Ernesto Gonzalez due in court Tuesday

LYNN – “I just hope to hear the truth once and for all from him,” said Daisy Colon Monday as she steeled herself again Tuesday to look across a courtroom at Ernesto Gonzalez, the father and self-confessed murderer of her missing 5-year-old son. “He hasn’t told the truth so far,” Colon said as she repeated her belief that Gonzalez arranged for an accomplice in August to kidnap her son, Giovanni, and keep him hidden.?I believe someone is helping him. I think he wanted Giovanni for himself. Giovanni is somewhere around here.”The search for the boy dates back to last Aug. 17 when, after weeks of working with Gonzalez to bring him back into her son’s life, Colon went to his Lynn apartment and could not find the boy or Gonzalez.Giovanni had visited Gonzalez two weekends without incident and Colon said her son told her one week before his disappearance that he was going to “bring his father home to live with us.”?I told him that’s not true,” Colon said Monday, adding she repeated the remark to Ernesto Gonzalez, telling him, “I hope you’re not giving him high hopes for something that is not going to happen.?Ernesto said, ‘No, I haven’t.'”Police and prosecutors have not endorsed or dismissed Colon’s theory or credited Gonzalez’ Nov. 26 published interview, in which he said he killed the boy, dismembered him and tossed the body parts in downtown Dumpsters.?This is an ongoing investigation,” District Attorney’s spokesman Steve O’Connell said Monday.Prosecutors, with the backing of a judge, have refused to provide details of a search conducted two days after the confession but a neighbor of Ernesto Gonzalez said police swarmed through the 36-year-old meat worker’s apartment on Nov. 28, focusing their search on the bathroom.Ernesto Gonzalez pleaded innocent on Dec. 11 to charges of misleading police and parental kidnapping.Ernesto Gonzalez told police on Aug. 17 that he had not seen his son since the previous week. Police charged him with child endangerment a day later and launched a search for the boy and searched Gonzalez’ apartment.Lawrence McGuire subsequently filed court motions challenging the endangerment charge and arguing police “failed to establish probable cause to search the apartment.” He has another chance Tuesday to file motions related to the December charges. The endangerment charge was dropped in December when those charges were filed.