Gannon Stauch · 2023-04-24

Internet Searches Give Jury A Look into Defendant’s State of Mind

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Letecia Stauch was arrested on March 2, 2020, charged with the murder of her Stepson, Gannon Stuach. On that day, a post-arrest interview was conducted by Special Agent Jonathan Grusing of the FBI. During this interview, Grusing spoke of internet searches made on Stauch’s Iphone.

The first of about a dozen searches Grusing read off gives us a look into the events of the day Gannon went missing. In conjunction with the blood spatter evidence, a search of “blood is spurting from an arterial bleed” paints a gruesome picture of what was going on in the bedroom of Gannon Stauch. A search for “how to get blood out of sheets” and “can I spray paint blood” were also found. To the search about blood on the sheets, Stauch replied to Grusing, “If I ever looked up blood out of sheets, it was because of nose bleed.”

There were serveral more searches read out loud by Grusing. Below are some of them:

            “I don’t like my stepson, should I get a divorce”

            “I want immunity because it was gang related”

            “Find me a new husband”

            “Find me a rich guy who wants to take care of his kids”

            “I’m doing all the work for my step kids and their mom isn’t helping me”

            “My husband wants a baby, but I want an abortion”

            “Stuff a suicidal person might say”

Stauch interrupts throughout the reading of the searches. The theme much the same throughout, she loved those kids; she was doing the work. “I wanted those kids to be saying to me that I’m their mom”, Stauch said to Grusing.

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