Gabriel Scott Johnson was seven months old when he vanished from Tempe, Arizona, and was last documented alive in San Antonio, Texas, during the final days of December 2009. Born May 3, 2009, Gabriel disappeared after his mother, Elizabeth Johnson, left Arizona with him despite a court order awarding joint legal custody and directing the child’s father, Logan McQueary, to begin physical custody on December 20. Surveillance footage and witness accounts placed Gabriel and Elizabeth at San Antonio motels between December 22 and December 27, and one report says he was last seen there on December 26.

During the trip Elizabeth sent text messages to McQueary claiming she had killed Gabriel and later repeated that claim on a recorded phone call; after she was located in Miami Beach on December 30, Gabriel was not with her. Elizabeth then told investigators she had given Gabriel to an unidentified couple in a San Antonio park, a claim investigators could not verify. A massive landfill search in early 2010 found no sign of the child or evidence of a homicide.

Elizabeth Johnson was later convicted on unlawful imprisonment and custodial-interference counts related to keeping Gabriel from his father; those convictions did not establish Gabriel’s fate. The case remains unresolved. Did anyone in San Antonio or Arizona see Gabriel or his mother in late December 2009, or have information about the unidentified couple Elizabeth described?