Thank you for the transcription, Allabouttrial. I think this might be the full briefing. There's more, anyway, but it also ends abruptly! MOO
Everman Police Chief Craig Spencer explained why police are removing the backyard patio on the property Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez's family lived at. Spencer said there is no new evidence, but the decision was made to take advantage of the resources currently available to the department.
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TRANSCRIPTION FROM ABOVE LINK - Part 2
REPORTER - When you say evidence, what kind of evidence?
CHIEF - What do you mean?
REPORTER - When you said you had some evidence?
CHIEF - No, no, we don't have any new evidence other than what I've revealed before about the new concrete patio being poured; the fact that Cindy's the one that paid for the concrete patio and she doesn't own the home. We find that very odd that she would spend her funds on somebody else's home to put in a concrete patio, especially one as large and elaborate as this. I mean, this was a pretty hefty investment.
REPORTER - Do we know when this is?
CHIEF - Yeah, it was within the last month, in early March.
REPORTER - In the last month, she paid to have that concrete poured back there?
CHIEF - Correct.
REPORTER - As well as the roof and all that?
CHIEF - Everything that's back there. The whole patio that was built was all last month.
REPORTER - (
inaudible) or did she hire someone to do it?
CHIEF - It was a contractor, she hired a contractor to come in and do it.
REPORTER - How is the investigation to get to her?
CHIEF - You know, we're still moving forward with that. We've been engaging with our federal partners to try to work on locating her in India. They've obviously got assets there that we don't have, and then we'll continue to work with them and the US Marshals office and hopefully locate her, get her into custody and bring her back. I mean, we need her and her stepdad here, or I'm sorry, her and her husband here. We want them back in the US so we can talk with them because we have a lot of unanswered questions just like many of y'all. We've got a lot of unanswered questions we need to get answers for, so, we need them back here.
REPORTER - Is the wooded area search still going on?
CHIEF - Not actively right now. We've reallocated all of our resources since we're nearing the end of the day, back over here to help out with this excavation.
REPORTER - Is the whole thing coming down, the roof and the poles?
CHIEF - No, we're gonna leave the roof, just the concrete is going to come out, so we've got engineers back there that are going to assist them with making the appropriate cuts so that the structure can remain up and all the concrete underneath will come down.
REPORTER - Are you planning to search the roof?
CHIEF - No, we'll leave the roof, it's just a solid metal roof, so there's nothing there that we would need to remove for this search.
REPORTER - Are there any plans (inaudible) shed..?
CHIEF - No, so we did have the cadaver dogs come out again today, just to be as thorough as we can and there's no indication anywhere else in the yard. So at this point, the investigators really are only primarily concerned with what may be under the concrete patio, that maybe the dogs aren't able to alert to.
REPORTER - This has been weeks, hours; you're a small department, you have a lot of people helping out but just tell us what these long days are like?
CHIEF - They're long. They're long and frustrating. I mean, I don't think there's not a single one of the investigators that aren't taking this case home with him at this point. I mean, it's important to all of us. Most of us are fathers or mothers on this case. So we've got kids of our own and it's really means a lot to us to be able to solve this one. So, everybody that's on this case is really committed to it. We've all shown that intent. We've all been very thorough about wanting to solve this and find Noel and I don't think any of them are going to give up at this point. I mean, the commitment I've seen out of them is pretty tremendous. Everybody's exhausted physically, but the motivation is still there and everybody keeps pushing forward on this case and it's amazing to see them day after day come in and want to put in the work and effort to be able to find Noel.
REPORTER - Tonight is going to be a vigil; is it going to be held?
CHIEF - Yeah, we're gonna continue on with the vigil, just as normal, so we'll have that vigil here at 8:30 this evening. And again, the visual is not so much about the case, it's more about Noel. We want to make sure that it's all about Noel, we want to show Noel as much love as we possibly can and lift up some prayers for him for sure. And really just come together as a community, show our support for him.
REPORTER - Any idea what tomorrow you'll be focusing on?
CHIEF - You know, that changes hour by hour. I mean, as you can see here, this wasn't the plan at the beginning of the day. So I mean things change within the investigation hour by hour. So we'll continue this evening, we'll see what developments come from this tonight and we'll continue this evening. There's still search warrants that are out pending, that we're waiting on results to come back from for different data things. So, we'll see what those search warrants bring up and maybe what potential evidence they might bring and what direction that will carry us. Every day is a new adventure in this case right now.
REPORTER - You mean like phone records?
CHIEF - Yeah, I mean all kinds of data sources. Yes.
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Spencer told WFAA Noel’s mother, Cindy Rodriguez Singh, purchased concrete in early March 2023, days before she and other immediate family members flew out of the country. According to investigators, Rodriguez-Singh paid for an entire porch, its roof, and a contractor to put in a concrete patio.
