Police: Hope of finding Baby Gabriel alive dampened
by Megan Boehnke - Jan. 19, 2010 12:00 AM
The Arizona Republic
The tone of optimism investigators had last week that missing baby Gabriel was alive and would be found seemed dampened Monday as police discussed the case.
Indicators police had that the baby was alive aren't as strong as they once were, Lt. Mike Horn told reporters, though he declined to elaborate on those indicators.
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After telling his father on the phone that she had
suffocated Gabriel and stuffed him in a baby bag, Johnson was arrested in Miami on Dec. 30 without the child. A nationwide search has been under way ever since.
"There is a very real possibility that Elizabeth killed Gabriel," Horn told reporters.
"What frustrates people, what scares people is that we may come to a point where we don't know what happened to Gabriel. And tips aren't coming in at the same volume they were a week ago."
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Police released photos that were taken at the HomeGate Studios and Suites hotel in San Antonio, at least one of the places that Johnson stayed with Gabriel when she left the Valley.
The pictures from Johnson's camera, which was found when she was arrested, show the boy looking tired and sickly and gripping a prescription-pill bottle.
"I've never seen him look like that," his father, Logan McQueary, said.
"I saw that picture and I just started crying. Even when he was tired, he never looked like that."
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McQueary said he has wrestled with whether to visit Johnson in jail and whether that would make her more likely to speak or further anger her.
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/01/19/20100119baby0119.html
Wow ... this is the 1st time I have ever seen or heard the actual word "suffocated" in any news article. The fact that mothers often use "soft kills" when they do away with their children instead of other measures does make it seem plausible that EJ might in fact have done something horrible to this beautiful little boy. The fact that we heard the word "blue body" before now where actual suffocation is mentioned, always creeped me out before because suffocation was the 1st thing that came to mind, then potential over-drugging possibly. This seriously makes me re-think the whole waterboarding phenomena ... she is completely heartless if she honestly did something to this innocent, defenseless little baby!