Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez, a crippled 6-year-old boy from North Texas, hasn’t been seen or heard from in almost three years. It’s been more than two years and four months since his family left the country. The FBI, on the other hand, is not ready to let this go.
Recently, Cindy Rodriguez Singh, Noel’s mother, was added to the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted Fugitives” list. She is 40 years old. She is now the 537th person to have that shameful honor.
A news release from FBI Dallas Special Agent in Charge R. Joseph Rothrock said, “Adding Cindy Rodriguez Singh to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List is a chance to bring this case to the attention of people across the country and around the world.” “We are confident that this publicity will culminate in her arrest and that she will be returned to the United States to answer for her alleged crimes.”
In October 2022, Noel was last seen living. But people who knew him quickly missed having him around.
Since November 2022, different witnesses have given police different versions of different stories that they said were told by the boy’s mother about where he was.
The child’s family then ran away to India in March 2023.
Late that month, police found out that Rodriguez-Singh had taken an international flight with a stopover in Turkey. The flight’s end destination was India, and it had been two days since an Amber Alert was sent out about Noel’s disappearance. Authorities say that the defendant’s six other children and her present husband, Arshdeep Singh, were also on that flight.
A few ideas, like the idea that the boy was still living because he was being trafficked, supported this. But those ideas were quickly thrown out in favor of the belief that his mother killed him.
Noel’s body hasn’t been found yet. The reason of his death, which is still unknown, and a possible motive are also not clear, though occult-related explanations could be used in a criminal trial. In general, it has been hard to find physical proof in this case.
Craig Spencer, the chief of police in Everman, has been relentlessly pursuing the case for years. It began in the small town, which is a suburb of Fort Worth and a part of the larger, more spread-out Metroplex.
“The announcement by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to add Cindy Rodriguez-Singh to the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list represents a significant step forward in the ongoing pursuit of justice for Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez,” he said. “Some of the world’s most dangerous criminals have been caught with this prestigious list in the past.” This designation not only brings more national and international notice to the case, but it also makes a lot more people aware of it and gives us a lot more tools we need to bring Singh to justice. From the start, our department has worked hard with our neighborhood, state, and federal partners. Noel deserves to be punished. His story needs to have a happy ending.
The story of how Noel went missing has been long and complicated, but in the end, all the clues led to murder on purpose.
There were many health problems that Noel had that needed care and time. By the time the police got involved, his extended family had not seen him in months. Rodriguez-Singh told the cops that her son had been living with his biological father in Mexico since November 2022 when they first asked her about her son’s disappearance. Later, the police found out that wasn’t true; the boy’s father had been sent away before he could meet his son.
Since the Rodriguez-Singh family quickly left the country, a steady stream of sad and troubling events have seemed to confirm the community’s worst fears.
A search warrant from early April 2023 said that Noel’s mother told his grandma that she sold him to another woman at a Fiesta Market, which is a chain of Latino grocery stores in North Texas. When the warrant was announced, Spencer told the press that the boy’s mother had called him “evil, possessed, or having a demon in him” in the days before he died.
Later in April 2023, police found out that the boy’s mother had paid to have a new concrete patio built in the backyard of a house she did not own, just a few weeks before she ran away to India. Cadaver dogs let people know that there were dead bodies on the ground right under the porch. Dogs also sniffed out the carpet that had been used as the floor of a homemade shed that had been located in the same spot as the patio. Arshdeep Singh had thrown away this carpet in a nearby dumpster. But the house did not have any “forensic evidence” in it.
A few days later, police said Rodriguez-Singh worshiped and looked up to a cult-like folk saint who is thought to support the activities of violent drug gangs. They called these claims “very important” to the case of the missing boy.
Soon after, on March 22, the boy’s stepfather was charged with one count of felony theft for reportedly stealing $10,000 from his boss. That same day, he flew out of the United States on a Turkish Airways flight.
Rodriguez-Singh was charged with three counts of capital murder, two counts of damage to a child, and one count of leaving a child without intending to return in October 2023.
The FBI said in their announcement that they were doubling the prize from up to $25,000 to $250,000 for information that led to Singh’s arrest and conviction.
The government hopes that the higher price on Rodriguez-Singh’s head will bring her more attention and finally end the long-running efforts to send her back to her home country.
“We remain committed to seeing this through, no matter how long it takes, no matter how far the trail goes,” Spencer said. We’re thankful that the FBI has continued to work with us and that people have helped keep this case alive. There is now a Top 10 list for Cindy Singh. We think we are one step closer to finding her and getting answers.
The FBI has had a list of 537 wanted persons since it began in 1950, and 497 have been caught or found. The FBI says that most of those successful arrests were made possible by tips from regular people.
