In their continued search for the body of missing 6-year-old Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez, Everman police recently acquired help from a specialized search unit.
Texas Search and Rescue (TEXSAR), a non-profit volunteer group of expert first responders, sent a team to help police search for the missing boy in wooded areas north and east of the home Rodriguez-Alvarez lived in with his mother before he went missing.
Police and volunteer teams searched the wooded areas on horseback and conducted flyovers with drones.
Officials also recently reinvestigated a concrete slab located on the property. They had previously scanned the patio with ground-penetrating radar and excavated it but did not find a body.
This time around, Everman Police enlisted the help of TEXSAR volunteers but still found nothing.
According to officials, Rodriguez-Alvarez has not been seen since November 2022. Evidence gathered by multiple searches for the child recently led Everman Police Chief Craig Spencer to launch a death investigation, as reported by The Dallas Express.
Charles Parsons, who owns the property the family lived on, claimed he was close to them. He referenced a photo of him and Rodriguez-Alvarez hanging on the wall of Parsons’ home as evidence.
Parsons told NBC 5 that he had willed his home to Rodriguez-Alvarez’s mother, Cindy Alvarez-Singh. He said she had hired a contractor to pour the concrete patio on Parsons’ property — part of which she rented from him — just before her child was reported missing.
On March 23, Alvarez-Singh seemingly fled with her husband, Arshdeep Singh, and her other six children to India, prompting the FBI to request her extradition back to the United States. The family abandoned its vehicle at the DFW airport before flying to India with a brief stop in Istanbul.
Their departure coincided with police’s investigation into a tip they’d received that Rodriguez-Alvarez hadn’t been seen since November. Officials issued an Amber Alert for Rodriguez-Alverez on March 25.
Parsons told NBC 5 he believed Alvarez-Singh was fearful of a Child Protective Services investigation and fled the country to avoid losing her other children.
Parsons added that he believed the family story that Rodriguez-Alvarez is in Mexico with his biological father.
Police, however, have ruled out that scenario and are continuing a death investigation into the boy’s disappearance.
On Monday night, Everman Police joined a community vigil held at Everman Community Center to honor the missing child, now presumed dead.
