EL PASO, Texas -- The kidnapping case of 9-month-old Gabriel Johnson, better known as Baby Gabriel, now has an El Paso private investigator taking on the case.

J.J. Armes is searching for the now nationally known Baby Gabriel, taken by his mother, Elizabeth Johnson, from the Phoenix area to San Antonio in a custody dispute in December.

Johnson then claimed she killed the baby and dumped him the trash. San Antonio police are now scouring a landfill, but Armes isn't convinced.

"We're searching all over,” Armes said from his Lower Valley compound. “My insticts are that the baby is still is alive, because there has been no sighting of any blood or any cadaver.”

Johnson has been arrested and has since recanted her murder story. Instead she is now claiming she gave Gabriel to a couple in a San Antonio park, but has refused to say anything else.

With little faith in the San Antonio police, Logan McQuery, the baby's father has hired Armes to investigate.

"I've sent some agents out of town on some leads and they're pretty good, they're pretty believable," Armes said.

Armes said Gabriel may have been taken to Mexico, but he is investigating every possible situation.

"We're going to find them, I mean I have 40 years experience and we have 175 years experience working on this case, we'll find them one was or another," Armes said.

If you have any information that would lead to Gabriel Johnson, call your local police department.