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The Alleged Murder of Noel Angel Alvarez · Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

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  Speaker 1: Gone Coal. Podcasts may contain violent or graphics subject matter.
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  Speaker 1: Listener discretion is advised. Everman, Texas is a residential community
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  Speaker 1: located on Fort Worth's southern edge. Until the arrival of
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  Speaker 1: white settlers in the eighteen fifties, Apache, Kiowa and Wichita
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  Speaker 1: tribes inhabited the area where the small city now sits,
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  Speaker 1: and the arrival of the railroad in nineteen o two
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  Speaker 1: was what spurred economic and population growth. It was at
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  Speaker 1: that time that Everman Village was formed, after folks moved
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  Speaker 1: in from Enon to the east to be closer to
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  Speaker 1: the train tracks. What was once called Oak Grove was
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  Speaker 1: renamed after an engineer with the International Great Northern Railroad,
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  Speaker 1: John Wesley Everman. Not long after, a post office and
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  Speaker 1: school district were established, and in nineteen seventeen, Baron Field
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  Speaker 1: was created in the area, a flight training center for
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  Speaker 1: the Aviation Division of the United States Signal Corps and
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  Speaker 1: the Canadian Royal Flying Corps. This stimulated the economy, of course,
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  Speaker 1: but Everman Village remained a small community. In the summer
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  Speaker 1: of nineteen forty five, residents voted they become an incorporated city.
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  Speaker 1: A month later, five aldermen A Marshall and a mayor
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  Speaker 1: were elected. In nineteen forty eight, Everman Village became Everman
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  Speaker 1: after a series of steps. A public water system was introduced,
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  Speaker 1: and a fire in nineteen sixty six, the second major
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  Speaker 1: blaze in fifty years, claimed several businesses. Like the first time,
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  Speaker 1: the small city rebuilt, Everman continued to grow right alongside
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  Speaker 1: Fort Worth, becoming a suburban outlier typical of the area.
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  Speaker 1: By the late twenty tens, it was home to more
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  Speaker 1: than six thousand people, mostly comprised of working class folks
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  Speaker 1: who commute to the city or other areas in the
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  Speaker 1: Dallas Fort Worth metroplex for work. The city's police staff
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  Speaker 1: consisted of eighteen people in twenty twenty three. That year,
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  Speaker 1: the small department was rocked by a shocking case that
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  Speaker 1: took the entire community by storm, when six year old
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  Speaker 1: Noel Alvarez disappeared. Noel Angel Rodriguez Alvarez was born to
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  Speaker 1: Cindy Cecilia Rodriguez Alvarez and Reno Alvarez Contreras on February second,
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  Speaker 1: twenty seventeen. Noel was born prematurely at only twenty three
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  Speaker 1: weeks of gestation. Partially because of this the boy had
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  Speaker 1: physical and developmental challenges. Among his several conditions were speech delay,
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  Speaker 1: chronic lung disease that sometimes required oxygen to treat, and
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  Speaker 1: esotropia in his eyes, a condition that caused them to cross. Noel,
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  Speaker 1: of course, required special care and also close attention. Cindy
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  Speaker 1: had eight more children, three of whom her oldest lived
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  Speaker 1: with her mother. Noel was the youngest son of Marino,
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  Speaker 1: but just before he was born, the man was deported
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  Speaker 1: to Mexico. Cindy was left to raise five kids on
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  Speaker 1: her own, which only exacerbated her struggles with alcohol addiction.
