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00:05We will remain loud about this and continue to advocate for Madeline.
00:12Children need their mother.
00:14We need our daughter, our sister, our aunt, and our best friend back.
00:18A young mother gone without a trace, as hours turn into days and days into weeks,
00:25the truth would eventually surface.
00:28Adam was telling investigators that his relationship with Maddie was ending
00:32and that she was seeing somebody else.
00:34He told investigators that the person that you should be talking to is Spencer.
00:38People expect breakups to come with hurt feelings, anger, or even jealousy.
00:42But in this case, things went far beyond a bruised ego.
00:46I hugged her behind there and I said, you don't want to know the deputy between you and me.
00:49And I know that was really bad.
01:18Whenona, Minnesota is a historic town along the Mississippi River with a population of about 26,000 people.
01:25Crime in the area is a mixed bag.
01:27Violent crime runs a bit higher than in neighboring towns, but murders and disappearances are still really rare.
01:34Madeline Kingsbury is a mom of two kids.
01:38Those two kids were her whole world.
01:40She loved her family.
01:41She was very close with her sister, with her parents, her friends.
01:45She checked in all the time and that was why I think that this case blew up so quickly was
01:50that the minute that Maddie wasn't responding for even just a few hours, it was apparent that something was wrong.
01:57Maddie was last seen the morning of Friday, March 31st.
02:01Maddie and the father of their children dropped the children off at daycare shortly after 8 a.m.
02:07Maddie did not show up for work, which is very unlike her, and we are worried for her safety.
02:14It was your typical morning drop-off on March 31st, 2023, when 26-year-old Madeline Kingsbury disappeared without a
02:21trace.
02:21No warning signs, no goodbye.
02:24She just vanished.
02:25Madeline Kingsbury was living in Winona with the father of her children, then 29-year-old Adam Fravel.
02:31Now, Maddie works as a clinical researcher in this hybrid capacity.
02:34Sometimes she works from home.
02:36Sometimes she works at the office in Rochester, Minnesota.
02:38She loved her job.
02:40She worked at Mayo Clinic, which is a big deal in southeast Minnesota.
02:43She obviously wanted to make a difference and she wanted to help people.
02:52This all started with a simple 911 welfare check to the Winona Police Department, and it was made by Madeline
02:59Kingsbury's best friend, Katie Kolka.
03:02According to Katie, Maddie had not been responding to any text messages that day.
03:07She knew that something was up.
03:09She ended up going to the home that Maddie shared with the father of her two children, Adam Fravel and
03:15Winona.
03:16Knocked on the windows, knocked on the doors.
03:18Nobody was home.
03:19And at that point, that was when Katie decided to tell Maddie's sister, Megan, that she felt like something was
03:26wrong and they needed to involve police.
03:28Tick-tock, I need you to do your thing.
03:31I need your help.
03:32This is my sister, Madeline Kingsbury.
03:39She's missing.
03:41Help us find her.
03:43She's got two kids.
03:45She's my best friend.
03:46She's my little sister.
03:47We need to get her back.
03:48She found it unusual that she was nowhere to be found.
03:52Police go to that home on Cary Drive and looked around but didn't find anything out of the ordinary.
03:58There was no broken glass.
03:59There was no blood.
04:00There was no signs of a struggle.
04:02It just seemed like nobody was home.
04:05We know that Maddie returned to her residence on Cary Drive in Winona around 8.15 a.m.
04:11The father of Maddie's children has spoken to law enforcement and told us that he left the residence in Maddie's
04:17van around 10 a.m.
04:19And upon returning later in the day, Maddie was not home.
04:23Most people don't just disappear.
04:26That is not the norm of just dropping your life and taking off.
04:31So you have to start looking at alternative reasons for her disappearance.
04:36We're asking you to walk your property, check out buildings, and have a good look around for any signs that
04:44someone passed that way or for signs of a disturbance.
04:47If you know anything or saw something suspicious, your information might be the final piece that brings Maddie home.
04:55The big thing that the police department was trying to portray to us to get the message out was that
05:01people in southeast Minnesota, they needed to check their surveillance cameras.
05:06Madeline's family doesn't hesitate when they realize something's wrong.
05:09They throw themselves into the search.
05:11They share flyers.
05:12They speak to the media.
05:13They do anything and everything they can to find Madeline.
05:16We will remain loud about this and continue to advocate for Madeline any way, shape, or form.
05:25Please help us find Madeline.
05:27The children need their mother.
05:29We need our daughter, our sister, our aunt, and our best friend back.
05:34Hey, Tick Tock.
05:35I am out in Fillmore County driving the drive from where my missing sister Madeline Kingsbury lived in Winona to
05:46Mabel, Minnesota, which is in Fillmore County.
05:50We're kind of pulling over at random places, you know, wherever there's bridges or just anywhere we can really stop.
05:57And we're just looking on foot, um, wherever we can.
06:02We still haven't found my sister.
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06:09We're getting more and more eyes and ears on this every single day.
06:15There's going to be search parties that are conducted, and not even sometimes driven by the police department, just the
06:21community sometimes takes it upon themselves to help.
06:24The police can't be everywhere, but the public can be.
06:27Winona is a very tight-knit community.
06:30The community was so involved from the very beginning, and I think a lot of that had to do with
06:36the push and determination from Maddie's friends and family.
06:41Within a week, there would already be a search party with thousands of people.
06:46Southeast Minnesota is very beautiful, but it's also a complex landscape to search in this sense.
06:53I mean, there's huge mountains and valleys and rivers, and the volunteers really had their work cut out for them.
06:59Police initially reach out to Adam Fravel, but they're only able to get in touch with him by phone.
07:04Like, it's not ideal, but it's a start.
07:07He's at the top of the list of people they want to talk to.
07:10This is Adam, correct?
07:12Yes, this is Adam Fravel.
07:14I'm sure you're aware of what's all going on.
07:16Some people called about Madeline a little concerned, and we're just trying to get an idea of where she might
07:19be.
07:20Yes.
07:21There's a lot of, uh, kind of irregularities that go on in the beginning of this case.
07:26It is fairly typical when somebody goes missing to bring the significant other in.
07:32Law enforcement typically wants that person to be on the record about where they've been, what they know.
07:38It is rare that law enforcement would simply just make a phone call.
07:43When's the last time you heard from her or anything like that?
07:46Yeah, so this morning, when I last heard from her, so that's why, personally, I wasn't very concerned yet.
07:54What time about was that?
07:56I left her house around 10, and then when I came back home, she was going to take my car
08:02to work today, and my car was still there.
08:05And, uh, she wasn't there.
