Baby Gabriel 'Missing Person' Becomes Homicide but 'No Murder Evidence' Says Jay J Armes

Rik Merchant
The 'missing person case' of Baby Gabriel Johnson has turned into a homicide investigation in Texas on Saturday February 6, 2010. Baby Gabriel, who is now nine months old, has been missing for six weeks. San Antonio Police Department (SAPD) Chief William McManus publicly said a murder case is official. "We have homicide detectives working on this case and today we officially opened up a murder case on Baby Gabriel," stated McManus.

Homicide investigators will search eastside of Tessman Road Landfill. "The question becomes 'why are you searching that landfill if it's a missing person case'," said McManus. He indicated that SAPD have several leads to finding Baby Gabriel alive. McManus hopes nothing will turn up in the landfill and that instead 'we'll find him alive'. When the search starts depends upon the weather. San Antonio has had much recent rain. Potential toxic run-off from landfill is dangerous to investigators.

The landfill search is based on a brutal text message sent to Baby Gabriel's father, Logan McQueary, by his mother, Elizabeth Johnson, on December 27 2009, the day that Gabriel went missing: U will never see Gabriel again. I made sure of that. And u can spend the rest of ur pathetic life wondering about him. U will never find me im already bording a plane. Out of the country. When im safe ill email u the exact location of dead gabriels little blue body. if the garbage don't come first. This is what liars like u deserve.

The conflicting statements and obvious lie (Johnson was not boarding a plane) in the excerpted message raises hope that the entire message is false. Johnson also said she had cut up the baby (as in early news reports). Yet, as Private Investigator Jay J. Armes said in a taped interview today, no murder evidence has been found, "We have not received any indication that they [investigators] have found any traces of child or blood, or a child that was cut up like she said she had done."

Jay J. Armes and his son Jay J. Armes III are working to find Baby Gabriel with a powerful pro bono investigation team recently assembled by Armes, Senior. Their investigation is based on the premise of a later Johnson statement- that she gave away Baby Gabriel- and on their belief, based on certain facts, that she sold the infant boy. They are looking into human trafficking and underground adoption in Mexico.

Gabriel's father, Logan McQueary, is in San Antonio Texas with Jay J. Armes. He has met with SAPD's Chief McManus. After spending many hours with the Chief re the work done on his missing son's case, McQueary's criticism of the SAPD has turned to praise. "I feel a lot more comfortable now with the San Antonio Police Department, the detectives there. They are actually doing a lot more than everybody knows," said McQueary. "Gabriel's... out there somewhere," he added. "We're hoping to find him."

McQueary plans to follow Johnson's trail with Baby Gabriel in San Antonio and pass out 'missing flyers'- he printed out 1,500 today. Among the locations he will visit is the HomeGate Studios & Suites in Fiesta Park where mother and son stayed for the week of December 20. He will also visit the Motel 6 where Johnson abandoned her grandfather's Oldsmobile.

Six days elapsed between Johnson's arrest on December 30 and the discovery of the Oldsmobile on January 5, 2010. Among other places visited by Johnson with Gabriel are the Russell Raymond County Park and Six Flags Amusement Park. Expecting to find all the answers in San Antonio, McQueary will stay 'as long as it takes'.

'Person of interest' Tammi Smith will appear at Maricopa County Superior Court on February 8 for a Status Conference. She was arrested on charges of Conspiracy to Commit Custodial Interference, Custodial Interference, and Forgery in connection with the missing Baby Gabriel case. The Custodial Interference charge has since been dropped and Smith is out of jail on a $15k bond.

Smith's Initial Pretrial Conference is scheduled for 8:15am on March 9. Police say they no longer believe Jack and Tammi Smith are withholding information as to Baby Gabriel's whereabouts. The Smiths continue to pray for the safe return of Baby Gabriel. If you have any info, contact The Investigators at jjarmes.com.

Sources: AZFamily Baby Gabriel case now a homicide; mysanantonio case now probed as homicide; kpho Baby Gabriel case now a homicide; kens5; woia.

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  • Victoria Dawson2/8/2010

    This baby is staying in my prayers.

