Why Fravel to Rochester jail? High security risk
WINONA, Minn. – The man accused of murdering Maddi Kingsbury, her on-again of-again boyfriend Adam Fravel, was transferred to the Rochester jail over the weekend as a maximum security risk. Deputy Sheriff Jeff Mueller said. The Winona jail is a medium security facility. A prisoner’s security level is a judgment call based on numerous factors, typically including the severity of the crime and the inmate’s personal safety and criminal history. Favel is awaiting trial on two counts of second-degree murder.
“Fuel up” summer lunch buses on Winona circuit
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Sample menus
> Turkey, ham and cheese croissant; cheese, veggie juice, milk.
> Pizza, veggies and fruit chips, milk.
> Corn dog, fruit and veggies, chips, milk.
WINONA Min.; — Free lunches have begun for all children ages 18 and under in Winona through the Winona Schools summer meal program. Lunches must be picked up from a meal bus and eaten on-site. The meal bus has a rotating schedule at the Bob Welch Aquatic Center, the East End Recreation Center, and Sinclair Park., as well as at the Goodview School, and Winona Middle School. Eligible are all children whether they attend a Winona school or not. Details.
ALMANAC: Homicides in Winona
WINONA, Minn. – The murder of Maddi Kingsbury in March was the 19th in Winona County in the past half century. On average there is a murder every three years. While each case is agonizing, the county’s homicide rate of 3.4% for a population of 50,000 over the years, far less than the national rate annual rate of 3.9% per 50,000. The Winona history incudes several cases with multiple deaths:
> December 2004: A Detroit-based drug dealer who had set up shop in town for fall college classes killed a Winona State University student who had threatened to expose him to police if he wouldn’t for an abortion. The student, Stacy Lee Ziegler Smith, 29. was strangled to death and her 10-year-old daugher raped and killed at Sugar Loaf Apartments on Sarnia Stret. Because the mother was pregnant, the drug-dealer was sent to prison for a triple homicide.
> May 2004: A Goodview couple, Michael John Rossin, 49, Lynette Louise Rossin, 48, were shot to death in their home. The killer then shot himself to death.
These are single-death cases, listed in reverse chronology:
> March 2023: A Winona woman, Madeline Kingsbury, mother of children 5 and 2, was killed, apparently by strangulation at her home. The father of the children was charged with homicide.
> July 2020: A rural Dakota woman, Klara Wright, 72, was stabbed to death in what her husband described as a mercy killing. She suffered dementia. He went to prison.
> September 2011: A newborn girl was found floating barely alive in the Mississippi River south of Winona, her umbilical cord still attached. The baby died before first-responders arrived.
> May 2004: A Goodview couple, Michael John Rossin, 49, Lynette Louise Rossin, 48, were shot to death in their home. The killer then shot himself to death.
> October 2000: A Winona man, Dennis Misch, 45, was stabbed in an upstairs apartment on East Fourth Street. A fellow tenant went to prison.
> October 1997: A Winona man Michael Bruss, 42, was shot at his home on North Baker. His son went to prison.
> February 1994: A Winona man, Garland Gaustad, 79, was shot to death in his home on Mark Street in a murder-suicide. His wife of 53 the years then killed herself with the handgun.
> July 1992: A Winona woman, Susan Yach, 44, was shot in the head and fatally wounded. Her husband was charged with murder, but three days into his trial he shot himself dead.
> June 1985: A Winona woman, Ada Frances Senenfelder, 40, was stabbed to death at her home at on East Fourth Street. The case was never solved.
> September 1983: A Winona ma, Richard A. King, 52, died of a stab wound while driving himself to the hospital. His wife of 27 days had stabbed him at her home on Sanborn Street She went to prison.
> July 1983: A Winona man, Theodore Buschkopf, 32, was shot and fatally wounded at the Westgate Motel. It was an insurance scheme by his wife and another man to collect Buschkopf’s life instance. The wife was also shot cover up the motive. Her wounds were only superficially. Both perpetrators went to prison
> April 1982: A Winona State student, Margaret Mary Kinsky, 20, gave birth secretly her dorm room and strangled the baby with a bar and dumped the body in a trash bin in the street. She went to prison.