08:08And then I tried texting her, tried calling her, and I haven't heard anything since.
08:12When you do interviews, you rely on not just the words that are coming out of someone's mouth, but their
08:19body language, their emotions.
08:21All of that plays into maybe your next question or your line of questioning.
08:27Does she usually ride with anybody to work, or is there anybody she could be with right now?
08:32She doesn't usually ride with anybody to work, but she has before.
08:37That's what I figured she did.
08:39But was she supposed to pick up the children today?
08:42Yes.
08:42We usually do drop-offs and pick-ups together.
08:46And, uh, this morning, we both did the drop-off, and I tried calling her a bunch of times, I
08:51think 3.30 and like 3.05 and 4.
08:54And I didn't get any response, so I just picked up the kids myself.
08:58These types of calls are, in some ways, very difficult to analyze, because everybody does kind of react differently.
09:07Some people naturally are much calmer.
09:10Some people naturally are much more emotional.
09:13It does seem that there should have been at least a little more acknowledgement that things were out of the
09:19ordinary.
09:20He portrays this as, this is just kind of business as usual.
09:24I don't know if you can tell me or not, but like, nobody else heard from her at all?
09:28No, no.
09:30Wow, okay.
09:31Can I expect any sort of, like, response, like tomorrow or something?
09:36Or, I don't know if I should be worried or what?
09:39We'll try to update everyone as soon as we can.
09:42The good thing with this investigation was, they have her cell phone.
09:47There is no need to go look for it or search for it.
09:49They have it.
09:50So the ability in this day and age of a digital footprint and what's going on in her life,
09:56who's she communicating with, can set up a timeline of her disappearance.
10:02Aside from Adam, Maddie's been in constant communication with friends, family, and someone named Spencer.
10:08Maddie's family, they were working very closely with the police department.
10:14They were not jumping at media interviews.
10:17They did hold multiple press conferences, and they made it very apparent that Maddie would have never just walked away
10:23from her family,
10:25from her two kids, and that there was something wrong.
10:28And I think at this juncture in the investigation, of not having a clear line of how she disappeared or
10:35where she may be,
10:36I would have prompted a definite face-to-face interview with Adam.
10:46Law enforcement sets up an in-person meeting with Frabel just days later in the county over.
10:51Investigators want to look him in the eye, gauge his demeanor, and this time, press him further on details face
10:56-to-face.
10:57When you just sat, David, while you guys met, like, that hurts.
11:02Well, we met when we met, um, in a little while.
11:07We started freshman year.
11:08How'd you go to school for?
11:10Computer science.
11:11I'm actually graduating, um, in a month.
11:14Like, I took a break once we had the kids and everything.
11:16I took a break from school, and I've just been working.
11:18Um, and then two years ago, when, uh, COVID hit, the pandemic and everything, I lost my job.
11:24Was she going to school at all, or?
11:26In January, she just started her master's program.
11:31For so long, we didn't even know what Adam Frabel looked like.
11:34We had to find out through a lot of sleuthing on social media to say, who is this guy?
11:39He's from southeastern Minnesota.
11:41He ended up going to Winona State University, and he was in a fraternity there,
11:47and that's actually where he and Maddie met, and they became college sweethearts, in a sense.
11:52Tell us about Thursday morning.
11:53We'll start just in the morning with the kids and getting them up and stuff.
11:57Well, nothing about Thursday sticks out of the aisle.
12:00Mm-hmm.
12:01It's a normal, normal Thursday.
12:03She's been looking at apartments in Goodview.
12:05I think Thursday she had another show.
12:09So she probably would have been home all day.
12:12We picked up for Thursday.
12:13It's up to me.
12:14It's bad.
12:15Initially, it's just a missing persons case.
12:18You start gathering not so much evidence, but information about what could have happened
12:23to her.
12:24What is her normal scheduled day?
12:27What does it look like?
12:28Where does she go?
12:29And that may lead to something further, depending on what is uncovered.
12:33I think there was a lot that people didn't know about Maddie and Adam's relationship.
12:39According to Maddie's friends, it seems like it was good enough at the time in college,
12:44but Maddie would eventually get pregnant, and that is when the relationship changed.
12:50She would reach out to her family and friends and say, you know, Adam doesn't help with anything.
12:54I'm exhausted all the time.
12:57I'm taking care of the baby.
12:58I'm taking care of the house.
12:59He's not helping with anything.
13:01And I think at that point, that was the beginning of the end for the relationship.
13:07Adam was very adamant that this relationship was fizzing out, and it was for the best.
13:12They were actually going to move out of the house that they shared together.
13:15According to law enforcement, Adam and Maddie were months behind on rent, and their lease
13:19wasn't going to be renewed.
13:20There's also reports that four days before Maddie disappeared, she texted her landlord,
13:26quote, I am somewhat unexpectedly finding my own place.
13:31Maddie wanted Adam out of the house.
13:33Maddie had already secured an apartment.
13:34She's dating Spencer, and at this point, Adam has no job.
13:39He does not have custody of the two children, and he is about to move back with his parents
13:44down in Maple.
13:45You have a mother who has this estranged relationship with her boyfriend, and then one day she disappears,
13:53leaving her keys, her wallet, and her car at her residence.
13:58The circumstances behind her disappearance raises some red flags.
14:03He is, right now, maybe the closest person to her and might have seen her last.
14:08Police are hoping Adam Frabel can explain any of the details leading up to Madeline's disappearance.
14:13It sounds like she told you that she was seeing Spencer again.
14:19Well, she would have told me that a couple weeks ago.
14:22She just said that there were two times in the past couple of months that instead of going
14:27to a coffee shop to study, she would have just been sick.
14:30How did that make you feel, Adam?
14:32I mean, that would be pretty...
14:33I was hurt.
14:35It was definitely hurt.
14:38Adam said she was seeing somebody else.
14:41So while detectives are learning more about Madeline Kingsbury's on-again, off-again relationship
14:45with her ex-boyfriend, Adam Frabel, a name comes up that piques their interest.
14:50It's the name of another man.
14:52So the question becomes, what exactly was the nature of their relationship?
14:58Maddie's daycare provider told police she had opened up about her struggles with Adam.
15:02About a week before her disappearance, the couple called it quits after trying but failing
15:07to make things work.
15:08And Maddie was already moving forward with a friend from college who happens to be Adam's
15:13fraternity brother.
15:15Spencer Sullivan is actually an old friend of Maddie and Adam's.
15:18They went to college at Winona State University together, so Adam actually knew who Spencer was.
15:24Essentially an old friend of theirs that Maddie ended up connecting with the year before she
15:29went missing, and it was pretty casual.