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  Speaker 1: In twenty twenty, she was arrested and charged with her
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  Speaker 1: third d WI, this time driving while intoxicated with a
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  Speaker 1: child under fifteen years old. With Noel and his siblings
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  Speaker 1: in the vehicle, Cindy had crashed into a poll. The
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  Speaker 1: eventual repercussions were typical of the charges. Cindy was given
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  Speaker 1: ten years probation, had a breathalyzer installed in her car,
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  Speaker 1: and Child Protective Services removed Noell and the other children
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  Speaker 1: from her care for a year. From twenty twenty to
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, three year old Noel and two of
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  Speaker 1: his siblings were under the foster care of a woman
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  Speaker 1: named Patricia Paris. Patricia bonded particularly with Noel, later saying
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  Speaker 1: he was her baby, her cool dude. He followed her
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  Speaker 1: around wherever she went, and even though she tried to
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  Speaker 1: get him to call her by another nickname, he called
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  Speaker 1: her Mommy. Noel could be shy, but with Patricia it
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  Speaker 1: seemed he'd found his person. She described Noel as happy.
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  Speaker 1: He could always be seen with a toy in his hand.
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  Speaker 1: He was always laughing. Despite what doctors said about his
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  Speaker 1: developmental disabilities, Noel began talking quite well, played like a
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  Speaker 1: normal child, and could navigate a tablet. Patricia said he
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  Speaker 1: was mastering normal functions for a child his age. After
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  Speaker 1: a year, Noel and his siblings were returned to Cindy.
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  Speaker 1: Patricia kept in touch with Noel, often chatting with him
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  Speaker 1: over FaceTime and sometimes visiting in person. After February of
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, however, Patricia's calls went unanswered. Long before,
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  Speaker 1: in twenty thirteen, Cindy Rodriguez Alvarez met a man named
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  Speaker 1: Charles Allen Parson in the produce section of a grocery store.
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  Speaker 1: The two struck up a conversation. He was thirty four
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  Speaker 1: years her senior. Charles opened up, telling Cindy that he'd
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  Speaker 1: recently gotten out of a bad relationship that had lasted
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  Speaker 1: eleven years. At the end of the day, Charles said
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  Speaker 1: his ex, a drug addict, took him for all he had.
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  Speaker 1: Cindy told Charles she'd come over and cook for him
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  Speaker 1: every now and then, and offer he found impossible to refuse,
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  Speaker 1: and their friendship took off. The freshly made bachelor was
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  Speaker 1: living alone on the thirty seven hundred block of Wisteria
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  Speaker 1: Drive in Everman, a house he had owned for about
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  Speaker 1: thirty years. Charles was also a registered sex offender due
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  Speaker 1: to an indecent exposure conviction from nineteen ninety seven. When
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  Speaker 1: Noel's father, Marino, was deported, Cindy showed up unannounced to
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  Speaker 1: ask Charles if she and the kids could sleep in
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  Speaker 1: her car outside his head house. She had no money,
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  Speaker 1: nothing to eat, and no diapers. She told Charles it
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  Speaker 1: was a particularly cold night, and he offered Cindy and
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  Speaker 1: the kids his two spare bedrooms. The arrangement turned out
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  Speaker 1: to be mutually beneficial. Because he worked all the time,
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  Speaker 1: Charles figured Cindy could do some cooking cleaning, shopping, and
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  Speaker 1: other chores and errands in exchange for a rent free
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  Speaker 1: living situation. He also had medical issues he was dealing with,
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  Speaker 1: so having someone around the house to simply look after
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  Speaker 1: him was a major help and comfort. Charles, Cindy, and
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  Speaker 1: the kids became even closer. She referred to him as
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  Speaker 1: the children's godfather, while he decided he'd leave her his
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  Speaker 1: house when he died since he didn't have anyone else
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  Speaker 1: to leave it to. Later, Charles would comment that Noel
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  Speaker 1: was shy but sweet, and that Cindy was always kind
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  Speaker 1: to him. Eventually, Cindy met a man named Arshdeep Singh
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  Speaker 1: at a small store down the road from Charles's house.
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  Speaker 1: Arsteep worked for a company that operates convenience stores in Texas,
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  Speaker 1: and he helped with banking and managing merchandise. Born in India,
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  Speaker 1: Arshteep came to the US sometime before twenty sixteen when
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  Speaker 1: his driver's license was issued. He and Cindy hit it off.
