Brett Gitchel, 46, is expected to be charged with the murder of 58-year-old Leticia Martinez-Cosman, who was last seen on a date with him at a March 31 Seattle Mariners game.
Minnesota mother-of-two Madeline Kingsbury was seeking to move out of the home she shared with her ex, Adam Fravel, when she went missing on March 31, her family said. Fravel, with whom she co-parented, has denied any involvement in the 26-year-old's "suspicious" disappearance.
After several DNA tests concluded that Polish woman Julia Faustyna was not long-missing girl Madeleine McCann, the 21-year-old turned to social media to apologize to the McCann family.
The "Drake & Josh" actor pleaded guilty to charges of child endangerment in 2021 after a woman accused him of grooming her when she was a child. His probation in that case recently ended.
Seattle investigators found an unidentified body while searching for missing mother Leticia Martinez-Cosman, who disappeared after attending a baseball game with Brett Gitchel, who has been charged with subsequently kidnapping and trying to kill her son.
"The last communication that I had with her was on the morning of March 31," said missing Madeline Kingsbury's sister. "We were chuckling about a funny photo exchange between us."
"We believe Maddi's disappearance is involuntary, suspicious and we are all concerned for her safety," Winona Police Chief Tom Williams said of 26-year-old mother of two, Madeline Jane Kingsbury.
A 21-year-old Polish named woman Julia Wendell believed she was potentially Madeleine McCann, a toddler who went missing in 2007 during a family vacation to Portugal. Recent DNA test results say otherwise.