15:30They went on a couple coffee dates.
15:32I think they both loved Doctor Strange, and so they would kind of geek out about the Doctor
15:37Strange stuff and the sci-fi things.
15:39The day before Maddie vanished, she had hung out with Spencer at his apartment.
15:44Anything happened this week as far as Spencer with her?
15:50After she told me about Spencer's thing, I asked her if while we're still here, making
16:00him in the house, if you can just, just don't talk to him, and that's all I asked of her.
16:07And she said, if she, we, we had a good talk.
16:10And we, it was a mutual thing that we just, it just, we just didn't have the love.
16:17It was more, we were, we both felt like we were both staying together for the children.
16:22He was very chill about it.
16:24He didn't seem like he cared.
16:26Maddie would tell her friends.
16:27He very much did care about Spencer, and while he, quote unquote, accepted them not being
16:33together anymore, he still would get upset if Maddie was texting Spencer.
16:38He told investigators that the person that you should be talking to is Spencer.
16:42The Spencer of it all is something that they're keeping at the forefronts of their minds.
16:46But they're hoping Adam Fravo can walk them through the morning that Madeline disappeared.
16:50Tell me about Friday morning, ma'am.
16:52On Friday, it started off completely normal.
16:55The only thing that was different, I would say, than we were running about to home.
17:00So we cut off the kids together, Maddie and her, and went back home.
17:06And then she told me that she had quick meetings, which was normal on her Fridays.
17:12She had a quick meeting, and then she was going to go up to Rochester.
17:15I didn't go downstairs a lot that day.
17:17So I just stayed upstairs.
17:18I had a granola bar for breakfast, and then the TVL, and then I had a laptop.
17:25So don't you feel me on her laptop?
17:27Don't want to come dirty.
17:29I think that's the time that I left on the house.
17:32He just goes through her schedule.
17:34He just breaks down, you know, we did this with the kids, we dropped the kids off, and
17:38then I went out and came home, and don't know where she is.
17:41He's very nonchalant about it, very relaxed, and very calm.
17:46So the plan for the day was, well, I was going to do a trip home, and I was going
17:50to do a
17:51trip to, mainly trips to storage.
17:53We had a storage unit right up off the street.
17:55When I loaded up the van, I wasn't really paying attention, I guess.
18:00About 15 minutes, my parents went, and started thinking about, like, what I'm about to do.
18:04I'm going to just look behind, just reach out, and then I'm like, oh, shit.
18:09It's the stuff that needs to go to the storage unit, not stuff that needs to go to my parents.
18:14And so I just turned around and chose, and then I love that.
18:19He introduces this, I was taking stuff over to my parents because I'm kind of in the process
18:25of slowly moving out.
18:27She wasn't, like, throwing my stuff on the front lawn and changing the locks or anything
18:31like that.
18:32The one thing that we were told as members of the media was that this blue town and country
18:38van played a vital piece of this puzzle.
18:41Has anybody seen this van?
18:43Which way was it going?
18:45So, like, when I came back home, I just, I didn't go to the storage unit.
18:49I just stayed home.
18:50And then I just emptied the van, and that was just it for the day.
18:53And then I just went inside and, um, came to the table.
18:57Did you tell her you were leaving?
18:59I texted her.
19:00Just because that's the way it was that whole week.
19:02Not hostile, but, like, we were just doing our own thing.
19:06So what all did you load up?
19:07Um, it would have been a couple of coats, a couple boxers, and, um, and a Christmas tree.
19:15Did you say you got the choice in turnaround?
19:17Yeah.
19:18You were intending to go to your parents, right?
19:21Yes, I was intending to go to my parents.
19:23And then when I realized I had to go on stuff, I turned around and came straight back.
19:26I didn't make any stuff.
19:27I got inside.
19:28The TV was still on.
19:29And then my laptop was just sitting there.
19:31I just didn't say anything.
19:33Did you check the house to see if she was there?
19:35No, well, so when I got back home, I was thinking she would be home.
19:39But that's when I thought that my car was still there.
19:42Um, and so my first interesting to what I remember was that maybe she got a carpool,
19:48or she, her patient canceled for me there.
19:51That happens to him, patient canceled.
19:53And things accepted her when I got back home, too.
19:56On this day, she was supposed to go into Rochester,
19:59and Adam had told them that he came back, noticed the truck was still there,
20:03sent Maddie a bunch of text messages.
20:06Maddie wasn't responding.
20:073.30, I started texting her again, like,
20:09hey, you're going to be back to pick up with the kids,
20:13and he's playing for supper.
20:15Um, I couldn't get any response.
20:17So I just, um, you know,
20:18what happened with him, I just left.
20:21Went to pick him up.
20:22And then after I put the kids in the car seat,
20:25I think I sent Maddie another text.
20:27I tried calling it.
20:28It was on the spot.
20:29When I just went and break him dick,
20:33the last time anyone besides Adam saw Maddie
20:36was the morning that they dropped off their kids.
20:38Later on that day,
20:40when Adam went to pick the kids up,
20:42he was alone.
20:43And when their daughter asks,
20:46where's mommy?
20:47All he replies is,
20:49we're going to grandma and grandpa's.
20:50Now, the daycare provider thought that was unusual,
20:52because normally,
20:53he would always reassure the kids
20:55that mommy was on her way back.
20:57Maybe Adam believes Maddie is with Spencer
20:59and he's pissed about it,
21:00which could explain why he's being so evasive with the kids.
21:04We didn't know if this even was a murder investigation.
21:08Obviously, as the days went by,
21:10it was apparent that it was looking more and more
21:12like Maddie would not be coming home.
21:18I can tell you that it appears that she was,
21:22this relationship was not going super well,
21:26to the point that she's wanting to get out of there
21:29as soon as possible.
21:31If that was her piece,
21:32it would have happened a while ago.
21:35How was Thursday at home with you and Maddie?
21:38Oh, you know what?
21:39Thursday was the day that I remember,
21:43yeah, Thursday was the day
21:45that I kind of calmed in her a little bit.
21:47Yes, but Thursday wasn't a good day.
21:50Investigators are trying to push for more clarity
21:51into the inner workings of Maddie's relationship
21:54with Adam Fravel.
21:55They're broken up, but not really.
21:57They're still living under the same roof,
21:59but he's moving out.
22:00Oh, and there's another guy in the mix, too.
22:02It doesn't exactly paint a rosy picture of the situation.
22:06Maddie's friends say she would confide in them
22:08about her relationship with Adam.
22:10Even at one point, she asked a friend
22:12how to get out of this relationship
22:13because he had allegedly been beating
22:15the hell out of her for years.
