Welcome to postmortem. I'm your host Anne Marie Green, and today we are talking about Maddie Kingsbury,

26-year-old mother of two who disappeared on March 31st, 2023 after dropping her kids off at

daycare. About a week after her disappearance, about 2,000 people turned out to search for

Maddie covering a large stretch of southeastern Minnesota and her sister Megan took to TikTok

for help. So with me to discuss their reporting on Maddie Kingsbury's case,

our correspondent Peter Vancent and producer Jordan Kinsey. Welcome, guys.

Hi, Ann Marie. Hey, Ann Marie. Good to be with you again.

Once again, this is a fascinating case. If you haven't watched or listened to the episode,

The Disappearance of Maddie Kingsbury, then go do that now. It's the episode just

below this one in your podcast feed. To start, though, Jordan, we've had a few cases in

Minnesota this season. How did you learn about this case? Yes. So how I learned about the case was

that I was covering another trial in Minnesota and a court employee who I became

really close with mentioned to me about this case and knowing that the person missing was someone

she went to college with. And of course, that blew my mind in that moment. And she did say that I also attended college with Maddie's ex-boyfriend and father

for two kids and that we think he might have some type of involvement.

Wow.

So this is, you knew about the story before there was national coverage.

Yeah.

Yep.

Day one.

It just happened in that moment in the courtroom, just on break,

and their friends already texting, trying to figure out what's going on. So, yeah, I knew sort of before it hit the headlines.

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