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Alabama Inmate Charged After Girl Kidnapped in Kentucky Found Dead in Middle Tennessee in 1996

Robert Scott Froberg faces federal charges after new DNA evidence and an alleged confession solved the 30-year-old cold case involving a child's abduction and murder.

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Members of multiple agencies gathered Friday to announce a "significant development" in the case of Morgan Violi, a child from Bowling Green whose body was discovered in White House nearly 30 years ago.

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A man who was a fugitive at the time of the kidnapping of a 7-year-old girl in Kentucky has been charged with her murder three decades later, according to authorities. Morgan Jade Violi was kidnapped while playing outside her apartment building on July 24, 1996 in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Her case remained unresolved until recent advances in forensic science linked Robert Scott Froberg to the crime. Froberg, who was already in the Alabama prison…

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WKRN broke the news in Nashville, United States on Friday, February 27, 2026.
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