Stepmom Murder: Letecia Stauch (Part 2 of 7)

13th Juror Podcast

Brandi Churchwell

Society & Culture, True Crime, Documentary, News

4.6 • 897 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2023

⏱️ 45 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 seven-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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0:00.0	When 11-year-old Gannon Stouk was reported missing by his stepmother Letitia on January 27th of 2020,
0:07.7	it seemed like the entire community came together to help with the search efforts to find him.
0:12.7	The entire community, with the exception of his stepmother, Letitia, who had happened to be the last one to see him alive.
0:22.0	Leticia told investigators that Gannon went to a friend's house and was supposed to return
0:25.8	home by six so that they could get dinner. At 65, as snow began to fall in their Colorado
0:32.1	Springs neighborhood, Letitia called 911 and reported that Gannon had not come home.
0:38.5	Because of his age and Letitia saying that he walked to a friend's house, Gannon was
0:43.4	originally classified as a runaway. His phone was left at home, but Letitia said that he took
0:49.2	his Nintendo Switch with him. There were some odd events leading up to Gannon's disappearance, but nothing
0:55.9	that seemed like it was enough to cause concern just yet. It wasn't until Gannon didn't come
1:01.5	home, and nothing that Leticia said seemed to be making any sense, that suspicions turned toward
1:07.9	Letitia and what could have possibly happened that Monday afternoon.
1:13.1	Gannon's dad Al had been out of town for training, and when Gannon disappeared, he made arrangements to get home as quickly as possible.
1:21.1	But when he returned home to find his son, he became increasingly suspicious of his wife and her bizarre behavior.
1:34.4	My name is Brandy Churchwell, and this is 13th juror podcast, where we unravel complex court cases
1:41.3	and present them as compelling stories, breaking down the details and weighing
1:45.6	the evidence from a non-legal perspective, just like the jurors do.
1:50.3	Today we're continuing on the tragic story of the murder of 11-year-old Gannon and
1:56.2	the trial of his stepmother, Letitia Stout.
2:00.4	Part 2, The Search.
2:10.0	When Leticia Stout called 911 to report Gannon missing, the dispatcher told her that they
2:15.0	would have a lot of questions that they would need to ask her.
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