[4] Woolverton's kidnapping featured prominently in several newspaper series researched and prepared in the weeks following his abduction, and were quite possibly inspired by it.

Two such projects, by Bruce Catton of the Newspaper Enterprise Association and Fred Pasley of the Daily News of New York City, were ready for publication within a day or two of the Lindbergh kidnapping.

Both series, which ran in papers across North America, described kidnapping as an existential threat to American life, a singular, growing crime wave in which no one was safe.

[7] In 1934, the act was amended[8] to provide exception for parents who abduct their own minor children and made a death sentence possible in cases where the victim was not released unharmed.

[16] Barring a permitted departure from federal guidelines, kidnapping resulting in death now carries a mandatory life sentence if the perpetrator is an adult.