Human Remains Found in Old Home of Missing 6-Year-Old Boy Months After Mom's Arrest

Noel Alvarez, 6, was last seen in October 2022 and reported missing by concerned family members in March 2023

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• Human remains were found at a home previously rented by 6-year-old Noel Alvarez’s family during his 2022 disappearance, police said
• Noel’s mother, Cindy Rodriguez-Singh, allegedly fled to India in 2023 days after police conducted a welfare check regarding his whereabouts
• Rodriguez-Singh was declared incompetent to stand trial and ordered to a state hospital earlier this year

Authorities in Texas have found human remains in a home that was previously rented by the family of Noel Alvarez, the 6-year-old boy who disappeared more than three years ago.

Noel was last seen in 2022 and reported missing by concerned family members in March 2023, according to police in Everman, Texas.

Authorities announced in April 2023 that they'd determined Noel was deceased.

More than three years after the boy's disappearance, investigators have located human remains at a residence where he lived with his family at the time he was reported missing, Everman Police Chief Al Brooks confirms to PEOPLE. The remains were recovered on Wednesday, May 13, he says.

Authorities have not confirmed who the remains belong to, as they undergo forensic examination and identification at the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office, Brooks says.

PEOPLE previously reported that the investigation began in March 2023 after family members grew concerned over Noel and the safety of his siblings. They told police he had not been since November 2022 when his mother Cindy Rodriguez-Singh gave birth to twins.

After the births, authorities alleged at the time, Rodriguez-Singh called the 6-year-old "possessed" and said he had a "demon" inside him that would hurt the twins.

During the welfare check in March 2023, Rodriguez-Singh allegedly told police he was with his father in Mexico, per police.

Two days after officers conducted the check, Rodriguez-Singh boarded a plane to India with her children, which eventually landed her on the FBI's Most Wanted list.

The agency announced on Aug. 20, 2025 that she had been arrested.

Rodriguez-Singh was arrested just months after getting on the FBI’s "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives," and charged with capital murder of a person under 10 years of age and unlawful flight to avoid prosecution, according to authorities.

In March 2026, she was found incompetent to stand trial, according to court filings cited by CBS News, which further reported in April that a judge had ordered her to be admitted to a state hospital.

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