> September 1980: Winona County Deputy John Schneider, 54, was shot and killed responding to a dispute at Lake Village trailer park in Goodview. The killer went to prison.
> August 1977: A Winona man, Shirleen Howard, 32, was shot and killed in the basement of her home on West Fifth Street. Her husband, a hardware store owner, had contracted another man to kill his wife. While awaiting trial, the husband’s girlfriend, a former homecoming queen, helped him break out of jail. They were arrested in Louisiana and went to prison. The contact killer also went to prison.
Railroad confirms choice of new logo
CALGARY, Alberta — A new logo has been approved for the newly merged CPKC railroad that has routes in Canada, the United States and Mexico. The logo is a modification of the logo CP introduced in 2017 — an updated version of the railway’s heritage shield, beaver, and maple leaf. The CPKC logo replaces the words Canadian Pacific in the golden circle with the initials of the three railways that comprise the new CPKC — KCS, CP, and KCSM. Bold red CPKC initials replace 1881, CP’s founding date, in the gold ribbon at the bottom of the logo. And the 1881 now sits atop the maple leaf, the symbol of Canada.
Homage to mixed heritage. Expect new logo soon on trains passing through Winona.
Domestic abuse listed in murder charges against Fravel
WINONA, Minn. — The criminal complaint against Adam Fravel for the murder of Maddi Kingsbury portrays him as a domestic abuser. The portrayal is based mostly on second-hand information generated by police over 10 weeks of investigation into Maddi’s disappearance. One friend reported once being was on a video call with Maddy, who was at her Winona townhouse. Maddi was standing up, holding one of her children and cooking dinner. The friend reported seeing Adam enter the kitchen and yell at Maddi to keep quiet. Maddi asked him to calm down. He responded that he wouldn’t and struck Maddi in the face with his hand, the friend said. It appeared that Fravel was not aware he was being observed on the video call, the friend said. When the friend yelled at Fravel over the video, he immediately left the room, the friend said. The friend told investigators that there were several times during video calls that she observed bruises on Maddi’s face. When the friend inquired about the bruises, Madeline would cover them with her sweater.
Fravel. Holding one of his and Maddi’s kids. .
Phone video
Police found a message between Maddi and Adam in a September 2021 telephone exchange:
Maddi: “You know I’m not really OK with or over the fact that you put your hand around my neck and pushed me down in front of the kids earlier. So don’t. Not OK with it all but especially with them there.”
Fravel: “You’ll adjust.”
Maddi: “The fuck I will. You do that again without asking me and you can go somewhere else”
Fravel: “You got it, mother.”
Maddi: “Don’t patronize me. That crossed a line. Stop.”
A family report
A member of Maddi’s family member reported learning of an incident iun which Fravel put his hands around Maddi’s throat. The family member went with another person to go get Madeline. They noted Madeline had a red mark on the side of her neck
Documentation missing
The criminal complaint against Fravel shows no evidence that Maddi notified police or sought medical attention as an abuse victim nor contacted any independent abuse agencies or shelters.
Gabby Petito obsession
A friend of Maddi Kingsbury told police early in their investigation that Adam told Maddi that if she did not listen up that she would end up like Gabby Petito. It was a reference to a 22-year-old woman slain by her fiance in 2021 on a Wyoming vacation. The friend’s source for the threat to Maddi apparently was Maddi herself. The criminal complaint includes no further confirmation of the Petito case. The complaint notes, however, that police confronted Fravel and that he admitted being “infatuated” with massive news coverage of the Petito case. But did he threaten Maddi as the police source said he did? No, Fravel told police that he joking.
WSU hunts for liberal arts dean; interim fills in for now
WINONA, Minn. – A political science professor at Winona State University, Kara Lindaman, has been appointed interim liberal arts dean. Lindaman will serve pending a national search finds a successor to Peter Meine, who retired recently. Lindaman, age 50, has been on the Winona State faculty since 2006. Her base salary: $150,000. She holds a doctorate in public administration and American politics from the University of Kansas. At Winona State she was university’s monitor for NCAA athletic compliance, a role in which she acquired a reputation for abrasive media relations. She also coordinated the university’s American Democracy Project and served in faculty governance. Liberal arts is the largest of Winona State’s five colleges.
