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The tomb of a mafia don buried in a basilica in Rome is to be opened in an attempt to solve a mystery that has dogged the Vatican for three decades.
It is thought the sarcophagus could contain not only the skeleton of the notorious mob gangster, Enrico “Renatino” De Pedis, but also the remains of a teenage schoolgirl who went missing in strange circumstances in the summer of 1983.
Emanuela Orlandi, who was 15 at the time of her disappearance, was the daughter of a Vatican employee.
Investigators have said in the past that there were murky financial transactions between the Holy See and the gang and that the schoolgirl was kidnapped by De Pedis in an attempt to recover money that he was owed. Continue reading
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