On February 28, 2020, a Colorado judge authorized the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office’s request to arrest and charge Letecia Stauch with the murder of her 11-year-old stepson, Gannon Stauch.
The small boy’s abduction had made national headlines by that point, but despite heightened awareness and the persistent work of volunteers who had assembled and formed search parties to aid law enforcement in their efforts to recover Gannon, detectives had yet to find his remains.
While Gannon’s remains had not yet been found, investigators were able to obtain an arrest warrant after discovering traces of blood in the garage of the family’s Colorado Springs home and on a particle board discovered in a rural area about 40 miles away, according to a copy of the arrest affidavit obtained by PEOPLE…