Crime Fix with Angenette Levy - Texas Mom Claims She 'Sold' Missing Son Who She Likely Murdered: Feds

Starting point is 00:00:00 Wondery Plus subscribers can binge all episodes of this law and crimes series ad-free right now. Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. Today, the FBI is announcing a reward for up to $25,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Cindy Rodriguez-Sin. An international manhunt is underway for the mother accused of murdering her disabled son. We are truly unified with the common goals of seeking justice for Noel and sharing the message that there is no such thing as a throwaway child. I have the sad case of Noel Alvarez with a former FBI agent. Welcome to Crime Fix. I'm Anjanette Levy. Noel Alvarez was a six-year-old boy living with his

Starting point is 00:00:45 mom in Everman, Texas, outside of Fort Worth. In October of 2022, he vanished. But the search for Noel didn't start until March 20th of 2023, when the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services asked police to perform a welfare check on the little boy. The FBI says during that welfare check, Noel's mother, Cynthia Rodriguez-Singh, lied to officers when she told them that Noel was living with his biological father in Mexico and had been since November of 2022. And the chief in Everman, Texas, said that Cindy Rodriguez-Singh told a whopper of a story to a family member. Cindy told family members different stories about the whereabouts of Noel, including that she sold him to a lady in a Fiesta Mart parking lot.

Starting point is 00:01:30 Two days after the welfare check, Everman Police Chief Craig Spencer said Cindy Rodriguez-Singh, her children, and her husband, Arshdeep Singh, boarded a plane for India. Yeah, so the plane tickets were actually purchased on a credit card that belonged to RHD. So the tickets, remember, were purchased roughly 24 hours, less than 24 hours before they left the country. And those were purchased on a credit card. This money was stolen mere hours before they even left the country. So likely to give them some cash to be able to flee the country with so they could afford things, I guess, when they got there is my speculation on it. Now, Spencer said hours before, Arshdeep Singh was caught on bank surveillance cameras depositing money into an account. Additionally, financial records indicated that the plane tickets to India for Cindy, Arshdeep and all six children were purchased on a credit card belonging to Arsdeep.

Starting point is 00:02:27 Investigators also noticed an abnormally large cash deposit into Arsdeep's bank account. This deposit took place on March 22nd, just hours before fleeing the country. Through data analysis, investigators learned that Arsdeep had paid a visit to one of his places of employment prior to making that cash deposit. Arsdeep had access to the company's safe as a part of his normal job responsibilities. Police searched tirelessly for Noel, one area that was of interest, a patio at the family's home. Cindy told family members to lie to police about seeing Noel recently. Family lived in squalor, however, chose to spend nearly their entire tax return on a newly constructed patio for a home that they don't even own. According to the contractor, she was in a hurry, was indecisive, and even requested the patio be thicker in a certain area.

Starting point is 00:03:18 Arshdeep disposed of a single indoor-outdoor carpet in a dumpster the night before leaving the country, however, leaves the remainder of the squalor and trash behind in a home, shed, and backyard. Multiple human remains detection canines alert to both the rug as well as under the concrete patio. Police released that footage of a canine alerting on a carpet from the home. To this day, there's been no sign of Noel. Police discussed when they believed a plan was hatched to rid the family of that six-year-old little boy. So in mid-October, we know that the newborn twins were discharged from the hospital. And we have had eyewitness testimony that states Noel was at the residence for about a week after those twins came home. November 1st is when Cindy and all six kids

Starting point is 00:04:13 went and took their passport photos. On November 2nd, there were applications applied for passports for Cindy and all six kids. Noel was not included in any of those. Last October, the prosecutor in Tarrant County, Texas, charged Cindy Rodriguez-Singh with capital murder for Noel's death. Now the FBI is offering that $25,000 reward for Singh's capture. Today, the FBI is announcing a reward for up to $25,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Cindy Rodriguez Seen. We are truly unified with the common goals of seeking justice for Noel and sharing the message that there is no such thing as a throwaway child. The murder of Noel Alvarez is such an

Starting point is 00:04:58 incredibly horrifying story, but we're able to tell you about it because of sponsors like Morgan and Morgan. Morgan and Morgan has more than 1,000 attorneys that you may want in your corner if you are ever injured. Morgan & Morgan has won several multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements recently for victims who were in life-altering car crashes, and all of those were considerably higher than the highest insurance company offer. Starting a claim takes eight clicks or less, and it can all be done from your smartphone. And there are no upfront fees. You only pay Morgan & Morgan if you win. So if you are ever hurt, you can easily start a claim in eight clicks or less at ForThePeople.com slash CrimeFix. I want to bring in Tracy Walder. She's a former CIA officer and a former FBI

Starting point is 00:05:42 special agent. Tracy, this is a tragic, tragic case. I mean, how do you begin to track down Cindy Rodriguez Singh? Well, right now, it looks like the FBI has issued a UFAP warrant or an unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. So my guess is they are working with the FBI has a legal attache office in New Delhi. So they are most likely working directly with them, which is good. And we have an extradition treaty with India. However, she also has ties to Mexico as well. And so she could be there. Obviously, we have extradition treaties in place with Mexico as well as a legal attache office there as well. So I guess the good news in that is that the FBI has very healthy and

Starting point is 00:06:25 robust relationships with both of these countries. India is a huge country, as we know. And while we do have a good relationship with India, it's a huge place. I mean, is it easy to maybe disappear there? But I mean, in this day and age, I don't know how easy it is to disappear when you've got things like cell phones and everybody's using credit cards and things of that nature. So I think you sort of hit the nail on the head, if you will, Anjanette. I think in this day and age, in my opinion, it's impossible to disappear. However, you can disappear for a certain finite period of time. And that's what the question is, is how long is it going to take? And you're right.