22:18When was the last verbal argument you had with us?
22:20I wouldn't say we had a verbal argument.
22:23Tell us about some of your verbal arguments.
22:25Based on what we learned, Adam,
22:26these are pretty heated.
22:27Like, they got bad.
22:29You're kind of saying that we're good, you know,
22:32it's fine, but that's not what...
22:35If he's seeing another guy, I'd be pissed.
22:38Yeah, but you guys...
22:39I mean, you can show your emotion.
22:40People get angry.
22:41If your significant other is seeing somebody else,
22:44I'd be pissed.
22:44Not just her, I'd be angry.
22:46You gotta remember that we've been through this
22:48like before, for a few or seven years.
22:52This information that they're putting in front of him,
22:55saying, look, we know about the other guy.
22:58We know that you know about the other guy.
23:00We know about the conversations that you've had
23:02about contacting the other guy, texting him in the house.
23:05At this point, there is kind of a switch
23:08that seems to go off in Frabel's head to say,
23:12okay, they know more than the information
23:16that I've given them.
23:17For the rest of the investigation,
23:19he will be constantly wondering,
23:22what else do they know?
23:24During the investigation,
23:25detectives learned from Spencer Sullivan
23:27that Maddie was trying to repair her relationship
23:29with Adam Frabel.
23:31At one point, she even ended things with Spencer
23:33in an effort to make it work with Adam.
23:35But after she ultimately broke things off
23:37with Adam for good,
23:38Maddie and Spencer's relationship intensified
23:40and became more romantic.
23:42There was that were saying that they were trying
23:44to get either her out of the house
23:46or you out of the house
23:46because you guys shouldn't be together.
23:48I didn't think we needed to do none of this.
23:53I've just been focused on trying
23:55to get through this past month
23:56so that we can just go our separate ways.
23:59Law enforcement will always find out
24:02what's going on with the relationship
24:05in a case like this.
24:06They will speak to family members.
24:08They will speak to her friends.
24:09It will become clear what was going on.
24:13And he might say,
24:14no, things were okay.
24:15We were breaking up mutually
24:17and it was, you know, amicable
24:19and there was no bad blood between us.
24:22But once they actually speak to people
24:25who she was confiding in,
24:26they will quickly learn
24:28that the relationship was really falling apart.
24:31You told her you don't want her
24:33messaging Spencer in the house?
24:34Yeah, while we're still in the family.
24:37I believe that you said that
24:39because she said that to a couple of people.
24:42She also said that you made a commentary
24:44that if she doesn't listen,
24:45that she's going to end up like Gabby Petito.
24:48That's what she told several people.
24:51For those that don't know,
24:53Gabby Petito was a influencer on YouTube
24:56and she documented her travels across the country
24:59with her boyfriend at the time
25:01and Gabby would actually end up being strangled
25:03by her boyfriend and killed.
25:05I wasn't fat, she isn't the same.
25:08It was just, it was a man.
25:10I was just into the news and I was so stupid.
25:16I was just trying to make a joke.
25:17I just, I hugged her behind her
25:19and I said, you don't want to know
25:20what Gabby Petito did.
25:22While Maddie and Adam are watching this documentary,
25:25Adam turns to Maddie
25:26and actually pins her down on the couch
25:28and wraps his hands around her neck
25:30and says that I can make you disappear
25:33like Gabby Petito.
25:34And after that happened,
25:35Maddie was obviously very shaken up.
25:38She was having panic attacks.
25:41That's what she told her,
25:42her family and her loved ones at the time
25:44said that you need to get out of there.
25:46Like that is not okay.
25:47Maddie's dad told her,
25:48this relationship is dangerous.
25:50You need to file a police report.
25:52And Maddie didn't end up filing her police report,
25:55but she did leave the home with the kids.
25:57And she ended up texting Adam and saying,
26:00that was not okay.
26:01You cannot put your hands around my neck.
26:03And he said, you'll adjust.
26:05And I know that was really bad.
26:08That was a really stupid joke.
26:10It was odd if he's just a joke.
26:12In the moment.
26:14Inappropriate.
26:15Yeah, it's not a very good joke.
26:17I know, I know.
26:18I know what it makes me look bad.
26:19I get that.
26:20There was another instance in 2021
26:23when Maddie was on FaceTime with her friend.
26:25She was in the kitchen.
26:26She was making dinner.
26:27And Adam, you know,
26:28made a comment about the house being so messy
26:31and why haven't you cleaned yet?
26:32And Maddie told him,
26:34well, maybe if I had some help.
26:36And Adam ended up backhanding her in the face
26:38on this FaceTime call.
26:40So when law enforcement kind of confronts him
26:43and says, we now know that your story
26:46about your relationship is not,
26:47you know, 100% honest and true,
26:50we do know when it comes to was Spencer a suspect,
26:54he very clearly was cleared
26:55because he had a lot of airtight alibis.
26:57He was seen on surveillance cameras that day.
26:59She's texting him, you know,
27:00from inside the house that they're living in together
27:03because she is so over the relationship with Fravel
27:06and so ready to move on with somebody new.
27:10Investigators followed up with Spencer Sullivan
27:12on April 8th to lock down his timeline.
27:15And it checked out.
27:16Sullivan's managers confirmed he was working
27:18from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on March 31st,
27:21the day that Madeline disappeared.
27:23Surveillance video shows him at a shoe store at 1.12 p.m.
27:27and witnesses place him at Bub's Brewing in Winona
27:31shortly after picking up food.
27:33Police say Spencer Sullivan fully cooperated
27:36with their investigation.
27:37He gave them DNA samples
27:38and help with the search efforts for Maddie,
27:41something that people in the community noted
27:42Adam Fravel never did.
27:44That sort of raises yet another eyebrow
27:47in the investigation,
27:48saying we have a real situation on our hands.
27:51Adam didn't even realize he was digging his own grave.
27:54So Spencer's been cleared,
27:55and now Adam is making comparisons
27:57to the murder of Gabby Petito,
27:59something that's not looking too good for him.
28:01And Maddie is still out there,
28:04waiting to be found.
28:05Demeanor is a big deal,
28:07and this is the mother of your children.
28:09Even if you hated her,
28:10it just flew in the face of normalcy.
28:14That in and of itself
28:15shows that something's going on here.
28:18There is no denying this is all very suspicious
28:21in the eyes of investigators,
28:22but they still don't have concrete evidence
28:25proving that he did anything to Maddie.
28:28But he is still their prime suspect.
28:31You're infatuated with the Gabby Petito story,
28:34your own words.
28:35My biggest fear right now
28:36is that this is mimicking that case.