Lindaman. Former member of Faculty Senate executive committee.
R.I.P.: Lee McMillen
WINONA, Minn. – Leland Ardell McMillen, a retired education professor at Winona State University, died at age 91. Early in his career he taught in Alpha and Rochester and was principal in Owatonna. After earning a doctorate from the University of South Dakota, he joined the Winona State faculty. He was known for his humor. A favorite story from growing up in Fillmore County, where Norwegian was spoken, was about not doing well in French. His teacher told him he was the only student whose French was with a Norwegian accent. For recreation he tore down old barns and salvaged the lumber. He enjoyed projects with wood and sawed logs at Mabel Steam Engine Days. Over the years he kept bees. He organized a tour to the Soviet Union in the 1980s. He planted 10,000 trees on the family land.
Detail: Watkowski-Mulyck Funeral Home
1931-2023
Winona murder suspect moved to Rochester jail
ROCHESTER, Minn. – The most high-profile prisoner at the Winona County jail, Adam Fravel, has been moved to the Olmsted County jail in Rochester. Fravel had been jailed three days in Winona after being arrested for the murder of Maddi Kingsbury, his domestic partner. Why the move? Steve Buswell, the Winona County jail administrator, was not available immediately for an explanation. Fravel was booked into the Olmsted County Adult Detention Center at 4:12 p.m. Meanwhile 21 other inmates, some long term., remained at the Winona jail. The jail, hardly full, has 69 beds. It is classified as a regional medium security facility. Fravel is due back in Winona on July 20 for another court hearing. His first hearing, an arraignment was Friday through an online jail-to-courtroom hookup.
Earlier: Remembering Maddi: Event brings in $35,000
Fravel. His booking photographs from Wednesday when he was booked st the Winona County jail.
Week’s summary: Ending June 10, 2023
MADDI UPDATE: Kingsley autopsy finds grisly details on death
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COMMERCE: Biggest of the big private U.S. companies: Cargill
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Earlier: Week’s summary: Ending June 3, 2023
Remembering Maddi: Event brings in $35,000
WITOKA, Minn. – Friends of Maddi Kingsbury and her Phi Theta Chi sorority sisters back in college raised $35,000 at a weekend event for her children and to defray her parents’ legal expenses in a custody battle over the children. The event drew hundreds of sympathizers to the Witoka Tavern banquet hall for a remembrance, a silent auction, a raffle. food and games. The event was organized by Maddi’s friend Katie Kolka before Maddi’s body was found 1-1/2 weeks ago. Maddi’s parents are engaged in a court battle against the father of the children, Adam Fravel, who has been jailed for her death.
Loose hay bale rolls, crushes woman
DAKOTA, Minn. – A woman was crushed by a hay bale that rolled over her and was airlifted 19 miles to a LaCrosse hospital. Deputies said a leg was crushed. Round bales weigh usually 600 to 1,200 pounds. The accident was about 11:50 in the 28000 block of Kerns Road along the border of Great River Bluffs State Park.
Biggest of the big private U.S. companies: Cargill
NEW YORK – The annual Forbes magazine list of the largest privately owned companies in the United State is again led by Minnesota-based Cargill. By Forbes calculations, Cargill revenue topped $165 billion in 2022. The company headquarters are in Minnetonka. Other privately owned Minnesota comanies the Forbes list:
> Mortenson Construction, of Minneapolis, 115th.
> Ryan Companies, Minneapolis another construction firm, 139th.
> Anderson Companies, Bayport, windows and doors. 158th.
> Johnson Brothers Liquor, St. Paul, 204th
> Taylor Company, Mankato, holding company for Glen Taylor, whose interests include the Timberwolves, the Lynx, and the Minneapolis Star Tribune, 237th.
