Feds say they've solved a haunting decades-old cold case
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The United States Attorney says DNA led to a break in the1996 kidnapping and murder of 7-year-old Morgan Jade Violi in Kentucky.
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Authorities said they solved a nearly 30-year-old cold case when they charged Robert Scott Froberg, a prison escapee, with kidnapping resulting in the 1996 death of 7-year-old Morgan Jade Violi in Kentucky.
United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky Kyle G. Bumgarner announced on Feb. 27 that Froberg has confessed to abducting Morgan and causing her death that summer, shortly after he had broken out of an Alabama prison. He was arrested later in 1996 for the prison break and has been in custody ever since, Bumgarner said.
Bumgarner called the news "one of the most significant announcements by the United States Attorney’s Office in at least a decade."
"For years, the community has feared that Morgan’s abductor lived silently among us. We feared that one of our kids might be next. I hope this announcement today can give some level of comfort to this community, my hometown," Bumgarner said.
Morgan disappeared from the parking lot of the apartment complex where she lived in Bowling Green on July 24, 1996, while she played with another girl, the Louisville Courier-Journal, part of the USA TODAY Network, reported. Bowling Green is a city about 65 miles outside of Nashville, Tennessee, and had about 40,600 residents at the time of the 1990 Census, and about 80,000 residents now.
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