There is a woman from Winona, Minnesota who has been missing since last Friday and her family has offered a reward of $50,000. From a news article;
"During the course of the investigation, Winona police know that Kingsbury returned to her residence in Winona after dropping her kids off at daycare around 8:15 a.m. on March 31 in a 2014 dark blue Chrysler Town and Country minivan.
The father of Kingsbury’s children said he left in her minivan around 10 a.m. and when he returned later in the day, she was not home.
Police believe a similar van was seen driving on County Road 12 and Highway 43 in Winona County and then southbound on Highway 43 through the eastern part of Fillmore County. Later, a van similar to Kingsbury’s drove back towards Winona on Highway 43. This occurred during the timeframe of 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Police said the van has been parked in her residence since 1:30 p.m. on March 31 and they are not currently looking for the van.
Authorities located her phone, the jacket she wore earlier that morning and her wallet inside the home.
Nothing to date indicates that Kingsbury left on foot or in another vehicle.
Winona Police believe Kingsbury’s disappearance is suspicious and involuntary."
https://www.weau.com/2023/04/05/pol...-womans-disappearance-involuntary-suspicious/
I admit that I didn't think to much about this case when I first heard it. I thought it could be somebody caught up in drugs that just took off. When the $50,000 reward was offered I started thinking that maybe it was something different.
It seems to me that the father of her children would be the top suspect. It seems he admits leaving in her van and says she was not there when he returned at 1:30. The article doesn't say what the father told the police about where he went in the van and it appears that they are trying to find video evidence of where it may have been suggesting they are suspicious that he may have taken her body somewhere. If she was home when he left, she disappeared between 10 AM and 1:30 PM. I can understand why the police don't think she left voluntarily. Who would have come to the house and kidnapped her in that time?
The police said that she was expected to be at work but they didn't say where she worked. I searched for Madeline Kingsbury and found Linkedin profile of a person by that name that looks like her who is a Clinical research coordinator for the Mayo Clinic branch in Winona Minnesota.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/madeline-kingsbury-0187a6174?original_referer=https://www.google.com/
I thought it could be her mother because it seems 26 is young to have that position but her mother's name is Deanna Naber.
They are saying it is out of character for her not to go to work or call in. She took her children to daycare at 8:15. I would think that a job at Mayo would start at 8:30 or 9 AM. Most people drop their children off at daycare on the way to work and don't go back home. Maybe she lived close enough to walk to work but I suspect she would drive her van to pick up the kids after work. If she did walk to work, I suppose she could have been grabbed then. The weather forecast for Friday the 31st was cold windy with a 97% chance of precipitation so not exactly a day to walk to work.
I would like to know what the father of her children said about her not going to work and why he didn't pick up the kids because the van probably had car seats for the children. Does he have a vehicle and why did he take hers?
Some reports say they started calling when she didn't come in to work. If the phone was in the house, certainly the kids father would have heard that.
My thought is that he killed her and used her van to drop the body somewhere. It would have been best if the van was missing too but he probably didn't have a way to get back to the house.
