CCTV shows missing Gannon Stauch, 11, looking ‘sluggish’ as he leaves home with STEPMOM before vanishing
HOME security camera footage allegedly shows missing 11-year-old Gannon Stauch looking "sluggish" as he got into his stepmom's pickup five hours before she claimed he was last seen.
The video is said to have prompted Gannon's dad Al Stauch to accuse his wife of "lying" about the sequence of events in his , Colorado.
He also told ABC News: "I just kept searching and I saw where she came back.
Police said that takes account of how long he's been missing, the low overnight temperatures and his need for medication.
Stepmother Tecia has claimed she was treated as a suspect and denied a lawyer when investigators grilled her last week.
Tecia claimed they also refused her water and bathroom breaks, and wouldn't let her have a lawyer as they asked her about the disappearance.
She said: "During that time, some of those things made me feel uncomfortable the way they were saying things.
"So I immediately stopped and felt like an attorney would help me with some of the vocabulary and things like that that I needed help with and understanding some of the things they were asking."
Tecia also claims she has had more than 20 death threats online.
She insisted she would never harm her stepson and had taken care of him for the last two years.
Her husband Al Stauch, Gannon's dad, was reportedly out of town at the time.
He said his son has never run away before and was not like him to walk off.
Last week Gannon's birth mother Landen Hiott made an emotional appeal to help find him at a press conference.
She said: "I'm so thankful for all the outpouring of help this case has brought.
"My son is a very loving kid. He wouldn't want harm on anybody at all and it's so hard to think, 'Why is this happening to him?'
"I have no clue. My kid deserves to come home. My kid has a purpose, my kid has a life and is important to me and is important to everybody that is standing in this room.
"Bring my baby home, I'm begging you."
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