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Deceased 11yo Gannon Stauch Missing In Colorado Springs

Letecia Stauch, accused of killing her stepson Gannon Stauch, has been granted a change of plea to not guilty by reason of insanity.

Both sides of the case believe the trial date set for March 28 will be pushed back for an expert to evaluate Stauch. Our sister station, KXRM‘s Lauren Scharf said they likely won’t make a decision until March 17 about the trial.
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“#LeteciaStauch defense has filed a motion to proceed with a trial to the court and wave a jury. Stauch believes because of the pretrial publicity, the court can’t find a fair jury pool. Judge won’t make a ruling today,” Scharf tweeted.
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Since March 2020, Stauch has been held in the El Paso County Jail. She faces over a dozen charges, including first-degree murder.
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Stepmom pleads insanity in boy’s killing

Letecia Stauch, accused of killing her stepson Gannon Stauch, has been granted a change of plea to not guilty by reason of insanity.
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Attorneys for a Colorado woman accused of killing her 11-year-old stepson in 2020 have requested a second evaluation of her mental health after the judge in the case received a state evaluation.

Letecia Stauch has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity in the death of Gannon Stauch. After her March 2020 arrest in South Carolina Stauch was held in the Saline County, Kansas jail on her return to Colorado.

Fourth Judicial District Judge Gregory Werner set a Sept. 15 hearing after defense attorneys challenged the state report and requested that Stauch be evaluated again by defense-appointed psychiatrists, The Gazette reported.

The report on the sanity evaluation at the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo wasn't released.

Prosecutors last year presented alleged evidence linking Stauch to the January 2020 murder. They said that investigators found Gannon’s blood on Stauch’s shoe, found her DNA on a gun linked to his death and learned that she traveled to the Florida Panhandle shortly after he disappeared. The child’s remains were found there in March 2020, authorities have said.

Defense attorneys had sought to create doubt that Stauch committed the murder by suggesting someone else could have entered their Colorado Springs home around the time Gannon died.

Stauch is charged with first-degree murder, child abuse resulting in death, tampering with a deceased human body and tampering with physical evidence.
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Trial on hold for woman charged in stepson's death

After her March 2020 arrest in South Carolina, Letecia Stauch was held in the Saline Count
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JFC she will do anything to stretch this out. I’ve followed this one from nearly the beginning and one thing is for sure: whoever referred to her as a malignant narcissist is spot on. Random question I thought of after she first tried to represent herself: many convicts appeal on the basis of “ineffective counsel”, so if a defendant acts as their own counsel and does a shitty job of it, can they appeal on the grounds of ineffective counsel? I figure there has to be some rule that they can’t, otherwise every loser would just botch the trial by (poorly) defending themselves.

A thought about her daughter: we have to remember that this girl was raised by this monster. Everything she knows was taught to her by Letecia, a raging narcissist, a pathological liar, and monster capable of violently murdering a young boy. Harley probably was greatly affected by having this beast as her mother. She was possibly scared to death of her, too. I personally don’t think she should be charged, as long as she fully cooperates with the prosecution. She’s suffered enough by growing up with her. And I def won’t be surprised if Letecia’s defense is to say Harley did it. This woman would throw her own children under the bus without a second thought.
 
A Colorado woman knew what she was doing when she stabbed her young stepson 18 times and then shot him in the head before driving across the country to dump a suitcase with his remains over a bridge in the Florida Panhandle, a prosecutor told jurors Monday at the start of her trial.

Authorities allege Letecia Stauch killed 11-year-old Gannon Stauch in his bedroom a few hours before reporting him missing on Jan. 27, 2020, while his father was on a National Guard deployment. They have suggested she was unhappy in her marriage and resentful of being treated like an unpaid babysitter.

Attorneys for Stauch, who has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, countered that by claiming she suffered a “major psychotic crack” as a result of childhood trauma when she killed Gannon.

The dueling narratives for why Stauch carried out the crime came during opening statements in Colorado Springs for a trial expected to last several weeks.

District Attorney Michael Allen argued in his opening statement that the steps that Stauch took to cover up her actions are proof that she knew what she did was wrong and was therefore sane. She cleaned up blood in Gannon's bedroom, moving his body to various locations to hide it before disposing of it “like garbage” in a river that flows into the Gulf of Mexico in hopes it would never be found, he said.

Stauch also lied to investigators various times to try to hamper their investigation, Allen said, changing her accounts of what happened to Gannon. She claimed two different men had raped her and then abducted Gannon and, later, that one of those men had taken Gannon after he hurt himself in a bike crash.

“All of her actions were purposefully designed by her to distance herself from what she did,” Allen said.

But defense attorney Will Cook said the gruesome details highlighted by Allen, including how Gannon was killed and the lack of a motive, are proof that Stauch was “insane” because it all does not make sense.

“These are all signs and evidence of a mind, a soul, that is broken in a most fundamental and profound way,” he said.

Cook suggested Stauch developed dissociative identify disorder as a result of being physically, emotionally and sexually abused by her absent mother's string of partners during her childhood, sometimes sleeping in a car in the driveway to escape the abuse. When she killed Gannon, she was not, in her mind, killing her stepson, but the “demons” from her childhood and life, he said.
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Based on surveys given to potential jurors, many were skeptical of Stauch's mental health defense, Cook said. He urged jurors to put aside their impulse to make someone pay for such a brutal killing and keep an open mind because the judicial system requires Stauch to be presumed innocent.


