Sneak peek: The Disappearance of Maddi Kingsbury | Forensic Files

[Music] I would like to thank all of you for taking the time to spread the word about
The Disappearance of meline Maddie Kingsbury our search efforts have included people on foot in vehicles as
well as by water and air meline is a hardworking and um dedicated mother family is everything to her uh she's
grown into an impressive and beautiful young woman please help us find meline the children
need their [Music] mother my sister is kind and quirky and caring and my best friend Maddie
Kingsbury a young Sorority Girl from Winona State University meets Adam fril a young fraternity boy they have two
children they were not married M was last seen the morning of Friday March 31st Maddie and Adam took the kids to
daycare and dropped them off around 8:00 a.m. by they got back to the house and Adam said he saw Maddie go downstairs
and where her home office was to work he left and he didn't see her again I sent
her this funny picture and we were just kind of laughing back and forth about it
and that was at 8:15 that morning and then I didn't hear anything else Maddy's family and friends tried to contact
Maddie throughout the day on March 30 first without success I sent a message to Adam and I said hey none of us have
heard from meline all day he said I'm concerned too because I haven't heard from her and so I met my parents you
know with the kids so I contacted a friend of Maddie's her name is Katie I said I need you to go to her house and
see if she's there nobody was home so I called the police I started ing at that point they said that
there was no sign of her there's no sign of a struggle we are very hopeful that we will find her no stone is being left
unturned who is Spencer Sullivan Spencer Sullivan is a man that meline had started seeing it was an on andof type
situation um because there were times where she would tell me I don't know if this is going to work out because of
Adam We Believe Maddy's disappearance is in voluntary suspicious and we are using
every tool at our disposal to find her so I took to social media Tik Tok mainly hey Tik Tock I'm uh posting an update I
am out in Filmore County we still haven't found my sister I mean hundreds of thousands of people saw her Tik toks
almost 1,00 people signed up today to come look for my sister and she was pleading with the public to help and
pleading with every body to take a look everywhere and anywhere for her sister people just don't vanish my sister is
still missing police and other law enforcement are obviously still searching everyone's frustrated
and we just can't figure out where she is Maddy's still missing I think it's day
68 I would talk to her when I was out looking for her I wanted to be the one to find her I didn't want anyone else in
my family to find her if it's going to be one of us please let it be me this has gone on too long we we want
to bring her home

A young Minnesota mother goes missing. Her sister turns to TikTok for help. "48 Hours" correspondent Peter Van Sant reports Saturday, April 13 at 10/9c on CBS and streaming on Paramount+.

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Brief Summary

Maddie Kingsbury's disappearance prompts family-led search efforts and social media outreach for help.

Key points

Plea for Help. Maddie's sister pleads with the public to help find her sister.
The Disappearance of Meline Maddie Kingsbury. Maddie Kingsbury, a dedicated mother, goes missing after dropping her kids off at daycare.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

People just don't vanish.

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