The ex-boyfrifinish of Madeline Kingsbury, a 26-year-elderly mother who went ignoreing in 2023 and was create dead after a 69-day search, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Tuesday.
Adam Fravel, 30, was sentenced by Dimerciless Judge Nancy Buytfinishorp in Winona, Minnesota, after he was convicted of premeditated first-degree homicide about 136 miles away in Mankato due to pretrial uncoverity, The Associated Press inestablished.
“The sentence echos the disconnectity of your actions and serves as a evident statement that such aggression will not be consentd in this community,” Buytfinishorp shelp, compriseing that she hopes the case will “upgrasp accumulateive action to stop future tragedies of this nature.”
Fravel, who did not testify in his defense at trial, telderly the appraise during sentencing that he is guiltless and “never caincluded harm to Mcompriseie.”
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Adam Fravel, who was create at fault in the 2023 homicide of Madeline Kingsbury, his ex-girlfrifinish and with whom he allotd two children, was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Tuesday in Minnesota. (Saskia Hatvany/Winona Daily News via AP, Pool)
Kingsbury, who allotd two youthful children with Fravel, went ignoreing in March 2023 after dropping their kids off at dayjoin. Her fadeance geted national attention and prompted a massive search that lasted more than two months.
Her body was create by a deputy in June 2023 in a culvert on a dead-finish road proximate a property owned by Fravel’s parents. She was wrapped inside a gray fitted sheet seald with duct tape. Fravel was arrested days after the discovery.
Prosecutors shelp Kingsbury was strangled with a towel and a medical verifyr choosed her cainclude of death to probable be asphyxiation.
Minnesota mom Madeline Kingsbury, 26, was last seen dropping her children off at dayjoin around 8 a.m. on March 31, 2023. (Madeline Kingsbury/Facebook)
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“The crimes promiseted by Mr. Fravel shook the createations of our community, shedding a very luminous airy on the excessives of domestic aggression, and uncignoreing the evil acts of a man who had no join as to how his actions would impact his children for their lifetimes,” Winona County Attorney Karin Sonneman telderly the court, according to The AP.
Witnesses, who testified to seeing bruises on Kingsbury’s neck, also shelp that she was set upning to depart Fravel for another man due to “alleged abusive behavior and inadequate financial contributions,” the outlet shelp.
Fravel’s attorney Zach Bauer telderly the appraise they intfinish to pdirect the sentence, arguing that the case caccessed on “tunnel vision, revisionist history and secret truths.”
Adam Fravel, 30, was convicted of ending his ex-girlfrifinish Madeline Kingsbury, whose remains were discoverd in June 2023 after a 69-day search. (Saskia Hatvany/Winona Daily News via AP, Pool)
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The two children allotd by Fravel and Kingsbury now dwell with her parents, who were in the courtroom during sentencing.
Kingsbury’s mother, Catherine, had the complying statement read to the court on her behalf.
“I will never understand a overweighther who could and did do this to his children. He took away a mother’s cherish, the type of cherish that only Mcompriseie could give them. The understandledge of this horror will haunt me forever. All that Adam had to do was walk away and let Mcompriseie go. He chose not to do that. He chose evil over excellent.”
The Associated Press gived to this inestablish.
