Overview
- U.S. Attorney Kyle G. Bumgarner announced Feb. 27 that Robert Scott Froberg, 62, is charged with kidnapping resulting in death under federal law.
- An FBI re-test extracted DNA from a hair recovered in the maroon Chevrolet van, returning a CODIS association to Froberg, who had not been a suspect.
- According to an FBI affidavit, Froberg admitted in a Feb. 24 interview that he abducted 7-year-old Morgan Violi, strangled her, and left her body in White House, Tennessee.
- Morgan was taken from the parking lot of her Bowling Green apartment complex on July 24, 1996; the stolen van was found two days later in Franklin, Tennessee, and her remains were discovered that fall.
- A federal criminal complaint was filed Feb. 26 in the Western District of Kentucky, and Froberg—a two-time escapee recaptured in August 1996—faces life in prison or the death penalty if convicted.