Authorities investigating the disappearance and presumed death of 6-year-old Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez announced a significant development in the case following a two-day search at the Everman home, where the boy once lived.
The Everman Police Department, FBI, and Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office held a joint news conference on Thursday after investigators searched a property in the 3700 block of Wisteria Drive on Tuesday and Wednesday.
At the press conference, Everman police chief Al Brooks confirmed that human remains had been found at the property, but he stopped short of saying that the remains were those of Noel. He said that the department was waiting on the medical examiner to make that determination.
Brooks thanked the FBI and the Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office for their assistance and for making the resources available to conduct the renewed search that led to the discovery of the remains.
Officials fielding questions at the press conference declined to provide further details about the evidence or what led to the renewed search, stating they did not want to reveal anything that could interfere with the future prosecution of the case.
The excavation of the property was a joint effort by the Everman Police Department, the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office, and the FBI. Aerial footage showed crews digging and sifting through the dirt in the backyard beneath brightly colored canopies that had been set up for the search.
By Wednesday afternoon, investigators appeared to focus on a specific area of the yard, with personnel loading a tarp-covered item into a van that was then driven to the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office. The search operation appeared to wrap up later Wednesday as crews began leaving the property.
Noel was last seen alive in the fall of 2022, but authorities were not notified of his disappearance until March 2023.
Investigators said Noel’s mother, Cindy Rodriguez-Singh, initially told police the boy was living with his biological father in Mexico. Two days after being questioned, Rodriguez-Singh, her husband, and Noel’s six siblings traveled to India without Noel.
Rodriguez-Singh was later added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list before she was arrested in India in August 2025. She has been charged with capital murder in connection with her son’s disappearance.
Last month, a Tarrant County judge ruled Rodriguez-Singh incompetent to stand trial and ordered her committed to a state mental health facility.
