The following is an encore presentation of Everything Everywhere Daily.

On March 1st, 1932, one of the most famous men in the world, Charles Lindbergh, found that his 20-month-old son had been taken from his crib.

It was the biggest news story of the era, and it has been called the Crime of the Century.

90 years later, people are still enthralled with the crime and are searching for clues.

Learn more about the Lindbergh kidnapping on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. It's hard to express just how big of a deal Charles Lindbergh was in the late 1920s and early 1930s.

I think the reason we have such a hard time conceiving of how popular he was is that we live in a world today that has lots of major celebrities and the feet for which he was famous flying across the Atlantic is routinely done today.

This was the dawn of mass media and celebrity culture, and Lindbergh was really one of the first

big media celebrities.

He got book deals, did speaking engagements, and promotional tours.

He was on such a tour in Mexico City in 1927

when he met the woman he would marry, Anne Morrow.

Anne was extremely intelligent, and her father was an ambassador to Mexico as well as a partner at the bank, J.P. Morgan.

They were engaged after only four dates.

The couple was married in 1929 and created a home in New Jersey not far from the Moro Estate where Anne grew up.

Anne became the first woman in America to receive a glider pilot license and the couple was the first

to fly from Africa directly to South America.

Their first child, Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. was born in June of 1930.

FYI, Anne broke the transcontinental flying record when she was seven months pregnant.

The birth of the child was a widely celebrated public story.

The events in question took place on March 1st, 1932 at the family home in East Amwell, New Jersey.

Around 10 p.m. the child's nurse, Betty Gao, noticed Mrs. Limburg come out from having taken a bath

and wasn't with Little Charlie.

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