  • Elizabeth Valentine2/8/2010

    Good for Logan!

  • Han Van Meegerin2/7/2010

    Thank you for keeping us up to date with the latest news.

  • JerseyNana2/7/2010

    Hope they finally get down to the bottom of this tangled web soon!

  • T. Hillukka2/7/2010

    Oh, wow!

  • David Ball2/7/2010

    & will include:
    medical & doctors records of years of mistreatment
    CPS reports of violence, drugs, medical mistreatment, etc
    psychological evaluations include lying, abuse, etc
    depositions of lying, violence, drug abuse, sex, etc
    CISD records of violence, drugs, sex, etc
    police reports of violence, drugs, shootings, etc
    myspace of violence, drug abuse, sex, pornography, etc
    emails to/from the: ad litem, psychologist, therapist
    I have always loved & wanted my daughter & always will, & I will never, ever, ever give up trying to rescue her.
    Judge Suzanne Stovall: Please right your injustice & return my daughter

  • David Ball2/7/2010

    harassing, obscene, & middle of the night phone calls.
    The well paid, well insured mother has lived rent & utilities free for 3½ years, but claims to be deep in debt from undisclosed medical expenses.
    The mother has committed tax, CHIPs, Medicaid, & insurance fraud at least since 2003.
    Threats, violence, drugs, promiscuity, crime, lying, etc is normal in the mother's family & normalized to my daughter.
    There is no history or evidence that I have ever been indecent, violent, destructive, abusive, hostile, drug use, etc.
    My increasing debt exceeds twice my gross annual income.
    Fees & expenses have exceeded 4 times my gross annual income.
    I have recorded nearly every contact with the mother, CPS, ad litem, & many others.
    I will be presenting this case to the Texas: Bar, Commission on Judicial Conduct, Attorneys General, Appellate Courts, Supreme Court, Board of Examiners of Psychologists, TDFPS, malpractice attorneys, etc. & will include:
    medical & doctors records of years o

  • David Ball2/7/2010

    & much more.
    At 6½ y/o, she only counts to 12, & she requires special attention, & is a behavioral problem.
    Well known to Edward G Silverman, Lynn Coleman, & Theresa Burbank, the mother provided & reared her young children on GRAPHICALLY SEXUALLY VIOLENT entertainment & since infancy has repeatedly exposed my daughter to the same.
    Well known to several Montgomery Co Courts & Probation, Edward G Silverman, Theresa Burbank, Lynn Coleman, & CPS, the mother's teens became violent, drug abusing criminals, who attended alternative high schools.
    On their first meeting, Elaine Baggerley of CPS began diagnosing my daughter as ADHD, & more.
    20 months of Theresa Burbank's therapy & the mother's sole parenting have resulted in my daughter being referred to a psychiatrist.
    http://local.yahoo.com/info-19096883-teresa-burbank-pc-conroe
    The mother's family & friends have threatened me at my home & away, & my property has been vandalized.
    I have received harassing, obscene, & middle of th

  • David Ball2/7/2010

    profanity, pornography (incl BEASTIALITY), boys/men sleeping over, my daughter sleeping at men's homes, being taught obscene language & gestures, & so much more.
    Aggravated perjury, forged letters, falsified evidence, unsupported/inconsistent/unchallenged false accusations, by the mother, CPS, et al., outweighed exhaustive undisputed facts, certified evidence, sworn statements, & objective/testable/verifiable documentation, disproving the accusations, & proving neglect/ abuse by the mother.
    With the knowledge &/or support of Dr Edward G Silverman, Lynn T Coleman, Theresa Burbank, & Elaine Baggerley, the mother has so thwarted my daughter's education that, in Kindergarten, at 6½ y/o, she is below District Guidelines.
    At 4 y/o my daughter could count to 29 & to 100 by tens, write her name, recognize most letters, tie her shoes, play checkers, had her own computer w/ games, play card games, front and back flip off a spring board, jump off a 5m platform, swim 100+ ft, & much more.

  • Donald Pennington2/7/2010

    Children are not bargaining chips or pawns to be used in an unhappy marriage. Poor kid.

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