Down this road. The body of Maddi Kingsbury was found in a culvert on this minimally maintained gravel lane. The site is 11 miles north of Mabel. Any activity there would have been easily unnoticed by 55 mph traffic whizzing by on U.S. Highway 43. Image: Steve Lunde
What led police to body of Maddi Kingsbury
MABEL, Minn. – The family of Adam Fravel once had managed the rural property where the body of his on-again off-again partner Maddi Kingsbury was found Wednesday, according to the criminal accusing Fravel of murder. This was a detail that Fillmore County Sheriff John DeGeorge did not pass on at a news conference in Winona after Fravel was arrested. DeGeorge said only that the property was not owned by the Favels. According to the criminal complaint put together by prosecutors: “This property had been routinely maintained by one or more Fravel family members.” With this detail, Fillmore County deputies decided to explore the site and went down the road Wednesday to look for clues. The road, just off U.S. Highway 43, is a dead-end. It is guarded by a rusting metal gate . The property is within five miles of the rambling there-story rural home of Fravel’s parents on County Road 18. The discrepancy between DeGeorge’s account at the news conference and the criminal complaint was not immediately explained.