Pope Francis offered prayers Sunday for the family of a teenager who went missing 40 years ago this week, an intervention her brother hailed as a sign the Vatican was finally engaging seriously with its most famous cold case. Emanuela Orlandi, the 15-year-old daughter of a Vatican employee, was last seen leaving a music class Read more
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Vatican Girl – Why the Vatican is revisiting her mysterious disappearance
Thursday, April 20th, 2023
Known as the “Orlandi case” and, thanks to a recent television series, the case of the “Vatican Girl“, it is the saga of Emanuela Orlandi, a 15-year-old daughter of a Vatican employee who disappeared in Rome nearly 40 years ago. Since her father worked in the Prefecture of the Papal Household, she and her family Read more
Vatican rips allegation JPII molested young girls
Monday, April 17th, 2023
The Vatican, Friday, pushed back hard, suggestions that 40 years ago John Paul II may have been involved in the disappearance of a 15-year-old girl and went out on the town with Vatican monsignors, looking for young girls to molest. Pietro Orlandi, the brother of a missing 15 girl, Emanuela Orlandi, made the allegation. However, Read more
Vatican bones not those of missing girl
Thursday, August 1st, 2019
An analysis of an enormous number of bones discovered in a Vatican cemetery during a search for the remains of missing girl Emanuela Orlandi reveal they cannot be hers. Hundreds of partially intact bones and thousands of bone fragments were studied by a forensic anthropologist and found to date from before the end of the Read more
Forensic experts to study ‘thousands of bones’ found in Vatican ossuaries
Thursday, July 25th, 2019During a search for the remains of a young Italian woman missing for more than 30 years, workers discovered an enormous number of bones inside two ossuaries in a building next to a Vatican cemetery. Further studies on the remains will be carried out starting July 27, but it was not yet possible to predict Read more
Bones found, tombs empty: mystery deepens in missing Vatican girl saga
Monday, July 15th, 2019
Two sets of bones have been found in a stone slab, a tomb expected to have bones in it is empty and the remains of a Vatican schoolgirl missing since 1983 continue to elude searchers. The empty tomb in the cemetery of the Pontifical Teutonic College was supposedly the last resting places of two 19th-century Read more
Police to open Vatican graves in murder investigation
Thursday, July 4th, 2019
Two graves in a small Vatican cemetery will be opened in a renewed search for Emanuela Orlandi, a young woman who disappeared in Rome 36 years ago. Orlandi was a Vatican City resident and the daughter of a Vatican employee. She disappeared in Rome on 22 June 1983 when she was 15. In March this Read more
Vatican to investigate disappearance of teenage girl
Thursday, April 11th, 2019
The Vatican has agreed to investigate the disappearance of teenage girl Emanuela Orlandi who disappeared in 1983. The daughter of a Vatican police officer, Orlandi was 15 when she left a music class on 22 June 1983. She has not been seen since. “The time has finally come to reach the truth and give justice Read more
Cardinal Parolin discusses skeleton found in the Vatican
Monday, November 12th, 2018
Despite widespread speculation in the Italian media, the Vatican has not assumed the skeleton found in the Vatican Nunciature is Emanuela Orlandi, Cardinal Pietro Parolin has told reporters. Orlandi was 15-year-old Vatican citizen who disappeared 35 years ago. “I do not know who connected this case with Orlandi,” he added. Parolin told journalists the facts Read more
Human remains found at Vatican may be missing girl
Thursday, November 1st, 2018
Human remains have been found at the Vatican’s embassy to Italy in Rome. The Holy See says the police are investigating the find and that forensic experts have been tasked with determining the “age, sex and date of death” of the body. Rome’s Chief Prosecutor, Giuseppe Pighatone, has tasked the Scientific Police and a mobile Read more