Human remains recovered this week from Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez’s former home in Everman were confirmed Friday to be the missing 6-year-old, bringing a grim end to more than three years of searching and sharpening the case against his mother, Cindy Rodriguez Singh.
The Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office said the remains found during a search on Wednesday were Noel’s. Phil Sorrells said, “This case has weighed heavily on our community from the beginning,” and added, “Noel was a child whose life mattered. He deserved protection, care, and love. Instead, he became the victim of an unthinkable crime.” He also said, “She will stand trial for this.”
Noel had been missing since October 2022. Everman police said he was last seen alive around the birth of his twin sisters and appeared unhealthy and malnourished. By November 2022, Cindy Rodriguez Singh had applied for passports for all of her children except Noel, according to police.
Police conducted a welfare check for Noel on March 20, 2023, at the request of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services. The FBI said Singh allegedly told officers during that visit that Noel had been living with his biological father in Mexico since November 2022. Police later said she fled to India days after the welfare check, and the FBI said she boarded a flight there two days later with her husband and six other children. Noel was not on that flight.
The case had already moved into the criminal courts before the remains were found. Singh was charged with capital murder of a person under 10 years of age in October 2023 in Tarrant County district court. In April, she was found incompetent to stand trial and ordered to a state hospital for competency restoration. The FBI later named her a top 10 most wanted fugitive before her arrest in August 2025.
The identification of Noel’s remains closes the gap between the missing-child case that began in 2022 and the murder charge now facing his mother. It leaves the court to decide the penalty, but not the central question of what happened to the boy after he was last seen alive.
