Crews searching the Everman home where 6-year-old Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez was last seen more than three years earlier found new evidence on May 13, 2026, and the county’s top prosecutor said investigators know it matters, even if they do not yet know how.

Phil Sorrells said investigators had clearly found something during the third day of the search at the house on Wisteria Drive, but he said the significance of the material was not yet clear. Yellow crime scene tape surrounded the property as additional law enforcement and crime scene units joined the effort on Wednesday, with helicopter footage showing crews concentrating on a hole in the backyard.

“Clearly there was some evidence that was found, but exactly what it is, that remains to be seen,” Sorrells said. He added that he had “high hopes” the evidence would help the case.

Noel was last accounted for in October 2022, but his family did not report him missing until March 2023. Cindy Rodriguez Singh has been charged with capital murder in connection with his disappearance, and she was being temporarily held in the Tarrant County Jail while she awaited transfer to a state hospital after a judge ruled her incompetent to stand trial in April.

The search on Day No. 3 was only one part of a broader investigative effort, Sorrells said, and the work was not limited to the Everman home. “We’re not just looking there,” he said. “We’re looking anywhere that will help our case.”

Aerial footage showed investigators digging in the backyard with excavators and shovels, while four canopies were set up side by side on Tuesday. By Wednesday, two of the canopies had been moved as crews kept working around the property where the boy was last seen.

Sorrells used unusually blunt language about the search and the suspect, saying Singh “thought that she got rid of all the evidence” and that investigators would “track it all down.” He also said, “She thought she got away with killing her own child and fled to India. We went and got her. She thought she was free from this, but she was wrong.”

Defense attorney Bob Gill said Singh remains presumed innocent and said she is in jail receiving mental health treatment after a judge found her incompetent in April. He said most defendants in similar situations eventually regain competency and argued the state has a serious problem because the child’s body has not been found.

“Cindy is presumed to be not guilty of any criminal offense, that we’re still, I think, in the very early stages of the case,” Gill said. He added, “They have a huge hole in their case,” and, “Because the supposed body of the young child has not been found.”

The search now has produced something investigators think is worth pursuing, but the missing child remains missing, and that gap is still the center of the case. With no body recovered and Singh still not facing trial, the evidence pulled from the Everman backyard may be the closest thing prosecutors have to a turning point so far.