Gabriel Johnson 8 months old

[Karalicious]

There really is a black market? I mean, that sounds like a dumb question I guess, but it seems like an urban legend. If this is what happened, they'll never find him. But at least he's alive?

[Bella]

 

Mom of missing Arizona baby refuses to go to court

PHOENIX — The mother of an 8-month-old Arizona boy missing for more than two months refused to go to court Tuesday, delaying the case.

Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Timothy Ryan would have ruled on two motions had 23-year-old Elizabeth Johnson not refused to leave her Maricopa County jail cell.

Ryan rescheduled Tuesday's hearing for March 17, when he's expected to rule on a couple procedural matters.

Johnson's son Gabriel was 8 months old when he was last seen in late December in San Antonio, and police don't know whether he's alive.

Police say Johnson drove the boy to San Antonio from Tempe, stayed about a week, then took a bus to Florida without him. She was arrested Dec. 30 in Florida and is charged in Arizona with kidnapping, child abuse and custodial interference.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/6904396.html

[TheFavoriteDaughter]

[quote author=GothaBella link=topic=23769.msg1558588#msg1558588 date=1268159773]
   

Mom of missing Arizona baby refuses to go to court

PHOENIX — The mother of an 8-month-old Arizona boy missing for more than two months refused to go to court Tuesday, delaying the case.

Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Timothy Ryan would have ruled on two motions had 23-year-old Elizabeth Johnson not refused to leave her Maricopa County jail cell.

Ryan rescheduled Tuesday's hearing for March 17, when he's expected to rule on a couple procedural matters.

Johnson's son Gabriel was 8 months old when he was last seen in late December in San Antonio, and police don't know whether he's alive.

Police say Johnson drove the boy to San Antonio from Tempe, stayed about a week, then took a bus to Florida without him. She was arrested Dec. 30 in Florida and is charged in Arizona with kidnapping, child abuse and custodial interference.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/6904396.html
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Timothy Ryan is the one who over saw the last few status updates of Ryan's case. He called him a coward and a bully at the sentencing hearing. I like him  :-P

[Bella]

[quote author=TheFavoriteDaughter link=topic=23769.msg1558594#msg1558594 date=1268161187]
Timothy Ryan is the one who over saw the last few status updates of Ryan's case. He called him a coward and a bully at the sentencing hearing. I like him  :-P
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It sounds like he wants officers to forcibly remove her from her cell on the 17th. I think I would like him, too.  :lol:

[wheresthebeef]

How can you refuse to go to court in jail? I didn't even know that was possible. I thought they just automatically physically remove you.

[Bella]

[quote author=wheresthebeef link=topic=23769.msg1558623#msg1558623 date=1268163614]
How can you refuse to go to court in jail? I didn't even know that was possible. I thought they just automatically physically remove you.
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I don't know. I have never heard of that in my life.
This shit screams guilty to me. I just hope it's guilty of giving Gabriel to someone in San Antonio, and not something worse.

[krazegirl]

[quote author=GothaBella link=topic=23769.msg1558769#msg1558769 date=1268172830]

I don't know. I have never heard of that in my life.
This shit screams guilty to me. I just hope it's guilty of giving Gabriel to someone in San Antonio, and not something worse.
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They do not have to go to court. Well here they don't at least. It does not look good on them and there is a long process of stuff that needs to be gone through for a hearing to happen without them there. But people try to stop going to court all the times in the jails. All it does is drags things out.

[Bella]

[quote author=krazegirl link=topic=23769.msg1558787#msg1558787 date=1268173776]
They do not have to go to court. Well here they don't at least. It does not look good on them and there is a long process of stuff that needs to be gone through for a hearing to happen without them there. But people try to stop going to court all the times in the jails. All it does is drags things out.
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Wow, I didn't know that.

[leyash]

Dang... still nothing on this case?
I thought we would have found SOMETHING by now.

I live in Austin... this is so close to home for me. :/

[leyash]

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_1...41-504083.html

I looked through here, and didn't see anything about this, but if it is, sorry! This was on 02/20/2010.

PHOENIX (CBS/AP) Tammi Smith, a 'person of interest' in the disappearance of baby Gabriel Johnson, has been arrested at her Scottsdale, Ariz. home Tuesday.

Tempe police said Smith will be charged with custodial interference, conspiracy to commit custodial interference and forgery. The release did not elaborate on what the charges were based on.

Tammi and her husband Jack tried to adopt Gabriel but his biological father, Logan McQueary, refused to give up his parental rights. McQueary says that the Smiths continuously pushed him to surrender the child but he refused, according to CBS affiliate KPHO.

Photo: Gabriel Johnson.

Since the beginning, police have said Tammi Smith was not completely forthcoming in her interviews with officers.

As late as last week Tammi Smith was saying she had nothing to do with Gabriel's disappearance, inviting the police to search her computer saying she had "nothing to hide."

