A mother accused of murdering an 11-year-old boy told her father ‘I don’t kill people’ when he received a Valentine’s call.

of Colorado stepmother “I’m not going to kill anybody,” she told the child’s National Guard father, who is charged with killing her 11-year-old stepson, in a recorded call on Valentine’s Day.

Letecia Stauch January 27, 2020 Before he was reported missing, 11-year-old Gannon Stauch was stabbed 18 times and shot in the head hours before he was reported missing on January 27, 2020, while his father was on duty with the National Guard. When the boy was finally presumed dead, he was arrested in his hometown of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, in March 2020, and the boy’s body was found months later in a suitcase that prosecutors said Stauck dumped on a bridge in the Florida Panhandle. Cross country travel.

When he took the stand, the boy’s father, Albert Stauch, began working with detectives when he realized his then-wife’s account of his missing son didn’t add up.

In a court filing Wednesday, detectives heard Albert Stauch called Tessia after the boy had been missing for about three weeks.

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Leticia Stauch has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to killing her 11-year-old stepson, Gannon. The boy’s father stopped by this week. (El Paso County Sheriff’s Office via AP, file)

During the February 2020 call, Leticia Stauch repeatedly told her husband she needed immunity before she could help. “I don’t kill people,” she said at one point.

In another call, Albert Stauch directly asks his now ex-wife if she killed Ganon.

“Did you kill Ganon?” Albert Stauck asked.

“No,” Letecia Stauch replied, according to KUSA.

“Well, did Ganon die at your hands, naturally or from some kind of injury?” he asked again. “Some kind of accident happened, and you were surprised and hid it?”

Each time, Letecia Stauch answered “no”.

Albert Stauck testified that he played with his wife’s various accounts of what happened to Gannon in order to find out the truth.

However, a man named Quincy Jones becomes furious with her after she claims that he took Ganon. A person, according to Albert Stauch, is a person whose image is easily found on a photo booking website. In one call, Leticia told Albert that detectives were “climbing up the wrong tree” by looking at Jones, not her.

She said the child had an accident and was picked up by a man who said he met her on Craigslist to buy an exercise bike.

“He promised to go back to the house to get a bandage and call 911,” Letesia told her then-husband.

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Gannon Stauch was allegedly killed by his stepmother in January 2020. (El Paso County Sheriff’s Office)

Leticia Stauck said earlier that Gannon did not return from playing with her friend, but did not name the friends he was with or their parents. Later she said something else. Man dared her And then they kidnapped Ganon, according to investigators.

“I brushed it off, I was scared,” Leticia Staunch said when asked why there were no signs of a struggle.

She also tries to explain Ganon’s trail of blood, biting his nails and bleeding profusely, and later says he stepped on a nail in the garage.

“I’m done, don’t email me, don’t call me until you tell me where my son is,” Albert Stauck finally told his wife.

Leticia Stauch is charged with first-degree murder, tampering with a dead body and tampering with physical evidence. She pleaded not guilty to Ganon’s death by reason of insanity. The defense said she suffered. “Major Psychotic Crack.” When you kill Ganon because of childhood pain. Her lawyers suggested that she suffered from dissociative disorder as a result of physical, emotional and sexual abuse by her absent mother’s chain of partners during her childhood.

Authorities searched for 11-year-old Gannon Stauch for weeks before his stepmother captured him and his body was found in Florida. (El Paso County Sheriff’s Office)

However, District Attorney Michael Allen Stauch has repeatedly maintained that he knows right from wrong, a key element he must show to disprove his insanity claim.

Albert Stauch answered questions from Allen about everything from his ex-wife’s ability to coach softball to her refusal to talk to investigators about Gannon’s disappearance, and she insisted she knew what was right and wrong.

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During cross-examination of Stauch, defense attorney Josh Tolini pointed out that Leticia Stauch had been seeing a psychologist in the months before Gannon’s murder and had been prescribed medication to treat anxiety. He also said that Stauck sometimes called herself “Taylor.”

Albert Stauch says it’s her favorite name, and once used it as her middle name on her Facebook profile.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.