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  Speaker 1: According to Charles, that was at least in part due
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  Speaker 1: to the way Arsteep treated her children. Arshteep was parental,
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  Speaker 1: patient and affectionate with Noel and his siblings, who all
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  Speaker 1: called him daddy and appeared to love them as his own.
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  Speaker 1: The man made decent money, Charles said, and spoiled the
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  Speaker 1: kids with toys and new clothes on a regular basis.
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  Speaker 1: In twenty twenty one, Arshteep and Cindy got married. Though
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  Speaker 1: they'd been living in the two spare bedrooms inside Charles's house,
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  Speaker 1: they outgrew the space. Arsdeep bought a large shed for
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  Speaker 1: the backyard and repurposed it as a small home, running
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  Speaker 1: electricity to it and separating the space into bedrooms by
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  Speaker 1: using curtains. There was, however, no running water, a problem
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  Speaker 1: remedied by Charles leaving his house unlocked, so Cindy, Rshdeep
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  Speaker 1: and the kids could come and go as they needed
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  Speaker 1: to use the restroom or the kitchen. The kids, anyway,
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  Speaker 1: often slept inside Charles's house, which was a little cluttered
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  Speaker 1: bachelor messy perhaps, but clean. The shed was another story,
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  Speaker 1: later described as living in squalor. The shed was piled
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  Speaker 1: high with clothes, food, two beds, baby products, and toys.
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  Speaker 1: Cindy was a follower of Santa Muerte, or the Saint
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  Speaker 1: of Holy Death, a worship practice embraced in Mexico and
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  Speaker 1: other parts of the world. Often by those who are
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  Speaker 1: marginalized by society. Santa Muerte resembles the grim Reaper, but
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  Speaker 1: the rituals and prayers associated with the folk saint are
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  Speaker 1: believed to result in protection or miracles. Scattered skeletal figures
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  Speaker 1: associated with the Holy Saint of Death also cluttered Cindy
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  Speaker 1: and Arsteep's shed. Still, the children appeared to be doing
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  Speaker 1: great at school. They were A and B students, but
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  Speaker 1: something was terribly wrong. On October twentieth, twenty twenty two,
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  Speaker 1: Cindy Rodriguez Singh gave birth to she and Arshteep's twin girls,
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  Speaker 1: her ninth and tenth children, alongside his siblings. Little Noel
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  Speaker 1: visited his brand new baby sisters at the hospital, but
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  Speaker 1: not long after, family members began to realize something wasn't
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  Speaker 1: quite right. On March twenty, at the twenty twenty three
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  Speaker 1: Everman Police officers were dispatched to the thirty seven hundred
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  Speaker 1: block of Wasteria Drive to perform a welfare check on
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  Speaker 1: six year old Noel Alvarez, who a concerned though anonymous
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  Speaker 1: family member had reported to Child Protective Services hadn't been
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  Speaker 1: seen for four months since November twenty third, twenty twenty two.
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  Speaker 1: When police arrived, Cindy told them Noel was with his
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  Speaker 1: biological father in Mexico. Because they had no reason to
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  Speaker 1: believe she was lying, Officers took the information back to CPS,
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  Speaker 1: but it was hardly over. Someone at CPS was hell
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  Speaker 1: bent on doing their job. On March twenty third, twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five three, just three days after the welfare check,
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  Speaker 1: a CPS investigator contacted the Everman Police Department again. They'd
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  Speaker 1: spoken with other concerned family members, the investigator told police,
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  Speaker 1: and had also tracked down Noel's father, Marino, in Mexico.
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  Speaker 1: He said he didn't have his boy and in fact,
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  Speaker 1: he'd never even met him because he was deported back
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  Speaker 1: to Mexico before Noel was born, a statement Homeland Security
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  Speaker 1: records backed up, and the CPS investigator said there was
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  Speaker 1: plenty more to be worried about. They attempted to reach
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  Speaker 1: Noel's four siblings at their school, but found they were absent.