28:38I get it.
28:39And the guy that's infatuated that case
28:41is sitting right in front of me,
28:42and he's doing a really good job
28:44keeping it together.
28:49The last text I got to learn
28:51was that Apple paid $20.
28:53Okay.
28:54And so,
28:56and that was at 8.14 a.m.
28:57So your next text is at 1.33 p.m.
29:01These are all kind of coming in
29:02at fairly similar times
29:03after, like, around 1.33.
29:26The detectives did a great job
29:28with noticing the timestamps
29:30on those text messages
29:33of not matching up
29:34and not being realistic.
29:36As we would text each other
29:38about something
29:39or a family member
29:40were not consistent
29:42with the way he was doing it.
29:44He certainly seems to just kind of
29:46be building on himself,
29:48where he will put something out there
29:50that's a little bit weird,
29:51but then immediately kind of justify it
29:53or slough it off and say,
29:54but it wasn't a big deal.
29:56What happened between 10.30
29:58when you said,
29:58God, yes, and van and stuff,
30:00and I'm ready to go,
30:00going to leave.
30:01If you left at 10.30
30:03and you didn't go anywhere else,
30:04you would have been in Russia
30:05probably by 10.55,
30:07but you're not going to Russia
30:08until noon.
30:09I'm wondering where this other hour
30:11in the morning is,
30:12what's going on there?
30:14I don't know what to say.
30:16Either I, either I,
30:20maybe I, maybe I'll go.
30:22Maybe, um,
30:24I'd organize you more stuff
30:25in the garage.
30:27Your garage isn't organized.
30:28So you work hard.
30:30To experience detectives
30:32who have interviewed so many people,
30:33that is glaring.
30:35When someone starts edging you
30:37towards a certain narrative
30:39or pushing you to look at something else
30:43and trying to explain it
30:44is always telling.
30:46It's a diversion.
30:47There is one thing
30:49that is very hard to dispute.
30:51Video and forensic evidence.
30:53That is where this case takes a turn.
30:56As facts chip away
30:57at Adam Fravel's timeline
30:59and the reality
31:00of the status of their relationship,
31:02everything else begins to spiral.
31:05You're pretty solid on your times
31:07that you went to Detroit and back.
31:10Yeah.
31:11So we have your van on camera
31:12going through Rushford at 1250.
31:15So it was later now.
31:17Okay.
31:18So...
31:18Is that beautiful?
31:20It's very well-coated.
31:21Yeah.
31:21I don't have a watch or anything.
31:23I'm not...
31:24Well, I'm just saying I'm not...
31:25I'm not hyper-focused on the time.
31:27But I am hyper-focused on the time.
31:29I want to know the timeline.
31:32Adam's timeline just started
31:33to fall apart.
31:34Things he was telling them
31:35wasn't quite adding up
31:36with what they already knew
31:38to be true
31:38because they had already
31:39pulled surveillance videos.
31:40I noticed you have like a stretch
31:42on your nose,
31:43a little bit on your neck.
31:44What happened there?
31:45Well, I have two kids.
31:48I have two dogs and holes.
31:51You got them on your neck too?
31:53Nope.
31:54I did.
31:57You here?
31:58Well, you're rubbing it.
31:59So you're trying to make it
32:00unphysical.
32:01You know, the hiding of it
32:03makes it a little suspicious.
32:05When the police are asking him
32:06about the scratches,
32:08it's a good thing to do
32:09at the time of the investigation
32:11because he can't change
32:12his story later on.
32:13He now solidified his excuse
32:16for the scratches.
32:18Fravel's response and explanation
32:20is certainly plausible.
32:22You know, it could have been the dog.
32:24It could have been the baby.
32:25Human beings get scratches.
32:26I mean, that's not in and of itself
32:29a major indicator of foul play.
32:32Do you know where Maddie is?
32:34Do I know where Maddie is?
32:36Do you know where Maddie is?
32:37No.
32:38Do you have anything to do
32:39with her disappearance?
32:41No.
32:43Yeah, we are piecing things together.
32:45You can start to unravel a little bit.
32:47What I told you is
32:48you want to see from my perspective.
32:51I just want to find her.
32:52For your kids,
32:53I think something happened
32:54in that apartment.
32:56Why would I hurt
32:57or make the mother
32:58of my children a situation?
33:00Because your kids?
33:01I don't know that.
33:02Maybe it just happened.
33:03I just think
33:04you're holding back here.
33:06You know more.
33:08No, I don't.
33:10I don't know.
33:12Maddie and I
33:13do not have any history
33:14of all of them.
33:15Of violence.
33:15Unfortunately,
33:16that's not what I heard.
33:17Your own admission
33:18infatuated
33:19with the Gabby Petito story.
33:22This is,
33:24well, this case is
33:26rearing some
33:27eerily similar
33:29circumstances.
33:30Your timeline
33:31is
33:32off.
33:34And these text messages
33:36where you're kind of
33:37suddenly worried about her,
33:39they don't make sense.
33:41When crimes are committed,
33:43the cover-up
33:43is always harder
33:44and always takes up
33:46more time
33:47and more energy
33:48and more thought process.
33:49Most criminals
33:50can cover a crime
33:52up to a point,
33:54but they cannot prepare
33:57for investigative
33:58questioning.
33:59You see a lot
34:00of these crimes
34:01start to fall apart
34:02when interviews
34:03are conducted
34:04because the suspect
34:06can't keep up.
34:08The pressure is mounting
34:09on Adam Fravel.
34:10With Madeline missing
34:11and another man
34:12in her life
34:13surfacing,
34:14investigators scrutinize
34:15his behavior,
34:16wondering if jealousy
34:17or emotional strain
34:19could have been
34:19the driving force
34:20behind her disappearance,
34:22even without
34:22hard evidence.
34:23You were the last one
34:25to have seen her.
34:26You're the only one
34:27that has accessed
34:28your house.
34:28You only have accessed
34:29your cars.
34:30You went home with her.
34:32Now,
34:33I'm not going to play
34:34much.
34:35Now,
34:35my wall is up
34:36and I'm becoming
34:37going to have to get a lawyer.
34:39I feel like
34:40you're just stuck.
34:42I hope you guys find her.
34:45All right.
34:47That was a huge
34:48red flag for me.
34:50At the end of the interview
34:52when they were walking out
34:53and he calmly said,
34:54I hope you find her.
34:56That is not a statement
34:58from someone
34:59who is in the middle
35:01of trying to look
35:02for the mother
35:03of his children.
35:05They either had to
35:06arrest him
35:08and charge him
35:08or cut him loose.
