WINONA, Minn. – A sister of Adam Fravel said she believes he has been framed for the murder of his girlfriend Madelline Kingsbury. Her brother is innocent, Theresa Sis said in a three-part KTTC documentary. Sis pointed to a man whom Maddi had been seeing. “There is definitely more to the story there with Spencer Sullivan being much more involved with Maddi,” she said. Investigators have cleared Sullivan. But Sis is unconvinced. “There is a lot of red flags in the situation,” she said. “I can’t get anybody to be serious about it.” Sis offered no evidence to support her belief in her brother as innocent except a loving experience growing up. The Sis is included in the 38-minute documentary, although her word “frame” appears only in some versions of the documentary as edited for delivery on KTTC.com and other station platforms. On its on-air Channel 10, KTTC had reported the Maddi story only 1-1/2-minute segments, its format maximum for newscasts, over the course of he case. KTTC reporter Olivia Prondzinski , who followed the case, said she decided story merited a longer journalistic examination.
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Sis. Herself a domestic violence survivor. Question: Is Maddi’s death valuable as acase study about domestic abuse? Answer: “I don’t agree with using Madeline’s story for the movement against domestic violence.”
Verbatim
Theresa Sis, about defending her brother: “I have read through all of the documents. A lot of things are missing. Let’s put it at that. There is a lot of things that the investigators are not putting in there.”
“I don’t know how to explain it. Sometimes you just, you know. There’s just no way that he did it.”
“I don’t believe that my brother hurt her at all. There’s no way. There’s no way.”