Italy - Emanuela Orlandi, 15, Rome, 22 June 1983

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Emanuela_Orlandi

Emanuela Orlandi (born 14 January 1968) was a citizen of Vatican City who mysteriously disappeared on 22 June 1983. Sightings of Emanuela in various places have been reported over the years, even inside Vatican City, but all have been unreliable. The Orlandi case is still unsolved.

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Disappearance

Orlandi was in her second year at a liceo scientifico (a scientific high school) in Rome. Although the school year had concluded, she continued to take flute lessons three times per week at the Tommaso Ludovico Da Victoria School, connected with the Pontificium Institutum Musicæ Sacræ (The Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music). She was also part of the choir of Saint Anne’s Church. Orlandi, the daughter of a Vatican bank employee who lived with her family inside Vatican City, just across the river from the Basilica, was the fourth of Ercole and Maria Orlandi's five children
Emanuela usually travelled by bus to the music school. She would get off the bus after a few stops and then walk six or seven hundred feet (180 to 210 meters). On 22 June 1983, Emanuela was late to class. She later explained her tardiness in a phone call to her sister, during which she said she had a job offer from a representative of Avon Cosmetics. Her sister suggested she talk it over with their parents before making any decisions. Emanuela allegedly met with the Avon rep shortly before her music lesson. At the end of the lesson, Emanuela spoke of the job offer with a girlfriend, who then left the girl at a bus stop in the company of another girl. Emanuela was allegedly last seen getting into a large, dark-colored BMW.

Chronology

At 15:00, Thursday, 23 June, her parents called the director of the music school to ask if any of their daughter's classmates had information. The police had suggested waiting because "perhaps the girl was with friends". That same day Emanuela was officially declared a "missing person". Over the next two days, announcements of the disappearance were published with the telephone number of the Orlandi house in the newspapers Il Tempo, Paese Sera and Il Messaggero.
At 18:00 on Saturday, 25 June, a phone call was received from a youth who claimed to be a 16-year-old boy named "Pierluigi". He reported that together with his fiancée, he had met the missing girl in Piazza Navona that afternoon The young man mentioned Emanuela’s flute, her hair, and the glasses that the girl did not like to wear, along with other details that fit the missing girl.According to "Pierluigi", Emanuela had just had a haircut and had introduced herself as "Barbarella"[SUP]][/SUP] He claimed she stated that she had just run away from home and was selling Avon products.
On 28 June, a man calling himself "Mario" called the family and claimed to own a bar near Ponte Vittorio, between the Vatican and the Music School. The man said that a girl called "Barbara", a new customer, had confided to him about being a fugitive from home but said that she would return home for her sister's wedding. On 30 June, Rome was plastered with 3,000 posters containing Emanuela Orlandi's photograph.

On Sunday, 3 July, Pope John Paul II, during the Angelus, appealed to those responsible for Emanuela Orlandi’s disappearance, making the hypothesis of kidnapping official for the first time. Two days later, the Orlandi family received the first of a number of anonymous phone calls. Emanuela was supposedly the prisoner of a terrorist group demanding the release of Mehmet Ali Ağca, the Turkish man who shot the Pope in Saint Peter's Square on 13 May 1981 No other information was given. In the following days, other calls were received, including one from a man identified as "The American", due to his apparent accent, who played a recording of Emanuela's voice over the phone. A few hours later, in another phone call to the Vatican, the same man suggested an exchange, of Orlandi for Alì Ağca. The anonymous interlocutor mentioned the "Mario" and "Pierluigi" of the earlier telephone calls, defining them as "members of the organization".