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  Speaker 1: Cindy had phoned the Everman ISD school and asked about
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  Speaker 1: unenrolling them. Noel wasn't even enrolled. Armed with this new information,
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  Speaker 1: the CPS investigator reached out to Cindy, but without success.
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  Speaker 1: The theory was that Cindy was avoiding speaking with CPS,
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  Speaker 1: which is why the investigation began. The investigator told the
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  Speaker 1: Everman Police about their dealings with Cindy, both prior investigations
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  Speaker 1: and prior actions against her, as well as her troubles
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  Speaker 1: with the law, including an extensive criminal history involving alcohol
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  Speaker 1: related offenses. A warrant was issued for Cindy's arrest in
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  Speaker 1: an amberreller released early on the morning of March twenty fifth,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. A description of Noel was given alongside
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  Speaker 1: a description of Cindy Rodriguez Singh and her vehicle, a
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  Speaker 1: silver twenty twelve Chevy Silverado with a large mural of
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  Speaker 1: Santa Muerte spanning the length of the back windshield. The
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  Speaker 1: following day, the amberreller was discontinued. Police had learned Cindy
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  Speaker 1: skipped town with Arshdeep and her children five month old
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  Speaker 1: twins and seven, eight, nine, and eleven year olds, but
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  Speaker 1: not Noel. His case was recategorized as an endangered missing
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  Speaker 1: persons alert through the Texas Department of Public Safety. That
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  Speaker 1: same day, Everman Police detectives found the family's truck in
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  Speaker 1: a garage at DFW International Airport. Their investigation subsequent of
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  Speaker 1: the CPS investigation turned up a list of troubling details
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  Speaker 1: and circumstances. In July of twenty twenty two, Noel Alvarez
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  Speaker 1: had been seen by a doctor for his many health issues,
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  Speaker 1: a regular occurrence. The appointment was also related to state
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  Speaker 1: assistance in some way, perhaps disability SSI or Medicaid. In
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  Speaker 1: October of twenty twenty two, Noel missed another of many
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  Speaker 1: doctor's appointments. At some point a around this time, Cindy
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  Speaker 1: received a letter informing her that if Noel didn't appear
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  Speaker 1: at his next appointment, his monetary assistance would cease. According
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  Speaker 1: to a friend of hers, Cindy asked to borrow the
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  Speaker 1: friend's son to take the appointment a stand in for Noel.
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  Speaker 1: It didn't happen, nor was Noel ever seen by a doctor.
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  Speaker 1: When last seen by family members shortly before the birth
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  Speaker 1: of Cindy and Arshdeep's twins, Noel was described as appearing
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  Speaker 1: unhealthy and malnourished. On November one, twenty twenty two, Cindy
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  Speaker 1: got passport photos for six of her children. This did
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  Speaker 1: not include Noel. The next day, she applied for passports
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  Speaker 1: for the family, everyone except Noel. On November sixth, Cindy
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  Speaker 1: researched the cost of a trip to India. On the
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  Speaker 1: day after Everman police officers performed the welfare check, our
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  Speaker 1: steep Sing threw away the carpet from the shed floor
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  Speaker 1: and Cindy got travel visas. Everyone in the family would
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  Speaker 1: be flying to India, everyone except Noel. Police also uncovered
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  Speaker 1: several allegations made against Cindy. Her brother, Contafio Rodriguez told
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  Speaker 1: detectives Cindy claimed to her mother that she had sold
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  Speaker 1: Noel to a woman in a Fiesta Market parking lot. Later,
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  Speaker 1: it was determined there was absolutely no evidence to back
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  Speaker 1: up this scenario. Contafio said Cindy was abusive toward Noel.
