WINONA, Minn. –The father of a missing Winona woman’s children, Adam Fravel, was arrested and charged with her murder. Fravel, 29, was booked at the Winona County jail at 7:12 p.m. The booking charge: Murder in the second degree with intent but not premeditation. Fravel had been the last person known to have seen Maddi Kingsbury on March 31, the day she disappeared from their Winona townhouse. Police didn’t release details of the arrest immediately but scheduled a news conference for Thursday. It was thought that Fravel had been arrested at his parents’ farm 45 miles south of Winona near Mabel. It was to the Mabel place on March 31 that Fravel took the children age 5 and 2, after picking them up at daycare in Winona. A few days later the children were taken from Fravel’s custody in an un pleasant episode with social workers, backed up by police, at the Mabel farm.
69 anxious days
The arrest came 69 days after Maddy Kingsburg disappeared. The remains were found Wednesday morning by a sheriff’s deputy in brush along Highway 43 north of Mabel based using information generated during the investigation, said Winona Police Chief Tom WIliams. Fravel has consistently denied involvement in the case. Just as consistently Winona police said that Fravel was nether a “suspect” nor a “person of interest.” These legal categories shielded details of the police investigation from any perpetrators. Maddi Kingsbury’s family, however, was aware that the couple was in the process f breaking up and said they were sure that Fravel knew more than he was letting on
Fravel. While being booked at the Winona County jail.
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