35:10At that point in time,
35:11without a body,
35:12it's very hard
35:14to make out
35:15a real case
35:16that something
35:16happened to her
35:17or that he is responsible
35:18for her disappearance.
35:20Even though there
35:21isn't enough evidence
35:22to charge Adam Fravel
35:24at this point,
35:25weeks go by
35:26and the pressure
35:27from the community
35:29and Maddie's family
35:30pushes Adam Fravel
35:32to publicly address
35:33the question
35:34of his potential involvement.
35:36Adam Fravel
35:37definitely did not
35:38do any favors
35:39to himself.
35:40Very quickly,
35:41he actually
35:41obtained an attorney
35:43and then released
35:44a statement
35:44through his attorney
35:45and he said,
35:47I did not do anything
35:48to Maddie.
35:48I want the mother
35:49of my five-year-old
35:50and two-year-old
35:51to come home.
35:52And that was all
35:53anybody really ever
35:54heard of him.
35:55At that very first
35:56press conference,
35:56we were asking
35:57the police department,
35:58where is Adam Fravel?
36:00Why haven't we seen him?
36:01He was not at
36:02any of the search parties.
36:04He was acting
36:04the exact opposite
36:05that you would think
36:06somebody would act
36:08if the mother
36:08of their two children
36:09is gone.
36:10And even if you're
36:11not dating anymore,
36:12you would want
36:12to know where
36:13they are
36:13and you would want
36:14to do anything
36:15that you can
36:15to help find her.
36:17Announcing your innocence,
36:19that you have nothing
36:19to do with it,
36:20you're heartbroken,
36:21just like the community's
36:22heartbroken,
36:23it can absolutely backfire
36:24if the community
36:26is not on your side.
36:27You think about
36:28anyone you know
36:29who might be missing,
36:31you'd be out there
36:31every second of every day
36:33looking and searching
36:34and helping,
36:35and that wasn't the case.
36:36This statement,
36:38this is just adding
36:38to more of a focus on him.
36:41Investigators execute
36:42a series of search warrants,
36:44one at Maddie's home,
36:45another at a property
36:46belonging to Adam's parents.
36:48It seems that police
36:49are no longer
36:50just looking at this case
36:51as a disappearance.
36:52They're examining
36:53whether the jealousy
36:54and fractures
36:55in Adam and Maddie's relationship
36:57may have far more
36:58serious implications.
37:00Technology would end up
37:01playing a really big part
37:02in this case,
37:04and remember,
37:05Adam was very
37:06into technology,
37:07and the first thing
37:08they looked at
37:08was his cell phone,
37:09and what was interesting
37:10was that Adam disabled
37:12all of his location services
37:14the day before
37:15Maddie went missing.
37:16What was also interesting
37:17was that when investigators
37:19eventually got into the home,
37:22they could see that
37:23there was something
37:23at the top of the wall
37:24that was ripped down,
37:26and they couldn't see
37:26what it was.
37:27They ended up finding
37:27camera boxes in the garage,
37:29but no SD cards in them.
37:31The camera company said
37:32that Adam had also deleted
37:33his account a week prior.
37:35They performed search warrants
37:37at Adam's parents' home
37:39in Mabel, Minnesota,
37:40and found what they described
37:42as a burning pile
37:44of technology in the yard.
37:46On that Friday morning
37:47that Maddie disappeared,
37:48he's seen on surveillance video
37:50at a gas station
37:51putting gas in the van,
37:53and what investigators noticed
37:55was that the license plate
37:56on the van
37:57was not Maddie's license plate.
37:59It was actually the license plate
38:01of the truck
38:01that Adam was driving.
38:03Shutting off your location,
38:04everything he was doing
38:05was demonstrative
38:07of a guilty individual.
38:09I mean, shutting off
38:09your locations,
38:10because why would you do that?
38:11Because you don't want people
38:12to know where you are.
38:13Changing license plates,
38:14why would you do that?
38:15Because you don't want anyone
38:16to identify what you're doing.
38:18Like, everything that he did
38:19just pointed right to the fact
38:21that he committed a crime.
38:23Adam would also be caught
38:24on a trail camera
38:26on the nearby property
38:27riding a UTV.
38:29There was a shovel in the back.
38:31Investigators did execute
38:32a search warrant
38:33on that naval home
38:34and brought in cadaver dogs,
38:36and cadaver dogs
38:37actually alerted to the shovel
38:39and alerted to the ranger
38:40that he was driving.
38:42Now it's simply a matter
38:44of finding her.
38:45Now law enforcement
38:46is pretty certain
38:47they know what happened.
38:49That is kind of how
38:52they were able
38:52to really put a bow
38:54on the case
38:55against Adam Frabel,
38:56because there is just
38:57no real, plausible,
39:00innocent explanation.
39:01But obviously,
39:02the longer that she's missing,
39:04the less chance
39:04that you're going to get
39:05anything significant
39:06from a forensic science
39:08point of view.
39:09There is just a growing
39:11mountain of evidence here.
39:13Digital trails,
39:14timelines,
39:15a possible motive.
39:16So piece by piece,
39:17this case is falling
39:19into place.
39:20But following nearly 70 days
39:23of searching for Maddie,
39:26authorities make an announcement
39:27that no one wants to hear.
39:36We are here today
39:37to announce that human remains
39:38were found yesterday
39:39in Fillmore County.
39:41This morning,
39:42the Southern Minnesota
39:43Regional Medical Examiner's Office
39:45performed an autopsy.
39:47Law enforcement
39:48has confirmed
39:49the remains
39:50are those
39:50of Madeline Kingsbury.
39:53You have multiple counties,
39:55and they're what
39:56most people would consider
39:57to be relatively rural.
39:59There are towns,
40:00but outside of the towns
40:02are just stretches
40:03of road, wilderness, woods.
40:05When Maddie went missing,
40:07it was the end of March.
40:08And so in Minnesota,
40:10at that point,
40:11there's not a lot of foliage,
40:12so nobody saw it.
40:14But then months later,
40:15the investigator
40:16that found her
40:17actually said
40:18that he was alerted
40:19to the body
40:19because he heard
40:21the sound of flies,
40:22a lot of flies.
40:23And so as he walked closer
40:25and saw how many of them
40:26there were,
40:27that's when he called in
40:28back up.
40:28The location of Maddie's body
40:30was off a low-maintenance
40:32public roadway.
40:33The area had been
40:35previously searched,
40:36but Maddie's body
40:37was covered
40:38and concealed
40:39in such a manner
40:40that she was not visible.
40:43While this discovery
40:44is not what we were hoping for,
40:46we are thankful
40:47to be able
40:47to bring Maddie home
40:48to her family.
