Gannon Stauch; Letecia Stauch.Photo: El Paso County Sheriff’s Office; El Paso County Sheriff’s Office via AP
Leticia Stauch’smurder trial resumed Friday, with jurors hearing an interview between an FBI agent and the Colorado woman in which she was confronted with evidence allegedly revealing she knew more about her11-year-old stepson’sdisappearance than she’d initially claimed.
During the interrogation recording, Grusing hints he has a hunch Stauch is withholding information. At one point, he tells her about internet search data he had obtained from her phone, which allegedly included phrases such as “I don’t like my stepson” and “blood spurting from arterial bleed,” according to the outlet.
About two weeks later, on March 17, 2020, Gannon Stauch’s remains were found in Florida,PEOPLE previously reported.
Stauch, 39, is currently on trial in Colorado Springs, Colo., where she is charged withfirst-degree murderin connection with Gannon’s death.
“Evidence recovered from the residence and inside Gannon’s bedroom supports that a violent event occurred in the bedroom,” reads the affidavit, “which caused bloodshed, including blood spatter on the walls, and enough blood loss to stain his mattress, soak through the carpet, the carpet pad, and stain the concrete below his bed.”
During opening statements earlier this month, District Attorney Michael Allen claimed that Stauch stabbed Gannon 18 times, then shot him three times,The Gazettereports. Allen also said that during the trial, he would prove she was sane during the killing.
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Stauch’s defense attorney Will Cook said she was sexually abused as a child, which caused her to develop dissociative identity disorder, formerly known as multiple personality disorder.
But Allen countered, “The defendant took very deliberate action,“The Denver Postreports. “She decided to hide her crimes from the world,” Allen added.
The trial is expected to last between six and eight weeks.
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source: people.com