On 6 July, a man with a young voice and an American accent informed ANSA news agency of the demand for an Orlandi-Ağca exchange, asking for the Pope’s participation within 20 days and indicating that a basket in the public square near the Parliament would contain proof that Orlandi was indeed in his hands. These were to have been photocopies of her Music School I.D., a receipt, and a note handwritten by the kidnapped girl. However, the Magistrate who was overseeing Orlandi’s case did not believe that there was a credible connection between the Orlandi abduction and the Pope's assailant.
On 8 July, a man with an alleged Middle Eastern accent phoned one of Orlandi's classmates saying Orlandi was in his hands and that they had 20 days to make the exchange with Alì Ağca The man also asked for a direct telephone line with then-Vatican Secretary of State Agostino Casaroli. The line was installed on 18 July. A total of 16 telephone calls were made by "The American" from different public telephone booths.
On the morning of 14 May 2001, the parish priest of the Gregory VII Church near the Vatican discovered a human skull of small dimensions and lacking a jaw in a bag with an image of Padre Pio in a confessional. It has not been officially identified as Orlandi's skull.
Ercole Orlandi, Emanuela's father, died in 2004, one month after giving his last interview.

Theories

Over the years a number of theories regarding the motives for the crime have been broached in the Italian press.

Orlandi-Ağca connection theory

Ağca, who once declared that Orlandi had been kidnapped by Bulgarian agents of the Grey Wolves, a Turkish ultra-nationalist, neo-fascist youth organization of which Ağca was a member, spoke about Orlandi during a prison interview with Italy's RAI state television, telling the interviewer that the girl was alive, not in danger, and living in a cloisteredconvent.[SUP][citation needed][/SUP] He denied any direct knowledge of the girl's fate, though, saying that he had made "some logical deductions". With no evidence to support these claims, the case was closed in July 1997.
In mid-2000, Judge Ferdinando Imposimato, based on what he had learned about the Grey Wolves, declared that Orlandi, by then an adult, was living a perfectly integrated life in the Muslim community and that she had probably lived for a long time in Paris. He remains the only supporter of this idea and of the Orlandi-Ağca connection.
In a letter published in 2006, Ağca claimed that Emanuela Orlandi and another girl, Mirella Gregori, both of whom vanished in 1983, were abducted as part of plan to secure his release from prison. He claimed that the girls were whisked away to a royal palace in Liechtenstein.

Ağca was temporarily released from an Istanbul prison after serving 25 years in Italy and Turkey for the murder of Abdi İpekçi, a prominent Turkish journalist. However, he was quickly imprisoned again, the release seemingly a "mistake". Ağca was permanently released from a Turkish prison in January 2010.[SUP][citation needed][/SUP]
On 9 November 2010, Mehmet Ali Ağca was interviewed by state television in Turkey-TRT's Kozmik Oda Program for the first time after his release the prior January. In that interview as well as declaring that the Vatican organized the assassination attempt he also said that Orlandi was kept as a prisoner by the Vatican (for Ağca) and was then living in a Central European country as a nun in a Catholic monastery.
He added that Orlandi's family could see their daughter whenever they liked, but that she was not allowed to leave the monastery. (Reference, TRT 2, and Milliyet)

De Pedis theory

In 2011, the former Banda della Magliana member Antonio Mancini implied that Orlandi's kidnapping was one of a number of strikes that the gang was making against the Vatican in order to force the restitution of large amounts of money they had lent to the Vatican Bank through Roberto Calvi's Banco Ambrosiano. On 14 May 2012, Italian police exhumed the body of gangster Enrico De Pedis, having received a tip-off that the tomb contained clues as to the fate of Emanuela.

Vatican sex scandal theory

In May 2012, exorcist Gabriele Amorth claimed that Emanuela was kidnapped by a member of the Vatican police for sex parties, then murdered. Amorth claims that the incident also involved the officials of an unnamed foreign embassy.
 
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/vatican-sp...orlandi-london-leaked-documents-claim-1639756

Vatican spent fortune hiding missing teenage girl Emanuela Orlandi in London, leaked documents claim

Orlandi, who disappeared 1983, remains Italy's most famous missing person case.




