39: Could The Killer Stepmom Be Set Free? | Everything You Need To Know About Letecia Stauch

When 11-year-old Gannon Stauch vanished during a freezing Colorado winter, his family and an entire community desperately searched for answers. But almost immediately, something about his stepmother Letecia Stauch didn’t sit right. The interviews, the stories, the strange behavior…none of it added up. And as investigators started uncovering disturbing evidence, the case took a horrifying turn that no one saw coming. Now, years after Letecia was convicted of Gannon’s murder, a shocking new court ruling has completely turned the case upside down and could give her another chance in court…. If you’re new here, don’t forget to follow the show for weekly deep dives into the darkest true crime cases! To watch the video version of this episode, head over to youtube.com/@annieelise. .🔎Join Our True Crime Club & Get Exclusive Content & Perks..🎧 Need More to Binge? Listen to both of my weekly true crime series 10 to Life & Serialously with Annie Elise wherever you get your podcasts on the Annie Elise Channel!🍎 Apple Podcasts | Where you can also unlock access to 100+ and growing extra exclusive deep dives.💚 Spotify🔴 YouTube🎙️ All Other Platforms.📸 Follow Annie on Socials Instagram: @_annieeliseTikTok: @_annieeliseSubstack: @annieeliseFacebook: @10toLife.⭐SponsorsShopify: Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial today at http://shopify.com/10tolife. Ogee Beauty: Go to http://ogee.com/AE and use code AE for 20% off. Hers: Visit http://forhers.com/10tolife to get a personalized, affordable care that gets you..👗 Shop Annie’s Must-Haves! ShopMY: bit.ly/AnnieElise_ShopMy Amazon: bit.ly/AnnieElise_Amazon.🫵🏻 Get Involved or Recommend a CaseAbout Annie: www.annieelise.comFor Business Inquiries: [email protected].📚 Episode Sources Colorado Court of Appeals | Colorado Public Radio | Court TV | KOAA Southern Colorado | Law & Crime | People | The Colorado Sun••••••••••••••••••🚨Disclaimers1️⃣ Some links may be affiliate links, they do not cost you anything, but I make a small percentage from the sale. Thank you so much for watching and supporting me. 2️⃣ Sources used to collect this information include various public news sites, interviews, court documents, FB groups dedicated to the case, and various news channel segments. When quoting statements made by others, they are strictly alleged until confirmed otherwise. Please remember my videos are my independent opinion and to always do your own research. 3️⃣ The views and opinions expressed in this video are personal and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of any other agency, organization, employer, or company. Assumptions made in the analysis are not reflective of the position of any entity other than the creator(s). These views are subject to change, revision, and rethinking at any time and are not to be held in perpetuity. We make no representations as to the accuracy, completeness, correctness, suitability, or validity of any information on this video and will not be liable for any errors, omissions, or delays in this information or any losses, injuries, or damages arising from its display or use. All information is provided on an as-is basis. It is the reader’s responsibility to verify their own facts.

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• 1:24Speaker 04

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• 2:00Annie Elise?

  It's hard to imagine anything worse than a missing child. I mean, the kind of fear that a parent must feel not knowing where their child is, or if they are even okay. It's basically every parent's worst living nightmare. And that is exactly what made the disappearance of 11-year-old Gannon Stauch, back in January of 2020, so devastating. This little boy vanished, gone, in the middle of a Colorado winter, with his parents desperately trying to find him. However, what really sent this case into the headlines wasn't just that Gannon was missing, but it was everything that started coming out afterward. Because his stepmom, or rather, step-monster, Letecia,

• 2:44Annie Elise?

  was one of the very few people who was supposed to be caring for him, supposed to be out there, searching for him, and loving him, and desperately, you know, wanting him to come home. But as it turns out, she knew a lot more than she was letting on. And when Gannon was unfortunately, eventually found horrifically murdered, the entire image that Letecia had been presenting, it just completely unraveled. Because it turns out, she wasn't a concerned parent, not at all. She was a monster who ripped a page straight out of the Casey Anthony playbook. Now, the first time we covered this case, we did a complete deep dive. I'm talking, breaking down every single red flag, from the minute that Gannon disappeared,

• 3:27Annie Elise?

  all the way through the moment that Letecia was finally arrested. We also covered the entire full trial, proving Letecia's guilt over here on 10 to Life. Every shocking piece of evidence, piece by piece. And in the three years since then, since that trial took place, and she was convicted and found guilty, it has looked like Gannon and his family finally received some justice. That Letecia would spend the rest of her life exactly where she belongs, locked up in the gutters. However, this year, there has been a massive update that has changed everything in quite possibly the worst way possible. And as soon as I saw the headlines, I-

• 4:09Annie Elise?

  I knew I had to crack this case back open. I had to come share it with you, talk with you about it, because it is one that hisses me off to no end and just enrages me. So today, that's what we're doing. We're going to get pissed off together and I'm going to break it down completely for you. The backstory, the red flags, what is happening now and how it looks like there might be a question if Gannon and his family truly do get justice, we will go through all of it. As a reminder for reopened episodes, I will be bringing back parts of my original deep dive, just so that you get the full story. And I'll be adding in, you know, things along the way, updates, new perspectives, maybe things my opinions have changed on, all the new information, new footage that has come out since we last

• 4:53Annie Elise?

  covered the case. But with that, there will also be some changes in audio you may notice because my equipment has changed over time. But we're going to break down this new latest update that has quite literally everyone on edge. And we're going to talk through what this means together, as well as everything that led up to this point. So you know the drill. Hit that like button, hit that subscribe button. I'm Annie Elise, and today we are reopening the case of Gannon Stauch and Letecia Stauch. Let's get into it.

• 5:36Annie Elise?

  Gannon Stauch was born on September 1st, 2008 to parents Al and Landon. Gannon was known to be very kind and a cheerful child who loved video games and spending time with his family. He was a big brother to his sister Lena, and he was very quiet, very smart, and a fighter his entire life, because he was born weighing just over one pound. And he miraculously survived. When Gannon was around seven or eight years old, his dad, Al, married a woman named Letecia. Letecia had a daughter with her first husband before marrying Al in 2016. Some people call her Tisha or T, but we are going to call her Letecia. Together, this blended family lived in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

• 6:22Annie Elise?

