Following the historic Lindbergh kidnapping (the abduction and murder of Charles Lindbergh's toddler son), United States Congress adopted a federal kidnapping statute—popularly known as the Lindbergh Law — which was intended to let federal authorities step in and pursue kidnappers once they had crossed a state border with their victim.
The theory behind the Lindbergh Law was that federal law enforcement intervention was needed because state and local law enforcement officers could not effectively pursue kidnappers across state borders; since federal law enforcement officers, such as FBI agents, have national enforcement authority, Congress believed they could do a much more effective job of dealing with kidnappings than could state and local authorities.
Lindbergh's father was practicing law in Little Falls when Lindbergh was born, but his mother, unwilling to rely on the limited facilities of country doctors and midwives, chose to have her child in Detroit.
Lindbergh's parents were not well matched, and a fire that destroyed their first house when Lindbergh was quite young led to the effective end of the marriage.
Lindbergh had not yet reached the end of his fourth decade when he became involved in the controversy that was to shadow his reputation and affect the direction of the rest of his life.
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