EVIL STEPMOM LETECIA STAUCH MURDERS STEPSON, GANNON, SET TO WALK FREE
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Leticia Stauch's murder conviction has been overturned by the Colorado Court of Appeals. Stauch was found guilty of murder in the death of her 11-year-old stepson, Gannon. Now, a three-judge panel agrees that a biased juror deliberated on the case. In the 54 page ruling, the panel noted the juror said his son-in-law worked as a deputy district attorney in the District Attorney's office which prosecuted the case. The juror should have been dismissed automatically. This now means a retrial.
Stauch, step mother to Gannon Stauch, reported the 11-year-old boy as missing. In reality,Stauch was stabbed, beat, shot, and killed inside the family’s Fountain home. Letetcia Stauch then tried to cover up her crimes, by blaming numerous imaginary people and driving to Florida to dispose of the boy's body. Gannon Stauch was stuffed inside a suitcase, which was then tossed over a bridge in Pace, Florida.
Prosecutors said that Letecia Stauch was upset that she was left taking care of her stepchildren. Internet searched shows her distain while Gannon’s father was away at work with the US National Guard.
Joining Nancy Grace today:
- Franz Borghardt - criminal defense attorney, Founder of Borghardt Law Firm,former prosecutor, website: www.borghardtlawfirm.com, Instagram and Facebook: BorghardtLawFirm
- Dr. Leslie Dobson - Clinical and Forensic Psychologist, Host of Podcast: "Intentionally Disturbing," www.drlesliedobson.com , Author : “The Friend Cleanse - How to set boundaries with energy vampires” @drlesliedobson
- Chris McDonough - director of The Cold Case Foundation, former homicide detective, Host of YouTube channel, "The Interview Room”, website: www.coldcasefoundation.org/chris-mcdonough
- Dr. Jan Gorniak - former medical examiner, Clark County Office of the Coroner/Medical Examiner, Board Certified Forensic Pathologist and founder of World Peace Forensic Consulting
- Anne Emerson - Senior Investigative Reporter, for Criminally Obsessed, which can be found on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, X and Facebook: Criminally Obsessed, and Host of the Award-Winning Podcast: "Unsolved South Carolina: The Murdaugh Murders, Money and Mystery"
- Dave Mack - Investigative Reporter, 'Crime Stories'
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:03.2 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:05.5 | This proves evil stepmothers are not just in fairy tales. |
| 0:12.1 | Evil stepmother, Letitia Stock, murders her little stepson, Gannon, just 11 years old. And tonight, she set to walk free? Good evening. |
| 0:28.1 | I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. I want to thank you for being with us. |
| 0:43.0 | Gannon Stouch was an 11-year-old boy who went missing from Colorado. His disappearance sparked a nationwide search before his body was later found in Florida. |
| 0:50.5 | The blood so copious under this little boy's bed, it seeped through the carpet to underneath. |
| 1:01.1 | Blood soaked the scene. |
| 1:04.6 | Yet tonight, Letitia Stock, the evil stepmother personified, who shoots a bird at witnesses in court. |
| 1:15.1 | She is set to walk free? |
| 1:18.6 | How can this happen? |
| 1:22.0 | Joining us, an all-star panel. |
| 1:24.1 | Listen. |
| 1:24.9 | I watched the video at least 20, 30 times, so I took it to an house. Let me make sure. First, I watch it on the tablet. I zoom in. I can zoom in. I can look. I saw no feet. I can turn it up. I said, okay, let me. If I get a bite, she gets out, she covers the door, garage are open. She gets the alarm and a dark garage and nobody got out. And I look at it on the TV so I can get a better view. And I put my phone to the TV so I can, you know, get him a better view. And I was like, no, he never got out of the truck. That's when I went over to a dog and showed him. It just breaks my heart when I see that particular photo of Gannon, lying sideways looking at the camera. |
| 2:02.2 | If I could see that again with that little snagletooth smile he's got going on, just 11 years old, |
| 2:09.2 | completely defenseless. |
| 2:11.5 | You were just hearing the neighbor Roderick Drayton who who spotted on his own home surveillance video, |
| 2:21.1 | Gannon getting into the car with the evil stepmother and never getting out. |
| 2:27.1 | Straight out to Ann Emerson joining a senior investigative reporter for Criminally Obsessed. |
| 2:33.1 | That's on YouTube. |
| 2:35.0 | Also, host of the award-winning podcast, Unsolved South Carolina, the Murdoch |
| 2:39.8 | mysteries, money and the Murdoch murders, money and mystery. |
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