WINONA, Minn. – This will be an Independence Day holiday weekend without merriment for Adam Fravel, the man accused of murder in the death Maddi Kingsbury and hiding her corpse. It’s his fourth weekend behind bars as the wheels of justice move slowly but steadily. His next court date is July 20. Meanwhile Fravel, age 29, is incarcerated at the maximum-security Olmsted County jail in Rochester. Whether his next court date on July 20 in Winona will be in person or by a remote video connection will be decided by Judge Mary Leahy. Fravel was arrested June 7 – 10 weeks after Maddi Kingsbury’s disappearance from her Winona home and the day her body was found 40 miles away. Fravel was arrested at his parents’ house five miles from where the body was found. He was transported to Winona and booked and charged. Because the state Corrections Department has downgraded the Winona jail to 72-hour bolding facility, Fravel was sent to Rochester immediately after the arraignment in Winona. Fravel was transported by Winona sheriff’s officers. Transport companies rare used only for out-of-state transfers, an exception being to and from Wisconsin.
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Fravel. Mug shot at Olmsted County’s Adult Detention Center.
Jail profile
Because the Winona County jail has been downgraded to a temporary holding facility, the place is pretty much vacant. Without state Corrections Department permission, inmates cannot be held more than more than 72 hours. Of inmates on the jail roster one day this week, Sherif Ganrude said that all but six were housed elsewhere:
> Houston County. In Caledonia: 14
> Freeborn County: In Albert Lea, 4.
> Olmsted County: In Rochester, 3.
> Goodhue County: In Red Wing, 2.
> Nobeles County: In Worthington, 1.
Typically Winona County is billed $65 a day per prisoner domiciled elsewhere.