WINONA, Minn. – Questions have deepened about the low public profile maintained through early phases of the Maddi Kingsbury search by the father of her children. The father’s first public statement, issued by his lawyer 14 days after her disappearance, said police had advised him not to attend a news conference by the family on April 5 nor to participate in a massive volunteer search on April 7 and 8. Asked about police advice to Adam Fravel, a spokesperson for the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, Bonney Bowman, said she was unaware of “any law enforcement” telling Fravel to stay away. Bowman was in Winona and intimately involved with the investigation at high levels. She arranged and staged news conferences. Members of the Kingsbury family, however, didn’t want Favel at the family’s April 5 news conferences, sources said. He was the last person known to have seen Maddi Kingsbury alive. That was March 31, the day she disappeared. Police have assiduously avoided calling Fravel a suspect or a person of interest.
