Yeah "Happy Freakin Thanksgiving, try eating after I tell ya what I did to my own flesh and Blood!" What an ass!!! Wonder what he is saving for Christmas. Nevermind I really don't want to know.

Cops searched Gonzalez' home after confession By Thor Jourgensen / The Daily Item SALEM - Prosecutors hope forensic testing results given to Ernesto Gonzalez' attorney will underscore why they think he should continue to be held without bail four months after the disappearance of his son. Assistant District Attorney Jean Curran would not discuss the results at Gonzalez' arraignment in Salem Superior Court Thursday but a neighbor of the shaggy-bearded Gonzalez said police converged on his second-floor Brightwood Terrace apartment soon after his Nov. 26 claim that he killed and dismembered Giovanni Gonzalez. "I heard a lot of banging and sawing. I assume they were in the bathroom. It was right after the confession. Cops were all hanging around outside. They had plastic bags around their feet," said Paula McKay. Police will not discuss the Nov. 28 search or even confirm its location and a judge on Dec. 4 clamped a secrecy order on the search warrant. Gonzalez, in a published jailhouse confession Nov. 26, claimed he stabbed his son on Aug. 17 after the boy misbehaved. He said he dismembered the boy in his apartment bathtub, packed the six body parts into plastic bags and threw the bags into Dumpsters off Boston, Union and South Common streets in Lynn. Gonzalez is due back in court on Jan. 2, but details of the grand jury proceeding Wednesday that led to his indictment on charges of parental kidnapping and willfully misleading police will be forwarded to McGuire before then. The indictment states Gonzalez "did hold or intend to hold said child permanently or for a protracted period or did take said child from his lawful custodian." The 36-year-old entered an innocent plea to the charges as Daisy Colon, the mother of the missing 5-year-old, watched from a seat several feet away. McGuire refused to comment on the new charges against Gonzalez. He appeared along with Curran in Lynn District Court later on Thursday to dismiss the child endangerment charge filed against Gonzalez on Aug. 18. Colon reported her son missing to police on Aug. 17 and told them she dropped him at Gonzalez' 2 Brightwood Terrace apartment two days earlier for a pre-arranged visit. Police responding to Colon's call initially could not locate Gonzalez. Once they did, he told them he had not seen his son since Aug. 10. Police arrested him after Colon let them examine her cell phone and verify she spoke with Gonzalez on Aug. 15. Two searches of Gonzalez' apartment yielded knives, cleaning items and signs of blood later ruled out as belonging to the boy. McGuire on Nov. 18 asked the court to dismiss the endangerment charge and suppress evidence gathered in the searches. He also sought a January trial date on the charge. http://www.itemlive.com/articles/2008/12/11/news/news02.txt

HEART BEAT: What Child is This? Tue Dec 23, 2008 - 04:40 PM By FELICIA MITCHELL Well, there’s Damaris Natalie Herrera-Lopez. She’s ten. She likes pink earrings. Then there’s Giovanni Colon-Gonzalez. He’s fond of Spiderman. Tangena Hussain wears gold sandals. Let’s not forget Jesus, Jesus Arel Vargas. He’s missing too. They all are. Fortunately, they’re all presumed alive right now, which is why they’re counted among the almost countless number of missing and endangered children. I know because I looked them up after the discovery of Caylee Marie Anthony’s remains this past week. I wanted to know how many children had gone missing or been killed by parents this past year. I know that’s not the most festive way to indulge a sense of curiosity, but there you have it. It’s not as if I were following the story about little Caylee. Unnerved, I’d change the channel when it came on. I didn’t seek out stories in the print or online media. Still, it was hard to avoid the entire issue because it became such a media sensation. I am truly naïve. With all the spirit of Christmas has come to signify, I wonder why people can hurt others, especially small children. I am reminded of a two-year-old Jesus, whose parents spirited him away to Egypt to avoid harm at the hands of Herod. As cynical as I am naïve, not unlike a child or a person who has lived a long time, I have to wonder why so much attention is being given to one little missing girl and not to all of them. What was it about this one child among all of those gone? You have to notice how more attention seems to be given to missing or murdered white children, to missing children of privilege, to murdered children of privilege who themselves would never want to compete with all the other little angels out there in the world. You have to wonder how statistics would change if more children and unsolved crimes got the same sort of media coverage. Did you see the toys? I saw a photograph of all the toys that people were leaving at a memorial for a deceased child outside the home of her grandparents in Orlando. It was enough to break your heart. I mean, it’s the Christmas season. All over our country, children and their parents are in need. And here was an abundance of riches left by a curb. Balloons and toys and stuffed animals galore—they were nestled alongside fresh flowers and yellow ribbons. I poked around a little and found that the family had decided to donate all of these little toys to the Orlando Union Rescue Mission, which serves hundreds of homeless families in the area. My cynicism about the memorial gifts crept away, tail between its legs. Once upon a time, William Dix wrote a Christmas poem. “What child is this who, laid to rest,” it asks, “on Mary’s lap is sleeping?” The mythical story of this child’s birth reminds us that we can be shepherds keeping watch here on earth. http://www.swvatoday.com/comments/heart_beat_what_child_is_this/living/4251/

