Stepmom Murder: Letecia Stauch (Part 1 of 6)

13th Juror Podcast

Brandi Churchwell

Society & Culture, True Crime, Documentary, News

4.6 • 897 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In January of 2020 11-year-old Gannon Stauch is reported missing by his stepmother Letecia in Colorado Springs, CO, sparking a massive search effort involving volunteers, as well as multiple law enforcement agencies. As the community searches for signs of the missing child, police, and Gannon's father Al, turn their attention to the bizarre behavior of stepmom Letecia, who was the last person to see him alive.
As the investigation heats up, Letecia hits the road in a rental van, driving cross country with her teenage daughter to start a new life. Letecia is arrested on March 2, 2020, in Myrtle Beach, SC and charged with Gannon's death. On March 17th, maintenance workers find Gannon's remains in a suitcase under a bridge near Pensacola, FL- more than 1,300 miles away from his home.
Letecia begins to tell story after story- each more outrageous than the last. Letecia blames anyone and everyone- from the drug cartel to neighborhood workers, to sex traffickers- before finally pleading not guilty by reason of insanity. The trial, which lasted 5 weeks, began in April of 2023, and each witness brought out wild new details that made the story even more unbelievable.

In this six-part series, we will walk through the background of this blended family, the search for Gannon, what happened when Letecia went on the run, her eventual arrest, and the bizarre trial that lit social media on fire.

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*Episode originally uploaded as audio version of YouTube recap video. Rewritten in complete story form post-trial. For original version, please check out YouTube.com/brandichurchwell

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0:00.0	The trial of Letitia Stock and the murder of her 11-year-old stepson, Gannon, is one of the harder trials that I've had to cover.
0:07.0	I did videos on my YouTube channel that gave recaps of what was happening in the trial every day or so,
0:13.0	and I rarely made it through a video without tearing up or having my voice crack.
0:18.0	I wasn't even planning on covering this trial originally. Then I went to dinner
0:22.4	with friends one night, right before the trial was set to start, and my server was the kindest,
0:27.8	sweetest, 16-year-old boy, and he was so well-mannered. As we were leaving, I thanked him,
0:34.5	and I asked his name, and he said his name was Gannon.
0:38.7	It's a name I hadn't heard before until Letitia's trial was coming up, so to now hear it again
0:44.5	from this kind young man, I took it as a sign. As a parent, it was really hard to watch.
0:51.9	Any trials that involve children always are. But along with the tragedy of
0:56.4	this case comes anger at the ridiculous ways that Letitia Stalk tried to hide what she had done.
1:03.5	Some of the stories were so nonsensical and outrageous that they became running jokes across
1:10.0	various forms of social media. Her stories changed
1:13.7	moment to moment, each version more unbelievable and outlandish than the last. This is the story of a
1:20.6	child who was taken from his family too soon, in a brutal way, and of his murderous stepmother, who did everything she could to point
1:30.6	the blame towards someone else as she traveled with her teenage daughter cross-country in a
1:35.6	rental van, and in the back, a suitcase with young Gannon's body inside.
1:48.9	Music Gannon's body inside. My name is Brandy Churchwell, and this is 13th juror podcast, where we unravel complex
1:55.0	court cases and present them as compelling stories, breaking down the details and weighing
2:00.5	evidence from a non-legal
2:01.9	perspective, just like the jurors do.
2:05.1	Today, we are introducing the tragic story of the murder of 11-year-old Gannon and the trial
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