WINONA, Minn. – The father of Madeline Kingsbury’s pre-school children, Adam Taylor Fravel, has been a mystery in the investigation into her disappearance. Without mentioning his name, Police Chief Tom Williams has confirmed that Fravel was with Kingsbury the morning of March 31 to drop off the children at daycare. Asked several times for additional detail, Williams has said that investigators have neither a suspect nor a person of interest. About Fravel, Williams repeats only that the case is “open and active.” Period. A few things are known from friends and public documents:
> Fravel, age 29, grew up in Mabel in Fillmore County and graduated from Mabel-Canton High School in 2012.
> Fravel and Kingsbury met in college. He graduated in 2016 from Winona State, where he studied management information systems. She graduated in 2019 in health sciences.
> They lived together in a townhouse with their children, 5 and 2, on leafy Kerry Drive on the Far West End off Highway 14. Friends describe them variously – as husband and wife, as engaged to marry, and as boyfriend-girlfriend.
> Fravel lists himself on online biographical sites as an officer of Do My Realty Ads and also Five Star Media. In college he clerked at Walmart in electronics. He had a campus job in computer support.
> In 2013, when he was 19, Fravel pleaded guilty in Black River Falls, Wisconsin, for felony theft involving goods valued between $500 and $5,000. He was placed on probation for two years.
Fravel was not present April 5 when the Kingsbury family assembled en masse for a news conference to ask for public help to find Maddi. In attendance were her parents, siblings and nephews and nieces. It was not believed that Fravel participated in large-scale searches Friday with almost 1,900 volunteers.
Williams. No comment except that investigation is “active and open.”