Stepmom Murder: Letecia Stauch (Part 5 of 7)
13th Juror Podcast
Brandi Churchwell
4.6 • 897 Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
It's been 3 weeks since Gannon was last seen alive, and with a mountain of evidence piling up against Letecia, she's feeling more trapped than ever. In desperation, she offers to take a polygraph test for Al, and tries to enlist the help of a new ally to lie for her. But when Letecia gets word that Gannon's remains have been located, she realizes she's even more trapped than she thought- and she comes up with a new plan to try to escape responsibility for what she's done.
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 | 11-year-old Gannon Stalk has been missing from his Colorado Springs home for more than three weeks. |
| 0:05.2 | Investigators found blood evidence in his room, letting them know that something violent must have |
| 0:09.4 | happened. They also found a board from the Stalk's garage with Gannon's blood on it at the S-curve, |
| 0:15.2 | a remote area north of the Stoutk home that Letitia is known to have gone the day that Gannon went missing and again the day after. |
| 0:22.6 | As Letitia hides out in South Carolina, Al has been back in Colorado, working with the FBI to try to get any information he can from her, hoping to find his son. |
| 0:32.6 | Letitia's original story was that Gannon went to a friend's house and didn't come home. |
| 0:41.1 | Since then, she has placed the blame on a carpet guy named Egardo, |
| 0:46.6 | friends of Gannon's mother Landon, a gang member, a man who followed her, |
| 0:50.1 | a man that she said she met up with from Craigslist to buy a bike, |
| 0:56.0 | and Quincy Brown, a known sex offender who was wanted in Colorado Springs area at the time. Though Al let her know that it was confirmed that Quincy Brown had been in Mexico for the last two years. |
| 1:01.0 | To try to convince Al that she's not lying, Letitia tried to fake a polygraph from an online website. |
| 1:08.0 | But management blocked her from getting the report because of her questions containing |
| 1:11.3 | illegal activity, like murdering a child. As the pressure starts to get to her, Letitia's stories |
| 1:18.0 | about what happened to Gannon get even more outrageous and unbelievable, and she even tries to |
| 1:23.5 | enlist the help of a new ally to plant stories about a kidnapper. |
| 1:33.5 | Letitia may be 1,700 miles away, but the walls are closing in on her, and she's more trapped now than she ever has been before. |
| 1:40.9 | My name is Brandy Churchwell, and this is 13th juror podcast, where we unravel complex court cases and present them as compelling stories, breaking down the details and weighing the evidence from a non-legal perspective, just like the jurors do. |
| 1:57.1 | Today, we are continuing on the tragic story of the murder of 11-year-old Gannon Stouk |
| 2:02.6 | in the trial of his stepmother, Letitia Stalk. |
| 2:06.7 | Part 5. |
| 2:08.3 | Trapped |
| 2:08.7 | On the morning of February 19th, just as Letitia is feeling like she's all alone and trapped |
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