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Hi, I’m investigative journalist Mollye Barrows. I’ve been covering crime in Florida’s Panhandle for years and welcome to Gulf Coast Confidential Conversations. Here we dive into the deep end and discuss what we can learn from the true crime cases I talk about on Gulf Coast Confidential.

My co-host is Pam Hill. Her sister, Sharon Aydelott, was murdered by her son on Christmas Eve 2013, and she has a unique perspective on crimes and scandals, as a survivor of violent crime, a grief and loneliness researcher, and a pharmacist, as well. 

In this episode, we’re talking about Gannon Stauch, the 11-year-old boy who was killed by his stepmother in Colorado in 2020. She stuffed his small body in a suitcase then drove clear across the country to toss him over the side of a bridge in Northwest Florida where he was found. 

In May 2023, Letiticia Stauch was convicted of first-degree murder after deliberation, first-degree murder of a child by a person in a position of trust, tampering with a deceased human body and tampering with physical evidence.

She tried to defend herself by saying she was insane at the time she attacked him, but jurors didn't buy it and we say, "Bye-bye, Leticia!"

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