Stepmom accused of murdering Gannon Stauch, 11, appears in court in ‘anti suicide vest’ after being extradited
THE stepmother of Gannon Stauch has arrived in Colorado, where she will face murder charges in the 11-year-old's killing.
Letecia Stauch was booked at the Criminal Justice Center in El Paso County Thursday following a nearly 48-hour cross-country trip from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina where with first-degree murder.
Allen remained tight-lipped on the details of whether Gannon's body has been found and Stauch's arrest warrant, which is still being sealed for investigative purposes, he said.
He added that law enforcement made the decision to transport Stauch to Colorado by land rather than by air.
She spent Wednesday night in Salina, after being extradited from South Carolina before continuing on to Colorado sometime between 3am and 4am Thursday, Salina County Sheriff's Office said.
More than 130 volunteers aided police in the search for Gannon, who was reported missing on January 27 after his stepmother claimed he left home through a side door to visit a friend at around 3:15pm.
Five days later, a neighbor came forward with that showed Letecia and a boy believed to be Gannon getting into her pickup truck the day he disappeared - but only one person returned hours later.
Cops investigated the Stauch family home in Colorado, where the accused murderer said her husband found a "saucer-sized pool of blood" in the boy's bedroom, .
In the days following his disappearance, his mom Landen for anyone with information to come forward, saying: "I'm afraid I may never see him again."
The search for little Gannon ended Monday when local authorities revealed they "do not believe" the boy is alive, but that they had found enough evidence to charge Letecia in his disappearance.
Stauch is being held without bond at the El Paso County jail, where she'll remain behind bars.
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