WINONA, Minn. – On the first day investigating Maddi Kingsbury’s disappearance, Winona police had questions for her boyfriend, Adam Fravel. He was the last person known to have seen Maddi. Interviewing Fravel at his parents’ home 40 miles away near Mabel, police noticed fresh scratches on his face. This is according to police documents that were just unsealed by Judge Mary Leahy. The scratches were all less than an inch. Later police found an online query on Fravel’s phone the evening of the disappearance. He had asked: “Are dog scratches on face dangerous?” Fravel’s query, at 6:51 p.m., was roughly 11 hours after Maddi’s last known communication. She chatted briefly with a friend from the Winona townhouse that she and Fravel shared. There was nothing especially suspicious about the call. And of themselves Fravel’s scratches weren’t considered sufficient for Winona police to declare him a suspect formally. Other evidence was amassing over the next two months, however. But none of it was deemed enough in the judgment of police to arrest Fravel. On April 7 Maddi’s decomposing body was found in woods near Mabel. Fravel, 29, was arrested the next day. Kingsbury was 26 and the other of their two children.
Fravel. Face scratches fit a scenario that police were investigating.
Kingsbury. Vanished March 31. Body found April 7