MANKATO, Minn. – A forensic scientist with the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension took jurors on a bideo tour of the Winna duplex where Adam Favel and Maddi Kingsbury lived. The tour was on the first full day of Fravel’s trial for murder. The tour might preclude a possible jury request for a 280-mile roundtrip from Mankato, where the trial is being held, for Winona for insights into the case. The forensic scientist, McKenzie Anderson, began at the driveway and circled to the backyard and sides of the du0oex. The video showed a shed in the backyard.
Not a “Better Homes & Garden” model
Inside the house the jurors were shown the living room, kitchen, bedrooms, closets ana basement. The. images showed a general messiness, which supported earlier testimony by police investigator Anita Sobotta, who said it difficult to decipher what was normal in the lifestyle of the household and what wasn’t. Images showed part of a couch and a cell phone on a floor next to a charger. In the older child’s bedroom there was no bed, only an air mattress. The mattress was missing a sheet. The master bedroom had separate beds l as well as the younger child’s bed next to a closet. Anderson pointed out how this bedroom had a mark above the window where s painting missing. A similar mark was alsoe above the window in the kid’s bedroom. She didn’t offer a theory on why the walls were mot repaired although they looked to fit a larger unkempt feel. A later image showed Anderson herself holding a coat. In one pocket, she said, there was a cell phone. A backpack im the house held a laptop, in addition to a pink wallet Kingsbury‘s driver’s license inside, she said..
Forensics: No blood at duplex
Anderson said that no signs of blood were found at the house. Some stains were tested but none came back positive for blood, she said.