[Non-Sequitur]

Is Overland Park near the Missouri border? Was the girl found in Missouri? And,apart from the kidnapping,why would the Feds have jurisdiction here? I haven't followed this case closely and none of this is explained in the short news blurb above.

Yes. Overland Park is a very large suburb of Kansas City and we're a couple of miles from the state line. Her body was found in a similar suburb on the Missouri side of the line. The feds have jurisdiction because the crime crossed state lines - abducted in Kansas and found, perhaps killed in Missouri.

[Gay State Conservative]

The feds have jurisdiction because the crime crossed state lines - abducted in Kansas and found, perhaps killed in Missouri.

I know that the Feds have jurisdiction in at least some kidnapping cases (perhaps when the perp crosses state lines)....but would they have jurisdiction in the murder part of this? That is,could the Feds sentence this guy to death?