  Al was a member of the Colorado National Guard and would often be away at work, leaving Gannon under his new wife's care along with the other children. Fast forward to a few years later, in January of 2020, Gannon was in the 5th grade at Grand Mountain School in El Paso County, Colorado. But on Monday, January 27, 2020, everything changed. Gannon didn't go to school on Monday because he had a stomach ache from the night before. On Monday night, Letecia reported that Gannon had gone missing from their home. She claimed that Gannon had gone to play at a friend's house sometime between 3:00 and 4:00 p.m., and he hadn't returned home. Letecia said that she didn't know what friend's house he went to,

• 7:04Annie Elise?

  but that the friend's house was somewhere in their neighborhood, just a few streets away. After hearing the news from Letecia that Gannon was missing, Al returned home as soon as he possibly could. And according to Al, within a few hours, he said that his wife knew something was wrong when Gannon did not come home. He said, and I quote, "Gannon's not really the type to just walk off. We kind of do the streetlight rule. When the streetlights come on, or it gets dark, they better be home. And it was maybe 30 minutes past that, so we started to worry at that point. Then I started texting all of the friends that we know he went to, and nobody had seen him." He repeated what Letecia had told him, that Gannon didn't say which friend's house he was going to in the neighborhood,

• 7:48Annie Elise?

  and that this was unlike him, and that's why they were obviously very concerned. So that's when they decided to call the police. Search parties formed on Monday night, and drones were also brought out to try and find Gannon. Now, January in Colorado can reach dangerously chilling temperatures if you're out at night, especially if you weren't planning to be out and don't have the right outerwear. So because of Gannon's age and the weather conditions, finding Gannon was of grave importance, and everyone was on high alert. The El Paso County Sheriff's Office was working to do everything they could as well to help find Gannon. Law enforcement officers conducted a massive search effort scouring the neighborhood and the surrounding areas for any sign of Gannon, but nothing.

• 8:33Annie Elise?

  Gannon's cellphone was at home also, so there was no way to contact him or vice versa. Monday turned into Tuesday. Tuesday turned into Wednesday, and Wednesday to Thursday, and still, there was no sign of Gannon anywhere. A press conference was held for Gannon's disappearance to get the message out about Gannon and all of his information in case anybody had seen him. And at the end, Gannon's parents pled for his return.

• 8:58Speaker 04

  I'm Landon Hyatt, Gannon's mom, and I encourage you guys, I know many of you mothers and fathers, I encourage you just to seek, find him. I'm so thankful for all the outpouring help that this case has brought. My son is a very loving kid. He wouldn't want harm on anybody at all. And it's so hard to just think, why is this happening to him? I have no clue, but my kid deserves to come home. My kid has a purpose. My kid has a life, and it's important to me, and it's important to everybody that's standing in this room.

• 9:38Speaker 04

  Gannon, Bubba, little man, mommy's hero, wherever you're at, mommy and daddy's here. We're begging and pleading for you to come home. I know that's your biggest wish, is to see mommy and daddy standing here. We're here, Bubba. We're here for you, and I can't wait till you're found, because I have hope that you are going to be found. You are my hero. You are the reason why I have life. He's so special to me. I don't think many people can understand. My child was a one pound, six ounce baby. He had a 10% chance of survival.

• 10:19Speaker 04

  If he survived, he will be profoundly disabled. None of that is accurate. He's gifted and talented, do anything for anybody. So I'm begging, I'm pleading, if anybody has any type of lead, put yourself in my situation, ask yourself what would you do? My Savior is a great Savior. And I know I have hope. And that my son's gonna be here. Please come home, baby. Please come home.

• 10:58Speaker 04

  Yeah, I'd like to reiterate what Landon said that, um,

• 11:03Speaker 04

  well, what incredible community we have. I mean, everybody in here in a team, incredible team that, um, yeah, I came out my front door, I think it was Tuesday, and there was 300 people out there searching my neighborhood.

• 11:15Annie Elise?

  They blew, blew me away.

• 11:21Annie Elise?

  So, thank you, everyone.

• 11:32Annie Elise?

  Again, Daddy Lo's so much. Please come home.

• 11:39Annie Elise?

  The policy of the sheriff's office was to investigate reports of missing children aged 10 and older as runaways, until evidence was found to prove an abduction or that a kidnapping had taken place. So for now, Gannon was considered a runaway, even though that wasn't like him at all. Despite the extensive search efforts, Gannon was nowhere to be found, almost like he had just vanished into thin air. Rumors in the community and social media began to spread about Gannon's stepmom, Letecia, and about her behavior since Gannon's disappearance and her story. Investigators said that they had checked home security cameras in the neighborhood and had not identified any images of Gannon on any of them when he had been supposedly walking to his friend's house.

• 12:23Annie Elise?

  There were also rumors of Latisha not cooperating with law enforcement during the investigation. So was there something more going on here? Not long after he went missing, El Paso County upgraded the search for Gannon from a runaway to an endangered missing child. Latisha spoke with the media to dispel any rumors about her involvement and to say that Gannon was at home Sunday night. But the statement really didn't make Latisha look great because she was kind of ready to throw the blame on anyone but herself. She even blamed Gannon's biological mom. She blamed Al. She blamed the sheriff's office. And honestly, she just made the whole statement about how she was the victim, how she deserves an apology.

• 13:06Speaker 05

  I took care of Gannon for the last two years in our home because his mother didn't want to do it. And I would never, never, ever hurt this child. And I know there's some questions out there about, okay, so tell me what happens. That's up to the investigations when they end up letting you guys know, but I've cooperated with them. The rumors have gotten so bad. I pretty much have been told at least 10 different ways that these people have these conspiracy theories. I guess they watch a lot of law shows and maybe they have all these theories on how Gannon is dead. And that's what they're saying. So I'm like, why are you saying Gannon is dead? He is not dead. We are going to find Gannon. And that's the main goal that we all have, my family has. Just because you haven't seen us, we have that same goal. We've been out searching. My aunt has been out searching.

• 13:51Speaker 05

  My family has been out searching. We all have been doing that together so that we can protect each other.

