Overview
- Investigators reported Thursday that human remains were recovered during a multi-day excavation at the Wisteria Drive property, and the Tarrant County Medical Examiner is working to identify them.
- The search, led by the FBI and the Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office, began Monday and intensified Wednesday as teams focused on a single hole and moved a tarp-wrapped item to the medical examiner.
- Noel’s mother, Cindy Rodriguez-Singh, is under a capital murder indictment and was ruled incompetent to stand trial last month, with a judge ordering treatment at a state hospital.
- After a March 2023 welfare check, Rodriguez-Singh left the U.S. for India with her husband and other children, was arrested there in 2025, and was later extradited to Tarrant County.
- Noel, who had physical and intellectual disabilities, was last seen in October 2022 and prior searches found cadaver-dog alerts in the backyard but no remains, and a confirmed ID now could guide charges and offer long-awaited answers for neighbors and the current residents displaced during the dig.