Another twist in Lynn's missing boy case WEEKEND EDITION: February 28, 2009 By Thor Jourgensen / The Daily Item LYNN - The latest twist in the search for a missing 5-year-old came in the form of a question Tuesday: Was a neighbor of Ernesto Gonzalez threatened or offered rewards in return for his cooperation in the case against Gonzalez? Gonzalez' attorney posed the question in a motion filed Tuesday in Salem Superior Court. The answer may not come until April 1 when prosecutors are required by the court to respond to attorney Lawrence McGuire's motions. To date, Jason Fallis, the neighbor named in the motion, is only linked to the Gonzalez investigation by statements he made to police after Gonzalez' son disappeared on Aug 17. Fallis said he saw Gonzalez playing ball outside with his son, Giovanni. Fallis said the 5-year-old kicked the ball down the street and Gonzalez cursed at him in Spanish. "He seemed like a real jerk," Fallis told police, adding Gonzalez "always seemed mean to him whenever he (Fallis) saw him outside with his son." Gonzalez, 36, pleaded innocent last December to the kidnapping charge and a charge of misleading police investigating his son's disappearance. In a confession published on Nov. 27, he said he killed the boy after losing his temper and claimed he dismembered his son and dumped the body parts in three Dumpsters located across Lynn. Police and prosecutors have not discredited or affirmed the confession. A female neighbor of Gonzalez' said she saw police search his apartment on Nov. 28. A District Court judge ordered documents related to the search sealed through June at prosecutors' request. Motions like the one McGuire filed Tuesday are part of a investigatory process defense attorneys engage in as they prepare to defend their client against charges like the ones Gonzalez faces. McGuire, wants prosecutors to reveal "all promises, rewards and inducements, coercive and otherwise, made to Jayson Fallis (sometimes known as Jason Fallis) by any Essex Superior Court and Salem District Court probation officers." The motion also asks for information on "all promises, rewards and inducements which may be made to any co-defendant who becomes a government witness." Attempts to reach Fallis Tuesday were unsuccessful. District Attorney's spokesman Steve O'Connell said prosecutors will "confine any comment on the case to the courtroom." Gonzalez' next court appearance is scheduled for April 1. Giovanni Gonzalez' mother, Daisy Colon, on Monday said she does not believe Ernesto Gonzalez' confession and thinks he kidnapped the boy and is keeping him hidden with the help of an accomplice. "I think he wanted Giovanni for himself," she said Monday. McGuire has already filed motions challenging August searches of Gonzalez' apartment and the initial charge of child endangerment brought against him. That charge was dismissed when the December charges were filed. McGuire also filed a motion Tuesday asking for a chance in court to challenge any effort by prosecutors to obtain tape recordings of telephone calls he has made from the Middleton jail. http://www.itemlive.com/articles/2009/02/25/news/news02.txt