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  Speaker 1: She would deprive him of food and water, he said,
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  Speaker 1: because she didn't like changing his diapers. Once he even
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  Speaker 1: witnessed Cindy hit Noel with a set of keys because
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  Speaker 1: he drank water. Contafio alleged Cindy would describe the boy
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  Speaker 1: as possessed and evil. He had a demon in him,
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  Speaker 1: she said, and she was afraid he might harm the
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  Speaker 1: newborn twin girls. When police interviewed Charles Parson, the man
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  Speaker 1: who owned the house where Cindy, Arshdeep and the kids lived.
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  Speaker 1: He said he hadn't seen Noel since Thanksgiving, around the
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  Speaker 1: time Noel disappeared, Charles told detectives he was going through
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  Speaker 1: a series of surgeries on his arm, which required a
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  Speaker 1: lot of recuperating, so he didn't necessarily notice the child
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  Speaker 1: being absent. When Cindy did mention Noel, Charles claimed. She
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  Speaker 1: said she took him to his father's home in Mexico.
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  Speaker 1: His father didn't want him, but his aunt did, and
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  Speaker 1: Cindy left him there, she said. Charles believed Cindy took
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  Speaker 1: Noel to a relative living in Fort Worth, since she
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  Speaker 1: hadn't been gone long enough to take him to Mexi herself.
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  Speaker 1: According to Charles, he'd never seen anything that resembled abuse
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  Speaker 1: of Noel or any of the other children, nothing that
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  Speaker 1: made him concerned for their safety. Cindy and Arschdeep were
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  Speaker 1: good parents, he believed, and neither would ever harm the kids,
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  Speaker 1: whom he added they appeared to really love. However, Charles
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  Speaker 1: said Noel had a hard time adjusting to change and
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  Speaker 1: situations in general, and wouldn't eat in protest, which explained
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  Speaker 1: why he looked malnourished in Charles's mind, putting the choice
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  Speaker 1: to be malnourished on a child was mental gymnastics. Either
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  Speaker 1: Charles didn't want to see what was going on, or
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  Speaker 1: he was purposely protecting Cindy. Either way, he failed Noel.
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  Speaker 1: He did notice that Cindy seemed to lose interest in
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  Speaker 1: Noel when she became pregnant with the twins. Charles admitted
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  Speaker 1: Cindy had left Charles at the hospital, he said, without
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  Speaker 1: telling him. She was fleeing. The family's phones were cut
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  Speaker 1: off and the hospital wouldn't release him. Cindy fled, Charles said,
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  Speaker 1: because the police couldn't find Noel where she told them
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  Speaker 1: he was. She didn't want CPS taking her other children
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  Speaker 1: away from her, and she was scared she'd go to prison.
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  Speaker 1: On March twenty seventh, twenty twenty three, the Everman Police
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  Speaker 1: conducted a search of the shed where Cindy, Arschdeep and
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  Speaker 1: the kids lived, using cadaver dogs. They told the media
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  Speaker 1: they had no evidence that Noel was deceased. The following day,
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  Speaker 1: both the FBI and Homeland Security joined the investigation with
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  Speaker 1: evidence Cindy and Arshdeep were on their way to India.
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  Speaker 1: They'd crossed both state lines and the United States border.
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  Speaker 1: In the last days of March tw felony warrants were
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  Speaker 1: issued for Cindy Rodriguez sing and Arshdeep sing the charges
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  Speaker 1: abandoning and endangering a child. A tip was called into
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  Speaker 1: the department suggesting Noel might be buried under a recently
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  Speaker 1: poured concrete patio at Charles Parson's property. Police used sonar
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  Speaker 1: and drilled underneath the slab to see if Noel had
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  Speaker 1: been buried there, but could find nothing to suggest he was.
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  Speaker 1: On April sixth, twenty twenty three, the Everman Police announced
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  Speaker 1: that Noel's case was no longer an endangered missing persons
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  Speaker 1: and instead had become a death investigation. The Everman Police
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  Speaker 1: once again searched the backyard at Charles Parson's home, around
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  Speaker 1: the shed where Sin and Arsdeep Singh lived with their children.
