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Remains found near Mabel, Minnesota identified as Maddi Kingsbury
On June 7, police arrested Maddi’s former partner Adam Fravel on suspicion of second-degree murder in connection to her death.
WINONA, Minn. — More than two months after Winona resident Madeline Kingsbury went missing, police confirmed Thursday that remains found in rural Minnesota on June 7 belong to her.
The same day Maddi’s remains were found police arrested her former partner and biological father of her children, Adam Fravel, on suspicion of second-degree murder.
At a press conference Thursday, Winona Police Chief Tom Williams said the property where Maddi’s remains were found, a wooded area off a gravel road near Highway 43 just north of Mabel, Minnesota, had previously been searched but her body was concealed and not visible at that time. Williams told reporters “digital evidence” led a Fillmore County deputy back to that spot Wednesday, and remains were discovered.
An exam by the Southern Minnesota Regional Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed that the remains recovered from the remote property belong to Maddi Kingsbury.
“While this discovery is not what we were hoping for, we are thankful to be able to bring Maddi home to her family,” Williams said, as several people at the press conference sobbed audibly.
Authorities said the remains were found around 1:30 p.m., and Fravel was arrested at a residence in Mabel at 5:20 p.m. without incident.
Madeline’s family reacted to the arrest of her former partner ahead of Thursday’s press conference, praising investigators and expressing optimism that Fravel will be held accountable for her death.
“We’re relieved that Madeline has been found after months of intensive searching and grateful for the extraordinary efforts by law enforcement, other first responders and volunteers,” said Maddi’s father David Kingsbury in a released statement. “We’re certain that the correct person has been arrested, will be appropriately charged, and convicted of his crimes. Things are moving in the right direction there and we look forward to getting justice for Madeline. For right now we will mourn as a family and properly and respectfully lay her to rest.”
Chief Williams acknowledged that the 69 days of not knowing Kingsbury’s fate or whereabouts have been extremely hard on Maddi’s family, friends, law enforcement and community members who joined together to search for her. “But during this time, her family never gave up, law enforcement never gave up, the community… never gave up,” Williams said.
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Authorities refused to answer detailed questions about the investigation or potential charges, insisting they did not want to jeopardize Fravel’s prosecution. Chief Williams did say that investigators will continue to work the case, and “will hold anyone involved in Madeline’s disappearance accountable, and we are here to tell you we will hold steadfast on that commitment.”
When asked by a reporter if he thought additional people may be involved in her death, Willams would not comment further.
Since she disappeared, Maddi’s former partner has steadfastly proclaimed his innocence in the case.
“I did not have anything to do with Maddi’s disappearance. I want the mother of my 5-year-old and 2-year-old to be found and brought home safely. I want that more than anything,” he said in the statement 12 days after Kingsbury was reported missing.
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Aitkin County crash leaves 2 dead, others hurt
The crash happened when a Suburban pulling a trailer failed to stop at a stop sign, Minnesota State Patrol said.
WAUKENABO, Minn. — Two people from Minnetonka died in a crash Friday in Aitkin County while others, including children, were hurt.
According to Minnesota State Patrol, it happened at the intersection of Highway 169 and Grove Street/County Road 3 in Waukenabo Township at approximately 5:15 p.m.
A Suburban pulling a trailer was driving east on County Road 3 but did not stop at the stop sign at Highway 169, authorities said. The vehicle was struck by a northbound GMC Yukon. Two other vehicles were struck in the crash, but the people in those two cars were not injured.
In the Suburban, the driver sustained life-threatening injuries, according to State Patrol. Elizabeth Jane Baldwin, 61, of Minnetonka, and Marlo Dean Baldwin, 92, of Minnetonka, both died. Officials said the driver of the vehicle, a 61-year-old from Minnetonka, has life-threatening injuries.
There were six people in the Yukon when the crash occurred. The 44-year-old driver, as well as passengers ages 18, 14, and 11, sustained what officials described as life-threatening injuries. The other two passengers have non-life-threatening injuries.
Alcohol is not believed to be a factor in the crash, but officials said Elizabeth Jane Baldwin had not been wearing a seatbelt.
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Minnesotan behind ‘Inside Out 2’ helps kids name ‘hard emotions’
Pixar’s second installment of the movie features characters we’ve already met — Joy, Sadness and Anger — and gives them a new roommate named Anxiety.
MINNEAPOLIS — Pixar’s “Inside Out 2” universe plays out inside the mind of the movie’s adolescent protagonist, Riley.
She plays a kid from Minnesota whose family uproots her life by moving to San Francisco. But did you know that what plays out in Riley’s mind actually comes from the mind of a real-life Minnesotan?
“You are one of us!” said Breaking the News anchor Jana Shortal.
“Yes, I am!” said Burnsville native and the movie’s creator and director, Kelsey Mann.
Mann was chosen for the role by ANOTHER Minnesotan — Pete Docter, the man behind the original movie, “Inside Out.”
“I don’t know if Pete asked me to do this movie because I was from Minnesota and he was from Minnesota … I just think it worked out that way,” Mann said.
How two guys from the south metro made a pair of Pixar movies that would change the game is a hell of a story that began with Docter in 2015.
“He [Docter] was just trying to tell a fun story — an emotional, fun story — and didn’t realize how much it would help give kids a vocabulary to talk about things they were feeling because they are feeling those emotions, but they’re really hard to talk about,” Mann said.
Some parents, counselors and teachers might even tell you it did more good for kids than just entertain them. It unlocked their emotions and begged for what Mann set out to create at the beginning of 2020.
“That part was fun, particularly fun,” he said. “I think the daunting part was following up a film that everyone really loved.”
But Mann knew what he wanted to do with the movie’s follow-up, “Inside Out 2.”
“Diving into Riley’s adolescence … that was just fun,” he said.
This time around, Riley is 13, hitting puberty and facing all of what, and who, comes with it. The franchise’s second installment features characters we’ve already met — Joy, Sadness and Anger — and gives them a new roommate named Anxiety.
“I think that’s what’s fun about the ‘Inside Out’ world: You can take something we all know and give it a face,” Mann said. “We can give anxiety a name and a face.”
The film follows Riley’s emotions fighting it out for control of her life. Joy wants Riley to stay young and hold on only to joy, while anxiety is hell-bent on taking over Riley over at the age of 13 because as a lot of us know, that’s when anxiety often moves in.
“I always pitched it as a takeover movie, like an emotional takeover,” Mann said. “Anxiety can kind of feel like that; it can take over and kind of shove your other emotions to the side and repress them.”
For a kids’ movie, it’s hard to watch this animation play out, even when an adult has the keys to decide.
“I’m making a movie about anxiety and I still have to remind myself to have my anxiety take a seat,” Mann said.
All of our individual anxieties have a place in this world.
“The whole movie honestly is about acceptance. Both acceptance of anxiety being there and also of your own flaws,” said Mann.
Even for our kids, we have to remember that this is life.
Anxiety will come for them; it does for us all.
The “Inside Out” world just shows them it’s so.
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