Father of missing Minnesota woman's kids arrested after body found

June 8 (UPI) -- Police in Minnesota investigating the disappearance of a Winona woman last seen late March have arrested and charged the father of her two children after human remains were found Wednesday.

Adam Taylor Fravel, the 29-year-old father of two children he shares with missing Madeline Jane Kingsbury, was booked into the Winona County Detention Center shortly after 7 p.m. Wednesday on suspicion of second-degree murder, according to jail records.

The police department in Winona, which is located on the Minnesota border with Wisconsin about 115 miles southeast of Minneapolis, said Fravel was arrested on probable cause in connection to Kingsbury's disappearance.

The arrest came after a Fillmore County deputy found human remains in the brush off Highway 43 north of Mabel, Minn., on Wednesday afternoon.

The Winona Police Department said the body was found "using information generated during the Madeline Kingsbury investigation."

"The Southern Minnesota Regional Medical Examiner's office are working quickly as possible to positively identify the remains," it said, adding that they are asking the community to "respect the family's privacy at this time and not to speculate on the case until further information is made available."

Kingsbury, 26, was last seen March 31 as she dropped her two children, aged 2 and 5, off at daycare shortly after 8 a.m.

She then failed to arrive and work and to pick up her children later that afternoon.

Winona Police Chief Tom Willians described her disappearance during an early April press conference as "involuntary" and "suspicious."

A press conference is expected to be held Thursday in the Winona City Council Chambers.