Who is Cindy Rodriguez-Singh? Mother of presumed-dead disabled Texas boy indicted for capital murder
EVERMAN, TEXAS: Cindy Rodriguez-Singh has been indicted for murdering her own son Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez before fleeing to India.
She also faces charges on two counts, which include injury to a child and one count of abandoning a child without intent to return.
Everman Police Chief hails court ruling
The decision to charge her with capital murder on Monday, October 30, 2023, was by Tarrant County, reports Law&Crime.
“These indictments will significantly support our effort to apprehend and extradite Cindy back to the United States,” Everman Police Chief Craig Spencer said during a Monday press conference.
“Teams are already working with the US Marshals Office on that effort,” he added.
On the new development, Spencer said, “When this case was presented to the grand jury, it was indicted in what is called a ‘manner and means unknown to the grand jury’ – that’s what they indicted on.”
“And when you indict on that, essentially what we have to prove – we may not have a body and well, we don’t have a body, right – but we have to prove a reasonable effort in identifying any and all other circumstances or potential outcomes for this boy," he added.
The boy has been presumed dead after all the possibility of him being alive is exhausted. “Leaving us down to one simple conclusion: he was murdered,” the police chief said.
“The last thing I want is to have a 6-year-old boy die at the hands of his mother. That’s not what I want, but that’s the facts that we’re faced with here and that’s what we’re looking at,” Spencer continued.
Everman Mayor Ray Richardson's statement
Meanwhile, Everman Mayor Ray Richardson said, “Not a day goes by that someone doesn’t ask about Noel or the missing little boy from Everman.”
"No child should ever have to go through the abuse and neglect that Noel went through. Now that the murder warrant has been issued, we will hopefully be able to get the answers to many unanswered that surround this case. The goal is
and always has been to locate Noel and give him the justice he deserves," he added.
In March, Spencer had said, "We’ve got no leads on where he could be. I’m not convinced he’s dead.”
“The physical evidence hasn’t been present. There’s certainly a significant amount of circumstantial evidence. When we talk about the circumstances surrounding this case, everybody’s suspicion arises,” he said after Noel Rodriguez Alvarez's went missing.