These are the largest publicly held companies based in Minnesota: United Health Group, Minnetonka; Target, Minneapolis; CHS, Inver Grove Heights; Best Buy, Richfield; 3M, Maple Grove; U.S. Bancorp, Minneapolis; C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Eden Prairie; Land O’Lakes, Arden Hills; General Mills, Golden Valley; Xcel Energy, Minneapolis, Ameriprise Financial, Minneapolis; Ecolab, St. Paul; Hormel Foods, Austin; Thrivent Financial, Minneapolis; and Polaris, Medina
NEW YORK – The annual Forbes magazine list of the largest privately owned companies in the United State is again led by Minnesota-based Cargill. By Forbes calculations, Cargill revenue topped $165 billion in 2022. The company headquarters are in Minnetonka. Other privately owned Minnesota comanies the Forbes list:
> Mortenson Construction, of Minneapolis, 115th.
> Ryan Companies, Minneapolis another construction firm, 139th.
> Anderson Companies, Bayport, windows and doors. 158th.
> Johnson Brothers Liquor, St. Paul, 204th
> Taylor Company, Mankato, holding company for Glen Taylor, whose interests include the Timberwolves, the Lynx, and the Minneapolis Star Tribune), 237th.
These are the largest publicly held companies based in Minnesota: United Health Group, Minnetonka; Target, Minneapolis; CHS, Inver Grove Heights; Best Buy, Richfield; 3M, Maple Grove; U.S. Bancorp, Minneapolis; C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Eden Prairie; Land O’Lakes, Arden Hills; General Mills, Golden Valley; Xcel Energy, Minneapolis, Ameriprise Financial, Minneapolis; Ecolab, St. Paul; Hormel Foods, Austin; Thrivent Financial, Minneapolis; and Polaris, Medina
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Cargill profile
William Wallace Cargill started a grain storage business in Conover, Iowa, at the end of the Civil War, then a storage house and a lumberyard LaCrosse, Wisconsin. He left for Minneapolis on 1887 as the city was emerging as the epicenter for grain distribution. The company grew through the 20h century with acquisitions but mostly by establishing interests abroad. Cargill today is an international producer and distributor of sugar, refined oil, chocolate, turkey and other agricultural product. Cargill also provides risk management, commodities trading and transportation services. Worldwide the Cargill has 155,000 employees. The company’s board of directors iicludes seven family members but only one whom has the Cargill last name all these generations later.
Kingsbury autopsy finds grisly details on death
ROCHESTER, Minn. – The Madeline Kingsbury autopsy concluded that death was due to “homicidal violence.” The chef medical examiner, Ross Reichard, said that identification of the 26-year-old Winona woman was through dental records and tattoos. Reichard’s autopsy noted that a knotted towel had been wrapped around Madeline’s head and neck. Kingsbury’s live-in boyfriend and the father of their two children, Adam Fravel, has been charged with murder in the case. The deputies who found the body said it was in a gray fitted bedsheet that had been sealed with black Gorilla tape. A separate document, the criminial complaint against Fravel, included previously undisclosed details from Winona police who searched the couple’s townhouse the day after he disappearance. They reported having found a roll of black Gorilla tape of the same color and width as the tape found on the fitted sheet in which Maddi’s body was wrapped. Police also noted that an air mattress in the Winona townhouse was missing a gray fitted sheet.
Remembering Maddi. A blue sun-catcher has been tied to the address marker where her body was found. A bouquet is at the foot of the marker. Both are blue, her favorite color. Image: Steve Lunde
Data on 95,000 Minnesota foster kids lost to cyber-thieves
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Databanks with sensitive information on 95 ,000 Minnesota school students in foster care has been stolen in an online breach. the Minnesota Department of Education confirmed. No financial information was lost, the Department said, but the files had names, dates of birth, and other demographic information including the county where the students currently live. Also, for some students, the names and addresses of parents and guardians and partial Social Security numbers were taken. The breach occurred May 31 while 24 computer files were being transferred from the Human Services Department to the Education Department. Officials say a server was targeted by a global cyberattack that exploited a vulnerability in MOVEit software.