• 13:56Speaker 02

  How does it feel when not only you have a lost child you are in care of, but then people blaming you for that child not being there?

• 14:05Speaker 05

  You know, I'm just ready for Gannon to come home. Most importantly, for him to see his family. But second, I am going to be so ecstatic when I'm able to say to people that I hope they have a really sincere apology for all these theories that have came out online, for all the things they said that I have done or people have done. I just want everyone to know that we're going to find Gannon. And I love him so much. I've helped taking care of him for so long. I think that a lot of people can see that I'm not missing and see that I am being cooperative. But to me, it's okay that they think those things because the way someone thinks about me... I don't have a problem with that. My main thing is I would never want someone to think that I would hurt Gannon or any of the children in our home.

• 14:50Speaker 05

  Because that's just not the case. I've spent my whole entire life working so hard in education. Any message for Gannon? The message for Gannon I have is, Gannon, when you get here, you'll be able to truly tell what happened. And then I really hope I get a sincere apology from everyone who has made all those things, especially from my husband.

• 15:10Annie Elise?

  A few days after Gannon ran away or was missing, a snowstorm was hitting Colorado, and it was expected to reach up to six inches. But the El Paso Sheriff's Office said that it would continue their search as long as conditions allowed. If Gannon really was somewhere out there, alone, without the proper clothing and with a snowstorm approaching, things weren't looking good for Gannon at all. Then, seven days after Gannon's disappearance, a Metro Crime Lab team spent hours at the Stauch residence. They went in with gloves and tools and left with several evidence bags. Many people started to believe that maybe Gannon wasn't missing after all. And maybe, just maybe, something more sinister had occurred.

• 15:54Annie Elise?

  The next day, one of the neighbors, Roderick Drayton, reviewed some surveillance footage from his home security footage from that Monday, January 27th, the day that Gannon was reported as missing.

• 16:04Speaker 07

  The neighbor of missing 11-year-old Gannon Stauch says this security video shows the boy getting into a red pickup with his stepmother on the day of his disappearance.

• 16:14Speaker 01

  My Xfinity camera, it picked it up. It picked up the young lady taking him, well, it picked up him getting into the vehicle and her taking him off about 10:16 that morning.

• 16:25Speaker 07

  Four hours later.

• 16:27Speaker 01

  And then she returned about 2:16 without him.

• 16:29Speaker 07

  Gannon was reported missing by his stepmother later that day.

• 16:33Annie Elise?

  The neighbor showed this clip to Gannon's father, Al, and he broke down crying and said, "She lied. She lied about the time he did not go to a friend's house." Finally, having all of the puzzle pieces beginning to connect and realizing, "This person is not who you thought she was." And she just lied about your young son going to a friend's house. When there is no proof that he actually did that. This was a major problem now for Letecia. With the police presence at the house, the crime scene lab van, and the media capturing what appeared to be evidence bags leaving the house, this new surveillance video put a target on Letecia's back once again for being involved in the crime. And as criticism heightened, she finally released a statement.

• 17:18Annie Elise?

  This statement read, "Saturday night, G was helping me unload in the garage and cut his foot because there are a lot of tools because Albert does woodworking. He sat on the edge of the car and we bandaged it up. He was good to go. He always loved helping his dad in the garage, building things like his Lego tables and the flower pot they built for me as a gift. After this, I noticed G kept going to the side of the house. He told me he was checking to see if the gate was locked because he was the only one with a gate key. It made him proud to be the man of the house while Albert was away. Fast forward, we did a hike on Sunday, cleared, and shopped on Monday, cleared as well for him getting out of the other side.

• 18:00Annie Elise?

  Please don't think for a second that there isn't enough of technology to determine shadows and movement around the truck. There was also proof from my phone that we had taken a selfie in the truck in our driveway, which was time stamped. We always send pictures to Albert when we are out and about or whenever he is away. That can be scanned for actual time verification. Last, from day one, the sheriff's office has known a description of the person/friend whom Gannon left with. I explained to them and provided evidence. They had information about G having the key to go out the side gate. Last, they have more in-depth details that go along with this, pointing to who sent the person or why he may have come.

• 18:44Annie Elise?

  Again, I repeat, they have had this. Initially, I was asked to keep quiet about it so they could have the best shot at doing their job and bringing G home. The last thing that they needed was a hindrance to their investigation. I encourage you to think of any suspicious cars that may have been in the area watching a few days prior and keep praying for G. Signed, Tisha Stauch. Now, that is a very lengthy statement, one where she very confidently and boldly says, "The police have more evidence, they just haven't released it because they don't want to hinder the investigation," saying they've seen the shadows in the truck, they have the description of the friend, they verified through timestamps, they verified on photo

• 19:27Annie Elise?

  metadata, "I'm not involved," defending herself and saying, you know, "The police knows more than they've released, so back off." But you could either consume that statement with that mentality, or conversely, you could hear that statement and think to yourself, "Boy, this woman sounds really defensive. This woman sure has an excuse for everything. This woman sure is dropping timestamped photos where they taken intentionally so they would have a timestamp." It could be looked at either way, but the last half of that statement is pretty cryptic without knowing all of the investigation details that law enforcement knew and that the public didn't.

• 20:09Annie Elise?

  Like, why is Latisha saying that the sheriff's office has known the description of the friend or person whom Gannon left with? She said that she didn't know what friend's house he went to at all, so how does that add up? Why is she talking about something that happened in the garage where Gannon cut his foot in the garage two days before he was reported as missing? Was it to explain blood that would be found? And then pointing to who sent the person or why he may have come? It was an extremely bizarre statement. Now, let's talk about the timeline, because it was not adding up. So Saturday evening, according to Latisha, Gannon hurts his foot while helping clean the garage because there are tools and his foot is bandaged. But then Sunday, the family goes hiking at the Garden of Gods with a hurt foot.

• 20:54Annie Elise?

