A Colorado judge has reversed the conviction of Leticia Stauch in the murder of her stepson after the court found one of the jurors to be biased.
Leticia Stauch was convicted of the murder of 11-year-old Gannon Stauch three years after the child went missing from his home in Colorado Springs. Around two weeks after his disappearance, searchers found a piece of particle board with Gannon’s blood in a nearby rural area. Authorities then arrested Leticia Stauch in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
The boy’s body was later found under a bridge in the Florida panhandle. An investigator said the boy had been shot, stabbed and placed in a suitcase, which was thrown into a river that empties into the Gulf of Mexico. Investigators also found Gannon’s blood on Leticia Stauch’s shoe, found her DNA on a gun linked to his death and learned she traveled to the Florida panhandle shortly after Gannon’s disappearance…