In the long-running and excruciating case of a mother sought for the disappearance and assumed death of her crippled 6-year-old son Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez, federal officials have raised the stakes.
Cindy Rodriguez-Singh’s Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution (UFAP) warrant and a $25,000 reward for information leading to her capture were both announced by the Dallas FBI on Thursday.
“Cindy Rodriguez Singh is wanted for allegedly murdering her own young son,” Dallas FBI Special Agent in Charge Chad Yarbrough stated. “I am confident that the combination of publicity, significant reward offering, and the team of experienced investigators assembled by the FBI Fort Worth Resident Agency violent crime squad, Everman Police Department, Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office and Texas DPS-Texas Rangers will lead to her arrest. The community of Everman needs justice for Noel.”
Oct. 2022 was the last time Noel was spotted alive.
Since November of that year, witnesses have given police officers different accounts of tales supposedly told by the boy’s mother that seem to explain his whereabouts.
His family as a whole fled to India in March 2023.
Rodriguez-Singh took an international aircraft to India two days before to the Amber Alert being issued on Noel’s disappearance, as law enforcement had already learned. Arshdeep Singh, the defendant’s spouse, and the other six children were also on that aircraft.
But the belief that the boy had somehow died at the hands of his own mother swiftly eclipsed theories that suggested he was still alive. Noel’s body has not yet been located. Overall, there hasn’t been a lot of tangible proof in this case.
Since the issue began as a criminal matter in late March 2023, Everman Police Chief Craig Spencer has steadfastly handled it from his position in the little town, which is a suburb of Fort Worth.
According to a news outlet in Fort Worth, the police chief expressed his “confidence” during the press conference that the reward money would “undoubtedly” lead to new leads.
“The work on this case has never stopped. That’s evident today,” Spencer stated. “As you can see, we are truly unified with the common goals of seeking justice for Noel and sharing the message that there is no such thing as a throw-away child.”
Child protective services representatives reported on March 20, 2023, that Noel had not been seen in a month. The boy’s mother told police that her youngster had been living in Mexico with his biological father since November 2022.
According to authorities, at the time, the mother’s word and her disclosure of the father’s contact details were sufficient to stop any further inquiries.
After checking in with police three days later, child protective agents reported to the chief of police that they had obtained more information from other family members indicating the boy’s whereabouts were unknown and that they “expressed significant concern for his welfare.”
After resuming the investigation, the police found Noel’s biological father, who confirmed that the youngster was not actually residing with him in Mexico. The father said that instead of ever meeting his son, he had been deported.
Ever since the Rodriguez-Singh family’s hasty departure from the country, a series of depressing and unsettling events have seemed to validate the community’s deepest concerns in Everman.
Leads were all pointing toward death for several months.
According to a search warrant, Noel’s mother told his grandma that she had sold him to a different lady at a Fiesta Market, a North Texas-based network of Latino grocery stores.
Noel’s mother had described him as “evil, possessed, or having a demon in him” in the days preceding his death, Spencer said when announcing the warrant.
Subsequently, the authorities said Rodriguez-Singh revered and venerated a folk saint akin to a cult who personifies death and is widely believed to support the violent drug cartels’ operations; they deemed these allegations to be “extremely significant” to the missing boy’s case.
Grand jurors did not formally formalize their suspicions of Rodriguez-Singh’s involvement in the boy’s abduction until October 2023, despite the fact that police enforcement had been led to believe as much as possible for months.
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Rodriguez-Singh was charged in Tarrant County on October 30, 2023, with one case of capital murder, two charges of child injury, and one offense of abandoning a kid with no intention of returning.
A few months went by. The leads eventually ran out. The warrant for UFAP was issued. Still no luck. The FBI is now providing incentives. The chief of police reiterated how serious the situation was.
