ROCHESTER, Minn. – The Madeline Kingsbury autopsy concluded that death was due to “homicidal violence.” The chef medical examiner, Ross Reichard, said that identification of the 26-year-old Winona woman was through dental records and tattoos. Reichard’s autopsy noted that a knotted towel had been wrapped around Madeline’s head and neck. Kingsbury’s live-in boyfriend and the father of their two children, Adam Fravel, has been charged with murder in the case. The deputies who found the body said it was in a gray fitted bedsheet that had been sealed with black Gorilla tape. A separate document, the criminial complaint against Fravel, included previously undisclosed details from Winona police who searched the couple’s townhouse the day after he disappearance. They reported having found a roll of black Gorilla tape of the same color and width as the tape found on the fitted sheet in which Maddi’s body was wrapped. Police also noted that an air mattress in the Winona townhouse was missing a gray fitted sheet.
Remembering Maddi. A blue sun-catcher has been tied to the address marker where her body was found. A bouquet is at the foot of the marker. Both are blue, her favorite color. Image: Steve Lunde