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Emanuela Orlandi mysteriously disappeared on June 22, 1983. While in her second year at a scientific high school in Rome, Orlandi vanished after leaving her family's Vatican City apartment to go to a music lesson in Rome
The Vatican spent nearly 500 million lire (€258,000; £227,788) to keep one of it female citizens away from the city state, contrary to widespread beliefs that the girl was kidnapped in 1983 and later killed, according to an Italian journalist.


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The claims could open a new chapter for one of Italy's most famous unresolved mysteries.
Emanuela Orlandi, a Vatican citizen, was 15 years old when she mysteriously vanished after attending a piano lesson in Rome in June 1983. Police have been trying to solve her case for decades, but her fate remains unknown.
Italian journalist Emiliano Fittipaldi has now alleged he is in possession of documents detailing how the Vatican spent more than 440 million lire to keep the girl away from the city state between 1983 and 1997.
Fittipaldi said he is in possession of, among other documents, a five-page-long letter written by Cardinal Lorenzo Antonetti, the then head of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic Headquarters (Apsa) .
The journalist claimed the letter was written in 1998 to accompany nearly 200 pages that include invoices and documents "that proved to [the Vatican's] secretary of state the costs incurred for Emanuela Orlandi between 1983 and 1997".
Large sums were spent for, among other things, the rent of a building in Chapman Road, London.
"The documents outline new scenarios on a matter people have been extensively written and speculated about," Fittipaldi wrote on La Repubblica newspaper.
"The Vatican has always denied it has more information than what has already been shared by judges who have been investigating the case for the past 34 years.
"The piece of paper I am holding is disturbing. If the document is not genuine, it means that a fabricated and devastating dossier has been making rounds for almost three years," he continued.
"If the document is real,it will open – for the first time – unthinkable and clamorous holes in one of the most obscures events of the Holy See."
The letter, published in full on La Repubblica, was addressed to monsignors Giovanni BattistaRe and Jean-Louis Tauran. However, Battista Re denied he has ever seen such document.
"I have never seen that document published by Fittipaldi and I have never received any expense sheets for the Emanuela Orlandi case," he was quoted by news agency Ansa as saying.
Most of the documents are included in Fittipaldi's latest book, The Impostors, due to be published soon.
"It seems that the Vatican found the girl – kidnapped by who knows whom – and decided to transfer her to female hostels in London, " the journalist wrote on his Facebook wall.
"For 14 years it paid fees, medical expenses and transfers. At least until 1997, when the last entry [in the documents] speaks of a transfer to the Vatican and the 'completion of final procedures'."
Vatican spokesperson Greg Burke slammed the claims as "false and ridiculous".


Theories behind Orlandi's mysterious disappearance
If authentic, the documents obtained by Fittipaldi could open a new chapter on the case, which Italian magistrate decided to close last year, in spite of Orlandi family's repeated appeals.
More than thirty years after the teenage girl vanished, her case remains one of Italy's most mysterious crimes and several theories have sprung up to explain what happened to her.
The day she disappeareared, Orlandi had asked to leave the piano class early. She then called her sister Federica explaining that she had received a job offer for Avon Cosmetics. She was last seen that evening, near a BMW, from which an Avon satchel was visible.
Among other hypotheses, it is believed that Orlandi was kidnapped by people who then demanded the release of Mehmet Ali Agca, a Turkish national who had shot and wounded the then pontiff, Pope John Paul II.
Another theory sees the mob being involved with Orlandi's kidnapping.
In 2011, Antonio Mancini, the former head of the Banda Della Magliana – a now defunct Rome-based criminal organisation with links to politicians and the mafia – claimed the group had kidnapped the girl.
Mancini claimed the girl was abducted to blackmail the Vatican and ask for the restitution of large sums the Banda had invested in the Institute for the Works of Religion (Ior), commonly known as the Vatican Bank.
Orlandi's father, Ercole, used to work for the Vatican Bank.
In 2012, Italian authorities exhumed the body of Enrico De Pedis, another member of the Banda, after the gangster's former girlfriend claimed he had kidnapped the girl. She also claimed she had seen De Pedis disposing of Orlandi's body.
The same year, Italian priest and exorcist of the Diocese of Rome, GabrielePietro Amorth, claimed Orlandi had been kidnapped and forced to take part in sex parties. The late priest also claimed the girl was later killed and her body had been disposed of.
 
