Letecia Stauch’s lawyers use coronavirus to try to DELAY murder case hearings as she claims she didn’t kill stepson
LETECIA Stauch's lawyers are trying to delay two hearings in case concerning murder charges in her stepson Gannon's death.
Court documents reveal that Stauch's defense team has requested to delay court dates scheduled for June 5 and 8, 2020, as she claims she did not beat her stepson to death.
Letecia, 36, is currently facing two counts of First Degree Murder over the death of 11-year-old .
Gannon was hours before he was reported missing on January 27, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by The Sun.
Authorities shortly before 2pm that day, and then cleaned up the murder scene in his bedroom, the affidavit filed by a detective in the El Paso County Sheriff’s Department states.
If video visitations are not granted, the defense team has requested Stauch be released on bond.
An arrest affidavit said in Gannon's room, 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."
Stauch was accused of disposing of Gannon's body in Douglas County before he was reported missing.
She has denied the allegations.
There have been no reports of how Gannon's body may have ended up in Florida.
Stauch was arrested in in March and now faces murder charges in Gannon's death.
Cops have also accused her of lying "on multiple occasions" in relation to Gannon's disappearance, an affidavit said.
Letecia in a recent interview with CrimeOnline from the El Paso County Jail in Colorado Springs.
She said her life has been turned upside down.
“I’m not trying to knock anyone that’s been in war or anything like that, but people handle situations differently," she told CrimeOnline.