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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.