“I'm not telling you to like it. I'm just telling you that's the way it is," he said.
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'Psychotic crack' led woman to kill stepson, defense says

A Colorado woman knew what she was doing when she stabbed her young stepson 18 times and then shot him in the head before driving across the country to dump a suitcase with his remains over a bridge in the Florida Panhandle, a prosecutor told jurors Monday at the start of her trial. Authorities...
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I agree with @Sugar Cookie in that I think Gannon caught her at something and that she suspected that her husband had had enough of her and she was taking it out on Gannon since Gannon had all these medical issues that she had to deal with, that just made it easier for her to hate him. But this woman is an absolute psychopath and she's proving it daily.
 
Letecia Stauch, a Colorado woman behind bars awaiting trial for the death of her 11-year-old stepson, maintains her innocence, although she’s been charged with first-degree murder and a slew of related felonies.
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In an exclusive interview with CrimeOnline, Stauch, who’s currently incarcerated at the El Paso County Jail in Colorado, alleged that her estranged husband, Albert Stauch, the father of Gannon, “should be in jail for manslaughter.”

Although she didn’t give specifics on why Albert Stauch deserves a manslaughter charge, she did claim that he owed someone named “Edgar” money, which led to Gannon’s disappearance.
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According to Letecia Stauch, however, she has been covering for others, hoping that the “full truth” that’s “not sugarcoated” would come out.

“Him [Albert Stauch] and Edgar was getting into it. Because he owed Edgar some money. We had the money that should have been paid from the cruise,” Stauch explained.
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“Albert made a stupid decision, you know, it just wasn’t, you know, a good situation. So, you know, he told me a story to tell [the police]. You know, and I just didn’t know what to say.”
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Stauch also claimed that her estranged husband told her “she didn’t have a child to lose” and that he had many law enforcement and military officials that could assist if she “didn’t snitch.”
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“Where they [the police] messed up is [January] 27. He was on a train. You see what I’m saying? I’m thinking that that’s their thing, but, but it’s not because they came to my house with hours of body cam. There was nothing. Like, you check my car on the body cams, you take everything. You [law enforcement] just don’t like it. There was no way, you know what I mean?
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“Their timeframe, it was all wrong because they couldn’t figure it out. Where was he [Gannon]? He truly was gone. He was with Edgar.”
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“He should be here for manslaughter because it was on January 28th. That’s why the police didn’t have anything…Albert came in on the 28th from the airport and was like in a moment of rage. I mean, I could be on the low end and I could say, you know, he should be here for murder, but I’m not, I’m saying that it should be, I guess manslaughter would be the right thing.”
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Stauch added that she wouldn’t reveal the true identity of Edgar, which could possibly be a pseudonym, because he has “dangerous affiliations.”


CrimeOnline could not independently verify the validity of Stauch’s claims. Sgt. Mynatt with the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office said there is an active gag order in the case and could not confirm if Letecia Stauch made a report with law enforcement.
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Albert Stauch has not been named a suspect or a person of interest in the case.
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Jailhouse Interview: Letecia Stauch describes new version of beloved Colorado boy, Gannon Stauch’s death [EXCLUSIVE]

Letecia Stauch, a Colorado woman behind bars for the death of her 11-year-old stepson, said that
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cubby said:
I think it's gonna be better than Casey Anthony's trial. Casey sat there and said not one word the whole time, I don't think Letecia will be able to keep her mouth shut. She'll end up shackled and gagged sitting right there at the defense table. She really does think she's the smartest one in the room, if you go by some of her antics, at least 2 escape attempts and all those letters she wrote that were just barely understandable. She needs to never get out. What she really needs is the death penalty but I'm not holding my breath on that.
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Did you see the vid??! She's a danger to society.
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sgr1966 said:
Maybe she sucks dick good
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Haven't you heard? The crazier they are, the better!
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McDanel said:
This is such an awful case. Women seldom face the death penalty, but I at least want to see life without parole.
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I'm opposed to the death penalty. But, I definitely think she deserves it.
 
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I saw the video of her flipping birds all over the court room, judge told her if she couldn't control herself he will have a bolt installed under the table and she will sit with her hands shackled under the table so that the jury can't see it. That video is priceless.

 
She makes me sick on so many levels.
Here's video of Al begging this vile monster for answers long before Gannon's body was found.

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WATCH: Al Stauch begs Letecia for answers weeks before Gannon's body is found

WATCH: Al Stauch begs Letecia for answers weeks before Gannon's body is found
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Ugh. More phone calls between them..

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WATCH: Recorded phone calls between Letecia and Al Stauch played in court, Part 2

WATCH: Recorded phone calls between Letecia and Al Stauch played in court, Part 2
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Part of the closing the prosecutor said that Letecia went to one of the nurses who were watching her and asks if they could tell when someone was faking it, so yeah she's guilty. How in the world she could act like a reasonable human being as long as did while married to Al is remarkable. I think Gannon with his health issues was more work than she was willing to do.
 
cubby said:
Part of the closing the prosecutor said that Letecia went to one of the nurses who were watching her and asks if they could tell when someone was faking it, so yeah she's guilty. How in the world she could act like a reasonable human being as long as did while married to Al is remarkable. I think Gannon with his health issues was more work than she was willing to do.
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Maybe the Evil prefers to hide it's true nature...until everything started unraveling. Insistent upon everyone believing whatever version of events; if Al didn't believe that version, in desperation reaching for a different one..and another, and another. Like it was just a facade peeling away, layer by layer..It's scary to see the monster underneath. I don't know if I've ever..maybe that's a good thing. Because it makes me wonder just how many monsters are out there, or even closer..
 
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