SAN ANTONIO, Texas (AP) — San Antonio police say they are investigating the case of missing 8-month-old Gabriel Johnson as a kidnapping and homicide.
Police Chief William McManus says officers will search a landfill for the baby's body as soon as weather permits.
McManus says classifying the case as a homicide Saturday allows them to search for a body.
The child was last seen Dec. 26 in San Antonio with his mother, 23-year-old Elizabeth Johnson.
She was arrested Dec. 30 in Florida and has been charged in Arizona with kidnapping, child abuse and custodial interference.
The case drew national attention when the child's father pleaded for his son's safe return on national TV.
The couple had been in a custody dispute when Johnson left Tempe with the baby Dec. 18.
