Human remains have been found in connection with the disappearance of 6-year-old Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez, who authorities allege was killed by his physically abusive, occult-worshipping mother.
Law enforcement made the shocking discovery behind the boy’s old home in Everman, Texas on Thursday — but the remains still need to be identified, KDFW reported.
“During a lawfully authorized search operation at the former residence of Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez, human remains were discovered,” Everman Police Chief Al Brooks said at a press conference.
“Those remains are now in the custody of the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office, who is doing a forensic examination and working toward an official identification,” continued Brooks.
“I do want to be clear — no official identification has been made as of yet.”
Noel’s 41-year-old mom, Cindy Rodriguez-Singh, believed her special needs son was “evil” and possessed by a demon, which she used as a pretext for the alleged abuse.
Rodriguez-Singh worshipped the Mexican folk deity “Santa Muerte,” a personification of death commonly associated with drug cartels.
The timeline of Noel’s disappearance reveals a harrowing sequence of neglect and deception beginning in October 2022, when the boy was last seen appearing malnourished following the birth of his twin siblings.
Over the next month, Rodriguez-Singh skipped Noel’s essential medical appointments for his chronic lung disease and vision issues, while simultaneously applying for passports and researching travel to India for every family member except Noel.
By March 2023, as authorities initiated a welfare check, Rodriguez-Singh allegedly provided false claims that Noel was with his biological father in Mexico or had been sold at a local market.
Just hours after her husband stole $10,000 and disposed of a carpet suspected of containing human remains, the couple fled to India with six of their children, leaving investigators to uncover a grim history of alleged abuse and the eventual discovery of remains at their former residence.
In October 2023, police had concluded that Noel was mostly likely deceased, around a year after he was last seen.
Rodriguez-Singh was arrested in India last spring and extradited to the US. She was determined incompetent to stand trial.
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