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Human remains were found Wednesday in Minnesota during the search for a mother of two who went missing in late March, and a man identified as her ex has been taken into custody, police said.
The body, which has not been identified, was found Wednesday in Fillmore County “using information generated during the Madeline Kingsbury investigation,” Winona police said in a statement.
The medical examiner’s office was working to identify the remains, police said.
Kingsbury, 26, was last seen on March 31 when she dropped her children, then aged 5 and 2, at the nursery at 8 a.m., Winona police chief Tom Williams said at the time.
Winona police said law enforcement officers arrested Adam Fravel in connection with Kingsbury’s disappearance, but they did not say on what charges.
A Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension official has said that Fravel is Kingsbury’s ex-boyfriend.
A lawyer who allegedly represented Fravel in recent weeks did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Fravel, the father of the two children, has denied any involvement in Kingsbury’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 above all else,” he said in a statement in April.
The body was found by a Fillmore County deputy in a thicket along Highway 43 north of Mabel, Winona police said.
Mabel is a community about 40 miles south of Winona.
Fravel sought custody of the two children in court, but a judge ruled that the children should remain with Kingsbury’s parents while a family case unfolded. This has been reported by NBC partner KARE from Minneapolis.
