to call him.

She said she had to get a paper notarized going through what happened from Saturday to Monday (the day he disappeared). Jan 25-27th 2020.

She said Gannon took out the trash. Starts listing off things. Then she says he went out in the garage barefoot and cut his foot on a plywood board and was bleeding in garage. Al starts to ask follow up questions, seems like he's subtly trying to poke holes.

On call she's saying she heard a pop or loud noise in the storage room Saturday. She "assumed it was a box" falling. She said Gannon said she couldn't come in that he was building something and she "didn't think anything of it.”

Now she's going into Sunday. Lots of random details. But she's wanting to think of "anything she could have said that could have triggered something.”

She tells Al she let Gannon in on a little secret and tells Al "you already know what that was." Something about loosing a baby that he could pray about?

After conversation about "secret," Letecia took Gannon on hike. "You already know from the pictures random creeps took." She said they went on hike and had a lot of talks and conversations about someone named Brian.

Now she's going into night on Sunday and his upset stomach. She said he took a bath with salts to help his stomach.

She said Sunday night in his room he told her he was playing with someone named Greyson. "I was thinking do kids at 11 still have imaginary friends? Or we he talking to them online because he wasn't supposed to be playing online.”

She said she had laid down and heard alarm going off for the house. She walks in living room and put the alarm code in. She said then it was going off yelling “fire"

She said no fire but the alarm was going off. She said she thought to call the security company because something was weird. She then said carbon monoxide alarm was going off. She said she grabbed Laina and gave her the keys and told her to run to the car.

Now she's saying on the call that the footage would maybe show them leaving the house running out after these alarms going off. Al asks for a time so maybe police can look it up on surveillance.

Now she may be speaking to the footage on their neighbor's surveillance showing what police believe is the last surveillance sighting of Gannon. She's referring to getting them into Al's truck and driving the kids around the block.

"I was in shock so I pulled back in the driveway." Al said this is when she realized bubbles on Gannon's arms. Referring to burn marks on his arms.

She said Gannon saw her coming and was on his Switch when he was grounded so something happened leading to a candle falling and starting a fire which burned him.

Lots of details and rambling but she's saying Gannon started fire because he was playing his Switch while he was grounded near a candle and he knocked it over when he saw Letecia coming.

She said the burn situation was Sunday. Now saying Gannon asked if he could stay home on Monday because he’s terrified of having an accident. She talks about his stomach issues, being constipated.

Al asking about the bubbles from burn marks on his arms. She tells him Gannon started to peel the bubbles on his arm on Monday.

"I swear to Jesus I told detectives this. He started to peel it....because he walk talking fine acting normal, I didn't see at that time he was in any type of pain."

She's saying police took her GPS and everything describing why she went to Douglas County to go buy a bike with Gannon.

She talks about how police have her email and "they can see the information in my email coming from craigslist.”

Another hour is left in this first recorded call. Judge is telling everyone to take the afternoon break and come back in 20 minutes.

 

[gerbil]

Another hour to go..

You are right!

(Snipped by me)
There's a first time for everything

 

[Megnut]

It would appear to me that T has a security detail in plain clothes sitting off-camera) that and the uniformed deputy assigned to her just cuffed her wrists and IMO uncuffed her feet.

For the safety of everyone in the room -- including her own defense attorneys -- not just laptops are tied down.

i think she's seated out of arm's reach of her attorneys as well.

I prefer a steel cage.

Jmo

 

[Ontario Mom]

It would appear to me that T has a security detail in plain clothes and the uniformed deputy assigned to her just cuffed her wrists and IMO uncuffed her feet.

For the safety of everyone in the room -- including her own defense attorneys -- not just laptops are tied down.

i think she's seated out of arm's reach of her attorneys as well.

I prefer a steel cage.

Jmo

Funny, I was wondering myself who the bald guy was but yes, they moved like security.

Also, lol, hot mic in the courtroom (woops!)

 

[Megnut]

You are right! She just stopped, turned a page or something, and said “let me go back to Monday”. She had made NOTES of her timeLIE !!

We thought it was tissues at the time (when she was being questioned by LE at the station) (when they weren't even giving her her constitutional sandwich), but I wonder if it wasn't her story notes she stuffed in her pants.

Jmo

 

[Kingsley]

More words in that phone call than I use in a week.
Yada yada yada on Seinfeld left out details, but she produced the events in absolutely excruciating detail.

Are there any messages wrt Craig's list bike sale for Al? I'm just trying to figure out if there was a real pressing need for her to go out that day with a burned child with bathroom issues (selling things for carpet repair could've waited until G was better). Just sifting for bits of truth if any exists

 

[Kiranerys]

I don't like her attorney's. They know we can see them laughing and joking right?

 

[NuttMegg]

Does anyone have a theory as to why 2 bullets were stopped by / found in his pillow, yet the one which entered his head appeared to have much more force? It's as those the 2 in the pillow were fired from a further distance. This wasn't a little .22 IIRC.

ETA, I don't think we know yet if those 2 were spent? Maybe she just wanted to get rid of them, but that doesn't make sense either.

 

[Murphy1950]

Listening to T go on and on has to be worse than any evidence photos. That poor jury.

Is there a show/podcast the recaps the events of the day ? I really can't stand to listen to her.

Thanks for all who have been posting and updating, the coverage here has been amazing.

 

[Kiranerys]

That had to be so hard for him to keep up that phone conversation. He did a good job playing her.

He did a grand job. She didn’t suspect a thing.

He really did do a great job, how he managed to sound so friendly and even slightly sympathetic towards her is pretty amazing when he probably wanted to rip her lying tongue out!

 

[jgarris]

It would appear to me that T has a security detail in plain clothes sitting off-camera) that and the uniformed deputy assigned to her just cuffed her wrists and IMO uncuffed her feet.

For the safety of everyone in the room -- including her own defense attorneys -- not just laptops are tied down.

i think she's seated out of arm's reach of her attorneys as well.

I prefer a steel cage.

Jmo

This may be an area where Russians get it right. Little glass box for those on trial to sit in. lol