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■Kidnapped in Connecticut ^ The ordeal began when Leaf, Ms. Hart’s former common-law husband, kidnapped her and their son sometime during the night of March 31 .from their home in i Trumbull,
; Comt | ; . H r brother-in-law reported her missing after she ■ failecf > arrive for Easter Sunday dinner. According to Trunjfc ill Police Department Captain Fred Nacovitch, officer^
ant to her parents’ house, where she was living . with Ji r son. They found the telephone wire cut at the ‘ junctwh-box outside and several rounds of live 9mm am; munition on the garage floor. Once inside they found her ; bedroom door kicked open and signs of a struggle.
Interviews with Leafs friends indicated that he had not been seen, and Capt. Nacovitch said that Leafs past history of violence and threats against Ms. Hart made the ' investigators suspect a kidnapping.
By Tuesday, April 5, enough evidence had been gathered to charge Leaf with two counts of kidnapping and burglary for the entry of the house.
A federal magistrate in New Haven, Conn, issued a £rderal warrant charging Leaf with unlawful flight to -void prosecution. According to Kevin August, an FBI agent in Richmond, after 24 hours a kidnapping suspect is assumed to have crossed state lines, which allows the FBI to enter the case and treat it as a federal offense.
Car found abandoned
No trace of the three was uncovered until last weekend, when Rappahannock County Sheriffs Department Lt. Jeff Brown found a green 1973 Chevrolet Nova abandoned on Rt. 612 in Old Hollow. The car had no license plates and the vehicle identification number, a metal plate affixed to the dashboard, had been pryed off.
He searched the car and found several papers with Charles Leafs name on them, including a receipt for the purchase of a Marlin 9mm carbine from a gun shop in Fairfield, Conn. The date on the sales slip was March 31. Leaf had used his own name but had falsified the slip with the address of his employer to buy the gun. Fairfield police referred the case to Capt. Nacovitch in nearby Trumbull.
Lt. Brown said that clothes were found in the trunk which were later identified as belonging to the Leafs’ son by the boy’s grandparents. Other evidence Lt. Brown found in the car also convinced Capt. Nacovitch that Ms. Hart’was still alive when the car was abandoned in Old Hollow.
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