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‘You’re trying to put me 6 feet under’: Stauch’s phone calls played at trial

EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) — Emotional recorded phone calls from the FBI between Al and Letecia Stauch started day three of her murder trial Wednesday. 

Letecia Stauch is accused of killing Gannon, her 11-year-old stepson, in 2020. She showed little emotion Wednesday while listening to recordings of herself in tears on phone calls back in 2020.

The calls played in court Wednesday were all from Feb. 14, 2020, almost three weeks after Gannon’s disappearance. 

Some of the following conversations can be heard in the video above.

After hearing the recordings, Al testified that he believed his wife was both genuinely crying and fake crying during the calls. 

The prosecution closed its questioning of Al asking for his opinion on Letecia’s sanity.

“I believe she is and was 100% absolutely sane based on what I witnessed and laid out, I have no indication of anything else,” Al said. “Sane from the time I met her to today.”

Defense attorneys asked Al if he and Letecia talked about her alleged childhood sexual abuse. He said she told him about alleged abuse with one of her stepfathers but he believed it was more of an isolated incidence, not a pattern of abuse.