Federal Kidnapping Act
Following the Lindbergh kidnapping (the abduction and murder of Charles Lindbergh's toddler son), the United States Congress passed a federal kidnapping statute—known as the Federal Kidnapping Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1201(a)(1) (popularly known as the Lindbergh Law, or Little Lindbergh Law)—which was intended to let federal authorities step in and pursue kidnappers once they had crossed state lines with their victim. == History == The act was first proposed in December 1931 by Missouri Senator Roscoe Conkling Patterson, who cited several recent kidnappings in Missouri and called for a federal solution.