  Monday, Gannon is then too sick to go to school and has a doctor's appointment, but Letecia takes him to go run errands. And then we have the surveillance video from the next day, where it seems like Gannon is taking a very long time to get in the truck, or possibly Letecia is helping him get in. Some people, after seeing that, even speculated that he could have possibly been drugged. And then Monday afternoon, Gannon leaves home between 3:15 and 4:00 PM to play with a friend, yet there is no surveillance showing him walking anywhere in the neighborhood. And at 6:55 PM on Monday, he's reported as missing or a runaway. As the police investigation progressed, inconsistencies began to emerge in Letecia's story. She initially claimed that Gannon walked to a friend's house, but then when that friend

• 21:39Annie Elise?

  was questioned, they denied having seen Gannon at all that day. And these inconsistencies weren't small inconsistencies. Her story dramatically changed multiple times over the days following Gannon's disappearance. Then on March 2nd, just over a month since Gannon was last seen, Letecia was finally arrested, and the arrest affidavit revealed shocking and extremely disturbing information. According to the affidavit, police believed Letecia actually murdered Gannon on that Monday, and that he was never missing at all. They think that this took place around 2:14 PM in Gannon's bedroom, based on physical evidence that was recovered from the house, which supports the fact that a violent event

• 22:22Annie Elise?

  occurred in his bedroom, which caused a bloodshed, including blood spatter on the walls, and enough blood loss to stain his mattress, soak through the carpet pad, and stain the concrete below his bed.

• 22:34Speaker 02

  Of note, in Gannon's room is the large stain in the southeast corner of the room. The markings that you see on the wall are marking spatter marks that were

• 22:53Annie Elise?

  Or denoted by the Mitchell Crime Lab. Then Gannon's remains were brought through the house, into the garage, and loaded into the back of Latisha's Volkswagen SUV. After cleaning the murder scene, Latisha drove the Volkswagen SUV to transport and dump Gannon's remains on the evening of January 28th, 2020. But let's go back to the events leading up to that afternoon. On Monday, January 27th, 2020, Gannon stayed home from school. We know that. Based on text messages from Latisha to his father Al, Gannon was up most of Sunday evening with a stomach problem. Latisha did tell Gannon's school that he would be absent on Monday. Latisha also told Al that, and I quote,

• 23:36Annie Elise?

  "I'm just going to give them an excuse at work and I'm going to stay with him." Which she did. She told her employer via text message at 4:37 a.m. that her stepdad was killed after being hit by a car and that she would not be able to come to work that day. I mean, a pretty bold excuse. Why not just say, "Hi, my son is sick and I have to stay home." Why kill off your stepdad? It's bizarre, but not even the most bizarre thing in this case. Latisha then took pictures on her phone of Gannon sleeping in his bed at 8 a.m. on the 27th. In one of the pictures, Gannon's Nintendo Switch, which is a video game console, was lying next to him in his bed. Lena, the daughter, returned home from school around 3:15 p.m. on the 27th.

• 24:21Annie Elise?

  During a recorded forensic interview with investigators, Lena stated that when she returned home, Latisha told her Gannon was asleep in her bed and that she could not see him. Latisha told Lena to go outside and to play. At 3:55 p.m., Al sent a message to Gannon's phone saying, "Hey buddy." Investigators believe Gannon was already murdered by Latisha at the time that Gannon's phone received that message. This message was not read until 7:40 p.m. but not by Gannon, since his phone was at home that night when he went missing. So, who read it? He never saw that message from his father. At 4:52 p.m., Latisha sent a text message to Harley, her daughter,

• 25:03Annie Elise?

  requesting carpet cleaner, trash bags, and baking soda. Harley purchased these items and investigators located a receipt documenting the purchase. Harley refused to speak with investigators at that time, but she doesn't appear to be associated with Gannon's death in any way other than innocently picking up the items for her mom. Body cam footage from when the police came to the Stauch residence on the 27th showed that Latisha's Volkswagen was backed into the garage and the position of the car in the garage was significant, specifically because of the confirmed presence of Gannon's blood in the garage, right below the area where the rear hatch of the SUV would be, and the positive reaction of blood from luminol testing that was done on the SUV's rear bumper.

• 25:48Annie Elise?

  Also in the body cam footage, the pillows and blankets on Gannon's bed were completely different than that picture that she took of Gannon sleeping that morning, leading investigators to believe that they were removed by Latisha to cover up any evidence of blood on those items. And not only that, investigators looked for that same bedding and blankets five times at the family house and never found it. Then on the morning of January 28th, 2020, the day after Gannon was reported as missing, Latisha rented a 2019 Kia Rio from Avis Rent-A-Car. Then Latisha picked up Al from the airport right after she rented the Kia and drove back home in that Kia.

• 26:30Annie Elise?

  Now, the timing of the rental of the Kia is very suspicious, and combined with forensic evidence later obtained from the SUV, tends to place the additional importance on why Latisha felt compelled to rent a vehicle that morning. Investigators located no evidence that the SUV was not mechanically functioning, or any reason why it could not have been physically driven. Instead, the SUV remained parked at the Colorado Springs Airport short-term parking lot until approximately 7:00 PM on January 28th, and then she returned the Kia the next day. Now, Latisha's SUV was important to investigators because they believed that Latisha used it to transport Gannon's remains or dump him.

• 27:14Annie Elise?

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• 28:07Annie Elise?

  And that's why she couldn't pick up Al in the SUV, considering it would have revealed evidence of Gannon's murder, including blood or the actual remains of Gannon. Given all these red flags, investigators wanted to interview Latisha as soon as they possibly could. So they brought her in for questioning on January 29th. Investigators were granted a search warrant for the SUV, which was seized from Latisha at her interview and then towed to the evidence facility. The search revealed possible traces of blood on the rear of the vehicle, the rear passenger seat, the front passenger seat, and an area near the glove box. In the beginning of the interview, Latisha drastically departed from her initial statements that were given previously regarding Gannon's disappearance.

• 28:50Annie Elise?

  Now get this, according to the affidavit, Latisha had said that she had been held at gunpoint and that she had been attacked in a [inaudible] way by a Hispanic man that she knew as Aguado, and that Gannon was then abducted by this male after he finished attacking her. Now get this, Latisha stated that she met Aguado on January 26th, 2020, the day prior to Gannon's murder. She generally described him as a Hispanic man with brown hair and brown eyes but could not provide any specific identifying information. Instead, she told investigators that Gannon had knocked over a candle on Sunday, causing the carpet to burn.

• 29:33Annie Elise?