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  Speaker 1: In a nearby dumpster, police had found the carpet Arshteep
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  Speaker 1: had thrown out just before the family hurriedly left the
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  Speaker 1: country for India. The fact that other trash was left
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  Speaker 1: in the apartment signaled to investigators that the rug had
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  Speaker 1: not been thrown out in an attempt to clean up
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  Speaker 1: the place. Rather, it had been discarded for a specific reason.
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  Speaker 1: Multiple cadaver dogs alerted police to the carpet dumpster and
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  Speaker 1: to areas of top soil around the makeshift shed. In
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  Speaker 1: early March twenty twenty three. Cindy had paid for the
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  Speaker 1: slab to be poured outside the shed, first to be
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  Speaker 1: used as a patio and later to be framed out
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  Speaker 1: and turned into a room for the little girls. The
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  Speaker 1: new search warrant allowed for the removal of the concrete.
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  Speaker 1: When part of it was removed, cadaver dogs alerted their
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  Speaker 1: handlers to spots under it. Digging, however, turned up nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Police and officials with Texas Search and Recovery or TECHSAR
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  Speaker 1: also searched wooded areas near the home with no results.
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  Speaker 1: As he continued to take up for Cindy, Charles Parson
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  Speaker 1: insisted the cops were looking in the wrong place. Noel,
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  Speaker 1: he said, was in Mexico living with his aunt. The
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  Speaker 1: case of the disappearance of Noel Alvarez continued, as on
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  Speaker 1: April tenth, twenty twenty three, Everman held a candlelight vigil
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  Speaker 1: for the boy. The next day, the police publicly announced
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  Speaker 1: that dogs had hit on the scent of human remains
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  Speaker 1: on the discarded carpet. Three days later, the searches were
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  Speaker 1: called off temporarily due to newly obtained data. The Everman
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  Speaker 1: Police discovered several people Sindy and Arschdeep Singh had spoken
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  Speaker 1: with in the days before they fled, and detective were
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  Speaker 1: concentrating their efforts on interviewing those folks. The idea was
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  Speaker 1: to gather more evidence so they could conduct searches in
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  Speaker 1: more specific areas. There was so much data that Everman
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  Speaker 1: Police Chief Craig Spencer compared it to walking into a
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  Speaker 1: library and trying to find one word out of a
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  Speaker 1: million books. On April twenty second, twenty twenty three, police
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  Speaker 1: and other officials conducted searches in two different places within
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  Speaker 1: a few square miles of the home, using both ground
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  Speaker 1: teams and drones. First, about two hundred and fifteen acres
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  Speaker 1: of land north of Bluebell Drive in the city were searched.
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  Speaker 1: Then an area south of Shelby Road. Still there was
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  Speaker 1: no sign of Little Noel. A few days later, the
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  Speaker 1: Everman Police revealed that Oarshteep Singh had used his credit
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  Speaker 1: card to purchase one way airline tickets to India. The
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  Speaker 1: tickets were bought less than twenty four hours before he, Cindy,
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  Speaker 1: and the six children boarded a plane. Besides a warrant
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  Speaker 1: for his arrest in Noel's disappearance, Arshteep was now facing
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  Speaker 1: felony theft charges as he had altered his company's deposit
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  Speaker 1: records and pocketed ten thousand dollars. As the result, he
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  Speaker 1: kept two thousand in cash, it appears, and placed eight
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  Speaker 1: thousand into his account, which he was caught on surveillance doing.
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  Speaker 1: Noel's grandmother and Cindy's mother spoke with WFAATV, but asked
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  Speaker 1: that she not be identified. She killed him, That's why
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  Speaker 1: she fled, she said of Cindy, I wonder brought back
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  Speaker 1: so she can tell us where Noel is? Where is he?
