Lifeless body of Gannon Stauch ‘was in killer stepmom’s car when she went to pick up his dad hours after murdering boy’
GANNON Stauch's stepmom allegedly drove to pick up his dad from the airport with the boy's body in the back of her car.
Letecia Stauch is accused of murdering her 11-year-old stepson before reporting him missing to authorities.
A day later, she is alleged to have put his corpse inside a suitcase, which she then packed into her car before collecting his father Al Stauch from the airport, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by The Sun.
In the document, police note that on January 27 at 6:55 p.m., Letecia called 911 to report that Gannon had not returned after going to a friend’s house.
Gannon was listed as a runaway AFTER his stepmother said she had seen him just a few hours previously.
Police now believe that this call was placed a few hours after Letecia bludgeoned her stepson in his bedroom and then .
It was a violent crime according to the document, and there was “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.”
In the affidavit, the detective alleges that she then ordered Gannon’s younger sister Laina to play outside when she returned from school a short time later.
When Letecia’s own daughter returned home that day, she sent her to the Dollar Store, the affidavit reads.
"She will pay 100% for this heinous thing she’s done," she said of Letecia at a press briefing as she choked back tears.
Days after the charges were announced, Gannon's father, Eugene Stauch, .
A source told The Sun that the child's body was stuffed in a suitcase underneath an overpass in .
Preliminary investigations , stabbed, and shot.
Gannon's family was .
The murder charge alone could give her a life sentence without parole.
There was a good deal of evidence stacked up against Letecia prior to the unsealing of the affidavit.
Video footage from a neighbor's camera the day he disappeared.
The stepmother that a "saucer-sized pool of blood" found in Gannon's room was from a nosebleed.
Arrest records revealed that , including battery, domestic abuse and theft.
She was also was reported missing.