counts of kidnapping and burglary for the entry of

counts of kidnapping and burglary for the entry of the house. A federal magistrate in New Haven, Conn., issued a federal warrant charging Leaf with unlawful flight to avoid 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 Sheriff’s 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 pried off. He searched the car and found several papers with Charles Leaf’s 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. Lt. Brown requested assistance from the Virginia State Police fin tracing the vehicle, and by Tuesday investigators had established that the car was registered in the name of Leaf’s present girlfriend. She was interviewed by authorities in Connecticut, and told them that Leaf had made repeated threats to kill Ms. Hart. Capt. Nacovitch said that the police werehlso told