Starting point is 00:07:09 This is a very population dense country. What I suspect the FBI is probably already doing, as well as in cooperation with India itself, is really tracking her from her first entry point into the country. Because remember, she did use a passport and she has her family's passports. It's a large family. And so my guess is they will start from that moment, right when she cleared customs, and actually start using things, as you mentioned, like digital evidence. So CCTV footage around the airports. Anybody that would have picked her up and gone through tolls and those kinds of things, they are going to actually start there and start working out and broadening that net. Now, that's going to take a long time. Yeah, I would think it would. And we, I mean, she fled over a

Starting point is 00:07:56 year ago. I mean, March of 2023. And now they're issuing this reward. So do you know why they would have taken so long to issue the reward? I mean, as a reward, kind of a last ditch effort. And why $25,000? Is that just kind of the minimum for an FBI reward? I have all these questions about it. I think those are all very valid questions. I think that the issue here that we're looking at is, and I have to agree with you, I'm a little bit surprised in that it took this long to issue a reward. In the case of Caitlin Armstrong, if we look at that one out of Austin, that was actually pretty quickly within seven to

Starting point is 00:08:36 10 days, quite frankly, of her disappearance. So you're right. It's been about a year-ish and a half here. So that is surprising. But a lot of times what will happen is when you up a reward to a certain dollar amount, sometimes it's $15,000, sometimes it's $20,000, that then increases the amount of federal funding towards recovering this individual and towards finding him. And so I think that, in my opinion, is probably why. However, I have to say, I wish that they had put it in sooner. It does seem like it's been quite a while. I mean, they knew she left the country, as we just talked about a year and a half ago. So this has been a long time that they've waited. And obviously, you know, they have no hope that that poor little boy, Noel, is still alive.

Starting point is 00:09:27 I mean, we have cadaver dogs hitting on areas of the home. You know, they dug up the patio. They did not find him. So, I mean, it's a very, very sad case. And they believe he's dead. She's charged. His mother's charged with murdering him. So it doesn't get any more serious than this.

Starting point is 00:09:46 I mean, I think it's I think they've done what they can at least to try to find him. And they've determined that he is that he's gone. I do think that they have done what they can. However, you know, we've just issued this reward to find her. But you know what? This case goes all the way back to 2022, quite frankly. And so, you know, we're looking at two years now of no reward, not just a year or a year and a half. And I think that's what's a little bit surprising to me. I suspect, although I don't know,

Starting point is 00:10:18 that the FBI and local law enforcement as well also had a warrant to start looking at the data on her phone and have been doing so. But that would have also tipped them off to her leaving the country. And so I think that's a little bit surprising to me as well. My guess is they let her leave the country because they simply didn't have anything to concretely charge her with. As you mentioned, yes, cadaver dogs did hit in the backyard, but Noelle has not been recovered yet. And so nobody obviously can make things very, very difficult. But I would be interested to know what kind of information they were getting off of her phone because letting her leave the country, they had to have known she was applying for passports is a bit risky, quite frankly.

Starting point is 00:11:00 Yeah, I don't think they did have enough to hold her or to prevent her from leaving at the time that she left. But it is an incredibly sad case. I mean, this poor little boy, she's telling people she sold him apparently to somebody in a grocery store parking lot. I mean, these are just not the types of things you hear about. And he was mistreated from everything we're reading and hearing about from the police chief as well. And then obviously she's fleeing to India with other children. It's almost like the police are saying this child was a nuisance to her and he was discarded. Well, it sounds like there were issues. I completely agree with you. But I also think

Starting point is 00:11:42 on top of that, multiple children in that family had also been in and out of foster care to include little Noel. And they had just recently actually been returned to their mother. And I cannot imagine how some of those foster families must feel right now, having been with those children and helped those children only to have them return to the very person that was abusing them and that I believe, although I know it's alleged, ultimately killed one of them. And so this is, in my opinion, a breakdown of the system in its entirety, from the foster care system to child protective services, everyone, in my opinion, failed these children. It does seem like that since he was not seen from October of 2022. And then the welfare

Starting point is 00:12:33 check doesn't happen until March of 2023. So we've got five months that pass. It's pretty concerning and frankly, horrifying. Tracy Walder, thank you so much. We hope somebody with some information comes forward and tells the FBI and whomever else in India where Cindy Rodriguez Singh is. Thank you. Thank you. And that's it for this episode of Crime Fix. I'm Anjanette Levy. Thanks so much for being with me.

Starting point is 00:13:00 I'll see you back here next time.

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