Madeline Kingsbury: Body found in search for missing mother with recent updates
According to family members of missing Minnesota mother Madeline Kingsbury, “the right person is in custody,” according to police, who have verified the arrest of the woman’s father and former partner, Fox News Digital has learned. Madeline Kingsbury, 26, unexpectedly vanished in March.
“The family believes the right person is in custody and holding out hope that we’re going to find Madeline,” Rebecca Jacobson, Kingsbury’s aunt, said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
Human remains were discovered in Mable, Minnesota on Wednesday, according to the Winona Police Department, prompting the arrest of Adam Fravel, Kingsbury’s ex-partner and the father of her two children.
“We’ve been informed that Adam is in custody,” Kingsbury’s father said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
On the jail roster page of the Winona County Sheriff’s Office, Fravel, 29, was noted as being detained on suspicion of second-degree murder on Wednesday.
The body was discovered in some brush off Highway 43, according to a Facebook post by the department, and it was located with the help of the evidence gathered during the inquiry.
“Because of this, law enforcement personnel have arrested Adam Fravel on probable cause in connection to her disappearance.” Winona police wrote in a Facebook post.
The remains are being positively identified by law enforcement, according to the police. Kingsbury’s absence was earlier described as “involuntary” and “suspicious” by Winona Police Chief Tom Williams, who added that authorities were “concerned for her safety.”
Fravel was the last person who saw her alive on March 31. He previously claimed innocence, saying that he “did not have anything to do with Maddi’s disappearance.”
“Over the course of the last 12 days my family and I have been subject to a myriad of accusations regarding the disappearance of the mother of my children,” Fravel said in a statement in April. “I did not have anything to do with Maddi’s disappearance.”
Fravel has fought in court for custody of his two kids, a 2-year-old boy and a 5-year-old girl since Kingsbury vanished.
According to court records that Fox News Digital previously obtained, Fravel tried to regain custody of the children, but refused to work with Child Protection Services.
“At one point, (Fravel) took the younger child into the residence and locked the door despite being told that the children were in the care and custody of Winona County,” a petition filed on April 4 by Winona County Health and Human Services alleges.
“While (Fravel) was in the home with the younger child, a social worker could hear (Fravel) shouting expletives.”
The petition claims that during the interaction on April 4, Fravel was “non-cooperative” and refused to give social workers access to the children.
On that day, social workers and police allegedly engaged in a tense, hostile confrontation with Fravel in an attempt to seize custody of the children, who are two and five years old, despite the fact that he lacks custodial rights, according to a court document.
Kingsbury’s family has organized neighborhood people to continue looking for the missing mother ever since she vanished.
After Fravel was taken into custody, Kingsbury’s family expressed their “distraught” over the development and how “it’s all hitting home at once.”
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