A Texas mom who claimed she sold her 6-year-old disabled son and then fled to India with her family after being questioned has been captured.
Cindy Rodriguez-Singh had been on the FBI’s “10 most wanted fugitives” list — added to the list just last month — following her October 2023 indictment for the murder of Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez. FBI Director Kash Patel announced the arrest in post on Twitter.com, thanking “local partners in Texas, where this case originated … as well as partners in India for the coordinating.”
He provided no further information. The now-captured fugitive’s current location is unknown.
The indictment charges Rodriguez-Singh with capital murder, injury to a child, and abandoning without the intent to return, as CrimeOnline previously reported. Rodriguez-Alvarez was reported missing in March 2023, and Rodriguez-Singh, her husband, Arshdeep Singh, and their six children fled to India later that month after they were questioned by police.
Noel was not on board that flight.
Police said the boy was last seen alive in October 2022 after Rodriguez-Singh gave birth to twins. He reportedly looked malnourished at the time. When the indictment was announced, police said that Rodriguez-Singh called her son “evil,” did not want to feed him or give him water because she did not want to change his diaper, and hit him with car keys.
Rodriguez-Singh allegedly told family members that she sold her son to an unknown woman, but police said they found no evidence to support this claim. They also found no evidence to support her one-time claim that the boy was living in Mexico with his biological father.
Investigators began probing the case, following every lead possible to find the missing boy, even with the family out of the country. On October 31, 2023, they brought the case to a grand jury and secured the indictment.
It’s not clear when Rodriguez-Singh will be brought to Texas to face the charges, or if she is already in Texas. She is not currently listed in jail records in Tarrant County, where the investigation originated.
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[Featured image: Cindy Rodriguez-Singh, left, and Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez/Everman Police Department]
