Choose Gregory Werner of the Colorado 4th Judicial District has stated the case of an 11-year-old boy murdered by his stepmother in January 2020 was the “most horrific I’ve ever seen.”
The decide sentenced Letecia Stauch, 39, to life with out parole on two counts of homicide, in line with reviews. The Colorado girl was discovered responsible of her murdering her 11-year-old stepson Gannon and disposing of his physique in a suitcase because the case was dropped at an in depth on Monday, in line with a Denver7 Information report.
Stauch pleaded not responsible by motive of madness within the killing that befell on January 27, 2020. The jury rejected this protection and located her responsible on all prices.
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Talking on the severity of the crime forward of passing the sentence, Werner stated “I can, nevertheless, say, with out hesitation, that the info on this case are probably the most horrific I’ve ever seen. Your conduct inside this case calls for the utmost punishment that I can impose underneath Colorado legislation.”
Stauch was charged with first-degree homicide, first-degree homicide of a kid underneath 12 by somebody able of belief, tampering with a deceased human physique, and tampering with bodily proof.
The decide issued a message to the kid’s dad and mom, Al Stauch and Landen Hiott (who additionally goes by the title Landen Bullard): “I can’t fathom the ache Mr. Stauch and Ms. Bullard have skilled because of the defendant’s actions.
“A sentence in a legal case, resembling this, is not going to change the truth that their son’s life was taken from them and nothing I say or impose will ever change that reality.”
Addressing the convict, the decide stated: “Ms. Stauch you betrayed the particular person you liked sufficient to marry, you advised your husband lies and took away somebody he liked. You took away daily that Mr. Stauch or Ms. Bullard might have had with their son.”
The boy was first reported lacking on the identical day he was killed in his bed room, the Denver7 Information report stated, citing police data which famous the date as January 27, 2020. Stauch advised authorities that Gannon had gone to a good friend’s home however by no means returned.
She was arrested on March 2, 2020, round three weeks earlier than Gannon’s physique was found in a suitcase by a development employee on March 18, 2020, in Tempo, Florida, beneath a bridge off the aspect of a freeway.
Through the trial, prosecutors alleged Stauch shot and stabbed the boy who died of a gunshot wound and cranium fracture. She drove his physique to an space off Colorado Freeway 105 and South Perry Park Highway and dumped it earlier than later driving it to Florida, per the information report.
Prosecutors claimed Stauch killed Gannon as a result of she hated him and wished to harm her husband, who she deliberate to depart. Through the court docket case, prosecutors submitted as proof a search displaying “I hate my stepson” on Google by Stauch.
Newsweek has contacted Letecia Stauch’s legal professional Josh Tolini through his web site for remark.