42 Facts About Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi

Emanuela Orlandi was born on 14January 1968 and was a Vatican teenager who mysteriously disappeared while returning home from music school in Rome on 22June 1983.

However, the subsequent investigation discovered that the allegation of international terrorism was a misdirection, and the real motive of the disappearance remains unknown.

Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi's father was a lay employee in the papal household.

Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi was in her second year of secondary school in Rome.

Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi was part of the church choir at the Sant'Anna dei Palafrenieri in the Vatican.

Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi usually travelled by bus to the music school, located in Piazza di Sant'Apollinare, next to Piazza Navona.

Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi would get off after a few stops and walk the last few hundred metres.

Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi asked Pietro to drive her to school, but he had other commitments.

Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi was last seen around 7:30pm at the bus stop, in the company of another girl, who was never identified.

Later that night, after hours of waiting, Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi's family began to worry and started looking for her in an area between the Vatican and the music school.

Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi reported that he and his fiancee had met a girl fitting Orlandi's description in Campo de' Fiori.

The police learned that that very evening, Pierluigi Magnesio, a friend of Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi, was in a restaurant in the seaside town of Ladispoli.

Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi reported that he knew a boy and two girls who in those days were selling Avon products.

When Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi's uncle asked "Mario" the height of the girl he saw, asking if she was around 150 or 160 cm, a second male voice could be heard in the background saying, "No, more".

Two days later, the Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi family received the first of a number of phone calls made by an anonymous male with an American accent, who would later be called "the American".

The man claimed to be calling on behalf of a terrorist organization that was holding Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi captive, demanding the release of Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish man who shot the Pope in May 1981, in exchange for the girl's release.

Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi asked for a direct telephone line with Cardinal Agostino Casaroli, the Vatican secretary of state.

Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi claimed that the original recording was longer than the published recording, and a male voice could be heard in the background.

On 24December 1983, six months after the disappearance, Pope John Paul II visited Orlandi's house and told the family that "the case of Emanuela is a case of international terrorism" and assured them that "the Holy See is doing as much as humanly possible to have a positive ending".

Years later, Pietro Orlandi commented that "from that moment, instead, the Pope allowed silence to surround Emanuela's case".

Fourteen years later, in 1997, the first investigation of the Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi case was dismissed by the public prosecutor of Rome due to a lack of new evidence.

In 2012, Vergari was investigated for abduction and later cleared, in 2015, when the second investigation of the Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi case was dismissed.

The anonymous caller of 2005 suggested they investigate "the favour that De Pedis did for Cardinal Poletti", implying this was the reason for his burial at the basilica and the reason behind Orlandi's disappearance.

Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi added that she was instructed by De Pedis to drive the girl to a Vatican petrol station and deliver her to a man dressed as a priest.

Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi apparently left the Vatican gates twenty minutes later, getting in the car again and leaving.

Since the early 2000s, Italian journalist Pino Nicotri, who conducted a detailed study of the Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi case based on judicial documents, has rejected the kidnapping hypothesis.

In May 2012, exorcist Gabriele Amorth claimed that Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi was the victim of a group of ecclesiastical paedophiles.

An interview with the anonymous woman was mentioned in the Netflix documentary miniseries Vatican Girl: The Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi, released in October 2022, although in this interview, the woman said that this revelation occurred only one week before the girl's disappearance.

The document suggested that Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi had lived in London under Vatican protection for several years, and that her remains had been sent back to the Vatican following her eventual death.

At number 176 on the same street is the Scalabrini Fathers' Female Hostel, featured in the 2017 document, where Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi allegedly lived under Vatican protection.

Gregori and Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi, who were the only two minors on this list of victims, were the only ones whose bodies were never found.

Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi stated that this was done as part of an internal blackmail campaign and a feud between rival factions within the Vatican to influence the anti-communist policies of Pope John Paul II.

Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi stated that the kidnapping was originally meant to be temporary and the girls were taken with their consent, but in the end, things got worse.

The phone call took place on the eve of Bonarelli's questioning by Judge Adele Rando in relation to the Gregori case; Gregori's mother claimed to have recognized Bonarelli as the man she saw in the company of her daughter shortly before her disappearance.

In December 2021, Giancarlo Capaldo, the former public prosecutor of Rome who led the second investigation over the Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi case, revealed that in 2012, years after the discovery of De Pedis' grave, secret negotiations were held in the Palace of Justice between him, his deputy Simona Maisto, and two emissaries of the Holy See.

Pietro Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi suspected they were referring to the displacement of something inside the empty chamber found in 2019 in the Teutonic Cemetery.

Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi did not publicly reveal the identity of the two cardinals, though he did provide their names to the police and the Vatican investigators.

In December 2023, Pietro Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi revealed that he was informed that a chest with unspecified contents was given to Cardinal Santos Abril y Castello, who brought it to the Basilica of St Mary Major and had it placed in the basilica's crypt.

Pietro Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi commented on the Senate's reticence, saying that it was unacceptable that in Italian politics, there is still a "psychological subjection towards the Vatican".

The Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi family took the pope's message positively, as another step towards transparency.

Natalina Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi confirmed that this episode took place in 1978 but assured the audience that her uncle's actions were not molestations but rather "verbal advances", which she promptly refused, and that she and her uncle had maintained a good relationship despite this episode.

The Orlandi siblings pointed out that in the months following the disappearance, their uncle had been the family spokesperson, appearing in press conferences, interviews, and on TV multiple times, so it would not have been odd for the police officers to confuse him with the "Avon man".