R.I.P.: Ricky Kowalewski
MINNESOTA, Minn. – Ricky “Spanky” Allen Kowalewski, 62, of Minnesota City, a Canadian National locomotive engineer, died at Gundersen hospital in La Crosse. He grew up in Rollingstone and Winona. He graduated from Winona High School in 1979. He began his railroad career as a crane operator for the Milwaukee Road in Savannah, Illinois. He went on to become a brakeman for Chicago Northwestern St. Paul and then the Canadian National
Detail: Watkowski-Mulyck Funeral Home
1961-2023
Fravel family linked to where body recovered
Down this road. The body of Maddi Kingsbury was found in a culvert on this minimally maintained gravel lane. The site is 11 miles north of Mabel. Any activity there would have been easily unnoticed by 55 mph traffic whizzing by on U.S. Highway 43. Image: Steve Lunde
What led police to body of Maddi Kingsbury
MABEL, Minn. – The family of Adam Fravel once had managed the rural property where the body of his on-again off-again partner Maddi Kingsbury was found Wednesday, according to the criminal accusing Fravel of murder. This was a detail that Fillmore County Sheriff John DeGeorge did not pass on at a news conference in Winona after Fravel was arrested. DeGeorge said only that the property was not owned by the Favels. According to the criminal complaint put together by prosecutors: “This property had been routinely maintained by one or more Fravel family members.” With this detail, Fillmore County deputies decided to explore the site and went down the road Wednesday to look for clues. The road, just off U.S. Highway 43, is a dead-end. It is guarded by a rusting metal gate . The property is within five miles of the rambling there-story rural home of Fravel’s parents on County Road 18. The discrepancy between DeGeorge’s account at the news conference and the criminal complaint was not immediately explained.
Cops: Among driver probs: Tinted windows, smelly personage
WINONA, Minn. – A St. Charles man driving a car with super-tinted windows was stopped for speeding, 37 mph in a 30 zone, but it was the tint that caught the officer’s eyes. He couldn’t see inside. The officer’s standard-issue tint meter measured 26%. Nothing less than 50% is allowed under Minnesota law. But there was more. The officer said that Derrick William Micha B Erickson, 25, had eyes that were bloodshot and watery – and he smelled drunk. Too, he admitted to two beers before driving. Although Erickson agreed to a breath test, he then subterfuged the test by starting and stopping breathing when told to keep exhaling, the officer said. Also Erickson wouldn’t breathe into the device. He was taken to jail. This was about 1:55 a.m. at Broadway and McBride Street on the West Side.
U.S. Army Corps: Happy birthday to us
- PAUL, Minn. — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will waive day fees at its recreation areas nationwide, including those on the Mississippi River, in observance of the Corps birthday Friday and on Juneteenth the following Monday. The waiver covers boat launch ramps and swimming beaches.
Car accident in Mabel injures driver
MABEL Minn. – An Illinois driver was injured in a two-car collision and taken 62 miles to a Rochedster hospital. The injuries to Peggy Vankammpen, 62, of Fulton, Illinois, were non-life threatening, Fillmore County deputies said. The second driver, Hunter Christian Holland, 18, of Spring Grove, was unhurt. The collision was about 3:25 p.m. at Highway 52 and Highway 44. Vankammpen, in a 2015 Nissan Juke, was heading south. Holland, in a 2011 Chevrolet Impala, was heading north.
Winona High graduation: A sea of caps and pinks
The future is theirs: 194 grads
WINONA. Minn. – In Winona High Schools 153rd commencement ceremony 194 graduates walked the line for their diplomas on a perfect spring day at Giel Field. For schools Superintendent Annette Freiheit it was a farewell of sorts. This was her last commencement before retiring. Her message to graduates:
> Go out in the world.
> Make interesting mistakes.
> Follow your passions.
Student speeches were delivered by seniors Abby Russell, Nico Stern and Freyja Wolfe, who were chosen by a faculty panel. On a sad note, everyone wore a ribbon in memory of Logan Monk, who died in a car accident in January.