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Italy - Mirella Gregori, 15, Rome, 7 May 1983

Missing girl's family presses Vatican about found bones
Oct 31 2018 rbbm.
"The find, announced late Tuesday, raised immediate speculation over possible links with the disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi, the daughter of a Vatican employee whose fate remains one of the Vatican's most enduring mysteries. The news agency ANSA reported that prosecutors were focusing on whether the remains could be linked either to Orlandi, who disappeared on June 22 1983, or another 15-year-old girl, Mirella Gregori, who went missing a month earlier in Rome, on May 7, 1983.

"The Vatican said human bone fragments were found this week during renovations of a room annexed to the embassy, and that Italian forensic experts had been asked by prosecutors to determine the age and gender of the body and the date of death. Experts say that could be determined in a week to 10 days, if adequate DNA can be extracted from the fragments."
 
Human remains found near Vatican could solve mystery of missing 15-year-old girl whose disappearance has been linked to Rome's criminal underworld and a plot to kill the Pope

"Emanuela Orlandi disappeared from a Rome street in 1983

Disappearance also linked to satanic orgies by prelates

Another 15-year-old girl disappeared in Rome shortly after Emanuela vanished ...

The case has bedevilled investigators for 35 years, and the Vatican said Rome's chief prosecutor had been called in and forensic investigators are working to determine the age and gender of the bones as well as the date of death.

The Vatican statement didn't mention Emanuela, but Italian media immediately linked her unsolved disappearance to the discovery of the bones...

Emanuela disappeared after leaving her family's Vatican City apartment to go to a music lesson in Rome. Her father was a member of the Holy See police force...."

Human bone find in Rome basilica reignites talk of fate of Emanuela Orlandi, who disappeared in 1983 | Daily Mail Online

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Do Vatican bones belong to custodian's unhappy wife who vanished in the 1960s? New theory as police scour janitor's lodge and trawl archives for clues

"Police investigating after a woman's bones found at the Vatican's Rome embassy

New theory involves custodian who lived at the property in the 1960s and whose wife disappeared suddenly after pair were heard arguing

Other theories revolve around two teen girls who went missing in the 1980s ...

Police probing the discovery of a woman's bones at the Vatican embassy in Rome are investigating whether they belong to a custodian's wife who lived there in the 1960s.

The custodian was known to be unhappy in his marriage with neighbours hearing frequent fights until his wife suddenly disappeared.

At the time, the custodian told people that she had left him but investigators are now disputing that account....

Corriere della Sera reports that the floor of the embassy was last refurbished in the 1980s, meaning the bones were likely placed there afterwards, casting doubt on whether they could belong to the missing wife.

The last custodian, Anna Mascia, who lived there from 2003 until her retirement a few months ago, said she did refurbish the house when she moved in but the floor was merely covered, not stripped back, according to Il Messaggero daily...."

Do Vatican bones belong to custodian's unhappy wife who vanished in the 1960s? | Daily Mail Online
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Mystery surrounding the disappearance of Italian teen Emanuela Orlandi grows as the age of the bones found at the Vatican embassy fuels wild speculation she was held captive

08 Nov 2018

"Late last month, two sets of bones were found beneath the flooring in the Vatican's embassy to Italy in Rome.

The Italian media immediately reported that the bones were being investigated to determine whether they belong to either Emanuela Orlandi or Mirella Gregori, two local teens who disappeared in 1983.

Police have since dated the remains and believe that one set belongs to a woman in her 30s, and the other to an older person.
Meanwhile, more bones have been found at the embassy....

