Feds digging at Everman home of missing 6-year-old Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez
Federal agents on Tuesday were searching the former Everman home of Cindy Rodriguez-Singh, the mother of missing 6-year-old Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez.
FBI agents were seen using excavators to dig up the yard of the property in the 3700 block of Wisteria Drive, and they had multiple canopies set up, according to helicopter footage from CBS Texas.
Noel, who had physical and intellectual disabilities, was last seen in October 2022 and is believed to be dead, though investigators have yet to find his body. Rodriguez-Singh was arrested in New Delhi, India, in August 2025 after being listed on the FBI’s Most Wanted list. With her husband and six of her other children, she flew from Dallas-Fort Worth to India when police began searching for Noel in 2023.
Last month, Rodriguez -Singh was found incompetent to stand trial in the death of the boy. A Tarrant County grand jury had indicted her on a charge of capital murder of a person under 10 years of age.
Everman Police Chief Al Brooks described the new search Tuesday as a next step in the course of regular investigation.
Brooks said that he could not share any details because he doesn’t want to compromise the investigation.
“It is that critical, that important, that we maintain the integrity of this whole circumstance for the benefit and for the justice we are seeking for Noel,” the chief told reporters at the scene.
The Dallas office of the FBI said that its agents are conducting the search at the request of the Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney’s Office. Authorities said the search began on Monday and will continue Wednesday.
The property has been searched before. In 2023, a cadaver dog alerted on topsoil near a converted shed behind the house in which the boy and his family lived, but as authorities dug deeper, the dog no longer alerted, according to a law enforcement source familiar with the investigation. A piece of an outdoor rug was sent to an FBI lab for analysis, according to the source.
The Tarrant County DA’s Office did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday afternoon, but Rose Anna Salinas, chief of the office’s criminal division, was at the scene of the search.
Rodriguez-Singh will ordered to be admitted to a maximum security unit at a state hospital in an effort to restore her competency to stand trial in the future, officials have said.
Defendants’ needs vary, and any diagnosis made by the psychologist who examined Rodriguez-Singh on March 26 is not publicly clear because the resulting psychiatric evaluation report was filed under seal. The psychologist determined either that Rodriguez-Singh does not have sufficient ability to consult with her attorney with a reasonable degree of rational understanding or that she does not have a rational and factual understanding of the proceedings.
Competency restoration attempts usually involve medication management and counseling, according to two criminal defense attorneys familiar with competency matters.
Everman police have described Rodriguez-Singh as an abusive parent who deprived Noel of food and water because she did not like changing his diaper. At least once she struck him with a set of keys because he drank water, police said. Rodriguez-Singh called Noel evil and a demon, police have said.
.JPEG "IMG_2719 (1).JPEG")
This story was originally published May 12, 2026 at 2:30 PM.
