Eleven-year-old Gannon Stauch disappeared nine days ago now from Colorado Springs, and hasn’t been seen since.

His stepmother, Letecia “Tecia” Stauch, said that she last saw her son at 3:15 when he left to go play with his friend down the street.

However, a neighbor’s video surveillance camera pointing at the Stauch’s driveway shows a woman believed to be Letecia leaving with the boy, but when she returns he is not seen on the camera footage.

This video seems to put Letecia’s story at odds.

The only video I have seen of Letecia is the one above, and in it, she is being inconsistent. Do you hear the inconsistencies?

Letecia’s inconsistencies aren’t enough for me to say she harmed the boy, but they are enough I would want her to sit smack dab in front of me to answer some tough questions! I have many of them as I am sure the police do too.

This sadly doesn’t look good for sweet Gannon.

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(PLEASE SEE update below 12-24-19)
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This is a really bizarre interview. It’s the supposed plea of a worried fiance, Shane Carey, whose future-bride-to-be, Heidi Broussard, is missing along with their newborn daughter.

What I find jarring is his lack of concern for her. I got four minutes into the video and there is no pleas for her at all. There is no concern, or worry about her. He just rambles so out of place!

It’s all about him, talking about his thoughts. And he seems to like attention when its directed at him. He seems to totally forget about her.

I don’t see genuine sadness either. I see someone who is in a surreal place and who feels really weird, but I don’t see sadness. I sense feelings of being overwhelmed, and that could support the truth or a lie.

This doesn’t feel right to me, though. It feel off-center. Could there be a reason for this? What do you think?

What do you see?

UPDATE: 12-24-19 12:05 PM CST

News reports are stating that Shane’s baby will be reunited with him shortly. Shane is also NOT considered a suspect according to news reports.

Shane was a very difficult person to read because he demonstrated behaviors that many people who are deceptive do– a lack of saddness, inappropriate smiles and happiness, and a lack of concern.

In my original assessment I noted these oddities, however, I did say things didn’t feel right to me and that they were off-center, but I did ask if there could be a reason for this.

I am a strong advocate of playing the devil’s advocate. It isn’t until we explore all reasons that we can be assured someone is deceptive. I am adamant about this in my teachings and in my class. If you’ve followed me, you know this.

When you don’t explore all the potentials, you end up being inaccurate in your assessments. I opened up this possibility for people to explore and I left this open in my assessment above.

As I stated in my original assessment, Shane was “in a surreal place” and “felt really weird”. I noted he didn’t feel sadness and I think that is still accurate.

What I suspect we witnessed was man who couldn’t accept the reality of what was happening to him. He wouldn’t grasp it and that is what we saw–a form of denial. He wasn’t sad. He wasn’t able to live in that reality. He was living in the reality this was something simple and explanable, probably. A segment of people cope like this– and its normal. Denial or the inability to accept a crisis like this makes people seem distant, detached and unconcerned, but it’s not for the reasons we think!

I hope this is valuable less for everyone. We must learn from these situations to be better at deception.