  After that incident, she drove around the neighborhood where residential construction was taking place and she met Aguado. He was working on a house and she asked him if he would come and repair the carpet in her home. Now, apparently Aguado agreed and Letitia provided him the garage door code and they agreed that he would repair the carpet while she was shopping the next day. If Letitia's story was accurate, any reasonable person would have immediately called 911 and reported the home invasion, the attack, and the kidnapping of their child. But instead, Letitia called law enforcement hours later and didn't even report the alleged attack until approximately two days later. Instead, she made up the fictitious story that Gannon walked to a friend's house.

• 30:18Annie Elise?

  She also denied killing Gannon and gave explanations as to why there was blood in the car, blood in Gannon's room, and other things. Which brings us back to that bizarre statement Letitia gave where she talked about Gannon cutting his foot in the garage and how he sat at the edge of the SUV while she bandaged him up. However, Letecia actually incriminated herself then because at this point, the presence of blood detected was not known to the public or her. So it was obvious that she was preemptively attempting to lie to explain things away or give an alibi for her whereabouts. Towards the end of the interview, Letecia said that she wanted to leave. Investigators seized her phone and detained her while they applied for a search warrant to obtain DNA collection.

• 31:01Annie Elise?

  Letecia began stuffing tissues in her pants and said that she was having chest pain and shortness of breath. Investigators immediately requested medical assistance and paramedics from the Colorado Springs Fire Department arrived. When she later went to the hospital, she was acting evasive and even though she wasn't physically in custody, Letecia left the hospital in an escape-like manner. Which doesn't make any sense at all because why would she not want to take the tests to corroborate her own story and help identify who attacked her and who kidnapped Gannon? The because it's BS. After investigators seized Letecia's SUV, she rented a Nissan Altima, which investigators installed. installed a GPS tracker on and started to monitor where she was going.

• 31:47Annie Elise?

  One of the locations the GPS revealed was that she traveled to an area north of Palmer Lake and along Highway 105 South, Perry Park Road in Douglas County, Colorado. Investigators believed Latisha rented the Altima to go back to the area where she dumped Gannon's body. And when investigators went out there, they found a piece of particle board with Gannon's blood on it. So now not only did she go out there in her SUV, but she also went out there in the Altima, which law enforcement believed that since she didn't have any real reason to be out there, no friends, no family, no business in that area essentially, there would likely be no legitimate reason to be out there other than disposing

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  of evidence. Specifically, their theory was that Latisha disposed of Gannon's remains at nighttime and likely was nervous about the location that she chose and may not have even remembered exactly where she dumped Gannon's remains. Then a couple of days later, she went back to the area to view the area while sunlight was available, to ensure that no evidence was viewable from the road. Also, to ensure that his remains were covered so law enforcement wouldn't find him. And to see if there was any police activity in the area. Now, let's get into Latisha's cellphone, where if she hasn't already incriminated herself enough so far, she absolutely buried herself. Now, her Google searches honestly speak for itself. And I always say, "Google is going to be the death," no pun intended,

• 33:12Annie Elise?

  "of all of these dumb, dumb criminals." So let me walk you through these Google searches. Find real military singles. Parenting should be four people, not one. I'm overdoing all the work for my stepkids and their mom doesn't help. Mom advice for stepmom. If you aren't involved in your kid's life, you are crappy. My husband's ex-wife does nothing for her kids. I wonder if my husband's ex-wife is sending me a Valentine's Day card since I raised her kids. One day, some people will wish they treated you differently. Why should my husband choose me over family? Find me a rich guy who wants me to take care of his kids.

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  Find a guy who wants me to take care of his kids and get paid. It's crappy some parents don't care for their kids or buy them presents. Parents are those who put their kids before their nails. My son burned the carpet. How do I fix it? Will a humidifier help if exposed to smoke? Smoke from fire affects will humidifier help? Colorado law for kids staying at home? School is out. Is it okay for my kid to stay at home alone? Son is sick, but I have to go to work. Son is sick. Can he stay home? Suede repair for sofa? El Paso Sheriff's Office number? What is the process for our runaway child? Police steps for our runaway?

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  Police steps for our missing child? Today's flights OKC to COS? Can Nintendo find my Switch? Car net Volkswagen. They are asking for our son's toothbrush, but said nothing is wrong. Find me a new husband book. I feel like I'm just a nanny, not a stepmom. Husband uses me to babysit his kids. Are there any free money to move away from bad situations? My husband never posts about me, but does everything else. My husband only cleans up for the army, not me. I'm just a glorified babysitter. Find a new husband. Send my husband sexual messages and he ignores them. Make my husband want me more.

• 35:24Annie Elise?

  I feel like my husband uses me to babysit his kids. Find a guy without kids. Now, a lot of the Google searches are weird, 1,000%. But at the same time, most of them are statements or feelings. They're not really questions that you would ask Google. However, either way, I mean, it's clear to me that Latisha's resentment was building, especially her resentment toward Al and her feelings like raising the kids just completely fell independently on her. Al provided law enforcement with recorded phone calls that began on February 13th, so two weeks or so before she was arrested and two weeks after Gannon was missing or ran away. She gave four different stories of what happened.

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  Story number one. When the police came to the house on January 27th, 2020, the abductor was still in her residence, and she tried to signal to deputies that there was somebody in the residence, which obviously is a lie, but also deputies searched the entire house for any sign of Gannon, and they knew there wasn't any other person there. Story number two. She was attacked in a sexual way by Quincy Brown at her residence, and he abducted Gannon. Apparently, she knew this guy's name because she saw a paper and his ID out of his pocket, and it had a name on it. Well, can you imagine that? Then, Latisha sent a screenshot of where Quincy Brown was listed as a most-wanted suspect in an internet article related to other charges.

• 36:54Annie Elise?

  Story number three. Quincy Brown followed her from Petco, and at some point was lying in the middle of the road in front of her car, when Latisha stopped to avoid running the man over. Then, he jumped into her car and made her take him to her home to attack her in a sexual way. Story number four. Latisha and Gannon were near County Line Road, Highway 105, when Gannon was riding a bicycle in that area and fell off. He hit his head, and then he was abducted by Quincy Brown. In this version of events, Quincy Brown was driven by a man named Terrance. Now, we got a new player in this. I mean, seriously, what is going on here?

