Madeline Kingsbury updates: Lacking Minnesota mother’s ultimate texts revealed as household slams ‘gossip’ about search

Madeline Kingsbury, a 26-year-old mom of two youngsters, was final seen on 31 March.

In accordance with the police, Ms Kingsbury and her husband returned to their dwelling in Winona after dropping off their children at daycare on Friday.

The husband stated he left for work in Ms Kingsbury’s van, round 10am native time, and returned later within the day solely to seek out his spouse gone.

Ms Kingsbury didn’t present up for work that day or reply to “quite a few” calls and messages from family and friends. She additionally failed to choose up her youngsters from daycare that afternoon, which the police stated was “extraordinarily out of character for her”.

Madeline Kingsbury’s household have launched a number of photographs of her distinct tattoos in hopes that they might assist find the mom who has now been lacking for every week.

The photographs had been included in a put up on the “Discover Madeline Kingsbury” Fb web page which sought to debunk false hypothesis on the case.

Winona police have stated that there are presently no suspects and no individuals of curiosity within the case.

Nevertheless, they look like specializing in the actions of Ms Kingsbury’s minivan – and are asking for the general public’s assist in tracing its journeys on the day of her disappearance.

Chief Tom Williams confirmed that the automobile will not be lacking and that each the van and Ms Kingsbury’s dwelling have been searched.

Surveillance footage has captured a automobile matching the outline of the van was captured driving from the house alongside highways and thru Winona County and Fillmore County earlier than heading again to the home.

After the automobile returned dwelling, it’s not believed to have gone anyplace else.

Throughout Thursday’s press launch, police refused to say who was driving the van.

“That isn’t info we are able to share presently,” they stated.

The police chief stated that there’s “nothing to point that she left the residence on foot or in one other automobile”.

The 2 youngsters are protected and there doesn’t look like any menace to the general public, police stated.

The Filmore County Sheriff’s Workplace and the Winona County Police Division introduced on Saturday that greater than 2,600 volunteers helped comb by huge areas throughout large searches over the weekend.

“As we develop new leads and new search areas, groups of regulation enforcement will do focused searches,” a press release by the departments read.

“We aren’t giving up and we wish to thank everybody for his or her continued help for Maddi and her household.”

Authorities have requested residents within the Metropolis of Winona, Wilson Township, and Hillsdale Township to look their acreage, wooded property, outbuildings, automobiles and trails for “something suspicious”.

Dive groups and police ATVs have additionally been used within the search. The Winona Police Division stated on Saturday that search efforts shall be scaled again however the investigation stays ongoing.

Winona police have supplied scant particulars concerning the day of Madeline Kingsbury’s disappearance.

What we do know is that Ms Kingsbury and the daddy of her youngsters dropped their two youngsters – aged two and 5 – off at daycare at round 8am on 31 March.

At round 8.15am, the mother-of-two returned to her dwelling.

Her whereabouts after this time stay a thriller.

She failed to point out up for work – one thing that police stated was “very not like her” – and her cellphone, pockets, ID and the jacket she was carrying that morning had been all discovered inside the house.

The daddy of her youngsters informed investigators that he left Ms Kingsbury’s dwelling at round 10am that morning, driving off in her 2014 darkish blue Chrysler City and Nation minivan.

He stated that he returned later that day and located Ms Kingsbury wasn’t dwelling.

Family and friends members tried to contact the 26-year-old that day however couldn’t pay money for her.

Once more, police stated this was uncommon behaviour for her.

“Based mostly on all this we imagine Madeline’s disappearance is involuntary, suspicious and we’re all involved for her security,” stated Winona Police Chief Tom Williams.

Megan Kingsbury posted a TikTok on Wednesday with updates concerning the seek for her lacking sister Madeline.

Megan stated she, relations and household buddies have been driving by Winona County, the place Madeline lived, and Fillmore County.

The Fillmore County Sheriff’s Workplace beforehand requested help from residents in Winona and close by townships to look their property.

The sister of Madeline Kingsbury has stated that her household turned fearful when the lacking mother-of-two stopped answering her cellphone.

“That is very not like her,” Megan informed Fox News. “She’s not the kind of one that would wish to take a break and never inform anyone. If she had an issue and wished to get away, she would come to my home.”

Megan stated that the final textual content she obtained from Madeline was at 8.15am on the day that she went lacking.

“We had been chuckling a few humorous picture alternate between us, and that was the final communication with me, or with any of my household or her different buddies,” Megan stated.

Madeline was final seen in Winona on 31 March shortly after she dropped her youngsters off at daycare with their father.

The daddy, who has not been described particularly by police as her husband, stated they returned dwelling and he departed for work in her van at round 10am.

Megan refused to reply questions on Madeline’s husband, asking as an alternative that the main focus remained on discovering Madeline.

“There’s quite a lot of hypothesis, after all, with individuals developing with theories and asking us quite a lot of questions that we are able to’t reply,” she informed Fox. “We simply wish to maintain the deal with discovering her. We’re asking individuals maintain their eyes and ears open.”

She was by no means seen or heard from once more.

Madeline Kingsbury, a 26-year-old mom of two youngsters, was final seen on 31 March.

In accordance with the police, Ms Kingsbury and her husband returned to their dwelling in Winona after dropping off their children at daycare on Friday.

The husband stated he left for work in Ms Kingsbury’s van, round 10am native time, and returned later within the day solely to seek out his spouse gone.

Ms Kingsbury didn’t present up for work that day or reply to “quite a few” calls and messages from family and friends. She additionally failed to choose up her youngsters from daycare that afternoon, which the police stated was “extraordinarily out of character for her”.