40:50Remains are found
40:51near a property
40:52owned by Adam Fravel's parents.
40:55For investigators,
40:56this just escalates
40:57the hard questions
40:58about what may have happened
41:00behind closed doors,
41:02especially when you consider
41:03there is another man
41:05in the mix.
41:06Everything changes now.
41:07Now there's a crime.
41:08It's no longer
41:09a missing person.
41:10Having the body
41:11is enormous
41:12when it comes
41:13to an investigation
41:14because now
41:15autopsies can be done.
41:17DNA swabs can be done.
41:18The cause of death
41:19is determined.
41:20She was suffocated.
41:22Now you have a point
41:24of where that body
41:25was found
41:26so you start working
41:26backwards from
41:28that crime scene.
41:29That's where
41:29flat-out detective work
41:31comes into play.
41:32You're going to gather
41:33all of this evidence,
41:34you're going to sit in a room
41:35and you're going to
41:35break it down.
41:36There's a number of things
41:38that you can look at
41:39to determine
41:41a motive
41:42when it comes
41:43to a crime like this.
41:45Her possibly seeing
41:45somebody else,
41:46jealousy,
41:47money,
41:48are all factors
41:50that leads
41:51in this investigation.
41:52Circumstantial evidence
41:53becomes the smoking gun.
41:55All of these little bits
41:57of suspicious behavior
41:58that on their own
41:59you might not think of
42:01but put all together,
42:02it definitely led the trail.
42:04So really,
42:05it is a circumstantial case,
42:07but it's one of the strongest ones
42:08that I've seen.
42:12They did put a GPS tracker
42:14on his truck
42:15to keep tabs on him,
42:17and so we didn't know it
42:19at the time,
42:20but Adam Fravel
42:21was a suspect
42:22for investigators
42:22from the very first day.
42:24When it comes
42:25to a family situation
42:28that someone in the family
42:29might be involved,
42:30you don't want to be wrong.
42:32You take your time
42:33and you just methodically
42:35go through
42:35every aspect of this,
42:37and once you start
42:38really the beginnings
42:40of building a case
42:41up against one individual,
42:43you want to be
42:44100% right
42:45that you're on target
42:47and you have
42:47the person you want.
42:49Investigators need
42:50to make direct links
42:51between Adam Fravel
42:52and physical evidence
42:53found on or with
42:54Maddie's body.
42:55When the body was discovered,
42:57it was wrapped
42:57in a gray fitted sheet,
43:00and the tape that was used
43:01was a specific
43:02black gorilla tape.
43:03So that in and of itself
43:05may not mean anything
43:06until you go back
43:08to what your search warrant
43:10uncovered.
43:10What is the likelihood
43:12that the matching set
43:14of sheets in the home
43:15are going to be missing
43:16the fitted sheet?
43:17And then the tape,
43:19although it's just
43:19average tape
43:20you can buy in a store,
43:21the fact that there was
43:22some in the house
43:23and there was some
43:24found on her body,
43:25it draws a connection.
43:27Suffocating someone
43:28or choking someone
43:29is a very violent act,
43:31and that person
43:33is not going to be killed
43:35immediately.
43:35There is going to be
43:37a fight in that person.
43:38So you go back
43:40to the scratch marks,
43:41you gather evidence,
43:42and at some point
43:43you kind of put it
43:44to the side
43:45thinking it's one thing,
43:46but then once the body's found
43:48then the cause of death
43:49is determined.
43:50Now those scratches
43:51make sense.
43:53They didn't find any DNA
43:55under her nails
43:55of his skin
43:56or anything like that.
43:57It was no surprise
43:58that you were going to find
43:59his DNA on the towel
44:01or the sheets
44:02or something.
44:03They lived together.
44:04That wasn't the issue.
44:06What happened is
44:07there was no other DNA,
44:09so there was nothing else
44:10to say that this was
44:11some unknown other individual
44:14that had anything
44:15to do with this.
44:17I'm here today
44:18to announce
44:18my office filed charges
44:20against Adam Taylor Freyville
44:22for the murder
44:23of Madeline Kingsbury.
44:25We have charged
44:26Mr. Freyville
44:27with second-degree
44:29intentional murder
44:30and second-degree
44:32unintentional murder.
44:34Adam Freyville
44:35is arrested and charged
44:36with the murder
44:36of Madeline Kingsbury.
44:38For Madeline's family,
44:39though, the fight for justice
44:40has only just begun.
44:42The thought that a lot
44:43of her family and friends
44:44stuck to was that
44:45Maddie would never
44:46have willingly walked away
44:47and Maddie said it herself
44:49that if something
44:50ever happened to her
44:51that Adam Freyville
44:52should be the first person
44:53that investigators look at.
44:54She had given
44:55Adam an ultimatum.
44:57Adam had a deadline.
44:58Adam had to move
44:59out of their home
44:59the very weekend
45:00that she ended up
45:01going missing.
45:03Another big motive
45:04that investigators
45:05would determine
45:05was that he was
45:07financially dependent
45:08on Maddie
45:08and he was
45:09emotionally dependent
45:10on Maddie
45:10and when Maddie
45:11was leaving him
45:12Adam didn't really
45:13have much else.
45:14In October 2024
45:16Adam Freyville's trial
45:17officially begins
45:19but there are no cameras
45:19that are allowed inside.
45:21Now during the course
45:22of this grueling
45:24month-long trial
45:25jurors hear
45:27how their relationship
45:28deteriorated
45:29how ultimatums
45:30were given
45:31and how when another man
45:32entered the picture
45:33Adam Freyville's jealousy
45:36and anger
45:37drove him over the edge.
45:39This trial was
45:40so different
45:41from any other one
45:42that I had covered
45:43because Madeline's
45:45whole family
45:46essentially
45:46and her closest friends
45:48were sequestered
45:49as witnesses
45:50which means
45:50that they cannot
45:51be in the courtroom.
45:52The day that they
45:53showed Maddie's autopsy
45:55and what she looked like
45:57when they found her
45:58was...
45:58it was horrendous.
46:00There were so many
46:00of us that
46:01had never seen
46:02something like that
46:03before.
46:04People in the courtroom
46:05were just gutted.
46:07Adam had no reaction
46:07whatsoever.
46:08No tears,
46:10no emotion,
46:11no nothing
46:11and even if you
46:12didn't do it
46:13seeing the mother
46:15of your kids like that
46:16would surely bring you
46:17to some kind of emotion
46:18but for Adam
46:19there was nothing there.
