\n\t\t\t\t\t\tFederal and local officials have made a major break in a 30-year-old Kentucky kidnapping and murder case.7-year-old Morgan Violi was kidnapped from her neighborhood in Bowling Green back in 1996.Her body was found three months later in Tennessee.In a news conference held Friday, the FBI Louisville office said DNA evidence led them to indict a suspect, Robert Scott Froberg.Froberg is already in prison in Alabama on other charges. He’s been there since a few weeks after Morgan was killed.Agents say Froberg admitted to murdering Violi during a recent interview.”I hope this significant development brings some degree of closure for Morgan’s mom, her dad and her two older sisters. They’ve waited far too long for answers. Yesterday evening, we were able to give them those answers and to begin their process of closure. As we move forward in court, I would ask this Bowling Green community to continue to surround Morgan’s family in love and in prayer,” said Kyle G. Bumgarner, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky.Froberg faces either life in prison or the death penalty for his crime.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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Federal and local officials have made a major break in a 30-year-old Kentucky kidnapping and murder case.<\/p>\n
7-year-old Morgan Violi was kidnapped from her neighborhood in Bowling Green back in 1996.<\/p>\n
Her body was found three months later in Tennessee.<\/p>\n
In a news conference held Friday, the FBI Louisville office said DNA evidence led them to indict a suspect, Robert Scott Froberg.<\/p>\n
Froberg is already in prison in Alabama on other charges. He’s been there since a few weeks after Morgan was killed.<\/p>\n
Agents say Froberg admitted to murdering Violi during a recent interview.<\/p>\n
“I hope this significant development brings some degree of closure for Morgan’s mom, her dad and her two older sisters. They’ve waited far too long for answers. Yesterday evening, we were able to give them those answers and to begin their process of closure. As we move forward in court, I would ask this Bowling Green community to continue to surround Morgan’s family in love and in prayer,” said Kyle G. Bumgarner, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky.<\/p>\n
Froberg faces either life in prison or the death penalty for his crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Federal and local officials have made a major break in a 30-year-old Kentucky kidnapping and murder case.7-year-old Morgan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226260,40484,7740,4,450,25317,226262,151620,226259,451,569,29378,6135,2599,32679,156805,3,3076,226261,452,453],"class_list":["post-494160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-7-year-old-girl","tag-answer","tag-bowling-green","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-closure","tag-fbi-louisville-office","tag-federal-charge","tag-froberg","tag-headlines","tag-kentucky","tag-kidnapping","tag-man","tag-mom","tag-morgan","tag-murder-case","tag-news","tag-prison","tag-robert-scott-froberg","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}