Upon hearing of the arrest, McQueary said it was a long time coming. He and his family are currently on a road trip to retrace Johnson's steps in an effort to find baby Gabriel.

The 8-month-old disappeared shortly before his mother, Elizabeth Johnson, told McQueary she killed the child, and told police she gave him away to strangers during a Texas road trip.

Gabriel was last seen Dec. 26, 2009. Elizabeth Johnson, 23, was picked up by police Dec. 30 in Miami. She had left her car in San Antonio and eventually told police she gave her baby to strangers there.

[leyash]

"San Antonio investigators have said that they are now classifying the case as a kidnapping homicide because it allows them to search for a dead body as well as looking for a missing person."

Ugh... makes me sick. :(

[Bella]

Baby Gabriel's dad moving to Texas

PHOENIX -- According to a Phoenix media source, Baby Gabriel's father is planning to move to Texas to continue his search for his missing baby.

Logan McQueary told KPHO reporter, Elizabeth Erwin, that he has already found a job and an apartment in Texas. He said he will be heading back to Texas at the end of March.

McQueary said his new private investigator is turning up new information. He said was not surprised SAPD did not turn up any evidence in the 16-day search through a San Antonio landfill.

At a Team Gabriel fundraiser in Avondale, Arizona,  McQueary said he has tried on numerous occasions to speak to Elizabeth Johnson, but he said she refuses to talk to anyone but her brother.

http://www.kens5.com/news/gabriel-87622417.html

[irishkat]

I would love to whip this bitch's ass!

[Bella]

[quote author=irishkat link=topic=23769.msg1563839#msg1563839 date=1268617205]
I would love to whip this bitch's ass!
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It would almost be worth it to get arrested to get the chance. Almost.  :lol:

[irishkat]

[quote author=GothaBella link=topic=23769.msg1563840#msg1563840 date=1268617293]
It would almost be worth it to get arrested to get the chance. Almost.  :lol:
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I've always said that I will not go to jail for anything less than murder!

[Bella]

[quote author=irishkat link=topic=23769.msg1563842#msg1563842 date=1268617501]
I've always said that I will not go to jail for anything less than murder!
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I won't ever go again. 

[irishkat]

[quote author=GothaBella link=topic=23769.msg1563847#msg1563847 date=1268617851]
I won't ever go again. 
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Let me correct myself.  I have been to jail, but not prison.  I will not go to prison for anything less than murder.  and I will not go to jail for anything less than kicking this bitch's ass!

[Bella]

[quote author=irishkat link=topic=23769.msg1563850#msg1563850 date=1268618152]
Let me correct myself.  I have been to jail, but not prison.  I will not go to prison for anything less than murder.  and I will not go to jail for anything less than kicking this bitch's ass!
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What's with us Irish girls and jail? Don't answer that.  :lol:
I haven't been to prison, either.

I can't believe she is avoiding court like she is. I can't wait to see what she does Wednesday.

[Bella]

Logan and Elizabeth will be facing each other for the first time in court today.  :2huh:

[Bella]

Dad wins sole custody of missing 'Baby Gabriel'

A Maricopa County Family Court judge on Friday awarded Logan McQueary sole custody of his 10-month old son Gabriel, and next will move forward with hearings to decide whether the baby’s mother is in contempt of court for refusing to reveal the baby’s whereabouts.

Even as Judge Michael McVey stripped Elizabeth Johnson of any parenting ties to Gabriel who has been missing for three months — a baby her family said she didn’t want in the first place — Johnson invoked her 5th Amendment right to remain silent and did not answer any questions.

http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/152240

[Bella]

Now more than ever, I think she has done the worst.  :2sad:

It's worth watching the video of tonight's news to see her being put in the back of the truck to go to jail.


http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/dpp/news...dy_case_032610

[TheFavoriteDaughter]

[quote author=GothaBella link=topic=23769.msg1577344#msg1577344 date=1269663792]
Now more than ever, I think she has done the worst.  :2sad:

It's worth watching the video of tonight's news to see her being put in the back of the truck to go to jail.


http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/dpp/news...dy_case_032610
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What the hell? Why didn't they take her through the tunnel back to Madison?

[Bella]

[quote author=TheFavoriteDaughter link=topic=23769.msg1578132#msg1578132 date=1269753221]
What the hell? Why didn't they take her through the tunnel back to Madison?
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I don't know, but it was worth watching to see her get put in that truck!

[GirlLoveWarrior]

[quote author=leyash link=topic=23769.msg1559660#msg1559660 date=1268246247]
Dang... still nothing on this case?
I thought we would have found SOMETHING by now.

I live in Austin... this is so close to home for me. :/
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I'm in Austin as well. I'm glad to see someone else from here is on this board.

I want to know what happened to him, and for some reason I'm holding on to hope that he's alive.

[intrigued1csc]

Just marking. I hope this baby is alive. It worries me though, the dad doesn't have very many pictures of him and his son, so I wonder how involved in his life he really was.