Stepmom Murder: Letecia Stauch (Part 3 of 7)
13th Juror Podcast
Brandi Churchwell
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Letecia's bizarre behavior starts to raise some eyebrows in the community, with the police, and with Al. A search of the Stauch home and Gannon's room paints a gruesome picture, and when police get the data back from Letecia's phone, they're shocked to see her search history. As all eyes begin to look at Letecia, Letecia takes Harley and heads toward the other side of the country.
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 | Thursday, January 30th, 2020. It's been three days since 11-year-old Gannon Stouk went missing, |
| 0:07.5 | and until yesterday, investigators didn't even have much of a lead. Letitia Stouk's behavior |
| 0:13.0 | raised red flags all over the place, with police, with her husband, and with the neighborhood |
| 0:18.9 | who was still searching for Gannon. |
| 0:21.7 | She was ruffling feathers everywhere, and the wilder her behavior became, the more people |
| 0:26.4 | seem to focus in on their suspicions of her involvement. |
| 0:30.3 | Back in North Carolina, Latisha's family was worried. |
| 0:33.5 | They were worried about finding Gannon, and they were worried about Latisha being wrongfully |
| 0:37.4 | accused of something that they just knew that she isn't capable of. |
| 0:41.4 | Leticia's mom, her Aunt Brenda, and her brother Dakota all booked flights to come to Colorado |
| 0:46.6 | so that they could help support Letitia and help look for Gannon. |
| 0:50.7 | Their flight landed Thursday morning around 11 a.m. And Aunt Brenda rented a Nissan Ultima from the airport. |
| 0:57.2 | They loaded up and headed toward Colorado Springs, about an hour and a half away. |
| 1:02.4 | But just as they were about to reach their destination, they received a call from Letitia, |
| 1:07.0 | who told them that they had to come to the Marshall's clothing store quick, |
| 1:10.0 | because police had just thrown her and Harley to the to the Marshall's clothing store quick, because police had |
| 1:11.2 | just thrown her and Harley to the ground and left them with no car and no phone. |
| 1:19.5 | My name is Brandy Churchwell, and this is 13th juror podcast, where we unravel complex court cases |
| 1:26.6 | and present them as compelling stories, |
| 1:29.9 | breaking down the details and weighing the evidence from a non-legal perspective, just like the |
| 1:34.6 | jurors do. |
| 1:36.0 | Today, we're continuing on the tragic story of the murder of 11-year-old Gannon and the |
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