Detective Marissa Williams

She has been employed with the El Paso County Sheriff's Office for approximately 11 years. In 2020 Williams was a detective in the investigations division.

• In this case she generally handled the financial responsibilities such as tracking the financial records of the Stauchs to see what kind of activity they had been taking part in during the time Gannon went missing.
• She also observed other law enforcement officers collecting evidence; the DA's office and the FBI.
• January 28th, 2020 she was on duty and was present for an interview at El Paso County Sheriff's Office with Mark Riley interviewing Al Stauch.
• She was also present for interviews with Letecia but did not watch the full interviews.
• She did meet Letecia in person on January 29th at the EPSO; her demeanor was evasive with questions and upset but not in the same way that you would expect with a parent that's missing a child - there is an objection.
• During her career she has had contact with a variety of suspects and persons of interest and parents of missing children and runaways;.
• In her experience she described most parents being primarily concerned with doing something to locate their child like contacting friends, searching, or providing evidence to help law enforcement but Letecia was bothered that she had to talk to them and was more concerned about her well-being than her missing son's.
• Asked if it appeared that she was experiencing a severe mental defect, disease, or crisis.
• Judge clarifies - due to objection - that the officer can't testify to the existence of a mental issue the same way a psychiatrist could but she can draw on her own experience and how she interpreted the defendant's mental status. He says it's a common issue, sometimes we under someone may be under stress or acting differently when we talk to them, etc.
• Letecia could understand conversations, she answered questions competently. There was no indication that she didn't understand the questions or the language spoken.
• Letecia did not refer to herself or address anyone by a different name.
• She fully understood the gravity of the situation.
• She got Avis Budget Rental records on March 20th.
• Exhibit 232 is a different rental record than the one she just referred to.
• The process for collecting evidence from a rental car business is to issue a court order or a search warrant addressed the the company, have a judge review the probable cause, then she serves it in person or via some electronic delivery method. It was a local business so she served the warrant to the Colorado Springs Airport location.
• The representative there provided a rental agreement signed by Letecia Stauch on January 28th 2020 for a white Kia Rio 4 door sedan. She used it for one day before being returned to the same location.
• She collected various financial documents and reviewed most of them; overall they were able to track movements/charges of Letecia through them.