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a new 48 Hours investigation looks Into The Disappearance of a young Minnesota woman Maddie kingsberry a 26-year-old
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mother of two disappeared in March of 2023 her distraught sister Megan turned to Tik Tock to tell the world about
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Maddie and asked for help Peter VanZant shows us what might have happened to Maddie after not hearing from her sister
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Maddie on March 31st 2023 Megan Kingsbury first reached out to Adam frel who lived with Maddie and is the father
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of their two children he said I'm concerned too because I haven't heard from her and so I met my parents you
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know with the kids Megan then took to social media hey Tik Tock I'm uh posting an update we still haven't found my
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sister eventually an estimated 2,000 volunteers joined the search my sister is still missing police and other law
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enforcement are obviously still searching everyone's frustrated and we just can't figure out where she
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is the search went on for more than 2 months until June 7th 2023 this area here in this Culvert is
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where Mattie's body was found police arrested Adam frel and charged him with first-degree murder police say Maddie
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was found wrapped in a gray bed sheet that seemed seemed to match a set found at their home in a strange twist Megan
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had told police about a comment Adam made 18 months before madd's disappearance he essentially had told
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her you know if you don't start listening up you know you'll end up like Gabby petito Gabby petito the young
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woman whose case fixated the nation in the fall of 2021 according to the criminal complaint
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Adam admitted he made those Gabby Patito comments but claimed he was trying to make a joke he denied any physical abuse
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during the search he put out a statement that read in part I have cooperated with
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law enforcement at every turn I did not have anything to do with mty's disappearance you can watch The
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Disappearance of mattity kingsberry on 48 hours tomorrow night at 109 Central right here on CBS and streaming on
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Paramount Plus