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  Speaker 1: What was the reason? He was a boy who didn't
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  Speaker 1: deserve the bad fortune she gave him? He was an
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  Speaker 1: innocent child. News slowed at this point in the investigation
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  Speaker 1: as the Everman police had exhausted all leads into the
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  Speaker 1: believed murder of Noel. But on October thirtieth, twenty twenty three,
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  Speaker 1: a Arrant County grand jury indicted Cindy Rodriguez Singing on
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  Speaker 1: four counts, one count abandonment without the intent to return,
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  Speaker 1: two counts of injury to a child and one count
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  Speaker 1: capital murder. The following month, the city of Everman dedicated
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  Speaker 1: a playground at Clyde Pittman Park in memory of Noel
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  Speaker 1: angel Alvarez. Purposefully Omitted from the dedication is the name Rodriguez,
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  Speaker 1: which Noel technically shares with his mother her maiden name.
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  Speaker 1: Special play equipment meant for children with physical and learning
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  Speaker 1: challenges can be found there, and the playground is adorned
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  Speaker 1: with a sign featuring Noel's picture. To this day, in
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  Speaker 1: July of twenty twenty five, Noah Well Angel Alvarez has
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  Speaker 1: never been found. Also in November of twenty twenty three,
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  Speaker 1: a federal warrant was issued for Cindy the charge's unlawful
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  Speaker 1: flight to avoid prosecution. In March of twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 1: a year after the case of the disappearance of Noel
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  Speaker 1: began in terms of the investigation, potential witness and Cindy's
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  Speaker 1: defender of sorts, Charles Allan Parson, died from natural causes
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  Speaker 1: five months following. On August twenty ninth, twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 1: the FBI and Everman Police announced a twenty five thousand
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  Speaker 1: dollars reward for information leading to Cindy's whereabouts. Cindy Rodriguez
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  Speaker 1: sing is wanted for allegedly murdering her own young son Dallas.
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  Speaker 1: FBI Special Agent in Charge Chad Yarborough said, I am
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  Speaker 1: confident that the combination of publicity, significant reward offering, and
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  Speaker 1: the team of experienced investigators assembled by the FBI, Everman
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  Speaker 1: Police Department, Arrant County District Attorney's Office, and Texas DPS
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  Speaker 1: will lead to her arrest. The community of Everman needs
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  Speaker 1: justice for Noel. Everman Police Chief Craig Spencer added, the
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  Speaker 1: immediate capture of Cindy Rodriguez Singh is so incredibly important
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  Speaker 1: in the interest of justice, the safety of our communities,
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  Speaker 1: as well as the safety of the other children in
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  Speaker 1: her custody. In July of twenty twenty five, FBI and
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  Speaker 1: Everman officials announced that Cindy was now on the FBI's
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  Speaker 1: top ten most wanted list and the reward for information
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  Speaker 1: leading to her arrest now stands at two hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fifty thousand dollars. Cindy Rodriguez Singh was born in Dallas, Texas,
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty five. The forty years year old fugitive
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  Speaker 1: stands between five feet one inch and five feet three
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  Speaker 1: inches tall, weighs one hundred and twenty to one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and forty pounds, is medium complexioned and has tattoos on
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  Speaker 1: her back, both legs, right arm, right hand, and right calf.
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  Speaker 1: She has brown eyes and brown hair, and is believed
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  Speaker 1: to have ties to India and Mexico. If you have
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  Speaker 1: information about the whereabouts of Cindy Rodriguez Singh, please call
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  Speaker 1: the FBI Dallas Field Office at nine seven two five
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  Speaker 1: five nine five thousand. Tips outside of the United States
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  Speaker 1: should be reported to a country's US embassy. If you
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  Speaker 1: have any information that might assist in the investigation of
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  Speaker 1: Noel's case, please call the Everman Police Department at eight
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