Cindy Rodriguez Singh, wanted for the 2022 murder of her 6-year-old son, Noel Rodriguez Alvarez, has been added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, federal officials announced Tuesday.The FBI has increased the reward for information leading to her arrest from $25,000 to $250,000. Joe Rothrock, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Dallas Field Office, said investigators remain committed to finding her. “The message to Cindy is we aren’t going to stop [looking],” he said, according to CBS News.Authorities believe Rodriguez Singh fled the US and is currently in India with her husband, Arshdeep Singh, and six of her children. US agents are working with international partners to locate and extradite her. Just days after Noel was officially reported missing, Rodriguez Singh, her husband, and their other children boarded a one-way flight to India on March 22, 2023. Noel was not on that flight and has not been seen since.Rodriguez Singh was indicted by a Tarrant County grand jury in October 2023 on charges of capital murder and other offenses connected to Noel’s disappearance. Though Noel was last seen in November 2022, he wasn’t reported missing until March 2023.Tarrant County district attorney Phil Sorrels said, as reported by CBS News “Let me be clear, fleeing the country does not absolve you of guilt. It reinforces it,” he said.Squalid life and India escapeAuthorities say Arshdeep Singh, Noel’s stepfather, is of Indian origin and also lived in the same structure. During the investigation, officials uncovered a series of false claims made by Rodriguez Singh about Noel’s whereabouts, including that he was in Mexico with relatives or had been sold to a stranger in a parking lot of a Fiesta grocery store.Noel was one of ten children born to Rodriguez Singh. While three siblings lived with grandparents, the rest, including Noel, lived in squalid conditions with their mother and stepfather in a filthy shed in Everman, a suburb of Fort Worth.Based on the inconsistencies, lack of credible evidence, and witness statements, investigators concluded that Noel was likely deceased.Everman city manager Craig Spencer, formerly the city’s police chief, has described Rodriguez Singh as having an “extensive criminal history.” She had previously been investigated by child protective services.Born in Dallas in 1985, Rodriguez Singh is now the first mother accused of killing her own child to be placed on the FBI’s ten most wanted list, which has included more than 500 of the most dangerous fugitives in US history.