Freiheit. For her too a a milestone occasion. Images: John Casper
Probation granted in baseball bat attack
WABASHA, Minn. – A Millville man, Joshua Daniel Larson, 47, was placed on probation for five years for his part in a 2020 gang attack with a nails-studded baseball bat that severely injured a man at a campground on the Zumbro River. Judge Christopher Niesen ordered the probation while also suspending a 17-month prison sentence. Larson had pleaded guilty plea to a felony charge of second-degree riot while armed with a dangerous weapon. The plea came after charges of first-degree attempted murder and first-degree and second-degree assault were bargained down. The criminal complaint said that the victim had puncture marks on his head, torso and butt. In all, four persons were accused of the attack.
Mother’s murder trial OK’d in boy’s death
LACROSSE, Wis. – A judge turned down the request of a woman accused in the death of her 6-year-old son to dismiss her trial. An attorney for Rebecca Ehlers Dikeman argued that it was possible that the boy’s father was responsible at for the boy at the time. Other witnesses at the evidentiary hearing said the father wasn’t in the house. Whichever, Judge Elliott Levine found sufficient evidence to proceed with a trial for the mother. Meanwhile, remains in jail in lieu of $1 million bail.
Earlier: Autopsy: Serious bumps, bruises on boy, also drugs
Earlier: Death of 6-year-old boy “suspicious”
Bail at $2 million for Fravel in murder case
WINONA. Minn. – A Winona man accused of killing Madeline Kingsbury, with whom he had a deteriorating relationship, was arraigned on two second-degree murder counts. Bail was set at $2 million. Unless he posts bail, Adam Fravel, 29, will remain in jail pending his next court hearing scheduled for July 20. Typical sentences for second-degree murder are 20-1/2 years but can run 40. Fravel was arrested Wednesday at his parents’ home eight miles north of Mabel, Minnesota, a few hours after Kingsbury’s body was discovered about five miles away. Kingsbury was last seen alive in Winona on March 31. The bail was set by Judge Mary Leahy in the hearing, which was on a Zoom hook-up between Courthouse and the jail next door. Representing Fravel was criminal defense attorney Zachary Bauer of Rochester. Bauer asked for minimal bail, noting that Fravel has strong family ties to the Mabel area and was nit a flight risk. Also, bauer noted, Fravel has no significant criminal history. But Judge Leahy said no. The case has some complexities involving Favel and Kingsbury’s 5-year-old and 2-year-old children. If Fravel posts bail, the judge said, he would have visitation rights at the home of Kingsbury’s parents, who have interim guardianship. The visits must be supervised, Leahy said. Also, she said, the Kingsbury grandparents must surrender any of their firearms to the sheriff.
Leahy. On the Winona County bench since 2005. One of two local judges.
Surviving pigs chomp on unfazed after truck wreck
ST. PAUL, Minn. — A truck and livestock trailer with 50 pigs overturned on Interstate 694 at the Little Canada ramps. Ten of the market-bound pigs died. The others were rounded up by state troopers and sheriff’s deputies on the right-of-way and shoulders. This was about 7:45 a.m. Commuter traffic backed up more than an hour. The truck driver was not hurt, the Patrol said.
Lanes closed for roundup. During morning commute. Images: Minnesota State Patrol
Bladder empty, but man claims a belly full of heroin
WINONA Minn. – An Owatonna man was arrested after resisting officers who had been called to a Mankato Avenue address where he reportedly peed on a couch and refused to leave. Arrested was Ryan Joseph Wilson, 33. This was about 7:40 p.m. in the 250 block of Mankato. Officers said Wilson yelled in their faces and violently resisted being cuffed. The officers took him to floor, at which point they said he began banging his dead on the floor and saying he had just ingested a whole bunch of heroin. They took him to the hospital, where doctors kept him four hours. Then it was to jail. The man who called police said he had met Wilson a few days earlier at a casino and drove him back to Winona and invited him to stay over. During the arrest the officers learned from their dispatcher that Wilson was wanted on warrants from Faribault, Gaylord and Owatonna.
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