Summary
A man named Robert Scott Froberg has been charged with kidnapping and killing a 7-year-old girl in Kentucky back in 1996. Froberg is currently serving a 40-year sentence in Alabama for robbery but has confessed to the 1996 crime. He may face life in prison or the death penalty if convicted.
Key Facts
- Robert Scott Froberg is charged with the 1996 abduction and murder of 7-year-old Morgan Jade Violi in Kentucky.
- Froberg is 62 years old and is already serving a 40-year sentence in Alabama for robbery.
- He confessed to the crime after escaping from an Alabama prison in 1996.
- Morgan Violi was taken from the parking lot of her apartment in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
- Witnesses reported seeing a man in a maroon Chevrolet van during the abduction.
- The van was stolen from Dayton, Ohio, and found later in Franklin, Tennessee.
- Froberg has a history of escaping from prisons, including one in Pennsylvania.
- He faces the possibility of life imprisonment or the death penalty for this case.
