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I’m in court covering the 13th day of the
#LeteciaStauch trial this morning, in place for
@ZachNDupont. Follow along for live updates
@csgazette
We’re picking back up today with the testimony of former Denver-based FBI agent Jonathan Grusing, who interviewed Stauch after she was arrested but before Gannon’s body was found in Florida. Playing clips from that 5-hr interview.
In this clip, Grusing brings up her body language: “You know what innocent people do? They’d be freaking out. You’re not freaking out.”
Stauch talks about her faith, & how repentance involves laying sins at the foot of the cross. “My sins are laid down, and it does not involve hurting … or killing (Gannon).” Grusing again asks her to help him locate Gannon if that’s the case. “You know where an 11-year-old is.”
Allen asked Grusing if Stauch’s resisting opportunities to give more details was a “logical thought process” someone may use to avoid implication. Grusing: “Very.”
In the clip, Grusing asks Stauch many times to describe her last memory of Gannon - what he was doing, his facial expression. She refuses. He told her that parents who lost a child never forget, even decades later, the image of the last time they saw their child.
“Gannon was happy - Gannon IS my favorite stepchild,” Stauch said. Grusing told her she was only describing Gannon’s characteristics and asked why she refused to answer “easy” questions. He just told Allen that she was preoccupied with what others thought of her.
Defense attorney Will Cook up for cross-exam. Cook asks Grusing if he recalled Stauch referring to herself as “Tecia” in 3rd person, but Grusing said he didn’t find it too strange in the moment. Cook asked if it would be strange if he spoke of himself in the 3rd person
during x-exam. Grusing said it would be unusual. Grusing said he’s known self absorbed people to refer to themselves in the 3rd person, and said he never had the impression that
#Stauch was exhibiting multiple personalities.