• 37:34Annie Elise?

  The fact that she was so blatantly lying and making up the craziest stories is insane. And Al agreed. He let Latisha know that what she was saying was not adding up, not by a long shot. So, he asked her point-blank, "Did you hurt Gannon?"

• 37:51Speaker 02

  Did you kill Gannon?

• 37:55Speaker 02

  I need to know. I need you to answer me, yes or no, right now.

• 37:59Speaker 04

  I killed Gannon. The answer is no. I can't believe you asked me this.

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  I just gotta know you. I told me to be straight up. I gotta know what's happening to my son.

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  I see why you would think I killed Gannon.

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  There's a lot of unknowns. I mean, being straight up again, you changed your story again to me for the fourth time.

• 38:19Speaker 04

  No, I changed my story.

• 38:21Speaker 02

  You did. This is the fourth version of the same story, okay?

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  Like, half of what you told me today, cut foot, and now he's got burned arms and picking it and his butt's bleeding. All this stuff is, is new to what you told me the other day. And the other day, you told me to, you cleaned up the area where you got raped, so nobody would see it. But now you told me you just changed clothes. I just don't know what the hell's going on.

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  Then Al confronted her about all of that blood that was found in Gannon's room.

• 38:51Speaker 02

  How did the blood get there? Okay, it was a significant amount of blood. How did it get there in the corner of Gannon's room, under his bed, which you told me the beds were pushed together? So how did the blood get there?

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  Are you done yelling at me?

• 39:04Speaker 02

  I'm not yelling. I'm not yelling. How did the blood get there? All I believe is what I saw. Blood on the floor in my son's room, and my son is missing. Okay, that's the two things I know. Gannon was hurt in my house.

• 39:15Speaker 04

  I know. How many times do I have to say this to you? I don't know.

• 39:23Speaker 02

  You don't know how he got hurt, okay?

• 39:26Speaker 04

  You've asked me fifty times the same as that question, and I'm giving you the same as that answer. I don't know.

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  You can just feel her anger in that call. As she, in my opinion, she knows that the walls are closing in on her. And honestly, good on Al for sticking his ground and finally standing up to Letecia. But then investigators also found something else in Letecia's phone. Something completely separate from Al. She had been calling a random phone number, which turned out to be connected to, are you ready for this? Fakepolygraph.com. Letecia was actually calling an unknown male at this company over and over again because she had not received her fake polygraph results. The unknown male stated that her report was blocked by management

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  based on the content of the questions, and stated that with any illegal activities, they reserve the right not to send the report. You can't make this stuff up, guys. Even FakePolygraph.com has a better moral compass than Letecia. So investigators called FakePolygraph.com to see what the questions and the answers were that Letecia provided. And these were them. Did you participate in any way in causing harm to your stepson? No. Did your stepson return with you to your home? Yes. Did you participate in any way in causing the death of your stepson? No. So based on all of that, based on all of that, guys, Latisha was arrested in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, for first degree murder, for attacking a child resulting in a death,

• 41:04Annie Elise?

  tampering with a deceased human body, and tampering with physical evidence. All felonies. Ever notice how every new AI tool asks you to explain your business to it all over again? Google Workspace with Gemini skips that. You get Google's AI built right into the premium versions of Gmail, Docs, Sheets, and more. No new tools, no extra logins. Just one subscription that gives you personalized AI right inside your actual workflow. Make work less work. Try Google Workspace with Gemini at goo.gle/workspacewithGemini. Latisha waived her extradition hearing and was eventually transported to Colorado. On the way there, somehow Latisha managed to get out of her handcuffs

• 41:48Annie Elise?

  and began attacking one of the officers in what was believed to be an escape attempt. Now, this is how the investigators described the whole thing. You can see her leaning back in her seat, manipulating her wrist to escape those handcuffs.

• 42:08Speaker 05

  She grabbed a large, full, unopened can of Monster Energy Drink, and she slammed it into Michaela James's face.

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  She lunged for Deputy James's gun two times.

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  It was very dangerous for dealing with a murderer who escaped out of

• 42:41Speaker 04

  Her handcuffs and struck a deputy in the face. She keeps on threatening me. I have stopped her. She keeps on.

• 42:52Speaker 05

  Well, she got out of the restraint.

• 42:54Speaker 04

  She keeps on threatening me. I will. I will for you. She keeps.

• 42:59Speaker 05

  Put your arm down.

• 43:00Speaker 04

  Put your arm down. Well, she keeps threatening me the whole time.

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  As all of this was going on with Letecia, the community was still doing everything that they could to find Gannon. But then on March 17th, 2020, after almost two full months from his disappearance, they got the news that they had been dreading. Gannon's body was found, but not in Colorado where he lived, but rather 1,400 miles away in Florida. A construction worker had found his remains under a bridge stuffed in a suitcase, just completely thrown away like he was trash. 11 years old. The autopsy later officially identified and determined that he had been stabbed,

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  shot, and strangled before being dumped in Florida, over 1,000 miles away from his house. Police said that Gannon suffered from a fractured skull, a gunshot wound to the lower jaw, 18 sharp force wounds, and what appeared to be defensive wounds on his hands. The cause of death was determined to be a gunshot wound with blunt force trauma to the head. Absolutely appalling, revolting, and heartbreaking. Finally, though, it seemed like Gannon and his family were going to get justice when Letecia went to trial three years later in April of 2023. Letecia pleaded non-guilty

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  by reason of insanity. So that means that both sides agreed that she did kill Gannon, but the only question was, did she know right from wrong when she did it? And the defense really tried to answer that question during their opening statements, arguing that Letecia had serious mental health problems and they stemmed from her trauma during her childhood. They claimed that she had disassociative identity disorder, otherwise known as multiple personality disorder. Which, you know, to them, according to them, it meant that she didn't even mean to kill Gannon. She meant to kill, quote, "demons" from her past. The prosecution, though, I mean, they shut that down immediately. They said that it was obvious that Letecia knew that what she was doing was wrong.

• 45:06Annie Elise?

