Italy - Angela Celentano, 3, Monte Faito, 10 Aug 1996

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[FONT=&amp]The case of Angela Celentano

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Saturday August 10, 1996 Monte Faito (Vico Equense), a 3 year old baby, Angela Celentano, disappeared on a trip with her parents and a group of acquaintances and was never found.

It was a beautiful day of August, a group of families of Castellammare di Stabia who attended the same evangelical community, made a picnic on Monte Faito, near Castellammare di Stabia, the family formed by father Catello Celentano , by mother Mary and their three daughters Rossana 6 years, Angela 3 years and Naomi 1 year were among them.
That trip soon turned into a nightmare. Around 1 pm o’clock, during lunch, a picnic in a clearing in front of the equestrian center of Monte Faito (disused for many years), father Catello, than a minute before he had seen the little Angela sitting behind him while she ate, turned again where the baby would have to find, but she could not find more in its place.
After a few moments the whole group began looking for Angela, but there was no sign of the baby. The police was immediately alerted, the action was immediate. Soon at Mount Faito many people were gathered together, policemen, carabinieri, firefighters, Civil Defence volunteers, research was immediately started, in the evening the soldiers came, all night every corner of the Mount was scoured.
The parents remained in place for four days and four nights while, incessant the search continued with helicopters, dogs, a special radar that can detect moving objects in the night, cavers and rock climbers were examined. The baby was not find.
Immediately the police gave way to the investigation, they followed various tracks including pedophilia and kidnapping as had been noted on Faito, the hour of disappearance, a car with two foreigners on board. Many people were involved and investigated, other participants in the trip, acquaintances of family Celentano, but the police did not found anything suspicious.
In 2000 the collaboration of the FBI was asked, which played its research and signaled a suspect who lived in a cottage on Monte Faito. Following a search of the house it was found a sort of altar with various photographs of the child and newspaper clippings of the investigation related to the disappearance. Researches were made in and around the house, but any proof of guilt was not found, and therefore this person was exonerated of the charges.
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Angela Celentano adult

In 2010, the family Celentano, who had opened a website to solicit anyone knew something Angela to contact them, it received an e-mail from a certain Celeste Ruiz lives in Mexico, according to her (labile) remember and that It was written on the site, she believed to be Angela Celentano. For two years there was an exchange of correspondence by e-mail between Celeste Ruiz and the sisters of Angela, who together with their parents, examining what was told in e-mails and on the basis of a picture that she sent, they were convinced that Celeste could be their Angela.
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Angela Celentano adult (ricostruzione RIS)

Celeste in her e-mail telling that he recognized in photographs his real family, and that she had been taken from his family present, because her alleged mother, maid of the family Ruiz, one day left her in the house of his employer and she disappeared. The police was warned, the investigation proved that the maid had given a false name and was untraceable. The Ruiz family, people of heart, did not have the courage to leave her in an institution and adopted. Since then she was treated as a daughter, with affection and attention, and she was not going to let them.
In 2012, the Public Prosecutor of Castellammare, informed of what was happening by Celentano, commissioned the police to identify which computer had left messages, the computer was identified in Acapulco by the IP address. Under an international mandate and with the cooperation of the Mexican authorities, the investigators went to the address indicated where they did not find Celeste Ruiz, but a family with a boy and a girl aged smaller than that which would have Angela. Father Cristino Ruiz, Public Ministry of Mexican Justice with the mother employed in the same ministry, denied that from their computer could be sent the emails, but from a subsequent survey of local investigators turned some deleted data from your computer.
The story of Celeste was partially confirmed by reporter investigations, unofficial and collected all the difficulties and limitations, which were able to ascertain that a few months after the disappearance of Angela, in a small Mexican town, was recorded, according to statements of a woman recently immigrated to the city, a 3 year old daughter of the same woman, which would correspond to the maid who left the child at home Ruiz.
Continuing the research, the reporters turned out that a family, parent with Ruiz had among its members a girl who could match the characteristics of Celeste Ruiz and that these parents often went home Ruiz staying even for long enough periods.
With the cooperation of the Mexican authorities, and after some time, the investigators went to the address of this family in the city of Cancun, on the Yucatan peninsula, but found the apartment empty. Mexican investigators did then know the Italian authorities that in that family, evidently traced by them, was not any person with the characteristics of Celeste Ruiz.
Later a son, born of a previous marriage of Mrs. Ruiz, told local investigators that, having learned the story of Angela Celentano, had concocted a joke pretending to be the little Angela, giving a false picture of the alleged Celeste Ruiz, touched according to the photo published on the website of family Celentano. He not explained, however, as it was aware of the disappearance of Angela and because of the joke. The photo sent by Celeste Ruiz to family Celentano, was examined in the laboratories of Italian police and not turned retouched.
Following the requests of the Italian authorities, Mexico made a huge reward for who had retrieved Celeste Ruiz, the woman of the photo. Following the widespread diffusion of news in the Central American country, a Mexican woman resident in France, warned by some of her relatives living in Mexico, had recognized herself in the photo of Celeste Ruiz. She was immediately made available to the Italian investigating authorities and subjected to DNA testing.
The woman said that the photo was taken away over time on the web. The DNA examination has shown that the she is not Angela Celentano. Her age is also eight years older than Angela. The Mexican woman, whose name is not Celeste Ruiz, has also met Angela’s family.
Therefore, the case of Angela Celentano is part of the mystery of unresolved cases.

Links case

https://napolihistory.com/the-case-of-angela-celentano/

http://www.doenetwork.org/cases-int/1543dfita.html

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Odd case. I have travelled through Vico Equense several times when on the Amalfi coast. I cannot imagine that the child wondered away and was never found, which only leaves abduction. Whilst the most likely explanation is a lone abductor I do wonder about organised activity. When travelling by train from Sorrento to Naples (it goes through Vico Equense) it is the only place I have felt threatened, with gangs of youths looking for opportunities and a police presence on the trains to discourage them. Admittedly this activity tends (or tended - I am talking 90s and early 2000s) to be nearer Naples, but I do wonder if it suggests another possibility. A opportunistic abduction could have gone wrong.
 
A search spanning three decades for a missing Italian girl has been given new hope following reports she is being kept on a Turkish island after being kidnapped as a child.

The reports allege that Angela Celentano, who disappeared from a family picnic in Naples in August 1996, is living on the island of Buyukada, near Istanbul.

Authorities in Italy have ordered a new investigation after an Italian woman claimed that Angela is living with a man who she believes is her father
 
What do we reckon to the Turkish information? And why hasn't anyone else gone to investigate after the first person did just that and reported back? JMO MOO

 

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