MABEL, Minn. – A Fillmore County deputy sheriff found human remains in brush off Highway 43 north of Mabel. This was an area that had been searched several times since early April after a Winona woman, Madeline Kingsbury, vanished without explanation. There was no immediate confirmation on the identity of the remains. Called to the scene was an examiner from the Southern Minnesota Regional Medical Examiner’s office 60 miles away in Rochester. Also on scene were agents from the Winona Police Department, which has headed the investigation into Maddy Kingsbury’s disappearance; the Winona and Fillmore counties sheriffs’ offices; and the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.
About Mabel
Mabel, population 780, is a border town a few miles north of the Iowa border. It is the hometown of Adam Fravel, the boyfriend of Madeline Kingsbury and the father of their children. It was to his parents’ home outside Mabel that Fravel took the children, ages 5 and 2, the day Kingsbury disappeared from their Winona townhouse on March 3l. The Highway 43 corridor from Winona to Mabel, a distance of 45 miles, was established early by Winona police as the focus of massive ground searches. The searches, one with 1,800 volunteers, covered hundreds of square miles along the Highway 43 corridor.