Monday, March 30, 2009 Sure he's kidnapped, Giovanni's mom seeks reward fund By Thor Jourgensen / The Daily Item LYNN - The mother of a boy missing since last August wants to establish a reward for information on his whereabouts. "We're going to try to shoot for $5,000. I'll make up the difference on my own if I need to," Daisy Colon said Tuesday after reasserting she believes her son, Giovanni, 5, is being held against his will by someone who knows the boy's father, Ernesto Gonzalez. Colon said her hopes were stunningly confirmed late last September when she spotted Giovanni walking into High Rock Park with a man as she was driving on Essex Street. She said she parked her car and pursued the man but experienced an asthma attack intensified by anxiety as she started up the steep path. "I froze," she said, adding she managed to summon two police officers who qu-estioned people in the vicinity of the park wi-thout success. "You don't mistake your own son," she said. She is now working with family and friends to organize a raffle and said the East Boston firm that manages her apartment building has offered to vouch for the reward's authenticity once details are pinned down. Colon also plans to consult with detectives active in the search for her son before she schedules the raffle and announces reward details. "I'll ask them how they want me to go forward," she said. Authorities are still searching for the boy. They have not confirmed or discredited Gonzalez' Nov. 27 published confession in which he claimed he killed his son after losing his temper, dismembered the boy's body and dumped the body parts in three Dumpsters located across Lynn. The 36-year-old meat plant worker pleaded innocent last December to charges of kidnapping his son and misleading police investigating the boy's disappearance. He has been held in the Essex House of Correction in Middleton since Aug. 18, a day after Colon went to pick up Giovanni at Gonzalez' downtown apartment. She brought Giovanni from her home in East Boston to Lynn to see his father on Aug. 15 but Gonzalez told police he had not seen the boy since the previous weekend. Police initially charged him with child endangerment after Colon displayed to officers information on her cellular phone indicating she called Gonzalez the day she dropped her son off. Although Colon and Gonzalez were working out arrangements for Gonzalez to see the boy on a regular basis prior to Giovanni's disappearance, Colon thinks Gonzalez "wanted Giovanni for himself" and arranged the boy's abduction. Colon's hopes of finding her son were bouyed in the initial months of the search when The Center for Missing and Exploited Children launched a campaign in Massachusetts and Puerto Rico seeking the public's help in finding the boy. Clear Channel joined in the search by displaying Giovanni's face on a Wyoma Square billboard. Colon on Tuesday said she did not stress her view on her son's abduction in the initial months of the investigation because she did not want to steer attention away from police efforts to find Giovanni. Gonzalez' confession prompted her to let people know she thinks her son was abducted. "I want to make sure no one forgets because he is alive," she said. http://www.itemlive.com/articles/2009/03/11/news/news03.txt

Gonzalez trial continued again until next month By Karen A. Kapsourakis / The Daily Item SALEM - The case against Ernesto L. Gonzalez, the Lynn father charged with parental kidnapping and willfully misleading a person in the investigation involving the disappearance of his 5-year-old son, was continued again Tuesday in Salem Superior Court until next month due to the unavailability of the prosecutor. Assistant District Attorney Meg Morrisey informed Judge Timothy Q. Feeley that the case had to be continued because prosecutor Jean M. Curran is currently on trial in Lawrence Superior Court on another criminal case. The case was continued until June 9 at which time Curran is expected to turn over additional police reports and preliminary trial information to defense lawyer Lawrence J. McGuire. In the meantime, Gonzalez remains held without bail at the Middleton Jail. Gonzalez, formerly of 7 Brightwood Ter., Lynn, made a jailhouse confession Nov. 26 to a reporter claiming he stabbed his son, Giovanni Gonzalez on Aug. 17. He said he dismembered the boy in his apartment bathroom, packed the six body parts into plastic bags and threw the bags into Dumpsters throughout Lynn. Police and prosecutors have not discredited or affirmed the confession. The boy was living in East Boston with his mother Daisy Colon, who reported her son missing to police on Aug. 17 after she went to Ernesto Gonzalez' apartment to pick up her son from a pre-arranged weekend visit with his father. Ernesto Gonzalez told police then he had not seen his son since the previous week, but Colon told authorities she had dropped off her son at Gonzalez' apartment on Friday, Aug. 14. Police further verified Colon's story after examining her cell phone records, which proved she spoke to Gonzalez on Aug. 15. The incident has sparked intense investigation throughout the city to locate the boy, but he has not yet been found. Reader Comments Comments so far on this story: Jean25 wrote on May 9, 2009 10:22 PM: " Giovanni turned 6 years old on May 1. There was not a mention of him in the news. Happy Birthday, little man, where ever you may be. " http://www.itemlive.com/articles/2009/05/06/news/news18.txt

Reward Offered For Missing Lynn Boy Giovanni Gonzalez Has Been Missing Since August POSTED: 4:36 pm EDT May 29, 2009 UPDATED: 4:46 pm EDT May 29, 2009 LYNN, Mass. -- A $7,000 reward was established Friday in hopes it will lead to the return of a missing 5-year-old Lynn boy. Giovanni Gonzalez has not been seen since August 16, 2008, when the boy's father, Ernesto Gonzalez, 36, of Lynn, failed to return the boy to his mother, according to police. Giovanni was brought by his mother to his father's home at 2 Brightwood Terrace in Lynn on Aug. 15 for a weekend visit. Police said Gonzalez did not return Giovanni to the child's mother, Daisy Colon, 22, of East Boston, at the end of the weekend. Gonzalez was arrested and charged with child endangerment. He has been held on $500,000 cash bail. Colon, was able to raise $2,000 toward the reward with the aid of family, friends and the general public. The Carole Sund-Carrington Foundation of Modesto, Calif., has offered an additional $5,000.00, bringing the total reward amount to $7,000.00. Anyone with information is asked to call the Lynn police at 781-477-4436. http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/19604547/detail.html