Coroner Giovanni Arcudi told Italian wire service ANSA that a preliminary examination of the bones shows one of the sets of remains appear to belong to a woman in her 30s and "not an adolescent." The other set of bones were older, but it's not known how much older.

The Associated Press reports that the age of the bones has only fueled speculation that Orlandi was held captive for years before being killed....

A lawyer for the family said they are still waiting on DNA results on the remains."

Mystery surrounding the disappearance of Italian teen Emanuela Orlandi grows as the age of the bones found at the Vatican embassy fuels wild speculation she was held captive
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Mystery bones found at Vatican embassy to Italy not from missing girls

Nov 22, 2018

"ROME - According to local news outlets the bones that were found on Vatican property at the end of October do not belong to two Italian girls who disappeared in the 1980s.

In an article by La Repubblica, the remains are said to date further back than 1983, the year when Mirella Gregori and Emanuela Orlandi disappeared under mysterious circumstances....

But inside sources have told the local press that the bones are too old to be related to these cases. It’s the deterioration of the remains that makes it difficult to extrapolate DNA from the samples and therefore establish their identity. Radiocarbon dating will begin Nov. 30, sources said, and take a couple weeks.

Until then, the remains “haven’t spoken yet,” investigators told local media."

Mystery bones found at Vatican embassy to Italy not from missing girls

Italy - Mirella Gregori, 15, Rome, 7 May 1983
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Vatican remains not those of two girls who disappeared in 1983
Families question how experts did not immediately recognise remains were ancient

1 Feb 2019

Vatican remains not those of two girls who disappeared in 1983
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Nunciature bone probe shelving asked
Bones found to be of man who lived between 90 and 230 AD

01 February 2019

"(ANSA) - Rome, February 1 - Rome prosecutors said Friday they would request the shelving of a probe into human bones found at the Vatican's nunciature to Italy, a discovery that had briefly raised hopes of solving the disappearance of two 15-year-old girls in Rome in 1983.

The latest tests have confirmed that the bones belong to a man, who probably died of natural causes, who lived some time between 90 BC and 230 AD, the prosecutors said.

The investigation has therefore ruled out any link to the disappearances of Emanuela Orlandi and Mirella Gregori."

Nunciature bone probe shelving asked - English
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ROME — The family of a Vatican City teenager who disappeared in 1983 wants to know if she is buried in a cemetery on Holy See grounds.

The Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera on Monday quoted from a letter that a family lawyer wrote to church officials asking that a grave in the Teutonic Cemetery in Vatican City be opened to see if it contains the remains of Emanuela Orlandi.

Missing teen's family: is she buried in Vatican cemetery?
 
10th April 2019

"The Vatican has for the first time opened its own investigation into the case of Emanuela Orlandi, a 15-year-old Vatican citizen who disappeared in the summer of 1983.

The Orlandi family's lawyer Laura Sgro confirmed the probe, saying: 'The secretariat of state has authorised the opening of an investigation into a grave in the Teutonic Cemetery inside the Vatican.'

It follows an anonymous tip-off which advised Sgro to 'look where the angel is pointing'.

The letter to Sgro also included a photograph of the tomb that features a marble angel holding a tablet reading 'Rest in Peace' in Latin."

Vatican opens investigation into case of missing girl, 15, for the first time amid fears tomb may hold key to 36-year murder mystery after family was told 'look where the angel is pointing'
 
Tombs to be opened in Vatican City in 1983 missing teen case
The Vatican says two tombs will be opened at the request of the family of a teen who disappeared in 1983.
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Vatican spokesman Alessandro Gisotti said Tuesday that Orlandi’s relatives and lawyers for the family and the Holy See will be present when the graves are opened on July 11 in the Teutonic Cemetery in the Vatican.
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Orlandi (Circa 1983)

Emanuela Orlandi
  • Case Classification: Endangered Missing
  • Missing Since: June 22, 1983
  • Location Last Seen: Rome, Italy

Physical Description
Listed information is from the time of disappearance.

