The sad death of Gannon

On January 27, 2020, Gannon Stauch disappeared. This is a parents worst nightmare. His father being in the National Guard was away for training. His second wife called and told him Gannon went missing. The detectives came and interviewed his step-mother and tings didn’t add up. The police started collecting physical evidence when a neighbor provided video tape from his security footage to the police.

The 11-year-old Colorado Springs boy whose disappearance last year drew national attention before his body was found in Florida was shot and stabbed, a detective testified Thursday during a preliminary hearing in the murder case brought against the boy’s stepmother, Letecia Stauch.

Gannon Stauch disappeared from his family’s Colorado Springs home on Jan. 27, 2020. Letecia Stauch, 38, was the last person to see him alive, and authorities believe she killed Gannon in his bedroom while the two were home alone that afternoon.

The boy’s body was found March 17, 2020, under a bridge near Pensacola, Florida, wrapped in bedding and inside a suitcase. He had been shot in the jaw, stabbed in the chest and back, and suffered a skull fracture. He also had cuts on his arms and hands that appeared to be defensive wounds, Sgt. Jason Yoder, with the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office in Florida, testified. If Gannon had defensive wound from being stabbed, then his death…