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

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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.

He noticed the appearance of diluted blood, some of it flowing along horizontal surface or on a baseboard which suggests possible cleaning/diluting of a surface.

Feb. 26th, 2020 he gave a prelim. result given the pooling, splatter stains on two walls and nature of patterns that are/not there, he'd look at one or combo of three possible events: a shooting of with a penetrating wound (no exit), blunt force trauma, action with sharp object

Autopsy report noted all three of these events

They pulled up picture from Blue Star pictures of the room where a special light will illuminate things the eye can't usually see.

Blood stain analysis leads Griffin to believe Gannon was on or near the floor for at least one or two of these events leading to blood splatter.

This expert gets paid $290 an hour from the DA's office, the company rate
 

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.

Griffin was asked if the blood stains were cleaned up. “I noticed primarily along the baseboards, the appearance of diluted blood, some of it flowing along the horizontal surface or edge of a baseboard. That suggests some possibility of a diluting action on the blood stains.

"Examples would be some type of clean-up or removal," Griffin added.

“From blood stain pattern analysis, I can say with it being Gannon’s blood, he’s on or near the floor for at least one or two impact events — spatter producing events,” said Griffin.

Griffin said based off of his analyzation, the blood stains in Gannon’s room were caused by one or more of these events: a penetrating gunshot wound, blunt force trauma, and/or sharp force injury with a bladed object.


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Could be he scrunched up in the corner, the farthest he could get from her, and the bed slid making him fall to the floor between the bed and wall.

Whoever said the blanket was tossed onto the desk, that makes so much sense.
 
I'd been wondering why the Judge wasn't as formally buttoned up as usual. Sounds like the air con might be on the blink.
 
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