Overview
- Authorities confirmed through dental records that remains found during a coordinated excavation at a Wisteria Drive home in Everman are 6-year-old Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez.
- The recovery this week ended a long search in which investigators said they believed Noel was dead but had not located his body.
- Noel was reported missing in March 2023 after investigators believed he was last seen alive months earlier in 2022.
- His mother, Cindy Rodriguez, is charged with capital murder and was found incompetent to stand trial in April 2026 before being sent to a state hospital.
- Investigators say she left for India with six of her other children after a welfare check and was later extradited and booked into the Tarrant County Jail in August 2025.