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<h2 class="wp-block-heading has-text-color" style="color:#36282b;font-size:14px"><strong>Letecia Stauch, 39, was found guilty on Monday of murder in the first degree, guilty of murder of a child under 12, in the January 2020 death of her 11-year-old stepson Gannon Stauch </strong></h2>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading has-text-color" style="color:#36282b;font-size:14px"><strong>Letecia Stauch was sentenced to two life without parole for the murder and 18 months <strong>consecutive to life for t</strong>ampering with physical evidence </strong></h2>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading has-text-color" style="color:#36282b;font-size:14px"><strong><strong>Gannon Stauch disappeared in Colorado Springs in January 2020, but his body was found <strong>1,400 miles away in Florida</strong> on March 20, 2020</strong> </strong></h2>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading has-text-color" style="color:#36282b;font-size:14px"><strong>Gannon was stabbed 18 times, then shot in the head, stuffed in a suitcase and dumped over a bridge </strong></h2>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading has-text-color" style="color:#36282b;font-size:14px"><strong>Stauch is said to have been resentful about being used as a babysitter and wanted to end the marriage with the victim&#8217;s dad, who was away on National Guards duty </strong></h2>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading has-text-color" style="color:#36282b;font-size:14px"><strong>Defendant <strong>blamed mental illness on her behavior, with her defense claiming she&#8217;d suffered a &#8216;psychotic crack&#8217; </strong></strong></h2>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading has-text-color" style="color:#36282b;font-size:14px"><strong><strong>Prosecutors said the extent of Gannon&#8217;s injuries showed that she acted with intent, and she was mentally-competent when she killed him </strong> </strong></h2>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading has-text-color" style="color:#36282b;font-size:14px"><strong>The former elementary school teacher will be sentenced to <strong>life in prison without the possibility of parole</strong> </strong></h2>



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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A Colorado woman will go to jail for life without possibility of parole after she was found guilty of murdering her 11-year-old stepson and dumping his body in a suitcase.<br>The court rejected the mental incompetence defense and found 39-year-old Letecia Stauch guilty on Monday of murder in the first degree, guilty of murder of a child under 12, guilty of tampering with a deceased human body and guilty of tampering with physical evidence in the death of 11-year-old Gannon.</p>



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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The judge began the sentencing for Letecia Stauch about 30 minutes after the verdicts were read.<br>Stauch was sentenced to two life without parole sentences for the murder conviction.<br>For tampering/destroying with physical evidence, she was sentenced to 18 months, consecutive to life.<br>Before he handed down the sentence, the judge admonished Letecia Stauch for claiming mental illness as the reason for her actions and said that it did a disservice to those who actually suffer from mental illness.</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Letecia Stauch [center], on Monday was sentenced to two life without parole for the murder and 18 months <strong>consecutive to life for t</strong>ampering with physical evidence </strong></p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Leticia Stauch [photo] stabbed her stepson Gannon Stauch 18 times before beating him across the head four times and shooting him in the jaw in January 2020, &#8216;obliterating&#8217; the young boy&#8217;s skull, according to prosecutors. </strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Stauch, an elementary school teacher for special needs children, killed Gannon because she was &#8216;resentful about being used as a glorified babysitter,&#8217; prosecutors said, adding that she Googled the phrase &#8216;I hate my stepson&#8217;.<br>She is accused of of killing her stepson in in January 2020, stabbing 18 times before beating him across the head four times. She then shot him in the jaw, &#8216;obliterating&#8217; the young boy&#8217;s skull, according to prosecutors. <br>The defendant killed Gannon while they lived in El Paso County, Colorado, inside the youngster&#8217;s bedroom. </p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Suitcase killer stepmom Leticia Stauch in court [photo], in Colorado in March 2020</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">After the gruesome murder, she first hid his remains in a remote area nearby, and later rented a van to drive the body1400 miles away to Florida, where she dumped it under a bridge in Pensacola.<br>It wasn&#8217;t found until March, around three months after he vanished.<br>The killer stepmom had tried to blame mental illness on her behavior, with her defense attorneys claiming she&#8217;d suffered a &#8216;psychotic crack.&#8217;<br>Her attorneys claimed it was the result of sexual abuse she&#8217;d suffered as a child.<br>But prosecutors said the extent of Gannon&#8217;s injuries showed that she acted with intent, and that she was mentally-competent when she killed him.</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Stauch was married to Gannon&#8217;s father Eugene Stauch [photo], also known as Al, who was away on deployment with the National Guard at the time of his son&#8217;s murder. He filed for divorce immediately after the incident</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Prosecutor Dave Young told the court: &#8216;What does that tell you? Use your common sense. It’s not psychotic. It’s just strategic.&#8217;<br>Distressingly Gannon tried to fight off his killer stepmom despite being drugged with hydrocodone, prosecutors say. <br>Stauch is said to have wanted to end her marriage to Gannon&#8217;s father, Al. <br>Prosecutors say a photo she snapped of Gannon laying in his bed on the morning of his murder was further evidence of the fact she&#8217;d pre-meditated the plot.</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Gannon [L-R], disappeared in Colorado Springs in January 2020. His body was found <strong>1,400 miles away in Florida</strong> on March 20, 2020. Stauch is accused of hitting Gannon with a blunt object, stabbing and shooting him before dumping his body in a suitcase </strong></p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Letecia Stauch blamed mental illness on her behavior, with her defense claiming she&#8217;d suffered a &#8216;psychotic crack.&#8217; Prosecutors said the extent of Gannon&#8217;s injuries showed that she acted with intent, and she was mentally-competent when she killed him </strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">She texted it to Al, who was away serving with the National Guard at the time. <br>They say she used it to try and cover her tracks, by claiming she&#8217;d left Gannon in bed to go for a hike, only to come home to find he&#8217;d vanished. <br>After killing Gannon, Stauch scrubbed the walls and floors of his bedroom, then put her bloody shoes and clothes in the washing machine.<br>Prosecutors said this was further evidence that her crimes were pre-meditated. <br>District Attorney Michael Allen said of Stauch&#8217;s crimes: &#8216;(Gannon) deserved to live. He deserved to grow up and become a young man and someday have a family of his own. She took it all away.&#8217;</p>

Double life sentence for Colorado stepmom, 39, found guilty of murdering stepson, 11, stabbing him 18 times, shooting him in the head and dumping him in a suitcase – Letecia Stauch gets no parole
