The Brief
- Dental records confirmed that remains found buried in the yard of a former Everman home belong to Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez, who vanished in 2022.
- The community is honoring Noel this week with a school tribute and a public memorial at Everman Memorial Park as they prepare to lay him to rest.
- Noel’s mother faces capital murder charges, but she was recently ruled incompetent to stand trial; his specific cause of death remains unknown.
EVERMAN, Texas – The community in Everman is honoring the life of a little boy whose remains were discovered last week, years after he disappeared.
Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez Remembered
What’s new:
Had he lived, it’s believed that Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez would have been a fourth grader at Bishop Elementary.
Two of the school’s students wrote a letter to the principal asking that he be honored during the school’s annual awards ceremony. The principal called it a remarkable gesture of compassion and care by the two students, so she printed out a certificate paying tribute to Noel.…