Unresolved: A True Crime & Mystery Podcast · Unresolved Productions

Morgan Violi (Update: February 2026)

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Robert Froberg confessed to strangling Morgan Violi as she screamed and fought him in the back of a stolen van.
This episode announces a major development in the 30-year-old cold case of seven-year-old Morgan Violi, who was abducted and murdered in Bowling Green, Kentucky in 1996. Through advancements in DNA technology, a hair preserved from the abduction vehicle was matched to career criminal Robert Scott Froberg, who confessed to the crime and has now been charged.

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Preserved evidence and new testing bring a long-delayed case back into focus without losing sight of Morgan herself.

This update on Morgan Jade Violi treats a decades-old kidnapping as both a forensic story and a family story. Morgan was seven when she disappeared from the Colony Apartments in Bowling Green, Kentucky, in 1996, and the episode follows the maroon Chevrolet van, the fiber…

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Press play when you want a cold-case answer built from a maroon van, preserved evidence, and one long-awaited forensic break.

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