On Friday, jurors heard audio of an FBI agent confronting a suspected murderous stepmother during her suspicious and suppressed web searches, such as blood gushing from an arterial ‘bleed’ and ‘I don’t like my son in law”.
The defendant, Letecia Stauch, 39, denied carrying out such searches.
“What?” she said, denying having looked for her.
“It’s coming from your phone,” former FBI agent Jonathan Grusing said.
Regarding “How to remove blood from sheets?” Stauch claimed it was nosebleeds staining sheets belonging to his 11-year-old stepson Gannon Stauch.
Letecia Stauch is charged with murder and other charges for allegedly stabbing the child 18 times and shooting him in the head at their home in Colorado Springs, Colorado on January 27, 2020. Afterwards, she allegedly hid her body, lied to family and law enforcement. about her disappearance and dumped her remains in a suitcase in Pensacola, Florida.
The defense argues that she was insane, living with dissociative identity disorder. Prosecutors argue, however, that she knew what she was doing when she lied to authorities, the child’s father, her own family and even a reporter who spoke to her during Gannon’s disappearance.
Bridge workers discovered Gannon’s suitcase and body on March 20, 2020.
On Friday, jurors continued to hear the extended audio in which the child’s father, Al Stauch, grilled Letecia Stauch during Gannon’s disappearance. The defendant begged her then-husband to believe that someone else had taken the 11-year-old.
The couple have since divorced.
Accused child killer #LeteciaStauch begged her ex-husband, #AlStauchduring a phone call to believe someone else took her son, Gannon, in January 2020. ‘There’s no way I could have been hours and hours in a certain window’ , Stauch told her ex-husband. pic.twitter.com/QJ5CVbyNzB
– Law&Crime Network (@LawCrimeNetwork) April 21, 2023
Jurors previously heard an audio in which Al Stauch pressed her on what she knew about the child’s disappearance, and he also challenged her on her shifting accounts, which included her baseless claim of a sex offender Quincy Brown abducting Gannon.
“You called the police and told them he got away, not that Quincy Brown took him away,” Al Stauch said, audibly annoyed. “What the f—, ‘Tecia?”
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