  I mean, just look at everything she did afterward. The lies, the cover-ups, the constantly changing stories, the fake polygraphs, all of that. That's not someone disconnected from reality. That is someone trying not to get caught. So to get ahead of the defense's whole mental health argument, prosecutors called Dr. Christine, the mental health director at the El Paso County Jail. And she testified that on March 5th, 2020, just a couple of weeks before Gannon's body was found, Letecia told her that she had absolutely zero mental health problems. Letecia said the same thing, too, in follow-up meetings all throughout March. It wasn't until after Gannon's body was found

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  that Letecia suddenly started mentioning mental health issues and started demanding to be evaluated. Which, to me, that just shows that the mental health claim is completely bogus in Letecia's case. The prosecution also brought in Dr. Jackie Grimmett, a forensic psychologist who evaluated Letecia in December of 2020. Now, she testified that Letecia reported some bizarre symptoms, things like claiming that she was being visited by vampires and things like that. But the doctor also said that she did have some traits consistent with borderline personality disorder, also narcissistic personality disorder.

• 46:28Annie Elise?

  But ultimately, she concluded that Letecia was actually exaggerating most of her symptoms. Surprise, surprise. The prosecution's last psychologist basically said the same thing, that Letecia's claims about her mental health all changed all the time. At one point, she said that she never had any treatment for her mental health, but then suddenly, she would change her story and said she had treatment in Canada, she had treatment here, there, everywhere. In the end, the psychologist admitted that Letecia did probably have a personality disorder, but was definitely legally sane at the time of the murder. So then it was the defense's turn. And they started with Dr. Rhonda, a clinical psychologist who had treated Letecia before

• 47:13Annie Elise?

  all of this happened, way back in December of 2019, back when she had prescribed her hydroxine or hydroxazine or something like that for anxiety. Which I have to say, that's kind of a weak argument, in my opinion, because plenty of people deal with anxiety and take medication for it, and they don't end up stabbing their children to death. Hey, I'll tell you right now, I have beta blockers prescribed to me for any time I have to do public speaking or go on tour because I get anxiety and I feel like I'm going to throw up. I'm not going to be out there committing murder because of that. It just doesn't make sense. Then the defense called who they thought was their star witness, Dr. Dorothy Lewis, an expert in dissociative identity disorder, who testifies in these kinds of trials, quite honestly, all the time.

• 47:57Annie Elise?

  Now, Dr. Lewis said that Letecia showed classic signs of dissociative identity disorder.

• 48:03Speaker 04

  The more I study her and the more I remember what happened in COVID, she has such a variety of different signs, symptoms, and behaviors. She has many of the signs, symptoms, behaviors of a dissociative identity disorder. She also, if you follow the material, if as you recall, I could not remember it clearly, if you follow the parts that I couldn't remember, they are confused, they make no sense, they

• 48:40Speaker 04

  are psychotic, they are incomprehensible by an ordinary human being.

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  She testified that Letecia had different personalities, including a personality named Maria, who, get this, supposedly spoke in a different accent.

• 49:02Speaker 04

  I recall her kind of...

• 49:07Speaker 04

  Reassociating Oliver. And she talks about her grandmother and family shooting things out the window and always needed people to guard funerals. That it had a chaotic quality and it happened shortly after, as I recall it, shortly after I became aware of her seeming to move into her Maria persona and her more aggressive, more, you know, more scary persona.

• 49:46Speaker 04

  And then it is just rambling and doesn't make sense and incoherent or psychotic.

• 49:57Annie Elise?

  According to Dr. Lewis, it was Maria, not Letecia, that killed Gannon. To her, that meant that not only was Letecia insane at the time of the crime, but she didn't even have the ability to understand what actually happened to Gannon.

• 50:13Speaker 04

  About the time that Gannon was killed, she was psychotic at the time. She was not in touch with reality. And she did not, I don't think she knew the difference between right and wrong. I don't know whether she even knew what she was doing.

• 50:36Annie Elise?

  Ever notice how every new AI tool asks you to explain your business to it all over again? Google Workspace with Gemini skips that. You get Google's AI built right into the premium versions of Gmail, Docs, Sheets, and more. No new tools, no extra logins, just one subscription that gives you personalized AI right inside your actual workflow. Make work less work. Try Google Workspace with Gemini at G O O dot G L E slash Workspace with Gemini. In the defense's closing argument, they reiterated what Dr. Lewis had said. And they also added that the sheer brutality of what happened to Gannon was proof that Letecia must have had some kind of psychotic break.

• 51:19Annie Elise?

  Which, uh, no, I'm sorry. In my opinion, that's not what proves this at all. That doesn't prove she had a psychotic break. That proves that your client is a vile, calculated, disgusting child killer. Now, obviously, I'm not a doctor, but I don't buy this insane thing for a single second. To me, Letecia was completely sane. This was premeditated, and it was just straight up evil. And the prosecution basically said the same thing in their closings. They argued that all of Letecia's attempts to cover up the murder clearly showed that she was sane. In their view, this wasn't someone out of touch with reality. This was someone who knew exactly what she had done.

• 52:02Annie Elise?

  And she was doing everything that she could possibly do to manipulate the situation and throw the investigators off her trail. And then there's also the question, of course, of motive. The prosecution pointed jurors all the way back to Letecia's Google searches, which showed she resented Al. She didn't want to take care of his kids, especially Ganon. And to really drive it home, they reminded the jury just how much Ganon suffered. They showed photos of his T-shirt and his jacket, both riddled with stab wounds. His pillow had two bullet holes in it, and the jury was even shown the bullet that was removed from Ganon's head. Which, I mean, how does someone do that to a child? So with all of that, the case was finally in the jury's hands.

• 52:46Annie Elise?

  And on Monday, May 8th, 2023, after nearly eight hours of deliberation, the verdict was in. With respect to count number one, charge of murder in the first degree after deliberation, we, the jury, find the defendant Letecia Stalk guilty of count number one, murder in the first degree after deliberation. With respect to count number two, charge of murder in the first degree, child under 12, by a person in a position of trust, we, the jury, find the defendant Letecia Stalk guilty of count number two, murder in the first degree, child under 12. ...position of trust. With respect to count number three, charge of tampering with a deceased human body,

• 53:31Annie Elise?

  we the jury find the defendant Letecia Stow guilty of count number three, tampering with a deceased human body.

