Cindy Rodriguez Singh

Cindy Rodriguez Singh (born January 30, 1985) is an American former fugitive indicted on charges of murdering her six-year-old son Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez. On July 1, 2025, she was added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, wanted for capital murder and unlawful flight. Authorities speculated that she may have traveled to either India or Mexico.

The FBI announced her capture on August 20, 2025, in New Delhi, India. She was extradited to the United States and held in jail on a ten-million-dollar bond. on February 2, 2017. Noel was born premature and had several physical and developmental disabilities, including visual impairment, a limp, speech delay, esotropia and chronic lung disease, which required regular treatment. Rodriguez Singh reportedly shunned her son as "evil" and "possessed by a demon". She was alleged to have abused Rodriguez-Alvarez by depriving him of water and food to avoid having to change his diaper. Rodriguez Singh was known to beat her son with a set of keys when she caught him drinking water. Between 2020 and December 2021, three of her children, including Rodriguez-Alvarez, were put in a foster family before being returned to Rodriguez Singh. Three other children remained with their grandparents.

Murder According to police, Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez was not seen alive since November 2022. He had been last spotted in mid-October 2022 while staying at a hospital for the birth of his twin sisters, where he was noted as "appearing unhealthy and malnourished". Between November 1–2, 2022, Rodriguez Singh applied for passports for her children, not including Rodriguez-Alvarez. According to her sister, Rodriguez Singh feared that the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services would take away her other children, which had occurred before due to her history of drug and alcohol problems. Shortly before her own disappearance, she had told her mother and brother that she sold her son to another woman on the parking lot of a Fiesta Mart.

A welfare check was conducted at the family home in Everman, Texas, on March 20, 2023. Rodriguez Singh falsely told police that her son was living in Mexico with relatives of his father, who had been deported. Two days later, on March 22, her husband, Arshdeep Singh, who was the stepfather of Noel,

On March 25, an Amber alert was issued for Noel Alvarez-Rodriguez. According to investigations by the Everman police, Rodriguez Singh idolized Santa Muerte as "the patron saint that offers protection to the cartel and those kinds of activities." According to Chief Spencer of the Everman police: "It’s everywhere within the shed. It was everywhere within the home, it was on her vehicle, so it was pretty evident to us she was idolizing and worshiping [Santa Muerte]."

In May 2023, a playground catering to children with severe disabilities in Everman's Clyde Pittman Park was named "Noel Angel Alvarez Playground" after Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez. The Everman City Council replaced his middle name, "Rodriguez", with "Angel" to disassociate this gesture from Cindy.

On July 1, 2025, she was added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, replacing Vitel'Homme Innocent.

On April 6, 2026, she was found incompetent to stand trial and is currently being held while undergoing treatment until it is determined that she is capable of assisting in her own defense.

On May 15, 2026, the body of Rodriguez-Alvarez was found behind Rodriguez Singh's house.