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30-Year Cold Case Solved by Hair: Killer of Morgan Violi Found
28 Feb
Summary
- Robert Scott Froberg confessed to kidnapping and strangling Morgan Violi in 1996.
- A re-test of hair found in a van linked Froberg to the crime after 30 years.
- Froberg was already imprisoned for another crime when he escaped and committed the murder.
Robert Scott Froberg has confessed to the kidnapping and murder of 7-year-old Morgan Violi, an act that occurred in July 1996. At the time of the crime, Froberg was an escaped inmate from a lengthy prison sentence for armed robbery. He confessed to snatching Violi near a Bowling Green, Kentucky, apartment building during his escape.
Froberg admitted to driving Violi to another town in a stolen maroon van, where he strangled her with a handkerchief and abandoned her body in the woods. He then cleaned and abandoned the van at a truck stop, leaving behind a strand of hair that would eventually link him to the crime decades later.
Investigators were able to identify Froberg through a recent re-test of the hair sample, which was matched to him in the CODIS DNA database. This breakthrough, combined with piecing together Froberg's associates, led to his identification and arrest. Froberg was recaptured in August 1996 and has remained in prison since.
