Months before her disappearance, Madeline Kingsbury reportedly sent text messages to her friends, describing disturbing comments made by her ex-boyfriend, who is now suspected of killing her.
According to newly-released warrants obtained by KARE 11, 26-year-old Kingsbury told friends that her former boyfriend, 29-year-old Adam Fravel, told her that if she didn’t behave, she would “end up like Gabby Petito.”
Then, a month before Kingsbury vanished, she visited a friend at Mayo Clinic, where she worked. According to warrants, Kingsbury told the friend that “everything is bad with Adam at the house,” and that he had been “beating the hell” out of her “for years.”
“If anything happens to me, know that Adam did it. I would never leave my kids,” she reportedly said.
As CrimeOnline previously reported, Kingsbury was last seen March 31 after dropping off her two young children at a daycare in Winona, about an hour north of where her body was found. Kingsbury is believed to have returned to her home after leaving the daycare with Fravel (the father of the two children). She then failed to show up for work at the Mayo Clinic.
Police found Kingsbury’s body on a remote property a few miles from Fravel’s parent’s home near Mabel, Minnesota on June 7; a deputy from the Fillmore County Sheriff’s Office searched the rural area around a mile away from Highway 43, and found the body inside a trench connected to a gravel road.
The remains were wrapped in what appeared to be a gray fitted bed sheet, secured with black “Gorilla” tape.
Investigators discovered that the Fravel family regularly maintained this particular property, which is in close proximity to the defendant’s parents’ home.
Then, while searching Kingsbury’s home in Winona, investigators found a roll of black Gorilla tape that matched the color and width of the tape found on the fitted sheet used to wrap the body.
The gray fitted sheet was similar to bedding found at the Winona residence, the criminal complaint read.
Fravel told police that he left the home in Kingsbury’s minivan at around 10 a.m. and when he came back later that day, she was gone from the residence, according to KTTC-TV.
A vehicle matching the van’s description, a dark blue Chrysler Town and County, was spotted traveling on area county roads and highways between 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. that day, according to NBC News. However, authorities have not said who was driving the van during this time or whether they have that information.
Fravel and Kingsbury lived together but they were no longer in a relationship, and Kingsbury was looking to move into a home when she vanished.
Fravel has previously denied any responsibility for her disappearance. He remains behind bars without bail in connection with Kingsbury’s murder.
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[Feature Photo: Madeline Kingsbury/Handout]
