What's up you guys? I'm Haley and I'm Andrea and this is Inhuman a true-crime podcast Oh, Welcome back everybody. Happy day, whatever day you are listening to this. Today's case is one that is on the more recent side so it happened in 20

but the trial didn't happen until 2023 and when I saw the suggestion come in from an anonymous listener

so thank you to whoever suggested it I recognize the name because I remember I

think posting about it on probably are like Instagram I

think I shared about it on my Tik-talk like when the trial was happening and

when the trial concluded so I knew some of the details, but I didn't know the full,

like all of the details and all the backstory and everything.

So I wanted to dive in and share it.

And yeah, that's all I'll say.

On January 27th, 2020, Latisha Stouke called the police in El Paso County, Colorado, which is an unincorporated county about a little

bit southeast of Colorado Springs.

And she was calling because she wanted to report that her stepson had not come home that night.

So Latisha was married to Al Stauk and Al was actually away on a National Guard deployment at the time so he like wasn't home so even though it was her

stepson she was basically the main adult responsible for him at the time. And she told the police that she, that 11 year old Gannon Stauke, her stepson,

had left their home in the Larson Count, Larson Ranch neighborhood of El Paso County,

sometime between 3.15 and 4 p.m. that day to walk to a friend's house,

but he never made it home.

So she was reporting him missing and initially he was actually classified as a juvenile runaway and it's not clear exactly what led

them to that I think just because she said you know he had gone to

this friend's house he's not there he didn't come home like he's a lemon

they typically jump to that conclusion for whatever reason you know? Yeah yeah so that's how he was initially reported but there were still searches that began

pretty much right away because even if he was a runaway, he was 11 years old.

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