The Skeleton Saint: Faith, Delusion, and Crime
Horror Story: True Paranormal Mysteries and Hauntings
Horror Stories
4.8 • 833 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
But this story doesn’t end with a manhunt. As investigators uncovered the beliefs that the mother had, attention turned to a controversial and often misunderstood folk saint: La Santa Muerte. Through anthropology, history, and firsthand accounts, we explore whether this figure represents something sinister... or whether fear and cultural bias have distorted her meaning.
This episode contains sensitive material and explores themes of child harm, belief, and justice. Listener discretion is strongly advised.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode contains true depictions of harm to and death of a child, so please take care while listening. |
| 0:08.4 | It was March 20th, 2023, and the Everman Police Department was performing a routine request from the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services. |
| 0:17.8 | It was basically a welfare check. The reason? Six-year-old Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez had not |
| 0:24.0 | been seen since October of the year before in 2022. So they show up, they interview the mother |
| 0:30.3 | Cindy Rodriguez-Sing, where she claimed that Noel was in Mexico with his biological father |
| 0:35.9 | and he had been living there since |
| 0:37.8 | November of 2022. The thing was that this young boy, Noel, had health issues. They required |
| 0:44.8 | intensive care. He had a developmental disorder, bone density problems, and chronic lung |
| 0:50.4 | disease that required oxygen treatment. Because of this, he was completely reliant on his mother, Cindy, both for medical care and daily support. |
| 1:00.0 | Here's where it starts getting a little bit strange. |
| 1:03.0 | The family had applied for passports around November of 2022 when Noel was last seen. |
| 1:09.0 | But Noel was not in the list for the applications. |
| 1:12.4 | Were they thinking of leaving him behind? |
| 1:15.3 | The story that he was with his father was false, |
| 1:18.3 | because the man had been deported and never met the child. |
| 1:21.7 | The woman, Cindy, had even told the relative |
| 1:24.1 | that she had sold the child at a Fiesta Market parking lot. |
| 1:28.3 | All of these stories she was making up were highly suspicious, but will finally seal the deal, |
| 1:33.3 | was that she and the rest of her family packed up their bags two days after the welfare check, |
| 1:39.3 | and they were going straight to India. |
| 1:42.3 | Also, her husband, our Deep Singh, had been charged with a felony theft for stealing $10,000 from an employer that same day. |
| 1:53.0 | It was because of these actions, all the lies, leaving, all that stuff, that she ended up on the FBI's top 10 fugitives list. |
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