  • Date of Birth: January 14, 1968
  • Age at Time of Disappearance: 15 years old
  • Race: Caucasian
  • Gender: Female
  • Height at Time of Disappearance: 5'5
  • Weight at Time of Disappearance: Unknown
  • Hair Color: Brown
  • Eye Color: Brown
  • Alias(s) / Nickname(s): Unknown
  • Distinguishing Marks/Features: Unknown
  • Dentals: Not available
  • Fingerprints: Not available
  • DNA: Not available
Clothing & Personal Items
  • Clothing: Unknown
  • Jewelry: Unknown
  • Additional Personal Items: Unknown

Circumstances of Disappearance

Emanuela Orlandi disappeared on June 22, 1983 after 19:00 p.m. At the time of her disappearance Emanuela was 15 years old, went to a scientific high school and, in the afternoons, the Ludovico Da Victoria music school in Piazza Sant'Apollinare. The afternoon of June 22, Emanuela arrived at her flute lesson late. Later, at 19.00, she explained her lateness in a phone call to her sister, during which she said she had had a job offer from a representative of the Avon cosmetics company to promote the cosmetics on a fashion show. Her sister suggested that she talk it over with her parents before making any decisions. Emanuela allegedly met with the would-be representative shortly before her music lesson. At the end of the lesson, Emanuela spoke of the matter also with her girlfriend who then left Emanuela at the bus stop, in the company of an unknown girl who has never been identified.

Someone supposedly saw her get into a large, dark-colored car. From that moment Emanuela vanished. Her family immediately published notices in the newspapers. Anonymous callers to Italian media said they had kidnapped Emanuela and would free her if Italy released Mehmet Ali Agca, who is serving a life sentence for shooting the Pope John Paul II on May 13, 1981. No links were however established by the police. Emanuela has never been found.

Investigating Agency(s)
If you have any information about this case please contact;

  • Agency Name: Questura di Roma, Ufficio Minori
  • Agency Contact Person: Unknown
  • Agency Phone Number: 39-06-46863214
 
‘Look where the angel is pointing’: Vatican to open tombs based on cryptic clue in 36yo cold case
‘Look where the angel is pointing’: Vatican to open tombs based on cryptic clue in 36yo cold case
Published time: 3 Jul, 2019
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RT composite © Getty Images / Mondadori Portfolio; Christopher Furlong

The unsigned letter contained only the phrase: “Look where the angel is pointing,” along with a photo of a marble statue of an angel above a prince’s tomb in a Teutonic cemetery in the Vatican, which is reserved for Church figures of German or Austrian origin.

While it might sound like something from ‘The Da Vinci Code,’ the desperate family is ready to follow any possible lead to find out the truth, and petitioned the Vatican to unseal the tombs."
 
The plot of land, located on the original site of the Emperor Nero circus, is tucked away behind high walls in the shadow of St Peter's Basilica.

This graveyard may now hold the key to a 36-year-old mystery that has gripped Italy: the disappearance of 15-year-old Emanuela Orlandi.

On Thursday, police will enter the site to exhume two graves in search of the missing girl.

Brother's 36-year quest to solve Vatican murder mystery
 
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/vatican-orlandi-investigation-1.5207878
Two tombs opened contained neither the girl, Emanuela Orlandi, nor the suppoed occupants
The Associated Press · Posted: Jul 11, 2019
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Workers open a tomb at the Teutonic Cemetery in Vatican City on Thursday in relation to the investigation into the case of Emanuela Orlandi, who went missing in 1983 at age 15. (Vatican Media/EPA-EFE)
The Vatican opened two tombs on Thursday to look for the body of a girl missing since 1983, and ran into a new mystery when nothing was found, not even the bones of two 19th-century princesses.
 
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