Missing Texas boy: April 11 updates

EVERMAN, Texas — Investigators in search of 6-year-old Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez in Everman stated Tuesday that new information has led them to consider human stays had been as soon as in a shed the place he lived together with his circle of relatives.

Noel has now not but been discovered within the seek, and police didn’t say who they believed the ones stays would have belonged to.

A dog that makes a speciality of detecting human stays alerted government to carpet that have been thrown out of the shed.

Authorities have stated they’re investigating the boy’s disappearance as a dying, regardless that he has now not been positioned.

On Monday, Texas Search and Rescue (TEXSAR) joined officials in taking a look across the 3700 block of Wisteria Drive, the place Noel lived together with his speedy circle of relatives. That night time, investigators beginning focusing extra at the yard the place the circle of relatives rented a “make-shift” shed.

According to a press release from police, their focal point at the yard got here from previous within the investigation once they realized a few carpet that Noel’s stepfather had thrown out. With the help of TEXSAR on Monday, a couple of Human Remain Detection Canines alerted them the carpet.

“Investigators learned that this carpet was previously used as the base and flooring (directly on top of the ground) to a ‘make-shift’ shed that was previously built where the current backyard patio sits,” police stated within the press unlock.

That led investigators to safe a seek warrant for crews to take away the concrete patio. After doing away with the patio, the Detection Canines alerted officers to the highest soil beneath the concrete.

Anthropologists from the Tarrant County Medical Examiners Office had been referred to as to the scene to lend a hand information crews and investigators as they dug out the topsoil. 

The crews positioned the got rid of topsoil in particular spaces within sight. According to police, the dogs stopped alerting to the soil beneath the patio, however centered their consideration at the soil that used to be already got rid of.

Because of that, investigators now consider that there have been human stays saved within the shed one day in time. Officials have now not stated that the ones stays are in all probability Noel’s. 

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Everman police became the seek for Noel right into a dying investigation on April 6. It’s now not transparent what led police to shift the investigation from the Endangered Missing Alert that used to be issued on March 25.

Police stated seek crews labored for roughly 20 hours and had been taking Tuesday to relaxation. Investigators are nonetheless running at the back of the scenes to determine extra spaces to look.

City crews will filter the yard particles. A registered contractor will then substitute the patio, police say.

Everman police first realized about Noel on March 20. The Texas Child Protective Investigations (CPI) reached out pronouncing members of the family hadn’t observed the 6-year-old since November 2022.

Police leader Craig Spencer stated officials went to the house on Wisteria, the place Noel’s mom, 37-year-old Cindy Rodriguez-Singh, stated he used to be together with his organic father in Mexico.

On March 23, CPI stated they discovered the daddy who stated he by no means were given to fulfill Noel prior to he used to be deported to Mexico. Police attempted to achieve the mum once more, however she did not resolution.

An AMBER Alert for Noel used to be issued on March 25. Later that night time, government realized that the boy’s mom, father, and 6 siblings boarded to flight to Turkey, then in all probability India, on March 23. Noel used to be now not indexed on that flight.

On April 6, the executive stated Noel is not an endangered lacking individual, and that investigators have made up our minds he’s most likely lifeless.