• 53:40Annie Elise?

  With respect to count number four, charge of tampering with physical evidence, we the jury find the defendant Letecia Stow guilty of count number four, tampering with physical evidence. But even with that closure, there was still the question of sentencing. Gannon's parents gave absolutely heartbreaking victim impact statements, asking the judge to give Letecia the maximum sentence possible. Al even asked the court to legally strip Letecia of the last name Stow. And honestly, I completely agree. She does not deserve to share the same name as the little boy who she murdered. Now, when it was time for the judge to hand down the sentence, he pretty much said what everyone was already thinking,

• 54:23Annie Elise?

  and he completely ripped Letecia and her shitty defense apart, wholeheartedly. You betrayed your stepson, and you took his life. You took away everything he was and everything he could ever become.

• 54:42Annie Elise?

  I can't imagine the terror and confusion that he must have felt in the last moments of his life when he knew his life was being taken by someone he trusted to protect it. Your claim that a mental health issue caused the murder in this case is a disservice to all those who struggle with mental health issues every day.

• 55:05Annie Elise?

  Your claim is that it was another personality that murdered Gannon,

• 55:11Annie Elise?

  but there is no time

• 55:14Annie Elise?

  during the minutes, hours, and days following the murder

• 55:20Annie Elise?

  where Letecia came out and wondered, gee, why am I carrying a body around in my luggage?

• 55:28Annie Elise?

  That just isn't credible. You knew what you were doing.

• 55:33Speaker 01

  You made a number of clear and conscious decisions to cover or disguise what you had done.

• 55:38Annie Elise?

  Before finally handing down Letecia's sentence, the judge said that she is the worst monster he has ever seen.

• 55:47Speaker 01

  I have handled hundreds, if not thousands of criminal cases over the years. I can, however, say without hesitation

• 55:58Speaker 01

  that the facts in this case are the most horrific I have ever seen.

• 56:05Speaker 01

  Your conduct in this case deserves the maximum punishment that I can impose under Colorado law. As such, with respect to the charge of first degree murder after deliberation, I remand you to the custody of Colorado Department of Corrections for the remainder of your life with no possibility of parole.

• 56:26Annie Elise?

  And for three years, it really felt like that was the end of the story. That nothing, of course, could ever bring sweet little Gannon back, but at least his family had some sense of justice, knowing that his killer would never see the light of day again. But then, on April 2nd, 2026, more than six years after Gannon's murder, everything turned upside down because in a total bombshell, the Colorado Court of Appeals threw out Letecia's conviction. And they ordered a brand new trial. It turns out that one of the jurors in her original trial was the father-in-law of someone who worked in the district attorney's office.

• 57:08Annie Elise?

  So the appeals court said that the juror should have been dismissed immediately, like shouldn't have even made it past the first round of jury selection. Which I agree, but here's the wild part in all of that. The juror wasn't trying to hide anything. They were forthcoming. They actually told everyone about their familial connection. The prosecutor knew about it. The judge knew about it, yet he was still allowed to stay on the jury. So now because of that, the entire case is basically reset. Which, it is so frustrating. I could honestly scream. I think I actually did scream when I First heard the news because it's one of those cases that really shows how important

• 57:47Annie Elise?

  it is for everyone from crime scene investigators to interrogators to judges to just be super meticulous and do everything, absolutely everything by the book. Because when even one tiny thing slips through the cracks, you end up in a situation like this, where someone who is so very obviously guilty, suddenly gets another shot at walking free. It's just sickening. Now, of course, this was absolutely devastating for Gannon's family. Al said in a statement, quote, "I am truly torn by the emotions of potentially having to repeat this process. My resolve, however, has never been greater. My desire for justice has never wavered, and most importantly, my love for Gannon will never fail.

• 58:30Annie Elise?

  The end result will be the same, and although we do not wish to journey this path again, we stand with those who will handle this case and believe wholeheartedly in their ability to finish it once and for all." Which I agree completely. I don't think there's any question that this gutter, trash, superhuman being, or subhuman, I should say, is going to be found guilty again. I think that's a no-brainer. However, she gets the perk of not only putting people through this all over again, selling her manipulation, her twists, her stories, you know, trying her best for another shot at this, which I don't think will ever land. But it's, you're putting the family through all of this again, you're wasting resources.

• 59:12Annie Elise?

  For her, it's more time to get out of the prison system and go to a courtroom and dress up, or, you know, not even dress up, but like be there, and like, almost like she's going on recess for a while, not recess in the courtroom, but like recess in the playground, you know, like, it's a break for her. And this woman deserves no breaks at all. So what happens now? I mean, the good news is, Letecia's not going anywhere for now. Her sorry ass is still behind bars. The prosecution has also appealed the decision to the Colorado Supreme Court, and there are basically three ways that this could go. They could overturn the appeals court's ruling and say that the trial was fair. They could agree with the appeals court, or they could decide not to take the case at all.

• 59:53Annie Elise?

  Either of those last two, then Letecia gets a brand new trial and Ganon's family has to go through all of this all over again, which if that happens, I already am looking for ways to bring you those updates. And honestly, I would love your input. What kind of coverage do you want to see here? Whether it's us actually getting myself or a team member over to Colorado to be in that courtroom, or bringing back our trial correspondent from the Karen Reed trial to host live streams as it's happening and break everything down in real time, or give you the recaps as things unfold in our weekly segment of headline highlights on Thursdays. You tell me because let me know however this plays out. My mission is I want to make sure that Ganon's story stays front and center. And I want to make

• 1:00:37Annie Elise?

  sure that that monster stays behind bars. Before you go, don't forget subscribe on YouTube. And if you are listening to this on the audio version on a podcast, make sure that you follow the show on whatever podcast app you're listening on. I appreciate it. I appreciate the support and I will keep you updated. I'm Annie Elise. And as always, thank you for tuning into another episode of 10 to Life. I will be back with you on Tuesday with an all new episode. And in the meantime, if you need even more true crime, you can listen to my other true crime podcast serialistically between the two of them. New episodes are coming out every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and every other Friday. So for all my podcast listeners, make sure that you're following both of them. And until the next one, guys, stay safe. Bye.