46:20When you have him
46:22in that unbelievably
46:24suspicious circumstance
46:26with the cadaver dogs,
46:28with the shovel,
46:29with human remains
46:30in the area
46:31where she ultimately
46:33is found
46:34and where she's found
46:35is so close
46:36to his family's property
46:37that is just
46:38way, way, way
46:39too many coincidences
46:41for a reasonable juror
46:42to ignore.
46:43The investigation
46:44in this case
46:45they really did
46:46start from nothing
46:47and they built
46:48layer upon layer
46:49upon layer
46:49upon layer
46:50and then finally
46:51built a rock solid case.
46:53The only point
46:55that we ever saw
46:56a motion from
46:57Adam Fravel
46:58was right before
46:59the jury returned
47:00the verdict
47:01he burst into tears
47:03and you could see
47:04that he was very
47:04visibly upset
47:05before the jury
47:06even said
47:07that he was guilty
47:07and I think he knew
47:08that that was the end
47:09and he did not
47:11get away with it.
47:12When the deliberations end
47:14his fate is sealed
47:15guilty on all charges.
47:17Then about a month later
47:18the case reaches
47:19its final chapter
47:20inside the courtroom
47:21with victim impact statements.
47:23The defendant
47:25could have stopped
47:27but he didn't.
47:29He could have
47:31treated Madeline
47:32like the extraordinary
47:33person she was
47:35but he didn't.
47:36He could have
47:38given Maddie
47:39and the kids
47:40a good life
47:41but he didn't.
47:42Instead
47:43he treated her
47:44like she was nothing
47:45and made her
47:46very existence
47:48miserable
47:49and then
47:50he snuffed
47:51the life
47:52out of her.
47:53I continue
47:54to live my
47:55worst nightmare
47:56over and over again.
47:58There is no peace
48:00no reassurance
48:02no happy ending.
48:05Instead
48:05Madeline's kids
48:07will grow up
48:07without their mommy
48:08and we go on
48:11as best as possible
48:12without our daughter
48:13sister
48:15friend
48:16and aunt.
48:18To hear them
48:19describe
48:20what it was like
48:22to not even know
48:23where Maddie was
48:24for two months
48:25it brought a lot
48:26of us to tears
48:27and that courtroom
48:27was absolutely packed.
48:30The facts
48:30laid bare
48:31that she was
48:31attacked and killed
48:32by a coward
48:33twice her size
48:35someone who she
48:36had once loved
48:3769 days
48:38spent searching
48:39desperately for her
48:41nights
48:42staring out
48:43into the darkness
48:43wondering where she was
48:45wondering if she was
48:46alive or dead
48:47and wondering
48:48if we would ever find her.
48:49she truly was
48:51and always
48:52will be
48:52the apple
48:54of my eye.
48:55Her name
48:56is Maddie.
48:58Before Madeline
48:59was found
48:59those 69 days
49:00were
49:01absolute torture.
49:03The world
49:04continues around you
49:05but
49:06you're there
49:06frozen
49:07in time.
49:09Madeline is gone
49:10every holiday
49:11every special event
49:12every milestone
49:13we have no choice
49:14we have to carry on
49:15without her.
49:17the defendant
49:18made the choice
49:19to take her life
49:20which she had
49:20no right to do.
49:22We are not broken.
49:25Madeline will forever
49:26be remembered
49:27and loved.
49:29Her children
49:29will know
49:30who their mother
49:31is and was.
49:32They will also know
49:34when they're old enough
49:34what happened to her
49:37and that their father
49:38is the monster
49:38who took her
49:39from them.
49:40With the weight
49:41of a possible life
49:42sentence before him
49:43Adam Fravel
49:44actually takes time
49:45to address the court
49:45himself
49:46but his words
49:47offer little to no
49:48comfort to Maddie's
49:49family.
49:51I never caused
49:52harm to Maddie
49:54and I am innocent.
49:56Today this courtroom
49:58serves as a reminder
49:59of the tragic result
50:00of a planned act
50:01of violence
50:01that has forever
50:03changed the lives
50:04of at least two families
50:05and left a lasting
50:06impact on our community.
50:08We mourn the loss
50:10of Maddie Kingsbury
50:11a life taken too soon
50:13by an act of unimaginable
50:14cruelty.
50:15Mr. Fravel
50:16it is the judgment
50:18of this court
50:18that you be committed
50:19to the custody
50:20of the Commissioner
50:21of Corrections
50:22and sentenced
50:23to life imprisonment
50:24without the possibility
50:25of release.
50:26A lot of families
50:28that have to cope
50:30with this type of loss
50:32in this type of way
50:33really give in
50:34to anger
50:35and hatred.
50:37This particular family
50:38has tried to
50:39turn this into
50:41something positive.
50:42They started a foundation
50:43to try and help
50:44other people.
50:45Any domestic violence
50:47incident is a tragedy
50:48but the fact that
50:50they were able
50:51to use social media
50:54and transform
50:55what is an unspeakably
50:57terrible situation
50:58into something
50:59that can turn into
51:01potentially a ray of hope
51:02for someone else.
51:04Domestic violence
51:05is such a messy
51:07and complicated issue
51:09for society
51:10to understand.
51:11There are so many people
51:13that think that
51:14it's just so easy
51:16to walk away
51:16from an abuser.
51:19Maddie thought
51:19that she was doing
51:20what was best
51:20as a mom
51:21and in the end
51:23Maddie was doing
51:23exactly what Maddie
51:24should have done
51:25which is leave him
51:26and she found the courage
51:28and the bravery
51:28to leave him
51:29and that was
51:30what ended up
51:31setting him off.
51:32This is an
51:33unbelievable tragedy.
51:34You have a devoted
51:35mother, daughter,
51:37friend taken
51:38far too soon.
51:40Madeline Kingsbury
51:41was just starting
51:42a new chapter
51:43when her life
51:44was cut short
51:45and what's left behind
51:46is a family
51:48who is not only
51:49honoring her memory
51:50but fighting
51:52the plague
51:53of domestic violence.
51:55This case
51:56had a profound
51:57impact on me.
51:59I was such a young
52:00reporter when
52:01Maddie went missing
52:02and, you know,
52:04we cover this stuff
52:05all the time
52:06but there was
52:08something about
52:09Maddie's case
52:09where you just felt
52:10like you really
52:11knew her, her family.
52:13They said the biggest
52:14thing that they wanted
52:14people to know
52:15about her was that
52:16she was so
52:17unbelievably kind
52:18that she always
52:19was thinking of
52:20other people
52:21before herself.
52:22Maddie didn't deserve
52:23the ending
52:23that she got.
52:32too much about her.
52:37and
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