Human remains discovered at former home of missing 6-year-old whose mother said she sold him to another woman at a 'Fiesta' grocery store

The multi-year hunt for a long-missing and presumed dormant Texas lad appears to person drawn to its foregone conclusion.

Earlier this week, section constabulary and the FBI began digging up the backyard of the location Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez, a 6-year-old disabled lad from the Fort Worth suburb of Everman, erstwhile called home.

On Thursday, authorities announced they had discovered quality remains determination astatine the spot connected Wisteria Lane.

"I privation to commencement by acknowledging the value of this infinitesimal for our community, for those who person followed this lawsuit since its beginning, and astir importantly for the representation of small Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez," Everman Police Chief Al Brooks said astatine a property conference.

The remains are present successful the custody of the Tarrant County Medical Examiner, who is performing a "complete forensic introspection and moving toward an authoritative identification," the constabulary main said.

Brooks stressed determination is not yet an authoritative recognition and that instrumentality enforcement "will not get up of that process."

During a question-and-answer session, section media successful North Texas tried, successful vain, to get details astir the quality of the remains.

The residence successful question has been searched before.

In April 2023, cadaver dogs signaled the beingness of quality remains straight underneath a precocious constructed patio of the location that was being rented by Noel's mother, Cindy Rodriguez-Singh, 40, who is charged with capital murder of a idiosyncratic nether 10 years old.

Everman metropolis manager Craig Spencer, the erstwhile constabulary main who led the probe into the boy's disappearance for years, commented connected the anterior hunt portion answering questions connected Thursday.

"We did person cadaver dogs that alerted backmost there," helium said. "I volition not remark connected the grade of what occurred with this peculiar search. But what I volition archer you is that each and each hunt was done professionally, methodically, with the resources we had disposable astatine the time."

Spencer repeatedly declined to reply much circumstantial questions astir the quality of the latest hunt and astir what, successful particular, led investigators to the country of the gait wherever searchers were focused. He stressed that definite details and comments mightiness impact "the integrity of the investigation" and efforts to get justness for Noel.

The lad disappeared without a trace successful the autumn of 2022.

Authorities rapidly determined helium had apt been murdered. His parent was indicted connected the execution complaint successful October 2023 — a small implicit 1 twelvemonth aft Noel was past seen live by extended family.

Since November 2022, assorted witnesses told instrumentality enforcement versions of stories — ever sourced to Noel's parent — purporting to relationship for the small boy's whereabouts. Those accounts and concerns enactment the Singh household connected instrumentality enforcement radar. But charges were not filed until overmuch later. Then the household near the country.

Law enforcement learned Rodriguez-Singh boarded an planetary formation with a layover successful Turkey, with India arsenic the last destination, just two days earlier an Amber Alert was issued astir Noel's disappearance. Joining the suspect connected that formation were her six different children and existent husband, Arshdeep Singh, authorities say.

Several theories — specified arsenic human trafficking — supported the conception the lad was inactive alive. But specified avenues of inquiry were soon discarded and replaced by the content helium was killed by his mother.

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In August 2025, the FBI announced Singh had been apprehended and charged — but did not accidental erstwhile oregon wherever the long-gone suspect was yet arrested. She has wide been presumed to beryllium hiding retired determination abroad, astir apt India, owed to the publically known details of her family's planetary departure backmost successful March 2023.

The apprehension came less than 1 month aft Rodriguez-Singh was added to the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" database — becoming the 537th idiosyncratic to gain that ignominious distinction.

In April of this year, a sealed psychiatric valuation suggested the suspect is incompetent to basal trial. A justice successful Tarrant County past formalized the ruling and sent the suspect to a authorities aesculapian hospital, Dallas-based Fox affiliate KDFW reported. Under specified circumstances, prosecutors typically question to reconstruct competency. All indications are the authorities plans to effort Rodriguez-Singh.

On Thursday, Tarrant County District Attorney Phil Sorrells said helium believes Noel's parent volition yet basal trial.

"We judge we recovered grounds that improves our case," helium said successful effect to a question astir the paused prosecution.

"The study further said they judge that successful the foreseeable future, she volition regain competency," Sorrels said astatine different constituent during the property conference. "So, she volition basal proceedings for this."